Half a cup and a half

November 20, 2007 at 8:55 am | In Expectant, First Trimester, symptoms | 2 Comments

This morning we went out for breakfast with our friends from NY.

Everything served at the diner we went to looked so good. I asked Darren what he was thinking of having because he usually has good ideas.  He asked if it would be weird to order “what that guy’s having”…Yeah, I think that would be strange. I looked over at the man whose dish Darren had noticed, across the way and two booths down. I couldn’t tell what it was, but yes, it certainly did look good! Darren ordered the Royal Feast. It had EVERYTHING! Everything breakfasty and perfect–yum yum and yum again! I ordered banana pancakes and out of choice of ham, bacon or sausage I had the sausage. I felt very good about my order because I had thought of more than myself while choosing, how wonderfully motherly of me! :P Deeder loves bananas and I knew he’d  enjoy their soft fluffy pancakes. He’s had sausage once in his life and adored it, so that’s why we had that.

For beverages I ordered milk for Diederick and, to my surprise, I heard myself order coffee for myself. “One milk and a coffee, please.” I told her to just give me half a cup–half a cup, half the evil. She gave me a full cup and I drank it. Caught up in listening to the grown-up’s conversation and on demand shoveling of banana pancakes into Deeder’s mouth it just happened. And that nice waitress lady kept coming back and filling my cup up. again and again and again. I drank three cups of coffee. I wasn’t happy at all with myself. Because I liked it. It was yummy! Bad bad. Tam told me not to worry, “It wasn’t very strong anyway.” True. The bad bit is that I enjoyed it!

I’m 12 weeks and I haven’t puked, and now coffee tasted good. Well, 12 weeks is nearly past morning sickness time all together.

Perhaps coffee being distasteful is only a part of morning sickness. Since it was so appalling I just assumed with Deeder that it was totally gross the whole nine months. It must have been one day postpartum that I was too tired to lift my head (let alone my body) off the bed of pillows on which I slept. Perhaps that morning I weakly cried out for a cup of caffeine. Darren probably brought it in and I was hooked again. Maybe that’s how it went.

I was just looking today at the babystrology image on my main blog. It’s supposed to show what the baby looks like in this stage. So beautiful! Tiny legs and arms, perfectly curled waiting inside for 28weeks to tick by. Daily getting stronger, internal organs already beginning to practice for the big environment change that will change his or her world forever. It’s written in on my calendar for June 2nd 2008.

Stay inside until then, Baby. I promise to be good and feed you healthy foods and beverages until you’re to be born. Hmm, well, after you’re born too. You have to nurse for at least 12 months.  No more coffee, or anything else on the bad list.

Fish and Chips

November 17, 2007 at 8:55 am | In Belly Pics, Expectant, First Trimester, symptoms | 2 Comments

My hands smell like cat litter. Is that normal after having a greasy heap of fish n chips? Boy were they good though! Deeder and I went to a local eatery today and knew exactly what we were in the mood for. I ordered Deeder a glass of milk too, because fish and fries are usually smoking hot. He laughed when he saw me dipping his portion in milk before giving it to him. He proceeded to follow my example, and before I knew it he had four fries and one piece of fish in the milk!

I scooped the stuff out of his milk and told him to eat it. “Hot. Ffffff.” Hmm. Well, it used to be hot, but good that you’re careful, Deeder!

We ate nearly the whole plate, I’m still full and he didn’t eat much of his before bed snack either.

Since I was feeling, and looking, so bloated I thought I’d seize the moment and take my first belly picture.

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So I guess this one would be 11 Weeks.

I expect to get a lot bigger than I did with Deeder since I still have a bunch of extra skin (or whatever it is!) hanging out on my back.
I have to figure out how to use the camera that has a tripod. It’s tricky taking pictures in the mirror because somehow you have to avoid getting a big flash–eh heh. just look at my Deeder belly pics to see how lousy they turn out!! If you turn off the flash the lighting is dim and yellow. Anyhow, sorry I haven’t written in a while.

While we were out I went to the lab and had my blood work done ( also had to pee in a cup ). I hadn’t read the slip from the OB/GYN before I went to the lab, but once there I noticed that it was the test that tells them if the baby may have down syndrome.  I wondered what the pee was for, the nurse said she didn’t know why it was ordered. HEH! “Ordered”

She took four tubes of blood which seemed odd to me since all I needed was the Lamictal level (one tube) and the slip from the OB had just one box checked off. Oh well, they know what they’re doing.

With Deeder I refused to have any testing done that would tell me about ‘problems’.

the world around me stops, when it’s time to blog

November 8, 2007 at 7:17 am | In Doctor Visits, Expectant, First Trimester, General, Plans, symptoms | 5 Comments

Is that how it is for you? There are shoes on the floor in the kitchen, the highchair tray needs to be cleaned off and dishes unloaded from the dishwasher. The bed that I stripped earlier needs to be made, and it’s comforter put in the dryer. It’ll take me at least an hour to complete all the little things that need to be done before I pray and close my eyes to the world. But first, I must blog.

