Stats update.
25 weeks. Up 12 pounds from the start. (The lbs. I lost are not counted in, those are bonus lbs that I get to ignore as my reward for throwing up so much!)
15 weeks to go. If I allow myself 1 lb. a week for the next 15 weeks I will be at 27 lbs. Docs say I gotta gain 25-35. 32 is my personal limit. If I go over, well, it won't be good. Trust. me.
So far, so good. Wish me luck!
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Lift. Move. Repeat.
Ok so if you know me well, which um if you have this url you probably do!, you know that I am a major nester. I mean like when I'm not pregnant and blessed with hormonal pregnant nesting issues. Like in everyday life. (I fully blame this trait on my mother. Seriously every month she used to rearrange every room in the house while we were at school. She still does it! I'm not sure how my little mother has managed to make it this long moving couches and tables around without ending up pinned underneath some piece of furniture, but she's a rockstar at it! So mom, this is totally your fault!) But I am a nester. Just ask Scott. We are in our 3rd home together and after each move, he has plopped himself on the couch and I have stayed up till the wee hours of the morning rearranging and organizing, begging him to get up and move the heavy stuff so I can see how it looks only to change my mind in 2 hours and wake him again to move it again. (You know your guy loves you when ... ) He's learned to just humor me as there is no use arguing with me, I'm always right (again I blame my mother) :)
But now that I'm pregnant, yikes! It's, of course, like nesting on crack. All I want to do is move things and pack things and buy things for the condo and rearrange things. Since we found out we were pregnant, we have purchased two new dressers, a new couch, a new rug, and another bookshelf, on top of the baby furniture, ya know, the furniture we actually needed! And I have made Scott move each piece around the condo many times trying to find the exact perfect location for each piece :) Tonight I even had my dad come over to help Scott carry pieces around the condo. I still haven't decided where I like the bookshelves best so I've decided to leave them in their new spot for a couple days and see if I like that arrangement or not. (Dad is on standby to come back Friday to help move them back if I can't get used to it). But of course you can't get the full picture of the furniture in its new spot until you put all the books on it (which are currently in their piles per shelf lining the walls in the almost empty nursery) so tomorrow I will have to fill all the shelves and see how it goes!
The good news about all this nesting is we're sooo almost ready to paint the nursery and get the baby furniture in!! Its on the schedule for this weekend! Now I just have to pick out a paint color ... I have choices narrowed down, but if you know me (and I believe we already went through this!) you also know, decisions ... so not my strong point! And I have made a whole slew of decisions this week! I picked out and contacted a pediatrician, we chose and booked a destination for our babymoon, we scheduled baby prep classes, made a newborn photographer decision, and I have made some progress on my baby announcement ideas (what else do you do when you're up all night because your son is kicking the hell out of you!) and it's only Tuesday! I so want to be done with decisions for a little bit. But gotta get this last one done! Then, I swear, I'm taking a break! (And trying to catch up on some sleep!) Pictures of the empty and *hopefully* painted nursery to come! Whoo-hoo!
But now that I'm pregnant, yikes! It's, of course, like nesting on crack. All I want to do is move things and pack things and buy things for the condo and rearrange things. Since we found out we were pregnant, we have purchased two new dressers, a new couch, a new rug, and another bookshelf, on top of the baby furniture, ya know, the furniture we actually needed! And I have made Scott move each piece around the condo many times trying to find the exact perfect location for each piece :) Tonight I even had my dad come over to help Scott carry pieces around the condo. I still haven't decided where I like the bookshelves best so I've decided to leave them in their new spot for a couple days and see if I like that arrangement or not. (Dad is on standby to come back Friday to help move them back if I can't get used to it). But of course you can't get the full picture of the furniture in its new spot until you put all the books on it (which are currently in their piles per shelf lining the walls in the almost empty nursery) so tomorrow I will have to fill all the shelves and see how it goes!
The good news about all this nesting is we're sooo almost ready to paint the nursery and get the baby furniture in!! Its on the schedule for this weekend! Now I just have to pick out a paint color ... I have choices narrowed down, but if you know me (and I believe we already went through this!) you also know, decisions ... so not my strong point! And I have made a whole slew of decisions this week! I picked out and contacted a pediatrician, we chose and booked a destination for our babymoon, we scheduled baby prep classes, made a newborn photographer decision, and I have made some progress on my baby announcement ideas (what else do you do when you're up all night because your son is kicking the hell out of you!) and it's only Tuesday! I so want to be done with decisions for a little bit. But gotta get this last one done! Then, I swear, I'm taking a break! (And trying to catch up on some sleep!) Pictures of the empty and *hopefully* painted nursery to come! Whoo-hoo!
