Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
-E.B. White
so week 33 is here...and i've got me a little over 4lb'er baby in me=). they say baby is equivalent to a pineapple today...hmm is it weird that pineapple just sounds so good right now? hahah, gross. well i've enjoyed eating pineapple and watermelon in this pregnancy and especially now with the summer heat! i think just cold stuff in general is appetizing to me these days.
ah boo, i experienced my first bout of ankle swelling yesterday. i had me some cankles! it was just the weirdest looking thing. it was like when i sprained my ankle(s) during flag football and our inca trail hike. seester said to just elevate my legs really high and drink lots of water..that the heat probably caused my ankles to swell. well, i've been guzzling water like it's crack these days, haha..so i'll attribute the cankles to the heat. plus i walked around a lot yesterday while we had the farmer's market in downtown. haha somehow i thought i'd be able to get away with not having this pregnancy symptom..i guess i should be lucky that it's only hitting me now? i'm glad my fingers haven't swelled up (crossing fingers they won't!) because i'm still able to wear my wedding band=). i know that's shocked a few people, they're like..really you can still wear it? so here's hoping!
i've noticed too that i've been getting more braxton hicks contractions (the non-painful, practice kind) lately. in all our reading/classes they say if you get 6 or more to call your doc/hospital. but our ob told us if i get 4/hr to notify her. right now i've sometimes been noticing 2-3 in an hour. but that's mostly when i'm sitting in our vanpool and can't really move around. so i just drink water hoping it goes away. it doesn't hurt, for some reason i know one is coming bc my stomach starts to feel jumpy..like i've got butterflies in there and then all the sudden my tummy gets really hard. a midwife pointed out to husby and i that that was my uterus contracting..and then after about 10-15 seconds my belly gets soft again. so weird.
when i told the fam about that my sisters got all excited that maybe i'd have the baby a little bit earlier than the due date. i'm like...please, please baby stay in there til you're full term (which i believe is at 37 weeks). haha i know, i'm being paranoid..but even when husby says..i wanna see our baby girl now - hehe i have to say..wait til she's full term please=). i know, it's normal for us first time parents to get nervous...we all want the same thing - a happy, healthy baby!
the past 3 weeks have been so busy with family stuff and all of our baby classes. about 2 more weeks to go and we're done with the classes. despite what people have said to us, we really enjoy our childbirth classes. we weren't able to get the 2-saturday sessions so we're going through the 5 week, 2 1/2 hr course right now. yeah maybe all the breathing techniques will get thrown out the door once i'm actually in labor..but just the whole understanding of labor and delivery is informative and super useful. duuuuuuuuuude i knew that i'd need to be dilated 10cm before i start pushing..but c'mon i didn't know that's how my hoo-ha looks when baby is crowning! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. i swear everytime we watch a new labor video i freak out. i mean, i'm glad we watch them bc i need to know this stuff but yikes...what the human body is capable of. boggles the mind. i don't think i want the mirror as part of my birth plan..haha i might freak myself out. i'll just opt to use husby as my focal point along with a pic of baby girl from our ultrasound and maybe a vacay pic to ease my mind (if that's possible while i'm screaming my head off from contractions=/). for now i'll just practice my hee's and candle blowing breaths..hee hee hooooooooo.
the breastfeeding class was extremely helpful as well. i thought i'd heard it all from family/friends..but there's always more to learn! breastfeeding SHOULD NOT hurt. need to remember this=). we also had our maternity tour. hehe that was nice! didn't realize that labor rooms and the post-partum rooms were so big! and geez in the labor room the nurse pointed out to us the recessed lights above that can get turned on and just focus on our hoo-ha. ha, she's like..imagine it's like who wants to be a millionaire and you've got all that spotlight! mmhmm, sure lady. we also learned that when we go down the corridor from our labor room to the post-partum room, there's a painting we'll pass by that has a red button for us to press. aww and it plays the baby lullaby throughout the whole hospital to signify that a baby was just born=). how cute is that!
we've got our infant safety & cpr class coming up along with the remainder of our childbirth classes. man, once those are over we'll be in the home stretch. can't believe it..the weeks are just going by so fast now! i get up to pee at least once every night, sometimes twice. and even when it's time to go to bed i still stay up a little later. i don't know if that's a pregnancy thing or just me being all anxious. but i do like it when i'm just sitting in bed and i can feel baby moving around. such a nice feeling=). ha, though one of the nurses said that this may also be the baby's future sleep patterns once she's born. we got a night owl on our hands!
baby girl, mommy & daddy can't wait to meet you!
