It has been a really long time since I blogged. I really should get back at it considering I'm due on the 21st!
A lot has changed, my husband I moved to a larger apartment. Then he lost his job, and I finished working. I was in a very small car accident and received accident benefits (which I have been enjoying). I've had false labour like you wouldn't believe, braxton hicks and cramping since November. I had four hours of false labour two weeks ago, and woke up the next morning with stretch marks that didn't previously exist and a fully dropped baby. I was not impressed, the stretch marks came in on my sides, under my belly and even on the under side of my boobs!
I've been thinking this baby is coming more times than I can count in the past month. Some days it made me excited, other days worried. Sometimes it was just plain depressing and I found myself telling this little babe to either get its boney butt out here already or screw off!
I had an array of dreams about laboring alone, and laboring quickly, with a fat and early baby girl. At that time I had no girls names, and I had no idea what I would do if I had too fast of a birth for the midwives. I researched what to do in an unassisted birth as my sister suggested, and those dreams haven't come back since. We've also found a girls name, funny how that happens.
I also had a hard time visualizing having my mother and sisters here for the birth - which has always been the plan. I also had a hard time having the birth tub set up. Having made it 39 weeks this has been easier to visualize everything, my anxiety about being early has nearly gone. All this baby needs to do is wait for my mother and sisters to come, only a couple more days!!
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Leaky Tits =O
So, I am 20 1/2 weeks pregnant and my breasts are already leaking. Is this normal? I noticed some weird spots in the bra I wore yesterday and sure enough after I got out of the shower the boobs were a little leaky. I was surprised because I wasn't expecting that to happen so soon. I read somewhere that by the third trimester it was, and I read somewhere else that some women have it as early as 13 weeks. I also read that if you leak earlier it is a good omen and that you'll have lots of milk.
It's a funny thing when your breasts have never leaked or produced any milk before and then all of the sudden they do. You look at them differently... all of a sudden they are not just breasts for being sexy. It was kind of a maternal smack in the face(but not a bad one).
My husband thinks its particularily amusing and enjoys squeezing me or squishing me and then laughing and saying things like 'you're leaking' 'leaky boob' and other things.
I learned today that if you express or pump while you are pregnant your body on produces colostrum until after the baby is born. I think that's pretty cool.
I also learned that Good Mama's are now making a diaper called 'The One' which doesn't need a cover. I'd be interested on how leak proof they are.
I have Good Mama's, but the original ones and my mother in law has been knitting up a storm of leggies and soakers for me. Super exciting!
I've added a photo of my belly at 20 weeks for your pleasure.
By the way, I have had a total of 879 views on my blog. Wow! I didn't even blog for a whole month (fail).
It's a funny thing when your breasts have never leaked or produced any milk before and then all of the sudden they do. You look at them differently... all of a sudden they are not just breasts for being sexy. It was kind of a maternal smack in the face(but not a bad one).
My husband thinks its particularily amusing and enjoys squeezing me or squishing me and then laughing and saying things like 'you're leaking' 'leaky boob' and other things.
I learned today that if you express or pump while you are pregnant your body on produces colostrum until after the baby is born. I think that's pretty cool.
I also learned that Good Mama's are now making a diaper called 'The One' which doesn't need a cover. I'd be interested on how leak proof they are.
I have Good Mama's, but the original ones and my mother in law has been knitting up a storm of leggies and soakers for me. Super exciting!
I've added a photo of my belly at 20 weeks for your pleasure.
By the way, I have had a total of 879 views on my blog. Wow! I didn't even blog for a whole month (fail).
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Return
Well I disappeared for a while there, it's already August 31st. Summer came and went, though it really had hardly arrived before it left. The season feels like fall and I bundle myself up before I head out. How did this happen so quickly? How have I come to the end of my fifth month being pregnant? It seems like yesterday that I found out.
What have I been doing? I hardly even have a worthwhile excuse. I have done some temporary receptionist positions, filling in for companies who need extra help or have employees on vacation. Getting up at 6am, driving for 45 minutes one way and not getting home until 5:45pm became too long of a day. Although the work was good and the pay was good, the day was so long and the drive usually bumped me over the egde. I have zero tolerance for Calgary drivers, they just don't drive rationally.
Anyways, with a 20 week bump which looks more like a 26 week bump I have decided to go back to waitressing. A five minute walk is more appealing than a fourty-five minute drive, just as casual wear is more appealing than corporate wear. I am hoping for some good tips.
