Week 34

This is Halloween! This is Halloween! Pumpkins scream in the dead of night!

I LOVE Halloween!

But first, last week got a little better after visiting the doctor. I went a day early after having some stabbing abdominal pains, which was scary, but I felt reassured when I was told I simply had a muscle strain and the area where the pain was located was not a concerning spot. It could have also been partially caused by my digestive system. So, the doctor recommended some Kolace and a belly support band. The Kolace took some time, but has started working well enough where I feel less cramping and the belly band has been doing wonders because my abs have not been sore since I purchased it!

The Anoka Halloween parade on Saturday was a blast! I wasn't able to be a pretty princess, but that didn't stop me from having a good time and walking around 2 miles! I had the motivation of food to keep me going :)

The next day saw some rough patches of tiredness and ankle problems, but the baby shower made it all better! It was a really nice time, we got to try the baby food tasting game and they guessed my belly size. Now I only have one more shower left!

Halloween is my favorite holiday! Dressing up in costumes, candy everywhere, scary movies, and spooky stories! I wish I had had more time to marathon my favorite horror movies over the weekend, but I also had a great fun-filled weekend all the same.

It looks like Cinder had a good time today at Googs puppy daycare from the ADORABLE photo Matt's mom sent us! Seriously! She looks so happy!

  

I sported my simple, cheap, workable Halloween "costume" which I made in about an hour :) I just wish I had thought of a TIE Fighter hair bow sooner...

 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Nursery Projects #1

I've been slowly working on decorations for the baby's room, I'm very excited to see how they're going to turn out.

Pony Project:

I got this pony from Goodwill for $4, it was in rough shape. I'm making him pretty again.

I took the pony completely apart, sanded down the pieces, and prepared to paint!

I forgot to get pictures of the Primer stage, but I did prime before using the brown.

Next step- Making a new mane and tail!

Wall Art Project:

I only just started this tonight, but I am recovering canvas board with silhouettes of various sci-fi spaceships :)

Canvas boards

I cut out the silhouette pieces out of thick fusible interfacing, and I am going to back my colored fabric and apply it to my awesome space background fabric.

Can you name all the ships? :)

Week 32/33

Oh my goodness! I did write a small blog last week, but forgot to actually post it... I was/am very tired.

Last week:

"My belly-button is still an inny.

I thought it would have popped by now, but it does seem to be getting close.

I am so exhausted. Working took a lot out of me this week, but I also didn't sleep the greatest last night (I've slept well the rest of the week though!). Blinky and bright lights from various charging objects kept me up. I eventually threw an article of clothing that was in arms reach across the room onto said objects."

Matt and I went to the Melting Pot on Saturday for our anniversary.  It was so delicious! I had been looking forward to the marshmallows they give you with the chocolate fondue. Well, we had enough fondue left over and ran out of things to dip in it that they brought us more. MORE MARSHMALLOWS. I was so happy, I started bawling on the way home...

Sunday brought Baby Shower #1! (Thank you, Kara!) It was so fun and there was so much baby! The cupcakes had Star Trek logos and were deliciously wonderful. Thanks to everyone who came and made it awesome!

This week has been a bit more difficult than last. Yesterday was mine and Matt's second anniversary. I felt awful. I had constipation so bad in the morning that it was painful, had to stop at the grocery store on the way to work for a birthday lunch and ended up taking a different way to work, this proved HORRIBLE as I was stuck in traffic on University for ~25 minutes before getting to 694, by the time I hit Washington I was nauseous and gagging in my car, made it to the parking lot and dry heaved out the door for a few minutes, dropped off the cheese for the lunch and came home to rest. I'm really glad I didn't actually throw up as the nurse said if that were to start happening again I would need to come in to the hospital for an IV. It's too easy to get dehydrated during your third trimester. 

Matt made yesterday so much better by getting us pizza for dinner and coming home with a peanut-butter-cup pie. :)

Everyone keeps telling me - "Enjoy pregnancy, it'll go by so fast!" So far, I feel like it's dragging. Matt says he thinks it's going really fast, but each day seems to be going slower and slower oO  I am really excited to just have my baby, and well, not be sick anymore.

Anoka Halloween Parade this weekend! Also, Baby Shower #2!

I am sooo tired.

Week 31 Updatey-ness!

Having a much better day and decided to update while I was in a better mood!

We had Birthing Class #2, and this week went much better! We worked on relaxation positions, along with breathing, and I find the birthing ball and massage most relaxing so far. The teacher was also a lot more informative and came off less biased/judgmental this week. I find breathing at my own pace, relatively slow, the best. I think I must have a smaller lung capacity than other people, because I get light-headed and find myself having to hold my breath if I follow other peoples breathing instructions. It's what I find difficult about my yoga dvd, the breathing is too slow and I can't physically take in that much air..

Yesterday and today were much better than tuesday. Less nausea, less heartburn, and I've slept pretty well. I have my 32 week appointment tomorrow and then get to go to my cousin's wedding, which should be fun.

I also remembered to bring my chair cushion to work, which has saved my tailbone and makes the day a lot less painful.

Now, we're watching Red Dwarf X (the new Red Dwarf season) :)

Week 31

Today has been a hard day.

My nausea came back and the Zofran only helped for a short time (I also only have one left and need a refill.. I was hoping I wouldn't need it anymore.)

I tried really hard to make it through work, I only made it until 1:00. I got too sick, uncomfortable and felt the need to lay down.  The baby has finally met my ribcage, so sewing in a hunched position (which happens often when you have to lean over your pencil markings) really took a toll and became extremely painful to sit in my chair. Not to mention my tailbone, which still feels as though I am sitting on a knife. I'm going to try and bring an extra cushion for my chair tomorrow, even though the chairs are padded in the first place.