So…

today’s topic: OB visit number 1. 10 Weeks gestation! :)

My appointment was at 9:30.  The bus picked me up at 8:40 and had me to the hospital by 8:55. The OB/GYN office is really close by the hospital so I decided to pass the time in the hospitals cafeteria, maybe find something good to read. I had a muffin and a nice hot drink. It only cost me a dollar and twenty cents! :) There weren’t any newspapers or magazines laying around so I just read the hospital information packet.

It’s really not a bad hospital, very family friendly…it doesn’t have a starchy clean feel to it, like big efficient hospitals. As I sat there waiting for time to pass my thoughts helplessly fell back on the hot summer days surround Diederick’s entry into the world. The food from the hospital’s kitchen is quite delicious and I got to have three meals a day for free while there for our four day stay, it was so great. And in the birthing center they had a refrigerator stocked full of upset tummy settling treats available for devouring between meal hours. No outside hospital food allowed in. Oh and the room was so nice too, being half conscious at best I was thankful to have such a friendly helpful staff. All the same, I did wish my mom was there.

Shaking myself out of memory lane I headed over to the OB office. I checked in five minutes before my appointment and settled down with a magazine. I think read the better part of four mags before my name got called.

I’m so happy to be ten weeks! Ten weeks means the outside of the baby looks like a baby, a baby hardly over an inch long, but one all the same. A baby that has earlobes and finger tips, a baby that will have it’s first bowel movement in just one week.

Good news on the cramps, well encouraging thoughts anyway.

The midwife who I saw today, Raine, said that it could be a type of morning sickness. Instead of the internal upset and sensitivity to smells and tastes being manifest in nausea my body is reacting with periodic abdominal spasms. I’m not quite sure if there’s scientific research that says that the two are interchangeable, I know I hadn’t heard anything like that before. However, it was nice to see Raine so confident that I’m OK. She said that I’ve been doing the right thing to take it easy when I feel pain, but not to worry myself about it. If there’s blood then I have permission to worry–fair enough.

We just filled out paperwork. She did it really quickly, like some kind of machine without neglecting to talk as she did it. I appreciated that she was so efficient with it, especially since she’d been half an hour late to the appointment.  You know, come to think of it…the same thing happened on my first visit with her when I was pregnant with Deeder. “I got an emergency call from the hospital” Hmm…Oh well, I digress. I’m not saying that she’s lying, she just must meet up with loads of emergencies.

Raine gave me a lab slip for some blood work and had me schedule an appointment to come back in 3 weeks for my physical. As I scheduled the appointment I recalled that that was the appointment I missed in August. The day before my physical I miscarried, that was August 15th. A shiver ran down my back as I cleared my throat and took the appointment card from the receptionist. She said, “Well, we’ll hope to see you then.”   I said that I hoped so too.  I think everyone’s holding off on the congratulations for another 30 weeks.

I met with the outdoor 40 degree weather just in time for the bus. :) What a relief to not have to stand out in the cold!!! The bus ride home took forever and a half, or that’s how it seemed to me…probably because I was anxious about Deeder and his mystery illness. The bus driver needed to fuel up the bus (he forgot to that morning!) so everyone had to get off. Then he took his lunch break, thankfully for that we were all able to stay on the bus where it was warm. Now that’s something you wouldn’t find in a big town–a bus driver who takes lunch during a route.

Raine said that at our next meeting I’ll get to hear this baby’s heartbeat.  So I have an appointment card and a lab slip, and the hope of a heartbeat in three weeks.

I got another lab sheet in the mail today from Karen Gilbert my nurse practitioner at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical center, she’s my neurologist for less! :P We’ve only met the actual neurologist once, she doesn’t do office visits. I’ll have my Lamictal level drawn and my OB blood work at the same time, it’s always great to save a trip.

That’s all for tonight. Can you tell I’m bummed about not getting to hear the heartbeat? Well I am! Really though, if there’s a heartbeat today there will be one in three weeks, right? I can wait.

I’ll finish that for you!

November 7, 2007 at 2:26 am | In Expectant, First Trimester, symptoms | 2 Comments

Yum yum yum. It’s so great knowing exactly what you want to eat! :P

My mom used to finish people’s left overs, even soggy cereal. Really! I find myself doing the same thing now. I used to stick Deeder’s unfinished yogurt in the refrigerator, or cheese stick, or dinner of whatever sort. Who wants to eat something with sweet little baby bits of backwash? I DO! You don’t finish it, I will. Unfortunately this isn’t the case with meats. I can eat meat in a meal but never touch the left over scraps, it makes me want to throw up! Well, OK, I take that back partially. I eat cold pizza or a left over grinder. Just not meatloaf, casserole or a burger.

