Mod - it is especially easy to get charlie horses and other cramps during pregnancy. Have you tried a potassium supplement - your banana may be getting used up too quickly. When I start to feel crampy - which is most often after a jog (yes, I still get my big butt moving...albeit slowly) I eat a banana immediately and the pain subsides quickly.

Altari - I love your avatar. That is my DS' favorite part of that show.


Ugh, frick. I'm feeling big as ****. My ticker is wrong, it should actually be saying 37 weeks. My section is scheduled for Dec. 29.

I can't stop thinking about how much we have to do still. I wrapped gifts today and found that my b-complex pills really help with my moods and with my fatigue. It is nice to be able to get through the day with only 1 half hour nap. ;)

Off to make some cookie dough and let it chill...

Good morning ladies! I am 20 weeks today (for some reason my ticker is off by a day). I can't believe it is almost half way over!!! I am actually sad about that :( I can feel little Phoebe moving around a lot lately. At times, I know I must have a weird look on my face because it actually startles me :)
My weight gain is still at 21 pounds. I'm shooting for 35, still in the healthy range.
I've been having more strange dreams lately, but last night's involved the baby, taking care of her, forgetting things (like where I put her down?!). I kept waking up all through the night. I didn't get a good sleep at all!
Last night DH and I went out and bought her coming home outfit. It is so cute - I should take a picture and post!

32 weeks for me as of today!!! My c-section is scheduled now for Jan 29th!!! I can`t believe how quick time is flying...and it will only go faster now that school is almost out for my son and the holidays are right around the corner.

I feel overwhelmed by what we stil have left to do,, christmas shopping, baby shopping, preparing the room ...the list goes on and on and i can`t get my dear husband motivated to help get things going, ugh!!

Jayme, I feel your pain on not having a motivated husband. I finally got my DH to get things done today by threatening to give his golf clubs away on freecycle. ;)

ok, I wouldn't really have done it...but pregnancy hormones are crazy and he knows it!

17 days left. Oh my. My section is scheduled for Dec. 29. I can't believe things are going so fast!

had an OB appt. today - BP good, weight is 17 lbs. total gained, everything else good. Had a cervix culture, man those are so uncomfortable. I forgot!

I have another ultrasound next Friday. I'm not sure why I've had so many - there aren't any complications with me or the baby. Doc said he wants to check size and position.

Hello ladies! I just found out I am 5 weeks along with my first child. Can I still excerise? I know this sounds terrible..but I'm afraid I'm going to gain back all of the weight I've lost.

Kris - sure, you can still exercise. I've exercised my entire pregnancy. I ran until I was about 25 weeks, now I just kind of jog/walk. It helps to keep you limber.

Remember that you gain weight when you're pregnant because the baby gains weight. Please don't try not to gain or even lose weight while your pregnant unless your doctor specifically tells you to do so.

I have my 4 month OB appt tomorrow. Am I 4 months? LoL. NO ONE KNOWS ANYMORE! They can't even figure out my due date. Hopefully all the questions will be resolved tomorrow.

kris, you should definitely continue to exercise. I played DDR the entire way through my second pregnancy, and felt amazing for it. Keeping up with exercise routines will help ensure that you don't gain too much extra weight, and will keep you in good physical shape for giving birth.

zeff and jayme, why are you having sections? (just curious, they scare the life out of me)

mod, I have those dreams all the time (even with the kiddos born). I sometimes dream that I'm going into a store, and forget them in the car...then forget where I parked it. When I "knew" I was pregnant (but didn't officially know yet), I had a dream that I woke up with a litter of puppies on my bed, and that I couldn't feed them all fast enough. It was kind of like those electronic pet games where they just evaporate if you don't keep up with care and feeding.

Altari - I had to have an emergency c-section with DS1. I was planning to have a vbac with this one, until my doctor saw my scar and said what a crap job surgeon #1 did with it. There was too much scar tissue and the risk of it tearing during labor was quite high. I guess I valued mine and my baby's life more than having a vbac.

Believe me. I wouldn't be having an elective c-section if I had another choice. They freak me out too.

Altari: I am having a repeat c-section as well,, the first time around for me was 10years ago and altough its been so long and the risks are low,, the doctor said she prefers a repeat section b/c with DS i didnt start labour and after 3 attemps at an induction failed, they felt like the baby couldnt come thru the birth canal and deemed that any future babies would have the same issue.

