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May 9, 2008 at 8:56 am · Filed under baby bean, daily
Welp, it’s Friday. Hallelujah! I’m so very happy about this. The week has been relatively calm for me, with several days of having to wake up early, but somehow I was able to get the sleep I needed. I think sleep has a lot to do with my moods. If I’m not feeling emotionally stable, I can’t sleep. That makes sense, I suppose. This month has been a bit stressful for me, given everything going on around me and with my body and stuff. It’s hard to get used to a rapidly growing body, I gotta tell ya. I love every minute of it. Bean treats me well for the most part (though her kicks are getting rather strong and they surprise me sometimes with their strength). I’m getting a little wobbly and lopsided when I walk though. People are giggling. Hehe. Can’t blame them. I look really funny, being a thin little Asian girl with this basketball in front of me. Jenbug says I don’t look pregnant from the back. Must be a strange sight to see from other people’s perspective.
This weekend is pretty filled up too. I’m going to try to get my chores done tonight so I don’t have to worry about it tomorrow. Maybe just leave laundry and vacuuming for the weekend. We have our prenatal class tomorrow — all day event. One stop shop, so to speak. I’m looking forward to it, though I’m kind of nervous about it too. The whole labor thing doesn’t sound too appealing to me, so I’m just trying to prepare myself for every possibility.
Gotta get ready for work now. I take this little bundle of Bean joy everywhere I go. I love her so much.
May 3, 2008 at 12:32 pm · Filed under baby bean, daily, thoughts
The rest of the week went much better, thankfully. After that little venting session I had in the last entry, I seemed to have snapped out of it. I work very hard to keep myself emotionally stable so that I’m healthy, vibrant, and good to myself and everyone else around me. Every so often, I suppose we all need a bit of crazy, stupid, moody time in our lives. It gets all that icky, toxic feeling out of us once and for all.
There are some pregnancy symptoms that I am not very fond of. For example, hormones dictate that now I have these weird lines on my neck that weren’t there before. They’re odd, and I don’t like them. Another example? My face breaks out uncontrollably on my chin and around my nose. It doesn’t matter how much water I drink, I still get tons of pimples. Ordinarily, I don’t get much unless I’m stressed or when it’s my time of the month. I don’t even want to use any type of acne treatment because I don’t want to risk it not being safe for the baby, so I end up annoying picking at pimples and zits on my face. I know, I know, TMI, but goodness sake, it’s annoying. I want to be clear skinned again! Another example: my legs cramp up a lot easier these days, and I still get charlie horses during the night from time to time. They come out of nowhere and my legs get all stiff and crampy. Not fun at all.
Okay, enough bitch festing. Other than that, this pregnancy is treating me very well. I feel healthy, happy, and I can eat 5 times my regular share. It’s a strange sight. Dave gets a kick out of it. Watching me eat now is like witnessing how many clowns can be squeezed into a tiny little car. Heh.
April 30, 2008 at 6:33 pm · Filed under baby bean, daily
I am so frustrated right now. I think it’s because I’m just overworked and under-rested, if that makes sense. I’m not getting enough sleep at night, and I had to wake up extra early today to see a client after only sleeping for about 4 or 5 hours soundly. It makes for a very grumpy Helen. And I’m still doing paperwork because both audits are tomorrow and Friday. So much stress. I’m still behind three cases and there’s no way I can get them all done by tomorrow morning 9am. I just won’t do it. I won’t stay up all night doing it. I’m as caught up as I can be right now and that’s all I’m going to do. Seriously. I’m darn tired.
I have left over pizza because I don’t want to cook. Left over pizza is good, I suppose, especially when I’m lazy, frustrated, and tired. On top of that, I’m frustrated at certain people, who will remain unnamed. Boy, I’ve got the case of pregnancy grumpiness. Tink also just knocked off my box of pizza slices, and I told her to fuck off and pushed her off. Damn cat. She yelled back at me too. Then she kept hopping onto the table to get another perspective of the pizza and I keep pushing her off. Dang. So frustrating.
The good news is, though, that I got a call from my doctor’s office and she said the ultrasound for Baby Bean went fine. Bean is growing appropriately and normally, so it’s all good. That’s good to hear.
I guess we all just need to have a grumpy day. I’m entitled to one. I’ve been good for a long time now.
April 22, 2008 at 10:44 am · Filed under baby bean
Yesterday I went in for my regular prenatal visit with Dr. Hall. Everything was normal, but Doc wanted me to go in for another ultrasound because my uterus is measuring a little smaller for 28 weeks. She said it’s most likely because I’m so small, and therefore will have a smaller baby anyway. Plus, Bean’s a girl, so she’ll probably take after her mother with the smaller bone structure. To be safe, though, I have an ultrasound appointment on Monday. Will give me a chance to see Bean again! I just love going to ultrasounds. It’s like taking a peak into her world. She must not have a lot of space in there anymore. Heh.
I also did a bunch of blood work. I really hate getting needle poked, but I was a big girl and took it like a champ. Or so they said. Heh. I was tested for gestational diabetes and my hormone level and my thyroiditis issue. The thyroids seem to have gone back to normal, and everything else was fine as well. I don’t have gestational diabetes. As expected. Heh.
Last night, I had the roughest time sleeping. I didn’t actually get to physical sleep until 3am. I tried going into the living room to read and hope that it would make me sleepier. I drifted on and off and eventually climbed back into bed at 3am. I cancelled my morning appointment because I was too damn tired to move. So now I’m just staying home and resting for a bit. I had a couple of dizzy spells last night when I got home from work. Doc said it was probably due to the hormone changes during the 3rd trimester. I just gotta lay around a whole lot.
28 weeks seem kinda hard. O.o Heh. I feel better today but I still feel very exhausted.
The one wonderful thing, though, about not being able to sleep last night was around 2am, I felt these rhythmic little twitches inside my uterus. My tummy started hiccuping. Heh. Bean was having hiccups! It was the cutest thing ever! I felt it for a good few minutes. It seemed to be annoying her too, as she tried shifting back and forth to get comfortable. After about 5 minutes, the hiccups stopped and she went to sleep. My poor baby. I can’t wait to hold her!
April 12, 2008 at 9:54 am · Filed under baby bean
So today, I officially reach the 3rd trimester. Wow. I can’t believe it went by so fast. The first few months seemed to have gone so slowly and now all of a sudden, I’m 27 weeks along! Only 13 weeks to go before my due date. That’s a little over 3 more months and Baby Bean will be here.
Last week I had my regular prenatal doctor’s visit, and again we heard the heartbeat. The doctor was also able to see the position Bean was in at the time, by feeling my belly and stuff from the outside. She was upside down, with her head pointing downwards and her legs and feet kicking up towards my ribs. I felt the kicks as she was so rudely disturbed by all that probing. Hehe. Poor girl. And then afterwards, she settled down and went back to sleep. That’s my girl!
I’ve come to sort of compensate for my inability to sleep at night. It appears that I can only sleep really restfully starting at around 4 or 5am. So now I don’t make any appointments (if I can help it) for work until at least 10am. That gives me a longer morning to just sleep it through so I can get my hours. It makes for very tired, and confused, grumpy mornings, but it appears to be getting just a tad better.
As for you ladies out there who warned me about the chest area during pregnancy, all I can say is: I believe you now. I’ve gone from a 32A to a 36B. Somehow I got wider. I’ve gained a total of 20 pounds so far, and now it’s around a pound a week extra. Yo boy!
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