Pregnancy
We are home!
Nov 9th
And I have the plague! I’m pretty sure I caught it from a hobo in New York City, although I don’t remember seeing any hobos, which means that either they don’t live in the touristy parts of town or I am EXTREMELY unobservant. Um, let’s think this through for a moment…which is more likely? Unobservant for the win!
Fortunately it is not the flu (no fever), but it is kicking my butt. It would help if I could take something so that I would feel human during the day, but they don’t make any of the good drugs for pregnant women. I went in to work for an hour this morning, just to make sure there wasn’t anything that had to get taken care of right away, and I think that I’ll probably go in late tomorrow since I’m still feeling pretty crappy. But I obviously can’t be missing a bunch of work right after I just got back from a week’s vacation.
You can tell I’m not feeling well because I’ve been very quiet compared to my normal self. Also, I haven’t gotten around to posting any pictures, and my answers when people ask about our vacation are short. We had such a good time all week, even after I got sick, but I just don’t have the energy to describe it all right now. Plus, whenever I try to talk for more than a couple words I start hacking up a lung.
Today is Ryan’s birthday, and he’s 30! We went up to Best Buy and got his birthday present (a new receiver for the living room). And for dinner we just had fried chicken from the grocery store deli. It has been a very laid back evening. I think we’ll be going out for dinner later this week with friends, which works out well – hopefully I’ll be feeling better by then so he won’t have to deal with sicko-wife and her smokers’ cough.
Anyway, time for bed. It’s amazing how energy sapping laying on the couch is.
Things to keep in mind for next time:
Oct 28th
- No matter how well-intentioned we are about being “quick” about eating out, if we aren’t eating fast food it will take until at least 7pm.
- When you are tired from doing the dishes for 45 minutes (because you and your husband are lazy and only do them once or twice a week instead of nightly like you should), and you are in the process of throwing together the ingredients for making candy, remember to check the containers before dumping things in. Evaporated milk is NOT the same as sweetened condensed milk (although if you add some sugar it does still taste good when mixed with chocolate – it just doesn’t set up the right way for what you are making).
- After you are done in the kitchen, if it is at all close to the time you would like to go to bed you should just go, instead of sitting down to check Facebook/read blogs/check Twitter. You will soon have wasted an hour and it will be past the time you wanted to go to bed.
Thank you
Oct 28th
Thank you to those who commented on my post yesterday. After talking to my mom and emailing back and forth with my grandma I feel a lot better. As my mom pointed out, people read things differently, and I don’t think it would ever occur to my awesome grandma that someone would read what that email said and take it as a reason to be mean or hateful toward other people. Or that it could go from her well-intentioned forward to someone she knows to other people who aren’t so well-balanced. Ahh, the beauty of the internet. Blah.
Anyway, moving on. Work is INSANE. Trying to get myself caught up enough to be gone for a week is bad enough, but then with my boss being gone for 3 weeks starting next week too…it’s made things very interesting around here. Things that people are giving us a couple weeks notice on are actually just a couple days notice because we need to get it taken care of before we both leave. Fun fun. It makes the days go by quickly though.
I had my glucose screening test this morning. The drink, while super-sweet, wasn’t as bad as I expected. It was basically 2 shot-sized glasses of the stuff, which I drank while they talked to me. I also got a regular flu shot and talked to the doctor about H1N1. She warned me that if I feel ANY flu-like symptoms that I’m to call her immediately. They don’t want to mess around with that stuff. I told her I would be extra careful while traveling, and I have a copy of my records in case something happens while we are on vacation (God forbid!).
I don’t get the results of the glucose screen until later, so I don’t know how it went. On the one hand, I feel pretty good about it because my weight gain hasn’t been crazy (from what I gather from the Dr), and I don’t ever feel like I have high or low blood sugar – I don’t even get a “sugar rush” of energy after eating candy or drinking pop, and I don’t really have a mid afternoon crash or anything. But on the other hand, from what I understand you don’t always have noticeable symptoms with Gestational Diabetes, so who knows. I guess we’ll just wait and see.
Ugh. Back to work. Only 2 days left!
It’s just a matter of time.
