Yes. I am almost 5 months, I believe they count week 21 as 5 months, but I am a few days shy of it. But I am almost! Its been an amazing journey, this pregnancy. Its been even better as nausea has subsided completly except for the times I gross myself out..like brushing my teeth, or hearing something gross being said. I still have that weak stomach, mhmm. Truman and I have moved into our new little efficiency apartment, and it is looking cuter as we work more on it. Truman has done an amazing job in putting this dilapidated apartment back together where it makes a cute little one bedroom home for us. We still need to work on the stove, and on the toilet, but we are getting there and for the time being we walk a mere 8 feet to my dad's house and take showers there. Hopefully in the next 2 weeks we will get everything done here that we need to.
Baby is moving everyday, and I think I can tell when he is she is sleeping and awake. Its been sweet feeling that swishing inside me and knowing that baby is growing and getting ready to meet us soon. It is also fun to watch Truman rub my belly and feel the baby move in response to him touching my belly. It seems to only work with me or Truman, and even then, more Truman than me. Baby usually moves for me when I think my little thoughts to it and when I have my little conversations with him or her. Sleep has been even harder to come by as of late. I can never seem to get comfortable, and my limbs fall asleep when I twist and turn and get them in a position that is comfy for the moment to sleep in. And then the peeing. Oye, the peeing. I counted 6 times in 2 hours at one evening this last week. But as much as I am uncomfortable, or tired, I am excited that I am growing a baby inside me. Its a magical feeling that takes the negative of pregnancy right out. I am counting down the days that when Truman, my mom and I will go into the ultrasound and be able to know and see what we are having. I am going to ask Truman to give me a blessing on the day of the appointment for over all well being and for baby to cooperate with the ultrasound guy so that we can see what baby's secret is. It will be fun to be able to finally know and to buy clothes and blankets and such for a little girl, or a little boy.
Its been cold these last few days and its been wonderful. I am not hot or irritated from the heat. I have been able to wear, though stretched, some of my winter clothes. Its been great being able to wear sweaters and pants. I am excited for this baking weather. I have my head full of recipes that include chicken pot pie, crock pot bar-b-que pork, chicken soup, taco soup, chili and cornbread, stews and much much more! And then theres the baking! I will be baking bananna bread ala nessa style *which just means more dark brown sugar than white, and tons of mashed nannas, but HOLDING the nuts*, blueberry oat muffins, assortment of cookies, honey wheat bread, rolls, day of the dead bread---not to celebrate the holiday but just because I love LOVE this bread with hot chocolate, muffins, and much much more. I love fall for this reason. I love to bake and have my house smelling like whatever I happen to be cooking that day. And though I love candles year round, there is just something more homier about them when they are lit during the fall and when its cool outside. Im also a love of getting up in the morning and swaddling myslef in my flannel robe and getting either some hot cocoa, or some hot chamomile or mint herbal tea. This is espcially great that I get up anytime between 750-810 in the morning, and its a daily thing, and Truman isnt up so I have some time to myself to drink my hot tea and watch a little something. And with this time change, I will be getting up 650-710 in the morning. And I cant sleep longer, cause I its what time my body has been getting up for the last 3 months. But it will be neat to be up earlier and be able to get ready and actually do things before noon...heh.
I have been reading more and more about the delivery part of the pregnancy, and well, at first it seemed daunting-as if I could skip that part, but as I read more and more and see videos on mothering.com, or on baby story, or read about them in Ina May Gaskins books, I feel more and more confident that my body will be able to do what it is supposed to do. I have faith and strong desire, and an oomph to go head through the natural childbirth calmly and productively. I say this because I am a big wuss. BIG TIME. And I know that at times with pain I have reacted irrationally and have been a big cry baby. But I have a desire to act calmly and rationally. And though I will be in pain, I want to psyche myself out that I will be calm and will be able to focus, even if I turn inward and bring all my strength to the top. My biggest help in this will be that I want to do this for the baby, so that we can both be alert for the bonding and breastfeeding part, and the second will be that Truman will help me through this.
