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Monday, August 30, 2010

From Pregnancy Journal Archive (First Person Told (5 weeks))

** Reminder... this is from my pregnancy back from July 2009 - March 2010.

We decided this time around we didn't want to tell anyone until the 2nd trimester starts (which in this case is Sept 21, 09) since the last time it was hard enough for us to face that I had a miscarriage but to tell our friends and family was devastating. However I was planning on visiting Tan in mid August for the weekend and I didn't want to be hassled for 3 days about not drinking, not eating sushi (which is my favorite) and possibly by that time having huge boobs and a little show of tummy or maternity pants. So I thought I will just take a chance and tell Linda to see what her reaction would be. You see Tan is a selfish friend... no I am not talking behind her back... those are the exact words from her own mouth - selfish! She would prefer for me to wait a few years and all but to my great surprise Tan was so supportive and so positive I thought I was dreaming! It would have been nice to see her facial reactions but nonetheless it was great to talk her and tell her the news.

Friday, August 27, 2010

From Pregnancy Journal Archive (Week 4 (July 30, 09))

** Reminder... this is from my pregnancy back from July 2009 - March 2010.

warning: for some of you this stuff might be a bit... ugh... TMI but hey it's a pregnancy journal - what did you expect!?

Today is Thursday - I just found out that I am 4 weeks (and 4 days) pregnant on Monday! Is this real? Is this the one that will make it? I'm trying to stay cool and do what is right for the baby and myself but not dwell on the fact that the test didn't even wait for me to finish my business before it showed my a big blue plus sign. Jacques, the sweetheart he is, is also staying cool but I know that he wants this and I can't wait for both of us to celebrate some good news in 8 more weeks.
The symptoms have been different this time around. Maybe it is because I have been working out a lot before this pregnancy (and during) but I have no diahrrea. I do however feel tired ALL THE TIME but I can't sleep - I'm restless when I lie down. Maybe it is the napping... I didn't nap today so we will see what happens tonight. The other thing I noticed is that I have no desire to eat my strawberries. I LOVE strawberries but just the thought of them makes me - eek. So strange. I do want salty - devilled eggs, tortilla chips, crackers and meat... and more meat!

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

*Who is in charge here!?

As a new mom I can't help but wonder what A is thinking or trying to say through all that babble so many times I have "fake" conversations with him or is it with myself... well whatever you know what I mean. 

I thought it would be interesting to write some blurps of what I think A is thinking or trying say because hey I should know right... I'm his Mama!

Dude and I have been hesitating to get A started on solids because frankly I'm freaked out that he is growing up so fast but I can't help think that A was trying to tell us something when we finally gave in one Saturday (early) morning...

What... what is this!?  Why are you putting me in this weird sitting thing?  Why am I sitting up right and have a tray in front of me?  Where is my bottle!?  Why am I sitting in front of you Mama and not laying down in front of you on top of the pillow thing that you put around you?  I'm hungry!!!!!!!!!!!  I've been telling you I'm hungry for SO long (about two weeks in adult time)!  You feed me but I'm not full!

Oh oh... what is that.. what is Papa doing there with my milk!?  Where is the bottle?  Oh oh... (fist in mouth, shaking of the head, grunting) I see the milk! 

I see the milk coming towards me but this is not my bottle it's something else.  Oh who cares - it's milk!!  (chomp, chomp, drool, more drool, swallow).  Oh that was strange, this funny looking stick thing that Mama is holding has my milk but with something else (rice cereal) but it's milk so I don't care.  Don't stop Mama!  Give me more! 

(a few spoonfuls later)
Oh ok... yum.  That was different but still yummy.  Hopefully Mama and Papa will give me more milk from now on... in whatever form it comes in -- because I'm hungry!

