Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Sick and tired of being sick and tired
What am I feeling now? Exactly what the title of this post says. I am now constantly nauseous, and constantly tired. The nausea starts as soon as I wake up in the morning and lasts until about 5:00 in the afternoon. I get about a 1-2 hour break, and then it sets back in as soon as I get done eating dinner! The thought of food makes me sick. It takes everything I have just to eat anything, because NOTHING sounds good. The sight of saltine crackers makes me want to vomit (crap. that was working so well last week!) I think tomorrow I will head to the store at lunch and get some ginger ale and ginger snaps. I hear ginger helps! My sister in law gave me some peppermint green tea and SWORE that it would help with my nausea. Well boy, she was wrong. I think it made it 10 times worse! I felt HORRIBLE this morning after I attempted to drink it! Yucky. Along with the nausea is the fact that I am EXHAUSTED 24-7. Not just a little tired, but ALOT tired! It hits me like a brick wall at different times throughout the day. Usually, I would go get a diet coke when these sinking spells hit but guess what?? DIET COKES MAKE ME SOO QUEASY NOW! Noooo! (yes, i am actually devastated that my beloved diet cokes make me nauseous). So, i am forced to just get up and walk around to try and snap out of my sinking spells! I cannot wait until I am past this phase! I am TOTALLY over it! Lets hope for a better day tomorrow :)
A good read
A co worker of mine gave me a book called "Belly Laughs" by Jenny McCarthy to read. In it she spills ALL of the DIRTY details that happened to her while she was pregnant. It is hilarious, a little scary, and delightfully informative! I read it in one night because I just couldn't put it down! She is extremely open and forward about all the dirty secrets of pregnancy. This is definitely a good read (even if you aren't expecting!)
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
10 Most Irritating Parenting Tips
I read this article on Yahoo.com today and thought it was pretty funny. I can definitely see where they are coming from with some of these! If you are a parent, i'm sure this has happened with you once or twice! Sometimes you just have to smile and nod, and pretend like it's the best advice you've ever heard! Enjoy...
1. "Sleep now, because once that baby comes you'll never sleep again." Technically this is a pregnancy tip, of course, but I'm shoving it in here anyway. Yes, Great-Aunt Hildy, I will sleep throughout my entire third trimester. Because I am part bear.
2. "Sleep when the baby sleeps." Everyone gives you this one — annoying relatives, pediatricians, the cashier at the drugstore where you were buying newborn diapers. Are these people all robots, capable of instantly dropping off to sleep whenever their child is unconscious? Do they not have other things to do, like bathe, or simply relish the rare moments of silence you get when you have an infant?
3. "I think your baby's hungry." Whether you're nursing or bottle-feeding, everyone assumes you don't know how to feed your child. And every time your child cries, whines, grimaces, or squirms, they are going to assume you are starving your poor baby and you need reminders to feed it. Lest you forget! This advice is especially maddening when they turn out to be correct.
4. "Relish every moment of your baby's first years, because they'll be grown before you know it." You mean, time only moves forward? I had no idea! I thought we'd be like this forever and ever! This sort of advice, obvious and innocuous as it seems, always put me on the defensive, as if I had just been carrying my baby under my arm like a football, muttering, "Grow up already, why don't you. Just GROW UP."
5. "I hope you're sleep training that child. Do you WANT him to be spoiled?" Oh, distant relative/person whose aisle I shared at the supermarket, I'm so glad you know exactly my child needs. And that you know, from your years of scientific research, that any child not allowed to cry it out will be a horrible waste of flesh!(See #6 for this parenting tip's counterpart.)
6. "I hope you're not doing that 'crying it out' thing. It's so barbaric. Enjoy your baby all through the night!" Again, kudos to you, whoever you are, for knowing what's best for our unique family situation! I will be calling you at 4 a.m., so you can enjoy our baby as well.
7. "Why are you bringing your child outside when it's so cold out?" It never ceased to amaze me that, no matter what my child's age, total strangers will express alarm and revulsion that I dared expose him to the elements. "And WHY ISN'T BE WEARING MITTENS? He's going to get consumption!"
8. "Your child isn't really sad/angry/injured. He's just manipulating you." There's no doubt that children can push our buttons as if they've had professional training in it, but the notion that my kid's authentic feelings are in fact manufactured to elicit a reaction really chaps my hide. If that were always true, he'd be a pint-sized sociopath. I'm pretty sure that's not the case.
9. "Schools are just glorified prisons. If you loved your child, you'd homeschool." Oh, if only I loved my child enough to abandon my livelihood, tear him away from the community he so enjoys, separate him from the professionals who have dedicated their careers to childhood education, and forced him to stay home all day with me, where we'd be at each other's throats for hours! If only! Please note: I am not opposed to homeschooling, at all — in fact I wish it would work for us, but it would not.