It scares me too!! i am already nervous as heck and have a month to go! i always worry about the scar and since i am overweight,, its in a skin fold and it can get infected more easily:(

but,,, whatevers best for me and the baby.....is what we will do.

ZEFFRYN: wow your days are numbered now,, keep us posted on how things go!!! we are delivering exactly a month apart,, my section is booked for jan 29th! i hope i can make it til then though:)

hey guys.

so...I'm sitting here in tears because our landlord decided that this week was the week that he was going to rip out the flooring and toilet in our downstairs bathroom AND replace some of the tiles in the kitchen. I JUST cleaned the entire house over the weekend and we were working diligently to keep it tidy in case baby came and we had to leave. Landlord has known for two months that this needed to be done (well, actually a LOT longer but we just started bringing it up when we moved in) and he chooses the week of Christmas?! Arse. He ripped out the tile today and found out that the subfloor was wet in the bathroom -duh- no grout around the tiles and I could have picked the tiles up with my finger. There are fans running in the bathroom now, he said he may be able to tile it tonight if the subfloor is dry and grout it tomorrow - that would be great, although I doubt that he is that motivated. He is perhaps the laziest man I have ever met and puts EVERYTHING off until the last minute. DH responded to all of this chaos with a "she is due any day now and if it isn't done by the time the baby is born, we're going to live in one of your vacant houses rent free and hire a contractor to finish our place"...I think it scared the landlord a bit. The landlord had originally been saying "well, you have two bathrooms so one being out of commission isn't a big deal..." well...that would work, except for the fact that I'm having major surgery and won't be able to walk up the stairs to use the second bathroom for at least a week. What am I supposed to do? Use a bedpan?

frick.

This aside, I'm having some very uncomfortable cramping and contractions today...let's hope that the baby can hold out for at least another day or two. I don't want to have to worry about this tile situation while I'm in the hospital.

Zeffryn - I'm sorry to hear that. Our last landlord sounds JUST like that. Agh accept ours never came around to fixing anything. We've since moved and the new landlords never like to answer when we call.. ever. Luckily this is a new place and everything seems to be in top shape.. *shrugs*.


I had my doctor's appointment and ultrasound on the 19th. The doctor wanted to schedule me for a 25wk ultrasound but didn't know I was going in for one on that day. So.. that is on hold. (They wanted to do it because they said they couldn't see much on the first ultrasound.) Well baby is doing good. They couldn't see that well on the second ultrasound though. Baby was also being stubborn and wouldn't move it's legs for the entire hour we were doing the ultrasound so I still don't know if baby is a girl or a boy. Also, they are still holding my original due date of April 4th even though the first ultrasound showed me to be about a day shy of two weeks behind. *shrugs* I have my next doctor's appointment on the 13th of January so I'm sure they will re-schedule an ultrasound then. *hopes*

Pixie - Apparently our landlord is the type that only does something when we bug him about it all the time. It's annoying but I think DH has finally figured out how to handle him.

He's in tonight trying to finish the tile in the bathroom..well, he already finished them but when trying to connect the toilet - he found out that the tube that had connected it before was no longer long enough. Back to the hardware store tomorrow morning for another entire day of being a frickin' slacker. I'm so tired of having to walk upstairs every time I have to pee. I've been up there like 9 times in the past hour....it is especially bad during the night!

I just want to clean my bathroom floor...he has three tiles to grout in the bathroom still...why he didn't grout it while he did the rest of the floor is beyond me. He said that he needed a different color of grout because it was a wall tile and not a floor tile....you would think one would anticipate that before buying supplies. I guess not this guy.

He is coming back in a few minutes to grout the kitchen tile. He said that he wanted to work on it just before we went to bed...well, dude, I'm about to head to bed! He was like...wow, ya'll go to sleep early! Duh...I'm 9 months pregnant and have had to haul my *** up the stairs every 5 minutes...what else do you think is going to happen?!

I could kill him. Really. I wonder if pregnancy could be used as an insanity plea... ;)

I just hope he is done by Sunday. I would really like to clean my bathroom floor before I have to go in for my section on Monday morning. I don't want to come home to a messy bathroom and I don't want to have to have DH do it while I'm in the hospital, although he would do it if it wasn't done by Sunday evening. Bless his cute little heart. :)