tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52712286543909481402011-10-12T09:56:30.765-07:00Megan (FriedOkra)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14008925325073263825noreply@blogger.comBlogger1211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5271228654390948140.post-573184685136933542010-08-04T18:31:00.000-07:002010-08-04T18:49:51.403-07:00

I just celebrated what may be my final day of nursing Peabody with a dish of Ben & Jerry's Cookie Dough ice cream. Since I'll be away from my sweet boy for nearly 4 days straight, I'm thinking it's possible, if not probable, that my milk will dry up this weekend. But maybe not, and I'll certainly offer to nurse him at bedtime, as I have done for many, many months now, when I get home. He's

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Peabody's vocabulary, both signed and spoken, is beginning to take off lately. I am (and he is, clearly, judging by the smiles and proud facial expressions he displays after he uses a new word or sign) so proud of my little boy. One of my FAVORITE parts of this stage in my kids' lives is watching them learn to communicate. It's always so enriching to our relationship and so maturing for the

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Eighteen months and still going. Nursing is so smooth and easy and comfortable for us both now. Peabody would nurse as many times a day as I'd let him - he's a milky, milky little boy. But we are busy and I DO turn him down on occasion. He's guaranteed mornings, naptime and bedtime and sometimes he'll get a short little session in the late morning if we can fit it in. Peabody signs "milk"

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No more slee-slooping for Peabody. He's officially converted to knee-crawling today, or sometimes one knee and one foot. He's been taking one or two "steps" like this for the past few days and was really getting the hang of it yesterday. I knew our days of the belly crawl were numbered but I thought we'd have a week or so left to say goodbye to that phase. Today the house echos with his

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I've missed out on documenting SO much of Peabody's HUGE milestones. I'm so sad about it and I know how much sadder I'll be later when I come back to read this diary and 3 full months are just not here - three of the biggest months in the life of my baby! But that also sortof explains WHY I've not written, too. I've been busy watching and participating in all the change.Here's a list of what's

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This is the week that I started writing in my online diary again after Bean was born, and I know why. Seems my kids turn that mystical baby corner right about now, and become happy, flexible little people after spending the first five months of life trying to kill their Mama.Oh, I'm kiddin'. Sorta.But Peabody, like Bean, has just finally, in the past week become, dare I say, EASIER. He's

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Peabody slept from 7:30 last night to 11:00 PM, when he awoke, grabbed a quick belly-full of milk and then went back to sleep until 5. I nursed him at five and he didn't want to resettle, but I put him back to bed and he stayed quiet until 5:40, when he called for me again, so I went and rocked him for a few minutes and put him back to bed at 6. He was up for the day at 7:15. I also wanted to

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Oh, my boy. Peabody surprised the heck out of me last night by sleeping from 8 PM to juuuuuuuuuust before 5 AM. Of course, as any self-respecting neurotic Mama would, I woke up at 3:30 AM and lay there worrying he was dead until he started cooing at 4:45. It doesn't even sound crazy to me in the light of day, either. I was THAT doubtful that he'd sleep that long, as he's been back to waking

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My hormones are WACKY these days! I'm losing all my hair, my skin's a complete disaster, I've had some weird spotting (no period though) and my moods are just all over the map from minute to minute almost.We even had a bizarre what-if-we're-pregnant-again week last week. I took pregnancy tests EVERY DAY for 4 days and of course with Al's surgery (back in November) and my nursing though the

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We are now entering the Falling In Love With the Baby phase. OHMYGOSH y'all this baby is the CUTEST THING THAT EVER DID LIVE. He's so smiley and flirty and funny and earnest. And his little voice is so boyish and croony. I'm officially smitten. SMITTEN.GARSH.Okay I'm done. I just thought that was worth a post.

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So after his cold appeared on Saturday, Mr. Peabody seemed to be feeling worse and worse until last night he started grabbing at his left ear off and on and crying. I gave him Tylenol in half-doses all day yesterday to keep him comfortable and he wanted to nurse a lot, but mostly for comfort and not because he was extra-hungry. He had several good long naps yesterday and wonderful night's sleep

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So yesterday didn't go swimmingly, although I did finally get the little guy down for both naps. It just took some doing! Turns out he must not have been feeling 100% because he woke up this morning with a runny nose and a little bit of sneezing and I have a little cold as well. No one else seems bothered by it yet.Last night went well in terms of his going to sleep without crying. He slept

