Half a pineapple
Half a cucumber
Half a bagel with cream cheese
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Friday, April 26, 2013
Week 13
Which is really almost over, amazingly.
Still nothing very interesting happening. Though I'm eating constantly, I haven't gained any weight. I look super pregnant, but just from rearrangement of insides and not from a real taut baby bump. No actual popping to speak of yet. I'm still sick and tired, but only about every other day, which is half as bad as before. I told my boss and HR at work, but no one else yet. I've seen a couple people eyeing my belly suspiciously though, so I don't think I'll get to stay in the dark much longer.
I thought I'd share my list of Yes/No Testing that I brought to my first prenatal appointment. Last pregnancy I did almost all the basic testing they offered because I though you had to and I didn't really know what I was doing. I turns out, for me at least, that all those tests just caused me more anxiety instead of easing my mind, and I decided this time that I would attempt to really think through all the testing and determine if each individual test made sense for me/us. I'm going to a different midwife group this time (still associated with Vanderbilt and still delivering babies in the hospital), and they seemed to be a bit more laid back so I thought I'd give my "low-care" plan a shot with them.
Lucky for me, my midwife not only supported my decisions, but actually suggested them even before I did! I was thrilled, and am actually looking forward to my next visit and will have a 2nd Trimester Yes/No sheet for that. Of course, the best laid plans often go astray, and that will be most likely once I'm in the hospital and can't defend or explain my choices due to pain and general craziness. Wilson will help with that, and hopefully a solid relationship with my midwife will help this time too. My next appointment is 7 weeks from my first one (way better than the standard 4 week visit requirement), and I'll be something like 18 weeks then.
Still nothing very interesting happening. Though I'm eating constantly, I haven't gained any weight. I look super pregnant, but just from rearrangement of insides and not from a real taut baby bump. No actual popping to speak of yet. I'm still sick and tired, but only about every other day, which is half as bad as before. I told my boss and HR at work, but no one else yet. I've seen a couple people eyeing my belly suspiciously though, so I don't think I'll get to stay in the dark much longer.
I thought I'd share my list of Yes/No Testing that I brought to my first prenatal appointment. Last pregnancy I did almost all the basic testing they offered because I though you had to and I didn't really know what I was doing. I turns out, for me at least, that all those tests just caused me more anxiety instead of easing my mind, and I decided this time that I would attempt to really think through all the testing and determine if each individual test made sense for me/us. I'm going to a different midwife group this time (still associated with Vanderbilt and still delivering babies in the hospital), and they seemed to be a bit more laid back so I thought I'd give my "low-care" plan a shot with them.
Lucky for me, my midwife not only supported my decisions, but actually suggested them even before I did! I was thrilled, and am actually looking forward to my next visit and will have a 2nd Trimester Yes/No sheet for that. Of course, the best laid plans often go astray, and that will be most likely once I'm in the hospital and can't defend or explain my choices due to pain and general craziness. Wilson will help with that, and hopefully a solid relationship with my midwife will help this time too. My next appointment is 7 weeks from my first one (way better than the standard 4 week visit requirement), and I'll be something like 18 weeks then.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
My 30th birthday...
is less than one month away.
Just saying.
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Just saying.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Week 11
Well, that was an unpleasant 24 hours.
I scheduled my first prenatal appointment earlier than I wanted to because I needed to get a release from my midwife for the Avon Walk - it was yesterday at 11.5 weeks instead of 13-15 like I would have preferred. The visit went just fine, but at the end when she tried to find the heartbeat with the doppler, she couldn't. I was pretty torn up. I heard Sam's by doppler at 9 weeks or so and 11 weeks seemed like a normal time to hear it and she tried for quite a long time so I was just - concerned. My nasty symptoms have been fading slowly over the last few days and that added to my nervousness. And so with some urging from Wilson, I went ahead and scheduled an ultrasound for this morning just so we wouldn't have to wait in agony until my next appointment.
I was excruciatingly anxious walking in to the appointment this morning. I had prepared myself for the worst. And though I know it wouldn't be tragic or really that big of a deal, hearing bad news would still mean that we would have to start over from the beginning and that is just a lot to bear. So when the tech said, "there's the heartbeat" first, I was so insanely relieved and not even really sure how to behave.
Everything else was fine. Heartbeat of 167, measuring 11 weeks 1 day, squirming around a looking very baby-like. Not a great start to my low-prenatal-care pregnancy, but hey, I'll take it.
I scheduled my first prenatal appointment earlier than I wanted to because I needed to get a release from my midwife for the Avon Walk - it was yesterday at 11.5 weeks instead of 13-15 like I would have preferred. The visit went just fine, but at the end when she tried to find the heartbeat with the doppler, she couldn't. I was pretty torn up. I heard Sam's by doppler at 9 weeks or so and 11 weeks seemed like a normal time to hear it and she tried for quite a long time so I was just - concerned. My nasty symptoms have been fading slowly over the last few days and that added to my nervousness. And so with some urging from Wilson, I went ahead and scheduled an ultrasound for this morning just so we wouldn't have to wait in agony until my next appointment.
I was excruciatingly anxious walking in to the appointment this morning. I had prepared myself for the worst. And though I know it wouldn't be tragic or really that big of a deal, hearing bad news would still mean that we would have to start over from the beginning and that is just a lot to bear. So when the tech said, "there's the heartbeat" first, I was so insanely relieved and not even really sure how to behave.
Everything else was fine. Heartbeat of 167, measuring 11 weeks 1 day, squirming around a looking very baby-like. Not a great start to my low-prenatal-care pregnancy, but hey, I'll take it.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Spring is here!
Wilson made me some vegetable planter boxes from some old pallets I picked up on the way home one day. Despite having to tolerate being made fun of for Pinterest projects, I'm still pretty pleased about how they turned out. Still need to paint them, sink them, fill them and plant them, but we're well on our way to more veggie space at this house.
This spring we've planted:
9 asparagus
20 strawberries
1 fig tree
1 forsythia (not a vegetable, but Wilson missed the one at the old house so we got another)
This spring we've planted:
9 asparagus
20 strawberries
1 fig tree
1 forsythia (not a vegetable, but Wilson missed the one at the old house so we got another)
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Week 10
I guess I'll never post if I wait until there's something interesting to post about the babai, because NOTHING HAPPENS DURING THE FIRST TRIMESTER. Except nausea. Ugh. Glad to get that out of the way.
In other news:
Sam had her first visit to the dentist. It started off pretty bad, but our really awesome hygienist somehow broke through her sour mood and got in a brief cleaning. By the end, Sam was asking to go back the next day.
I may have kind of forgotten that the Easter Bunny was a thing. I may "forget" again next year. But I really wanted to get Sam roller skates because she's been asking to go roller skating for weeks, so I called these her Easter Bunny present in my head. Because what kind of mother just gets her kid a present for the heck of it?
Our first prenatal appointment is next week on Wednesday. Doubtful that there will be much more to report after that, but I'm sure I'll check in.
In other news:
Sam had her first visit to the dentist. It started off pretty bad, but our really awesome hygienist somehow broke through her sour mood and got in a brief cleaning. By the end, Sam was asking to go back the next day.
I may have kind of forgotten that the Easter Bunny was a thing. I may "forget" again next year. But I really wanted to get Sam roller skates because she's been asking to go roller skating for weeks, so I called these her Easter Bunny present in my head. Because what kind of mother just gets her kid a present for the heck of it?
Our first prenatal appointment is next week on Wednesday. Doubtful that there will be much more to report after that, but I'm sure I'll check in.
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