Pregnancy 2011-February

AnneElise

So my family doctor is closed AGAIN today because of the weather. :explode: :grumble: I'm starting to feel a little better so I wasn't too worried until I started reading one of my pregnancy books, which tells me that 5 - 10 weeks is when the baby is most susceptible to viruses that can cause birth defects. So I called my OB. The nurse I spoke to was really nice - I'm sure she's used to speaking to paranoid pregnant women. :laugh: She told me what medications I can take and if I get a fever I need to get a hold of my family doctor or go to the hospital.

Now my husband is following me around the house with the thermometer! :laugh: :laugh:

Ron- When do you see your dr. to talk about your little baby?

3 weeks and one day ---- but who's counting?? :laugh:

Ha, my gender US is in 3 weeks 2 days (but who is counting )

LittleSpy

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I need someone to pull me out of the food binge I seem to have been going on for the past week or two. I don't eat bad all day, but I certainly make bad choices every single day now. I just can't stop myself. I don't understand how I can have such good willpower and then all of the sudden lose it. We have healthy stuff in the house, but I run through all of the options in my head and veto every one of them. I need a good kick in the pants. You would think the change in the numbers on the scale would motivate me, but it's not! Must be good! Must stop looking at pregnancy as an excuse to eat whatever I want.

Exactly the problem I've been having. I've been doing a lot better for the last week by simply not buying so much bad stuff (and not telling my hubby when I want bad stuff because he'll totally talk me into it & then go get it so he can have the bad stuff, too. Bad husband). I find if I really want something bad, chances are my laziness/tiredness will win over the craving & I won't go buy it. :laugh:
I'm still not eating as well as I used to but eating *better* and actually exercising again have stopped the # on the scale from increasing (and it actually went down a little, woot!).

I do really well all day when I'm at work and I've packed & brought my food with me (which I do every day). But then when I get home I seem to always be starving and I just lose my freaking mind eating anything and everything I want.

LittleSpy

Hehe, I'm drinking a Dr Pepper and baby is GOING CRAZY. First time I've really felt her move this much.

MisdemeanorM

Hey ladies! February already! This month is going to go by so fast. We've got our anatomy scan on Friday, Super Bowl on Sunday, friends coming into town next weekend, Valentine's day... Then two weeks after that it's my birthday! My husband wants to use some of our "found money (yeah right)" to get me good Valentine's and birthday presents this year. Conveniently we are always financially stable in the fall for his birthday and broke come March for my birthday. I guess he wants to make up for the past few years and get me something I really want. Now I am typically fairly cheap, but he totally took advantage of my weakness! I am not the most materialistic person out there, but I love me some presents. I am all about being spoiled, especially on my birthday. I hope he doesn't go crazy, but I have to admit that I am kind of excited.

This year was the first that my husband actually remembered my birthday in about 4 or 5 years (and only probably because since we don't have a printer I have been sending him my free Bday coupons all week to print out at work). We don't do presents though ever for Bday though we did go to dinner and I make him a cake on his, but sometimes I get the date wrong :blushing: . I would kill him if he got me something for Valentine's Day. I hate Valentines Day. Uck the commercials - they make me want to puke when I am not pregnant! :laugh: I am far from sentimental. My grandma knows she has to call us every year to remind us what day our anniversary is! I know it's in July... He did get me a big TV (well, he says it was for me... :laugh: it conveniently came with an Xbox for himself!) for Christmas which I was slightly peeved about but let it slide since we've never spent more than like $10 on Christmas (or any holiday) in the 7 yrs we've been together. Plus, our TV was probably 15-20 years old and if you wanted to change from DVD to TV you had to pull it out and swap out the coaxle cables in the back (so old it didn't have any other input plugs!), so it was probably time to get a new one! :laugh:

Mamatoabunch

Our 19th anniversary is the 15th so we often celebrate both days together. We will go out most of that day. I pray we are celebrating the close on our farm this year as well.

joonzgurl

Hehe, I'm drinking a Dr Pepper and baby is GOING CRAZY. First time I've really felt her move this much.

i LOVE dr pepper! I will have to remember that and perhaps try some when I am a few weeks further.

mamatoabunch- keeping my fingers crossed for you!!

LittleSpy

Hehe, I'm drinking a Dr Pepper and baby is GOING CRAZY. First time I've really felt her move this much.

i LOVE dr pepper! I will have to remember that and perhaps try some when I am a few weeks further.

mamatoabunch- keeping my fingers crossed for you!!

