09:21am Mar 1, 1999 EDT
I had a dream last night that I had the baby! It was full-term. (This must have been in the future.) I had the baby at a hospital. I don't remember if it was a boy or a girl. Dang. Now I can't remember the details. Something about chasing someone on a truck down a dirty alley and some kids? Oh well!
07:29pm Mar 5, 1999 EDT
I missed my plane for my trip today because my mom was stuck and couldn't get here to take care of Nathan. We are leaving tomorrow at 7 a.m. on a flight though. ARG! This was supposed to be a free tour now we have to pay $100 to do a different flight. (In other words, I won't be here tomorrow for a week. LOL)
12:04am Mar 14, 1999 EDT
Hi all. I'm back. Just got back from a week in California on a choir tour. In that week-- from 9 to 10-- my middle has gotten considerably bigger! The sickness is still there but not as much. I'm having more dreams. Dreams about kissing-- passionately, that is-- either ex boyfriends or people I know... And dreams about my 17-month-old son being kidnapped and/or lost and/or a pig and lost! (That one was just this morning.) In all of them I'm panicked and running around like crazy frantically. Heck-- I even had thoughts about kissing some of my friends (male) in choir today on the air plane. LOL Its not that I like them that way, its just my hormones. Too funny!!! I was really tired on the tour. Some days we had 2 concerts a day and for one I just went into the toddler room of the church and took a nap! LOL Really. All I ever wanted to know was "When do we eat?" and "When can I sleep?" Anyway, glad to be back.
09:05am Mar 14, 1999 EDT
My due date has been changed to the 9th, but I'm too lazy to change my sign-on so it still says the 12th. LOL Actually, this last week, I was wearing maternity clothes. Well, dresses for the concerts, but some maternity pants. My jeans don't button up all the way. I can wear them, but they irritate my middle from not being done up properly.
11:56am Mar 14, 1999 EDT
Yuck-o. Sorry for TMI but has anyone had WORSE than "dry heaves"? As in, pure stomach acid? Torture, I tell you... GRR...
11:11am Mar 15, 1999 EDT
Beth, I always have "dog nose" when pregnant. And its the same: either its something really good and I love it or its garbage or diapers and I sprint to the bathroom! LOL
Elizabeth, I know what you mean about the snow! We just got TONS dumped on us here in RI last night. Its melting, though. Looks nice kinda really. At least, last night it did.
Casey, I FEEL bigger at just 10 weeks. But I haven't been measured yet. Sometimes they say more amniotic fluid will make you measure big, but I hope its twins for you! (And if you dreampt about triplets, well, it just might be!)
05:57pm Mar 15, 1999 EDT
About pants, I HAD two pair of stretchy pants before but one, I "loaned" to my sister in law who promptly gave them away along with all the other stuff. (And the other I can't find after moving umpteen times.) GRR! (I was smart to only give her the stuff I least liked!) So, its either jeans or big maternity stuff. >:-Þ
05:41pm Mar 17, 1999 EDT
Beth, yes. Seems I could eat them like ANYthing last week while on choir tour-- ribs (went back for 2nds), waffles, baked potatoes with lots of toppings... Man! they fed us well! But now that I'm home its back to the same old "There's nothing to eat". I had maceroni (spaghetti, really) and cheese for lunch. Toastable waffles for breakfast... *Sigh* Maybe food just IS better in California? LOL
Oh... and Mary, that draino story didn't make me laugh I was mad FOR you. LOL Chemicals and I don't mix while pregnant. (Well, except for pregnancy tests. LOL) The picture of you running that nasty, fuming concoction outside... I don't know who I'd be more mad at-- me or the friends that suggested doing it. LOL When I was pregnant with Nathan, we were living with Jonathan's dad for my last trimester and one day he decided to seal the basement walls! The house had central air/airconditioning and the smell just traveled! It got so bad that I spent most of two days outside wandering around and even threatened to my mom on the portable phone that I was going to sleep outside on the couch on the porch!
07:58pm Mar 17, 1999 EDT
LOL Thanks a lot, Elizabeth! Just what I needed to know-- my food is definately crappy here. LOL But you're right! Food here tasted ok. Maybe it was vacation-- or that we got so much GOOD food every day just because other people were feeding us...
07:31pm Mar 18, 1999 EDT
Mary, I thought I read somewhere that pregnant women shouldn't use acne medicines. Maybe its just those pads and not the creams...
06:30pm Mar 19, 1999 EDT
We spent the day out. We got our tax refund today and planned to buy new-baby stuff with part of it.
When we got to the mall, my husband said he was going to the ATM machine to get money and he took quite a while coming back. Well, then when he did get back he had bought Windows98! Nice. So for the next hour at least we walked the mall, arguing about his buying that "sneakily" and how "if I didn't you'd never let me get what I want!" Can we say spoiled brat? I finally just wore him out, took the program back to the store and returned it for cash. He could NOT convince me-- and apparently he didn't want to hear otherwise-- that baby stuff is less important to buy than computer programs!
