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NMART23
	Age: 24 Country: US Province/region: Washington City: Bremerton Partner: My Love, My Life, My Husband Children: Yes, 1 Pregnant: Not anymore Occupation: Apprentice
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Amani Kaluwevah Martinez was born on July 3, 2008 @ 1912 weighing in at 7lbs 11oz and 20 inches long! I love him sooo much!

08/25/2008

I can't believe how fast he is growing, he smiled at me for the first time last thursday :) I never knew what my life was missing before I had him, I feel so complete now! He is the sunshine in my life! I just hate worrying all the time, I am so afraid of SIDS and feel like I am doing everything wrong :( I just keep praying that God will keep him safe, I love him so much, he is my little miracle!

12/19/07

Hi, I am currently 8 weeks and 5 days pregnant. This is my first pregnancy and I am very nervous and excited. I got married on July 21, 2007 to the man of my dreams. I have been kinda miserable lately due to morning sickness and feeling fat but I am looking forward to my next ultrasound tomorrow! I am so excited! I am hoping that I will be able to hear the heartbeat. I am just praying that everything is still okay :)

12/20/07

I have my doctors appt. today! I am really excited and nervous. I am hoping everything is still okay. The only good thing about getting morning sickness is it makes me feel like the baby is still okay. If I didn't have any symptoms I would freak out! I am kinda sad because my husband can't make it to the appointment :( I knew that he wouldn't be able to make it to all of them but I can tell he really wants to be there. I feel bad because I have been talking about it all the time and I think I am making it worse. I really didn't realize how bad he wanted to be there until yesterday. My poor hubby :( He is such a sweetheart, I love him so much :)

12/21/07

Well I had my appt. yesterday, everything looks great! I wasn't able to hear the heart beat but I was able to see it again! I had an ultasound three weeks ago and it was so small. My doctor showed me the current one compared to the last one...wow what a difference, it has grown so much! I am so excited! I can't wait until the next time I get to see it. I have an appointment on Jan. 14 so I am hoping I get to see the little one then or at least hear the heart beat! Oh, they weighed me and I have gained 4 lbs in three weeks! That is scary I need to watch it! I still ahve a long way to go and I should only be gaining 15 lbs total...I guess that picture of the girl on the scale sums it up!

12/30/07

Hi everyone! I am so excited to be in my 10th week! I can't wait until I am in my second trimester! My tailbone has been hurting lately whenever I sit on hard surfaces. I don't really know why but it sucks. I am feeling better with the morning sickness but I have not had to get up early because I am off work until Jan. 2, I am not looking forward to going back : ( It is crazy because during the first few weeks I had cramping then that stopped and I got morning sickness and now I am feeling okay except for the tailbone thing. It seems that the symptoms just trade off. As long as my baby is doing well that is all that matters : )

01/08/08

I am feeling kinda sad lately. I feel like everwhere I go people are looking at me. I know that I have gained alot of weight, way too much for how far along I am. I am hard enough on myself as it is the last thing I need is someone judging me. I have always been very sensitive about my weight and now I am at my heaviest and it is really getting to me. I don't understand people and why they are so mean. I have my own family telling that I am fat! Why would someone say that to a pregnant, hormonal women. I know that I should not let that get to me but I am already uncomfortable around people and the only ones I felt comfortable around was family and know I don't even have that comfort. It just really sucks cause I don't want to go out in public I just want to stay home because I am embarrased. :(

01/09/08

So now my husband has a hard time figuring out which jeans are his! He is 6'3" and I am 5'3", oh well i guess... maybe we could save money and just share jeans! :) By the way today is day two of no puking! :)

01/14/08

I had my first ob appointment today! It was so cool. I was able to see the baby move! I think that I reaaly needed that, I feel so much better now! They should do ultrasounds just to keep expectant mothers spirits high. My husband was there which made me really happy... I love it when he can come! I also think that it makes it more real to him. I LOVE MY BABY!