Well I best be off. I need to guzzle some water since I havent really drank any today, I did more juice than anything and well today was a bad day on the water.
Take care all, and talk to you later :)
A pregnancy question----
What is a bedtime snack that you enjoy? Whether it be healthy or not, I want to hear!
Friday, October 30, 2009
Mish Mash This and That
So as the title says this post is about anything that has popped into my head and anything that I need to vent about, and of course update on little one :)
First and foremost.... Truman and I went to the doctors today. Everything checked out great. They weighed me, and I have not gained anything since last month! And the month before I had only gained one pound since the previous visit. I was way excited! I thought that I was going to at least have gained 5-10 pounds, being as since the previous two weeks, none of my elastic waist skirts from pre pregnancy are fitting a bit, sigh ok, really tight. Not to mention I woke up at week 16 and found that I had grown 4 inches around my girth in one night! Ok, so not completely true, but that is how I have been feeling, especially when pre prego clothes dont fit from one week to the next, and maternity clothes are starting to fit even better. On the upside, :D, the doc told me to gain a pound in this upcoming month. We shall see how I do. I am eating better, and excersing regularly. Ok more lies....I AM eating better, but I still splurge a little here and there, but I am doing that part right...and the excersing part, well I try to get in walks when I remember, and when I have the energy at night before the sun goes down. I just HATE HATE walking in the sun or hot weather. I get too overheated and then I get grumpy and uncomfy for the rest of the night. I have settled to going back and forth in my house cleaning and doing things for my excersise. But, now that it has cooled considereably-today is a rainy day whoo hoo!, and I think we shall have a good winter...I will be able to get out and walk more during the day when its nice and cold-my fave! So I have to be doing something right if everything is checking out great and I havent gained weight, and my pee test came back great (no sugar or protein in the urine). We also got to hear the baby's heart beat again...oh boy, that is always amazing to hear. And it goes by so fast that I just am intently listening to it and waiting for the doc to find that little heart beat and then we listen for a few minutes and I am excited that once again my irrational fear that I squished the baby by semi sleeping on my tummy last night, or I hardboiled my baby by being too hot....that these are put to rest by hearing that little thump thump thump. Truman tells me everything is going to be fine everytime he sees me thinking and he knows I am thinking about the baby and if I hurt it in any way. He is the greatest husband ever! Also, at week 16 I felt the baby move. It was surreal and it felt weird. I havent again, but I know that it was the baby. It was a different feeling and I just knew. Now I am just waiting for baby to kick so Truman can feel it too. I think it will be more real to him then, and of course at the birth. He knows we are having a baby..hehe, but I think for hubbies, it different. They dont feel what we feel, and I think sometimes they feel a little left out. I try to include him in everything that the baby does, or how I am feeling and I think he gets tired of it sometimes, but I think it makes him happy that he is the 2nd person after me that knows what I am feeling.
So its getting closer to the time that I need to start organizing my birth plan, and make it known to my doctor and the hospital. I have a general birth plan with notes and such, but I need to plan it out and put it in more detailed writing and then print it out for all of them. As I have gone through my pregnancy, I have gotten a lot...A LOT of advice...solicited and unsolicited. And there is nothing wrong with that. Nothing at all. Except. EXCEPT when it is told in a "I know more than you" or "You cant do it that way because its too hard, and I know you" or "Thats not the correct way of doing things, this is the normal way." This is what enfuriates me to the core. Since when is there a singular way of giving birth? Grant it, women have been giving birth from the time of Adam and Eve. And it has changed with cultures. The idea is there-give birth to a healthy baby, well try to, but how one does it is completly unique and individual.
