I am not incapacitated even though I'm exhausted from no sleep. So I thought I should get something done at home today. Nope, not laundry. That would be too easy. No, I decided to start decorating the garland at about 8:45 tonight. Yes, I'm a night owl.
Now I have to pack it up for tonight and get ready for bed. *rolling my eyes at myself*
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Heartburn Hell
Yes, that is what I've been dealing with the past 24 hours. I'm at home today because I got NO sleep last night thanks to the early Christmas gift of heartburn.
I can't really complain too much since I have only had to deal with intermittent heartburn starting about a month ago. It usually goes away after 24-36 hours. I take some Tu.ms, as recommended by the pharmacist, and it usually improves. Well, I don't know what happened yesterday but WTH? Baby must have been pushing up on my stomach with his feet all night.
I didn't eat too much for supper or too late, went to be early, had the light off before 11 feeling nothing wrong. Then at about 2:30 I woke up and felt it. Oh my! And then I just couldn't fall asleep again. When my alarm went off at 6 I decided this was too horrible to deal with ... not the heartburn but the lack of sleep. And because of medications and such that I need to take either on an empty stomach or nowhere around calcium I couldn't take any Tu.ms. Lovely. I feel better now but it still hasn't gone away. I'm wondering if this doesn't have more to do with baby's position. I don't feel his feet over on the side of my belly today so I'm thinking he's got them lodged under my stomach. And what is with feeling heartburn and hungry at the same time???
Anyway, I expect I'll get a break sometime in the next 24 hours. Hopefully. I will have another post about my shower at work yesterday sometime soon. I have one tiny bag of stuff to move home and photos to take of it so I can share here. ;-)
I can't really complain too much since I have only had to deal with intermittent heartburn starting about a month ago. It usually goes away after 24-36 hours. I take some Tu.ms, as recommended by the pharmacist, and it usually improves. Well, I don't know what happened yesterday but WTH? Baby must have been pushing up on my stomach with his feet all night.
I didn't eat too much for supper or too late, went to be early, had the light off before 11 feeling nothing wrong. Then at about 2:30 I woke up and felt it. Oh my! And then I just couldn't fall asleep again. When my alarm went off at 6 I decided this was too horrible to deal with ... not the heartburn but the lack of sleep. And because of medications and such that I need to take either on an empty stomach or nowhere around calcium I couldn't take any Tu.ms. Lovely. I feel better now but it still hasn't gone away. I'm wondering if this doesn't have more to do with baby's position. I don't feel his feet over on the side of my belly today so I'm thinking he's got them lodged under my stomach. And what is with feeling heartburn and hungry at the same time???
Anyway, I expect I'll get a break sometime in the next 24 hours. Hopefully. I will have another post about my shower at work yesterday sometime soon. I have one tiny bag of stuff to move home and photos to take of it so I can share here. ;-)
Sunday, December 11, 2011
36 weeks
Yes, I've become that poster, the one with the boring weekly updates and apparently no thoughts other than 'this is where I am'. lol
My latest m/w appointment went well even if it had to be postponed a day because of a birth. Not mine, obviously. I met another m/w in the practice and it could be one of the 2 who will attend my birth. We went over a few items, will do the GBS test next week, and got a requisition for an u/s. She was certain his head was down but because she felt his feet and legs in a weird spot, running across my belly, she wanted to make sure what she was feeling was a head and not a bum. His h/b was in the 140s but spiked to the 160s because he got annoyed when poked by the m/w. His heart was fairly low in my belly so the m/w was sure that his head was low. She was unable to get a measurement past 34 weeks because I'm so short in the body. My uterus is growing as my photos can attest but it has gotten to the point where they can't feel it past a 34 week measurement. Just another oddity about my body.