I cannot describe how good it felt to lay down when I got home. I could've cried (and did), it felt so nice.

I keep reminding myself that I only have roughly two months left of this, and it's not all bad. I am extremely excited to have the baby, thinking about holding him makes me feel so happy. I also love it when he moves, which he did often today.

I think I did too much over the weekend. It was full of making our home ready for the baby (new carpet, room painting, crib setup, new furniture). I have been having light abdominal pain, mainly when I bend over, but this is apparently normal because I did so much. It's not severe and it's not constant and the baby is going through a growth spurt which makes the area tender in the first place. I'm going to talk to my doctor about it on Friday.

Just not sure what to do to make it through the day when I start to feel awful and all I want to do is go to bed.

Also, Baby classes last week:
All About Babies- Fun, we learned a lot, the teacher was great!
Childbirth Class #1- Teacher seems biased towards natural birth, I felt a little uncomfortable in class. I embarrassed myself by sobbing once we started the relaxation techniques (they've never really worked for me..) and I had to step out of class. The teacher also made a pitch about stress and 'don't be stressed cause it's bad' which, for a person with anxiety who already worries about how their anxiety/stress affects the baby, this is a very bad way to approach the issue. Just saying "don't do it" does not help the situation, and I again felt uncomfortable in class (and started crying). We have class #2 (of 4) on Thursday and I am going to see how it goes, but if I don't feel comfortable in the atmosphere, I don't know if we'll be going back...

Week 30

Feeling awful. I know sleep deprivation come with the pregnancy/having a baby thing, but when I woke up at 1 in the morning and could not fall back asleep, it got pretty bad.

I've never had insomnia that bad before. Acid reflux, plus a bathroom break, got me up. Took Tums.  By 3 in the morning, I was so bored so I poked around on the internet. At 4 I tried taking Tylenol as my entire left side (head, shoulder and hip) began to ache. It just made me nauseous. By 5:30 I was getting antsy for Matt to wake up. Had a full meltdown just after 6 in the morning. I knew I could barely get out of bed, let alone be safe enough to drive to work, so I stayed home.

I think I finally fell asleep around 7 in the morning. Woke up at 8:30 to call work, had a hard time falling asleep again, but managed it. Woke at 10, woke at 11 and now here I am.

At least my horrible sleep last week still left me able to function.

I had so many things I was going to blog about for this week, and now I can barely remember any of them, but here is what I can recall in my spinny, addled brain:

* Cinder got Kennel Cough (not quite sure how) and kept us up last week with a wheezy, hacky cough and lots of gross phlegm. She's on some meds now, and is doing much better, which is wonderful. It's heartbreaking having a sick puppy. Matt wonders what I am going to be like when our baby gets sick...

* We actually picked an OB for the rest of my pregnancy. We weren't going to, as the Fridley hospital uses an on-call system for labor and delivery. I just really like Dr. Wenda, so we're going to see him for the rest of my appointments and hope he's available when I actually go into labor. If not, the other doctors I met were perfectly nice and I know will do a great job in delivering my baby.
 - I told the Dr. that I pretty much plan on an epidural, and he said something like, "There is absolutely no point in having to put yourself through that much pain.. Would you go to the dentist and ask him to drill your tooth 'naturally'?" I laughed and it made me happy :)

* We got the crib, it's sitting in the entry way waiting for the baby's room to be ready.

* We get new carpet on Friday and will be spending the weekend reorganizing our house and painting.

* We also got a Dutailier glider/rocker for the baby's room. I LOVE it! We only spent $200 on an item that retails around $500. I also love Craigslist!

* Megan and I watched What To Expect When You're Expecting last night. It was okay. It's one of those movies that shows multiple story lines that are interconnected. Some of the stories were good, some were just okay. I did start sobbing in the end though. And I mean sobbing. Megan was looking at me like a freak of nature.
- I loved Elizabeth Banks in the movie. At one point her character breaks down in front of an audience and describes the woes of being pregnant. I liked it a lot because it's pretty similar to how I have been feeling.

Pregnancy is an absolutely wonderful thing. I am very very excited to have a baby and I am excited we're having a boy. However, pregnancy Sucks. Everyone is different, and some people have it much easier than others. I have been lucky that even though I feel like shit crap most of the time, my pregnancy is progressing very healthily and I haven't had any serious complications thus far.

It used to bug me when women would complain about being pregnant. It was something I always knew I wanted and it was a fear of mine to be unable to have children. But call me an f-ing hypocrite. I don't care. I am miserable, have so much joint pain, get extremely dizzy at random moments, I spent half of my first trimester bed-ridden, I'm getting nauseous again, my feet hurt, stairs are hard, I still have back acne, I haven't pooped in 3 days, I want to help with our home renovation stuff and usually can't because it's too much labor or unsafe, I have acid reflux, my tailbone is KILLING me, I've been having heart palpitations, as labor approaches I am getting more and more terrified, my brain is beginning to spin with anxiety and the weight of everything on it.

My main solace is that I know it will be worth it and I'll have a wonderful son in the end. Also, I will forget all of these woes and will do it all over again in the future.

Oh, yes. In my sleep deprived brain last night, I came up with a book idea. A "Children's" book written in Dr. Seuss style rhyme about getting pregnant. Not actually for children. A passage:
 "It can happen in a car, it can happen at the bar
 It can happen very near, it can happen very far
 It can happen in your bed, even if you're on the pill
 But do you really want a son with convenience worker Bill?"

Thank you, Goodnight!