Breaking through the Fibrofog…

my 16 week appt was today. things went great! my bp was 110/70, great for me! I was dreading the scale part, and thought for sure I would have gained 10 lbs with as much as I feel like I”m showing, but I’ve only gained 1 lb since my appt two weeks ago, which isnt too bad since I’d just eaten breakfast so I might not have really gained much at all. The baby’s heartbeat was 140, lower than last week but dont know if that matters too much, last time it was an afternoon appt and this time a morning so that probably accounts for some differences. My next appt will be fun, get to see the ob, get another one hour glucose test, and get an u/s, that will be on July 21st. not too much longer, but I really cant wait for it!

things went really well and I was able to leave Caleb with a friend, so that was really good! Dean’s brother’s girlfriend is currently in labor in Ohio with his firstborn, so after deciding we wouldnt try to go Dean is trying to figure out if he can make it out there tomorrow and back on Sunday! it’s a long trip for that short a stay but he’s determined! Not sure if the kid and I will go, but he’s working on a plan I think.

one word of advice for pregnant ladies, check out Old Navy’s maternity stuff! I got a swimsuit there yesterday on sale for only $15! it’s great! they have tons of great maternity clothes and as long as you can find a sale it’s not too pricey. So I think I’ll be loving that place even more than motherhood, their clothes seem a little more young and hip than motherhoods, but it’s hard to compare.

well if I dont write for a few days it’s because I’m out of town, but then again I dont write frequently as is, so not a really good way to judge it! have a great weekend!

well I had a good few days this weekend, but right back in the swing of taking care of too much all day long I am well on my way to my record of throwing up at least one meal a day! sorry if it’s TMI but it’s really driving me mad. All I enjoy anymore and can keep in is ice cream! all last week my preference was Edy’s rocky road, and I’d down some now in an attempt to get something on my tummy but I finished off the container the other day! well Caleb and I did, for once I think he found an ice cream he liked. remembering back to my first pregnancy, I think at my work baby shower they brought me so kind of sugar free yummy chocolate kind of ice cream, darn I wish I could remember what brand and flavor it was, because it was great! I ate that a lot at the end of my pregnancy w/ caleb, it would be funny if it had been something like rocky road. I’ll have to look next time for the sugar free kind as it’s getting closer to me needing to crack down on my sugar intake, but right now ice cream is the only thing I”m taking in well! so I guess I should invest in the sugar free kind now huh?

looking forward to my appt on friday but worrying about what will happen. My headaches are getting less frequent but the nausea and vomitting is definitely still there. I also found myself extremely lost today for about an hour trying to get home from the park, granted it’s not close to home and i’m not all too familiar w/ the area, but it should have taken 25 minutes at the most to get home, but I got turned around so many times it was ridiculous. I’m blaming that on hunger and pregnancy insanity! but it was quite scary for awhile until I got my bearings. So I’ll be glad when things get calmed down a bit, but knowing at this rate that wont be for another twenty years!!! since after the baby is born I”m sure things wont get much easier, but I can at least hope my condition stays under control then.

Well tonight we close on our refinance of our house. By next week all of our credit cards will be paid off, and even our car payment will be gone! we’ve consolidated all our debt onto the mortgage so no high interest rate credit cards and I’ll only have to make one payment a month for the new loan so no more worrying about things being late. We’re going to save about $260 a month or so the numbers say, so we are praying things work out and we can continue to stay on top of things from here on out. I’m hesistant about it but mostly because the process has been a real pain. But am looking forward to a little extra cash each month and we’re getting some cash out to do some home repairs, but not too much so if anything we’ll be able to get the baby’s room nice and get a new front door and some screens for windows. All stuff to look forward to!

well speaking of looking forward to something, I’ve been eager to get a nap, so better get Caleb calmed down and then maybe I can rest some!

16 weeks and counting down! yesterday I had my first full day of no throwing up!!! now if I can keep that up I’ll be one happy camper. I am definitely showing more with this pregnancy than w/ Caleb’s and am afraid when I go on Friday I’ll have gained a lot of weight but I thought that last time and had lost 7 lbs so we’ll see.

