Fit, Fabulous, and Pregnant-November 2011

Taldie the LAST thing I want is to be induced! My doc already offered to put me on her schedule for an induction this week and I refused. I personally don't believe in getting induced for convenience purposes. There are several reasons as to why women need to be induced for medical reasons...and convenience in my book is not one of them.

Also, there are lots of jogging strollers that have adapters that an infant carseat can be put onto that makes it safe for running. Most of my friends are running within a week or two after their babies are born in their running strollers. Makes for a good naptime for baby

Brenda I'm sure everything will be awesome at your u/s! Keeping you in my thoughts and prayers today!

Karen if I believed that eating pineapple would help me to go into labor, I'd go buy out the store right now! lol Bromelain is an enzyme found in fresh pineapple as well as mangoes, papaya, and kiwis and is thought to POSSIBLY help to soften your cervix. But you'd have to eat a ton of fresh (not canned or juiced) fruit and even then the likelihood of it making you go into labor is very low. If pineapple was so dangerous for pregnant women to consume, there would be a warning label on it. There are a million old wives tales out there. I did find a yummy recipe for a pineapple mango smoothie to induce labor I might have to try...just for fun though

babeed that's so sweet. Don't you just love that feeling that things are coming along and you are making room for baby?! It melts my heart when every once in a while I will find my husband standing at the doorway of the nursery looking in and I ask him what he's doing and he says "oh nothing...this sure is the happiest room in the house" lol. As for yoga dvd's I recommend Element Prenatal Yoga dvd (it also has a post-pregnancy part as well). The Crunch Yoga mama was a letdown and way too easy.

Nichole I hope you have better luck than I do with training your dog to walk on the leash lol. Well actually she walks on the leash awesome (we sent her to a trainer and he "trained" her how to walk properly on the leash)....and she does awesome...until another person or dog comes into view then she acts like a 6 month old puppy again except she is almost 90lbs now! I hope one day that she does better. I'm so jealous with all the options you have for water births! I'd LOVE to have a water birth but they don't do that at any of the hospitals in this entire area! The only thing you can do is a home water birth and even then most certified nurse midwives won't birth homebirths around here and you have a "lay" midwife. They do have a jacuzzi tub you can labor in, but when it comes to birthing you have to get out. Oh and I love your suggestions for names!

peaches it is totally normal to only be able to keep down easy to digest carbs during your "morning sickness" period/first trimester (hopefully it goes away soon!). Baby is fine and will get the nutrients they need. Lots and lots of women have morning sickness during their pregnancy and end up having very healthy babies. The only time you need to worry is when you have excessive vomiting throughout your entire pregnancy. That is when they begin to worry that baby isn't getting what they need due to dehydration and lack of nutrition. So keep on eating what you can and like I said, hopefully it subsides soon!

bmfrazie good luck with your interview!

scutes welcome! Have you thought about doing birthing classes like Bradley method or hypnobirthing? I am a RN as well as have been to many of my friends births so I thought I knew a lot but was really glad when I decided for my husband and I to take a natural birthing class. I learned so much and pray that what I learned is going to help me in my labor/delivery. Like I told Nichole, I wish I had the option to do a water birth because water does help me with pain, but they don't offer that here. So my plan is to stay home for as long as possible and take baths/showers to help ease the pain before going to the hospital. Good luck with everything and again welcome!

Well I am human after all...lol. With all of my energy I decided to do some nesting instead of working out this morning. The cold, rainy, overcast weather called for a day of sweat pants and housework. I have cleaned all the floors, the laundry is in the works of being done (cleaning all the sheets, hand towels, throw rugs as well), I baked some brownies and am thinking about doing some banana bread for my neighbor who had her baby (peace offering for being so ugly about her having her baby before I had mine lol...not that I was ugly to her, just to myself)...My sister is coming over for lunch and I feel like this is what I needed to do today.