After all that, we finally made it to Stride Rite and got Nathan some long-over-due shoes! Last time he got shoes (at a year) he was a size and a half grown out of the old ones, and this time he got "big boy" tennis shoes cuz he WAS in size 5 and now he's in 6 1/2! His poor feet! But he does look very cool in his new tennies that even have lights on the side that blink when he walks. LOL
We got some newborn t-shirts, a hooded towel and some wash cloths, and a cap and booties and JCPenny and then went on to Toys R Us to do what we did with Nathan: Get at least 3 packs of each size diaper 1-3 (except one Newborn and only 2 size 2 this time), and wipes, and shampoo, etc. Jonathan complained at the cost, but hey! We will definately NEED all these things sooner or later, right? And with Nathan it was so convenient to have them when the time came. To me, its like a very good investment/savings, if you will. And this time we knew better what NOT to get, like baby powder and vaseline and any more rubbing alcohol. LOL We have a huge 32 oz container of it from Nathan still! (How much do you need for that little umbilical stump, anyway??) All we've used the Vaseline for was sticking the thermometer in before putting it in Nathan's butt. LOL We did get one of those Thermoscans, though because lots of times I wished I'd had one because squirming sick babies make for a LONG 3 minutes!
09:08pm Mar 19, 1999 EDT
Elizabeth,
I hear you about the insurance mess! We're on insurance through a state program and well... I HOPE its better than nothing. LOL
I think through ultrasound they can tell the sex about 16 or 17 weeks. They say the 4th and 5th months are best for that sort of thing because the baby isn't too big yet, but the "parts" are distinguishable. The best way to find out, though, is through amnio. No mistaking those results! (One hopes anyway.)
Yep. The shopping was fun. Not quite the same as when we did the same with Nathan-- although we got more this time. LOL But I feel better about it because I'm experienced now as to what we need! *grin*
Hungry... Hmm. I get that way sometimes. I'm actually proud of myself tonight for getting clam chowder for myself, NOT burning it while talking on the phone to my sister, getting Nathan a grilled cheese and chips... You say those are easy to do, but hey-- that's a major task for me at this point! LOL
12:21am Mar 20, 1999 EDT
You're right. And you know what he did tonight? Went and bought a book on cyrix or some d**** programming language. (I think he just bought it for the penguin on the front....) I told him he should just get the hand-me-downs from his DAD'S collection of 57+ books on computer languages at $50 a crack and think of all the money HE saved and all the money his dad "wasted". LOL
There's always that neverending excuse too-- the "this is outdated now" excuse. But that's exactly WHY you SHOULDN'T get it in the first place!
10:01pm Mar 22, 1999 EDT
Elizabeth, so what will you do? Pay yourself, or how do you get covered through the clinic?
We got a birthday present for my mom (3/27) today. Its a mug with Nathan's picture on it with a heart and then "My Nana" after it on the other side. They took the picture right at the mall and luck was with us because Nathan had just been running back and forth on the bench they wanted him to sit on and he'd stopped running and was smiling about it!
10:10am Mar 23, 1999 EDT
Dawn,
They said I'm due the 9th, but I figured the 12th with when I ovulated. Anyway, that said, how in the WORLD can you get to be 10 or 11 weeks pregnant and NOT know before???
Elizabeth,
If I'm going to write a ton on here, I open a blank email on AOL and reply to each post in there and THEN when I'm done copy it over and put it in here. That way, if AOL boots me off, at least I'll still have that email sitting there.
TTFN is Ta Ta For Now! Tigger says that!
11:48am Mar 24, 1999 EDT
Sheri,
The same thing's happened to us, only with groceries. The ATM card wouldn't work or something and we had to leave the groceries and go get a check or cash or something, only we ended up going to a different store and so had to reshop for everything! I think, actually, it might've been a Y2K thing cuz Dh says that one store won't take that card cuz of the expiration date! (But let's NOT talk about Y2K. LOL I hate that subject.)
10:26pm Mar 26, 1999 EDT
I went to my 2nd appointment on thursday. I've gained 5 lbs since last month. I don't have any STD's (duh) or HIV (duh) or anything. But I'm not immune to rubella. Imagine that! LOL Nothing they can do about it anyway. LOL I had an ultrasound really quick because the dopler wasn't picking up the baby's heartbeat, just mine. She wasn't very good at ultrasounds, but we at least saw the baby and the heartbeating. She kept pointing out eyes and feet and I bearly could make out what she was talking about. At one point, I did see the face, I think; too creapy, those big black "holes" for eyes, which really are sealed shut, anyway. But my uterus IS up where I said it is! Maybe 2 or 3 inches below my belly button. TOLD you I felt the baby kicking there; and I'm only 12 weeks tomorrow!
And yesterday, I got some maternity jeans. I have a couple pair from last time, but they're not very nice and they're size large. This pair is medium; I have two pair of medium shorts from last time so I know the mediums won't fit in the last 2 months or so, but they are comfy NOW!
I've got a terrible cold now. I've been so tired and just trying to rest, but seems the phone rings or something. I've done hot steam with the shower (but not in it), and water, and tylenol... plus I had a fever of 101 but it went down after I took the tylenol. Now I'm trying robitussin cough drops, since my throat is sore and my nose is all stuffed up...