Friday, June 29, 2012
Monday, June 25, 2012
Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes.
-Joyce Armor
haha i don't know why i find that quote funny. it's not funny to to know i have stretch marks, but to understand it in the light of that quote makes it okay=P. bah, so i'm getting them at my lower belly...i didn't realize it til i went outlet shopping with the seesters and the older one noticed them. my belly has been getting a little itchy but more so at the bottom where my pants touch my belly. and i told her i'd been scratching there..boo guess it makes the stretch marks worse? and i've been sooooo good with my cocoa butter! oh well, they always say no matter what precautions you take it's in the genes anyways. what's funny is that i couldn't see them bc my belly's so big now..and husby doesn't really know what stretch marks look like so he couldn't tell me. hahah so leave it up to the seesters to point it out!
ahhh this pregnancy is going by fast now! 32 weeks going on 33 at the end of the week. woohoo maternity leave in about 5 weeks!!!!! can't believe that everything is approaching quickly now. we get so excited..but at the same time freaked out. or maybe just me=P. husby just can't wait to meet our little girl! he usually calms my nerves when i start imagining how labor will be. i switch back and forth between thinking i can do it all naturally and just asking for the epidural right when we go in to labor=P. hahah. we'll see how that one goes!
i've been in awe and full of gratitude at how much this baby girl of ours is loved! we are surrounded by so many people who care about us and are just as excited as husby and i to meet her and welcome her into the world! my co-workers threw us a baby shower last week and it was so awesome to have everyone there. i'm the only girl coworker that is/has been pregnant in our section and usually all the showers we throw have been for the dad's since our section is predominantly male. so it was nice to see 2 of my guy co-workers help out one of the other female co-workers plan the shower. haha and everything was SO pink! all our other baby showers have been for boys, i'm the first one having a girl...so they had fun with that as well=).
then the weekend before we went up north to visit lou's cousins since his niece was having her debut. they actually surprised us twice that weekend for the baby! once was for dinner friday night, which i thought was our surprise shower since his cousin was trying to throw me off. and y'know, i get all shy when the attention is on me....but it was super nice of them and the m-i-l to plan. then the sunday following the debut his other cousin was hosting a party for all the family to get together to celebrate her daughter's graduation/bday and son's graduation. haha little did husby and i know that this was also another surprise baby shower for us..since more of the family was able to make sunday. wow, we are truly blessed to be surrounded by our loved ones. in a few weeks it'll be the socal showers with our families and friends. can't wait to see everyone again=). always nice to have everyone together..and then it just makes it even more apparent that baby girl will soon be here!
third trimester so far has been going well. i am feeling the tired kick in these days. darn, i thought i'd still have the same energy as before. but this tiredness just seemed to happen all of the sudden last week. not to mention the heartburn! ugh yuck...i've been starting to get that too=/. and y'know the other icky preggo symptom that heightens in the 3rd...yup backed up. hahah tmi i know. at least the latter i'm doing better now. i think our trip up north totally threw off my regular type of meals here. and i realized that taking tums for the heartburn can also contribute to being all backed up. boo on that. i also found out at the beginning of the third tri that i have to be better with my food choices and learn my portions. i thought it would actually be hard to do, but it's not to bad actually. all those times i thought i was eating a lot of veggies, guess that wasn't even close to what i should be having. and i have milk like 2-3x a day. that's a new one for me..i used to never like the taste of milk except for with cereal or cookies. these days it's kinda refreshing. mmmm and so is ice cold water! i'd always drink my water room temperature but now i love it with lots of ice. and dude, with this summer starting..even better!
so people keep asking us if we have a name picked out. ha, why yes we do! we'll probably say it at the shower since i'm sure it'll be one of the main questions that day=P. it's actually the first name we came up with when we found out i was preggo. we knew we had to pick a boy and a girl's name since we didn't know the sex yet...but somehow it was easy to pick the girl's name. we came up with other names but this name just stood out for us. baby's full name and the nickname that she'll go by have such pretty meanings and just remind us of our love for travels and two of our favorite countries we visited. so i hope she grows up to love her name, the meaning, and live a life full of travels as well=P. but yes i know...whenever they tell you you're having a girl, better to be safe and have a backup boy name as well. that we're still working on too! though i'm pretty sure she's a girl...3 different ultrasounds/techs pointed out the anatomy and that that cannot change to a boy! hahahha...so despite people telling me, oh maybe the baby was just shy and you're having a boy, let's hope the techs know more on this topic=P. my coworkers have a pool going on about the baby (guess the sex, weight, height) and so far i'm hearing these "shy baby" words from those who guessed boy. hehehe.