From Pregnancy Journal Archive (Positive Test - 4 weeks)

** Reminder... this is from my pregnancy back from July 2009 - March 2010.

So I just missed my period... it was supposed to start on July 22, 2009 and here we are - 5 days afterwards and I mention to Jacques that I should probably take a pregnancy test. So after work I pick Jacques up (like usual) and we head to the store and pick up some pregnancy tests along with my prescription for birth control pills.
As soon as I get through the garage door I run to the bathroom because I have been holding it so I can take the pregnancy test. Geez! The test didn't even wait to get more than a few drops on the stick and the plus sign is already starting to appear! I have never seen a pregnancy test give a result that fast before! I yell out "shit!" and Jacques laughs and says I guess you are pregnant huh? I laugh and we hug and look at each other to say... now what?

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

My pregnancy journal

Many readers (well the many of the few that I have) have asked about my pregnancy journal so I thought why not post the entries here...  so for the next week or so I will post an entry from my pregnancy journal for your reading pleasure. 

I had used aliases for my family and friends in the journal but I figured I should at least help you out by telling you the relationships of them all...
Jacques - husband
Nikki - my cousin (more like my little sister... she was only here while in school)
Tan - one of my best friends who moved away (we had odd nicknames for each other)
Susie - Nikki's old dorm mate who turned out to be a good friend of both of ours
Donna - one of my friends that was pregnant around the time I was but about 3 months ahead

If I have missed any feel free to point them out.


Here is the first one...
Missed Period (3 weeks)

I was feeling so out of it and I kept thinking it was because I was working out 6 times a week and some days it was twice a day. I decided to take it easy after Jacques and Nikki persistently told me that I should. Then a few days after, right around the time I should have started my period, I mentioned the weird mood my body has been in to my nutritionist - Katie Adams and she simply asked the question - "could you be pregnant?"

To bink or not to bink... that is the question

Almost every parents faces this issue... the pacifier, paci, binkie, bink, the mute button, etc.  Do you use it or not.

My husband and I fought this battle for awhile and at some point around the time peanut was about a month old or so I gave in and place the plastic piece of baby heaven into peanut's mouth.  Peanut of course loved it... I on the other hand felt deflated and like a failure.

You see so many articles saying that pacifiers can cause harm and are germ central but on the flip side you find other articles that say that it helps against SIDS, isn't as damaging as a thumb and all that other hoo hah.  My personal arguments were yes it is germ central, yes it helps prevent SIDS but do I really want to be waking up or walking up to the crib every time it falls out?  I also looked at based on family history... no one in my family or my husbands used a pacifier.  We used our thumbs, or index finger but not a pacifier.  Based on that information and also my husbands stern stand on the no bink side we quickly did without the bink. 

I was quite content (and proud) with our decision to wean him off quickly and early on until I recently went to the chiropractor.  My chiropractor is a veteran... as in he has four children and has offered some great parenting advice in the past.  Typically I go alone to the chiropractor but this time I thought I would bring along peanut.  Well this brought on for some interesting chit chat.  Peanut was being his usual self and started to suck his thumb which apparently alarmed the chiropractor... "What?!  You don't give him a pacifier!?   That thumb is going to do so much damage to his mouth!"  I of course asked him to elaborate on his accusation and he went forward to say how the thumb is not like a bink to where you can just act like you lost it and so it will be harder to wean them off and that it will cause damage to his oral hygiene.  I don't agree but I kept quiet.

He went on to mention that another parent that he knows did not want their child (their sixth child) to use a bink OR their hand so she continuously would try to distract her from putting anything in her mouth.  Well that set of a big red flag to me.  I mean I am no expert but I do know from previous knowledge about early childhood development that all children go through an "oral stage" where they experience new things by putting them in their mouth.  I also know that if any of the stages of development are disrupted by traumatic events or such that it will cause a lasting impression on the child in later years.  All of this was confirmed when the chiropractor continued to say that now the child will secretly put sand, dirt, tan bark, socks, and even rocks into her mouth when the parent is not looking. 

So my take away... whether it be a bink or a thumb - let it be... it's better than a rock.