As the time has gone by I've made from new friends from church who are young married's with kids. It's comforting to have them, I never really imagined I would be pregnant away from my sisters and mother. For a while it was depressing to be pregnant and across the country from my family but I'm feeling less lonely now.
The baby seems huge. The baby grows and grows, and moves and kicks and bumps around in there. It is so busy at times I feel as though it's going to bump right out of me into the world. I enjoy speculating about it's secret life, its exercises and activies. I meet with the midwives tomorrow, and we'll decide from there whether to go in for the ultrasound or not. We are trying to determine the possibility of twins, the possibility of my dates being incorrect. I have a feeling that the baby is just going to be a big one. I also feel that this baby is a girl. I don't know why, but I just know she is.
Tonight is spaghetti night, and I've baked cheese biscuits to go with it. Yum!
What have I been doing? I hardly even have a worthwhile excuse. I have done some temporary receptionist positions, filling in for companies who need extra help or have employees on vacation. Getting up at 6am, driving for 45 minutes one way and not getting home until 5:45pm became too long of a day. Although the work was good and the pay was good, the day was so long and the drive usually bumped me over the egde. I have zero tolerance for Calgary drivers, they just don't drive rationally.
Anyways, with a 20 week bump which looks more like a 26 week bump I have decided to go back to waitressing. A five minute walk is more appealing than a fourty-five minute drive, just as casual wear is more appealing than corporate wear. I am hoping for some good tips.
As the time has gone by I've made from new friends from church who are young married's with kids. It's comforting to have them, I never really imagined I would be pregnant away from my sisters and mother. For a while it was depressing to be pregnant and across the country from my family but I'm feeling less lonely now.
The baby seems huge. The baby grows and grows, and moves and kicks and bumps around in there. It is so busy at times I feel as though it's going to bump right out of me into the world. I enjoy speculating about it's secret life, its exercises and activies. I meet with the midwives tomorrow, and we'll decide from there whether to go in for the ultrasound or not. We are trying to determine the possibility of twins, the possibility of my dates being incorrect. I have a feeling that the baby is just going to be a big one. I also feel that this baby is a girl. I don't know why, but I just know she is.
Tonight is spaghetti night, and I've baked cheese biscuits to go with it. Yum!
Monday, July 12, 2010
Potato Soup and a Runny Banana Cream Pie?
I don't understand how 3 1/2 to 4 tablespoons of cornstarch results in a wiggly, kind of runny banana cream pie. It could be that I just am not waiting long enough and it hasn't cooled and settled entirely...but I am pretty sure it is just runny. Ugh.
I have potato soup on the go for supper, which is an excellent usage for left over mashed potatoes, bacon (though I didn't have any to add this time around) and even things like sour cream or cream cheese. I added a little cream cheese to my soup, to help it be rich and creamy. It was also because I had it in my fridge and needed to get rid of it! It's also perfect for yet another rainy day. Comfort food? FTW! It hasn't stopped raining since Saturday and by this point I'll be surprised when it does. =(
I have been having some sore muscles in my calves today. I have no idea what this is from as my physical activity is restricted to my basement apartment hallway, and the stairs up to the laundry. My only possible suspicion is that when I am sitting at m desk I cross my legs. Whatever the cause, I have found a use for my broken phone - a massager! It had to be good for something...
Another thing I noticed is that on my right side, right beneath my ribs I get this stiff pain and sometimes an ache. When I move my ribs different ways it hurts. When I press on it, it feels almost as firm as my ribs. Any ideas as to what this could be? I am clueless...I think that your kidney and gall bladder are located there. I have read different things from complaints by pregnant women. Usually preggers have this complaint near 30 weeks though.
On a more positive note, last night I was trying to feel the baby before I fell asleep. I must have had my thumb in the perfect position because I could feel and hear its little heart beat just a going. Very exciting, I've never felt its heart beat before (though I have heard it - at 10 weeks!). I know it wasn't my heartbeat because I had been feeling it minutes before. I am about 12 1/2 weeks, and though women usually don't feel anything until the 14th week some women can feel the baby as early as the 9th week! Crazy! I don't feel anything unless I am pressing down, skin to skin. Sometimes the baby is sleeping or quiet, and other times I feel a lot of activity. I find I get the best results when laying down on my tummy.
I wonder if there are any other good tactics for getting a result. My grandmother on the husbands side says that drinking cold water will make the baby move. What have you heard?
