As of 4:45 p.m. today, I will officially be the most pregnant I've ever been.
I delivered Jude on the day I turned 21 weeks, which was also a Saturday like today. And it's just weird to think that instead of feeling medically induced contractions, I'm feeling a happy, healthy little girl kick and swim around.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Record keeping
I know these are boring, but I do want to start keeping track of some things. I'll try to post them quasi-weekly.
How far along? 20w 3d
Total weight gain/loss: Ugh--11 lbs. But I guess that's right on track for how far along I am
Maternity clothes? Mostly. I got tired of squeezing into things, so I packed up my skinny clothes, but not everything is actually maternity, but lots of empire waists and loose shirts.
Stretch marks? None, thank god.
Sleep: Still struggling to stay on my side and get used to my back sleeping to be on an angle... Considering breaking down and buying myself a Snoogle off of eBay.
Best moment this week: Having a successful anatomy scan yesterday!
Movement: Yes! I'm loving the little wiggles and punches. Usually I need to be sitting up and feel it right where the elastic on my pants presses on my belly.
Food cravings: I don't know if I've had cravings per se, but there have been days that I'd really like some ice cream or pasta.
Food aversions: I think I can eat everything now. Pineapple was hurting my teeth at first, but it seems to be going away.
Gender: We are having a lovely little girl!
Labor Signs: Thank god I have none.
Belly Button in or out? In--but guess what? It's veering to the right! My belly button is already slightly off center and already it's WAY worse. This may get interesting!
What I miss: I will admit it: I would like a wee bit of tequila. I fell in love with light tequilas on our trip to Mexico and hadn't quite had my fill before I got pregnant. But believe you me, I am not crying over this--I'm much more grateful to be pregnant than pining over tequila.
What I am looking forward to: Working on the baby's room, seeing her little tushy and hammy little legs in cloth diapers and Baby Legs!
Weekly Wisdom: A healthy baby really is all that matters.
Milestones: Reached the 1/2 way point and had a successful anatomy scan--it's a big week in our house!
How far along? 20w 3d
Total weight gain/loss: Ugh--11 lbs. But I guess that's right on track for how far along I am
Maternity clothes? Mostly. I got tired of squeezing into things, so I packed up my skinny clothes, but not everything is actually maternity, but lots of empire waists and loose shirts.
Stretch marks? None, thank god.
Sleep: Still struggling to stay on my side and get used to my back sleeping to be on an angle... Considering breaking down and buying myself a Snoogle off of eBay.
Best moment this week: Having a successful anatomy scan yesterday!
Movement: Yes! I'm loving the little wiggles and punches. Usually I need to be sitting up and feel it right where the elastic on my pants presses on my belly.
Food cravings: I don't know if I've had cravings per se, but there have been days that I'd really like some ice cream or pasta.
Food aversions: I think I can eat everything now. Pineapple was hurting my teeth at first, but it seems to be going away.
Gender: We are having a lovely little girl!
Labor Signs: Thank god I have none.
Belly Button in or out? In--but guess what? It's veering to the right! My belly button is already slightly off center and already it's WAY worse. This may get interesting!
What I miss: I will admit it: I would like a wee bit of tequila. I fell in love with light tequilas on our trip to Mexico and hadn't quite had my fill before I got pregnant. But believe you me, I am not crying over this--I'm much more grateful to be pregnant than pining over tequila.
What I am looking forward to: Working on the baby's room, seeing her little tushy and hammy little legs in cloth diapers and Baby Legs!
Weekly Wisdom: A healthy baby really is all that matters.
Milestones: Reached the 1/2 way point and had a successful anatomy scan--it's a big week in our house!
Monday, May 24, 2010
*Drumroll please* It's a...
The mystery of Baby X has been solved! This morning we went in for our full anatomy scan and saw a healthy, active, long-legged little GIRL!
Absolutely every organ and appendage was present and accounted for, as well as measuring right on schedule. The u/s tech commented on her nice long legs and pointed out a million features that just made our hearts swell.
Everyone keeps asking us if we're bursting with excitement and if my credit cards are already smoking, but honestly our hearts are just bursting with overwhelming gratitude--almost in disbelief that we've been so blessed to have a perfect, healthy little baby headed our way.
In fact, instead of shopping on the way home, I might just have a good, happy cry instead.
xoxo to all. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your endless support.
Absolutely every organ and appendage was present and accounted for, as well as measuring right on schedule. The u/s tech commented on her nice long legs and pointed out a million features that just made our hearts swell.
Everyone keeps asking us if we're bursting with excitement and if my credit cards are already smoking, but honestly our hearts are just bursting with overwhelming gratitude--almost in disbelief that we've been so blessed to have a perfect, healthy little baby headed our way.