Diederick never lets me eat if he’s not being fed too. Perhaps he’ll put on extra weight during this pregnancy too :) Yesterday he helped me eat a salad. He’d get bites of the cottage cheese and eat off the croutons while I ate the tomatoes and lettuce and salad dressing. When he’d accidentally pick something out that he didn’t want he’d put it in my mouth, pretty cute!

Today he’s not feeling well. He’s hot to the touch but doesn’t have a temperature, his skin is also spotty looking. He’s under the impression that he absolutely must be held ALL the time, if he isn’t the whole world will crumble apart. Right now he’s napping. I’m not entirely worried because he is eating very well. If he does develop a fever and keeps the spots I’ll call his pediatrician. He had four shots yesterday, I know sometimes that makes children feel ill.

Off for now. Tomorrow morning is my 10Week visit with Rainy, one of the midwives at the OB/GYN.

our coffee pot

October 29, 2007 at 1:04 am | In Expectant, symptoms | 2 Comments

One of the changes in me that I cling to as a sign of pregnancy is distaste for coffee. I’ve been addicted to the rich black caffeinated beverage since I was 15. The first time I had it was on a flight to San Diego California to meet a family I’d never seen before. I was to stay with them for two weeks, watch their kids while their mom had a baby–she had the baby the second day I was there. They had three year old twins and an 18 month old little boy, I think they now have six kids. Anyway, I have had at least one cup a day since then–except for when I was pregnant with Deeder. YUCK! Can’t take it. Just the smell makes me sick. After just two days of living coffee free I had a slammer of a head-ache. I thought I might die, actually I was sure I’d die! All I could do was lay all curled up and whimper. :P

I still enjoyed coffee while I was pregnant with the baby I miscarried. I made all kinds of excuses to myself for why I still couldn’t stop drinking it. Maybe I’m going to have a girl, maybe it’s just different. But I knew my mom had the same coffee thing so I worried. Boy you don’t read about that in the books, do you?

Darren still insists on my making a whole pot every morning. Our coffee carafe only holds about half a pot which is about all Darren drinks, except on the days when I try to sneak and make only that much. Those are the times when he drinks more. I guess I have it pretty go when that’s the thing that hugely annoys me. Coffee beans aren’t cheap and I hate the waste! A whole pot it is. :P It takes two of us to finish it and I’m out of the game for a while. My taste for it will come back the instant I deliver. Actually that was the first thing I wanted when my senses came back after I had Deeder. None of that watery orange juice for me, I wanted coffee!

Oh, and no headache. I have a cup of Lipton tea if I’m feeling a need for the picker upper that caffeine gives.

PS: Thanks for the doggie comment, Kathie :) Darren enjoyed that!

Your Pregnancy, Week 8

October 22, 2007 at 8:09 pm | In Expectant, First Trimester, GaGa Preggo Calendar, General, symptoms | 2 Comments

Week 8: Goodbye sea creature, hello baby!

Fetal development in pregnancy week 8:

The embryo in second month Woohoo! You’ve got one whole inch of baby inside of you!

Your little embryo has finally reached the one-inch mark (30mm). And if it were possible to take a peek, you could actually see your tiny baby without a telescope! What’s more, your baby is finally starting to take on some very distinct human features. For starters, their little tail (really just the spinal cord) has disappeared completely.

It’s nice to know your baby can no longer be mistaken for a sea creature! Additionally, both their toes and fingers are prominent with very little, if any, webbing. Upper and lower limbs all show recognizable joints (elbows and knees) and the lower limb bones are starting to ossify. But don’t expect your baby to resemble either parent quite yet.

Right now, your baby’s head is disproportionately larger than the rest of their body–making up almost half of your little one’s height and weight!

And how’s mom doing? Your slightly-larger-than-a-cherry embryo is also starting to have a physical impact on you this week—and not just hormonally, as you may be noticing a slight bulge at your midline– mostly from water retention.

Most people won’t even notice the subtle change to your belly’s shape, but since you’re if you have been extra moody lately, that may start to subside this week, as the placenta is beginning to take responsibility for your baby’s hormone production tuned in to every little change in your body, it hasn’t slipped past. Good news for the hormonally tortured: if you have been extra moody lately, that may start to subside this week, as the placenta is beginning to take responsibility for your baby’s hormone production. This means your body will soon be able to relax a bit from its over-production of hormones as the placenta starts to regulate your baby’s hormones– allowing your body to focus on producing more normal levels of hormones for yourself.

