Posted by Emily on December 19, 2009
I was at my parents house eating the most delicious Mexican food (OK, that’s totally unrelated… I just wanted to think about the yummy goodness) when my mom mentioned that the end of the pregnancy is approaching!
But then as one of us sought to put a number of weeks to it, we realized that we had both totally forgotten how far along I am. Ha. So we counted backwards from my due date.
I’m at 31 weeks, people, 31 weeks!
See, if we’d had a smartphone we could have just cheated by looking on here to see how many weeks it’s been!
Posted by Emily on December 15, 2009
1. I get Charley horses in my sleep. I’m not kidding. That’s whack, right?
2. This has been happening for months, but it only just occurred to me last week that it might be strange. I get heartburn everyday, but when it gets really bad, which is also a daily occurrence, I get shooting pains in between my eyes. I never had heartburn pre-pregnancy; I didn’t know that wasn’t supposed to happen! 
3. I have a rash on my belly. Apparently this is very common. Awesome.
4. I find myself being proud of the most ridiculous things. “What’s that, most women are ‘leaking urine’ when they sneeze right now? Well, I’m not. Booyah!” Or how about thinking about my massive mama-jammas and silently applauding them for still being so perky that it wouldn’t even be possible to try the pencil test. Or that I still have a normal belly-button!
Yeah, I think my link to reality might be fading.
New picture of the delusional pregnant lady to come.
Posted by Emily on November 30, 2009
So I’m an insomniac. Being pregnant has exhausted me out of my mind. I can usually cope by sleeping in and taking a nap every few days. I normally can’t do either of those things (I stopped taking naps before my older brother did as a wee child) even though I’m quite tired, but pregnant lady can often get away with it. I’m discovering that traveling puts the kibosh on that though. Just like would normally happen, sleeping anywhere but home means getting WAY less sleep. I can’t fall asleep, I can’t stay asleep, I can’t sleep in.
I hate sleeping at other people’s houses.
My head is throbbing from a few days of severe fatigue now and my stomach is still kind of upside down. (I had terrible nausea last night, threw up twice and spent the rest of the evening in that in between stage, “am I going to throw up? … yes… no…”)
Yep, bring on the day.
Posted by Emily on November 27, 2009
Today is the official start of the third trimester, so obviously I need to mark it with a post. I’d mark it with a picture of the belly, but you know what? I’m tired, I have a ton to do before tomorrow morning, and I’m very stressed about some unrelated garbage. I recommend scrolling down to 25 weeks. I really don’t look different.
Other than that, here’s the ultrasound pictures from two days ago. She’s estimated to weigh about 2lbs, 10 ounces. I once again got the comment, “wow, you have a very active baby.” I think it’s funny that they say this every time because I’m very aware that she’s an active kid. I’m convinced that she’s going to be an insomniac child that is constantly finding new ways to flip off of the couches. Not that I know of anyone that was like that when they were a little bit…
We also saw her little lips moving and her chest go up and down as she practiced breathing.
Posted by Emily on November 23, 2009
Call me crazy, but I can’t see that fetus any other way now. I’m sure he or she has a sweet spirit. 
Posted by Emily on November 17, 2009
I had one of those moments today that is just so inhumane that you have to laugh.
There’s a lot of joking around about how often and urgently pregnant women need to pee. Want to know why? Because it’s true!
I was at a convention today and yesterday, the lovely thing about this is that you feel some obligation to stay until the breaks if you can, then everyone rushes like cattle to the restrooms. I never make it to the beginning of the line because those darn women that aren’t carrying a volleyball under their shirt move fast. I don’t blame them though.
However, what about the lady that no fewer than three times made a move to jump me in line? You know the type, every time there’s a corner or door, they think they can just slide in front of a few people. I actually see her looking at my stomach and then still making tentative moves to try out her covert operation.
I finally just turned and stared at her full on. Seriously, if you are going to try to push me out of the bathroom line while I’m pregnant, you’re going to have to look me in the eye first and wonder whether or not going to hell will be your punishment.
She stopped.
Bwahahahaha
Posted by Emily on November 14, 2009
26 Weeks
Notice that I have no head in this picture, it’s so that you can’t scrutinize my face as I tell you these things.
I have plenty of acne.
I have a couple of spider veins.
The pregnancy “glow” is actually just a tired, suddenly oily face.
Thank you, fetus.
Also.
My breasts and stomach itch.
I have a linea nigra (it’s that light brown line) running vertically up my belly. I call it my racing stripe.
I do not have stretch marks as of yet. I may or may not fess up to it if/when they show up.
I still have quite the innie belly-button
And unrelated to the skin discussion. I can’t breath. I’m writing this ridiculous post to kill time while I wait to catch my breath so I can get back to the laundry:)
Posted by Emily on November 10, 2009
…I don’t even look slightly pregnant in the outfit I’m wearing today.
