Posts tagged pregnancy
I have a Pneumonia
Mar 4th
And this is my 11th day in the hospital. Baby is fine, mommy is getting better, but be prepared for a long post…
First, let’s go for my health background. I have Hereditary Spherocytosis. Basically I have some funky looking red blood cells. They jerked my spleen out when I was 5. All has been well, except living without a spleen makes me more prone to catch an infection. There is a 50% chance Chloe will inherit this, so I’m considered a high right pregnancy.
Let me add here, I’m allergic to Tylenol. I am not supposed to take Motrin while pregnant.
Here is the highlights of my past 2 weeks.
The things one will do for comfort
Feb 21st
I’m now around the 28 week mark and I’ve never been so uncomfortable in my life. I look absolutely silly sitting here at work. I have a pillow between me and the desk and a heating pad on my back. I try to get up and make a lap around the office every 30 mins to an hour, but it still is not helping my back. I just cannot get comfortable, no matter how I sit, lay or walk.
Any advice from moms out there? I’m thinking about getting a maternity belt. Did anyone get relief from these?
Treasure Shopping
Feb 19th
I have always been a huge fan of yard sales, flea markets and consignment shops. Sure a lot of the stuff you find at these places are just junk, but it’s kind of like treasure hunting. I normally find one great deal of the day.
Twice a year there is a huge children’s consignment sale here in town at the fair grounds. They are very picky about the items they will take. For clothes, they must be in style, clean, no holes, must have all the buttons, ect. As for toys and furniture, it must have been bought within the past 5 years, clean and 100% in-tact. I decided to check the sale out this past weekend to see what I could find for Chloe. I found a lot more than one treasure this time! I wrote a check for $47. For this $47 I got:
- Snoogle Pregnancy Pillow for $10 (the most expensive item I bought. They run between $35-60 new)
- 24 Onesies.
- 4 pairs of cotton pants
- 2 gowns
- 1 bib
- 2 pairs of mittens
- 1 cute little outfit with the tags still on it
- 2 dresses
- 1 skirt (my favorite!)
- 1 denim jumper
- 1 pair of khaki capris
- 1 robe
Most of these items were gap, carters, old navy, ect. I think I did pretty good treasure shopping!
Sex and Pregnancy
Feb 6th
Sex during pregnancy has started to become… difficult to say the least. Your, ok maybe our, “normal” positions have become either painful or impossible. I feel too much like a beached whale to start experimenting with positions that might work. Neither of our sex drives have been effected by the pregnancy, so that leaves us with a problem. What do we do, being the geeks we are, we turn to the interwebs.
We start looking to see what other couples in our situation have done. While we haven’t found any great answers, we did find a ton of laughs.
Disclaimer: this is not a medical document, it is for pure entertainment. Anything you read here is not scientifically researched. We are not doctors, we are geeks. Sadly, I feel the need to put this here. More >
Pregnancy Dreams
Jan 29th
Pregnancy dreams are a lot like acid trips. I’ve dreamed about everything from house elves to Mitchell telling me to just call him after I had the kid. But I did want to share my dream from a few nights ago.
It started at a new house Mitchell and I have been looking at (we must have more room), and everyone was over helping us paint and get things moved in. My good friends Chris J. Davis and Owen were over helping. Their job, however, wasn’t as normal as the others. Chris had a balloon gun that would shoot 99 red balloons into the air at a time. Owen and I ran around the back yard trying to catch them. Now, how this is necessary for us to move into a house, I’m not sure. But I had much more fun chasing balloons than painting.