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From last night:Put to bed at 7:00 PMCried less than 1 minute.Slept until 10:20 PM. Put to bed at 10:40 PM.Didn't cry.Slept until 2:50 AM.Put to bed at 3:15 AM.Didn't cry.Slept until 5:45 AM.(Put self back to sleep at 3:30 AM after 15 seconds or so of crying.)Put to bed at 6:00 AM.Didn't cry.Slept until 8:00 AM.Put to bed at 10:20 AM.Cried 20 minutes.Slept until 11:30 AM.Put to bed at 2:10

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From last night:Put to bed at 6:20 PMCried 20 minutes.Slept until 11:00 PMPut to bed at 11:36 PMCried 12 minutes.Slept until 3 AM.Put to bed at 3:28 PMCried 2 minutes.Slept until 5:30 AM(I also heard him wake up at 4:40 AM but he put himself back to sleep quickly! Go Peanut!)Put to bed at 8:20 AM. (Waited too long.)Slept 15 minutes.Cried for 40 minutes.Slept for another 30 minutes.Slept 30

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From the night before:Cried 1 hour.Slept until 1 AM.Put to bed at 1:25 AMCried 40 minutes.Slept 20 minutes.Cried 15 minutes.Got him up and changed/fed him.Back to bed at 2:45 AM.Didn't cry.Slept until 6:45 AM.Worried I've ruined our hard work by getting him up again after the 1:00 feeding but didn't know what else to do. He was fine though. When I did get him up, he was smiling and laughing on

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December 1, 2008Put to bed at 6:30 PM.Cried 45 minutes. (Mama's heart broken into a thousand tiny frowning pieces.)Slept until 1:00 AM.December 2, 2008Put to bed at 1:30 AM.Didn't cry.Slept until 4:00 AMPut to bed at 4:30 AMCried 19 minutes.Slept until 7:00 AMPut to bed at 9:30 AMCried 4 minutes.Slept until 12:15 PM.Put to bed at 2:50 PM.Cried for 3 minutes. Was quiet for 3 minutes. Cried for 2

Megan (FriedOkra)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14008925325073263825noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5271228654390948140.post-17212809392515432972008-11-15T18:39:00.000-08:002008-11-15T19:15:16.487-08:00

Al has been on vacation this week and we've all been together, the four of us, as a family, for 8 days, which means I've had lots of help with both kids and Al has had so much time with Peanut, which has been good for both of them, I'm sure.Peanut appears to be teething. Actually he's appeared to be teething for a month or more now. He drools constantly, all bubbly and stringy and shiny, and

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First day after we've "fallen back."I've been having some issues with waking up in the night and feeling like the previous day was wasted - that I was out of control and disorganized, that the kids' day didn't have enough structure, that I didn't get anything done. It all translates to a brutal 2 AM realization that I'm a horrible mother and wife. And that's not fun to contemplate at any time

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Twelve week growth spurt - BOOM - smack on target! Been feeding the boy every hour and a half in the day hours and about every three hours at night. Man, he's like clockwork. Next time I'm toying with the idea of giving up breastfeeding I'm going to KNOW we're headed into a growth spurt.Also, he's entered the "Mama no can turn her back on me!" thing too, which I remember from Bean. I'm not

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Our little man has his first cold. It started yesterday - I knew he wasn't quite right just by the way he was acting. He was easily upset and extra tired, and not as smiley as usual - really just not as into interacting with anyone, even me, as he normally is, just like most people are when they don't feel 100%. He slept quite a bit off and on all day (in fact except for a few short wakeful

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Oh this boy of mine!He's still giving me fits over naptime and bedtime. Absolute fits. I've tried everything and still he fights me. So, I guess it's time to just accept that who he is right now and try to work around it. He need help getting to sleep. Period. Well, okay then.When he's awake though, wow! What a happy little guy he is, and what huge smiles he gives me (he gives Bean and

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So, the wheels came off the controlled crying thing over the weekend. I am thinking maybe P is too young for this, mostly because he shows no signs of readiness for self-soothing. He can't keep his pacifier in his mouth, nor can he retrieve it when it (inevitably) falls out and messes up his little snooze. He also, try as hard as he may, hasn't mastered getting those fingers in his mouth yet.