My particular birth plan is like this: All natural, or as natural as the hospital will allow. I do not want an IV, but will have to settle for the IV plug. No pain meds, and NONE offered to me AT ALL. I want to be able to get in any position that I want that will be comfortable to labor and birth in. I want to be able to move when I want and wherever I want. I do not want fetal monitoring, if they have to do it, I want it limited and timed.--there is no real evidence that fetal monitoring actually helps in the birth process. It hurts more than helps and it leads to more C-sections than V-births. And if it says that the heartrate is going down and they get the baby out and its fine, 10-1 baby was fine before and the fetal monitoring messed up. On another tangent here---- the labor and birth process in hospitals have not changed at all in the last 50 years! The hospital staff KNOW that the EFM (fetal monitor machine) does not actually do anything at all to help. Its just a way to control the environment. Mostly for malpractice coverages. It is sad that the most important thing that can happen in a hospital, besides surgeries and such, has not been changed at all. I am sure they update or try to update the ways that they do heart surgery or even minor surgeries. But the labor and birth process has stayed the same, even if most of the techniques used are out of date and do not do anything to aid in the delivery process of baby.
If you want to read more about the birthing process and going natural, here are some books that I am reading and find very helpful:
The Pregnancy Bible
The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth
Spiritual Midwifery
Ina May Gaskin's Guide to A Better Birth
I have also read What to Expect while expecting, but I find that I like the pregnancy bible much better because all the negative stuff on pregnancy (like what could go wrong, and medical stuff) is in the back in the blue section and you can choose to read that instead of having negative stuff written in your chapter and that being the only thing they have for that month.
*side note: I am publishing this on Oct 30th, but wrote this Oct 12th.
First and foremost.... Truman and I went to the doctors today. Everything checked out great. They weighed me, and I have not gained anything since last month! And the month before I had only gained one pound since the previous visit. I was way excited! I thought that I was going to at least have gained 5-10 pounds, being as since the previous two weeks, none of my elastic waist skirts from pre pregnancy are fitting a bit, sigh ok, really tight. Not to mention I woke up at week 16 and found that I had grown 4 inches around my girth in one night! Ok, so not completely true, but that is how I have been feeling, especially when pre prego clothes dont fit from one week to the next, and maternity clothes are starting to fit even better. On the upside, :D, the doc told me to gain a pound in this upcoming month. We shall see how I do. I am eating better, and excersing regularly. Ok more lies....I AM eating better, but I still splurge a little here and there, but I am doing that part right...and the excersing part, well I try to get in walks when I remember, and when I have the energy at night before the sun goes down. I just HATE HATE walking in the sun or hot weather. I get too overheated and then I get grumpy and uncomfy for the rest of the night. I have settled to going back and forth in my house cleaning and doing things for my excersise. But, now that it has cooled considereably-today is a rainy day whoo hoo!, and I think we shall have a good winter...I will be able to get out and walk more during the day when its nice and cold-my fave! So I have to be doing something right if everything is checking out great and I havent gained weight, and my pee test came back great (no sugar or protein in the urine). We also got to hear the baby's heart beat again...oh boy, that is always amazing to hear. And it goes by so fast that I just am intently listening to it and waiting for the doc to find that little heart beat and then we listen for a few minutes and I am excited that once again my irrational fear that I squished the baby by semi sleeping on my tummy last night, or I hardboiled my baby by being too hot....that these are put to rest by hearing that little thump thump thump. Truman tells me everything is going to be fine everytime he sees me thinking and he knows I am thinking about the baby and if I hurt it in any way. He is the greatest husband ever! Also, at week 16 I felt the baby move. It was surreal and it felt weird. I havent again, but I know that it was the baby. It was a different feeling and I just knew. Now I am just waiting for baby to kick so Truman can feel it too. I think it will be more real to him then, and of course at the birth. He knows we are having a baby..hehe, but I think for hubbies, it different. They dont feel what we feel, and I think sometimes they feel a little left out. I try to include him in everything that the baby does, or how I am feeling and I think he gets tired of it sometimes, but I think it makes him happy that he is the 2nd person after me that knows what I am feeling.