You know the week or at least your Monday is going to go poorly when your dog throws up and has diarrhea at midnight! I had trouble sleeping because I was so worried she’d get sick again and we’d have another huge mess to clean up. She was very lethargic first thing this morning but is doing better now, after I gave her some ice to eat. we are not letting her eat any more food until we talk to the vet. I do not do good w/ kid throw up and do much worse when handling dog vomit. esp. w/ this morning sickness hanging around at the littlest sign of anything gross or that smells bad. So poor Dean had to clean up last night alone. then just a few minutes ago Dean called to say he had taken the car keys to work with him, I knew he should have just stayed home today. we were going to have him take off Friday so we can get our new used car tagged and titled and all that good stuff but now we are thinking today might be better since the dog will need to see the vet and he’ll need to come bring the car keys home anyway. what a mess!

hoping today is just an unlucky monday and not a sign of how the week will go!!! we had a lazy fathers day yesterday. went to church had some friends over for a cookout then took a long nap after which Caleb and Dean went to the park and to get us some pizza for dinner! we all went to bed late but the kid was of course up way too early again!

well monday calls me to do some stuff around the house but felt like I hadnt checked in here in a while…I’ll probably post after my next ob appt on Friday.

Word of advice for men out there w/ pregnant wives: Do not send your ice cream craving pregnant wife to the store to get the ice cream she swears she needs! About a month ago we went to TCBY w/ friends and I got this dreamy reeses peanut butter sundae….mmmm! ever since then I swear I could eat one every day, but havent convinced Dean to go even once more! So last night I wanted ice cream so since the hubby wouldnt go I went to grocery store to seek out some ben & jerrys or something similar on sale. I came home w/ 3 different kinds of ice cream!! I couldnt decide what I wanted so I bought all 3!! bad thing about that is that it’s now available for me to eat any time I want….bad bad bad!!

at my last ob appt I’d lost 7 lbs, and I was starting to think I was finally over the morning sickness plague I get becuase I had a good day or two. I should have known better. These last two days have been horrible again. And ironically for me, I cant keep in water or toast even, but I can keep down a bowl of rocky road ice cream? how strange is that. My body is ok w/ me eating junk food but if I try to eat right and drink the water I need to, I get sick. I just hope this goes away before my next sugar test because I need to get out of these cravings for sweets before I am not allowed to eat them anymore, if not and I do end up w/ gest. diabetes again I will be one grouchy momma!! but what do you do when your body is against you?

I have an appt tomorrow w/ the neurologist for a follow up. I was supposed to have called him and told him what migraine meds my ob oked, but the new dr is against any meds other than tylenol so I dont know that the appt will be worthwhile other than for me to complain about my all day long seriously painful headaches I have. but without being able to treat them theres really no point I guess in seeing the dr other than to have my eyes checked to make sure my pressures are still ok.

well caleb is up from nap…gotta run….

I am grateful yes, that when Dean calls and says freaky stuff is going on at work that he at least mentions he’ll still have a job. Then says he cant talk and ignores my calls for hours!! so turns out they are dissolving his position at his job. yeah great! but since his boss likes him he put in a good word and got him in another dept. of course since Dean’s been downsized, well laid off before, my concern is in 6 months or less when the new dept realizes they dont really need him there they’ll let him go. and this was the job dean always told me, people work there forever.

I am in a real mood today, and it’s probably due to lack of sleep and traveling. Caleb and I went to visit my brother, sister in law, nephew and new baby on the shore. the drive there went well but caleb was a horrible listener to put it nicely and drove me crazy the entire evening yesterday. we probably would have come home but it was raining badly and getting later. so we spent the night and caleb awoke at 6:30 ready to play but no one else in the house woke up til 8:30 at earliest. so until then I had to try to keep him quiet with no tv to use to get him to sit and watch. drive home was just as interesting, Caleb chose to be super fussy and demand daddy a zillion a one times. we finally get home to find a wet puppy who kept barrelling us over. Dean had left her outside and it had been raining all morning. So needless to say I’ve had a busy day and a half and after just getting a call from your ob saying you need to go antibiotics again for the same infection you’ve had for 6 months now, well I’m super bitchy today. I admit it and I was hoping a nap would help but the phone has rung non stop while I”ve tried to nap. Of course while I sit here not sleeping the phone lays quiet. the world is working against me today.

despite my ‘tude, I am happy to have seen my new nephew. Barring I feel up to it later, we will go visit my friend who called this afternoon to say she had her baby at the hospital through the night. Babies babies babies. I cant wait for my turn, but then again I dont know if I will be able to handle it. I’m afraid I’m threatening getting rid of the puppy, she’s driving me crazy on top of Caleb driving me crazy. and did I mention Dean works tomorrow so I wont get a break from the madness anytime soon…..