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My little Peabody-boy is already nine weeks old, though to be honest there are MANY MANY times that I would leave that "already" out and say, perhaps, "finally" as this stage of babyhood is just HARD on me (as those around me have certainly gathered by now) and definitely not my favorite time. There, I said it. I am so so sooooooo lamenting that I didn't document these early months with Bean as

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Thanks again for all the advice. And concern. And encouragement.As of Tuesday, I gave up on crib naps. I figure he's doing well in his crib at night (which I know is actually quite good for this age) so the day will come when he's happy there for naps, too. It just takes time. I did modify the crib a little to make it seem smaller for him, in case he's feeling too exposed or swallowed up in

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OH! What great advice I got. I want to thank each and every person who commented and/or emailed me after that last pathetic post. And I have and will try many of the things you suggested, I promise.BUT.I want to clarify what I wrote because, dude, what I wrote was far from clear!The issue is not so much that Matthew cries allatime for no reason. Oh no. His reason for crying is very very

Megan (FriedOkra)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14008925325073263825noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5271228654390948140.post-43586462969984498942008-09-26T06:56:00.000-07:002008-09-26T06:59:37.524-07:00

I do NOT know what to do with this baby. I've been feeding him non-stop for 3 days and still he is completely miserable. Bean hasn't had any attention (except to be told be be quiet or sit down or handed a box of dry cereal or some grapes to eat) in days and I AM EXHAUSTED. If he isn't eating or being held in my arms, he's SCREAMING.Is he sick? In pain?What do I do? I can't do this to Bean

Megan (FriedOkra)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14008925325073263825noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5271228654390948140.post-84748138431859980002008-09-23T11:24:00.001-07:002008-09-23T12:10:43.861-07:00

I need to be napping! It's crazy I'm here instead about to "waffle on" as Alice would say, but I have so much to talk about and I NEVER get a minute to myself, until today, because TODAY, I finally caved and put Peabody down to sleep on his belly and he's napped so well thanks to that. I already feel like a new person and it's only 1:30 PM. Since last Wednesday we've been having a rough time

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We had Peanut's one month appointment today with his pediatrician!Guess who now weighs 10 lbs. 3 oz.? ZIKES!I don't think Bean weighed 10 lbs. until she was 3 months old! He's 22 inches long now, too. My baby boy is growing so fast. It's amazing.He is very alert these days, looking around when he's awake and really focusing in on my face and trying SO HARD to smile and laugh at his Mama.

Megan (FriedOkra)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14008925325073263825noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5271228654390948140.post-23304236973688857472008-09-01T06:00:00.000-07:002008-09-01T06:02:36.610-07:00

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH! I am itching to write Matthew's birth story but there's never time! Somebody come take dictation, please!That is all.

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The thing about newborns is this.They're cute little bundles of chaos.And I am not a chaos person. I thrive on routine, predictability and at least a little bit of control. It's not so much that I get overwhelmed by the many, many feedings, the fussy, gassy periods or the middle of the night wakings. All those things I expect and know babies just DO. It's that a person like me likes a PLAN -

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I feel like any day now I'm going to be able to sit down and write Matthew's birth story. In fact now, more than anything else, it's just the time factor vs. the "I have things to process" factor as has been the case up to a few days ago.On the breastfeeding front - here's a funny thing! I remember reading and hearing while I was nursing Bean that other women could just THINK of their babies,

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OHMYGRANNY. Today started out so great - all peaceful and happy with bluebirds lighting on my shoulders and little woodland creatures dancing around me and my two little babies. We all woke up in great moods and I was even able to deliver everyone his or her hot breakfast beverage of choice, including Peanut, who nursed in bed, snuggled up with Bean and me. Bean and I took a bath together

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OY, people.Is it too late to go back to the hospital?Sigh.I'm fine, just really, really tired out and looking back at the past 12 days in a bit of a daze. My mom left a few hours ago with Al and Bean to go to the airport and then home. Which is fine - she was a huge help with the cooking and household stuff while she was here but it's time for us to start easing into being just the four of us,

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Oh, it is going SO much better than it EVER went with Bean.We have, though, had two nights in a row now (and I feel certain we're headed into a third) of those lovely, lovely (sarcasm) cluster feedings that make me feel like my eyeballs are soon going to be sucked into my head and shot out my nibbles. Seriously. UGH. But the cluster feedings are doing the trick to get Mafew what he wants

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Seriously, all of you lovely girls who are pregnant now -- and there are many of you -- I have a word to share with you. COM - FORT.More specifically, comfort in the boobage area. Oh yeah.Peanut's a week old today, and I've spent this past 7 days in and out of maternity bras and maternity tanks of every description and some of them are pretty good and some of them I will NEVER EVER WEAR AGAIN

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I owe y'all a birth story. And me, too. A lot of it was such a whirlwind that it may be hard to get the facts straight, but I'll do my best. Soon. I know it'll be emotional to relive and write about. Parts of it were so-o-o-o hard and scary (whoops I'm tearing up just thinking about thinking about it) but I HAVE to say this - I've had a feeling it would go the way it went, starting many

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Milk's in! Matthew drunk and dopey and happy ... Mama relieved and tapdancin' on the inside.