Oct 23rd
I am almost afraid to admit this, but I can tell that I am on the verge of waddling, like a true pregnant lady. I think that so far I’ve done pretty well walking normally, but my hips and knees are a little loose, and I know it’s only a matter of time until I’m swaying back and forth as I walk. Of course, the email I got this week (23 weeks already!) said that the baby can feel when I’m dancing, so maybe it’ll feel like dancing to him. I told Ryan that the baby could tell when I’m dancing yesterday, while I did a little crazy dance in the kitchen, and he looked at me like I was insane. I have a feeling I’ll be getting that look more and more.
The little guy (no, we haven’t picked a name yet) has gotten more and more…aggressive? I guess, would be the term?…with his kicking. I haven’t really felt anything from the outside, but I’m thinking any day that should happen.
My next appointment is this coming week, and it involves the 1 hour glucose test for gestational diabetes. I hope I pass. I don’t think I’m having any problems with my blood sugar, but who knows. And I need to remember to get a copy of my medical records while we are there so I can take them with on our trip, just in case (that was the one recommendation from the Dr).
Speaking of our trip, it’s almost completely planned! We are going up to the Albany area on Saturday night and staying over until Monday morning. On Monday we will be going to Connecticut, parking the car, and taking the train into New York City to meet our friends for the afternoon/evening! I did not think that we would get to see the city at all on this trip, but these friends both work down in the city and live in CT, so they suggested we just meet them after work on Monday and check out a couple sights. One of them is going to meet us at the train station, so hopefully we don’t get lost or anything. ;-)
After that, on Tuesday, we will head down and spend a few hours in Delaware visiting friends, and then continue down to Maryland, where we will hang out with my aunt and uncle until either Thursday afternoonish or Friday morning. At some point on Friday we are going back up to Connecticut to hang out with other friends that live there, and then we fly out on Saturday.
It’s all very exciting to me, and I’m so happy this is all coming together. Luckily Ryan and I are very “go with the flow” type people, so the few things that aren’t decided yet aren’t a big deal to us (specific times/places to meet people, etc).
Well, back to work. Thank goodness it is Friday afternoon, because I am wiped out. The agenda for tonight is to do the dishes/clean up the kitchen (we had to move all our food into coolers and then into a new fridge today), and put laundry away. That’s about as productive as I can get.
Baby Pictures!
Oct 13th
He was ready for his close up. hehehe. Ryan got the pictures online, and here they are:
Isn't he so cute??
You can see his skull really well in this one - and that circle is the lense of his left eye. Cool!
It's most DEFINITELY a boy!
He’s just so cute. And will probably die of embarrassment in 20 years when he realizes I posted nekkid pictures of him on the internetz.
PS. Mom, Ryan said that since you refuse to join the 20th century and get a computer with internet at home you are just going to have to miss out on photos, but I like him and don’t want you to kill him, so I’ll email them to you.
Vacation!
Oct 12th
Ryan and I have been planning a week long vacation to visit some of our friends/family on the East coast for a few months. When we first started talking about it “next fall” seemed like a long way away (that was before we even found out we were expecting a new addition). We didn’t know if it would be possible for us to go, but over the summer we saw a GREAT deal on plane tickets in and out of Boston ($300 round trip for both of us), and so we jumped on it. Even then it seemed like it was a long way away. And yet, here we are…it’s in only a few weeks! We need to book a rental car for the week (we will be visiting people all the way from upstate NY to Maryland, and so a car will be necessary). And we need to talk to all the people we want to see and figure out when they are available/warn them we are coming. I’m so excited to go out there. It’s been far too long, and we don’t get to see those friends and family nearly often enough.
Every time I look at the calendar I think about how close it is. And how fun it will be. We fly out on Halloween, and will be getting into Boston around 3:30 or so on Saturday afternoon, which should leave some time to do at least a little bit of touristy stuff. I’ve never been to Boston, and I think it would be a shame to not look around and have dinner. Any suggestions for an easy to get to place? Or somewhere we can park and walk around?
The other exciting thing about that week is that the annual Halloween party we go to is scheduled for the Friday before we leave, and even though it will make things super-busy we are planning on going. It’s a costume party, and it’s so fun every year, and who knows if we’ll be able to go next year (it’s an adults only party). So we decided we would make it work. Oh, did I mention the party is in Rochester? Yah, not really “on our way” to the cities (where we are flying out of). But still, fun! And when we get back we are going to another party – some other friends of ours have a birthday/halloween party every year, and it’ll be right before Ryan’s 30th birthday, and so we want to make sure to get to that one too. Luckily that one is in the cities, so once we fly back in we can just head over there. I’m sure we’ll be completely exhausted afterward, but it feels like we should try to do as much of this kind of stuff as we can, because God knows it’s not going to get any easier! LOL.