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01/28/08

Okay I am getting so excited about being pregnant now! I feel better and I am enjoying having a belly...everythings better now! Last night I was asking my husband if he was nervous about having a baby. He said No and that although it is going to be really hard at first we really need to enjoy it because this will be the ONLY time that this baby is a baby and it will go by so fast and we will never be able to have that experience with THIS child! I thought that that was a good way to look at it. It just really makes me happy to know that my is going to have the most wonderful father!!! :)

Amani Kaluwevah

03/15/2008

Well I found out that I am having a healthy baby boy...I really had a feeling it was a boy..it just makes sense that he would be a boy. I am excited about doing his room we picked out paint and I think that we are going to do a jungle theme or something.

04/03/08

I am so excited about my baby boy! I can't wait to meet him. I am having a really hard time believing that there is a little baby inside of me. I mean I feel him move alot, mostly down low, but I am having a hard time grasping that there is a 13in long 1.5lb baby inside of me!...CRAZY! I am trying my best to keep a positive attitude through the whole pregnancy thing, it is just really hard when I have some many emotions and they can change on the drop of a dime. I am feeling really alone. I know that people have gone through the same things and feel the way that I do but they are not going through it NOW. I miss my body being my own. I feel like total crap about myself and everyone pointing out the fact that I am FAT doesn't help. My husband doesn't want to be around me much anymore so that hurts my feelings but I am trying to control my hormones......I feel like I am doing better but who knows. I am having a hard time staying positive so I have been counting down the days.....I don't know how much that helps but when I really think about it when I started I had like way over 200 days and now I am at 109 :) I just want him to be here and be healthy and I am looking forward to being able to be home with him for a few months, that is the only thing that keeps me going. It is funny because when I really start feeling negative he always seems to kick me almost like he is saying "listen up lady this is not about you it is about ME! " It makes me smile :) I love him so much!

04/16/08

I am counting down the days until I have my son. I think that it will take alot of convincing to get me pregnant again. I know that he is worth every stretch mark, every pound, every emotional break down and all of the other unpleasentries of pregnancy. I am sure that once he is here all of that stuff won't matter anymore but for now I am having a hard time with it. I didn't think that pregancy would be this hard, I knew that things were going to change (stretch marks, weight gain,...) but I didn't think that it would bother me as much as it does. I guess when you figure I have probably gained like 40lbs already it makes sense. That is a major factor in the way that I feel. I don't really feel like I have been going crazy and eating everything is sight but the scale shows differently. I am working on being better and really limiting how much I eat so we will see if that makes a difference.

05/16/2008

I am finally in week 30! I am no waddling(so they tell me), my feet are swollen, I am peeing ALL the time, my back hurts when I do dishes or walk to fast and I am still getting fatter and even more stretch marks :( but I will tell you that all of that is worth it to feel my baby move! I love when he moves, even when it is uncomfortable, I like to see my stomach move...it is weird for a part of your body to be moving and not have control over it. I live how anytime I eat anything he moves around, almost like he gets excited when I eat! (I have a feeling that he is going to be a little fat ass like his momma :)) He makes me so happy already! I am ready to meet him and see what he looks like. I don't want him to come early or anything I just want time to hurry up until I have him and then slow down after he is here....is that too much to ask?

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heather518 - Tuesday, 6 May
I feel the same way, I'm starting to freak out a little bit too...it comes and goes though. One minute I'm calm and the next I'm like, Crap what am I going to do with a baby?! haha But I think it's all very normal and it'll be difficult but we'll figure it out once the time comes.

bvalley1982 - Thursday, 1 May
ahoy! things are good. tho im feeling down cus i only have 1 month left at home :( i have to start introducing aidan to the bottle, so i have to start pumping, then i have to introduce him to formula for when i go back to work. time just flies now! for you probably not so much ;) hows pregnancy and work going?

Nay143 - Monday, 28 April
Hey this is the picture I got done of Dominic. I thought you might want to see it!

