Dreams

I've had weird dreams during pregnancy, such as the one that told me before the 4th month that I was having a boy (in the dream I was making my toddler son pee in the toilet). I basically knew in my heart after that dream that the doctor would tell me it's a boy.

Last night I had a dream that I was going into labor and the doctor made me walk around the hospital room to try to get my water to break. Then the dream shifted to me playing with this tiny little infant, placing it on my chest, kissing and cuddling with it. I tried to breastfeed him but he wouldn't suck, so I ended up feeding him formula through a bottle. Finally I used a breast pump and managed to extract tons of milk, so I put that in a bottle and tried to feed him again but he wasn't hungry. In the dream I measured how much he had drunk by looking at the ounce marks on the bottle. Then I burped him but was afraid he'd spit up all over me.

Just another lovely lil discomfort of pregnancy...

He's started kicking my coochacha HARD. It feels sometimes like he's doing a little jig on my cervix. I've read that it could mean that his head is grinding against the cervix, and not to worry since apparently the cervix is much stronger than it seems. As long as there is no body part making its way into the vagina, I guess all is well.

When it happens it's shocking and stops me in my tracks. I feel it more when I get risky and start lifting heavy items (relatively heavy items) such as grocery bags. I could mention it to the doctor, but I have a strong feeling that the doctor would either brush it off as another normal part of pregnancy or he would do something worse...actually CHECK my cervix. That, my friends, would just suck. I hated having the ultrasounds earlier in the pregnancy when they put the balled stick up my coochacha and move it around...so I know if the doctor stick his fingers in to check my cervix I'm going to scream.

So I'm just going to not mention it and keep on getting shocked. :-)

Numnah

HILARIOUS... Sameer Mishra at the 2008 Scripps Howard Spelling Bee (eventually won the contest). I love his facial expressions!

Yay something works

So Nasacort has been great as a medication. I've been able to sleep through the night (well, mostly sleep through, I still can't control my bladder!). I don't wake up with the horrendous congestion that I've had for months now. Yes there is still congestion, and it's no where near normal breathing, but at least it comes and goes in phases now through the day, and I can almost predict the levels of congestion. I still can't do the breathing excersises in my yoga class (requires breathing through the nose). But at least there is some relief!

The hips are slowly deteriorating....by 8pm daily I am pretty much done with any sort of activity (besides lounging around). Baby's the size of a cabbage now, so I guess it's due to his size and weight and my pelvic bone expanding to accomodate him. I reaching the point where none of my pre-pregnancy shirts work now, so yesterday I purchased some tops from Mimi Maternity. I figure a few of them I'll be able to wear post-partum. I'm more hesitant to purchase tons of maternity pants because I'm pretty sure they'll be too big to wear afterwards.

How I love lists

Items purchased for new home (with links for viewing pleasure)

• Sectional Couch
• flat screen TV
• Master bedroom set (that makes me feel all grown up)
• Mattress
• Window fan
• Pregnancy belt (yeah it's part of new house, the only way I'll be able to keep functioning and moving stuff up and down the stairs!)
• Tons of miscellaneous items like bathroom rug sets, etc.

Items still coming:

• Slipcovers for old couch set
• Coffee table for family room
• lamps for master bedroom
• Crib, changing table, glider, and pack and play
• Either a tv stand or something to hook the tv to the wall
• Reciever/speakers for TV

Areas still needing work:

• Guestbedroom needs to be set up for guests, right now we are sleeping in it while we wait for mattresses to be delivered.
• Office/bedroom still has tons of boxes that need to be emptied/arranged.
• Baby's room ('nuff said)
• Family room needs to get the TV situation sorted out (where to put TV etc)
• Living room needs to have old coffee tables polished and then slipcovers added, and all clutter items transported upstairs.
• Kitchen is done, except need to organize pantry so I can actually move my whale sized body in and out of it.
• Garage has tons of boxes and garbage from recent purchases. Need to figure out what to do with those.

Things to do before baby arrives:

• Purchase crib, changing table, and glider. Set up changing station and nursing station.
• Tour the hospital and ask doc lots of questions.
• Finish all of my work projects.
• Finish setting up the new home.
• Make sure nails are done, toes painted, hair is freshly trimmed (err & I mean hair everywhere)
• Battery in video camera ready to go? Camera ready?
• Make hospital bag and list of important phone numbers. Make sure no rotting foods in fridge. Stock up on food in fridge.

Mom's visit

So unfortunetly Mom will only be able to make it out here for 2 weeks due to her work place being uncooperative with the days off. That's cutting it close, ideally we wanted a week before due date and then 2 weeks after to assure that she's around when the baby arrives. Now she's coming about 2 days before the due date, so hopefully baby won't be early.

She's had a couple work related injuries that are getting to her...she can't stand up for as long as time anymore. I think her visit here will be relaxing, because there's not as much work to do as there is back in my parents home.

Oh baby!

Our little Mexican jumping bean is definetly that....he kicks and rolls all day lately! I actually really love it, because it's a constant reassurance that all is well. When he doesn't kick I get that nagging feeling that something's not right...

I feel his little hands on my lower belly and his legs on my upper belly.

Oh and the other day I looked in the mirror and saw little blue veins starting to appear on the sides of my ever growing lump...so weird! Like I said before, pregnancy makes you experience the strangest sensations and changes in the body. The human body is amazing!

Trying to control cravings for sweets and junk food...I look at fruit and want to GAG. I want to drink chocolate milk 24/7, dip cookies into the chocolate milk, basically eat any type of pastry item, eat pizza and chicken nuggets... so yeah need to do something about this, my baby will come out FAT (besides making me fat!).