08:35am Apr 1, 1999 EDT
Yes, I agree. More good people than bad! But the way the news is, you really can think opposite! I have one friend near here and another a couple hours from here and another several hours from here. Oh well. I met them all on the internet. LOL We've gotten together a few times. About the soldiers, well... it IS sad, but they know its their job and well, when you really think about it percentage-wise, that's NOT a lot. We are very good at not having ANY kind of casualties, you know? We have great guys and they are trained the best! Okay, shutting up now...
09:14pm Apr 1, 1999 EDT
Okay. Have to complain here and as long as we're on a church theme, sort of...
We went to church tonight and as usual, there was no daycare. Nathan seems to be the only kid who needs it and they just NEVER have anyone! Besides that, they are redoing the nursery and there's nothing in that room. Not one toy. The stuff that was in there was over 30 years old. No wonder. But during church, I, end up having to watch Nathan, which means #1 I miss church, #2 I can't sing in the choir, #3 I have to chase him all around because there is nowhere babyproof for him! And #4 I get exhausted because I'm pregnant! And my dumb husband won't offer to watch him. Besides this, Nathan will run into the sanctuary, and get up on everything, make scenes and if I try to go get him it just makes it worse because he'll scream and throw tantrums. Where's Jonathan? Just sitting with the choir not doing anything!
That's my vent, lest I say anymore!
02:58pm Apr 2, 1999 EDT
.......I have been having a little pain in front part of stomach. It is probably from scar from 2 c-sections and everything is stretching. Also my doctor told me that it is possible that my scar has adhered to scar on my uterus. Fun, fun, fun. She said everything should be fine, they will just have to be extra careful if I have to be cut again for another c-section.....
Speaking as someone who has a huge scar on my front and LOTS on internal "adhesions", I had no pain from the stretching during my last pregnancy. I mean, lots of my abdominal organs are supposedly adhered to each other and to my muscles and stuff. That includes at least my right ovary and tube as an x-ray showed in '96 that its completely blocked inside AND out; both of them are, actually.
They tried to tell me I had "adhesions stretching" when I was 5 mos pg with Nathan and had a terrible stomach ache and was throwing up. But I knew that wasn't the case. When my OB heard about my trip in she said "sounds like you had food poisoning". That sounded WAY more like what I was experiencing. Those dummies at L&D probably though I had "morning sickness". Yeah-- throwing up like that at 5 mos... GRR....
04:40pm Apr 2, 1999 EDT
I posted about this before, but I swear I feel like my uterus just above my belly button! Even the nurse at my last appointment said she felt my uterus up there. What is that all about? That is like 5 or 6 months along territory!!
07:06pm Apr 5, 1999 EDT
Who else is feeling the baby move? Its not regular, but maybe once or twice a day I get some got bumps and flutters!
09:24pm Apr 6, 1999 EDT
Beth-- you might be feeling your baby. I know that book says that, but I felt Nathan at 16 weeks and this one at 11-- I'm 13, now-- so don't believe it just cuz its in a book. LOL To me, it feels like a big muscle spasm, but a lot slower. A bumping, kind of, at this stage. I can't wait till I get the all out middle-moving ones in the 3rd trimester! LOL
Robin, you're funny. Mine's been sticking out since I was 9 weeks. I finally ditched my jeans for good the following week, I think. This is my 2nd, though. I think with Nathan, I wasn't truely into maternity pants until 4 months, at least.
Grapes? And your tooth was set on ice cream? LOL Not the same!
I haven't been craving anything in particular. My cravings last time started big time during my 7th month. Then, my big two items were frozen Ho-ho's and fried green tomatoes! (But not at the same time. LOL)
09:41am Apr 7, 1999
Sheri~ "Shorty"? That's funny. Nathan's only about 18 months and he has no name-- just loves to pull at it... out, back, sideways, twist it... LOL
We usually go to school with my husband and then spend the day out walking or playing while he's in class. Yesterday was a really nice day and so is today, I think, but we're home today. Yuck. Even my mom teased me today with an email saying she wasn't working and how nice the weather was at her place-- she's in Michigan and we're in Rhode Island!