AChance2Dream - Saturday, 26 April
I use to be able to eat and feel fine once I got myself to eat but the last 2 weeks or so I am to the point where like last night I had to muster eveything I had to even make dinner for my honey and maybe ate 5 bites and couldn't stand to even looking at it after that. Its so strange and even when I finally feel like I can eat something I can only eat a few bites and I am done. I think I am going to call and see what she suggests.

chocolatemomma - Tuesday, 22 April
i believe they do another ultrasound at 30 wks and another at like 37...hopefully!

tracylouella - Monday, 21 April
Yes they can definately tell by feeling your belly! The doc can touch you and tell you exactly where everything is! You can feel around too, you wont hurt yourself by pushing down to feel, it just feeels like a lot of pressure. The babies like it too whenyou feel around there and play "games" with their feet etc. Not being a doctor though its hard to tell what you are feeling! But yes, they will know if baby is breech or not. Soemtimes later in the pregnancy and the baby is a lot bigger you can feel it flip over and it is the strangest feeling ever, then you can tell your doc and they may do a scan if you are in labor.. or he will just feel your belly.

Hope that wasnt too confusing! This is my 4th baby so I had all those questions answer a lot! lol

Good luck!

ChristineA - Sunday, 20 April
Hey there! Thanks for answering about the kicking.
Okay, well maybe our babies are just making us a little paranoid right now, kicking only with only one foot! At least I'm not alone so I'm sure it's normal. My next ultrasound is at 30 weeks so I'm going to ask to see the legs and feet this time! Congrats on your baby boy and good luck with everything!
Take care and don't worry about the weight gain too much, just eat healthy and I'm sure the weight will come right off after the baby is born. It will be summertime and a beautiful time to go walking with our new strollers.
Christine

p.smith - Sunday, 20 April

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JennSever - Friday, 18 April
i think my little girl is still sideways too..my last u/s 3wks ago had her laying sideways. dr wasn't the least bit concerned..said there was plenty of room and time for her to move head down. he had better be right! i am not having my last baby end up a c-sect while all the others weren't!

kellnjoelplusone - Wednesday, 16 April
I used it when I was feeding my son it is safe to use during and after feeding, it is supposed to help with the soreness but a friend suggested to start using it even befor hand to perevent cracking

lizzie287 - Sunday, 13 April
I hear ya. I'm not hard on myself anymore. 2 puffs off a butt aren't the end of the world, as you said, but I felt so dirty after that, 2am I'm jumping in the shower and just hysterically crying. It was unreal. And hey, yeah, do whatever you need to to keep yourself going ;)

lizzie287 - Saturday, 12 April
Hey there, just saw your comment in tobacco and wanted to let you know, I also quit smoking pretty much right when I found out I was pregnant and I still get very strong urges to smoke. In fact, Friday night I kept circling the block around the store debating buying a pack. Ultimately I ended up finding my old ash tray which stupidly I had never emptied, smoked a butt and felt sooo guilty after that I had to have a shower. I hope that makes you feel better to know that it's natural to keep having cravings, and from experience I can say, DO NOT act on them, you will feel like the world's biggest asshole if you do. good luck :)

bvalley1982 - Thursday, 10 April
before i had aidan i didnt think much about burping. like how hard can that be, right? that has got to be the most oddest thing to do (for me anyways...well that and breast feeding at first) but here you got this little person who cant hold his head on his own and now you got to take him from the football hold and throw him over your shoulder and while holding him, and his head, try to pat his back, while kinda rocking side to side...or what freaks me out even more is sitting him up and holding on to his jaw and then patting his back, yeah thats a fun one when he bucks his head back...usually i'll hold his face in my hand and put my face on the back of his head and then try to pat his back...fun for all :)

