Big day for everyone here.
It is 9am and I'm getting ready to head over to my prenatal appointment. I'm going to ask for an ultrasound and maybe, just maybe, we'll find out if it's a little boy or girl in there.
John's mom, Debbie is in town too. I wish you were here too mama! :)
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Day 90 - Snuggled up at home
Well, yet again, I've fallen off the blogging wagon. This is due in part to serious computer issues (laptop is burnt), holiday madness and a general lack of summarizing ability.
Christmas was lovely. We woke up and I definitely forgot that it was Christmas because I proceeded to tell my wacked dream in great detail to John, who always does a fine job of feigning interest. Then we trotted over to the Christmas tree and unwrapped our gifts. John got me a few books, including 2 gigantic crossword puzzle treasure troves and a replacement for a book that I left on a plane a few months ago. He also got me a beautiful maternity shirt, which he insists is a pajama top. I think it's way too nice and I wore it today to prove it. After watching some Lost Season 5- one of my gifts to him, we took the 30 cupcakes Aja dropped off the night before down to the shelter and remarked on the line outside of the movie theater. :) The rest of the day was basically me sleeping intermittently as I was super tired for absolutely no reason other than growing a baby.
Christmas Eve was wonderful too- Dan and Richard came over and I cooked my first indoor steaks ever. They were pretty dry but definitely edible. I also made mashed potats, asparagus and salad and Dan made his not-s0-famous latkas.
I go in on Wednesday for a check up. I'm going to mention the UTIs I keep getting and perhaps request an ultrasound- mostly to see if we can get a gender guess. My body hasn't changed much. I've lost some weight because I've been eating much less and more consciously. Yesterday marked week 15 and the second trimester has been problem-free so far. John continues to be the happy and supportive partner that he always has been. I couldn't ask for anything more, except for another glass of milk 14 times a day.
Christmas was lovely. We woke up and I definitely forgot that it was Christmas because I proceeded to tell my wacked dream in great detail to John, who always does a fine job of feigning interest. Then we trotted over to the Christmas tree and unwrapped our gifts. John got me a few books, including 2 gigantic crossword puzzle treasure troves and a replacement for a book that I left on a plane a few months ago. He also got me a beautiful maternity shirt, which he insists is a pajama top. I think it's way too nice and I wore it today to prove it. After watching some Lost Season 5- one of my gifts to him, we took the 30 cupcakes Aja dropped off the night before down to the shelter and remarked on the line outside of the movie theater. :) The rest of the day was basically me sleeping intermittently as I was super tired for absolutely no reason other than growing a baby.
Christmas Eve was wonderful too- Dan and Richard came over and I cooked my first indoor steaks ever. They were pretty dry but definitely edible. I also made mashed potats, asparagus and salad and Dan made his not-s0-famous latkas.
I go in on Wednesday for a check up. I'm going to mention the UTIs I keep getting and perhaps request an ultrasound- mostly to see if we can get a gender guess. My body hasn't changed much. I've lost some weight because I've been eating much less and more consciously. Yesterday marked week 15 and the second trimester has been problem-free so far. John continues to be the happy and supportive partner that he always has been. I couldn't ask for anything more, except for another glass of milk 14 times a day.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Day 79 - Pee vomit
The last two days have been jam-packed with work for the Center. We had our December quarterly board meeting last night and elected a new Chair and Vice-Chair. It occurs to me that it is not a frequent occurrence for most people, to have all of the people they had worked closely with be replaced with an entirely new set of people. I feel very confident in the women who will be filling the boots of the executive positions which very relieving.
I am still in over-production mode, trying to meet end of year deadlines while attempting to fulfill all of my other obligations.
I've been getting UTIs the past 3 days. I talked to the midwife at our last prenatal appointment about it. She said (confirming what I had already researched) that some women's anatomy is just more prone to getting UTIs. I am one of those unfortunate women and the pain never becomes familiar. Last night I was brought to tears. It is so uncomfortable! This morning I woke up and could feel that I was still lingering and popped some cranberry pills. Doing this on an empty stomach was just about the worst thing I could do. A half an hour later I was hanging my head in the toilet vomiting what my pee looks like after I take the cranberry pills.