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I last updated at 10:30 PM to announce that Al and I were headed to the hospital. I'd called Dr. Howey's service around 10:15 PM, and she called back, her voice groggy with sleep (she'd delivered several babies in the wee hours of the morning prior to my appointment and looked pretty beat earlier in the day. I felt sortof guilty calling her when I did but I figured best to call at 10:15 PM

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Leaving for hospital (I called the doctor). Firmly suspect I'll be sent home, but better safe than sorry. xoxo - M

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Still contracting and they are definitely getting more painful. I can still walk and talk and do stuff through them but they hurt, for sure. They're 4 minutes apart but not even 30 seconds long. Just went to the bathroom and had LOTS of bloody show. Wondering why they're so close together but not longer. Al repacking his bag. (Eyeroll.) I'm going to add some last minute items to mine and

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So I went to the doctor today. 1 cm dilated and very soft. She said something else but I can't remember it because at the time the deafening roar of AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH had me fully distracted. I let her strip my membranes. YEOWCH. Since then? Mucus plug gone. (Well, of course, you know.) It can certainly put itself back though. I bet it will. Very sore everything down there.

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Okay, so, nothing going on today, labor wise. Just thought I'd get that out of the way right up front. Still some MASSIVE BH contractions that make me feel like my lungs are going to shoot out my ears, but nothing to lead me to believe I'll be holding a Peanut in the next 24 hours.Which is good. By this time tomorrow (earlier, actually), my mom will be in da house, so to speak, and that worry,

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I just came to whine. Click away! Click away!Today's been particularly difficult, impatience-wise. As has happened several mornings over the past week and a half, I woke up in the wee hours with cramping and pressure. That lasted about 3 hours this time - which felt pretty promising, but I tried hard not to get my hopes up anyway. Gradually the painful part went away, leaving in its wake

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I didn't update yesterday because there wasn't anything to say. Boo hoo! But it WAS the first day of August, which we can safely assume will be Peanut's birth month, so I should have. I just know that any update from here on out gets everyone all excited and then to have really nothing exciting to say, well... no fun.But we're one day into week 40! Whatever that means! Maybe nothing! I

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Just wanted to pop in and say things have been pretty quiet on the all-things-labor front since yesterday at about 4 AM, when I had about an hour or so of pretty painful, wavy cramping. Since then I've just had some dull aches and BH contractions (looooooooooong ones), and nothing else. Bean and I went out and did some light yard work yesterday in the afternoon (watering and weeding). I'm not

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The whole family traipsed to the doctor's office. I have to admit it worked out to be pretty fun having everyone there together. Dr. Howey seemed to enjoy it as well, as she stuck around and chatted with us for awhile after our appointment had officially ended. The non-stress test went well this time. I lay on my side and Peanut cooperated. He was still enough that his heartbeat kept tracing

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So today was basiclaly one loooooooooooooooooooooooong and unending Braxton Hicks contraction with some periody crampy feelings thrown in, and fatigue, and nausea. (Although that didn't stop me from eating, so HA! on you, nausea.) Peanut is moving a lot and drilling himself into my cervix. I wish I had a crystal ball just this once so I'd know what was going to happen next. I have always had

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I hesitate to even post because now I know you're refreshing and expecting big news any minute, and I don't want to disappoint!But nothing's going on. I had a few brief achey, grindy, stretchy moments last night before bed, then slept all night long (sweet relief!) with no cramping or anything (that I noticed, anyway.) This morning, still nothing, except that I am so SORE all over, like I ran a

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Peanut moved down into my pelvis sometime yesterday, I'm about 99% sure of it. I can tell by just looking at myself that he's lower. His feet/legs (or whatever I've been feeling that I can still feel) are still poking out in the same places except about 2-3 inches lower than they were previously. Also, I can FEEL his head in my pelvis. I can feel it from the outside with my hand, and I can

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He's still in there!On Monday at the OB, Dr. Howey put her hands on my belly and kinda stood there, holding it and jiggling it and thinking. She was guessing his weight because Al has been asking me every time I've had an appointment "How much does he weigh now?" and I wanted to have an answer for him this time. Dr. Howey says she is RARELY off by more than 4 oz., either way and she guesses