bvalley1982 - Wednesday, 9 April
we went to birth basics at harrison hospital. and i didnt at the time think it was very helpful but when i was having contractions i was getting all tensed up and the nurse was telling me to relax, and at first i was thinking f*ck u b*tch, i had completely forgotten that being all tensed up can actually make labor last longer (this is what i learned in class) which i remembered the nurse didnt mention thats why she was telling me to relax. so i did and i thought it helped, but really nothing made me relax like that epidural. man that was good stuff, you'll see what i mean, i told that man i loved him. anyways birth basics (you can see all the classes the hospital offers on their website) kinda covers it all; breast feeding, breathing techniques, ways to labor like the ball, bath, walking, non of which i could do cus i wasnt aloud to get up...how to diaper and swaddle a baby, and oh they showed this cool video of a baby actually crawling to the breast and finding the nipple to nurse, it made me almost want to go natural...almost. anyways it was an 8 hour class held on a saturday. i thought it was useful but i also have no experience with babies at all.

Debra - Tuesday, 8 April
i saw your question on breastfeeding. My suggestion would be to try to express some milk when you can. Lots of women produce colostrum already, the high fat/nutrient to breastmilk. SOme women don't and that's normal too. I started to produce colostrum around 7/8 months pregnant. It was easiest to express a 'tiny' drop after i came out of the shower. You can hold your breast in both hands, one at the top and one at the bottom. Use a firm pressure, rub your hands together over the breast (like a massage) until you get to the areola. THen use your thumb and first finger to compress the areola and nipple, squeezing gently. A tiny drop of colostrum may come out. Rub this colostrum into your nipple. Its great for conditioning nipples to prep for baby's mouth. Thats about all you can do right now. Your milk will come in a few days after baby is born. Milk comes in faster if you are well hydrated and you put baby to your breast often. See my VIP site for more tips on starting to breastfeed. My son is 4 months old now and I've never had a problem.... but i also used to teach breastfeeding basics to new moms ( i'm a nurse) so i do have an advantage there. Also know that not every one can breastfeed. Unfortunately it can happen that your breasts do not produce milk well. One of my friends breasts never changed at all during pregnancy and she could not produce milk or colostrum. THe ducts just never developed. I don't know why this happens.

bvalley1982 - Tuesday, 8 April
we figure out the problem with aidan!!! yeah!!! it was his kirkland brand diaper. we put him back into a huggis that was in the diaper bag and he stopped crying! and then feel asleep!!! yeah! im so happy he's happy i dont even care i have to pay the extra money to buy a name brand diaper! and when you buy diapers we have already gone thru 2 larger boxes of newborns, which he still fits but he can also where size 1. to give you some estimate on how many to buy. oh and if you havent already bought a travel system i dont recommend baby trend if your looking for a car seat that has a good fit on a grocery cart. thats the brand i got and i have to hold a strap on his car seat because it doesnt latch onto the cart.

bvalley1982 - Sunday, 6 April
hes still being really fussy so we got him some infant tylenol last night and had to call the childrens clinic to find out how much to give him (at like 11 pm) but then he was bawling so hard we couldnt give him it, so i put him on the boob to calm him and then he ended up falling asleep! haha and i wasnt even about to wake him up. so aidan is 3 weeks old and no longer fits his new born outfits, can you believe that? i cant. some outfits he only wore once! gees...

bvalley1982 - Saturday, 5 April
we got aidan circumcised today and he was a real trooper at the dr's office but when we got a mile away from it he started screaming and crying. its awful i feel so bad for him. i havent been able to put him down since i got home. everytime he wakes up he just cries with all his little might. poor little guy :(
i know how your feeling, about wishing your body was your own, and just wanting pregnancy to finally be over with, and how those feelings come and go, and that will keep happening. you are going to feel sooo great when you see that messy little baby after he's born. you are going to feel so much relief that he's out, that he's fine, that your body is yours (that will be more of a reality when you bend over and touch your toes for the first time in months) and then your going to be overwhelmed and then youll be on the emotional rollar coaster again! but at least youll have your body back, not the same one you began with (at first) but you wont care.

pregnanthairdresser - Thursday, 3 April
Congrads!!!

ChristinaW2003 - Thursday, 3 April
Congratulations on the pregnancy :)

bvalley1982 - Wednesday, 2 April
this new look on the site is going to take some getting used to. how are things going?

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