So anyway, John is having his 2nd phone interview this morning and I still haven't motivated myself to shower and/or bake the million cookies that need to be ready for tonight's holiday party. Other than the above mentioned body malfunctions, I feel pretty great. Most of the time I really don't feel pregnant. It's a strange thing but I sure am grateful. The only thing that persists is the smell sensitivity issue- it's morphing into a tough situation where it's less the smell of foods and more the smell of people and things that get me feeling gross. I sure hope this phase ends soon but I'd certainly choose this over puking everyday.
Oh I guess I didn't mention that John and I had a really nice Saturday together. What made it extra special is that he was extremely flexible and completely willing to do anything that we could think up without time constraints. We started off by going to Pike Place Market and I definitely was feeling a little rushed because John isn't a natural shopper. There was nothing that interested him, so I felt like browsing wasn't really possible (even though he wasn't the least bit impatient). I think I just really enjoy shopping alone and at my own pace. I know those last few sentences completely contradict my thesis statement, but overall the day was quite relaxed. So then we walked down 1st ave and went to Fado for lunch and then back up near pacific place to gameworks arcade and finally to the movies. It just felt really nice to have a day out together.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
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Sometimes you'll be at work and someone will say something ridiculously inappropriate on IM that you now have to hide from anyone that might walk by, and the rest of the conversation looks like
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Clearly we've got a situation now where I'm supposed to rattle off 7 quick blog posts until there's no retrievable record that I have ever farted ... right?
Anyways, moving on to Tai's next post. I think that picture was taken like 3 days after the test. That was an exciting day. First I had done the math, and figured out the conditional probabilities of "it's a boy" or "it's a girl" based on the assumption that the test is 80% right and 20% wrong (their claim), and added assumptions like "80% of the time I'm naturally going to have a boy, vs having a girl 20% of the time" (my claim). With those assumptions I figured out that if you got a boy result, there would now be 16-1 odds favoring a boy, and if you got a girl result, it would be 50-50 whether it was a boy or girl. Subsequently I went around posting that everywhere that I assumed I could post that without someone scrolling it off the top.
So Tai woke up whatever morning that was, and I was assuming we were going to get the test that night, but she was like "we have to do this NOW ... i have to go pee NOW ... it has to be the first morning pee" and of course we hadn't even gotten the test yet. So I'm thinking, uhh ... (don't wanna get up) .... isn't it going to be pretty unpleasant waiting for me to go to the store while you're laying in bed holding it in? (or for that matter walking to the store with me holding it in?) So we found a random clean receptacle laying around the room (don't worry roommates, it has already been classified as a biohazard and will not be turning up in the kitchen sink, soon or ever) and Tai did her business (I was about to say "while I went to walgreens", but I doublefactchecked just now and she came with me). It was kindof funny when I looked at the shelf and there were like, 80 spots on the shelf for condoms, 30 for pregnancy tests, and right in the middle of pregnancy tests 1 spot for the intelligender tests (I'm sure there are other categories of "things" on the shelves I forgot or omitted).
So then we came back and I pulled out the various utensils and did the titrating, made sure to swirl the contents like it said on the instructions but not shake them, and told Tai "I've gotta go jump in the shower, it'll be quick", and she was like "NOOO, you have ten minutes!" ... "psh, 10 minutes, I can be done in 5". 14 minutes later I came back in and Tai was going "it didn't look like anything. Those were the two colors and it didn't change color at all."
So I sortof looked at it and went hmmm .... there were little flavor crystals that probably didn't dissolve, let's try swirling it a little bit and see what happens (also I noticed it just kindof looked like there was dark sediment at the bottom), so as soon as I gave it a little swirl the sediment took over and the whole cup turned the EXACT color of the "it's a boy!" color (on the other side, the "it's a girl!" color was about 12 shades lighter than the pre-swirl color, so the fact that it went from dark to darker makes me at least 16-to-1 convinced of the reality of the situation).
So the bottom line is now I just have to work on shifting Tai's overton window until she is considering a name like Zaxxon Clyde to be the norm for our son, (just now, "that's what you're doing, isn't it? when you suggest names like, fucking, THOR") and then we're golden. Golden, as in, NOT the color that was returned by the gender test.
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and then resumes.
Clearly we've got a situation now where I'm supposed to rattle off 7 quick blog posts until there's no retrievable record that I have ever farted ... right?
