08:43pm Jun 1, 1999 EDT
Beth, that is EXACTLY me with the eating every 2 hours. As a matter of fact, a batch of fresh chocolate chip cookies just came out of the oven and I must go have a few... *grin*
05:55pm Jun 7, 1999 EDT
Hi all! So glad the boards are up.
I went to the dr. on friday and I've only gained 3 pounds in the last month for a total of 10 at 22 weeks. Hmm... I'm still eating like a pig and look pretty chubby... wonder why the weight isn't adding up? Or maybe it IS all just fat and that's why. LOL
They baby's been moving a lot for me, too. I can even see my middle bump if I'm looking in the right place at the right time. Haven't gotten the timing right to have anyone else feel the baby yet, though.
My mom has a blood pressure cuff and I just learned how to use it today. My blood pressure was up at my last appointment a bit, but I told them it was probably just stress from trying to get on our trip. I took a reading today and IF I did it right, it was 110 over 60. Not bad.
01:53pm Jun 8, 1999 EDT
I was just sitting on the couch long-ways with my feet "up" thinking how big my middle looks. I should get a disposable camera and take my picture once a week in the same outfit and pose from now on. DH says "Then we can make a time laps movie of you". LOL
01:06pm Jun 9, 1999 EDT
Hi all! Just a quick update: I'm not getting any ultrasounds or amnio's, etc. Just the way my office does things. That is, unless my "old" OB who I'm seeing next month while here on vacation recommends one. So, that means I don't know boy or girl, either.
Nathan's got a toddler bed now. Its white with a plastic head/footboard and rails. The sheets and comforter are Mickey Mouse. Too cute! He loves it and sleeps there everynight. I'm sure he thinks one of the best features is that he can get OUT (and in) on his own.
That's about it. Middle getting bigger. Definately look pregnant now. Feeling more movement, too. Can't wait until July and August-- those were the "bumpiest" months with Nathan!
01:19pm Jun 9, 1999 EDT
Three? LOL I'm thinking it will be a trial to have two! The last few days Nathan has wanted me to hold him and carry him! And I mean he wraps his arms and legs around my front. It makes me happy to get Nathan into a toddler bed. He was climbing out of the playpen he was sleeping in, and he still could fall out of a twin bed. He would climb out of the crib too. I'm glad he's not used to the crib anymore, though, because then it will be easier to adjust for this baby. He'll have months, now, to get used to his toddler bed.
People don't seem to mention that I'm pregnant. I keep waiting for people here at home that I haven't seen in forever to mention that I'm pregnant. There are lots of people I haven't told, like at church. Last time, I told everyone, so I can't wait to have someone say, "Are you pregnant?!" Except, someone did ask that a couple weeks ago (that I don't know that well) and when I said, "Yes. Due when Nathan will be just 2," she said, "Isn't that kind of close?" Two years-- close? If they were 9 months apart, I'd call that close, but 24 months is hardly on top of each other.
05:21pm Jun 13, 1999 EDT
Hello again. Phone was out since thursday. Fixed now!
On friday, we were at the movies and my blood pressure and pulse were up. I've been taking it easy and drinking more water. I think its the heat. Scary, since if you get pre-eclampsia, the only "cure" is to delivery the baby!
07:40am Jun 14, 1999 EDT
LOL Elizabeth, if you breastfeed that will change! Even if you don't go up any sizes (which is highly unlikely at least WHILE you breastfeed), you'll still sag eventually. But you're talking to someone who hit E at the end of pregnancy last time and I'm sure got into G with engorgement-- ouch!
10:11am Jun 15, 1999 EDT
Robin, I'm doing just that. Good thing is I think the bp is under control-- it must just be the heat otherwise. I hope you find out boy or girl! You never know if they'll cooperate, but if you say right off you want to know, they'll be looking for that "good shot". Oh yeah, and sometimes you can bring a video! I hope you get some good sleep, too, although I'm sure you won't sleep through your ultrasound. :-)
11:13am Jun 15, 1999 EDT
Well, I hope you don't either, but hey-- I was a "34b"... once. Get a good bra and wear that think religiously and hope for the best, I guess. Its too late for me. LOL
03:19pm Jun 15, 1999 EDT
Mary, I've sprayed milk before, but at the moment I'm a dry well, as they say! Jogging? How about stairs? LOL I saw a show on a breast reduction on a woman who I don't think was even an E; she talked about jogging and her bra straps digging into her shoulders and making them bleed! Ouch. And of course you can't do that until you're sure you're never breastfeeding again.
