See if you can figure this one out...
In the last trimester, you pee...a lot. I get up on average of 6-10 times a night depending on how much I drink each time i get up. I am also fighting a kidney stone, yes it refuses to pass...stubborn little thing that it is. I may also have gestational diabeties.
I did some research to see what the signs are for diabities, gestational or otherwise, and it says that you will be peeing...a lot. So, how do you tell if you have diabeties...or a kidney stone (other than the pain) and if you are in the third trimester?
They all have the same symptoms...PEE. Even my cat is amazed at how much I am in the bathroom. She has stopped following me in...partly because I never give her any treats, unless she has been good. The dog ont he other hand loves it. She comes in with me in hopes that I will not pay attention long enough for her to eat all the cat food she can. (never happens)
Tests, tests and more tests. I have been poked in each arm, each hand and even in the butt (that as the greatest shot I have ever gotten) and it's not over yet.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
On solid ground
I never realized how much I loved my messy home until I was away from it for almost 2 weeks. I had 2 wonderful baby showers ( so now I am nice and clean). Both Michael and I were able to spend some much needed time with family and friends. It was hard to say good-bye to everyone, but boy do i miss home. Our bed, the dog, the cat, cable (sorry mom) even the heat. Yes, sadly enough, I missed the heat. Though it was great to stand outside in both California and NY in cold weather and relish the fact that I wasn't shivering...I was comfy.
Michael did something I never thought he would do, he went sailing with his dad while I was at my baby shower. They both survived...and had a great time. I did make sure that Michael's life insurance was up to date before they left.
now is the time that I have to unpack, do the laundry and take naps, lot and lots of naps. I am still waiting for the nesting bug to bite...at this point i am in serious doubt that it ever will. I keep walking by Victoria's room and all I see are all those clothes and towels and wash cloths and what nots that have to be washed and put away. how silly is this, I unpack the things that either we bought or we got at the baby showers, bring them upstairs, take the tags of ( then again I have to do that anyway) and put everything away. It finally occured to me that I will eventually have to bring all these things back downstairs to wash them and then put them away again. Talk about redundant.
On the flip side, bringing everything upstairs forces me to realize that because this house has no linen closets, I have to come up with creative ways to store everything and not make her room look like a baby store blew up in it. Have no worries, I have lots of ideas, I'm just too lazy and too tired to actually do them...right along with the laundry, the dishes and everything else that should be done. Michael has been great, though. He takes out the trash, does the dishes and even helps with the laundry. he has even started to come home during lunch to do some light cleaning, provided I make him lunch...no problem there.
and baby grows on and on and oh my godam I having a baby or a basketball? Must be a baby...basketballs don't move around this much and kick, nor do they make your tummy lop sided and hard as a rock. love it. Still waiting to see the foot or hand form the wrong side of the belly appear. I just hope we can catch it on film...boy will tht make for a great story in her baby book!!!
Michael did something I never thought he would do, he went sailing with his dad while I was at my baby shower. They both survived...and had a great time. I did make sure that Michael's life insurance was up to date before they left.
now is the time that I have to unpack, do the laundry and take naps, lot and lots of naps. I am still waiting for the nesting bug to bite...at this point i am in serious doubt that it ever will. I keep walking by Victoria's room and all I see are all those clothes and towels and wash cloths and what nots that have to be washed and put away. how silly is this, I unpack the things that either we bought or we got at the baby showers, bring them upstairs, take the tags of ( then again I have to do that anyway) and put everything away. It finally occured to me that I will eventually have to bring all these things back downstairs to wash them and then put them away again. Talk about redundant.
On the flip side, bringing everything upstairs forces me to realize that because this house has no linen closets, I have to come up with creative ways to store everything and not make her room look like a baby store blew up in it. Have no worries, I have lots of ideas, I'm just too lazy and too tired to actually do them...right along with the laundry, the dishes and everything else that should be done. Michael has been great, though. He takes out the trash, does the dishes and even helps with the laundry. he has even started to come home during lunch to do some light cleaning, provided I make him lunch...no problem there.
and baby grows on and on and oh my godam I having a baby or a basketball? Must be a baby...basketballs don't move around this much and kick, nor do they make your tummy lop sided and hard as a rock. love it. Still waiting to see the foot or hand form the wrong side of the belly appear. I just hope we can catch it on film...boy will tht make for a great story in her baby book!!!