Anyway, that is what has been on my mind recently. I’m so excited I can hardly stand it.
Anything coming up that you all are excited about?
Another thing to add to the list of things I fail at:
Oct 9th
Sleep. I have been awake since 3:30. I laid in bed for an hour and a half willing myself to go back to sleep. And yet I’m still awake. I decided to come out to the living room and at least post the ultrasound photos I thought Ryan had put online, but apparently didn’t (he has the scanner attached to his computer and the edited files on there). So no ultrasound photos yet. You can yell at him later. When he wakes up like a normal person, at a decent time in the morning.
On another note, even though I have seen the new Star Trek movie (and I saw the one before that) I still for some reason thought Ryan made up the name Tiberius. Totally did not connect that at all. Way to go, me. I am so observant.
So yah…I don’t have any photos to post, and I don’t have anything good to say (does anyone have anything good to say at quarter after 5 in the morning? I think no). Obviously I should just stop now. Right after I ask if anyone has any suggestions for getting back to sleep when you wake up in the middle of the night?
Please?
And the survey says…
Oct 5th
We most definitely are expecting a boy come February. Only one (contrary to what my sisters would have you believe). We got to see him drink a little, and suck on his thumb, and kick. He’s adorable, even with the slightly alien look all babies have at this time (at least that’s what the tech tells me, but she’s new. Maybe we are expecting a little alien boy!).
Anyway, I’m so excited I can’t focus to write more than this, but I had to get the news out there. Yay!
Appley goodness
Oct 2nd
It is Friday, which makes me happy. I get to leave work 1/2 an hour early today because I stayed late for my boss on Wednesday. That makes me even happier. And Ryan’s parents are coming up and we are going to the Bayfield Apple Festival this weekend. And that makes me happiest of all. Mmm…apples. Caramel apples, apple cider, apple brats, apple pie, and apple wine (not for me, but maybe we’ll get a bottle to keep until after the baby comes). And Honeycrisp apples by the bushel-full. If you haven’t tried Honeycrisp apples you are totally missing out. Even in Duluth, where we are close to an area that grows a LOT of them, they are still only available for a limited amount of time, and they are more expensive than other apples. But they are the crunchiest, sweetest apples ever. They are fabulous for eating by themselves, and I hear they make great pies and stuff too (although they never make it that long in our house).
The weather is trying to beat us down (the highs for the entire next week are in the 40s and it’s supposed to rain almost every day), but it’s ok. I like fall. I like drinking hot chocolate and hot apple cider, and curling up under a blanket to watch tv. And I love driving down the hill to work in the morning and seeing Lake Superior all riled up. The waves are really crashing this week (could have something to do with the crazy off-the-lake winds we are getting). It’s gorgeous. And makes me realize why it was that they moved the harbor inside the point. It used to be outside – just on the shores of Duluth. And many ships sank there when the winds picked up and beat them against the rocks. Now the ships are all protected by the worlds longest above-ground sandbar. Just a bit of Duluth history for you.
Anyway, this week is finishing up well. Especially as I just got the OK to take a vacation day on Monday. Ryan and I both have the day off, and it’s the ultrasound (in case I haven’t mentioned it 15,000,000 times). We plan on relaxing, going out to lunch to celebrate, and maybe going shopping. Eek! Baby stuff! It will be fun.
So you DO still love me
Oct 2nd
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It has come to my attention that there is a problem with posting comments on the blog (thanks, Aunt Janice!). I have logged a complaint with the administration (read: I told Ryan to take a look at it and fix it). Hopefully it should be back to normal soon?? I don’t even have a clue what’s wrong. Probably it’s my fault though. Is it too soon to start blaming things on the baby?
And here I thought that people just didn’t like me anymore. That’s a nice thing to be wrong about. I’ll just pretend there are a TON of comments out there in cyberspace that people wanted to post and just haven’t been able to. Whether or not this is true does not really matter.
PS. We finally got the computers out of the baby’s room and the dresser assembled and in there. It even has a few outfits in it that my mom picked up the other weekend at rummage sales. And a GORGEOUS blanket that was embroidered by my grandma. Because she’s awesome. It feels more like a bedroom and less like an office now, which is nice. Slowly it will feel more like a BABY’s bedroom, I’m sure.