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 | Age: 25 Country: Private Province/region: Private City: Private Partner: TJ/Hubby Children: Pregnant: Yes Due date: 20 Jul ,2008 Occupation: 6th Grade Teacher |
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Saturday, November 24, 2007
Hey there! My name is Katy and I just found out last weekend that I'm pregnant! It's not exactly planned. I've been on BC for years, but apparently I'm that 1% that BC sometimes fails on (actually, my husband knows like 3 women who have had babies while on BC, so he says it should be more like 4% :-P.) Despite not being planned, my husband and I are very excited.
Ironically, my best friend is also pregnant, but about 2 months ahead of me. Hers was sort of planned - they didn't expect to get pregnant so fast though. So she and I have a lot we can talk about and share. It's actually comforting to know someone else who is pregnant at the same time.
So I am due on July 20th, 2008. It's not great timing for me since I'm a teacher, but it could be worse (like in August.) My principal is thrilled though, and already giving me names of people who could long-term sub for me when next school year starts. She's awesome!
Well, there's so much more I want to talk about but I should save it all for blogging. Cheers to all the women out there who are also pregnant with me! :-)
Monday, November 26, 2007
Well, tomorrow is my first prenatal appointment. I am nervous! I mean, I know the basics of what the doctor will do - an extensive family history, take blood, pelvic exam, breast exam, pap smear, all that shtuff. It's just kinda weird for me I guess. I still haven't quite wrapped myself around the idea that I'm going to be having a BABY in 8 months. And when I am lucid enough to think about the prospect of being pregnant, I get terrified that something's going to go wrong. That something isn't right with the baby, and I'm going to miscarry. That scares me. I know I shouldn't be worried. I have no reason to worry. I just can't help it.
Meanwhile, I've started getting some morning/noon/night sickness. It isn't anything intolerable. It's just unpredictable, which bugs me. I hate not knowing what will make me feel sick, when. Like all day on Saturday at my parents' house, I felt sort of sick, but not all the way pukey. But every time I tried to eat something, my stomach would turn over flip flops. I felt bad that I didn't eat very much dinner, even though it was good. I pigged out on Thursday and Friday, I was so starved all day. But since then I haven't had much of an appetite. In fact, I've been feeling more faint and nauseous instead. Blech.
I told my students today. They were all excited and asking a million questions. I felt I needed to explain why I'm going to be absent tomorrow (Dr.) Otherwise I probably wouldn't have told them yet. I guess I'd just feel better knowing everything's good before I went around telling everyone. But pretty much everyone knows now, so there's not much to be done about that but hope and pray I have a healthy little Tadpole (my hubby's name for the baby right now :-P) Of course, my students couldn't help but tell everyone else at the school so I was getting a lot of random congrats today. People I hardly ever even see or talk to were coming up to talk to me. Weird.
In other, not-so-baby news, I've been feeling so overwhelmed with work right now. Teaching is not an easy job by any means, but doing it while trying to get a real certification (I'm emergency certified) is even harder. It's my first year still, though I subbed last year. I've stopped taking Lexapro (anti-anxiety drug) since I have no idea how it might affect Tadpole. I have to see what I can find out about it tomorrow. Not taking it doesn't help my anxiety levels at all though. I barely slept last night. I felt like I was on the verge of a full-blown panic attack all night. Hubby was up all night writing reports that he'd put off all weekend. I was so worried about school today and this week in general (I feel woefully unprepared most of the time, probably partly due to my perceived lack of good organizational skills.) I wanted so bad to sleep too. I've been so incredibly tired. Today at school I felt like a zombie. I was just so tired as to not even want to deal with the kids by after lunch. Then I was stuck at school until almost 6:pm trying to get sub plans in order, copies of missing work my students need (didn't even get near all of that done,) and tutoring forms for some students. Sometimes I wish I could just relax a little and not stress over everything to do with school. I look forward to not being a first-year-teacher anymore. Of course, then I'll be a first-year-mom. Haha.
Anyway, Hubby's playing with his Mii's (lol that sounds dirty) and I'm getting really really tired, so I'm off to bed, hoping for a better night's rest and a good appointment tomorrow!