If I didnt know it, I’d think it was a Monday how my day feels today…..hope the weekend turns out to be more promising then the week was! pregnancy moods huh? dont think i was this bad w/ caleb but today is just turning out to be a tearfilled day for me. I just want to crawl under the blankets and call it a day…..

wohoo! we heard the baby’s heartbeat today, a strong 160 beat! I was soooo happy! Not so happy that I’ve lost 7 lbs since my last appt a month ago, esp since I am showing so not sure where the weight loss is happening other than fluids. But everything went well and I like this new practice much better already. for some odd reason she wants me back in two weeks, I think my blood pressure was little up, she said it was borderline. The other plus, or so I thought was that if we schedule a c-section they will do it at 38 1/2 weeks, before my body can go into labor, or so thats the hope. But we are going to see how things go on that end, but at least I know we wont be at my due date wondering what to do about a c-section or not. For some reason I’m concerned about pre-term labor w/ this one, I’ve had strange contraction like feelings off and on, and I know it’s way too early for anything like that, and of course I failed to think of it at the appt but I dont remember having these feelings w/ Caleb’s pregnancy. but I am happy and so far baby seems to be doing good. she said 2 week f/u and then an u/s at 18-20 weeks and another glucose test at 20 weeks. well I gotta run I am starving for once and am in the mood for a big plate of spaghetti and meatballs, but that means I have to get cooking!!!

Well it’s been a rainy rainy weekend. Each member of the family has taken turns being ill for the last week and today we just hung around resting. Knowing that our church picnic would more than likely be rained out tomorrow or at least postponed due to all the mud, I started thinking about what we’d do tomorrow instead. We have been needing and wanting to start working on getting our basement cleared out so we can eventually move our computer room to the basement office and then work on getting the nursery prepared. I knew it would be a long process, so what better way to use a rainy weekend then to do stuff around the house right? So I was planning on doing some laundry then coming up and making a list of what needs done first tomorrow.

But upon stepping barefoot onto the basement floor in the dark I was greeted w/ several (3 or more) inches of water. I screamed and Dean came running. Once again our whole basement was covered in water. Every room! So much for our big plans. the basement hasnt flooded since the last major flood like this during which we bought a new sump pump. Now we are concerned about moving the computer stuff down there as the one puter that was down there was filled w/ water! I guess the theory will be to see how much getting a second sump pump will be in case we have problems again. while cleaning our major concern became water damage. this is not the first flood of this kind in our home, when we moved in we had to move out the old tennants things, one major mess being a huge rolled up wet rug, proving that indeed recent to our move in there had been water problems I am concerned our frequent illnesses are a result of mold and/or mildew. there are several places you can find water damaged baseboards and bottoms of wall downstairs. we do not have the money to replace all of the walls and/or baseboards, but that would be my dream, but first the problem is fixing the flooding problem. we know we need new gutters and have been told that would help a lot. that was one of the things we planned on doing even before this happened, after we finish our refinance on our mortgage in a week or so. but now we wonder if we should get more cash in hand to do more major repairs, mostly due to the addition of another child to our home. we can make room w/ what we have upstairs but it’ll be a tight fit if we cant use the basement as well, not to mention our spacious playroom is in the basement. so now it looks like we will be looking for someone w/ a truck to borrow so we can indeed clear out the now more water damaged furniture and rugs in the basement and figure out whats next. Blah! what a way to end the day!!

but for now I think I’ll try to destress and head to bed early, again. I am so upset about this, I really had big plans for the rooms down there and had even had paint picked out …..now I just dont know where to start or where we’ll get the money! what a mess. well just when we thinks are starting to go well for us. well gotta run, the kiddo is demanding juice and we need to tuck him into bed. hope everyone else is having a dry weekend!