-Joyce Armor
haha i don't know why i find that quote funny. it's not funny to to know i have stretch marks, but to understand it in the light of that quote makes it okay=P. bah, so i'm getting them at my lower belly...i didn't realize it til i went outlet shopping with the seesters and the older one noticed them. my belly has been getting a little itchy but more so at the bottom where my pants touch my belly. and i told her i'd been scratching there..boo guess it makes the stretch marks worse? and i've been sooooo good with my cocoa butter! oh well, they always say no matter what precautions you take it's in the genes anyways. what's funny is that i couldn't see them bc my belly's so big now..and husby doesn't really know what stretch marks look like so he couldn't tell me. hahah so leave it up to the seesters to point it out!
ahhh this pregnancy is going by fast now! 32 weeks going on 33 at the end of the week. woohoo maternity leave in about 5 weeks!!!!! can't believe that everything is approaching quickly now. we get so excited..but at the same time freaked out. or maybe just me=P. husby just can't wait to meet our little girl! he usually calms my nerves when i start imagining how labor will be. i switch back and forth between thinking i can do it all naturally and just asking for the epidural right when we go in to labor=P. hahah. we'll see how that one goes!
i've been in awe and full of gratitude at how much this baby girl of ours is loved! we are surrounded by so many people who care about us and are just as excited as husby and i to meet her and welcome her into the world! my co-workers threw us a baby shower last week and it was so awesome to have everyone there. i'm the only girl coworker that is/has been pregnant in our section and usually all the showers we throw have been for the dad's since our section is predominantly male. so it was nice to see 2 of my guy co-workers help out one of the other female co-workers plan the shower. haha and everything was SO pink! all our other baby showers have been for boys, i'm the first one having a girl...so they had fun with that as well=).
then the weekend before we went up north to visit lou's cousins since his niece was having her debut. they actually surprised us twice that weekend for the baby! once was for dinner friday night, which i thought was our surprise shower since his cousin was trying to throw me off. and y'know, i get all shy when the attention is on me....but it was super nice of them and the m-i-l to plan. then the sunday following the debut his other cousin was hosting a party for all the family to get together to celebrate her daughter's graduation/bday and son's graduation. haha little did husby and i know that this was also another surprise baby shower for us..since more of the family was able to make sunday. wow, we are truly blessed to be surrounded by our loved ones. in a few weeks it'll be the socal showers with our families and friends. can't wait to see everyone again=). always nice to have everyone together..and then it just makes it even more apparent that baby girl will soon be here!
third trimester so far has been going well. i am feeling the tired kick in these days. darn, i thought i'd still have the same energy as before. but this tiredness just seemed to happen all of the sudden last week. not to mention the heartburn! ugh yuck...i've been starting to get that too=/. and y'know the other icky preggo symptom that heightens in the 3rd...yup backed up. hahah tmi i know. at least the latter i'm doing better now. i think our trip up north totally threw off my regular type of meals here. and i realized that taking tums for the heartburn can also contribute to being all backed up. boo on that. i also found out at the beginning of the third tri that i have to be better with my food choices and learn my portions. i thought it would actually be hard to do, but it's not to bad actually. all those times i thought i was eating a lot of veggies, guess that wasn't even close to what i should be having. and i have milk like 2-3x a day. that's a new one for me..i used to never like the taste of milk except for with cereal or cookies. these days it's kinda refreshing. mmmm and so is ice cold water! i'd always drink my water room temperature but now i love it with lots of ice. and dude, with this summer starting..even better!
so people keep asking us if we have a name picked out. ha, why yes we do! we'll probably say it at the shower since i'm sure it'll be one of the main questions that day=P. it's actually the first name we came up with when we found out i was preggo. we knew we had to pick a boy and a girl's name since we didn't know the sex yet...but somehow it was easy to pick the girl's name. we came up with other names but this name just stood out for us. baby's full name and the nickname that she'll go by have such pretty meanings and just remind us of our love for travels and two of our favorite countries we visited. so i hope she grows up to love her name, the meaning, and live a life full of travels as well=P. but yes i know...whenever they tell you you're having a girl, better to be safe and have a backup boy name as well. that we're still working on too! though i'm pretty sure she's a girl...3 different ultrasounds/techs pointed out the anatomy and that that cannot change to a boy! hahahha...so despite people telling me, oh maybe the baby was just shy and you're having a boy, let's hope the techs know more on this topic=P. my coworkers have a pool going on about the baby (guess the sex, weight, height) and so far i'm hearing these "shy baby" words from those who guessed boy. hehehe.
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