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Whooohooooooo! We have arrived, me boy!Now come on out of there so Mama can reshuffle her internal organs and stop wearing the same thing every day. And get in and out of chairs without creaking and groaning.So let's see. It's been awhile. I've had a bunch of period-like aches and cramps for the past 10 days to two weeks. Cervix was still closed, fluid levels fine and baby plenty reactive at

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We decided on the spur of the moment today to make the drive to the hospital where I'll deliver Peanut, because we were both getting nervous I'd go into labor and we'd have to drive somewhere we'd never been before and perhaps get the surprise(s) of our lives once we arrived! Kindof silly we'd waited so long, really. BUT. The hospital is super nice, the nurses we met were very kind and helpful

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So I was officially at 35 weeks yesterday, which was the Fourth of July.We had a somewhat quiet day, just the three of us, going out to breakfast, playing outside in the backyard, painting fireworks on newspaper on the back porch, grilling hamburgers and watching fireworks from the grade school parking lot. The Thursday before that, which was day before yesterday, I woke up to LOTS of hip and

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Wow. Where does the time go? It seems like I opened Mother's Day gifts last weekend, and here it is practically the Fourth of July! We've been really busy during the week with all of our summer activities and the weekends race by in a steady stream of nesty little household projects, errands, and the soaking up of the neighborhood summer life outside. Good to enjoy all these things now and

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I just got out of the bathtub a minute ago (it's about 9 PM) and GUESS WHAT?I leaked a tiny little droplet of colostrum! A statement which just caused many of you to make an "ARGH. TMI, Megan!" face. But my long-time Diaryland girls and a few of my friends-in-real-life are smiling. Because they know my struggles with breastfeeding and how huge a boost to my confidence this was.That is all.

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I know. It's been awhile and an update is long overdue. Along with warmer temperatures comes a lot more activity around here, which has been a good thing for all of us, although WHEW, I'm so worn out at the end of the day I don't dare lie down until I know it's 100% safe to go to sleep because the minute I get horizontalit's lights out in every sense of those words. And ohmygoodness it feels

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Have I used that title before? Seems like I have. Anyway, 30 weeks today. That means only TEN more weeks until Peanut gets here. Which doesn't seem like long and then again sounds like forever. It's more than two months, you know! Went to the doctor on Wednesday and gave blood again for re-typing then got my Rhogam shot. Wheeeeee! It went fine -- I was sorta worried it'd be baddish

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Quick update on my OB appointment this morning.I weighed 152 with my clothes on, but I'd just downed a bottle of water, so.Apparently I failed my one-hour glucose test, so I have to do a three-hour test at the hospital. Yeah, I'm in a HUGE hurry to get THAT set up. Not.I'm also vaguely anemic, so I'm to go back on iron pills again. I can do that. Maybe I'll feel better.Al went with me to the

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Updated photos in The Belly Gallery - It looks like he's grown soooo much faster this time, but that's because I accidentally skipped a week, so it's been TWO weeks instead of just one since the last ones were taken.He's a big boy. As I have said before. I noticed during week 26 that his movement has slowed down. Well, I mean, he's not quite as all over the place. He doesn't feel to be as

Megan (FriedOkra)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14008925325073263825noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5271228654390948140.post-52490850271323136012008-04-26T12:07:00.001-07:002008-04-26T12:51:48.251-07:00

I forgot to mention that I posted a little slide show at the top of the Belly Gallery page (link on sidebar) that shows the grows of the belly from when you could see the bump up to the present. It's kinda cool.Not much to report this week. The heartburn needed a little extra TLC to keep it under control, I walked ONCE and my uterus squoze up so tight I got out of breath and had to stop - it

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Just a quick note to say I've been to the doctor today for my glucose screening. You know the one where you drink the sticky sweet "soda" and then have blood drawn an hour later. Won't have results back for awhile as they do ZERO of their own lab work in house, but I feel fine other than being slightly nauseous, but that's to be expected! Their scales put me at 148 clothed, so I'm comfortable

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This one? He liketh to maketh his presence known. I hope he IS giving me his best hard times now so he can be an easy baby, Mari. 'Cause if he is anything on the outside like he is on the inside, I'm in trouble. Yeesh. So this week I saw a return of some nausea, some headaches and a LOT of exhaustion. I was also extremely emotional yesterday - on the verge of tears all day long, and again

