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Tuesday, 27 March 2012

  • Mystery Chatter

    It's hard enough to try and understand a toddler's requests, but when they repeat a certain phrase over and over for WEEKS it's torture to not know what they're saying! A few fun videos of the mysterious messages RJ has been trying to tell us...

    When RJ was almost 1 1/2 years old, he started saying "cee, ohh, ahh" over and over again every time he saw his zoo lunchbox toy. I still to this day have no idea what it means.

     

    Now that he's 2 1/4 years old, he has started saying "e i n o l e" whenever he's coloring or if he sees a bunch of letters. Sometimes it comes out "c i n o l e".

    Can anyone help solve the mystery? What is my little boy trying to tell me?

Monday, 06 February 2012

  • Second Trimester Woes

    So here I am in my second trimester and I'm actually LOSING weight. I have NEVER really lost weight without really trying. So I'm a little worried. I gained about 6 lbs in the first trimester, then when I weighed in at the beginning of the second trimester I was exactly the same weight. So I was like, good! Then I just weighed myself this morning and I lost 2 pounds. What gives?!? 

    Well I know the reason... I have absolutely no appetite, and when I CAN eat, I can only get through maybe 1/4 of a regular meal and I have to stop eating. I'm also having trouble eating warm or smelly things. My mouth still fills with saliva and I'm coughing and gagging a lot. Morning sickness/nausea is definitely gone but this different feeling is so weird. 

    My belly is growing steadily but I'm actually starting to get worried that I'm not getting enough nutrition and calories to support the baby's growth and development. All I can really do at this point is try to eat many many times during the day and eat whatever seems good to me at the time. The only things I can consistently eat are bagels with cream cheese and bowls of cereal. Apple juice has definitely been my savior-- whenever I'm feeling woozy, I have a glass of Mott's light and I feel better almost immediately. 

    I'm hoping to announce the pregnancy after we find out the sex of the baby at 18 weeks, but I'm not sure I can last another 3 weeks!! I'm really starting to show!!

Sunday, 29 January 2012

  • Maternity Clothes

    I'm almost 15 weeks along and officially into my second trimester, and I'm finally needing to get into maternity pants again. I'm glad it's taken this long, but since I was unemployed the last time I was pregnant, my maternity wardrobe is pretty limited. In fact, in the first two trimesters I pretty much lived in regular clothes, including flowy dresses in the summer. So I visited the Destination Maternity outlet yesterday (they have huge racks of as-is and clearance from Pea in the Pod, which is normally VERY expensive) and Old Navy and Frugal Fannie's today. I ended up with pretty much what I need for the next couple of months: 1 pair of skinny maternity jeans, 2 pairs of dressy black leggings (one with pockets, one a faux suede), 1 pair of regular black leggings, and a few short-sleeved tops that I can layer long sweaters over. I also got a great new puffy coat with elastic at the waist. It's not a maternity coat but the elastic will allow room for my expanding belly. 

    I'm psyched for all the new clothes, especially since the girls at my work dress so nicely and I just feel like such a frumpy mom next to them. But I discovered something a little maddening while shopping for maternity bottoms. I wear a size small bottom at Motherhood/Destination maternity, and size 6 maternity jean from Old Navy. This means that I SHOULD be a size 6, or maybe 8 at the most when not pregnant. The last time I was that size was middle school!! Sigh. My friend Yuko is becoming a crossfit and yoga teacher and is using me as her guinea pig, so hopefully after this baby I can really invest some time and energy into getting into shape. (I won't say BACK into shape because I don't think I've EVER been in shape!) She's basically giving me FREE individual personal training sessions AT MY HOUSE or at the park while I'm there with the family, so there's really no excuse. 

    I'm also excited to start wearing maternity clothes again because I really love how I look when I'm pregnant. I feel that I am very disproportional in my everyday life (small shoulders and hips, but big boobs and belly... I'm an apple with arms and legs) so I feel like when I'm pregnant and my belly comes out, I can embrace my shape and be proud of how it looks because I'm pregnant. Does that make sense? I can't really explain it all that well, but I love how my body looks pregnant. I think it's a little reward for me since pregnancy is so physically uncomfortable. In the first trimester I just feel kinda squishy and fat, but once the belly pops out, I feel a lot more proportional and beautiful. 

    I keep feeling flutters in my belly after I eat, but I can't figure out if it's the baby moving or just gas!

Monday, 23 January 2012

  • First vomiting and food issues

    So yesterday I think I caught a 24 hour stomach bug. We came back from a quick trip to New Jersey to visit family and friends, and I felt awful in general... and when I woke up on Sunday morning I threw up. Full-out retching and dryheaving after my stomach was empty. I tried to eat some food, suspecting my morning sickness was just worse than ever (I was just thinking it was going away, since I'm 13 weeks!) and I ended up throwing up again in the afternoon. So I drank gatorade, ginger ale and ate soup and crackers, and I ended up throwing all of that up in the evening. Vomit, snot, tears, my soul... all going down the toilet.

    Thank GOD I'm feeling much better today-- I've only been awake for a few hours now, but I had some crackers and a little soup and gatorade and no sign of vomit yet. I also figured out a great solution to nausea-- sucking the outside of sour patch kids! But only the red and yellow ones. And you gotta spit it out as soon as it starts turning sweet.

    I know the vomiting is not because of the pregnancy, but I'm sure it's worse because of the pregnancy and I cannot IMAGINE being like this for three months straight!! I'm so lucky that my normal morning sickness is just nausea without the vomiting. My God.

    And on this note, I'll also mention that despite my condition yesterday and today, my nausea this pregnancy has been a LOT milder than I had with RJ. I still have some light food aversions, but nothing really of note. Mostly if I keep my stomach from being empty, I can eat almost anything. This has led to a bit more weight gain in the first trimester than with RJ, but I'm not seriously concerned... I'm mostly just trying to keep the nausea at bay, and once the second trimester hits and I start feeling better, I can concentrate more on eating right and exercising.

    Particular cravings so far have included:

    • Toasted plain bagels with hot, melty plain cream cheese. Rob and I usually share one on the train in the mornings.
    • SOUP! I'm normally not a big soup eater but I have had so much soup this pregnancy.
    • Sushi. :( Thankfully Bamboo nearby has a bunch of yummy rolls that don't have anything raw in them. Although I'm confused about the roe they put on the outside... is that considered raw?
    • Town House Flatbread Crisps (olive oil and sea salt) with Hannah's Spinach Dip, all from Costco. I tasted this as a sample and we've now been through 4 boxes of crisps and 2 containers of dip. Yikes!
    • Like with my first pregnancy, hard candies (like lifesavers).

    That's all I can think of for now... 

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Pulse

  • Evolution of a nickname: buh-BAH, bub, bub-bub, beub, my lil beub, bub-boo, bah-boo, my sweet baboo.
  • So many changes afoot... the frozen breastmilk supply has run out, and we may be going to a single nap...!!
  • Of course I jinxed myself. As I was blogging about consistent 2 hour naps, he was in the middle of a nap that was less than an hour.