Belly laughs!
I'm currently reading Jenny McCarthy's "Belly Laughs." A couple of weeks ago my mother in law told me about JM's book "Baby Laughs" and told me I should read it. She brought it over for me (thanks Patty!) and I started reading it. It's about Jenny's very honest, raw experience with birthing her first baby and beyond. But after getting a couple chapters in, I realized I wanted to read her book "Belly Laughs" first. Baby Laughs = about having a new baby. Belly Laughs= about being pregnant with your baby. And as I'm still pregnant, I thought it'd be satisfying to read about the pregnancy first. So I hopped (ok waddled) over to the library and took the book out.
Now I've never been a big Jenny McCarthy fan, I've never hated her, just have had no feelings towards her at all really. But I have to say, I think everyone should read this book! Women who are pregnant, women who have been pregnant, women who want to be pregnant someday, women who aren't sure if they ever want to go through pregnancy and whose pregnant friends are scaring them even more and sending them straight across the pond to adopt cute little Chinese babies (hello Gina ;)), and most importantly, the men in our lives! Because, while it's not incredibly well written (the author is still Jenny McCarthy people!), it is quite the honest, funny, unforgiving experience of a pregnant woman! And I'm not talking about you "i never felt sick once pregnancy is so wonderful and beautiful i wish i could be pregnant all the time" girls. You girls go read something serene and calm and annoying. Everyone else, who has actually experienced the PAIN of pregnancy (not labor, I'm not there yet, I have no real knowledge), I'm talking pregnancy pain, you should be reading this book. Because for the last few months I have talked to waaaay too many of those "I loved every second of my pregnancy and was not uncomfortable until 39 weeks" girls and was starting to feel like I was the most incompetent preggo ever! Then I started reading this book and seriously, me and Jenny, TWINS. Every time I get to a new chapter (which happens every page and a half, again guys, Jenny McCarthy writing), I'm like "I HAVE THAT TOO!" Seriously, every chapter!! (Well ok except for 2 chapters. I don't think I'm retaining water yet and I have not, as Jenny has, cracked two ribs out yet because of how ridiculously stretched out my body is, but I'm chalking that up to the fact that I'm only 25.5 weeks and some of these symptoms don't show up until later in the 3rd trimester ... oh yay more to look forward to! haha)
The book is really short and to the point so it only took me a couple of days to read, but I have it out of the library for another couple weeks and am trying to figure out how to get my lovely hubs to read it. Jenny, very blatantly, shares the ridiculous symptoms that no one else talks about being pregnant because, well, they're kind of inappropriate to bring up in conversation, but it has been so satisfying reading that someone else (a former playboy bunny for God sakes!) has felt the same ickiness (we're talking way more than nausea here!) that I have :) And I think it would help Scotty to see that I'm totally not crazy and demanding, that all pregnant women are like this (and we have no control over it) and that while it's not entirely his fault if I cry because he doesn't dust the coffee table enough, he should still do it more often anyways just because. :) (For the record, he's starting to dust the coffee table and wipe the kitchen counters without me having to ask or cry! Success!)
Anywho, if you're looking for a quick read and want to know what really goes on in your body (besides the whole miracle!) during those 9 long months, stop by the library (its such a quick read it may not be worth your money to purchase), and check out the book! I'll let you know how Baby Laughs is. I've got to hold off reading it for another month or so because I already want to be holding my baby boy and it will just make me more anxious! And as bad as being up all night with a crying baby is and as bad as your sore nursing breasts hurt, it still can't be as bad as the pregnancy pains because you actually have the baby there to remind you how lucky and blessed you are and how worth it it is/was :) (102 days!!)