04:30pm Apr 7, 1999 EDT
Well, I guess we ARE going out today. Its about 70 out and we're going to have a picnic! Oh-- and Beth... I was in Barnes and Noble's yesterday reading Parenting magazine, I think, about someone's unexpected home birth, and had tears running down my face! LOL
06:16pm Apr 8, 1999 EDT
Hi all. Anyone having round ligament soreness? With my first they were like shooting pains right in my crotch-- (but not the same kind of thing as when my cervix was dialating in my last few weeks)-- but this time it just seems like an all around soreness down there. I keep checking for braxton hicks tighening, eventhough its too early, because it kinda feels like that. But nope-- always soft, thank goodness! I guess everything just gets stretched and cramped at the same time in that area... I'm 13 1/2 weeks now.
02:20pm Apr 9, 1999 EDT
Wow, Elizabeth. Sounds like things are going super!
Your doctor maybe is just being cautious about the heartbeat. Certainly even 15 weeks you should hear the heartbeat.
Moons and stars... *sigh* I'd like something like that, but I'm too practical. The baby's room is the room the computer's in and we just don't have the kick in the pants to be all fancy with a bedroom. I guess mostly because we've moved so often, its like "why bother"? LOL (Not that I plan on moving any time soon, but...)
Your breasts are stretching. Neat. Mine are all-done stretched out for years, so they don't hurt. LOL (My nipples, though, were extremely sensitive when I don't even think the baby had implanted yet! One of my very first "clues".) Nathan is technically still breastfeeding at 18 months, but lately I've been refusing him-- he just likes to nurse every now and then; he eats "big boy" food. LOL-- because #1 it hurts and #2 he's teething and sometimes he bites!!!
Are you having a baby shower? If so, when, about? I had mine with Nathan the last weekend in September and he was born two weeks later. This time, my sister says she's giving me a small one for family-- just cake and games, I guess-- in July, since that's when we'll be back home again.
08:45am Apr 10, 1999 EDT
Elizabeth, I just talked to my friend AnnMarie yesterday and she told me just what I told her: that her husband doesn't know how many weeks pregnant she is! Well, I said mine told someone yesterday that I'm "about 11 weeks", when really, I'm 14 weeks today! She said her husband asked how many weeks I was the other day, but that he NEVER has asked her about her pregnancy! MEN!
12:18pm Apr 10, 1999 EDT
Robin, that IS sad!! I agree- what a complete shock. And the scary part is that I'm 27 and so is my husband and we don't have any problems medically... Could be any of us.
My morning sickness is very rare these days. My pelvic insides are still aching and every so often I feel a little flutter.
07:20pm Apr 10, 1999 EDT
Robin, my husband is in the middle of his master's degree.
Mary, I didn't notice any cervical ouchies until I was 9 months. That head jabbing sure helped it dialate! Sometimes, though, last time and this time, some of the round ligament pulls can feel like "crotch" stabs. Maybe that's what you're feeling? I'm also feeling the baby move. Phooey on the "books".
08:58am Apr 11, 1999 EDT
Beth,
You're funny about the boobs. I haven't been a C cup for years-- I guess about 7?? LOL I gained weight at 22 years old and now I'm 27. I lost 30 lbs of it, though, by Jan. '97 and then got pregnant with Nathan. What with having bigger boobs to start with and then having a pregnancy and nursing (still, a bit!) and also being pregnant again... Forget it. Lost cause. Oh well... LOL
Elizabath,
Its the dad's job to fret about money and such. They don't really start oogling over the baby until MAYBE they feel it jab them in the hand from the inside, or see your whole middle go sideways! Even then, its like "Hmm, still not enough evidence." LOL An ultrasound helps, but all in all, they don't "get it" until they see the baby's body come out of yours. Sad, but true. LOL (And, heck, you might not either, come to think of it. I remember either thinking or actually blurting out to Nathan when they put him on my chest "You're REAL!!!")