Anyways, moving on to Tai's next post. I think that picture was taken like 3 days after the test. That was an exciting day. First I had done the math, and figured out the conditional probabilities of "it's a boy" or "it's a girl" based on the assumption that the test is 80% right and 20% wrong (their claim), and added assumptions like "80% of the time I'm naturally going to have a boy, vs having a girl 20% of the time" (my claim). With those assumptions I figured out that if you got a boy result, there would now be 16-1 odds favoring a boy, and if you got a girl result, it would be 50-50 whether it was a boy or girl. Subsequently I went around posting that everywhere that I assumed I could post that without someone scrolling it off the top.
So Tai woke up whatever morning that was, and I was assuming we were going to get the test that night, but she was like "we have to do this NOW ... i have to go pee NOW ... it has to be the first morning pee" and of course we hadn't even gotten the test yet. So I'm thinking, uhh ... (don't wanna get up) .... isn't it going to be pretty unpleasant waiting for me to go to the store while you're laying in bed holding it in? (or for that matter walking to the store with me holding it in?) So we found a random clean receptacle laying around the room (don't worry roommates, it has already been classified as a biohazard and will not be turning up in the kitchen sink, soon or ever) and Tai did her business (I was about to say "while I went to walgreens", but I doublefactchecked just now and she came with me). It was kindof funny when I looked at the shelf and there were like, 80 spots on the shelf for condoms, 30 for pregnancy tests, and right in the middle of pregnancy tests 1 spot for the intelligender tests (I'm sure there are other categories of "things" on the shelves I forgot or omitted).
So then we came back and I pulled out the various utensils and did the titrating, made sure to swirl the contents like it said on the instructions but not shake them, and told Tai "I've gotta go jump in the shower, it'll be quick", and she was like "NOOO, you have ten minutes!" ... "psh, 10 minutes, I can be done in 5". 14 minutes later I came back in and Tai was going "it didn't look like anything. Those were the two colors and it didn't change color at all."
So I sortof looked at it and went hmmm .... there were little flavor crystals that probably didn't dissolve, let's try swirling it a little bit and see what happens (also I noticed it just kindof looked like there was dark sediment at the bottom), so as soon as I gave it a little swirl the sediment took over and the whole cup turned the EXACT color of the "it's a boy!" color (on the other side, the "it's a girl!" color was about 12 shades lighter than the pre-swirl color, so the fact that it went from dark to darker makes me at least 16-to-1 convinced of the reality of the situation).
So the bottom line is now I just have to work on shifting Tai's overton window until she is considering a name like Zaxxon Clyde to be the norm for our son, (just now, "that's what you're doing, isn't it? when you suggest names like, fucking, THOR") and then we're golden. Golden, as in, NOT the color that was returned by the gender test.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Day 77 - 13 weeks
John and I just spent some time cleaning up. Feels good to be in a more orderly space. I'm going to be headed to an IMAX movie with Alie in about an hour so I've got to get my morning in gear pretty quickly.
I've been experiencing a shift in my smell and taste sensitivities. Rather than a general sensitivity all of the time, it's more like none at all or all at once. John ate pizza and the smell of garlic has been haunting me for the past 2 days but I'm doing alright when something is quite malodorous on the bus.
On a side note: I've changed the day # in the subject line to reflect the actual day # of the pregnancy rather than the days out since we found out we're pregnant.
The most exciting news is that we took the Intelligender test. You can read about it here. My pee seems to tell us this:
John is pretty ecstatic while I'm remaining neutral until we get the 20 week ultrasound. I'm sure he'll expound more on why he believes this is an accurate result if he ever gets around to posting. In the meantime, we can leave it at "It's a boy?"
I've been experiencing a shift in my smell and taste sensitivities. Rather than a general sensitivity all of the time, it's more like none at all or all at once. John ate pizza and the smell of garlic has been haunting me for the past 2 days but I'm doing alright when something is quite malodorous on the bus.
On a side note: I've changed the day # in the subject line to reflect the actual day # of the pregnancy rather than the days out since we found out we're pregnant.
The most exciting news is that we took the Intelligender test. You can read about it here. My pee seems to tell us this:
John is pretty ecstatic while I'm remaining neutral until we get the 20 week ultrasound. I'm sure he'll expound more on why he believes this is an accurate result if he ever gets around to posting. In the meantime, we can leave it at "It's a boy?"