Sunday, January 13, 2008
I promised myself that I'd write more in blogs now that I'm pregnant. Here it is almost two months after my last entry...whoops. I feel bad about that. A lot has been going on, too!
So I had my Winter Break from school. It wasn't nearly long enough for me, especially considering that I was pukey sick the whole time and had to pack and move. Well, we settled into a larger 2 bedroom apartment, with a room that we can use for a baby room now. We turned the dining room area into our office, so we don't have a kitchen table anymore, but we hardly ever ate at it anyway. That's what the coffee table and large desks are for, aren't they? :-P
Anyways, the bigger news. About baby Tadpole! We had an ultrasound on December 6th. There wasn't a whole lot to see then, but it was still really neat. I think it looks like a baby blob. Of course, I was only about 7 weeks then. Here's the pictures we got from that day.
See? What a cute little blobby! Actually, the technician told me that the part that everyone mistakes for the head is actually the yolk sac. Well, it's not quite that little anymore. This week my baby's supposed to be 3 inches long! Wow!
We went for our 2nd prenatal appointment on January 3rd. We got to hear Tadpole's heartbeat that day - 180 bpm. The doctor was telling us that some people think that a fast heartbeat means it's going to be a girl. I keep feeling like it's going to be a boy though, for some reason. I'd like either, maybe a girl a little more than a boy, but we keep calling the baby "he." The doctor also gave me some medicine for nausea, but sadly I can only take it at night because it also makes me incredibly sleepy. Well, that's a bit useless. I've been trying Dramamine in the morning, but I've still been sick off and on. It sucks. I wish this all-day sickness would go away already. I'm sick of feeling like crap, and I know my poor hubby is sick of dealing with me being sick all the time. I can barely eat anything anymore. I've lost over 15 pounds since the beginning of December. Well, I know one food I can seem to handle (oddly enough) is french fries. But I can't eat the sandwiches, or the chicken, or the pork, or pretty much anything with meat in it. Figures. I stopped taking my prenatal vitamin at my doctor's orders, too, which has helped some but not enough it seems. My mom tells me I look gray when she picks me up for work in the morning.
Anyway, enough icky, sobby stuff. I am still very excited about having this baby. I'm just very bitter towards those women who say they have "smooth" or "pleasant" pregnancies. Why can't I be one of those lucky women? I hope the next time around goes much more nicely. Meantime, I'm still surviving my 27 preteens at school, and looking forward to my next appointment, which happens to be on my birthday. :-) We will be getting another ultrasound (and hopefully find out the sex!) in the beginning of February. And that's about all for now. Time for me to really try hard to choke down some dinner. Poor TJ, can't even cook for me. :-/ Peace!
Monday, February 25, 2008
It's...a...Girl?!?!?
So today I was all excited about finding out the sex of our new baby. Truth be told I really wanted a girl because we had a name picked our for her “if we had a girl” already. One we had actually been talking about since we were dating. Natalie. We both really liked it. So we go in and the person doing the ultrasound is like, “umm did you move your due date? Because this baby is to small for 19 weeks.” Son of a *&^&#$^. I though, “and ofcourse I had to be all excited about it.” Well interestingly enough she was still able to tell us what the gender was. Girl.. We are going to have.. a.. baby.. girl. Wow.
It's...a...Girl?!?!?
So today I was all excited about finding out the sex of our new baby. Truth be told I really wanted a girl because we had a name picked our for her “if we had a girl” already. One we had actually been talking about since we were dating. Natalie. We both really liked it. So we go in and the person doing the ultrasound is like, “umm did you move your due date? Because this baby is to small for 19 weeks.” Son of a *&^&#$^. I though, “and ofcourse I had to be all excited about it.” Well interestingly enough she was still able to tell us what the gender was. Girl.. We are going to have.. a.. baby.. girl. Wow.
Oh
but ofcourse Natalie doesn't work now because Katy’s friend named her
baby Natalie... Kinda irks me. Not her friend but Katy :P I really like
that name and I’ve been looking forward to raising a little Natalie.
Ahh well we will see. THUNDER-DOME !!!! 2 People Enter, 1 Man Leaves !
~ TJ
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Name that baby!
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Name that baby!
Well
yesterday I think Katy and I came to the conclusion that we will be
naming our child, Natalie Marie N*****. It such a pretty name. I can’t
wait to meet her.