09:13am Apr 14, 1999 EDT
Here I am! I guess I didn't see some of the posts yesterday, combined with the fact that I was at school with my husband. (Where I am now, actually.) So nice that this is a WEB board! *grin*
Not much going on with me. Getting hungrier sooner than my brain says I should be, thirsty... Got a dr. appointment on the 23rd or something. Nothing major-- just the usual round ligament pains. Hey-- and have any of you seen what the round ligaments look like in later pregnancy all stretched out? I saw a drawing yesterday in a book. Plus, whatever it is that attaches your uterus to the back of you... Man! That was all stretched out. Blech. Just thinking about what your insides look like while pregnant (nevermind while not)!
I still haven't done anything toward finding a midwife. I really should do that. Technically, I'm okay just going to the clinic still, of course. But it would be more fair in the midwife if I saw her more than 37 seconds of my pregnancy. LOL
Oh yeah-- the other thing I've been doing lately is working on my website...adding new quotes and a picture or two.
02:24pm Apr 14, 1999 EDT
Well, I really want to have the baby at home. Sure, I'm used to a hospital birth and its more socially acceptable, but my gut keeps telling me that I really want a home birth. Part of the reason for that is I was shocked at what hospitals "just do" and how you can very easily get caught up in "the system" and not know what hit you till months later. One of my bigger concers is that even though I'd told several people "no" when asked, I still had someone come to me and tell me, "I'm here to take Nathan down to be circumcised". I think there's something very wrong in that, and definately scary. I wonder what else they could just "assume" and do to my baby? Looking at the history of hospital childbirth, I don't doubt anything anymore.
07:35am Apr 16, 1999 EDT
Anyone wonder where I've been? I think I'll post this in two sections.
Wednesday: We finally went on food stamps this past week and used the card today for the first time. I only got healthy, not-too-expensive stuff, but I bet some people buy cheetos and pepsi with it! (There are things it just won't LET you have, like toilet paper, for one; we had to pay cash for that today.)
I don't know if it was a bad batch of McDonald's fries that I had on the way home, or the taco bell someone got us for the community lunch (for free), but I've NEVER been litterally car sick. Yuck. Good thing I was smart and picked up that McDonald's bag when I did. Anyway... maybe it was partly pregnancy related, I don't know. Jonathan was a little shocked, to say the least, but I'd just TOLD him I didn't feel well. LOL
Thursday: After that, I kept throwing up and couldn't keep down even water. Went into the ER and got an IV for dehydration. Then they told me after looking at an ultrasound that the baby's heartbeat is only 72. Now I still feel like crap, although I haven't thrown up since early this morning. Still feel a little dehydrated. Got an ultrasound appointment at 2:30 at the hospital and an appointment to see my dr. at the office tomorrow at 10-- that's because of the ER stuff but also because I feel really crappy. My legs hurt and back. All they could say was "Aww.... the poor thing." and then tell me there's nothing you can do for a late miscarriage like this. No bleeding, no really painful cramps, but my intestines sure are still cramping and my back and legs are still killing me. *sigh* Trying to just be "numb" right now until something definate is found besides what we found last night.