10:03am Jun 16, 1999 EDT
Robin, wait until I have my baby then quick and get in there the same day for your c-section. LOL They put my due date down as the 9th, even though I swear I ovulated on 1/18; could be I concieved AFTER that, but before? I can't concieve before I ovulate. Not like 3 days makes much of a difference, but...
That's so cool you know its a boy. Nathan was the same way at his ultrasound and we have a video too. Now you can get on with clothes and room decorating and boy shower gifts, etc. Maybe ask your OB about circ, too. There's different techniques and different pain meds if you opt for it. Didn't know there was more of a choice than "yes/no", huh? LOL
08:38pm Jun 16, 1999 EDT
Hey, Mary, its great you and DH agree. Either way, its hard when both parents don't agree, especially on such a sensitive and permanant decision.
About making a link, you use "<" and ">" instead of the parenthesis I'm going to use. I'm putting it in orange, too, so you know just what's what. It looks like this for one of the links you put: (A HREF="http://www.infocirc.org/top.htm" )PUT YOUR OWN WORDS HERE TO NAME THE LINK(/A)
I still have 99% of Nathans clothes. Theyre stored in another state, but I have them. LOL Ill have to wash those thoroughly before I use them again because theyre in an attic of sorts. I dont know boy or girl and I probably wont until the day. If its a girl, she may well have to wear some neutral and/or boy things at first! I did get a few new onesies and towels, cap and booties, etc. already, though myself.
Oh yeah-- Mary mentioned my circ page. (Its http://circquotes.tilted.com. )
04:29pm Jun 17, 1999 EDT
ROFLMAO Mary! But I hear you. And I hate to say it but I've made many decisions with Nathan based on just convention. :-(
Wow Sherri! An ultrasound every month... I don't get any. (Not unless I have problems again, and who wants that?)
Elizabeth, whenever I think of the cleanliness issue, I think of myself. Girls and women have smegma (which is most likely what he's referring to) and "folds" and we're fine. LOLAnd there isn't anything to do to a boy who's not circumcised, besides wash that area the same as the rest of him. (By the time he needs to retract and rinse, he'll be old enough to do it himself, if not figure it out himself. Some say elementary school; some say not until puberty hits!) Oh yes, and to what Mary said about her sons, there is a difference between the "conservative" circ and the non-circ care . The difference is basically that the foreskin is self-cleaning and doesn't retract when not circumcised for several years, whereas in the circumcised, its detatched already (from the circ itself) and its not all there, so to speak, so it cannot clean itself as usual. The rule of thumb for non-circ'd boys is leave it alone.
11:51pm Jun 17, 1999 EDT
Mary, you got it! Simple as that. Smegma is not to be feared. Its made of shead skin cells and some natural lubrication. The word itself is Greek for "soap"! It will work its way out the tip on its own; if you see it there just wipe it away; no need for retracting, etc. [That's the inside of the body remember. :-) ] There really isn't that much of it anyway, to tell you the truth.
Oh yeah-- as for soap, of course use it on his penis. LOL Just soap inside is a bad idea because it dries out the mucous membrane; then again, that goes back to you don't need to retract and clean for several years, at which point, the boy can do it for himself. (Another reason is because you don't know how hard is "too hard" and since the foreskin is firmly attached from birth through 3, 5, 7, 10 or even older, you can do damage.) Most likely, it isn't until puberty that daily rinsing is needed, as the penis is self-cleansing. As one man I know said, "Its easier than shampooing my hair".
Bottom line, IMHO, its when you go messing around "in there" that problems start, not the other way around.
10:19am Jun 18, 1999 EDT
Mary, talking with someone about it is one thing, but debating is another. We're not stupid, and arguing with family members of "baby stuff" (in the literal sense!) just agrivates everyone and stresses US out! They mean well, of course.