I have potato soup on the go for supper, which is an excellent usage for left over mashed potatoes, bacon (though I didn't have any to add this time around) and even things like sour cream or cream cheese. I added a little cream cheese to my soup, to help it be rich and creamy. It was also because I had it in my fridge and needed to get rid of it! It's also perfect for yet another rainy day. Comfort food? FTW! It hasn't stopped raining since Saturday and by this point I'll be surprised when it does. =(
I have been having some sore muscles in my calves today. I have no idea what this is from as my physical activity is restricted to my basement apartment hallway, and the stairs up to the laundry. My only possible suspicion is that when I am sitting at m desk I cross my legs. Whatever the cause, I have found a use for my broken phone - a massager! It had to be good for something...
Another thing I noticed is that on my right side, right beneath my ribs I get this stiff pain and sometimes an ache. When I move my ribs different ways it hurts. When I press on it, it feels almost as firm as my ribs. Any ideas as to what this could be? I am clueless...I think that your kidney and gall bladder are located there. I have read different things from complaints by pregnant women. Usually preggers have this complaint near 30 weeks though.
On a more positive note, last night I was trying to feel the baby before I fell asleep. I must have had my thumb in the perfect position because I could feel and hear its little heart beat just a going. Very exciting, I've never felt its heart beat before (though I have heard it - at 10 weeks!). I know it wasn't my heartbeat because I had been feeling it minutes before. I am about 12 1/2 weeks, and though women usually don't feel anything until the 14th week some women can feel the baby as early as the 9th week! Crazy! I don't feel anything unless I am pressing down, skin to skin. Sometimes the baby is sleeping or quiet, and other times I feel a lot of activity. I find I get the best results when laying down on my tummy.
I wonder if there are any other good tactics for getting a result. My grandmother on the husbands side says that drinking cold water will make the baby move. What have you heard?
Monday Blog Hop!
Questions:
1. What do your normally eat for breakfast?
I can't do greasy foods in the morning usually, especially being pregnant. My typical breakfast is toast with strawberry jam or peanut butter and honey. I also usually eat some yogurt, just the good regular percentage of milk fat. i can't stand low fat dairy anything. I hate peach yogurt though, who thinks of these flavours anyways?
2. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
I have most recently acquired a little purple beast. It's a 1997 toyota corolla, and she's my baby. I bought her used for under 2 grand: she's clean as a whistle, fast as a rocket and has lower kms than your grandma. (haha, I am in a weird mood this morning). On a more serious note I am not rich enough to buy a new vehicle outright, and I do not believe in leases or monthly payments. I always stick with Toyotas because they are indestructible, sound and live forever. Not to mention just darn cute and little - yay for low gas mileage!
3. Have you ever met a famous person(s)?
I'm not sure about this one... I have met a lot of famous figure skaters like Jeff Buttle, Kurt Browning, Steven Cousins. Mostly Canadian skaters...
4. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? I always get stuck between peanut butter chocolate and cotton candy (gross, I know). I also love rolo and cookies and cream. Give me any kind of ice cream really, I'm pregnant!
5. Which TV Channel do you watch the most?
I think it's something between slice, tlc, hgtv and cosmo. I like TLC for birth, baby, say yes to the dress kind of shows. Slice for millionaire matchmaker when I am particularily bored. TLC for what not to wear and some home shows. I also like W - Love it or List it. To be honest I am not much of a TV person. It's my last resort.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Banana Pudding
Why is every recipe online for 'Banana Pudding' a recipe which includes vanilla wafers, sweetened condensed milk or whipped cream and sliced bananas? It actually sounds rather repulsive to me. From what I understand it's some kind of Southern (United States) recipe.
What I have actually been looking for is a recipe to make homemade banana cream pie, with a graham wafer crust, banana pudding and whipped cream on top. No sliced bananas here.
The first recipe I attempted had no milk in it, just pureed bananas and corn starch and some sugar. I really should have thought about it and figured out that it wouldn't be delicious. So my poor husband choked through a piece of nasty pureed, custardy bananas. I also thought it would be a good idea to put some melted chocolate on top. Well me, being a little bit dense today (apparently) melted mint chocolate on top...DISGUSTING. What a disgusting combination. Yuck!
Maybe I will try again tomorrow.
On a positive note, thanks for clicking my ads! I am almost at 50.00 already! Woohoo!
What I have actually been looking for is a recipe to make homemade banana cream pie, with a graham wafer crust, banana pudding and whipped cream on top. No sliced bananas here.