07:35am Apr 16, 1999 EDT
Friday:Okay. Here's what's happened in the last 24 hours... Firstly, I have an appointment with my doctor at 10 this morning. She's going to tell me about my ultrasound results from yesterday. Yesterday, I went back into the hospital because they'd scheduled me an ultrasound in radiology. (You know-- the people who know what the hell they're doing with those things?) I was still throwing up yesterday morning, but then didn't since. My intestines were still in an uproar, though. Sore, too-- all that yuckiness going on, made them sore; almost like a few days after having Nathan! (The muscles, that is.) Anyway, I went in and waited around for quite a while, but when it was my turn everything went well. The woman doing the ultrasound asked why I was there and I told her. She said she'd take a really thoughough look at everything and take lots of pictures and then send the info back to my doctor the same day. (That's what my doctor had requested, so she could review it and talk to me about it today.) So, she did that. Then, she went and got Jonathan and Nathan from a separate waiting room. (They don't think men should wait with pregnant women and old ladies in those gown things. LOL) They came in, and we got to look at "the fun stuff". She kept commenting on how the baby was very active. Almost couldn't GET pictures sometimes because it moved around so much. So, we saw baby-- looked perfect to me. Nathan didn't like it, though-- he was scared and started to cry. And I, after seeing the baby moving all around and all the tiny perfect parts cried a few tears of relief. What a big idiot that student had been! She turned the machine off and told us the baby's heartbeat was 142; she guessed the student hadn't multiplied right and said that you don't look at your watch to take the heartbeat... (Obviously.) So, after that, we cleaned up and went upstairs to leave. On the way out, though, I went to the main desk and made a formal complaint about that student. I didn't remember his name, but I told them when I was there and I guess they can look it up in my chart and from what time and date. The woman agreed that he shouldn't call people "the patient" and he certainly shouldn't give such inacurate information, followed by blase bad news and then just LEAVE me there alone in the dark with all of it! That I shouldn't have had to worry 24 hours about something that wasn't true. Also, I think whatever doctor was in "charge" of him will get a talking to because hey-- aren't you supposed to correct your students? I mean, yes, they should not have stuff done for them, but you can't just let them do what they want no matter what! Anyway, I hope he learns a good lesson about all of this. He may have just as well told a woman "well, you're blood count was too low; you have an increased risk of cancer/death/pick-your-thing" and th en left her there. Oh well... I could go on and on about medical students. So I go in today to see my dr. I feel much better today. Still, my intestines are grumbling, but much quieter now. My back hurts a little, but my legs haven't hurt since yesterday early afternoon. I think all that is really related to this nasty flu bug, than to being pregnant. I know for a fact that my legs can hurt something awful when I'm sick like that, back too. But, of course, when you're pregnant, they jump to "miscarriage". They should be hit in the head, too, for scaring me like that!
05:22pm Apr 16, 1999 EDT
I went to my monthly appointment today. She did the heartbeat on dopler and it was 140. All is fine. That dumb student I hope gets an earfull and I'm going to send a formal letter, I think, too. Anyone who can get attachments in email send me one at Nathan1097@aol.com and I'll send you one of the pic from yesterday's ultrasound!
07:31pm Apr 16, 1999 EDT
Beth,
The thought of food poisoning did enter my head... Had a community lunch at school that day and it was taco bell! (That's what I get for "free" food.)
I have been lots better. Drinking water like crazy and eating regular food now! (Still got the stomach gurgles, but I think they are getting less and less too.)
My Ultrasound Picture From Yesterday!
09:06am Apr 17, 1999 EDT
Thanks, Sheri. It was, basically, and episode of ER! Even while I was just about to leave that first night, I was on a payphone and saw a preemie in an incubator being wheeled by. Never seen a "real life" preemie before! I was talking to my mom at the time and kinda teared up and said, "Aww... I just saw a preemie go by in an incubator." I was a preemie back in 1972 when they didn't even have respirators as "par for the course" for us back then! I helped test them out.
I've had names picked out forever. Years before even Nathan was born. But last time was easier-- I knew "Nathan Giles Washburn Gardner" was what his name would be. This time, a girl's name would be Alexandra Leigh Gardner. I thought about making it easy and just going with Alexander for a boy, but... LOL I like Nicholas, too. Nicholas James. My uncle's name is James and one of his twin's name is Andrew James. James just is the only name that seems to go with Nicholas... Still working on names, I guess....
Elizabeth, I think you just decribed perfectly the classic sciatia pain! There's a nerve that runs there and it can get pinched and hurt from the weight of pregnancy/body parts being not exactly in the same spots. And maternity clothes?? ROFLMAO! I haven't been able to fit my jeans since what? I was 11 weeks. LOL I have a nice rounded middle now, but unfortunately, I have the rounded hips from last time so that its not so pronounced. *grin* But it IS there.
10:10am Apr 17, 1999 EDT
Who's taking prenatal classes? Yesterday, I signed up for an all-day lamaze class (even though I had one last time), a breastfeeding class (even though I breastfed my son), and a CPR class.
12:25pm Apr 17, 1999 EDT
There's a site with a video of an ultrasound WITH narration of a baby sticking out its toungue. Its too cool! It takes about 5 mins to download, but once you do, its a riot! Check it out...