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Not a lot to report, pregnancy-wise this week. Peanut continues to move about like crazy in there. He is SO much more mobile and active and THERE than B ever was. I feel movements NOW that resemble what I only felt at the last of my pregnancy with Bean. He's a flopper, a puncher, a kicker and a hic-upper, BIG TIME. Al's eyes get HUGE and he can't BELIEVE what he can feel his baby boy doing

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It still sorta blows me away that we're even in the double digits of this pregnancy, and is at times incomprehensible that the first of the two digits is already a TWO, even despite the fact that weeks 6-18 were so long and difficult. Everyone told me this one would fly by, and it has so far. There are two very dear friends of mine I still haven't even told I'm pregnant! I need to tell them

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New pictures in the belly gallery. And I'm hoping to scan the pictures from the ultrasound and get those posted over the weekend.This week was all about processing and growing accustomed to the fact that Peanut is a BOY! So many friends have sworn from day one that he WAS a boy, I don't know why it came as such a huge shock, but it did. I think I'm still really in the throes of learning to

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Zowie.I'm almost afraid to say it outloud!It's a BOY!A BOY!A healthy, normal, very very active, (he never stopped moving for a minute during the entire 20-something minute ultrasound) baby BOY.And his profile looks exactly like his Daddy's.He's cute!And he's a BOY!ACK!He's growing fine, he's got all his parts and no markers for chromosomal issues. His heart is lovely, his spine is beautiful, his

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It's Friday, so the Belly Gallery's been updated with pictures from earlier today.Can you hear the sizzlin' from where you are? That would be the heartburn. As my bump seems to have grown more in every direction this week, so has the heartburn increased. Oh my heavens it's fiery hot in there these days. I stay on top of it with Tums® and my beloved famotodine, but any slight miscalculation on my

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Yes, I did really have a leakage issue. I thought that was pretty common in pregnancy? It wasn't bad enough for anyone to know but me, thank goodness. New pictures posted in the belly gallery. I have the weirdest belly in the world, I'm telling you.So 19 weeks today! The cold is still miserable - probably among the top 5 of my life so far. When I lie down at night, my sinuses CLOSE. All

Megan (FriedOkra)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14008925325073263825noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5271228654390948140.post-71926184640397743652008-03-13T14:55:00.000-07:002008-03-13T15:01:27.029-07:00

You know what's REALLY cool?Bein' 19 weeks pregnant and having a coughing fit in the middle of Target.'Cause nothin' says lovely maternal glow like peeing all over yourself in the Choxie aisle.I'm just sayin'.

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Bean and I are still mucking through this stinkin' cold. She actually seems to be almost back to normal again, but I'm behind her by a day or two on my way to the finish line, I think. Probably because SHE gets to take all sorts of lovely decongestants and expectorants, while I slowly drown in a thick puddle of goo.Lovely image, yes?We aren't doing much. (What's new?) Walking up and down the

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Last night before Al and I went to sleep, we both were resting our hands on the belly and I was able to feel some movement from the outside. Al couldn't feel anything yet. I guess since I can feel kicks and movement from the inside, I'm more sensitized to exactly what I'm feeling for on the outside? I have to admit I felt a little impatient that he couldn't feel it. I kept thinking in my head

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New pictures in the belly gallery!So, I think I have the whole anemia/tiredness thing figured out. I ran out of my bottle of prenatal vitamins about 10 days ago, and got some new ones. They were very similar to the old ones. I started the new ones a few days before I started to feel all tired and anemic. Then I started the iron and felt better but the nausea was bad again (you're right, Laura

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The doctor's office called today to say all my blood numbers came back normal. Makes me wonder though if maybe I was on the lower side of normal for hemoglobin/hematocrit but not low enough to be considered abnormal? Because I do feel better now that I'm on the iron supplements. I normally have extra high hemaglobin, so maybe their normal is low for my body. Who knows. I'm going to keep

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So, I think my anemia theory will prove true when the doctor's office calls with the test results. I don't think they do much, if any, of their lab work in the office. All my stuff usually has to go through LabCorp because of my insurance company. As I recall from past experiences, LapCorp is slow and kinda low-tech about most things. Yesterday, after only one dose of the iron pills Friday

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Yeah, this is what I'm thinking. I think I was diagnosed with anemia around 22-ish weeks last time, so this seems early to me, but I remember clearly what it felt like last time, as the symptoms are pretty unmistakeable. I've been slowly going down hill energy-wise for a couple of weeks now. By a couple, I mean, oh, about 17. Anemia does feel like a different KIND of tired, though. It fits

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Bean and I sorta live our lives in 1-2 hour increments right now. We wake up between 6:30 and 7 (if we're lucky) and we loll in bed for an hour. Then we spend an hour putting away dishes from dinner time and making breakfast, eating, and cleaning up the breakfast. Then we go back to bed for awhile. We don't sleep, we just loll some more. Then we get up and I do some chore or another.

