37 posts tagged “pregnancy”
I'm finally starting to feel normal again energy wise. Weight wise... it's still something that needs to be worked on. I look almost back to normal, but in reality I am still about 18-20 pounds away from my old weight. Depressing. But, hopefully over the next month I'll get back down to that.
No phone call yet, which this is around the time they called before to cancel us. A little after. So I'm hoping that means that we're in the clear, and will be going in tonight to have this baby. I'm thinking I should start getting ready to go. But I'm also just not wanting to get my hopes up. But it'll probably work out (knock on wood). I should probably eat something either way. Very excited.
Well, I was all excited to write a post about how I was going in tonight to be induced, and that by sometime tomorrow, we'd have our little boy. Well, then I got a call from my doctor, and the hospital rescheduled us. Now we won't be able to go in until Sunday, as long as there aren't too many already laboring moms there like tonight. We were so excited.
Still no more real contractions. Just some of the Braxton-Hicks variety I think. Little cramping. I have my appointment today, in about an hour actually. So hopefully we'll get some good news. Keep your fingers crossed. I finally feel like we have pretty much everything ready for the baby, and the stuff around the house taken care of (for the most part... it's kind of a cycle I think), so, I feel "ready" for him to come. Bags are all packed.
Sometime after Wednesday, the contractions just.... stopped. A little disappointing. Hopefully they at least did some good in getting me closer to having him. For those of you who have had kids, did that happen to you? Having plenty of contractions, only for them to just stop? It's a little disappointing, I have to say.
Well, I was able to get my computer working again, but everything had to be deleted off the hard drive. The biggest downside of this? iLife programs were not included in the update install disk. So I don't have anything like iPhoto, ect. iTunes is there though. So I have to take my computer in to Apple again and see if they will install it. If not, my cousin might have his iLife install disk that I can use.
Tomorrow is my last day of work. I couldn't be more thrilled. I am totally ready for maternity leave. Last night after my doctor's appointment I started getting some cramping. Which eventually turned into contractions, which got more and more painful. I was about 30 min. from seeing if I should go into L&D before they suddenly just died off (after being 2-5 min. apart for about an hour and a half). I've been having some contractions off and on all day, too. Not as painful as last night (thankfully), but still not comfortable. Maybe he will be here a little early. I'm going home today and packing all of our bags.
So this is like Thanksgiving Edition or something haha. As always, I'm starting off with...
I can't believe it's been almost two weeks since I've posted on here. I decided I should finally post something since some of my friends kept making comments on how long it had been.
So the baby shower was really fun, and I had a great time. I didn't get as much off of my registry as I had kind of hoped I would, but I still got a ton of great stuff. It was definitely a great day. And it was also great that I got to see some people that I hadn't seen in way too long. I also got to see my friend who had just had her little boy a few weeks before. She, like the last time she had a baby, already looked like she was back to her normal size. I can't wait for that day.
The week after my baby shower I ended up passing out at the post office. So, paramedics had to be called, and I was also taken in to the hospital to make sure everything was ok with the baby, which it was. But, it was still a pretty shocking and scary experience. I have been trying my best to make sure nothing like that happens again, but, nothing really preventable caused it that time (aside from me just needing to take it even easier), so... (meaning it wasn't low blood sugar, or anything to do with my blood pressure that they knew of) But i've been to my doctor since, and she said it's ok for me to continue working. So, continue working is all I can do. Though it's getting kind of hard to have the energy and will power to drag myself out of bed for work every day. I wouldn't have minded going to just part time work. But I should probably be thankful that I'm healthy enough to continue working, and take advantage that I'm able to still earn my full salary so I can continue to save up.
In other baby news, at my appointment on Monday the doctor said the baby is measuring a little big. So, we may end up inducing about a week early, depending on if my body is ready for it or not. I'm pretty small, and she thinks I might have trouble if we wait til my due date or after to give birth, which could lead to me needing a c-section. Though, we could induce and that could lead to a c-section too. But I'm all for inducing, cause I was kind of hoping to have him early anyway. And after talking to my mom, and how her first birth went, well, it doesn't make me feel any more confident. I'm kind of just ready to be done with the pregnant part of this. I'm sure maybe someday I'll look back and miss certain aspects of it. But as of right now, I'm just unbelievably uncomfortable about 90% of the time. And tired. And I also just want him out so I can actually see him and hold him. Though we still have some stuff to finish up before he's born. So, I'm glad we have a few (5, maybe only 4) more weeks left.
Last weekend we moved into our new apartment. I'm so far in love with it, even though we still have boxes around the place. I've been slowly trying to get stuff put away as things get brought over from our old apartment, to prevent too much build up. And I kind of prohibited the placing of boxes in our bedroom so it wouldn't get that cluttered up. I hate having a bedroom that is messy. Especially since this one is a little bit smaller than our old room, so I think it would've gotten on my nerves even more. I can't wait to get all settled in though. I have high hopes that we can make this place look nice. If we can just manage to get rid of some of the extra crap we've been lugging around with us from apartment to apartment. And by we, it's mostly me. I've seriously gotten rid of so many clothes already this year. I have a pile of purses to get rid of now. I've donated shoes. And really, there should be more clothes gotten rid of as well. I just feel overwhelmed by it all when it's sitting to be washed, or to be put away from the move. Thats when I just think, I have way too much, and will never wear all of this. Last night I was able to start clearing up the baby's room a little bit, which was fun. I'm hoping we'll set up his crib by the weekend. But, we had talked about painting in there, so maybe we'll wait until that's done. But I also really just want to get everything ready. I'm starting to get excited and anxious, if you can't tell.
So, overall things have been going pretty well, and just been busy. Which is kind of why I haven't updated this in so long. That and I've just been exhausted, so if I haven't been busy doing stuff, I've been relaxing or taking a nap or something. But now that we've got the move over with, I should be able to be back to posting much more regularly, I hope :)
Only 21 more actual days of work until maternity leave. (not counting weekends, and holidays) I can't wait. I'm so ready to not be dragging myself out of bed and trying to get dressed decently for this job when I feel so exhausted.
So suddenly today my feet have decided to become swollen. I was hoping this was one pregnancy symptom that I would manage to escape having, but I guess I was wrong. This sucks. As if I haven't dealt with enough lately :(
Ok, I'll stop complaining now.