12:03pm Mar 27, 1999 EDT
You said it Robin. Pregnancy, sickness and toddlers don't mix. I'm feeling better today, though. My mom is in Michigan and she's at work right now anyway. LOL
I'll look at that site, Elizabeth. There is an ultrasound site that has lots of pictures and even has a 3D section. And there are two videos of 3D ultrasounds, but don't waste your time trying to view them. They last all of less than a second! The pics are just as neat! The site is by someone named Joe Woo. Actually, the page I just linked to IS the 3D section and you can click at the bottom of the page where it says "Back to Joseph Woo's Obstetric Ultrasound Page" and then read more about them and/or see regular ultrasound pics!
05:17am Mar 28, 1999 EDT
Just thought I'd jot down the dream I had-- thought you'd find it interesting.
I was in my mom's bathroom. Not the real one-- of course! But a nice, fairly-sized, square one with carpeting done in maroonish colors. I was in labor. As dreams are usually, the labor didn't hurt and I found it pretty easy. Only thing was, I had one baby and it was very small; I put it on a towel in the tub and then went on to have the other baby. The first was a girl and the 2nd was a boy. I made sure they were all warmed up, but in the long-run I'd forgotten to weigh them. No big deal, in the big picture, I thought. I was proud of myself for having a homebirth-- although it wasn't planned-- and wanted to tell my friend AnnMarie.
09:32pm Mar 28, 1999 EDT
Remember how I had the brown spotting that turned a little red at 5 weeks? The ultrasounds and all the trips to the ER? Well, the upshot of that was that it was my cervix acting up. Heck-- it did the same thing in december when I WASN'T pregnant! Now I'm 12 weeks and tonight we had a choir concert and during the dinner after, I went to the bathroom and there was some brown spotting. But the next time I went, nothing and still nothing. No pain, other than the usual pulling, round ligament stuff and tiredness from standing up and singing for over and hour! So, anyway, I thought I should call the doctor just to be on the safe side. They put me on hold and transfered me so many times... that I was on hold for at least 45 mintues! And when I finally got to talk to someone, she just said, "Sounds like its your cervix again; it you have bleeding heavier than a period and cramping and you pass tissue, come in." Well, DUH to THAT! Some people are so stupid.... Dang. But had I NOT called, well then the sky would've fallen. LOL
07:29pm Mar 29, 1999 EDT
Oh! Speaking of Peter Cotton Tail, we're going to color and hide Easter eggs for the first time with Nathan this year! Yea!
07:35am Mar 30, 1999 EDT
Robin,
Yes, I do! I've been singing in choirs since I was 13. My high school choir competed at both state and national levels every year and always got the highest rating, a "I". (That's "one". LOL) In 1989, my junior year, we went to Vienna for an international youth competition; all kinds of choirs from all over competed. We won best in our category-- small mixed-- and then we won "The Pride of Vienna" which was the best out of ALL the choirs. Since then I've sung in my church choirs, my college choir, a small ensemble of women who do gregorian chant and medieval stuff, and am now in a choir at my husband's school. LOL :-)
Oops! Forgot to put that I was a voice major in college. (But I never finished college...)
09:15am Mar 30, 1999 EDT
How will I keep it up? LOL I had my mom take Nathan for the week we were on our tour to California earlier this month. But at church and at school, it does get hard. The only way, really, is to have a babysitter while I sing. Of course, that wasn't a "problem" until two years ago. LOL
12:38pm Mar 30, 1999 EDT
LOL Nathan runs around like th at, too! If I let him, he'd run around near there, play the piano, and try to conduct the choir! (He's done all of those before.) They don't have a daycare at my church! They are redoing the room, for one, but it seems like Nathan's the only little kid that goes with any regularity. I don't know... I just hate not having daycare and having to watch him myself somewhere in the church with nothing to entertain him but a few stuffed animals. (The "pew pals" as they call them.)
05:35pm Mar 30, 1999 EDT
That sounds like a good idea with the monitor, although I don't know that my church would carry the signal down to the basement. We, too, had some teenagers offer to help watch Nathan, but they don't always come so we can't depend on that!
08:02pm Mar 31, 1999 EDT
Hey-- Small world: we're United Methodists, too!
I've been tired today, but it was so nice out that I spent all day outside almost. Nathan was so cute! He wanted to play football with the big boys-- college age! And they let him-- sort of. LOL Then he went and flirted with some girls who were laying in the grass... He's only 17 months! LOL
We went to the mall tonight and I spent the rest of my b-day $ on body wash and a thing of bubbles for Nathan.
Oh yeah-- and there ARE nice people left in this world, because at the grocery I had $4 to get milk and I got a gallon thinking the price said $2.50. When I got to the check out, I wanted a t.v. guide for $1.49. Well, then my total came to $4.38! And wouldn't you know it? Just as the cashier was talking about having to have someone come overide/delete my stuff, the girls behind me said nicely, "You need 38 cents? Here..." And they both took out their pennies and nickles and a quarter and gave it to me!