10. "If I were you, I'd just—" OH NO YOU DON'T. I know where this is going. Listen, unnamed distant acquaintance who last parented in the 19th century (it's true — I often get my unwanted advice from ghosts) you don't know diddly about my kid, and our relationship, and what works for us.
2. "Sleep when the baby sleeps." Everyone gives you this one — annoying relatives, pediatricians, the cashier at the drugstore where you were buying newborn diapers. Are these people all robots, capable of instantly dropping off to sleep whenever their child is unconscious? Do they not have other things to do, like bathe, or simply relish the rare moments of silence you get when you have an infant?
3. "I think your baby's hungry." Whether you're nursing or bottle-feeding, everyone assumes you don't know how to feed your child. And every time your child cries, whines, grimaces, or squirms, they are going to assume you are starving your poor baby and you need reminders to feed it. Lest you forget! This advice is especially maddening when they turn out to be correct.
4. "Relish every moment of your baby's first years, because they'll be grown before you know it." You mean, time only moves forward? I had no idea! I thought we'd be like this forever and ever! This sort of advice, obvious and innocuous as it seems, always put me on the defensive, as if I had just been carrying my baby under my arm like a football, muttering, "Grow up already, why don't you. Just GROW UP."
5. "I hope you're sleep training that child. Do you WANT him to be spoiled?" Oh, distant relative/person whose aisle I shared at the supermarket, I'm so glad you know exactly my child needs. And that you know, from your years of scientific research, that any child not allowed to cry it out will be a horrible waste of flesh!(See #6 for this parenting tip's counterpart.)
6. "I hope you're not doing that 'crying it out' thing. It's so barbaric. Enjoy your baby all through the night!" Again, kudos to you, whoever you are, for knowing what's best for our unique family situation! I will be calling you at 4 a.m., so you can enjoy our baby as well.
7. "Why are you bringing your child outside when it's so cold out?" It never ceased to amaze me that, no matter what my child's age, total strangers will express alarm and revulsion that I dared expose him to the elements. "And WHY ISN'T BE WEARING MITTENS? He's going to get consumption!"
8. "Your child isn't really sad/angry/injured. He's just manipulating you." There's no doubt that children can push our buttons as if they've had professional training in it, but the notion that my kid's authentic feelings are in fact manufactured to elicit a reaction really chaps my hide. If that were always true, he'd be a pint-sized sociopath. I'm pretty sure that's not the case.
9. "Schools are just glorified prisons. If you loved your child, you'd homeschool." Oh, if only I loved my child enough to abandon my livelihood, tear him away from the community he so enjoys, separate him from the professionals who have dedicated their careers to childhood education, and forced him to stay home all day with me, where we'd be at each other's throats for hours! If only! Please note: I am not opposed to homeschooling, at all — in fact I wish it would work for us, but it would not.
10. "If I were you, I'd just—" OH NO YOU DON'T. I know where this is going. Listen, unnamed distant acquaintance who last parented in the 19th century (it's true — I often get my unwanted advice from ghosts) you don't know diddly about my kid, and our relationship, and what works for us.
Nausea- its a funny thing
So I currently have the nausea under control. Saltine crackers have become my best friend! I have some by my bed....in the kitchen...in my car.. and at my desk at work! A couple nibbles on a cracker and a sip of water- bingo. All better! The only problem is when I get home from work, and I'm trying to figure out what to do for dinner... NOTHING sounds good. Even if something starts to sound good, I go to eat it and get even more nauseous! The other day I grilled chicken for dinner and couldn't even eat it! I had to throw it away because I was so grossed out by it by the time I finished with it! I literally threw away everything involved with the chicken. What a waste! Hmph. Hopefully dinner will sound better soon, cause this mama is hungry!
Monday, February 14, 2011
Valentine's Day
Jackson made a Valentine's day card for us at school today, and he drew a picture of his family.. the future baby included!
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Seeing Double
So, ever since I found out that I was pregnant, I have had TONS of people tell me that they think I am going to have twins. EVERYONE keeps talking about it. Lets hope, for my sanity, that I am not having twins. Although, being as I am a twin myself, obviously my chances of having them are greatly increased. And apparently, tall people are more likely to have twins also (i read that in a book). So, yay. Two things that make it more likely that I'm having twins... hooray! Obviously, I would love them both just as much, even if I did have twins.. i just dont think my sanity could survive! I don't know how my mother did it.. God bless her! And.. in honor of all of this talk about twins.. here is a picture of my and my twinkie :) Look how TALL i was! Now, he is taller than me!
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Chinese Gender Test
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