The first recipe I attempted had no milk in it, just pureed bananas and corn starch and some sugar. I really should have thought about it and figured out that it wouldn't be delicious. So my poor husband choked through a piece of nasty pureed, custardy bananas. I also thought it would be a good idea to put some melted chocolate on top. Well me, being a little bit dense today (apparently) melted mint chocolate on top...DISGUSTING. What a disgusting combination. Yuck!
Maybe I will try again tomorrow.
On a positive note, thanks for clicking my ads! I am almost at 50.00 already! Woohoo!
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Futureshop is the devil
Well today sucked basically.
It was our 6-months-of-being-married-versary and it started out by my husband informing me that he had accidently put the computer chair leg on my blackberry. I had a blackberry curve, it was about a year old. I was a little rough on it I guess, a couple of scratches here and there but it worked perfectly. Until today. The entire screen cracked from left to right. We also believe that it short circuited when we tried to put the battery back in and start it up as the battery smells like burning and the battery connectors on the back also had a burn mark on the one side. We do not believe this was related to the crack in the screen, as it was a surface crack.
Now I won't get into the legalities of who left the blackberry to charge on the floor...as that will start an arguement. I will say that I usually leave it to charge on my husbands side of the desk, which irritates him and so he usually puts it on the floor. However, he doesn't usually subsequently put his chair on it... Anyways, my phone was done. I have been paying into a "Product Exchange Plan" with Future Shop (which is where I purchased the phone over a year ago). I did not realise that this plan was a contract that I had somehow signed into for three years as the trusty Future Shop employee never explain such to me at the time. This is beside the point of why FS really means f-ng sh-. (Pardon me!)
Apparently the PEP (product exchange program) does not cover any physical damage. We drove to three different FS stores, and spoke with representatives of the PEP on the phone from 12pm until 5:00pm today. Representatives on the phone told us that provided the physical damage was not related to the technical problem with the phone then the product could be exchanged and I was eligable for a new phone. FS store representatives and general managers told us that the 'people' they sent the phone away to would see the cracked screen and state this as the cause of the phones untimely death and then they would have to pay out of pocket for the phone.
Do I care? No.
So essentially I have been paying 10 dollars a month, which is at least 150.00 dollars worth by this point, for nothing. The only thing that was offered to me was to buy a new blackberry for 220.00 and continue with two more years in my plan. Well, why would I do that when I can get a phone for free?
My concluding statement is:
Future Shop is a scam. Do not get their product exchange plan because they do not actually exchange any products. It is a rip off, it is misinformative and it will screw you over.
Needless to say, my husband and I will not be making any further purchases at Future Shop. And neither should you!
It was our 6-months-of-being-married-versary and it started out by my husband informing me that he had accidently put the computer chair leg on my blackberry. I had a blackberry curve, it was about a year old. I was a little rough on it I guess, a couple of scratches here and there but it worked perfectly. Until today. The entire screen cracked from left to right. We also believe that it short circuited when we tried to put the battery back in and start it up as the battery smells like burning and the battery connectors on the back also had a burn mark on the one side. We do not believe this was related to the crack in the screen, as it was a surface crack.
Now I won't get into the legalities of who left the blackberry to charge on the floor...as that will start an arguement. I will say that I usually leave it to charge on my husbands side of the desk, which irritates him and so he usually puts it on the floor. However, he doesn't usually subsequently put his chair on it... Anyways, my phone was done. I have been paying into a "Product Exchange Plan" with Future Shop (which is where I purchased the phone over a year ago). I did not realise that this plan was a contract that I had somehow signed into for three years as the trusty Future Shop employee never explain such to me at the time. This is beside the point of why FS really means f-ng sh-. (Pardon me!)
Apparently the PEP (product exchange program) does not cover any physical damage. We drove to three different FS stores, and spoke with representatives of the PEP on the phone from 12pm until 5:00pm today. Representatives on the phone told us that provided the physical damage was not related to the technical problem with the phone then the product could be exchanged and I was eligable for a new phone. FS store representatives and general managers told us that the 'people' they sent the phone away to would see the cracked screen and state this as the cause of the phones untimely death and then they would have to pay out of pocket for the phone.
Do I care? No.
So essentially I have been paying 10 dollars a month, which is at least 150.00 dollars worth by this point, for nothing. The only thing that was offered to me was to buy a new blackberry for 220.00 and continue with two more years in my plan. Well, why would I do that when I can get a phone for free?
My concluding statement is:
Future Shop is a scam. Do not get their product exchange plan because they do not actually exchange any products. It is a rip off, it is misinformative and it will screw you over.
Needless to say, my husband and I will not be making any further purchases at Future Shop. And neither should you!
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