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Baby Week 23 – Things you should NOT say to a pregnant woman

September 18, 2008

In my first and now my second pregnancy, I’ve heard some pretty entertaining comments. I don’t think that people say these things to me with the intention of being mean, but whatever they were intending just doesn’t seem to come out right. I take these commments with a good dose of humor and chuckle about them later. However, if you have any pregnant friends or family members out there, please refrain from using any of the following comments.

- “Wow, you’re really starting to show. You’re going to be huge!”

- (these questions were fired one right after another without an opportunity to respond or escape) “Wow, you’re really getting round – how much do you weigh? Have you gained much weight? Don’t you weigh yourself every morning? Are you overweight or underweight?”

- “Do we need to measure your belly and make sure you’ll fit in the car?” (asked the day before travelling to a conference together – also, I’m only 6 months pregnant at this point)

- When I was 8 1/2 months pregnant with Xander (I think I had about 2-3 weeks left before Xander was born). Me: Hello (insert name of awful woman here), how are you today? Awful woman gives me a once over and responds: Skinnier than you are.

I’m sure I’ll uncover more fodder for this blog post in the next few months, and I’ll post any worthy comments here as they come up. Please feel free to share any comments of this nature that you’ve heard – they do make me chuckle

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Baby Week 21 – We have a due date!

September 2, 2008

I had my 20 week appointment last week and told my doctor that I have decided to c-section. We picked a date – yay! December 30th is baby #2′s birthday. It’s funny, when I tell people this is the day I’m having my baby, they all say to me – “oh, maybe you’ll have a Christmas baby”. Then I launch into the explanation about how my first baby was exactly on time, and how my “official due date” isn’t until January 5th, so unless something goes horribly wrong, I’m not expecting any more children until December 30th – period. Honestly, I would rather have more time in between holidays before the baby’s birthday, but there is only so much I can do about that.

I am quite happy to have a date – I’ve officially arranged the dates for my maternity leave, and made arrangements for family to watch Xander during and just after the birth. With Xander, I didn’t know the gender or when the baby would be coming and with this one I know as much information as I possibly can prior to the birth. It’s a very different experience – a lot less guessing, but for this type-a personality mom, it’s quite nice to be able to plan things in advance

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Baby Week 20 – Ug, Pregnancy Brain!!

August 20, 2008

20 week fetus

I am a type A personality. I like structure and orginization. I make lists, and I follow up on questions. I rarely forget the details. That is, until now… My hormones are driving me nuts now! I can’t remember even the simplest tasks. Sometimes I’ll have a conversation with someone, and completely forget about it by the next day – it’s like de ja vu to them, but it’s an entirely new conversation to me. Others at work have noticed too. I’m more forgetful and scattered these day. I’ve started making myself lists at work – lists of things I need to at work, lists of things I need to do at home and lists of things I need to talk about with Zach. Of course, I keep forgetting my home lists at work, so that doesn’t always work out in my favor… So far, this has been the most irritating pregnancy side effect. The nausea was the most miserable, but at least it didn’t effect my professional relationships, and I was still able to remember everything that I needed to get done. Now I just look like a ditz with a round belly. I don’t know if this symptom will eventually go away like the others, or if I’m doomed to another four plus months of being the pregnant idiot…

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Baby Week 16 – Fluttering, maybe??

July 25, 2008

16 Week Fetus

I always assumed that with my second pregnancy I would be able to feel movement earlier, and I would recognize it as soon as it started. As with most assumptions, I was wrong. I remember what it felt like to have Xander bouncing around in there, but it’s hard to recall specifically what that initial movement felt like. Additionally, it’s so easy to convince myself that it was just a belly gurgle or gas or some other bodily process going on in there, and not actual fetal movement.

This past Sunday I was riding around on some pretty bumpy unpaved roads up on a mountain (that’s another story all together). I was pretty convinced that I could feel this little baby wiggling around as we rode. But, I didn’t feel much movement after that – not for a few days. Every once in a while I’ll think “maybe?” but then I’m not sure. This morning again, I thought I felt some wiggling, but it’s so faint that it’s hard to say definitively one way or another.

I’m not worried about not feeling movement yet – with Xander it was 19 weeks, and with some women it’s even later than that. They say that with your second (and later pregnancies) you feel movement sooner, partially because you know what to expect. Maybe I am feeling movement sooner, but it’s so easy to say “nah, that was something else” that I’m still not sure. I guess I’m waiting for a single definitive boot to the bladder to let me know that he or she is moving around in there.

Speaking of he or she – we have our ultrasound scheduled for August 7th at 8am. We are hoping that this child will be more cooperative than Xander was at telling us the gender prior to birth. Please keep your fingers crossed for us – this could be a huge help in the name negotiation game!

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Baby Week 13 – When is this “morning sickness” going to end?

June 30, 2008

As I mentioned in my first “second baby” post, I suspect that I will frequently compare my first pregnancy with this one. So, with Xander, my morning sickness was pretty much textbook. I was nauseous from 9am to 11am every morning, recovered by lunch, and was fine for the rest of the day. I wasn’t overly tired, and there were times that I could forget that I was actually pregnant. This time around is of course completely different. My “morning sickness” hits me sometime in the morning and then lasts all day. From about 5 weeks until 9 weeks, I could plan on this almost every day. It was pretty miserable. By week 10, I could go 1 or 2 or sometimes 3 days without feeling nauseous, but then just as I was thinking that perhaps the morning sickness was going away, I’d be hit with a particularly bad day. By the time 12 weeks was up with Xander, the morning sickness slowed down, and was nearly gone by 13 weeks.

I’m at 13 weeks now, and still having “morning sickness” 3-4 times a week. I’ve found a few ways to at combat the worst of it – I’m often ill around dinner time, which means I eat very little if anything. That of course means by the time I’m ready for bed, I’m starving. If I ignore my hunger and go to sleep (exhaustion has also been a much bigger problem this time around, so I’m always looking to get into bed early), I know that the next day I will be punished by feeling incredibly ill all day. So, I’ve taken to snacking at night. I once heard that eating cheese as a snack in the evenings is good because cheese takes longer to digest, so you won’t feel hungry in the morning. This works for me sometimes. Sometimes I eat some raw veggies, and if I’m particularly hungry, I make myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and wash it down with a glass of milk. This usually helps the following day. Unfortunately, it’s not a guarantee. I’m worried that I’m into my second trimester and still having “morning sickness” and maybe I will be one of those horribly unlucky women who has this awful nausea for the whole 9 months. Another 7 months of this feels like an awfully long time…

The most popular question I’ve gotten so far is if we plan to find out the sex. The answer is most definitely yes! We wanted to know with Xander, but he was less than cooperative. In retrospect, this was ok – we got lots of gender neutral stuff for the baby shower, which was great. This time around I don’t have to worry about being inundated with all pink or all blue, so I’d like to know as soon as I can. I don’t really care either way, and the old cliche remains true, as long as the baby is healthy, I really don’t care either way.

If I had to take a guess today, I would tell you that I must be carrying a girl, because she is already giving me so much trouble But other than the extreme differences between the two pregnancies, I really don’t have much of a feeling about what gender I’ve got growing inside.

Being Sara

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