Now I've never been a big Jenny McCarthy fan, I've never hated her, just have had no feelings towards her at all really. But I have to say, I think everyone should read this book! Women who are pregnant, women who have been pregnant, women who want to be pregnant someday, women who aren't sure if they ever want to go through pregnancy and whose pregnant friends are scaring them even more and sending them straight across the pond to adopt cute little Chinese babies (hello Gina ;)), and most importantly, the men in our lives! Because, while it's not incredibly well written (the author is still Jenny McCarthy people!), it is quite the honest, funny, unforgiving experience of a pregnant woman! And I'm not talking about you "i never felt sick once pregnancy is so wonderful and beautiful i wish i could be pregnant all the time" girls. You girls go read something serene and calm and annoying. Everyone else, who has actually experienced the PAIN of pregnancy (not labor, I'm not there yet, I have no real knowledge), I'm talking pregnancy pain, you should be reading this book. Because for the last few months I have talked to waaaay too many of those "I loved every second of my pregnancy and was not uncomfortable until 39 weeks" girls and was starting to feel like I was the most incompetent preggo ever! Then I started reading this book and seriously, me and Jenny, TWINS. Every time I get to a new chapter (which happens every page and a half, again guys, Jenny McCarthy writing), I'm like "I HAVE THAT TOO!" Seriously, every chapter!! (Well ok except for 2 chapters. I don't think I'm retaining water yet and I have not, as Jenny has, cracked two ribs out yet because of how ridiculously stretched out my body is, but I'm chalking that up to the fact that I'm only 25.5 weeks and some of these symptoms don't show up until later in the 3rd trimester ... oh yay more to look forward to! haha)
The book is really short and to the point so it only took me a couple of days to read, but I have it out of the library for another couple weeks and am trying to figure out how to get my lovely hubs to read it. Jenny, very blatantly, shares the ridiculous symptoms that no one else talks about being pregnant because, well, they're kind of inappropriate to bring up in conversation, but it has been so satisfying reading that someone else (a former playboy bunny for God sakes!) has felt the same ickiness (we're talking way more than nausea here!) that I have :) And I think it would help Scotty to see that I'm totally not crazy and demanding, that all pregnant women are like this (and we have no control over it) and that while it's not entirely his fault if I cry because he doesn't dust the coffee table enough, he should still do it more often anyways just because. :) (For the record, he's starting to dust the coffee table and wipe the kitchen counters without me having to ask or cry! Success!)
Anywho, if you're looking for a quick read and want to know what really goes on in your body (besides the whole miracle!) during those 9 long months, stop by the library (its such a quick read it may not be worth your money to purchase), and check out the book! I'll let you know how Baby Laughs is. I've got to hold off reading it for another month or so because I already want to be holding my baby boy and it will just make me more anxious! And as bad as being up all night with a crying baby is and as bad as your sore nursing breasts hurt, it still can't be as bad as the pregnancy pains because you actually have the baby there to remind you how lucky and blessed you are and how worth it it is/was :) (102 days!!)
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Go Cubs Go!!
Baby's "first" Cubs game ... April 23, 2011 :)
Well ok, unofficial first Cubs game. He was there. Just in utero. But I'm pretty sure he enjoyed himself annnd he got a Cubs Win! Good first game!
The little man has been moving a. lot. lately! Which is great! Seriously I wouldn't want anything different because when he's quiet for too long I get nervous (but I could use a break from the dance party when I'm nausea.. ugh). But during the game, he was super active! It's like he was cheering. And when Dempster kept throwing homerun balls, my tummy was getting whacked around. I'm fairly certain baby boy knew what was happening and was warming up his arm in hopes of going in to help Demp out of the hole. What a team player this little guy already is :)
3 more months, 2 more weeks till we get to meet him!!! And I got our first mini preview yesterday morning when I woke up and had a definite bone pushing out of my stomach! Eek. There will be little hands and feet flying out before we know it! Getting closer ...
Well ok, unofficial first Cubs game. He was there. Just in utero. But I'm pretty sure he enjoyed himself annnd he got a Cubs Win! Good first game!
The little man has been moving a. lot. lately! Which is great! Seriously I wouldn't want anything different because when he's quiet for too long I get nervous (but I could use a break from the dance party when I'm nausea.. ugh). But during the game, he was super active! It's like he was cheering. And when Dempster kept throwing homerun balls, my tummy was getting whacked around. I'm fairly certain baby boy knew what was happening and was warming up his arm in hopes of going in to help Demp out of the hole. What a team player this little guy already is :)
3 more months, 2 more weeks till we get to meet him!!! And I got our first mini preview yesterday morning when I woke up and had a definite bone pushing out of my stomach! Eek. There will be little hands and feet flying out before we know it! Getting closer ...
Monday, April 11, 2011
Time is Ticking ...
People, we are currently at 23 weeks and 1 day (or 3 days, depending on what doctor you talk to at my office). Plenty of time in real life time. But boy oh boy you don't need a growing out of the womb baby for time to fly by! I sometimes feel like I have a ton of time ... and then I think about what we have to do and think we have No time. *Part of it is I like to pretend the baby is due in the beginning of July just so that I'm done with everything by then because seriously, do you think I'm gonna wanna be running around like a crazy person in the July heat, 9 months preggo. Yea, I don't think so* So on my "target to be ready" date, we only have like 2.5 months! Ahh! Scary thought!