Monday, November 20, 2006
up, up and away
Here we all are in Rochester, NY, just hanging out and watching the snow. I took Baby out to show her the snow, she didn't seem interested in it...could be because she can't see it, maybe not. I know I was impressed by it.
Victoria is practicing her flips during the day. She likes to try to kick both sides of the belly. Most of the time it's funny to watch, then there are other times I think she does it because she can. I swear I can hear her laughing at me, then again it could be all those voices in my head...I can never tell.
As she is now bigger and can feel the force of take off and landing, I have to tell you, it's great to be the bigger person during both. She likes to kick during the flight, but I get the last laugh...during landing, she has nothing to hold onto except the cord...which moves with her. So I get a break from kicking and briefly have more room to stuff my face, unfortunatly I am too busy laughing because she can't kick me, but beleive me she makes up for it on the ride to our final destination.
As the good bye tour winds down, I am forced to say farwell to alot of great people, all of whom I am going to miss. There is going to be one wonderful first this year, that I will miss, shared by two people...NOT SANTA and Rudolph, no I am talking about Jeffrey and EJ (Ethan James). Though Jeffrey had a rough start earlier this year, he and EJ will be celebrating their first Thanksgiving (mmmmmm turkey and gravy and stuffing oh yumm) and Christmas(lots of presants....please).
I want to say that I will miss all of you, but as always, I will keep you up to date with the life of Victoria as things come up..or kick out or shout out or what ever seems to happen.
One thing I have to say is that though being pregnant has been rough because of all the travel and fighting kidney stones, it's pretty cool. There are days when she gets the hiccups and again, I find myself laughing at her...but then she gets even by standing on my bladder, laughing while I make a mad dash for the bathroom. This kid is gonna be just like me...I can't wait, life will be great!
Victoria is practicing her flips during the day. She likes to try to kick both sides of the belly. Most of the time it's funny to watch, then there are other times I think she does it because she can. I swear I can hear her laughing at me, then again it could be all those voices in my head...I can never tell.
As she is now bigger and can feel the force of take off and landing, I have to tell you, it's great to be the bigger person during both. She likes to kick during the flight, but I get the last laugh...during landing, she has nothing to hold onto except the cord...which moves with her. So I get a break from kicking and briefly have more room to stuff my face, unfortunatly I am too busy laughing because she can't kick me, but beleive me she makes up for it on the ride to our final destination.
As the good bye tour winds down, I am forced to say farwell to alot of great people, all of whom I am going to miss. There is going to be one wonderful first this year, that I will miss, shared by two people...NOT SANTA and Rudolph, no I am talking about Jeffrey and EJ (Ethan James). Though Jeffrey had a rough start earlier this year, he and EJ will be celebrating their first Thanksgiving (mmmmmm turkey and gravy and stuffing oh yumm) and Christmas(lots of presants....please).
I want to say that I will miss all of you, but as always, I will keep you up to date with the life of Victoria as things come up..or kick out or shout out or what ever seems to happen.
One thing I have to say is that though being pregnant has been rough because of all the travel and fighting kidney stones, it's pretty cool. There are days when she gets the hiccups and again, I find myself laughing at her...but then she gets even by standing on my bladder, laughing while I make a mad dash for the bathroom. This kid is gonna be just like me...I can't wait, life will be great!
Monday, November 13, 2006
Practice makes perfect
As some of you may know, I am a kidney stone producer, have been most of my adult life. Recently (like today) one of the stones decided to come out and play. this posses a problem. First off, my urologist won't treat me because I am pregnant, the second issue is they hurt like there is no tomorrow and I can't take the good drugs to block out the pain. No, they don't give you an epidural for kidney stones...I asked, the dr. laughed at me.
The good thing about kidney stones (yes, there is a good side to them, If you can imagine that) is that I treat them like practice runs for labor. I have been told that kidney stones are way worse than labor...mainly because the pain doesn't come in waves that you can see coming on the moniter at the hospital, instead it is a constant pain that seems (at times) to never go away. I drink lots of water and walk, alot, to help the stone on its merry way out, the other nice thing is all the walking and rocking I do to get through the pain is enough to put me to sleep. Imagine that, i stand there rocking through the pain and put myself to sleep...how silly is that. Even the cat takes a nap with me.
