Archive for July, 2009
Short Fridays are even better than the original
Jul 24th
I’m just getting set up for work for the morning (which seems to take forever – my computer is so slow). Ryan and I both took 1/2 days off today so that we can get up to my hometown before the evening is totally over (it’s about a 5 1/2 hour drive from Duluth). I’m so excited for this weekend. The fair, hanging out with friends and old classmates I haven’t seen in years…it should be fun! And I can’t get drunk and embarrass myself, so that’s a plus. ;-) We had a pretty small graduating class (about 100 people), and I think about 1/3-1/2 will be there (at least from what I can tell on the evite list).
So tell me, am I expecting too much from this weekend? How was your class reunion, if you went?
Hungry for nothing
Jul 23rd
Everything I read says that pregnant women eat tons of food. That they are hungry a lot and that aside from a couple things that might make them sick they will eat almost anything. This has NOT been my experience.
It is almost lunch time, and I’m dreading it. I’m hungry, but nothing at all sounds good. I’ve been making myself eat breakfast each day, and I’ve been trying to find things that sound good for lunch, but it’s a struggle. First of all, what sounds fine in the morning might not sound fine by lunch time. And if I want to go out for lunch, the immediate choices are pretty limited. There are a couple greek style restaurants, a few sandwhich shops an Indian restaurant and one Chinese place (OK, so now it sounds like there’s a lot to choose from). But none of that sounds good, or if it does I’m not supposed to eat it. For instance, a Narmer from Erberts & Gerberts used to be my favorite “eating lunch out” go-to meal. And it doesn’t sound totally repulsive right now, which is a big plus over most other stuff. But it’s got lunch meat on it. And sprouts. Both of which I’m not supposed to have. And PROBABLY the baby and I would both be fine. But what if we weren’t? What if I got listeriosis or e-coli? The chances are very low, but they are there. And I feel like pregnancy is making me worry a lot more about this kind of stuff, and I don’t know if it’s rational or not (I am not normally a worrier over these kinds of things). My doctor did mention the don’t eat lunch meat thing, but I didn’t ask her if that meant never or only rarely or what.
Ugh. I think I’ll just get the darn sandwich without sprouts (although I LOVE sprouts – or at least I think I do…who knows any more). This is all too stressful. Which is just silly. There are much more important things to stress over if I’m going to be stressed, I know. It’s just that it’s extremely frustrating to go from being someone who likes most foods to being someone who doesn’t want to eat ANYTHING that is available. I don’t like being so picky. And actually, even if it was being “picky” it would be better – at least then there would be stuff that I did want to eat.
Whine, whine, whine. I know. I’m sorry. I’ll try to come back later with a cheerier post. My 10-year reunion is this weekend, and we are going to the demolition derby at the fair on Friday. I’m super-excited for all of that (and at the moment fair food actually sounds kind of good, so maybe I’ll get to eat something this weekend!). I’ll try to get some photos, but I’ll probably be too busy gabbing with people I never see, so no promises!
Happy Birthday, Karen
Jul 22nd
It is my sister’s 27th birthday today. Happy birthday, Karen. You rock!
ps. You should start a blog. You know, in your spare time. HAHAHA. But seriously, the stories of your children alone would keep you writing for ages.
The first appointment
Jul 17th
We had our first doctor’s appointment on Wednesday, and I think it went really well. We really liked the doctor, and she answered the couple questions I had, and even though I know I started off this pregnancy overweight she said that she doesn’t like to see anyone lose weight during their pregnancy (I’ve lost about 5 pounds), which as odd as it might seem was reassuring – I didn’t feel like she was judging me.
She called with the test results today, and everything looks good, so that’s awesome. I do have to take some antibiotics, but it’s nothing serious, just some bacteria in my urine (yay, pregnancy oversharing!). Anyway, it’s apparently really common in pregnant women, and nothing to worry about as long as I take the medicine. From what I recall my sisters had similar issues with their pregnancies, and I told the doctor that, so she said we’ll be keeping an eye on things.
