Monday - Got the cooling fan in my car replaced ($550). Gotta love Chrysler.
Tuesday - I got my pay cut and hours cut at work. ($300 a month) awesome timing. thanks boss.
Tuesday - I was informed that I now have to upgrade my work wardrobe from jeans to black pants/dress pants
Wednesday - My first OB appointment sucked (see previous post)
Thursday - I was told I will be answering phones & scheduling appointments for the next week and a half for my bosses other business (a doctor's office which I know absolutely nothing about)
Thursday - The 'black' maternity pants I bought for work on ebay arrived and turned out to in fact, be purple.
Friday - Maybe today will be okay. So far so good, but it's only 10:30am. Oh well, :::fingers crossed:::
Friday, July 31, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Our first OB appointment
It was kind of disappointing. We knew we were at least seven weeks along or at most 15 1/2 weeks, and we turned out to be the least. Which means we are still in the risky first trimester and will be for a while. The calculated due date was exactly what the online calculators said it was: March 16th. And when we saw the ultrasound picture, it kind of took something away from the 'magic' part of imagining who or what was inside or me. It was there on the screen. A black shapeless blob with a small (and I mean 1cm small) white shapeless blob inside of it.
James and I both thought we would feel this excitement and relief or whatever to 'see' it, but it made us both feel a little less attached to some blob-growth on the screen. Books say our 'baby' is now developing teeth and fingernails and blood is flowing and stuff. That means a lot more to me than looking at a blob, I guess. Maybe we were just expecting too much or something.
Then there was the doctor. She would ask us a question like, "Does any kind of blood disease run in your families?" and I would say no and she would go on for like 15 minutes telling me why they ask that and what it might mean if one did. Like how Celine Dion has one that runs in her family and her cousins had to have a lung removed and blah blah blah. On and on about so much that has NOTHING to do with our pregnancy. I honestly wanted to slap her. Since I'm considering using a midwife instead of MD, I asked about differences between the two and she went on a long tangent about how in their practice the midwifes are all women but some of the doctors are men and about how people say men do blah blah blah and women do blah blah blah but they are all their 'own person' and have thier own opinions of blah blah blah. Then she started in on how in Illinois, where she's from, the new such-n-such politician made midwifery illegal. This was one of the 'only three good things' this whoever politician has done since he was elected and blah blah blah. You get the idea.
I guess after all of that, it was kind of hard to be excited about our blob, which the doctor seemed genuinely disinterested in anyway. Besides, she talked so much about nothing that I felt like I had to wait for her to take a breath before I could ask a question. I was pretty annoyed when we got out of the office, though because I felt like I didn't have time to talk at all, or ask questions, or even concentrate on what it was I wanted to ask.
And the most upsetting part was her take on pregnancy weight gain. She feels because most women have 'plenty of fat supply in reserves' it is not necessary for pregnant women to eat ANY more calories a day than they normally do, as the baby can just pull what it needs from places on their bodies. Based on this psychotic rationale, she only expects that women gain ZERO to NINE pounds for the entire pregnancy! Needless to say, I think this is the biggest load of crap I've ever heard, and she can suck it if she thinks I'm going to use my pregnancy as a diet program to get rid of extra pounds!
I'm sorry this is all so depressing to read, but James and I have only felt deflated, annoyed and maybe even angry since our a
ppointment. Maybe we should have just waited until God wanted us to see the baby before trying to cheat nature and get an early 'sneak peek.' We're also pretty sure at this point that we don't want to know the sex of the baby, either. We'll let God reveal that to us when He wants to.
By the way, this isn't our ultrasound picture (I googled it) but it is just as nondescript, so it might as well be. Nice blob, huh?
James and I both thought we would feel this excitement and relief or whatever to 'see' it, but it made us both feel a little less attached to some blob-growth on the screen. Books say our 'baby' is now developing teeth and fingernails and blood is flowing and stuff. That means a lot more to me than looking at a blob, I guess. Maybe we were just expecting too much or something.
Then there was the doctor. She would ask us a question like, "Does any kind of blood disease run in your families?" and I would say no and she would go on for like 15 minutes telling me why they ask that and what it might mean if one did. Like how Celine Dion has one that runs in her family and her cousins had to have a lung removed and blah blah blah. On and on about so much that has NOTHING to do with our pregnancy. I honestly wanted to slap her. Since I'm considering using a midwife instead of MD, I asked about differences between the two and she went on a long tangent about how in their practice the midwifes are all women but some of the doctors are men and about how people say men do blah blah blah and women do blah blah blah but they are all their 'own person' and have thier own opinions of blah blah blah. Then she started in on how in Illinois, where she's from, the new such-n-such politician made midwifery illegal. This was one of the 'only three good things' this whoever politician has done since he was elected and blah blah blah. You get the idea.
I guess after all of that, it was kind of hard to be excited about our blob, which the doctor seemed genuinely disinterested in anyway. Besides, she talked so much about nothing that I felt like I had to wait for her to take a breath before I could ask a question. I was pretty annoyed when we got out of the office, though because I felt like I didn't have time to talk at all, or ask questions, or even concentrate on what it was I wanted to ask.