I had the u/s on Friday. Baby is measuring on time, exactly 35w6d that day. His h/b was in the 130s that day. He was busy practice breathing which I couldn't really detect on the u/s screen so I just took the tech's word for it. The u/s did confirm that he is head down (yay!) and that his legs are in a bit of a weird position. He seems to keep them in a jacknife position or sort of like an Olympic diver's pike position. That would likely explain why my belly doesn't protrude an awful lot for 36 weeks and why the m/w thought it felt like he was sitting across my belly. Baby's estimated weight was 5lbs 1oz on Friday but I know that is notoriously unreliable so I'm trying to pretend that this number really isn't important especially since his measurements land him exactly on time for his January 7th due date. I was a typical 7 lbs something and the donor was too so maybe he'll be just the same. Or maybe he'll pack on the fat between now and delivery date and I'll end up with a 9 pounder. Who knows? This is one thing that is hard to guess.
I'm starting to feel the fatigue a little more now. If I sit down and don't get up after supper I just don't get up. Suits little T just fine since he gets lots of cuddling time in but I'm not getting much done. I already warned my parents that my house may be disorganized and in need of a good cleaning and I'm really sorry about that. I'm doing my best but there are things I just can't do any longer.
I did manage to get the garland and lights up the banister and complete it last night. Took 2 days' worth of work spread over 2 weekends to do it but it is now done. That takes the place of a tree this year. I want to decorate it up a bit but if I don't get that done it isn't the end of the world. At least the lights are woven into it. It took a lot longer than I thought it would. I had to twist strands of garland together to make it fuller, then twist ends of others in to connect them (~36 feet in total), hang it, then put the lights in. The steps on the staircase make for good seating to do the lights. lol It ended up running a couple feet short upstairs but very few people will see that so I don't care.
Okay, that's it for now. I am supposed to have my shower tomorrow so I'm sure I'll have updatable info at that point. And info on my shopping trip to Ik.ea for baby room stuff. My life is so exciting this month. lol
My latest m/w appointment went well even if it had to be postponed a day because of a birth. Not mine, obviously. I met another m/w in the practice and it could be one of the 2 who will attend my birth. We went over a few items, will do the GBS test next week, and got a requisition for an u/s. She was certain his head was down but because she felt his feet and legs in a weird spot, running across my belly, she wanted to make sure what she was feeling was a head and not a bum. His h/b was in the 140s but spiked to the 160s because he got annoyed when poked by the m/w. His heart was fairly low in my belly so the m/w was sure that his head was low. She was unable to get a measurement past 34 weeks because I'm so short in the body. My uterus is growing as my photos can attest but it has gotten to the point where they can't feel it past a 34 week measurement. Just another oddity about my body.
I had the u/s on Friday. Baby is measuring on time, exactly 35w6d that day. His h/b was in the 130s that day. He was busy practice breathing which I couldn't really detect on the u/s screen so I just took the tech's word for it. The u/s did confirm that he is head down (yay!) and that his legs are in a bit of a weird position. He seems to keep them in a jacknife position or sort of like an Olympic diver's pike position. That would likely explain why my belly doesn't protrude an awful lot for 36 weeks and why the m/w thought it felt like he was sitting across my belly. Baby's estimated weight was 5lbs 1oz on Friday but I know that is notoriously unreliable so I'm trying to pretend that this number really isn't important especially since his measurements land him exactly on time for his January 7th due date. I was a typical 7 lbs something and the donor was too so maybe he'll be just the same. Or maybe he'll pack on the fat between now and delivery date and I'll end up with a 9 pounder. Who knows? This is one thing that is hard to guess.
I'm starting to feel the fatigue a little more now. If I sit down and don't get up after supper I just don't get up. Suits little T just fine since he gets lots of cuddling time in but I'm not getting much done. I already warned my parents that my house may be disorganized and in need of a good cleaning and I'm really sorry about that. I'm doing my best but there are things I just can't do any longer.
