Happy Sunday everyone!
Not a whole lot is happening this weekend for me. It's actually really nice to have a relaxing/no-plans weekend. I'm sure these will soon be few and far between. As for the photo to the right, partly, I think it's just fun to post pictures for people to see, and partly, I was searching through some old photos and found this one. I'm the baby in the picture (yeah, that dark hair didn't last very long) and the ridiculously adorable girl holding me is Kara (still ridiculously beautiful). I was looking through some of my baby/kid pictures and some of them, I swear, must be a different child because they don't look like me at all. Others I can almost remember "doing that face" or having the picture taken.
My only other noteworthy news is that I have officially finished our taxes and will be sending them in this week. YAY! One more year done. Boy Dave is lucky, he's never had to do them and I've now taken the reigns. I think I deserve a special treat for that no?
Sunday, February 20, 2005
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Another appointment
Hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine's day. Mine was pretty good. Dave brought me flowers after I nearly broke down at the doctor's office. (Everything went just fine, I was just overly emotional for no particular reason.) And in the evening, we went to "Hitch" which was very fun.
This past weekend we painted our bedroom (yes, we finally picked a color -- it only took us three tries!). I swear, we would have had to go to a different store if that color didn't work because we wouldn't have been able to show our faces in Home Depot. Anyhow, as you can see from the picture, it is a pretty green color. I like it a lot -- although now it draws more attention to the walls and so we need to get some pictures up or something. I think we are going to put our wedding quilt up on one of the walls, but I don't really know how big it is so I'm not exactly sure where it will fit. Maybe this weekend I'll go through some of our other pictures to find what else would go well on the walls.
So I had another appointment yesterday. Everything is going fine. I measured at 25 cm which is normal (the cm should roughly equal the number of weeks pregnant you are and I'm 24 weeks). My doc seems to be going with a June 2nd due date so if anyone marked their calendars, you can change that. I don't think anything has really changed, I think I may have just misheard the radiologist (who I swear said June 1st) but anyway, what's a day?
Other than that, nothing too exciting on this end. Hoping for a very relaxing three-day weekend coming up for me -- hooray for president's day!
This past weekend we painted our bedroom (yes, we finally picked a color -- it only took us three tries!). I swear, we would have had to go to a different store if that color didn't work because we wouldn't have been able to show our faces in Home Depot. Anyhow, as you can see from the picture, it is a pretty green color. I like it a lot -- although now it draws more attention to the walls and so we need to get some pictures up or something. I think we are going to put our wedding quilt up on one of the walls, but I don't really know how big it is so I'm not exactly sure where it will fit. Maybe this weekend I'll go through some of our other pictures to find what else would go well on the walls.
So I had another appointment yesterday. Everything is going fine. I measured at 25 cm which is normal (the cm should roughly equal the number of weeks pregnant you are and I'm 24 weeks). My doc seems to be going with a June 2nd due date so if anyone marked their calendars, you can change that. I don't think anything has really changed, I think I may have just misheard the radiologist (who I swear said June 1st) but anyway, what's a day?
Other than that, nothing too exciting on this end. Hoping for a very relaxing three-day weekend coming up for me -- hooray for president's day!
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
6 months!!!
How is it possible that I am SIX MONTHS PREGNANT?!!????
Things are going pretty well in that department. Dave and I went to our second childbirth class and it was good. We will not have a class next week for the holiday, but we both enjoy going. We talked about dad's roles a lot which was nice -- and we started talking about different relaxation techniques. These were basically like yoga breathing so it was ok. The baby seems to be moving quite a bit these days so that's exciting. According to all the books it is over a pound!! Wow... I'm continually amazed. My belly hasn't really changed, but I'll try to take another picture this weekend.
In other news, this past weekend, David's uncle got married so we got to dance a bit at the reception which was very fun. I'm slowly starting to figure out who all my new relatives are and how they are related. Sooner or later I'll know them all by name I'm sure.