In fact, instead of shopping on the way home, I might just have a good, happy cry instead.
xoxo to all. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your endless support.
Friday, May 21, 2010
Wanna see my bump?
I'm not normally into bump photos--taking my own pics or looking at anyone else's. But I figured it's high time that I shared in case you're interested...
19w6d today... Can you believe it?
Tomorrow marks the half way point and Monday is our full anatomy scan. WOOT!
It's funny to have finally "popped" a bit after waiting for the past year for that to happen! ;-)
19w6d today... Can you believe it?
Tomorrow marks the half way point and Monday is our full anatomy scan. WOOT!
It's funny to have finally "popped" a bit after waiting for the past year for that to happen! ;-)
Irksome
I hate pregnancy tickers that show "real" images of babies in them. They're getting even worse now that I'm well into my 2nd trimester and seeing a lot of them depicting half-baked babies.
First of all, they're creepy and I especially don't like when they show up on my screen on my work computer. I don't really want to creep out my coworkers innocently wandering by.
Secondly, most of them are GROSSLY inaccurate. I mean, I've seen a 21 weeker and let me tell you--they don't look anything like the little white babe in the ticker you're sporting.
Anyway, just wanted to get that off of my chest.
First of all, they're creepy and I especially don't like when they show up on my screen on my work computer. I don't really want to creep out my coworkers innocently wandering by.
Secondly, most of them are GROSSLY inaccurate. I mean, I've seen a 21 weeker and let me tell you--they don't look anything like the little white babe in the ticker you're sporting.
Anyway, just wanted to get that off of my chest.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
There's motion in my ocean
On Monday, I had just finished polishing off some pita and hummus (and firing off an email to Becky with questions about her baby's kicking--she's 10 days ahead of me) and suddenly--Pop!
YES! Kicks! Baby X kept kicking and squirming like mad for the next two hours--so either s/he really likes or really hates hummus. LOL! Either way, I'll take it! It was such a fabulous morning, I was just a smiling fool in my little cube.
Yesterday was pretty quiet, despite my best efforts to entice s/he with more hummus--a random feeling here or there that I wasn't able to really identify and this afternoon I had two nice kicks that made me smile. I know sooner or later, I'll be begging this child to settle down so that I can get some sleep, but for now I'm just 100% in heaven.
Monday is our full anatomy scan, but I honestly haven't really been thinking about it all that much--I'm too fascinated by finally seeing a growing belly and feeling kicks after spending the last year waiting for those things to happen. I've even been tempted to switch it up and go Team Green and not have them tell us, but I think all of our friends and family would lose their minds!
However, if we get there and Baby X isn't cooperating, we might just shrug our shoulders and wait until October. MWAHAHA!! ;-)
YES! Kicks! Baby X kept kicking and squirming like mad for the next two hours--so either s/he really likes or really hates hummus. LOL! Either way, I'll take it! It was such a fabulous morning, I was just a smiling fool in my little cube.
Yesterday was pretty quiet, despite my best efforts to entice s/he with more hummus--a random feeling here or there that I wasn't able to really identify and this afternoon I had two nice kicks that made me smile. I know sooner or later, I'll be begging this child to settle down so that I can get some sleep, but for now I'm just 100% in heaven.
Monday is our full anatomy scan, but I honestly haven't really been thinking about it all that much--I'm too fascinated by finally seeing a growing belly and feeling kicks after spending the last year waiting for those things to happen. I've even been tempted to switch it up and go Team Green and not have them tell us, but I think all of our friends and family would lose their minds!
However, if we get there and Baby X isn't cooperating, we might just shrug our shoulders and wait until October. MWAHAHA!! ;-)
Friday, May 14, 2010
Just one more thing to add to the list
This is probably moreso for my own records than for any of your interest, but I wanted to record this for posterity.
On Mother's Day when we were getting in the car to head over to my mom's, the radio was on the 80s station on Sirius. When the song that was on came to an end, the DJ said that it was "Too Late For Goodbye" by Julian Lennon.
I wasn't familiar enough with his music to recognize it on my own and I was too wrapped up in my emotions at the time to really give it any thought, other than to make a quick mental note of the song title and yet another bizarre Jude-related coincidence--on Mother's Day of all days.
So now with time to reflect on it, I think I'll go ahead and consider that my first Mother's Day present ever. Thanks kiddo, I hear you loud and clear. XOXO
On Mother's Day when we were getting in the car to head over to my mom's, the radio was on the 80s station on Sirius. When the song that was on came to an end, the DJ said that it was "Too Late For Goodbye" by Julian Lennon.