The good news: I have been feeling a little bit better! I thought I was headed on the path of a real pregnant woman a couple of weeks ago and started to eat accordingly, but that didn't go so well so now I realize, if I eat healthy and normal sized, I can stay unsick enough to be a productive human being. (I do still long for the days when I can get through a day without any nausea, but beggers, my friends, cannot be choosers). If I play it safe, I get a good couple of productive hours a day! Which is awesome .. because our baby furniture is here!! 5-7 weeks early! So now I actually have to do some work on cleaning out the nursery. We made massive progress a couple weekends ago, moving out all the junk (yes JUNK) that had built up, filling garbage bags with trash, boxes for salvation army, and moving out random pieces of furniture we just outgrew. The room already looks 10x better. All I really have to tackle is ... the books! I have A LOT of books. And I'm keeping two bookshelves in the condo so I don't have to clean out all my books, but seriously, it's time to get rid of the riffraff. If I didn't like reading the textbook in college, what makes me think I'm going to like reading it now when I'm spending my days chasing a kid around the house, cleaning, cooking, prepping auditions, sides, and working. Yea, probably not going to want to snuggle up with a book I didn't even comprehend in college. :) Sooo ... organizing my books are my goal for the week! I hope to paint the room at the end of the month and move the furniture in in mid May!! Then I can start decorating! Fun fun!
Other good news: After much hmming and hawwing, I got my hair highlighted! The horror I know! Anyone older than my generation is like "NOO! No hair color!" But after talking to my doctors, my friends, my stylists, Michael Anthony himself, and a bunch of anxiety and nerves, I was confident that highlights are safe in pregnancy and trust me, I'm a much happier, more positive person when my hair is blonder! (sue me!) Which I'm happy to say, it currently is. (With some added lowlights to help the blonde grow out evenly enough to avoid having to deal with the chemicals again till after the babe is out!) No but seriously, Aveda is not even really chemicals, its totally natural!
The bad news: I gave in and bought maternity clothes yesterday. Blah. But I was seriously running out of things to wear. The same 3 shirts do not a wardrobe make. Though I gotta say, the maternity jeans I bought, super comfy and cute! I may never go back to buttoning a tight pair of jeans again when I can just slip my belly sleeve over my tum tum and call it a day :)
And honestly, whoever decided to put maternity clothes in the back of baby stores, GENIUS. For the stores. Not for me, my mom, or our wallets. Walking into Baby Gap/Maternity Gap, I said "Ok mom, put the blinders out, these clothes are too cute and too expensive to buy without knowing what size he is actually wearing, let's just check out the maternity wear and come back after he's born to shop for him." Ever try to put blinders on my mom in a baby store? Doesn't work. And then I have to take off the blinders to find her and well it's just not good. I sure hope my son is a good sport and let's me dress him in an outfit that consists of 6 different pieces of clothing making him look super adorable! Needless to say, our bags broke in the Gap (thanks to the nice Gap employee who helped us out with some new shopping bags to repack our riches) and we decided to call it a day!
The good news: I have been feeling a little bit better! I thought I was headed on the path of a real pregnant woman a couple of weeks ago and started to eat accordingly, but that didn't go so well so now I realize, if I eat healthy and normal sized, I can stay unsick enough to be a productive human being. (I do still long for the days when I can get through a day without any nausea, but beggers, my friends, cannot be choosers). If I play it safe, I get a good couple of productive hours a day! Which is awesome .. because our baby furniture is here!! 5-7 weeks early! So now I actually have to do some work on cleaning out the nursery. We made massive progress a couple weekends ago, moving out all the junk (yes JUNK) that had built up, filling garbage bags with trash, boxes for salvation army, and moving out random pieces of furniture we just outgrew. The room already looks 10x better. All I really have to tackle is ... the books! I have A LOT of books. And I'm keeping two bookshelves in the condo so I don't have to clean out all my books, but seriously, it's time to get rid of the riffraff. If I didn't like reading the textbook in college, what makes me think I'm going to like reading it now when I'm spending my days chasing a kid around the house, cleaning, cooking, prepping auditions, sides, and working. Yea, probably not going to want to snuggle up with a book I didn't even comprehend in college. :) Sooo ... organizing my books are my goal for the week! I hope to paint the room at the end of the month and move the furniture in in mid May!! Then I can start decorating! Fun fun!
Other good news: After much hmming and hawwing, I got my hair highlighted! The horror I know! Anyone older than my generation is like "NOO! No hair color!" But after talking to my doctors, my friends, my stylists, Michael Anthony himself, and a bunch of anxiety and nerves, I was confident that highlights are safe in pregnancy and trust me, I'm a much happier, more positive person when my hair is blonder! (sue me!) Which I'm happy to say, it currently is. (With some added lowlights to help the blonde grow out evenly enough to avoid having to deal with the chemicals again till after the babe is out!) No but seriously, Aveda is not even really chemicals, its totally natural!