I'm afraid I'm going to start some kind of crazy unhealthy daily Dr Pepper ritual now just to feel her squirm. :laugh:

Soon2Bfitmamaof3

Enjoy the cute flutters now, my lil girl was beating me up all morning... I told hubby I couldn't wait til she can hurt him :laugh: Our 8 year wedding anniversary is on the 9th so we always celebrate our anniversary and Valentines Day together. We dont do gift for eachother at all, I think it is just swapping money and would rather do something more constructive with the money. We usually have dinner and a movie or something. When we do have gifts they are 100% homemade with the help of the kiddos. I LOVE these kinds of gifts and would not care if I ever got another piece of jewelry again. Well maybe just one more, a couple years ago he got my a necklace from babyfaces.com and it has our 2 boys faces in white gold. I would like to add our daughter to that but it was pretty expensive so that may have to wait a while. People still ask me about it almost everytime I come in contact with others, it really does look like the kiddos so I guess that is the BEST gift he ever BOUGHT other than that I would prefer something homemade from the kiddos

Rachickidee

I am so glad we aren't having the major snow storms that I see online. However, it is freezing here! It was 2 degrees yesterday. I am not used to it being that cold.

As for Valentine's Day. I hope we do something. My husband works graveyards 3 times a week, so I actually won't even see him on that day. But maybe we can have our own on the 15th. We'll see.

AmandaJ

Our 19th anniversary is the 15th so we often celebrate both days together. We will go out most of that day. I pray we are celebrating the close on our farm this year as well.

Buying or selling?

Mamatoabunch

Buying or selling?

Buying in WI, we have not sold our home in NM, we are in now. That would be celebration #2

ron2282

The only medicine I'm allowed to take has been recalled! And every store is out of the generic version. :grumble:

LynnW52

Hello everyone! Happy February!

Mwilson - Your bump is adorable!

MJ - Happy Belated Birthday!

Mama - Good luck on the house, I'll be praying for you!

Katrina - Hope you feel better soon! I'll bet that cinnamon roll was good, just reading about it made me want to go buy one!

LittleSpy - I've been doing the same thing, not buying a lot of the stuff that I'm craving, and it's helped to curb some of the weight gain. However, my administrator at work heard me mention that I like peanut butter m&m's, so she went to Sam's club and bought me a giant box of them.....thanks!! lol I was a Diet Dr. Pepper junkie before I got pregnant and haven't had a regular one since pregnancy, but after reading about your Dr Pepper experience, I think I'll be having one tomorrow!

I dont feel like I look pregnant yet, depending on what I'm wearing. I have one pair of maternity pants with a high panel that smooths my stomach out and makes it look more "baby bellyish". If I wear my pre-preg pants, I just look plump

Ultrasound tomorrow morning!

MisdemeanorM

Buying or selling?

Buying in WI, we have not sold our home in NM, we are in now. That would be celebration #2

That's quite the move! Family there or just like the cold and accents? So, would you bring the cow or get a new one? I've shipped livestock cross country a few times (3 horses on 3 different occasions). It's expensive! And I don't prefer to trailer them myself when the drive is that long.

LynnW52

Hubby and I aren't really into buying gifts for each other for any occasion. We usually get something that we need for the house, or something that we both want. I'm definitely not a flowers/jewelry kind of gal, so I like this much better! This year for Valentine's Day we'll probably have dinner and watch a movie.

Speaking of movies - has anyone else seen the movie Babies? We watched it instantly the other night on Netflix and it was soo cute! I'd call it a documentary I guess. It follows 4 babies from around the world from birth to about 16 months.

joonzgurl

It was 2 degrees yesterday. I am not used to it being that cold.

Are you talking farenheigt or celcuis?

The past couple days here have hovered around -35 celcius, which is the same as -31F

joonzgurl

Speaking of movies - has anyone else seen the movie Babies? We watched it instantly the other night on Netflix and it was soo cute! I'd call it a documentary I guess. It follows 4 babies from around the world from birth to about 16 months.

I saw that movie, but did not rent it. I want to see it really bad! All the more incentive now.

joonzgurl

oops made a mistake here! I hate that I can't delete my posts when I accidentally press quote instead of edit.

Rachickidee

It was 2 degrees yesterday. I am not used to it being that cold.

Are you talking farenheigt or celcuis?

The past couple days here have hovered around -35 celcius, which is the same as -31F

Fahrenheit, I don't know how you handle that. Yuck! I hate being cold.

Rachickidee

Speaking of movies - has anyone else seen the movie Babies? We watched it instantly the other night on Netflix and it was soo cute! I'd call it a documentary I guess. It follows 4 babies from around the world from birth to about 16 months.

I saw that movie, but did not rent it. I want to see it really bad!

I've seen it. I really liked it. It was before I was pregnant and it definitely made me baby hungry.

carina73

Are you talking farenheigt or celcuis?