Ultrasound Pictures
This page is all pics and movies. The one I specifically mentioned is near the bottom called, "Quicktime movie of a fetus moving its toungue".
01:25pm Apr 18, 1999 EDT
Robin, Nathan's too young for a sibling class. :-( Oh well...
In other news, we've got food! LOL Sounds silly as I type it, but just last week we got on EBT and WIC and it is helping like a miracle! And I tell you, we've never shopped so wisely and healthfully in our entire lives!! (Life is weird, I know.)
09:11am Apr 19, 1999 EDT
Robin, EBT stands for electronic benefits transfer or something. Its foodstamps on a card, basically
09:02pm Apr 19, 1999 EDT
Mary... LOL "Mine has a penis!" You are about a week and a half ahead of me, so that's why you could tell girl or boy at yours. I don't get a routine ultrasound, so oh well. 14 3/4 weeks (or whatever I was last thursday) is too soon to tell. We found out Nathan was a boy at 17 1/2 weeks with ultrasound. So, guess I'm going to HAVE to be surprised. LOL Nice anyway, since its not like I have to research circumcision or anything. *wink*
12:19pm Apr 20, 1999 EDT
Speaking of dreams, last night I drempt I had a fetoscopy and they pointed out "girl parts".
02:33pm Apr 20, 1999 EDT
Mary, the #1 reason boys are circumcised these days is so the son will "match" the father. There isn't an easy answer to that, as I'm sure you know. I don't know your husband, obviously, either. All I can say is, if its truely in your heart NOT to have it done, do your d**** to avoid it. Arguing emotions won't help, I'm afraid. Its a complex issue. Maybe ask your husband why HE wants it done. Let him have time to think about it and get back to you. Maybe ask him to write it down or send it to you in an email. (My husband can put his thoughts into words better without fear of my arguing with him! LOL) Lots of times, husbands just CAN'T come up with an answer, other than "I just do".
08:52am Apr 21, 1999 EDT
Debi,
Sounds like you got that nasty flu that's going around. My dad got it, states away from me... I had it last week. Hope you're getting over it quickly. Hope you're not dehydrated like I was! Also, good thing you lost weight before! Nice, huh? That's what I did before my first-- although had I lost 65 instead of 30 I'd've been anorexic. LOL Anyway, you'll look pregnant... Its not fat-- its more blood and bigger placenta... amniotic fluid and all that! About weight gain. Last time I gained 37 lbs or something. They say 25-35 lbs is ideal.
Robin,
Good point about going right into the holiday's! Let's see... I did that with Nathan (he was born 10/13/97).... Can't remember it being a big deal. LOL I probably slept through them all!
You're not in maternity clothes!?!? Ugh. I am. My jeans haven't fit me since I was 10 weeks! Well, maybe 11. My middle sure is round and sticking out in the front. Although, with my shirt over it you can't see too well. I don't know. If I smoothe out my shirt over me, you can see the bump there. I swear at 15 weeks this time is what I looked like at 20 weeks last time!
Boobs sore, huh? Not mine. Mine haven't hurts since early, early on. And even then it was mostly my nipples. No doubt because #1 I had a baby already, #2 I nursed that baby, & #3, I'm STILL nursing that baby! LOL
Oh Beth... *tsk, tsk*
I'm sure you were just FINE at the end of you last pregnancy! I'm 5'2" and was 170 at the end last time, too! Right after Nathan was born I was 160 and stayed that way for a while. With breastfeeding and walking almost every day, I got back into my pre-pregnancy clothes by the time Nathan was about 5 months. Oh well. Get to start over again, but some how I gained 10 lbs recently, so I'm starting that much more than last time!
12:21am Apr 22, 1999 EDT
UGH! Ouch! and Waah!!
I just made dh go out to the drug store here after midnight for some Colace. Talk about your stomach aches! At least I know I can take it, since I took some last time. Easier than gagging down Metamucil, that's for sure! Silly me and my digestive weirdnesses... (Remember, I had NEC as a preemie; scar tissue; my digestive tract acts differently than other people's some times. Add constipation of pregnancy and OUCH!)
