I've had enough fun with buses for one week. It snowed pretty much all day yesterday (about 10 inches accumulation) and wreaked havoc on commutes everywhere. I'm usually pretty immune to gridlock since I take the bus, but haven't been so lucky lately ( Read more... )

This child is having fun trying to find the most comfortable position in my belly. Little does he know, that isn't going to happen! You're just going to be squished in there, buddy! As of yesterday, he was breech (head up). From about 27 weeks until this past weekend, he was vertex (head down). For the two months before that, he was transverse ( Read more... )

Should I be concerned that I've been able to hear my heart beat in my ears for three days? I was freaked out enough by this (and the fact that it was beating at 96 beats/min after sitting at my computer for hours) that I went to the firestation on Monday and had my blood pressure checked. It was 108/60--pretty much my standard. I have a slight ( Read more... )

I spent the weekend in the Chicago area, having a delightful break from normal life. After taking a 7am flight Saturday morning and riding the train downtown, I met up with 8 other women who'd gathered from all over the country (a group of moms and soon-to-be moms I'd met on a parenting website). We hiked around town shopping and eating and ( Read more... )

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haularobynne goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as pumpkin.fish0251 gives you 1 mauve lemon-flavoured pieces of taffy.llaird gives you 1 dark blue mint-flavoured gummy bears.tonapah gives you 6 dark green passionfruit-flavoured gumdrops.ywong tricks you! You get a block of wood.arobynne ends up with 8 pieces of candy, ( Read more... )

I'm getting sick of my job. It hasn't exactly been fun for quite awhile, and now I just want to sit around and deal with baby stuff all day. Not sure if it's the hormones or work burn-out, but I feel like I secretly hope to get just sick enough to have to quit. Hmm, what illness wouldn't let me sit 8 hours a day, but standing, walking, or lying ( Read more... )

Dan felt the baby move last night! I felt a couple kicks and had him feel my belly in case the movement kept going. Suddenly it felt like the kid took a running (swimming?) start and slammed into the uterine wall! Wow! I could feel the baby moving through his/her amniotic fluid (which at this point, consists partially of his/her pee--isn't that ( Read more... )

My sleep/awake/energy timing has been really screwed up this past week. Until recently, I could sleep 14 hours a day without trouble (compared to 6 hours/night I got by on pre-pregnancy). Then Saturday evening I napped a couple hours in the evening to escape painting at the IL's and ended up staying awake until 5am reading. I kept telling myself ( Read more... )

Slowly, slowly the unpacking is happening and the boxes are leaving our house. I've been fairly heartless in tossing/Goodwilling stuff--particularly clothes and books. It feels great to only have half the trinkets on my dresser now and not to have any of the jewelry I never wear ( Read more... )

My midwife had me keep track of everything I ate this weekend. The depressing thing was that my food intake in the past few days was far better than it had been for the previous two weeks, and I bet it still wasn't anywhere near what I should have eaten. We'll see what she says at my prenatal this afternoon ( Read more... )