The bad news: I gave in and bought maternity clothes yesterday. Blah. But I was seriously running out of things to wear. The same 3 shirts do not a wardrobe make. Though I gotta say, the maternity jeans I bought, super comfy and cute! I may never go back to buttoning a tight pair of jeans again when I can just slip my belly sleeve over my tum tum and call it a day :)
And honestly, whoever decided to put maternity clothes in the back of baby stores, GENIUS. For the stores. Not for me, my mom, or our wallets. Walking into Baby Gap/Maternity Gap, I said "Ok mom, put the blinders out, these clothes are too cute and too expensive to buy without knowing what size he is actually wearing, let's just check out the maternity wear and come back after he's born to shop for him." Ever try to put blinders on my mom in a baby store? Doesn't work. And then I have to take off the blinders to find her and well it's just not good. I sure hope my son is a good sport and let's me dress him in an outfit that consists of 6 different pieces of clothing making him look super adorable! Needless to say, our bags broke in the Gap (thanks to the nice Gap employee who helped us out with some new shopping bags to repack our riches) and we decided to call it a day!
Vroom, vroom!
Do you know how many different kinds of strollers you can buy for your little one?! A. FREAKIN. LOT. Scott and I had no problem choosing a new car. We literally threw a couple of car options on the floor, weeded through the "out of our price range" ones and were left with one that we both really liked. We looked at it, test drove it, and picked out all of our options within a week. (No we didn't actually buy it yet but that's another story). Point is, decision made. Easy. With strollers, we could not seem to do it! We have been looking at affordable Graco and Chicco travel systems, trendy Bobs, smart sized City Minis, and on and on. We have literally gone back and forth on many different kinds, been in love and hated the same stroller in the same day, taken a bunch for "test walks" around stores. But we could not decide.
Until Saturday. After spending literally 2.5 hours, mostly in the stroller/car seat section of Buy Buy Baby, we were pretty certain we both liked the same stroller! The Bumbleride Indie! Hurray!! It seemed to be the perfect fit for us. It had the maneuverability of the Bob (which was literally bigger than me, folded up, yep couldn't even lift it! I can't believe everyone in our neighborhood has one and stores it somewhere), but it was also smaller and more compact (not as small as the cute little city mini), and I can lift it, close and open it by myself (after a few embarrassing attempts), use the basket (seriously more of an issue on some of these pricey strollers than you would think), and with an infant seat in it did not seem much bigger than a Graco or Chicco travel system. Perfect for tackling city streets/sidewalks, long days at the zoo, even getting through some snow on the ground, all without being too big and bulky to handle. And we both really liked it! So OF COURSE they only had ONE left in the store, in the brightest green color ever, and weren't getting any more in. Typical. So I spent the last 2 days trying to track one down in the natural/neutral lava color.
*Everyone* was sold out of them. Apparently, the 2010's are currently being phased out, hence the clearance prices we have been seeing on the greens, reds, and pinks that we did find. The 2011's will be here soon supposedly, but the "new standard options" on the 2011 are kinda just useless reasons to up the price and none of the stores knew when they were getting their 2011 shipments so we really wanted to find the 2010 (and pay a clearance price!). I am happy to report that after running all over Lincoln Park tonight (and with the awesome help of Sarah from the Land of Nod who totally "miracle on 34th streeted" us and checked all the competitor stores searching for us!) we located *ONE* left at Galt Baby in Old Orchard!! We rushed up there and voila! Stroller purchased!! At 15% off! Huzzah! Now I just need my beautiful baby to push around in it. Or I can practice with Maizy I guess ... :)
Until Saturday. After spending literally 2.5 hours, mostly in the stroller/car seat section of Buy Buy Baby, we were pretty certain we both liked the same stroller! The Bumbleride Indie! Hurray!! It seemed to be the perfect fit for us. It had the maneuverability of the Bob (which was literally bigger than me, folded up, yep couldn't even lift it! I can't believe everyone in our neighborhood has one and stores it somewhere), but it was also smaller and more compact (not as small as the cute little city mini), and I can lift it, close and open it by myself (after a few embarrassing attempts), use the basket (seriously more of an issue on some of these pricey strollers than you would think), and with an infant seat in it did not seem much bigger than a Graco or Chicco travel system. Perfect for tackling city streets/sidewalks, long days at the zoo, even getting through some snow on the ground, all without being too big and bulky to handle. And we both really liked it! So OF COURSE they only had ONE left in the store, in the brightest green color ever, and weren't getting any more in. Typical. So I spent the last 2 days trying to track one down in the natural/neutral lava color.
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