I was telling friends of ours today that while I was fairly certain I was pregnant even before the appointment (the positive test and no period for a couple months were pretty good indicators ;-)), having the appointment done and the test results back make it feel that much more real. Because I’m pretty sure they would tell me if they got the results back and I wasn’t pregnant. ;-)
Anyway, things are going well. I have my appetite back (although that’s not exactly right…it wasn’t really my appetite that was gone, so much as my capacity to actually eat anything solid for a while). I’m still a little picky about food – things that I used to enjoy just don’t sound good and other stuff that I only kind of liked sounds fabulous.
In other news, we are going to work on the brakes on the car tomorrow morning for a while, and then on Sunday if needed. Luckily, the guy that is helping us out has a vehicle we can borrow if we can’t take our car tomorrow morning (we are a 1 car family at this time). Hopefully it will be a relatively easy job, but we haven’t worked on them before. Any tips for working on the rear brakes of a Toyota Echo?
Questions
Jul 14th
Our first doctor’s appointment is tomorrow, and all the articles/books I’ve read say that you should write down all of your questions for the doctor so that you don’t forget them. Which is a fabulous idea, if you can think of questions in the first place. I mean, I have a couple (Should I be taking a fish oil pill in addition to my prenatal vitamin? Is the prenatal I’m taking a good one? Are there any activities/foods that I should avoid that wouldn’t seem to be common sense?), but not many. I feel like maybe this is unusual…other people seem to be full of questions. And usually I’m one of those types. But I feel like between all the reading I’ve been doing and all of the pregnant women I’ve known (or know who are currently pregnant) I have a wealth of information at my fingertips. And most of the information says “Don’t do anything you know is stupid, rest when you can, and eat as healthily as you can.” So I don’t have any super-pressing questions. Is this weird?
Don’t get me wrong – there are lots of things I wonder about that will come later in the pregnancy, about labor especially. But I want to do more reading about it so I feel more informed before I start asking specific questions. Does that make sense? It’s not at all that I feel pressured to be so informed by anyone else, it’s just that I don’t want to waste time by asking questions that I could have answered on my own with a little research ahead of time. And while I’m sure the next 8 months will go by quickly there is still plenty of time to ask about that kind of stuff.
So yah…that’s where I’m at right now. If you have kids, what is the advice you wish someone would have given you about being pregnant? What kinds of questions do any of you think I should be asking?
ps. WHAT is the DEAL with feeling like I’m hungry and then only being able to eat a couple bites of whatever is in front of me? We had grilled chicken salad last night, and usually I can eat a big plate of the stuff. I love salad and I love chicken, but I seriously think I had maybe 5 bites of it yesterday and couldn’t do it anymore. Sad! The only thing I seem to be able to eat regularly is ice cream, and even that is in small portions. I love ice cream, don’t get me wrong, but I’m pretty sure it shouldn’t be the staple food of my diet right now.
pps. I know I said I would post pictures, and I will – I promise! I’ve just been EXTREMELY lazy tired lately. I’m totally pulling the pregnancy card on this one, although if you look back I have kind of a bad habit of taking FOREVER to post photos. But I will get to it – I promise!
Go Twins!
Jul 10th
Ryan and I are going to the Twins game tomorrow with a bunch of people – we are taking a bus down there and going to tailgate and stuff, and I’m really looking forward to it (as is he – he hasn’t been to a game in about a year or so). Other than that, our weekend plans mostly involve sleeping a lot (on my part) and probably some video games on his part. I think if you asked him he would tell you that that’s one of the benefits of me being pregnant - I go to bed early and he’s free to play video games, where usually I would be harrassing him to come hang out with me. ;-)
Anyway, on Sunday I’m hoping to give a good update with lots of photos from the past few weeks.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
The big news!
Jul 9th
I know we haven’t written in almost 2 weeks, and I apologize for that. The news we’ve been waiting to share has kind of consumed us, and it was hard to think of something else to talk about (although I do have updates with photos of learning to make Kuchen with my grandma and our 4th of July to add later).
So, the big news is that I’m pregnant! Ryan and I are going to be having a baby, sometime in February (at least that’s what the internets tell us!). My first appointment is next week, so we should know more at that point.
We are so excited, and of course nervous. But we think we are about as ready as anyone CAN be for this kind of change. I’m sure that it will kick our asses, but from what I hear that wouldn’t change even if we waited another few years. ;-)
We will be keeping the blog updated as things go along, of course (and hopefully more often now that the news is out!).
So that is it. Sorry to keep you waiting so long. ;-)