I did manage to get the garland and lights up the banister and complete it last night. Took 2 days' worth of work spread over 2 weekends to do it but it is now done. That takes the place of a tree this year. I want to decorate it up a bit but if I don't get that done it isn't the end of the world. At least the lights are woven into it. It took a lot longer than I thought it would. I had to twist strands of garland together to make it fuller, then twist ends of others in to connect them (~36 feet in total), hang it, then put the lights in. The steps on the staircase make for good seating to do the lights. lol It ended up running a couple feet short upstairs but very few people will see that so I don't care. Okay, that's it for now. I am supposed to have my shower tomorrow so I'm sure I'll have updatable info at that point. And info on my shopping trip to Ik.ea for baby room stuff. My life is so exciting this month. lol
Sunday, December 4, 2011
35 weeks
Eeek! How did that happen? I've now officially reached the 'do not fly without a medical certificate' weeks. Well, that's how it is most relevant to me, anyway. lol
I haven't been online much the past little while because when I get home from work I just don't want to turn on the computer. When I do I get distracted from other things I need or want to do and I end up staying up way too late buzzing around on the internet. And the past few weekends have been jam packed full of errands even though I've taken Fridays off. Even Sunday mornings when I usually make time to connect and check out blogs and tend to personal email.
Since it has been a couple weeks since I provided an update here is what I can tell you.
T is continuing to settle in. He still gets anxious when I disappear and he doesn't know where I am. It is particularly bad when he's using the litter and I go behind a closed door. His litter problems have settled down. I thought I had a nasty mess to clean up this past week but it turned out to be a major vomit dump beside the litter. Poop or vomit? Which is better? I'll take the vomit any day, thanks. He is still interested in scratching the furniture and took to scratching the other chair which, thankfully, was mostly covered up. But I added some more carpet tape in empty areas and covered it with some throws very thoroughly so he can't damage it. My living room looks ridiculously silly at the moment thanks to all the covered furniture. But the good news is that he is using the upright sisal scratching post and the same on his cat stand by the window, more than once a day. I'm hopeful I can redirect his scratching but I think he's always going to prefer the furniture. So, some of it will likely be covered in some way as long as I have him. I don't care if he claws the crap out of my front entrance mats. They're probably not good for his claws but if he wants to take those on I don't care.
I'm still feeling really well and can't complain much about that. I did have some red bleeding a couple weekends ago but thankfully was able to page my midwife and she determined it was likely one of those freaky late pregnancy things since it stopped. I had an appointment just 3 days later and baby was doing fine with a h/b in the 140s. The student's measurement had me 2 weeks behind and I was a bit panicked at the time but my midwife came in and showed her how she measured and it turned out I was right on time for 33 weeks. Relief! And the student had a hard time finding his head. I suspect he's head down as his heart beat was really low down and when she was feeling for his head she was way down in the pubic area. I just hope he stays there.
I'm feeling a bit more tired and have trouble getting up in the dark in the morning but I think part of it is just the fact that winter is coming. I love being able to sleep without the sun waking me up but I'm really loathing getting up in the dark this year. I'm taking as many Fridays off at the moment just so I can get things done. It has really helped my energy levels. I'm pretty much done errand running now so I can focus on stuff at home. It doesn't mean I don't go shopping ... of course I do! I just don't have to buy any more Christmas gifts or a huge supply of baby items. I do need to get some more prefolds and a few covers for the next size up from newborn and I'm still without a travel system. But worst come to worst I do have a 3-in-1 car seat that I could use if I needed to. And if I need extra diapers to start it isn't like I live some place without stores that sell disposables. I'm skipping a lot of laundry since my sister gave me suitcases of clothes. I know they aren't dirty since she would have washed them before packing them away or giving them to me. One less thing to do.
There are a few small things that I'll still need but I'm really hoping that I get them soon. I've been told to be at work on December 12th which must mean that I'm getting a shower that day. Good thing too because I'd been worried nothing was going to be done. Not that I want a gigantic party with a bunch of games that I am not interested in playing or that I want a bunch of gifts ... no, I was just worried that since I might only get to do this once I might not get a shower and that would totally bum me out. Yes, very eloquent, I know. lol So, I'm waiting to see if I get actual items and whether any come from my registry. My parents are still the only ones to have purchased anything from it. My co-workers might just end up getting me a bunch of gift cards, which would still be good, but it would be nice to get some actual stuff so I have less to shop for.
I haven't had any bouts of swelling and my plantar fasciitis has improved since I got the hard soled slippers. It still flares up when I overdo activity, such as spending many hours on my feet shopping, but it is much better. The little guy is starting to feel heavy now but he isn't overly active. He's buzzing around right now which he loves to do when I have a lazy morning. But since I've been very busy the past month and the available free space in there is shrinking I've expected him to quiet down.
