November 19, 2010
Hooray for me??
I haven't broken down into tears in over 24 hours!!! Maybe things are settling down on the hormone front...
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November 15, 2010
Wallace Blythe Isabelle Hraban
Born at home 7:54am 11/13/2010
Weight 8lbs 14ozs
21 Inches long
Head 36.5 cm
Naming her may actually have been harder than bringing her out into the world!
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November 13, 2010
By a nose
It was a close race, but our baby girl beat out even the bedroom furniture. Our second daughter arrived at 7:54am and the bedroom set didn't make it until 12:07pm! The couches are nowhere in sight (sigh)
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November 12, 2010
The best laid plans...
just don't got the way I wanted.
I could hardly believe we made it to 11/11 after all the contractions (starting 10/30) but here we are and we missed it!!!! I am disappointed to say the least, but it is hard to explain to anyone just how much or why...
I feel like we tried everything reasonably available (even had my first acupuncture treatment after hearing about a friends results with induction via that treatment - NOTHING for me) and it just wasn't the right time.
I guess this is yet another moment of God teaching me I am NOT in control and to just get over myself. It is a lesson I apparently need hammered into my head at every possible occasion.
Now I have no more "favorite" dates left and I am just tired of being pregnant. Hope to meet this baby REALLY SOON!
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November 6, 2010
The race is on...
Apparently we are going to have a race to see which comes first... the baby or the furniture (2 couches or 1 bedroom set.) I am kinda pulling for the couches, but that may just be because I am tired of sitting on the ones we have now...
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November 5, 2010
Ack!
My midwife just called and has a family emergency and won't be available for the next 12 hours... she has back ups, but Oh boy I am trying to be calm! Not happy, but what can you do?
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November 4, 2010
It's just an estimate
Yes today is my "EDD" or "estimated due date" and yes the baby isn't here yet - big surprise!
I have to say it has been very interesting talking to people this week. Please love to ask a pregnant women when she is due, but when you answer "today" or any day with 2-4 days of when you are talking to them you get nearly the same reaction. Shock, surprise, and (what looks to me like) hidden concern that you are going to shoot a baby out at them or get amniotic fluid on their shoes... I fluctuate between amused and annoyed by these reactions.
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October 26, 2010
Hope springs eternal...
It is funny, at the beginning of each (of at least the 2nd and 3rd) pregnancies I expected to go past my due date and was totally fine with it. It was such a long time away that a few days didn't seem like anything. The part I find funny is that as I approached 36 weeks (a few weeks ago) I started thinking (yet again) "maybe this time I will have this baby early."
What is it about late pregnancy that makes me think that I could go into labor at any moment?
I have had 2 pregnancies so far go days past the "due" date and there is no indication that this time will be any different, but somehow I can't help but think - "maybe this time"
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October 20, 2010
There goes another one...
10/20/2010... Would have been a fine birth date too... AND it was inside the home birth window... Guess we are crossing the legs until November
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October 14, 2010
In the window
Well we made it to the home birth "window." Hello 37 weeks!
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October 10, 2010
10/10/10
Well there goes a perfectly good birth date!!! Guess we will have to hang on until 11/11. Sigh!
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September 28, 2010
Not gonna make it
I have NO idea how I am going to make it through the next 5+ weeks!!! I hurt, I can't do anything comfortably (sit, stand, sleep, anything). I actually asked Scott today if I could just be put into a coma and wake up for labor... I can live through labor pain, but I don't know how I am going to deal with the time in between!
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September 2, 2010
Tick Tock
OK I am getting seriously tired of the pregnancy insomnia!!! I really hope this is just the aftermath of my "half-caf" morning and not the start of another sleeping (or not) trend.
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August 28, 2010
Baby Dreams
Last night I had my first "baby dream" ... well more of a nightmare really. It was so intense and vivid I had a very hard time settling back to sleep after.
I was in labour. It was strange (not in the labour is strange way just in a dreams are strange way mostly). I remember lying down to start pushing, then waking up in a drugged like fog. Thinking to myself I really should start pushing, when I realized I no longer had a baby in my belly. There was no one around and I start panicking. I could hear voices in another room, but am all alone in the dark. (still foggy and feeling "drugged") Finally I call out for someone to come and tell me what is going on and then I hear in my Son's voice (as if he was laying next to me in his spot in the bed) "The baby died. Previously undetected Leukaemia"
And then I woke up with something that felt like an electric shock jolting through my body...
Needless to say I was shaken and had to process feelings that weren't actually true, but still felt real.
It was NOT a happy time. Thankfully Baby 3 spent most the time I was processing (read crying on Scott's shoulder) kicking me hard in the side as if to say "I'm all right mommy"
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August 16, 2010
Camping in the "cold"
We went camping with some friends over the weekend. Tried out Henry Cowell SP in Felton CA.
Things we liked:
Shady
Near Roaring Camp (cool steam trains)
Ranger activities for the kids
What we didn't like
NO Alcohol policy (didn't really matter much to me this time)
POISON IVY EVERYWHERE
it was wet, damp and cold (although not really the park's fault - just bizarre weather!)
Overall we had a very nice time. The kids played well together, the trains were cool to look at, the food was yummy, the bathroom wasn't too far...
I do have to say that camping is more challenging than I expected being pregnant. It is so easy to forget to do the routine things that keep my functioning (vitamins, exercises for my back, etc.) and the air mattress and walking outside to the bathroom in the middle of the night are NOT fun!
We'll see if we make it to our planned trip in September?!?!?!
PS Thanks to Dirk I am seriously paranoid about poison ivy now. Had to google all about it when we got home and would really rather just burn all the possibly contaminated items (i.e all our clothes) rather than deal with them!
ETA: As of a few days after getting back we have only one possible poison ivy manifestation (on Chanler's forehead at the hairline), but he claims it doesn't itch or hurt and it is the size of a pencil eraser... guess we got off lucky.
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July 21, 2010
Not following the prescribed pattern
So, when we got pregnant with number 3 I assumed I knew what was coming... I've had a boy and a girl and had nearly identical pregnancy symptoms with both. So pregnancy 3 seemed like it should be a known pattern, BUT not so much!
I like to joke that this pregnancy is different than my first two so I must be having puppies, but it seriously doesn't compare. The nausea - different, aversions - different, sleep problems - different, aches and pains - different... the list goes on and on.
Really hoping that the feeling sick that I THOUGHT should be gone by now actually goes soon. Not really happy with 6 months of everything to eat sounding horrible!
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June 5, 2010
It's a...
HUMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just a little joke (that I think is funny and don't care if anyone else does)
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April 23, 2010
Milestone?
Well I made it to week 12+1 day and the vomiting hasn't started yet... crossing fingers
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