So, water, water, water, and try to sleep and when I wake up maybe this stuff will have worked??
05:19pm Apr 22, 1999 EDT< BR>
Hi all. I've been away, again. You won't believe this, but...
Guess where I spent all night and then this morning? Yep. Sick again. It was one of the worst stomach aches EVER-- hurt like I was sore, and kept going in ebbs and flows. The worse part was throwing up didn't help much and I ended up shivering on the bathroom floor. Around 5:30, (This started at midnight), Jonathan called the hospital who said to come in. So, threw pajama's on a sleeping, confused Nathan and went. This time, I was seen right away and didn't get any students. They took my blood pressure different ways and from that said I was dehydrated. I got THREE bags of fluid. I must've been dusty bones! All the while, my aches made me feel like I was in labor-- only this was worse. And, it was my intestines, not my uterus. (I probably sounded like it, too!) They took blood before they put the IV in and tested it for who knows what. Finally just came and said I have a virus and nothing they could do but give me the liquids and a prescription for anti-nausea supposetories? (Where to "supposite" them, I don't know!) Didn't pick that up, though. He did use the dopler to check the baby and all was fine. Even when we got home-- we were there for about 3 hours-- I still had the terrible ache. He did say the only other thing it could be was appendesitis. I told him I didn't think I HAD one, because of having 1/2 my large intestine removed at birth. (At least, that's what my mom has always told me.) Every time I'd try to fall asleep, the stomach pain would wake me up. I FINALLY, fell asleep this morning-- around 10?-- and when I woke up the terrible pain was gone. I still ache inside, but nothing close to what it was. Jonathan stayed home from school-- again-- to take care of me and Nathan.
That's about it. Trying to keep up on my water. I don't know why I get dehydrated so fast, but I guess I just do.
(Who's finally a LITTLE hungry... thinking about the old toast route....)
11:08am Apr 23, 1999 EDT
Sandi,
They didn't say anything about eating. I just figured that since it was a flu bug that I should eat when I got hungry again. That seems to have worked. I'm still a little sore, but I think for the most part the bug is beat. The suppositories were for nausea and I'm not nauseated anymore, so I don't see the point. I hate putting foreign junk in me when I'm pregnant, unless I REALLY need it.
Sheri,
I'm with you on the weight issue! I'm 5'2". I went from 133 to 170 while pregnant last time. Not that that's bad, but after I was only 160 and had to lose the weight. Before I got pregnant, I'd taken a year to go from 152 to 133. (I'd gone from 120 to 150 when my parents got divorced and was also depressed and at a lot.) I'm also breastfeeding (still!) and will also breastfeed this baby.
Didn't think of high school reunion! I don't know if mine will have one or not. I guess when I've thought about it, I've thought about having 2 kids!! But, I know this will be our last so I"ll just bite the bullet and start excercising sooner than I did last time. Hopefully, my schedule will permit with 2 kids!
01:59pm Apr 23, 1999 EDT
Why can't they have pregnancy tests like this? (Because they'd lose a lot of money, probably!)Seems logical that if they can test the urine like that for LH then they can also test it for HCG. Forget those plastic tests with paper strips.
Not that we NEED it now, but I'm just saying... LOL
11:41am Apr 24, 1999 EDT
I'm good Elizabeth. I start my 16th week today, too! This is my 2nd, and I think I look about 4 weeks ahead of what I really am. LOL Guess that's just the way of it in 2nd pregnancies, huh?
09:19am Apr 25, 1999 EDT
Vacation... LOL I get those when I go HOME. (To MI that is; we're in RI for school.) We went to Disney World as a big family trip in March of '98. I want to go again some time, but no one will be able to afford it for a few years yet. Anyway, we're spending all of July in Michigan with family this year and that's a good vacation! We'll probably spend Christmas with them too. They have to see the new baby! (If they don't come right after the birth, that is, anyway.)
08:30pm Apr 25, 1999 EDT
Robin, You're in RI? Or, is the above post just sort of got a lot of ideas next to each other? LOL
About Disney World, we took Nathan last time. He was 4 months old! It worked with the baby swap they have where one person goes on then the other and the baby wait at the END of the ride. Then when you get off, the other gives you the baby and they get on right there. Saves waiting time in line!
