August 19th, 2010 . Posted in Birth | No Comments »
So at Mothering.com due date forum for October was this gem this morning.
Madame Zaritska predicts your birth experience
So here is how Topher will arrive:
The day you deliver, outside will be rainy. Your baby will arrive in the early morning. After a labor lasting approximately 16 hours, your child, a boy, will be born. Your baby will weigh about 12 pounds, 6 ounces, and will be 20 inches long. This child will have light violet eyes and barely there black hair.
Everything about it sounds good except for the 12 pound, 6 ounce thing. With the average size of this little one and how small my belly is I am highly doubtful that he is going to be that big. I’ll check back with this post in November and let you know how close it was.
August 14th, 2010 . Posted in Pregnancy, Third Trimester | No Comments »
We had our first official prenatal appointment with our new midwife and it was really nice. It took a little over an hour and we went through all of my medical records and talked about each of my blood work results and what each test and result meant and I am in great health and the baby is doing really well. We also looked over all the ultrasound measurements and results and she was pleased with everything.
Then she palpated my abdomen to see what position the baby was in and feel how large he was and she said he is feeling about average size for this gestational age. The baby as head down but a little oblique hanging out on my right side and she said that is why I am feeling SO much movement. Although its a blessing it hurts by the end of the day.
At our next appointment I’m going to take home a blood glucose monitor and take my blood sugar several times a day for three or four days and keep a journal of what I am eating to check for gestational diabetes.
Here are some pictures of my belly which to me feels much bigger than it looks in this picture.
August 4th, 2010 . Posted in Pregnancy, Third Trimester | No Comments »
So we have decided on a new care provider. Our new midwife is Stacia Proefrock owner of Trillium Birth Services. She is a wonderful woman who is certified and has many years of experience!
Also we have chosen a name for our little boy.
Topher Grant!
Oh and I’m officially in the third trimester.
July 22nd, 2010 . Posted in Birth, Pregnancy | No Comments »
So I can’t relieve what the big news/change is until we tell our family. But it’s going to be awesome.
July 13th, 2010 . Posted in Pregnancy, Second Trimester | No Comments »
Yes I was laid off twice in 8 days. I went from having two jobs to one job to zero jobs in a little over a week.
This really sucks, we will be loosing out on about $600 a month and that coupled with moving to a more expensive place is placing some stress on us. This will also be giving me a paid maternity leave starting now and probably going through the first of next year! I think that this will all work out for us in the long run.
Since I am looking quite pregnant these days I don’t really think many people are going to get into line to hire a 7 month pregnant woman who would like to take another two or three months off after the baby comes.
I’ll post some pictures of the growing belly soon.
July 3rd, 2010 . Posted in Parenting | 1 Comment »
Xander does not really have colic and hasn’t ever had it, but he is now acting in full toddler form. And he spent several hours mostly crying this morning for various toddler frustrations. I usually and very patient but today it was just all day long, every five minutes he was crying then happy then crying then happy and this just went on and on.
June 29th, 2010 . Posted in Parenting | No Comments »
So we have so much change going on right now it is a little crazy to think about all at once.
We have been trying to short sell our house and just got an offer that we signed the papers for and submitted to the bank yesterday. Our Realtor says he has dealt with this mortgage company before and he expects us to be out of our house in 90 days! Which would be the beginning of September. But we are scheduled to go on vacation from September 4-11th in Colorado.
Also I am due October 31st and we are moving to Ann Arbor which puts the hospital where I was going to deliver, ABC Southfield, 40 minute long drive without traffic. I think that’s too much for me to handle in labor so I might be looking for a different provider and neither DH or I would be opposed to having a home birth if we are in a different house.
So when we move we are looking at renting a condo hopefully in Chapel Hill neighborhood in Ann Arbor, my grandma lives there and Dave’s work is literally two blocks from there, but when do we start to look for a place. When do I start to look for a new midwife/care provider, when do we plan the move. So much to think about and it all depends on what the bank decides to do.
So right now he said we should hear back the banks first counter offer within 30 days. So Dave says I should start thinking about any of this stuff until we hear back from the bank.
I am hoping to go down to just one job instead of two in the near future so I am working on getting rid of some bills. So I have sold my car and I am in the search for a new one which means we only have one car right now and I am borrowing my moms car which I only have for this week. I almost bought a car yesterday but the dealership called me back after I left and had signed the papers and all to say that they where putting in the new breaks and discovered the whole under body of the car was rusted out to the point it was dangerous.
Anyway I just have to think one thing at a time. Please keep me in your thoughts for a quick response from the bank and awesome cheap car in my future.
June 15th, 2010 . Posted in Parenting, Pregnancy, Second Trimester | No Comments »
So I am 20 weeks pregnant now which is pretty much half way! I am so excited to meet this new little guy and figure out what his name should be. I think we have made our list of like five names and Dave is just going to pick it when he is born.
I have been so tired lately it’s crazy I go to bed by 10 and get up at 8:30 and I’m ready for a nap by noon. Like right now I could be totally sleeping.
Xander is teething getting molars and I thought it was going to be easy then he got a fever for three days and has been cranky at night and I’m just not getting the work done at night that I should.
We are also selling our house as a short sale and it has been showing a ton so that means in all of my spare time (hahaha) I am cleaning to keep the house in show condition.
Oh and we got rid of our dogs.
Needless to say this week I am feeling sad and overwhelmed and hopefully something will work out soon, or everything will work out soon.
I also scored big this week with a awesome double stroller off of Craigslist that was listed at babies r us for $249 and I got it for $125.
June 9th, 2010 . Posted in Pregnancy, Second Trimester | No Comments »
Tags: Pregnancy
So we are 19 weeks into our pregnancy and I still feel pretty good. I have been feeling a TON of movement. This is one of my favorite times of pregnancy when only I can feel the movement and no one else can yet. It’s like our little secret, although I am really excited for Dave to be able to feel it and join in on the baby fun.
Speaking of baby fun, I have handed over all naming responsibilities to Dave. We where arguing so much about names and I felt like he just turned down any names I suggested to him without reason or thinking about it so I just said here are my favorites you pick a name.
He says he is going to name the baby Optimus Prime. I think we might end up with an Apolo, which I think is really awesome.
On a side note we are selling out house, this information deserves it’s very own post and I might do that too but I just wanted to mention that we have had two showing so far and it’s really exciting.
I weight 175 right now, that’s up 9lbs at 19 weeks.
June 2nd, 2010 . Posted in Pregnancy, Second Trimester | No Comments »
Tags: 2nd trimester, Pregnancy, ultrasound
That is right we are having another boy!