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Day 57 - No you may NOT fart
Biggest news is that I made the blog look a lot nicer (right?) and John's farts are absolutely rancid.
We also added the Baby registry information to the right.
Today has been pretty laid back and I'm enjoying getting things done. I've been slashing some checkmarks on major to-dos and I hope this can continue uninterrupted.
Friday will be 13 weeks which incidentally also marks 13 weeks since I had a pleasant pooping experience.
C-Ya!
We also added the Baby registry information to the right.
Today has been pretty laid back and I'm enjoying getting things done. I've been slashing some checkmarks on major to-dos and I hope this can continue uninterrupted.
Friday will be 13 weeks which incidentally also marks 13 weeks since I had a pleasant pooping experience.
C-Ya!
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Day 54 - Hiatus
After lots of hectic travel, uhauling and US hauling, John and I are settled into his apartment which has become much more of a home than it was before. There is now a place to actually store things, as well as a beautiful, newly hand-painted BIG dining room table and a christmas tree begging for ornamentation. It feels really good to walk into John's apartment and feel like it's a warm and welcoming place. Soon it will be OUR apartment, but not without a lot of sweat and tears moving and purging tons of my "collections".
The past two days have been pretty horrific healthwise. On Friday morning I walked across the street to get some milk and had myself a bowl of cereal for breakfast. A few hours later I started having cramps and dealt with them growing in intensity through my 3pm meeting. When John picked me up, I was in agony. When I got home I hopped in bed and was writhing in pain. At about 8pm I fell asleep and woke up bright and early yesterday feeling just fine.
I relaxed through the day and misunderstood Jen's birthday plans and missed the group outing to the brewery where I guess I would've sipped on some ginger ale. Of course, had I been ready in time I would've completely avoided the situation to follow. Around 6pm we walked to John's place to eat, Ahh yes, cereal please! I was a little bit concerned that the cereal was what had set me off the day before but couldn't imagine that suddenly, after 11 weeks of CHUGGING milk ALL the time, that milk was the culprit. Lo and behold, soon after I was in the same awful pain which woke me up from a nap. John sat with me and comforted me and fed me some peaches and water. I tried to go to the bathroom and failed. On the way out of the bathroom I got the undeniable urge to vomit and ran back in. Up came all of the peaches and awful smelling puke! I mean it was RANK. I could taste the Cap'n Crunch from earlier too, but to my knowledge none of it was in the toilet. To wrap up this visual, after tossing it up I felt just fine! No more cramps!! I don't understand it but it was incredible.
So here we are, Sunday- or better known as Day 54. I'm over 12 weeks pregnant and heard the baby's heartbeat last Wednesday. I have a ton of work to do so I am going to wrap this up prematurely. WE'RE going to be updating more regularly. Promise.
The past two days have been pretty horrific healthwise. On Friday morning I walked across the street to get some milk and had myself a bowl of cereal for breakfast. A few hours later I started having cramps and dealt with them growing in intensity through my 3pm meeting. When John picked me up, I was in agony. When I got home I hopped in bed and was writhing in pain. At about 8pm I fell asleep and woke up bright and early yesterday feeling just fine.
I relaxed through the day and misunderstood Jen's birthday plans and missed the group outing to the brewery where I guess I would've sipped on some ginger ale. Of course, had I been ready in time I would've completely avoided the situation to follow. Around 6pm we walked to John's place to eat, Ahh yes, cereal please! I was a little bit concerned that the cereal was what had set me off the day before but couldn't imagine that suddenly, after 11 weeks of CHUGGING milk ALL the time, that milk was the culprit. Lo and behold, soon after I was in the same awful pain which woke me up from a nap. John sat with me and comforted me and fed me some peaches and water. I tried to go to the bathroom and failed. On the way out of the bathroom I got the undeniable urge to vomit and ran back in. Up came all of the peaches and awful smelling puke! I mean it was RANK. I could taste the Cap'n Crunch from earlier too, but to my knowledge none of it was in the toilet. To wrap up this visual, after tossing it up I felt just fine! No more cramps!! I don't understand it but it was incredible.
So here we are, Sunday- or better known as Day 54. I'm over 12 weeks pregnant and heard the baby's heartbeat last Wednesday. I have a ton of work to do so I am going to wrap this up prematurely. WE'RE going to be updating more regularly. Promise.
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