We also got our new couch last weekend -- which, sadly, did not match the recliner we got a couple weeks ago. We called about it and they ordered the wrong recliner so we have to go exchange that for the right one. It's nice to have the couch though and I'm anxious to have all the furniture there together. We got a fun area rug from Target and the whole room is starting to come together.
In other decorating news, we had to return the paint we bought for the master bedroom as when we sampled it on a bit of the wall it looked like split-pea soup. Not the cool trendy green we were hoping for! So we've decided on a new color and maybe we will start on that in the next couple of weeks depending on how we feel.
I caught a cold this past weekend which isn't amounting to too much, but I'm pretty sure I've given Dave strep. He has apparently never had it before so I think he might be a little nervous to be having a sickness that isn't just a cold. Nonetheless, so far he's just had a little scratchy throat and those tell-tale spots on the back of his throat. Hopefully it will just amount to the same minor cold that I have but I guess we'll see.
Hope all is well!
Things are going pretty well in that department. Dave and I went to our second childbirth class and it was good. We will not have a class next week for the holiday, but we both enjoy going. We talked about dad's roles a lot which was nice -- and we started talking about different relaxation techniques. These were basically like yoga breathing so it was ok. The baby seems to be moving quite a bit these days so that's exciting. According to all the books it is over a pound!! Wow... I'm continually amazed. My belly hasn't really changed, but I'll try to take another picture this weekend.
In other news, this past weekend, David's uncle got married so we got to dance a bit at the reception which was very fun. I'm slowly starting to figure out who all my new relatives are and how they are related. Sooner or later I'll know them all by name I'm sure.
We also got our new couch last weekend -- which, sadly, did not match the recliner we got a couple weeks ago. We called about it and they ordered the wrong recliner so we have to go exchange that for the right one. It's nice to have the couch though and I'm anxious to have all the furniture there together. We got a fun area rug from Target and the whole room is starting to come together.
In other decorating news, we had to return the paint we bought for the master bedroom as when we sampled it on a bit of the wall it looked like split-pea soup. Not the cool trendy green we were hoping for! So we've decided on a new color and maybe we will start on that in the next couple of weeks depending on how we feel.
I caught a cold this past weekend which isn't amounting to too much, but I'm pretty sure I've given Dave strep. He has apparently never had it before so I think he might be a little nervous to be having a sickness that isn't just a cold. Nonetheless, so far he's just had a little scratchy throat and those tell-tale spots on the back of his throat. Hopefully it will just amount to the same minor cold that I have but I guess we'll see.
Hope all is well!
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
23series
Well well well, 23 weeks and counting.. almost 6 months... Wow! Things are going really well at this point. Caesar is sitting on the bed watching the ceiling fan and I'm blogging away while Dave cooks dinner -- what a lucky girl I am.
My big news is that Dave and I went to our first childbirth/parenting class last night. We weren't going to go, but a friend highly recommended this particular class so we went. It was a little touchy-feely but it was really nice. The class focuses on natural childbirth and it was a little weird that there was only one other woman (besides me) who was planning to deliver in the hospital (not a home or water birth). Nonetheless, the lady who leads the class is definately not against hospitals and feels that there is definately a time and place for medicine. It really calmed my nerves a lot to hear that most people are totally capable of having a natural birth. I'm not set on drug-free at all, but I like knowing that it I don't have to be SuperWoman to do it and that drugs will help but that my body will know what to do. I definitely left feeling good about things.
So here's the long story about what we did:
We missed the first class (this was the second one) So we went early and the lady who runs the class (a midwife named Stacey) had us do some paperwork and write down what we wanted from the class and stuff and then showed us a little slide of a home birth (the focus is definately on trusting taht your body to know what to do). She talked a lot about how contractions are in one part of your body and if you can try to relax the rest of your body while you're having them, it is more manageable in the long haul bc your whole body doesn't get so exhausted. (No idea how true that is, but it sounds reasonable.) We saw the baby's head born (rest of baby still in mommy) and what it looked like coming out -- DH and I were both a little freaked out because it was TOTALLY PURPLE! but aparently that is normal because when it's sqeezed through, the blood tends to go into the head, but not drain out (because there is so much pressure in the birth canal.) The next slide it was totally pink -- that was neat to see because I think if I saw my purple baby without knowing it was ok, I'd think it was dead.