I wasn't familiar enough with his music to recognize it on my own and I was too wrapped up in my emotions at the time to really give it any thought, other than to make a quick mental note of the song title and yet another bizarre Jude-related coincidence--on Mother's Day of all days.
So now with time to reflect on it, I think I'll go ahead and consider that my first Mother's Day present ever. Thanks kiddo, I hear you loud and clear. XOXO
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Mother's Day... for the rest of us.
I have to admit it, I had a total.fucking.meltdown Sunday morning. I wasn't really thinking about Mother's Day being a weird day for me since I'm not a big holiday celebrator, but I slept in and DH started giving me a little crap about being late to my mom's and in my head I was just like... MY FUCKING MOTHER'S DAY, TOO DAMMIT! Just because I didn't get to change any diapers doesn't mean I didn't push a baby out of my vagina and quite frankly, make some parental decisions no parent should ever have to make.
I got in the shower and just started uncontrollably sobbing. I just couldn't stop thinking about how Mother's Day is an entire day dedicated to moms of babies who lived--and how I wasn't one of them. And remember the day that I became a member of the "other" category.
And then I cried more getting dressed... and drying my hair... And finally just marched out of the bathroom, red faced and tearful (scaring the crap out of my husband in the process) and told him that I was sad and needed a hug. He said he felt awful, he hadn't even thought of how I'd feel on Mother's Day and that he felt like a jerk. I didn't expect flowers or a card, but I did sort of expect for him to at least SAY something to me to acknowledge the day--I mean, after all I have been pregnant for the past two Mother's Days.
And I cried a little more driving to my mom's... and then again at my mom's. Ugh. I was a mess, but eventually pulled it together after my sister looked at me with great sympathy and said, "You okay? You want some cheese? Maybe a sooooda?" which made me laugh. And I did enjoy a mini Baybel cheese and a coke and I felt a little better.
But I guess that's all part of the grieving process, but dammit-- sometimes it hits me out of nowhere.
I got in the shower and just started uncontrollably sobbing. I just couldn't stop thinking about how Mother's Day is an entire day dedicated to moms of babies who lived--and how I wasn't one of them. And remember the day that I became a member of the "other" category.
And then I cried more getting dressed... and drying my hair... And finally just marched out of the bathroom, red faced and tearful (scaring the crap out of my husband in the process) and told him that I was sad and needed a hug. He said he felt awful, he hadn't even thought of how I'd feel on Mother's Day and that he felt like a jerk. I didn't expect flowers or a card, but I did sort of expect for him to at least SAY something to me to acknowledge the day--I mean, after all I have been pregnant for the past two Mother's Days.
And I cried a little more driving to my mom's... and then again at my mom's. Ugh. I was a mess, but eventually pulled it together after my sister looked at me with great sympathy and said, "You okay? You want some cheese? Maybe a sooooda?" which made me laugh. And I did enjoy a mini Baybel cheese and a coke and I felt a little better.
But I guess that's all part of the grieving process, but dammit-- sometimes it hits me out of nowhere.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Do they treat this at Betty Ford?
Friday night I had my first ever, undeniable baby kick... And now I'm addicted.
DH and I went out to dinner and were relaxing on the patio talking when suddenly I realized that I was not only feeling something push in my lower left abdomen, but that it was dragging itself along my tummy for a good 1-2 inches. Then I felt a little tap.
My eyes got wide and I gasped, slapped my husband on his arm and exclaimed that I just felt my first baby kick. I described it to him in agonizing detail (also demonstrating on his arm) and during this process, felt another little tap.
If it wouldn't have made that dragging motion, I probably wouldn't have been paying attention, but that was just so distinct that I was absolutely floored. I kept cheering for the baby to do it again and immediately texted my entire family. I was wigging out like you would not believe!
Since then it's just been back to the popcorn popping feeling and an occasional nondescript squirmy motion feeling (the two things I had with Jude) but the actual kick just floored me. I can't wait to feel it again!
DH and I went out to dinner and were relaxing on the patio talking when suddenly I realized that I was not only feeling something push in my lower left abdomen, but that it was dragging itself along my tummy for a good 1-2 inches. Then I felt a little tap.
My eyes got wide and I gasped, slapped my husband on his arm and exclaimed that I just felt my first baby kick. I described it to him in agonizing detail (also demonstrating on his arm) and during this process, felt another little tap.
If it wouldn't have made that dragging motion, I probably wouldn't have been paying attention, but that was just so distinct that I was absolutely floored. I kept cheering for the baby to do it again and immediately texted my entire family. I was wigging out like you would not believe!
Since then it's just been back to the popcorn popping feeling and an occasional nondescript squirmy motion feeling (the two things I had with Jude) but the actual kick just floored me. I can't wait to feel it again!
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