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Yesterday, another pregnant blogger whom I read daily and have enjoyed sharing pregnancy with found out she's lost her tiny unborn twin boys at nearly 20 weeks. I just feel so sad for her and her family. I hope she's doing okay, although how could she be? I hope ... I just hope God and her family and the people around her can help ease her pain somehow. It's overwhelming even to contemplate

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I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that this (sixteen, I mean) is the week milk (colostrum, more specifically) production begins. As if right on cue, I woke up this morning with wicked stabbing pain in The Girls. The body is one fascinating machine. I'm comforted (?) that BOTH of The Girls are having the pains as opposed to just Lefty, as Lefty has been the one that hurts and gets the

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The sixteen week belly shot is posted in the gallery. As the cold has FINALLY gotten better, I've had two-ish days of feeling reasonably okay, although inexplicably I'm WAY tired and semi-nauseous today. I think we just need to get out every day, no matter what. I haven't put on any weight this week, I don't think, which doesn't really surprise me. I could hold steady for another few weeks

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Yup. I updated the belly gallery with a 15 week photo. Not too much to report. The yucky bitter taste in my mouth had been gone for maybe two weeks or so, but it's back now, maybe because of the cold. The nausea has also been a bit worse, but I think I mentioned that two days ago. My appetite is really low right now. I can't eat much at a time and I don't really get all that hungry-feeling

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Not too much has gone on since we got home from the beach. Was that almost a week ago? Wow. Time flies when you're doing absolutely nothing.We all ended up with a cold/gross viral thingy within a few hours of one another. Bean's has settled in her chest. Well, actually it STARTED in her chest, and there have been several cough-til-ya-barf moments scattered over the past 3 days. She's

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So tomorrow I'll be FOURTEEN WEEKS pregnant. That means by anyone's calculations I am indeed moving into the second trimester. The concept that I'm pregnant and seriously going to have another baby/child still hasn't fully sunk in yet, but look at the clock, ticking away the minutes, whisking weeks and months off the calendar before my very eyes. My body won't let me escape from the reality of

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Just updating to say Bean and I went for my second prenatal visit yesterday and heard Peanut Hoppy Feet's heartbeat. Dr. Howey said it's between 150-160 bpm. Bean's was always 170 or higher, so take that for what it's worth. I immediately said, "It's a boy!" and of course Dr. Howey sorta rolled her eyes and said, "Oh it doesn't mean that, there's nothing to that theory." But still, it's just

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The late comment from Jemma on my last post reminded me to come back and say that the "baby bump" has all but disappeared! I guess it was bloating or water retention or something because the next day when I woke up I was back flat and unpregnant-looking again! I do remember this from last time, though, so it totally doesn't worry me. Besides, I'm still nauseous to beat the band and I made a

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There's a new picture in the belly gallery today, and I think you will notice a change this time. To me, the difference is huge, at least in feeling it from the inside. The skin over my entire abdomen itches off and on, and at night I feel gigantic! I think my uterus has definitely sprung up and out of my pelvis, not only because of the bloomed belly but also because I haven't had to get out

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Bean went to a friend's house for a tea party today. She was gone about 2 1/2 hours and in that time I cleaned the WHOLE HOUSE. Obviously just the basics - vaccuum, dust, clean bathrooms, move stuff back into proper places. No really deep cleaning. But it looks and feels better in here, and I even already have dinner planned out for everyone, so that's good. Oh, and I did a load of laundry

Megan (FriedOkra)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14008925325073263825noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5271228654390948140.post-88073372832912061762008-01-21T15:02:00.000-08:002008-01-21T15:43:39.040-08:00

(After this is posted and all 4.3 of you have read it, we are all going to pretend it was never written. We will never refer to it in any way from this day forward. Because you know what happens when I acknowledge in writing that I think I'm starting to F--l B----r. Right?) Today my hands, which as I've written about before have been one (well, two, actually) of the leading sources of stinkiness

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I have that tell-tale curd in my throat already this morning, so I suspect it may be one of the bad days, nausea-wise. Bean was up and into our bed at 5 AM and never settled down so we could all get back to sleep. That may be the culprit, or maybe it truly is just random.I feel especially grateful that my friend Katie is bringing us dinner tonight - that will save a lot of gaggy struggles later

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I know! Two days in a row with good stuff to report! It's almost like my old self is back but SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I'm not saying a word.This morning after I woke up I could feel my uterus contract a little. (I was never in tune to such things with my first pregnancy, thank goodness for a little experience this time!) Anyway, I got to FEEL the whole thing (well, except the part in the back.)