The past couple days here have hovered around -35 celcius, which is the same as -31F

@ joonzgurl
You must be in my neck of the woods! I'm in Northern Ontario!

ckmama

Enjoy the cute flutters now, my lil girl was beating me up all morning... I told hubby I couldn't wait til she can hurt him :laugh: Our 8 year wedding anniversary is on the 9th so we always celebrate our anniversary and Valentines Day together. We dont do gift for eachother at all, I think it is just swapping money and would rather do something more constructive with the money. We usually have dinner and a movie or something. When we do have gifts they are 100% homemade with the help of the kiddos. I LOVE these kinds of gifts and would not care if I ever got another piece of jewelry again. Well maybe just one more, a couple years ago he got my a necklace from babyfaces.com and it has our 2 boys faces in white gold. I would like to add our daughter to that but it was pretty expensive so that may have to wait a while. People still ask me about it almost everytime I come in contact with others, it really does look like the kiddos so I guess that is the BEST gift he ever BOUGHT other than that I would prefer something homemade from the kiddos

I went to the doc yesterday because mine is moving so much it was hurting I thought I was in labor. He is ginormous or something and the way he moves now can be so uncomfortable.

On a side note, I weighed for the Nurse Pract. Yesterday and it was up like 5 lbs in 4 days. I know i've been eating bad but seriously. I know that isn't right, I track my weight at home, but what bothers me is now it is in my chart. I don't know why that bugs me. So when I go back on Thursday for my reg. check up it is going to show a loss....Well it should. Which to me is inaccurate.

I've been eating super bad. And they told me yesterday to back off of walking so much. WHATEVER.

Speaking of weather it was 70 degrees here Tuesday and now they have closed the schools for today for "fear" of icy roads....Really it is only 30 but we are getting a slight bit of sleet, so they have closed schools and state offices. We do have lots of water here on the ground to freeze with the rivers and swampy areas, so I guess they are just preparing ahead of time. I bet they close them tomorrow too.

LittleSpy

I keep wishing I could feel her move more distinctly and then I keep telling myself I'm going to want to retract that wish in a couple months. :laugh:
I also hate being really cold. I'm pretty sure I've never felt -35*F and I don't think I ever want to. :noway: I start being a huge wimp around 20*F. I'm currently living in Columbia, SC so it very rarely even gets down to 20*F here. It was like 40*F this morning and my hubby was like "Brrr, it's cold." He lived in Denver for years! :laugh: Temps are very relative, I guess. We pay a big price for mild winters though. I can't say I love the 3-4 months we spend around & over 100*F at 95% humidity. The Weather Channel deemed us the hottest city in the southeast last summer & the city slogan is "Famously Hot." Not even joking -- look: http://www.columbiacvb.com/ I'm a little worried about coping with being 9 months pregnant in July here.

mwilson1018

I am going back to the Dr. today - think I may have a yeast infection (pleasant, I know). It's been happening off and on the whole pregnancy and she just now decides well maybe she better take a look at it (after 31 weeks, mind you...lol)...after I've been telling her about it every appointment. Oh well there is an upside to having to go...! Friday when we did our 3d/4d the technician said tha since the baby wasn't cooperating very well we could come back and give it another shot. I told her we probably couldn't because I couldn't take another day off work. Welll....since the dr. wants to see me and I have to go anyway she scheduled me in for this afternoon. Hopefully baby girl will not be asleep this time with her face hidden! YAY My husband can't go this time, but that's ok,...he was there last time. This will actually be the first OB appointment I've been to without him. He's so supportive

The weather here hasn't been terrible - just rainy all week...which makes for terrible weather for moving/unpacking...especially since we don't have any landscaping yet and are tracking red clay (which is currently our whole entire yard) all over the house, with two dogs. It's a mess! TIME FOR SOME GRASS TO GROW! Little SPy, I grew up in Columbia and remember the heat! I don't live far now, I'm near Augusta, so we are still HOTTTT in the summer! I'm ready for a little spring now with all this rainy, cold weather! I doubt we'll get any more snow this season, but last year it was the wknd of my birthday when it was the best (or worst, whichever way you look at it) snow we had...middle of February. I love snow, but only because it is very rare for us! I'm sure those of you snowed in and in icy conditions would think otherwise! :laugh:

dragonfly74

The weather here hasn't been terrible - just rainy all week...which makes for terrible weather for moving/unpacking...especially since we don't have any landscaping yet and are tracking red clay (which is currently our whole entire yard) all over the house, with two dogs. It's a mess! TIME FOR SOME GRASS TO GROW! Little SPy, I grew up in Columbia and remember the heat! I don't live far now, I'm near Augusta, so we are still HOTTTT in the summer! I'm ready for a little spring now with all this rainy, cold weather! I doubt we'll get any more snow this season, but last year it was the wknd of my birthday when it was the best (or worst, whichever way you look at it) snow we had...middle of February. I love snow, but only because it is very rare for us! I'm sure those of you snowed in and in icy conditions would think otherwise! :laugh:

Oh I love the snow too and we tend to get lots! We are right outside of Chicago and the kids are on their second snow day. We got about 23 inches of snow and it is beautiful. I am just happy I am not closer to my due date because then I might be a bit nervous about getting to the hospital. However, I am sure we would be fine in our 4x4 truck

MisdemeanorM

Speaking of movies - has anyone else seen the movie Babies? We watched it instantly the other night on Netflix and it was soo cute! I'd call it a documentary I guess. It follows 4 babies from around the world from birth to about 16 months.

I had been waiting and waiting for that to hit Netflix, then when it did it was very disappointing to me. I had thought you would actually see and learn things about how and why they did things differently and not just observe different things they did. It would have been 20 times better with a narrator and some facts and description.

MisdemeanorM

I keep wishing I could feel her move more distinctly and then I keep telling myself I'm going to want to retract that wish in a couple months. :laugh:

Haha. Yes. Yes you will!

I also hate being really cold. I'm pretty sure I've never felt -35*F and I don't think I ever want to. :noway: I start being a huge wimp around 20*F.

I've only felt that low in wind chill growing up in Chicago area. But now in TN sometimes 15 or 30 feels colder to me than it did there. It's such a wet cold here it sticks with you. When I had to work outside in the winter here I would come in and still be shivering an hour later like my bones had not dried out yet. In Chicago it was like, you come in an in 15 mins the freeze burn wore off and you were fine and warm. Though I have somewhat come to the conclusion that I would probably complain about the weather wherever I lived :laugh: I found myself calling it chilly sometimes when we lived in Phoenix for a year and a half!:laugh:

Summer here though... ugh! Yep, we're similar to you - 100 and 85-95% humid on days. I remember when my son was born the week after i got him home it was 110 (not heat index, just normal heat) in Nashville an humid. We lived in 350 square feet and I couldn't go anywhere an we had to buy a portable air conditioner with the hose that goes out the window because our little air thing froze up and it would get to be like 150 inside our little "tin can" as I like to call it. Even then it would not get below about 85 inside. Same thing in this house here (tin again) in the summer when the air went out. It was 105 out so about 120 in! With the air I can get it down to about 80 when it's working and none of the windows open so in the evening we could not air it out, so we spend hot summers here! Miserable! I can't wait since our new rental is all brick with a real roof an real insulation! Yay! :happy:

MisdemeanorM

YAY My husband can't go this time, but that's ok,...he was there last time. This will actually be the first OB appointment I've been to without him. He's so supportive

I can't imagine waking mine up at 6:30am to drag him an hour away to watch them weight me, do a doppler, and send me home! :laugh: At least too if I can rush home before he has to go to work I don't have to wake up and drag my 3 yr old with me either.

LittleSpy

Summer here though... ugh! Yep, we're similar to you - 100 and 85-95% humid on days. I remember when my son was born the week after i got him home it was 110 (not heat index, just normal heat) in Nashville an humid. We lived in 350 square feet and I couldn't go anywhere an we had to buy a portable air conditioner with the hose that goes out the window because our little air thing froze up and it would get to be like 150 inside our little "tin can" as I like to call it. Even then it would not get below about 85 inside. Same thing in this house here (tin again) in the summer when the air went out. It was 105 out so about 120 in! With the air I can get it down to about 80 when it's working and none of the windows open so in the evening we could not air it out, so we spend hot summers here! Miserable! I can't wait since our new rental is all brick with a real roof an real insulation! Yay! :happy:

Ugh. Our house stays about 80-85 in the summer because it's 100 years old & pretty poorly insulated. But 80-85 feels soooooo good when you're coming in out of a soggy 110. :laugh: We have central air (and a humongous electric bill from May-October :laugh:) but I have a feeling we'll be getting a window unit this year, too. I can't sleep when it's so hot. I'd be okay if we cooled down at night, but you know that doesn't happen in the southeast thanks to the humidity.

Rachickidee

YAY My husband can't go this time, but that's ok,...he was there last time. This will actually be the first OB appointment I've been to without him. He's so supportive

Oh what a good husband! I've only had two apts. and my husband has insisted on going to those two and the next. It's nice that he wants to be a part of it. We also get an ultrasound every apt. so it's fun to actually see the baby every time. Good luck with your 4d, I hope your baby cooperates for you.