I have family members who question things I've chosen for Nathan, too. Once I explain where I'm "coming from", they usually say, "Oh, I didn't know that." Then again, I'm always asking them what they did and why and then keeping that in the back of my head with all the other info I get, too. Sometimes it IS a generational thing-- where people mostly do the same in a generation, but there are variations in the people in each generation, too, so... Family members need to trust we can make intelligent choices with our kids and that in the end, they'll be fine for it.
03:12pm Jun 18, 1999 EDT
I don't know if my family respects my decisions or not. They may just think I'm crazy. LOL
06:55pm Jun 20, 1999 EDT
Mary, just back from camping! Yes, we can be crazy together. LOL All is going great with the diapers. We used disposables while camping, but are back into the cloth now. I wish you carried those good pins! I guess I can buy my own pins somewhere else. LOL (Lazy, cheap me!) We have immunized Nathan, but he's behind on them. (Last ones at 7 or 9 months and he's 20 months now.) His doctor said we could postpone for a while. I'm so torn on the issue and my gut is telling me no, yet maybe, yet no... LOL About immunity wearing off, I'm not immune to Rubella, come to find out. I guess I was 2 years ago because they test pregnant women; but this time they said I'm not. Nothing they can do but tell you to stay away from sick people. I don't like all the junk that's in immunizations, nevermind how they're made, etc. It reminds me of biological weapons, really. My mom totally disagrees with me, saying that her fiance (who died during a war before she met my dad) got mumps and was consequently sterile.
My baby is down low, too. Funny, though, I'll feel something way up high too!
Karie, the glucose test is okay. Its basically drinking pop that's got WAY to much syrup in it and then getting your arm stuck a few times-- depending if you have to go back for the 3 hour one. It never made me sick.
Mary, I hear you about "No" 5 or 6 times. That's exactly what happened with me and the AFP test. They asked me; I said no; they asked me again-- and again. Sheesh. No means no! Not, "I'm stupid so I don't really mean no..."!
09:10pm Jun 20, 1999 EDT
My husband's mom's daughter (dh's 1/2 sister) is 9 and talks about like a 2 or 3 year old. At 5 she didn't talk as well as Nathan does now. They can find nothing definately wrong with her, and MIL thinks it was due to a vaccine reaction. I just wish I didn't have my mother harping over me. And god forbid Nathan ever DID catch one of the "vaccined" diseases, because even if it were a mild case, my mom would never quit saying "I told you so". She says she would've had me immunized against chicken pox if it were available back then. She likes to remind me how I was 17 and had a seizure. But I'm here aren't I? No permanant damage, right? I doubt I'll get chicken pox again, either. Do you think people who are vaccinated and/or have had their kids fully vaccinated would willingly allow their kids around a definately sick kid? I highly doubt it.
01:44pm Jun 21, 1999 EDT
Beth, how interesting about how daycare "dictates" lots of childcare choices! My theory has always been, why pay someone to take care of my kids for me, when I'll probably only be able to make enough money to pay them anyway? What's the point?
Ha ha, Mary... "Might have to fix that"... We're United Methodist and Jonathan's going to be a pastor in a couple years. LOL
About the ribs, what's that junk in books about "at 24 weeks, the baby should be 2 inches above your umbilicus". Oh yeah? Then why do I get jabbed 5 inches above it? LOL
08:55am Jun 23, 1999 EDT
Beth, that's about how it goes here. We go to bed by 9 or 10 and dh gets up at 3 to leave for work by 3:30! Nathan and I get up around 7. I wake up at 3 or 4 to go to the bathroom and then eat something. I always try to get back to sleep until Nathan wakes up, but sometimes like today I actually did get enough sleep so I got up at 7 and he was up maybe 1/2 an hour later. At 2, I eat lunch (if I haven't already) and watch "A Baby Story". Hopefully, at 3, Nathan will get a nap and so will I. However, yesterday, we went out and registered for a car seat and a double stroller (dh stayed home from work and went with us) and also went to the park. Nathan was so tired, that he actually went to bed at 9!
Mary, I haven't read that site yet, but I've bookmarked it. Just that music is enough to put someone in a somber mood!
