June 2008 - Posts
Posted Monday, June 30, 2008 1:00 PM
Internals are where your OB/midwife checks your cervix for dilation or effacement. Internals are usually not started until the end of pregnancy or until the baby is overdue, and during labor. My doctor decided to start internals at 34 weeks in order to
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Posted Monday, June 30, 2008 12:08 PM
Bitter, Insensitive, Temperamental, Cranky, Horrible That's my new definition of a b.i.t.c.h and that's exactly what I've become. I really can't help it, it's like a demon has totally taken over my former self. My poor husband is taking it all in stride,
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Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 2:29 PM
Early in the first trimester, you're peeing every hour because your kidneys go into overdrive with all the new hormones. That's a lot of toilet paper and flushing. Then you buy new clothes because nothing fits anymore. And you're also probably buying
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Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 3:03 PM
Mmmmmmmm.... it was SO worth it. I avoided the candy favors (although I have one of each to take home and eat - probably in the hospital room after delivery) but I absolutely had a chocolate icing covered brownie from heaven and a piece of angel food
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Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:11 AM
Everyone cheats, right? I totally cheated on my gestational diabetes diet yesterday, and not just a little cheat like hot chocolate from Starbucks. This was a big cheat. I picked up lunch for everyone in the office yesterday at a local pizza place which
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Posted Monday, June 23, 2008 11:05 AM
My Granny (as we've always called her) is in a nursing home with Dementia. Her memory comes and goes in waves. Sometimes she thinks my mom is her sister, sometimes she knows she's her daughter. Anyway, it's not an incredibly sad thing actually - my mom
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Posted Friday, June 20, 2008 2:41 PM
I admit I'm quite clumsy in my current pregnant state. I bump into things, drop everything that enters my grasp, and spill food like no other. But I didn't think I was that bad until I managed to get my toenail caught in my blanket in the middle of the
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Posted Thursday, June 19, 2008 4:53 PM
My cousin just emailed me some old photos she took last year...yikes. Bad idea to look at photos of your old cute self when you're now a far cry from that fun-loving, martini-drinking, curly-haired, skinny girl. Here are those photos, taken probably about
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Posted Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:55 PM
1. The Bachelorette. Are you watching? I am because there isn't much else on during these summer months. This is the first time in Bachelor/Bachelorette history where I've actually liked all of the final four and will be happy with whomever she chooses.
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Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2008 4:04 PM
I have nothing else to report. I swear I'm so boring! Oh one thing...last night in childbirth class, we were supposed to be practicing relaxation techniques but I felt lame doing it and figured my husband will step up to the challenge when it's time and
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Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 10:53 AM
1. Chris told me he would be outside and I said I'd join him in a couple of minutes. I expected to find him watering the flowers, fixing the deck, or going through the garage. When I came outside, I found him swinging on the deck swing with his legs propped
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Posted Friday, June 13, 2008 10:40 AM
But the system beat me. Darn it! So I posted that my blood sugar levels have been great, never once going over where they should be. The GD diet changed my eating a little bit, like no sweets at all and no fruit before 1 pm, but it isn't too far of a
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Posted Thursday, June 12, 2008 9:55 AM
So far on this crazy regimen of eating that I'm on, I've done great with my blood sugar levels. I'm so proud of me. The pricking sucks because it has to be done first thing in the morning (the needle must be thinking "good morning René, let me cause you
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Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:20 PM
Some of you weren't buying the arm and back fat and all that...so here goes. Here are the photos that show off that double chin and chub...I just don't want you to think I'm a whiner or that I'm saying "I'm fat" so you guys will say "No you aren't." I'm
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Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:55 PM
I was tiny before getting pregnant. Never assume you'll stay tiny when pregnant. (and yes, I eat well and exercise...it can still happen to the best of us) My ass expanded, I developed back fat, my thighs slosh together with each step so much so that
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Posted Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:21 AM
At childbirth class, this time we had to go around the room and say the one selfish thing we are looking forward to once the baby is born. There were a lot of the following comments: "Sleep on my stomach again." "Have a beer." "Fit into my old jeans."
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Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 11:28 AM
(alert: I'm a horrible person in this blog post, beware) I had my first emotional breakdown of the pregnancy last night. I realized that I'm not attached to this baby yet. I don't feel like I love him. I thought really hard about it and realized it takes
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edmo
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Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:15 PM
Grocery shopping used to be fun and easy. Not so much when you have to shop with a very restricted diet in mind. Yesterday was my first grocery store experience since I heard the bad GD news. Many hours went into this shopping experience. I spent three
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Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 2:30 PM
I think you might appreciate this story. Our first childbirth class was last night. Oh my god, BORING! I don't know how we're going to make it through 4 more classes. Anyway, we had to go around the room (there were 12 couples in the class) and state
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Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 12:35 PM
I work for the government and I get "leave time" ... that's it. I earn 4 hours of leave every two weeks. It isn't divided among sick time, personal time, and vacation. Just leave. When I go on maternity leave, I will receive 5 weeks of short term disability,
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edmo
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Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 8:26 AM
If you ask Chris, he says it's the best $165 we ever spent. If you ask me, I say "Eh." We had a 3D/4D ultrasound on Saturday, something I wasn't interested in but Chris was super adamant about. So we did it. Of course my damn placenta (being in the unfortunate
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edmo
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Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 3:14 PM
A few of you regular Nesties may remember, since the beginning of this pregnancy I've felt I was putting on way too much weight too quickly. I asked my doctor about it at every single appointment, telling her I felt like 5 pounds a month was excessive
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edmo
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