And the most upsetting part was her take on pregnancy weight gain. She feels because most women have 'plenty of fat supply in reserves' it is not necessary for pregnant women to eat ANY more calories a day than they normally do, as the baby can just pull what it needs from places on their bodies. Based on this psychotic rationale, she only expects that women gain ZERO to NINE pounds for the entire pregnancy! Needless to say, I think this is the biggest load of crap I've ever heard, and she can suck it if she thinks I'm going to use my pregnancy as a diet program to get rid of extra pounds!
I'm sorry this is all so depressing to read, but James and I have only felt deflated, annoyed and maybe even angry since our a
ppointment. Maybe we should have just waited until God wanted us to see the baby before trying to cheat nature and get an early 'sneak peek.' We're also pretty sure at this point that we don't want to know the sex of the baby, either. We'll let God reveal that to us when He wants to.By the way, this isn't our ultrasound picture (I googled it) but it is just as nondescript, so it might as well be. Nice blob, huh?
Friday, July 24, 2009
Dreams
Well, i continue to have strange dreams. Last night in my dream, I decided I was gong to run places instead of drive my car. I got this top half of a car thing that rested on my shoulders and ran down the road. I even took the interstate, running for like two hours, with people honking at me as they passed me. I ran from town to town and was having so much fun. I think I had the windows rolled down, radio blaring, too! lol
Today I bought my first maternity bottoms. Khaki shorts with a nice stretchy band waist. They feel great. I wore them right out of target. But I did decide that since maternity clothes are so pricey (my cheapie shorts were $19), I'll probably buy them on ebay. It works out well because almost all size medium tops or bottoms fit me or any size 8s.
My tummy has been pretty achy lately and it feels better to recline a little, so I brought a pillow in to work. I'm probably quite a sight: legs propped up on the desk, bed pillow behind my back, and keyboard on my lap. lol. It feels so nice.
Although my tummy is definitely growing, I'm a little concerned that I haven't put on any weight. I actually lost a half a pound in the last week! I don't know why, because I know I'm eating more food and more often. Hopefully I'll get some answers and get my mind put at ease at my appointment next week.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Bye-bye Gardening
In other news, I've had to give up gardening. Mostly because it's big time bug season and I can't spray with pesticides (obviously) and I don't want to make James have to do it, so I just decided to grow veggies another time. Right now, I'm more concerned with growing a healthy kiddo. Besides, our neighbors have like a million cats wondering around and I can't even touch the dirt in case they did a little poo in it and can pass on weirdness to the baby. Bummer. Oh well, it's so worth it! :)
Friday, July 17, 2009
Pregnant!
We're Pregnant!
We don't know much else yet but we're so excited!!
So far, other than feeling pretty sleepy and smelling the world with a hypersensitive sniffer, I don't really feel pregnant. James is the doting husband as usual, and is proud to be in chart of the nursery which he decided will sport cartoon dinosaur motif. lol. He says that's unsex enough, and he's so psyched, so I'm cool with that.
We've talked about baby names for years now, and the winners so far are Isabella & Liam but that could change, or course. We're not even sure if we want to know the sex of the baby yet. We are jumping the gun a bit on this, tho. We don't even really know how far along I am at this point, but we'll find out more at the OB appointment July 29th so that'll be great! YAY!
We don't know much else yet but we're so excited!!
So far, other than feeling pretty sleepy and smelling the world with a hypersensitive sniffer, I don't really feel pregnant. James is the doting husband as usual, and is proud to be in chart of the nursery which he decided will sport cartoon dinosaur motif. lol. He says that's unsex enough, and he's so psyched, so I'm cool with that.
We've talked about baby names for years now, and the winners so far are Isabella & Liam but that could change, or course. We're not even sure if we want to know the sex of the baby yet. We are jumping the gun a bit on this, tho. We don't even really know how far along I am at this point, but we'll find out more at the OB appointment July 29th so that'll be great! YAY!
Friday, July 10, 2009
Giant grasshopper
I went to water the veggies this morning and there was a whole colony of inch worms attacking my broccoli & brussel sprouts! They were totally fine on Wednesday morning, and Thursday it rained a lot so I didn't have to go out there, but today they were riddled with holes like a shotgut of inchworms blasted them. Some leaves had as many as three worms on one leaf! Those little jerks.
All this drama happened after James found a giant grasshopper eating my green beans last night. It was so big and nasty, I swear it was like 4 or 5 inches long! Yikes! So he had to kill it with a shovel instead of just step on it. Then he felt bad, like a murderer, so he said a prayed for it. haha, little sweetie. He's what the deceased looked like:
Creepy. So this morning when I found the worms, I blasted them all off with the hose and then pesticided the heck out of the broccoli, brussel sprouts, and green beans. Hope that'll keep 'em at bay.
All this drama happened after James found a giant grasshopper eating my green beans last night. It was so big and nasty, I swear it was like 4 or 5 inches long! Yikes! So he had to kill it with a shovel instead of just step on it. Then he felt bad, like a murderer, so he said a prayed for it. haha, little sweetie. He's what the deceased looked like:
Creepy. So this morning when I found the worms, I blasted them all off with the hose and then pesticided the heck out of the broccoli, brussel sprouts, and green beans. Hope that'll keep 'em at bay.
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