I’ve been feeling really good, nicely unsettled tummy in the morning…extra tired, and having very specific likes and dislikes. I get a good two hour nap in every day and am to bed by 9:30.
My tummy does have a little bump, but just enough for me to notice! I don’t think I’ll be pulling out the maternity clothes for a while. All the same, I’m going to do belly pictures. You girls can stand that, can’t you? How about one with each OB visit report.

Boy I hope I get to hear the baby’s heartbeat when I go in in a couple weeks :)
I’ll be ten weeks along.

Keep praying for me…I still get cramps now and then. I just take it as a sign to relax a little, usually I go lay down for a few minutes and wait for the cramps to pass. They always go away pretty quickly, but still it worries me.
Other than a little cramping I’m happy with everything so far.

Your pregnancy week 2, and hormone thing :P

October 17, 2007 at 12:44 am | In Expectant, First Trimester, GaGa Preggo Calendar, General, symptoms | 2 Comments
All is still fairly calm and quiet– or so it seems. In reality, your little bundle of cells is now an embryo growing a neat little umbilical cord, while your body is getting ready to start working on building the placenta. You’ve probably already noticed your swollen tender breasts, although you might think it’s just due to your period at this point.- BabyGaGa

Steph, testing hormone levels is an early safe way to see how the pregnancy is going. If the levels are low then the pregnancy may be one that wont last. If the levels are unusually high the woman may be pregnant with multiples.
I suppose they have two levels taken to be extra sure that the first one was accurate. That’s about all I know. :)

I put a babystrology ticker on my main blog on the Who Am I? page because for some reason the coding doesn’t work on the free wordpress blogs. I love the ticker, it’s uber!

Tomorrow hopefully I’ll pick up the labs and do the first one. That’ll probably mean another post on here. I’m sure it’s just like any other bit of lab work. They didn’t tell me to do anything special like for the glucose test I took near the end of my pregnancy with Deeders.

That’s all for now. No cramps today!

I’ll have Tabi call you…

October 15, 2007 at 2:58 pm | In Expectant, First Trimester, General, symptoms | 1 Comment

This morning I called the OB/GYN to tell them about my positive pregnancy test. The appointment that I have scheduled was to talk to my doctor about the weird one day period I had on the 29th of September, not to talk about another pregnancy. Rather than surprising him with the news I thought it’d be more convenient for everyone to just call ahead–that way he’d know what lecture to have in store for me. :P

The reseptionist said, “Hmm. Well, OK. Would you hold on a second?” She came back on the line in two minutes and said, “Well, I’ll have his nurse give you a call today and she’ll talk to you about your options.”

It’s so weird how they can be so happy about pregnancy for some people. But for those who were told to wait to get pregnant for a while you get treated a bit differently. It’s not exciting–it’s an inconvenience.

The good news is that my mom’s midwife had some suggestions for me! She recommends Vitamin E - 800 IU and some herbal tinctures. I’ll (hopefully) get to the co-op today and look for them. :)

I slept

October 15, 2007 at 2:02 am | In Expectant, First Trimester, General, symptoms | No Comments

A whole lot today. :)

Darren took Deeder to church and left me at home to nap. I cleaned up breakfast stuff and went right to bed. I was surprised that my eyes didn’t open again until 12 noon–which was perfect because I had enough time to shower and start lunch.

I slept Deeder’s entire nap time which ran later than usual, 3pm to 6pm. Yesterday wasn’t a good day, so I’m very thankful that today both Deeder and I slept well.

Yesterday even the process of collecting/sorting the laundry and washing it made me crampy. Whenever I’d feel that way I’d just go lay down and within hardly any time at all I’d feel better.
I also drank lots of water and had a couple lemon juice and honey hot drinks. :P That always helps me feel better no matter what’s wrong!

I fed Deeder a big dinner. Quite impressive how much he ate of it!

He had a baby size hamburger (half the size of a grown-up one), cottage cheese, steamed broccoli, carrot, and zucchini. :)

Tomorrow is Deeder Bug’s 15 month marker, such a big boy! I plan to have his official monthly update up on my main blog on time this month because I skipped last month.

hmm.

October 13, 2007 at 3:13 pm | In Expectant, First Trimester, General, symptoms | 1 Comment

Well I’ve been feeling pleasingly down in the dumps–queasy tummy, cravings, distaste for coffee.

But, lots of cramping too.

With Deeder I had one night of cramping about month four and the rest was smooth comfortable sailing.

I am worried. So please do pray with me that this is nothing. Just another question for Dr. Bunker…he’ll just say, “I told you to wait at least three months before trying to get pregnant.”

Today I took the day off going over to help Lynn with cleaning. I’m drinking lots of water and trying to lay down to rest. The relaxing isn’t especially easy with busy Mr. Deeder running around, but I’m doing my best.

Thanks for the encouragement, Mom and Steph :)

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