On a side note the Doctor said that while the baby may measure 18 weeks he is not changing the due date.
~TJ
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Wow, I really need to work on this whole keeping blogs up to date thing...anyway.
Since I was so incredibly sick all the time, and making myself feel worse from the stress I was under, I resigned my teaching position on January 30, my birthday. It wasn't really an easy thing to do, because I felt really guilty about leaving all my kids with a sub for the rest of the year and who knows what next year. My principal was really good about it all, though, and wants to have me back after the baby's born. I don't know that I'm going to do that though. It's still a really long drive to get to that school, and it'll be harder with a newborn to take care of as well. What am I going to do for daycare? So plans for my teaching future are up in the air right now. My mother's actually encouraging me to find something else to do instead of teach...I think she's projecting her own burnt-out feelings onto me. :-P She's looking at a more administrative position next year so she won't have so many classes to teach. :-P
So since I haven't been teaching, I basically took the month of February off. It passed by pretty quickly, actually. I've been sleeping a LOT, working on getting the apartment in order, playing video games, reading, starting up on cross stitching again. It's been quite relaxing. On the plus side, my morning/noon/night sickness has abated sooooo much. And I'm not having breakdowns on a nightly basis from stress and anxiety (my doc actually prescribed a little more anti-depressant medication for me and was one of many who encouraged me to resign from teaching for now.) I feel a lot better, with the exception of spring sinuses. Ugh. Nothing I can do about them anyway.
So I start working again on March 12th, at a test-scoring company that I've worked for, for the last 3 summers. Their scoring season is just starting up now, and it should start winding down about the time I'm due. So that'll work out nicely for now. As for after the baby is born, I know I plan on not working for a little bit so I can take care of the newbie, but after a couple months I'd go crazy if I weren't working, so I'll be finding something to do. Not sure what yet. I'm totally a twenty-something. You know, both my mom and dad went through a lot of different jobs in their twenties before settling down on careers in their 30's, and I know a number of thirtysomethings and older who did the same. So I'm not going to panic about careers for now. I just need to find something I really enjoy doing. I did like teaching a lot, but all the crap outside of the actual classroom was a little too much. I hated how we were basically forced to do fundraising for any and all field trips. I'd just as soon not go on any, and try to get people to come to the school instead, but my coworkers were all for lots of field trips, and my class would have just felt terribly left out if I didn't get them on field trips. But I hate coordinating fundraisers all the time. And all the meetings for everything that often took away my prep period during the day sucked. Plus I was still trying to figure out a good system for keeping up with grading and getting kids to turn their work in. On top of having to drive a very long way to get to school every day, and spending at least 9-10 hours a day there. I was totally drained, and quickly losing it. Prego hormones on top of lots of stress = bad.
Okay, now that I have that out, I am looking way forward to this new little one in our lives. :-) I can't stop watching the ultrasound video we got. It's just so amazing. I can feel little Natalie moving around in me, though TJ's jealous because he can't feel it on the outside yet. That doesn't stop him from trying to poke me sometimes though! It really is a strange feeling, comparable to nothing else in the world. Today I'm 20 weeks along, halfway there! The doctor says I'm doing just fine so far. We have another ultrasound scheduled in a week or so to look at Natalie's innards, since she was "too small" last time. :-P Now we get to focus on getting the hospital paperwork filled out, wills finished (ugh, at least someone is doing them for us for free!,) the baby room organized and set up, and start collecting baby goods. So much fun! The second trimester so far as definitely been more comfortable, although I still get bad backaches and stupid round ligament pains. And I'm still incredibly tired. The doctor says that basically a pregnant woman is doing the equivalent of running 10 miles every day in calorie burning and energy, so it's natural to feel a bit more tired all the time. What happened to that "energy burst" women are supposed to get in their 2nd trimesters? Arg. Oh well.
I think that's about all I can write for now. I should save some writing for tomorrow. I told my sister I would challenge myself to write every day for a week, then she challenged me to keep writing at least once a week after that. I can do this! :-)
Peace!
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Wow, I really need to work on this whole keeping blogs up to date thing...anyway.