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I keep meaning to say here that over the past weekend, I think I have begun to feel the flutters of this Peanut. I know many "experts" would say it's too early/I'm not feeling what I think I'm feeling, BUT, I've felt this before and wouldn't you say it's a pretty much unmistakeable feeling? Like nothing you've ever felt before?So I remain convinced, despite the opinions of "experts."

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Thanks for the sweet and supportive responses to yesterday's tortured, melodramatic post. I actually teared up and cried reading them. (Does this surprise anyone? It didn't surprise me a bit.)By and large (and I hesitate to even write this) I think I may have felt slightly better yesterday. Doesn't mean it's ending, because a good day can be immediately followed by a seriously awful day, in

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It was a rough weekend with loads of nausea and a headache. I dealt with it by just folding into myself and spending both days up in our bedroom, on my bed, alone. It's difficult - I feel pulled to be with Al and Alex even though I'm miserable, yet even when I'm with them, I'm NOT with them because all can't focus on them at all. I begin to wonder if they will still know me and love me much

Megan (FriedOkra)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14008925325073263825noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5271228654390948140.post-53127575177371842752008-01-12T12:14:00.000-08:002008-01-12T12:18:17.615-08:00

Okay I am now certain I have pinned down what makes me nauseous. It's writing here about not being nauseous.Because every time I update to say things are going BETTER, they get WORSE shortly thereafter.I am hoping that the return of the nausea (pretty bad but not as bad as the worst days so far) is just my body reacting to a cold I started fighting on Thursday. I'm sure being tired and a little

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Okay, the ladies have left for the airport. (No, we are not happy with that but we will see them again in a few weeks at the beach.)Now where was I? Oh, after the weighing and the measuring. In the exam room, a nurse went over paperwork for testing to see if I'm a cystic fibrosis carrier (not) and the early blood test for chromosomal abnormalities and AIDS testing, etc. I consented to AIDS

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Ten weeks! Ten Weeks! I like the even numbered weeks better for some reason. I have quite a bit of news to write about and want to get as many details written down from my first prenatal visit to my OB before they start to slip away from me. The BIGGEST, BEST news of all is that I have found a very simple, safe, doctor-approved way to drastically diminish the nausea I've been dealing with and

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Another reason to love Fridays, by the way, is that I move from week to week of this pregnancy today! Nine weeks seems big to me. It feels big, too, as today is one of those sausage casing days where my abdominal skin feels too tight for its contents. Still not down where my womb is, but way up under my breasts down to right above my belly button. Things must be really REALLY getting pushed

Megan (FriedOkra)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14008925325073263825noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5271228654390948140.post-24547033993150948392007-12-28T13:45:00.000-08:002007-12-28T15:03:22.523-08:00

That's it! I've been trying to figure out what to liken this to, and it's being poisoned, or maybe chemotherapy? Which is, of course, pretty much poisoning someone *almost* to death. That's what I've come up with.I've been asleep for as much of today as I could manage while still providing the basics of care and supervision for Bean. She's dressed. She's had little things to nibble on, and

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Yesterday I had virtually no sickness, all day long. There were occasionally little washes of mild nausea, but nothing compared to three or four days ago. It was a bit more manageable Christmas Eve, as I did get all of those ham biscuits made (120 of them!) and delivered and a few other things done, but then yesterday was even far better than that. I am trying not to let this completely panic

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Christmas Eve! I plan to do a belly photo today, just for fun, even though there's nothing to see, still. I've had a few really bad days back to back, with the nausea and the tiredness. Yesterday I pretty much stayed in bed all day, minus a few hours in the morning. I am also feeling depressed and sad - irrationally so, so I know it's just hormones. I couldn't be more thankful Al's home. I

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Yes, the irony of this nausea is that it's going to result in my actually GAINING weight. I haven't actually thrown up yet, you see.But there are only certain things I can stand to eat (until way late in the day, and even then, I'm careful) and ALL of those things, except oranges and shoepeg corn, are calorie-laden, high-fat, low nutritional value foods.Take yesterday's breakfast, for example.

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