For real.
Posted by Emily on November 9, 2009
Yep, I allowed someone to inject dead virus in me.
I’m not going to be able to cover all of my thoughts in this, but incomplete as it is, here are some of the reasons I decided to get the somewhat controversial H1N1 vaccination. I was also vaccinated for the seasonal flu back in September. I’m not going to put my negative thoughts in here, only the reasons why I did it.
First off, I don’t buy into that the H1N1 shot is any more dangerous than the seasonal flu shot. Why? Because the flu shot is different every year. They use the same basic concoction and throw the current viruses into it. The decision for me was whether I would get either, not whether the swine flu vac was going to kill me.
Why I got it for me
Mostly, because my husband wanted me to; and the following is his compelling argument.
It would be hard for me to identify flu symptoms before I was either getting better (you know what they say about hindsight), or on my way to the hospital. I still have morning sickness, and I have to tell you, being sick to your stomach for this long can take its toll on you. You get used to feeling sick. You stop thinking of it as out of the ordinary. I have almost all the flu symptoms on a daily basis, fatigue, muscle/joint aches and pains, nausea, stuffy nose, shortness of breath, some coughing.
Frankly, I’m notorious for not realizing I’m sick even when I started out healthy. I don’t pay much attention to random pains unless it’s enough to stop me, and I’m having random pain all the time, and it’s already a day to day thing on whether it’s stopping me. I suppose we could take my temp every day to try to catch a bug in the early stages, but that would be terribly onerous.
Oh, and my dirty secret. I have asthma. Bet you didn’t know that, bet you’ll never hear me say it again. If I don’t take care of a respiratory illness, bronchitis and I can get pretty friendly. And you think I’m kidding about not noticing? I once had bronchitis for a month before I thought it was annoying enough to get checked out… I had pulled a muscle coughing. I have a pretty high tolerance for pain, but it turns out that pulling a muscle under your lung HURTS.
Moving on.
Why I got it for baby girl
This is where it got compelling for me. We have a wedding to go to about a month after baby girl’s due date. This is during a time that baby girl will have a very weak immune system of her own, and the problem with something like a wedding is that everyone is greeting everyone else, that has come from all over the country, so having anyone touch baby girl can be like having everyone in the room touch her.
So what to do? Well, we’ve already told family that she’s off limits during the ceremony and reception, but when you’re stuck in a room, you want to do all you can.
It’s believed that when a pregnant woman receives a vaccination that it develops an immunity in the baby, just to a lesser extent, for the first months of life. Well, if I’m going to make a pediatrician unrecommended visit with a newborn, to a bunch of people when flu season is still a happening thing, I kind of feel like it’s my responsibility to do everything I can to protect my baby.
Am I overreacting? Sorry, I know too many people that did hospital stays with newborns because they thought the recommendations were “over the top.” I don’t feel that something horrific is going to happen, but why send my little girl’s not yet developed immune system towards unpleasantness? That seems selfish to me. So I’m just doing what I can.
25 weeks and some days
Concentrating, not grouchy
Posted by Emily on November 2, 2009
Surprisingly, this is a topic of much excitement for me. I confess, that although I preferred darker eyes, I did hope to marry someone with blue or green eyes.
The thing is, when two people with very light eyes, or two people with very dark eyes have children, it’s kind of a given that baby’s eyes will look like mommy and daddy’s eyes. It does go against the grain every once in a long while, but it’s not very common. I’d give you a biology lesson and tell you all about it, but I wouldn’t want you to fall asleep on your keyboard.
So back to my excitement. My mother has greenish eyes and my dad has brown. Every time a child was born we would guess at the color of eyes. The baby being born doesn’t do away with the mystery, it takes about six months for the color to establish. Before that, just about every caucasian baby has the same dark gray or blue eyes. It was very neat to watch the slow change. The debate continued with Jacob for almost a year before there was no denying that his eyes were brown.
The count in my family? I have two brothers with blue eyes, two sisters with green eyes, and Jacob and I have brown eyes. No two sets look alike. If you really break it down, there are varying shades of brown, blue, gray, hazel, green, and they are all gorgeous!
I love that over the next several years we’ll get to see very vibrant and different colored eyes, because two people with different levels of melanin in their irises fell in love.
We're still that happy
Slight however, while I welcome all eye colors to the babies, I will admit that I’m really hoping my genes will beat out husband’s as far as actual functionality goes though. I went to the dr about three years ago because I realized that my eyesight wasn’t as good as it used to be, well, it’s 20/15 now, so I guess it hadn’t degraded quite to as shabby of a state as I feared. David is blind as a bat:D Please! Please, take after my eyesight, kiddos!
Also, this is a cute eye color predicting site. Click Here.
How Long Has it Been?