And the belly finally popped a couple weeks ago. It does depend some on what I'm wearing but since I take my photos in the same cut of T-shirt you can really see the difference now. Here is a bit of a progression over the past little while so you can see the change. Sorry some of the photos are a bit dark. I don't have tons of light in the front of my town house and with all the errand running I've been doing I haven't always gotten the photos done early enough in the day.
30 Weeks
32 Weeks
33 Weeks
34 Weeks
35 weeks
And that's about it for now. I've got more stuff to get done today. A tiny bit of shopping and lots of laundry. ;-)
I haven't been online much the past little while because when I get home from work I just don't want to turn on the computer. When I do I get distracted from other things I need or want to do and I end up staying up way too late buzzing around on the internet. And the past few weekends have been jam packed full of errands even though I've taken Fridays off. Even Sunday mornings when I usually make time to connect and check out blogs and tend to personal email.
Since it has been a couple weeks since I provided an update here is what I can tell you.
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| T hanging out on a new rug in the foyer. |
I'm still feeling really well and can't complain much about that. I did have some red bleeding a couple weekends ago but thankfully was able to page my midwife and she determined it was likely one of those freaky late pregnancy things since it stopped. I had an appointment just 3 days later and baby was doing fine with a h/b in the 140s. The student's measurement had me 2 weeks behind and I was a bit panicked at the time but my midwife came in and showed her how she measured and it turned out I was right on time for 33 weeks. Relief! And the student had a hard time finding his head. I suspect he's head down as his heart beat was really low down and when she was feeling for his head she was way down in the pubic area. I just hope he stays there.
I'm feeling a bit more tired and have trouble getting up in the dark in the morning but I think part of it is just the fact that winter is coming. I love being able to sleep without the sun waking me up but I'm really loathing getting up in the dark this year. I'm taking as many Fridays off at the moment just so I can get things done. It has really helped my energy levels. I'm pretty much done errand running now so I can focus on stuff at home. It doesn't mean I don't go shopping ... of course I do! I just don't have to buy any more Christmas gifts or a huge supply of baby items. I do need to get some more prefolds and a few covers for the next size up from newborn and I'm still without a travel system. But worst come to worst I do have a 3-in-1 car seat that I could use if I needed to. And if I need extra diapers to start it isn't like I live some place without stores that sell disposables. I'm skipping a lot of laundry since my sister gave me suitcases of clothes. I know they aren't dirty since she would have washed them before packing them away or giving them to me. One less thing to do.
There are a few small things that I'll still need but I'm really hoping that I get them soon. I've been told to be at work on December 12th which must mean that I'm getting a shower that day. Good thing too because I'd been worried nothing was going to be done. Not that I want a gigantic party with a bunch of games that I am not interested in playing or that I want a bunch of gifts ... no, I was just worried that since I might only get to do this once I might not get a shower and that would totally bum me out. Yes, very eloquent, I know. lol So, I'm waiting to see if I get actual items and whether any come from my registry. My parents are still the only ones to have purchased anything from it. My co-workers might just end up getting me a bunch of gift cards, which would still be good, but it would be nice to get some actual stuff so I have less to shop for.
I haven't had any bouts of swelling and my plantar fasciitis has improved since I got the hard soled slippers. It still flares up when I overdo activity, such as spending many hours on my feet shopping, but it is much better. The little guy is starting to feel heavy now but he isn't overly active. He's buzzing around right now which he loves to do when I have a lazy morning. But since I've been very busy the past month and the available free space in there is shrinking I've expected him to quiet down.
And the belly finally popped a couple weeks ago. It does depend some on what I'm wearing but since I take my photos in the same cut of T-shirt you can really see the difference now. Here is a bit of a progression over the past little while so you can see the change. Sorry some of the photos are a bit dark. I don't have tons of light in the front of my town house and with all the errand running I've been doing I haven't always gotten the photos done early enough in the day.
30 Weeks
32 Weeks
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| T wanted in on the action |
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| The belly really popped this week. |
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| A bit bigger but not by much. |
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| Nowhere to go but out from here. |
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