Since I was so incredibly sick all the time, and making myself feel worse from the stress I was under, I resigned my teaching position on January 30, my birthday. It wasn't really an easy thing to do, because I felt really guilty about leaving all my kids with a sub for the rest of the year and who knows what next year. My principal was really good about it all, though, and wants to have me back after the baby's born. I don't know that I'm going to do that though. It's still a really long drive to get to that school, and it'll be harder with a newborn to take care of as well. What am I going to do for daycare? So plans for my teaching future are up in the air right now. My mother's actually encouraging me to find something else to do instead of teach...I think she's projecting her own burnt-out feelings onto me. :-P She's looking at a more administrative position next year so she won't have so many classes to teach. :-P
So since I haven't been teaching, I basically took the month of February off. It passed by pretty quickly, actually. I've been sleeping a LOT, working on getting the apartment in order, playing video games, reading, starting up on cross stitching again. It's been quite relaxing. On the plus side, my morning/noon/night sickness has abated sooooo much. And I'm not having breakdowns on a nightly basis from stress and anxiety (my doc actually prescribed a little more anti-depressant medication for me and was one of many who encouraged me to resign from teaching for now.) I feel a lot better, with the exception of spring sinuses. Ugh. Nothing I can do about them anyway.
So I start working again on March 12th, at a test-scoring company that I've worked for, for the last 3 summers. Their scoring season is just starting up now, and it should start winding down about the time I'm due. So that'll work out nicely for now. As for after the baby is born, I know I plan on not working for a little bit so I can take care of the newbie, but after a couple months I'd go crazy if I weren't working, so I'll be finding something to do. Not sure what yet. I'm totally a twenty-something. You know, both my mom and dad went through a lot of different jobs in their twenties before settling down on careers in their 30's, and I know a number of thirtysomethings and older who did the same. So I'm not going to panic about careers for now. I just need to find something I really enjoy doing. I did like teaching a lot, but all the crap outside of the actual classroom was a little too much. I hated how we were basically forced to do fundraising for any and all field trips. I'd just as soon not go on any, and try to get people to come to the school instead, but my coworkers were all for lots of field trips, and my class would have just felt terribly left out if I didn't get them on field trips. But I hate coordinating fundraisers all the time. And all the meetings for everything that often took away my prep period during the day sucked. Plus I was still trying to figure out a good system for keeping up with grading and getting kids to turn their work in. On top of having to drive a very long way to get to school every day, and spending at least 9-10 hours a day there. I was totally drained, and quickly losing it. Prego hormones on top of lots of stress = bad.
Okay, now that I have that out, I am looking way forward to this new little one in our lives. :-) I can't stop watching the ultrasound video we got. It's just so amazing. I can feel little Natalie moving around in me, though TJ's jealous because he can't feel it on the outside yet. That doesn't stop him from trying to poke me sometimes though! It really is a strange feeling, comparable to nothing else in the world. Today I'm 20 weeks along, halfway there! The doctor says I'm doing just fine so far. We have another ultrasound scheduled in a week or so to look at Natalie's innards, since she was "too small" last time. :-P Now we get to focus on getting the hospital paperwork filled out, wills finished (ugh, at least someone is doing them for us for free!,) the baby room organized and set up, and start collecting baby goods. So much fun! The second trimester so far as definitely been more comfortable, although I still get bad backaches and stupid round ligament pains. And I'm still incredibly tired. The doctor says that basically a pregnant woman is doing the equivalent of running 10 miles every day in calorie burning and energy, so it's natural to feel a bit more tired all the time. What happened to that "energy burst" women are supposed to get in their 2nd trimesters? Arg. Oh well.
I think that's about all I can write for now. I should save some writing for tomorrow. I told my sister I would challenge myself to write every day for a week, then she challenged me to keep writing at least once a week after that. I can do this! :-)
Peace!
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andante - Thursday, 14 Feb
YOU NEED TO UPDATE YOUR PAGE!
sonyasfirstbaby - Wednesday, 16 Jan
I want a girl too...I say I don't care, but i think I really want a girl. HOWEVER...I think it's a boy too! I cna't think of any girl names and everytime I see a little boy I melt and YES....everyone refers to it as 'he' and 'him'. I hope to find out the sex soon too! Congrats!
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