08:35am Apr 26, 1999 EDT
Elizabath,
I heard Target has body pillows for cheap. Haven't looked myself, though. You're not a ditz-- just pregnant brain, like the rest of us. Its supposed to be 70 here today! Gotta get DH outta bed to get into the nice weather this afternoon. (Not now-- its still 50 or something and overcast.)
05:41pm Apr 26, 1999 EDT
Robin, I wonder what boards you're talking about? You mean like bringing up breastfeeding vs. bottlefeeding on a regular board with the purpose of arguing? I agree they should keep debates on debate boards. Maybe some boards need to do what the circumcision board did and split into two?
06:22pm Apr 26, 1999 EDT
I got my maternity bathing suit at a consignment shop. I think it was all of $5 or $10
07:30pm Apr 26, 1999 EDT
Elizabeth, I love my maternity suit, too! Its a two-piece, but the bottom is big to cover my tummy and the top is like a maternity-shaped tank-top. Its blue and white stripes, but nice anyway. Plus it has a built-in bra. A regular suit-- even maternity "regular"-- would smash my breasts. LOL
08:43am Apr 27, 1999 EDT
....How depressing. Huge stomach- bad hair- and reflective legs!!!!! But when October comes we'll have such fabulous compensation!!!!!! I just can't wait to hold that little someone in my arms.....
Karie,
Mmm... No doubt! But just remember that you'll be wanting that rounded pg in a bathing suit look after the baby is born; then you'll just be big and saggy! I used to sit and look at my baby clothes, etc. and wonder what it would be like in October when I had my son. Guess I already know this time! (I'm thinking sleep here... )
About movements, I'm still not feeling too many. Or as many as I'd like, I guess. I get a nudge every now and then.... Maybe I'm just remembering being farther along in my pregnancy than I am now. It was only at 16 weeks that I started feeling movement last time anyway.
Beth,
I sometimes gag when brushing my teeth. I try not to brush the back of my toungue and that helps.
09:16pm Apr 27, 1999 EDT
Just had to type what just happened.
We were watching t.v.-- Jonathan in a chair and Nathan on the "couch" with me. (A twin bed, actually.) Nathan was sitting next to me and I said, "Can I have a hug?" and Nathan gave me a great big hug. "Aww... I love my baby!" I said back enthousiastically. As I hugged him, I leaned over and then got a now-rare kick from my OTHER baby!
12:01pm Apr 29, 1999 EDT
Don't have much time now, but thought I'd add that today I've had to pee-- full bladder mind you!-- at least every 20 minutes! What's up with that? I'm not drinking pop or excessive amounts of ANYthing. Besdies a "smashed" bladder from being pregnant, what else could cause this? Its just seemed to start today. Maybe I just never noticed it at home the last few days.
02:59pm Apr 29, 1999 EDT
I thought of a UTI or bladder infection. But nope, nothing hurts, thank goodness! Its not a sudden urge, really, but just often and my bladder is FULL! Then again, its been hours since I wrote that post and it isn't that way so much now. Maybe it was just because we were in the car a long time. I THOUGHT I'd emptied, but maybe I had more waiting. LOL
10:05am Apr 30, 1999 EDT
Robin, yes I lost weight. Seems every appointment I'd gain 4 then the next I'd lose 4, etc. So, who knows what I'm at now. I guess I'm due to gain 4 by next time!
10:57pm Apr 30, 1999 EDT
Was just reading another October board-- which isn't NEARLY as user-friendly as this one! (Just another reason I love MOL Web!) Anyway, going back through the old posts, a mom miscarried around the end of March. Then the replies, of course, had some talking about their miscarriages. The one that stuck out in my mind was a woman who said at 18 weeks into a previous pregnancy, it was found she had placenta abruptio and that the baby was dead. They induced her and she had an 8 oz, 6-inch boy. Just the THOUGHT! I guess it stuck out because I'm just at 17 weeks and feeling the baby move more and more... Plus, I already had that miscarriage scare a few weeks ago what with my sickness and that idiot medical student....