12:27pm Jun 23, 1999 EDT
I hate insurance matters! When I was pregnant with Nathan, we'd stopped paying our COBRA to an ex-job of Jonathan's because we were only using it for my infertility treatments and since we'd quit them, we figured we didn't need to pay that much money every month. Well, they give you 3 months of not paying before they cancel you for good. I got a warning letter and put it up on our cork board. It was Valentine's Day, 1997, and we were just about to step out the door for the museum when I saw the notice and something told me to call because I thought I might be pregnant. When I talked to the woman at the bank, she said, "I was just about to cancel you; I have your paperwork on my desk in front of me."! I'd also happened to have 3 paychecks up on the same board that I was saving to get my teeth cleaned amongst other things. "If you get a cashier's check in the mail and postmarked today, I won't cancell you." So, off we went to the bank and I had about 10 less than what I needed to cover those 3 months and get us caught up. Dh pitched in the money, of course, and I wasn't cancelled. I got to see a great OB and everything. This time, we had no insurance at all-- at least, I didn't-- and we're on UnitedHealthcare which is a good plan, but through the state. Still, the hospital sees it as that insurance and not "state insurance", if you know what I mean. By the way, this time I didn't find out I was pregnant the day we went to a museum (last time I ended up going to the ER and finding out after o ur trip to the museum), but we were out at (a different) one when I noticed I was ovulating (and consequently got pregnant).
12:34pm Jun 26, 1999 EDT
No sciatic nerve problems, really, except sometimes I almost fall over. LOL My big thing lately is the baby kicking me in the crotch. Boy is this baby LOW!
05:57pm Jun 26, 1999 EDT
Robin, my mom says with both me and my sister, she thought we were going to "fall out" we were so low. LOL Then again, with me she had an incompetent cervix and I did "fall out" at 31 weeks. She says I'm having a girl, because of the low kicks. Actually, there is one spot a few inches to the left of my belly button which always gets kicked/punches. I don't understand why, but maybe partly because I can't feel everything in my abdomen. Then again, I didn't seem limited in that area when I was pregnant with Nathan-- and he didn't kick me down low, either!
03:54pm Jun 27, 1999 EDT
Mary, really! "I feel so sorry for you," indeed! Nevermind that the baby is healthy, but that you have kids at all. People, once again, don't think before they open their mouths.
Elizabeth, Lamaze? Easy your mind? LOL It does give you info on just what happens, physically, but be prepared for birth videos, etc. I guess its no different than "A Baby Story", though, except they don't blurr things out.
Robin, that's my theory too. In fact, my dh today said there's probably writing on the wall that says, "Nathan was here". LOL My aunt says she swears her twins stretched her out so her 3rd had plenty of room.
10:39am Jun 28, 1999 EDT
Beth, exactly! I had someone say the same thing to me about being pregnant during the summer. I said what you said: "Nathan was born in October, so I'm sure I'll be fine."
Elizabeth, I got a bad leg cramp like that when I was pregnant with Nathan. I think flexing my foot toward me helped.
Well, yesterday, we went to my aunt's for a family-get-together. Not only did her small dog bite Nathan in the face (but didn't draw blood), but I then fell off her porch on the way to put stuff in the car! I landed okay, but twisted my ankle. My mom says I've always been "non-breakable", because its just a little bruised and achey-- nothing major. My poor aunt! She must feel so guilty. LOL
11:06am Jun 29, 1999 EDT
Thanks all. Sounds like everything's basically okay with us-- nothing major, which is great! I'm just about to get lunch for Nathan. No new news on the pregnancy-- just that the baby is STILL VERY low and keeps kicking me in the crotch, it feels like. LOL
11:35am Jun 30, 1999 EDT
I don't think I've ever spanked Nathan. My husband has, though, and I got SOOOO mad at him!! Nathan has such a temper and I know he'd only retaliate by biting back and getting really mad. That won't teach him anything but "hit and hit back".
08:28pm Jun 30, 1999 EDT
I love watching the movements! Earlier in the pregnancy, I couldn't wait to feel it. I guess you get the really good stuff in the 3rd trimester-- about. This evening, I just sat in a chair and watched my middle move. Also, my middle has lots of internal scar tissue, and just like Nathan, this baby is leaning to the left. LOL What that does is a) make me a little lopsided, and b) stretch out my insides so it hurts a bit. Nothing too bad.