We are down to one final trip, the good-bye tour, as I am calling it. the first trip to NY was great. Nana got to meet her granddaughter, well, so to speak. The baby got a kick (literally) out of Nana. She ( the baby) also got to hear other voices, other than my big mouth, which I am sure she was very thankful for. I got to spend some quality time with family and friends, something I know I will miss after peanut arrives.
Anyway, time to go walking again...silly stones.
The good thing about kidney stones (yes, there is a good side to them, If you can imagine that) is that I treat them like practice runs for labor. I have been told that kidney stones are way worse than labor...mainly because the pain doesn't come in waves that you can see coming on the moniter at the hospital, instead it is a constant pain that seems (at times) to never go away. I drink lots of water and walk, alot, to help the stone on its merry way out, the other nice thing is all the walking and rocking I do to get through the pain is enough to put me to sleep. Imagine that, i stand there rocking through the pain and put myself to sleep...how silly is that. Even the cat takes a nap with me.
We are down to one final trip, the good-bye tour, as I am calling it. the first trip to NY was great. Nana got to meet her granddaughter, well, so to speak. The baby got a kick (literally) out of Nana. She ( the baby) also got to hear other voices, other than my big mouth, which I am sure she was very thankful for. I got to spend some quality time with family and friends, something I know I will miss after peanut arrives.
Anyway, time to go walking again...silly stones.
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Baby Belly
Last night I went to rub the belly... but the belly is in NY so I went to rub mine. Just not the same.
The dad
The dad
Saturday, November 04, 2006
Free Entertainment
You know, I have to tell you, the coolest things so far is watching my belly bounce as baby kicks her heart out.
She can kick he keft side and the whole thing moves...either she's really strong or there is just a lot of fat that gets moved around, either way it's neat to watch.
She has learned a new trick ( one for which my mom is very happy with as I did this to her), she likes to get under the ribs and kick or just rest some part of her body.
There was one night i yelled at the cat to settle down and go to sleep (she likes to sleep at the end of the bed) I looked down and she was looking back at me with a disgusted look because I had just woken her up. She was sleeping in the dogs bed we keep by the bedroom door. I can't beleive it, the baby kicked hard enough to not only wake me up, but shake the whole bed. I often wonder ( more and more recently) how Michael gets any sleep with all the bumping going on.
I do like to play with her, though. I know that sounds odd, but it's true. She kicks me and I poke her back, which only encourages her to kick harder and in the same spot, go figure. If she kicks hard enough to jiggle the whole belly, I shake back and forth. I try to do this just before bed so that she is "tired" by the time I am ready to go to sleep and I can sleep for a few hours before either she wakes up or the indigestion gets me...sometimes they get me all at the same time.
Only 98 more days to go before she can kick me from the outside instead of the inside, can't wait.
Tiem for bed so I can get a few hours in before she gets up and starts her exercise routine...ha ha ha
She can kick he keft side and the whole thing moves...either she's really strong or there is just a lot of fat that gets moved around, either way it's neat to watch.
She has learned a new trick ( one for which my mom is very happy with as I did this to her), she likes to get under the ribs and kick or just rest some part of her body.
There was one night i yelled at the cat to settle down and go to sleep (she likes to sleep at the end of the bed) I looked down and she was looking back at me with a disgusted look because I had just woken her up. She was sleeping in the dogs bed we keep by the bedroom door. I can't beleive it, the baby kicked hard enough to not only wake me up, but shake the whole bed. I often wonder ( more and more recently) how Michael gets any sleep with all the bumping going on.
I do like to play with her, though. I know that sounds odd, but it's true. She kicks me and I poke her back, which only encourages her to kick harder and in the same spot, go figure. If she kicks hard enough to jiggle the whole belly, I shake back and forth. I try to do this just before bed so that she is "tired" by the time I am ready to go to sleep and I can sleep for a few hours before either she wakes up or the indigestion gets me...sometimes they get me all at the same time.
Only 98 more days to go before she can kick me from the outside instead of the inside, can't wait.
Tiem for bed so I can get a few hours in before she gets up and starts her exercise routine...ha ha ha
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