So then all the other people came and aparently their homework for last time was to talk to their mothers and find out their birth stories. So they went around the room and told their stories which ran the gammut of being strapped to a table (!) and delivering in the hallway. Stacey explained why they would have been advised to do certain things (like smoke = used to be they promoted smoking and low weight gain so people would have small babies) and why they use different drugs, etc.
After that we divided into girls and boys and as groups made a list of the fears surrounding birth and then talked about it as a big group. It was
nice to talk about it in the open and know that other women are afraid of, oh, say, pooping. We then talked about different types of pain (emotional physical etc.) and talked about what we do to deal with that (cry drugs excercise etc) and how labor would relate to childbirth.
At the very end we did a 5 minute free-writing excercise where we started with "On the day of my baby's birth...." DH and I exchanged ours and we both feel really good about it and that was encouraging. I mean, I'm scared of stuff, but I feel like it will probably be ok...
Anyhow, you're all probably bored to death hearing about pregnancy.
In other news, our new couch will arrive this weekend Woohoo!!
My big news is that Dave and I went to our first childbirth/parenting class last night. We weren't going to go, but a friend highly recommended this particular class so we went. It was a little touchy-feely but it was really nice. The class focuses on natural childbirth and it was a little weird that there was only one other woman (besides me) who was planning to deliver in the hospital (not a home or water birth). Nonetheless, the lady who leads the class is definately not against hospitals and feels that there is definately a time and place for medicine. It really calmed my nerves a lot to hear that most people are totally capable of having a natural birth. I'm not set on drug-free at all, but I like knowing that it I don't have to be SuperWoman to do it and that drugs will help but that my body will know what to do. I definitely left feeling good about things.
So here's the long story about what we did:
We missed the first class (this was the second one) So we went early and the lady who runs the class (a midwife named Stacey) had us do some paperwork and write down what we wanted from the class and stuff and then showed us a little slide of a home birth (the focus is definately on trusting taht your body to know what to do). She talked a lot about how contractions are in one part of your body and if you can try to relax the rest of your body while you're having them, it is more manageable in the long haul bc your whole body doesn't get so exhausted. (No idea how true that is, but it sounds reasonable.) We saw the baby's head born (rest of baby still in mommy) and what it looked like coming out -- DH and I were both a little freaked out because it was TOTALLY PURPLE! but aparently that is normal because when it's sqeezed through, the blood tends to go into the head, but not drain out (because there is so much pressure in the birth canal.) The next slide it was totally pink -- that was neat to see because I think if I saw my purple baby without knowing it was ok, I'd think it was dead.
So then all the other people came and aparently their homework for last time was to talk to their mothers and find out their birth stories. So they went around the room and told their stories which ran the gammut of being strapped to a table (!) and delivering in the hallway. Stacey explained why they would have been advised to do certain things (like smoke = used to be they promoted smoking and low weight gain so people would have small babies) and why they use different drugs, etc.
After that we divided into girls and boys and as groups made a list of the fears surrounding birth and then talked about it as a big group. It was
nice to talk about it in the open and know that other women are afraid of, oh, say, pooping. We then talked about different types of pain (emotional physical etc.) and talked about what we do to deal with that (cry drugs excercise etc) and how labor would relate to childbirth.
At the very end we did a 5 minute free-writing excercise where we started with "On the day of my baby's birth...." DH and I exchanged ours and we both feel really good about it and that was encouraging. I mean, I'm scared of stuff, but I feel like it will probably be ok...
Anyhow, you're all probably bored to death hearing about pregnancy.
In other news, our new couch will arrive this weekend Woohoo!!
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