So its getting closer to the time that I need to start organizing my birth plan, and make it known to my doctor and the hospital. I have a general birth plan with notes and such, but I need to plan it out and put it in more detailed writing and then print it out for all of them. As I have gone through my pregnancy, I have gotten a lot...A LOT of advice...solicited and unsolicited. And there is nothing wrong with that. Nothing at all. Except. EXCEPT when it is told in a "I know more than you" or "You cant do it that way because its too hard, and I know you" or "Thats not the correct way of doing things, this is the normal way." This is what enfuriates me to the core. Since when is there a singular way of giving birth? Grant it, women have been giving birth from the time of Adam and Eve. And it has changed with cultures. The idea is there-give birth to a healthy baby, well try to, but how one does it is completly unique and individual.
My particular birth plan is like this: All natural, or as natural as the hospital will allow. I do not want an IV, but will have to settle for the IV plug. No pain meds, and NONE offered to me AT ALL. I want to be able to get in any position that I want that will be comfortable to labor and birth in. I want to be able to move when I want and wherever I want. I do not want fetal monitoring, if they have to do it, I want it limited and timed.--there is no real evidence that fetal monitoring actually helps in the birth process. It hurts more than helps and it leads to more C-sections than V-births. And if it says that the heartrate is going down and they get the baby out and its fine, 10-1 baby was fine before and the fetal monitoring messed up. On another tangent here---- the labor and birth process in hospitals have not changed at all in the last 50 years! The hospital staff KNOW that the EFM (fetal monitor machine) does not actually do anything at all to help. Its just a way to control the environment. Mostly for malpractice coverages. It is sad that the most important thing that can happen in a hospital, besides surgeries and such, has not been changed at all. I am sure they update or try to update the ways that they do heart surgery or even minor surgeries. But the labor and birth process has stayed the same, even if most of the techniques used are out of date and do not do anything to aid in the delivery process of baby.
If you want to read more about the birthing process and going natural, here are some books that I am reading and find very helpful:
The Pregnancy Bible
The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth
Spiritual Midwifery
Ina May Gaskin's Guide to A Better Birth
I have also read What to Expect while expecting, but I find that I like the pregnancy bible much better because all the negative stuff on pregnancy (like what could go wrong, and medical stuff) is in the back in the blue section and you can choose to read that instead of having negative stuff written in your chapter and that being the only thing they have for that month.
*side note: I am publishing this on Oct 30th, but wrote this Oct 12th.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Hooded Towel Giveaway
A friend of my sister in laws has a online store, and I followed the link that she has on her blog and there is a Contest for a Giveaway for one of her hooded towels! It is way exciting being that they are terribly cute towels. They have monkey towels (my fave), ladybug towels, and a cute frog one too. The winner is chosen this upcoming saturday (17), so go take a look and maybe you will get lucky---though I am hoping for me to win ;). Good Luck!
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Baby Baby
Well, once again, I have failed at keeping up on this blog. I have the facebook, which is more convient to me, being as its just a one line entry, but now being pregnant, and finding that cute little widget on Cynthias (Hinkson) blog, I am going to keep this one updated. I figure I can detail more about what is going on in my pregnancy and how I am feeling and maybe ask a few questions to some pregnant moms or to regular mommies. Its a great feeling being pregnant. Knowing that I am growing a whole other human being inside me. That is the fascinating part. The other part, that yes some told me, some I read, and well some I have come upon on my own. There has been nausea (Oye the nausea!), the eating every hour something very carby so that I could calm the nausea to a point of non extreme nausea, the gaining of 13 pounds in 6 weeks because of the carb eating, the gas---not a flattering form of pregnancy--, the heart burn, the leg cramps---ouch just found out that one today--, the tiredness, the get up every hour and pee like a race horse, or just a trickle, but either way it feels like you need to pee massive amounts at any time you need to just pee, the sleepless nights, the constipation in the first trimester, the breathlessness. Mhmm just to name a few things on the unpleasant side that I have or am experiecing. But then you get some perks...like baby bump, long nails and hair, and hearing this little baby's heart beat when you go to the doctors office. Its amazing that a sperm and egg come together and make a little being, and then 9 months later (10 months to be exact due to 40 week gestation), its a baby ready to come out and great the world. Amazing.
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