At around 1 am March 2nd Tuesday morning we had our baby. She was a girl we named Fiona Olivia and she weighed exactly 7 pounds. We are exstatic to say the least. She is healthy and beautiful. I will be recouperating and I expect to not be able to update this blog during the [...]
This week marks my 35th week being pregnant. I have really started to notice that the baby is getting a lot bigger. I really feel like I am busting out. Up until last week I was quite comfortable. I can’t at all say that I am miserable and hopefully we won’t get there. It is [...]
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Atrophy At some point during recent history it was decided that pregnant women were fragile, well at least in North America and other “industrialized” countries. This lead to women not exerting themselves the entire 9 -10 months of pregnancy. Then after all the atrophy labor began and kicked their asses. I imagine it is like [...]
This last week marked 33 weeks pregnant for me. Sadly it also marked a frustrating week with my ISP who happens to be Comcast. Magically or suspiciously the internet would go down between 10 am and noon and come back up sometime after 5 pm every single day this last week. I suspected that in [...]
This week marks my 32nd week of pregnancy. Today I was paging through the notebook where I had taken notes about my symptoms and feelings during the first trimester. As I stared at my own handwriting, it sort of transported my back to that time period and I could have never imagined myself this far [...]
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I am now in week 31 of being pregnant and that translates to “Oh Sh#$% that means only 9 weeks left, If I in fact make it the entire 40 weeks!” Next Monday I will enter the EIGHTH month of pregnancy. When I look at the numbers, I think I should be more anxious and [...]
I am now in about my 27th week of pregnancy. I weighed myself last night and overall I have gained about 19 pounds. Gaining 19 pounds over all of your body might not feel like too much but when it is all in one place like the uterus it feels quite strange. I feel quite [...]
For Thanksgiving my husband and I flew to Indianapolis to stay with my parents for the holidays. I had just entered my sixth month of pregnancy. A few months ago when we bought the plane tickets I was worried I would be quite large and uncomfortable on a plane at 6 months pregnant. I was [...]
Towards the end of September and beginning of October I was starting to wonder when I would start showing and be obviously pregnant. This would have been around my fourth month of pregnancy. At this time I noticed something more around my mid section and at this time I could feel around my abdomen for [...]
With all of the media attention that H1N1 has received, I find it hard to determine if getting the vaccine is necessary. Normally I would not concern myself with this as I do not get a flu shot every year. I don’t get the flu shot because I don’t get the flu every season like [...]
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According to OB and midwives it is common to start feeling your baby kick any time between 18 and 25 weeks or so. They say it feels like fluttering or like butterflies. After having nausea for the first 3 months, I was looking forward to feeling something positive from the baby. On Friday October 23rd [...]
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Last night I could not decide what to have for dinner. As I am pregnant I have allowed my diet to vary more than I normally would. I am hoping this will expose the baby to more tastes and then they won’t be picky about what they eat. It is for their benefit as my [...]
We had a doctor’s appointment yesterday. They dump a lot of of information on you at the beginning. They also ask a lot of questions. Questions that you really don’t need to answer yet like who your pediatrician will be. I kept wanting to answer “hey, I have just been trying to keep food down [...]
I just began my 11th week of pregnancy, or it’s the 10th or the 9th depending on when you start counting. Before I became pregnant I never know there were different ways of counting the weeks. I also thought that the moment of conception could be pinpointed exactly. When in fact becoming pregnant is a [...]
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Seven Weeks This weeks marks my seventh week of pregnancy. By the end of this month the circulatory system with a heart will be fully formed and we could hear the babies heartbeat if our doctor’s appointment coincided with July 30th but it probably won’t. I find it so odd to imagine that at one [...]