just1sillygirl
	Age: 31 Country: USA Province/region: California City: Ventura Partner: My Awersome Husband Children: Yes, 3 Pregnant: Not anymore Occupation: Sourcing Specialist
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Welcome to the in-utero chronicles of Theodore Jameson....

Hi There! I'm a 30 yo mother of two, plus one on the way. We're going to have a baby boy somewhere around April 16th, 2008. Both of my out-of-the-womb children are girls and were born in the late 90's. The age gap between my first two and this one is 8 - 10 years. I didn't think I'd ever want kids again after being a single mom for so long, but in May I married the man of my dreams (sounds ridiculously mushy, doesn't it?) and am now fully ready and excited to expand the family.

It's a totally different experience this time around! My mind, heart, and support system is way more prepared, but my body wasn't. Age and extra weight have made this pregnancy an achey, painy, pukey, energy drainer. Next time I vow to be in better shape first. The quirkiest thing about this pregnancy is how emotional I've been - not mood swing wise, but I will cry at anything. I cried at commercials, movies (even Fred Claus, which stunk btw), hula dancers, even really good food makes me cry - pretty much any loud noise or big bright light will bring me to tears... and it's LAME! Can't wait to reclaim my tear ducts. ;)

A little more about me... I work full-time, and am also a student a local University (on top of raising two active and challenging girls!). I enjoy hiking and walking and hanging with friends, but lately have spent more time stting in front of the TV. I like listening to music and seeing local live bands with my husband. I'm looking forward to having a little boy and can't wait to be a new mom... again.

Sunday, 27 Jan

Oh boy, this is where the hard part begins. So close, yet still so far away. I want Teddy to take all the time he needs grow and be ready, yet I want him here with me on the outside now!!!Been having a lot of strong BH lately. Nothing regular, but more than I remember in my last pregnancies. The doc has put me on Pepcid AC daily now o relieve heartburn - he thinks I `m having bad reflux during the night which is adding to my random nausea in the mornings, constant hiccuping during the day, and not sleeping so well at night. He didn `t prescribe iron for me like my other docs did. Didn `t seem to think it was necessary - just goes to show how trends in prenatal care change throughout the years. Looking forward to making it through the next 12 weeks. Starting to plan for maternity leave at work - DH is, too... he gets 30 bus. days paid paternity leave so we are still trying to decide how best to work that. m/

Wednesday, 30 Jan

Week 29 has come at last! 28 seemed to go by so incredibly slowly - I hope this one speeds by quickly!!So tired the past couple of days. I `m sleeping ok when I `m asleep (except for some really vivid dreams), but there are times when I just lay awake in bed for a couple hours. Sometimes I wake up on my own, sometimes my dog wakes me up by barking at the raccoons that currently live in our neighbor `s tree that come down to eat his food at 1am (go away raccoons!!!).We haven `t started on the nursery yet - hopefully we `ll do that soon. We have to move a lot of stuff around and into storage. I would love to just move into a bigger place, but with everything that `s going on we can `t afford the deposit right now - and it `s hard to find bigger houses that are still within the girl `s school zones.Work has been great lately, I `m so happy - but I `m also looking forward to maternity leave... :)

Wednesday, 30 Jan

Oh man, I was just reading through my bio and realized that I `m not 30 anymore... It `s funny how relative age is - when I was little I thought 20 was old, now I look at 50 and think `it `s not so old ` ... I `m having a harder and harder time telling how old people are by just looking at them, too. I guess if you `re all involved in the slow progression of aging you don `t really notice how much things have changed. Has anyone gone back and watched the first Harry Potter movie? They were just babies! But at the time they didn `t seem so young and now they don `t seem so particularly old. OK, I `m rambling and this isn `t exactly baby related, but I needed a quick distraction from my day... :P

Friday, 1 Feb

Ha ha ha ha ha... I put up a picture today. That `s me on a mechanical bull in my wedding dress hours after I got married. Did you know they let you ride for free if you `re in your wedding dress?

Tuesday, 5 Feb

So now Im starting to feel a little anxious for setting up the nursery. We `ve decided what we want to do - but we haven `t done a THING! :) Sometimes I fear Teddy `s going to come home from the hospital and have to sleep on a beanbag in the living room! LOL, I don `t think it `ll be like that, but when I think of all the work we have to do moving stuff out of the middle room - ooshalala... just a little bit overwhelming. My little man is back to kicking like the ultimate fighting champion today, which is such a relief. I `ve really been feeling the bh a lot too. Once I even winced, like it hurt.... but then I remembered how it felt the first time I had a real contraction and it was NOTHING like these fake-o ones. Work is going really well, I like what I `m doing and I `m on a great team. I feel so gooey sometimes being all full of wonderfulness and sunshine, but that `s how everything is right now. Seems to be going just perfectly. ;)

Tuesday, February 5th

HOW FAR ALONG ARE YOU?
30 weeks

ARE YOU UNCOMFORTABLE?
Are you kidding? Totally uncomfortable, my body is doing some weird stuff. Can’t wait to get back to normal!!!

DO YOU THINK YOU LOOK BIG?
Definitely… I caught a glimpse of myself from behind and I was shocked. I have NO shape… unless potato is a shape. LOL! I don’t mind, though, it’s all worth it. I’m just going to have to work extra hard when this is over to get my body back in order.

ANY STRETCHMARKS?
Yeah, some – but they’re not terrible.

HAVE YOU STARTED THE BABYS ROOM?
In my mind! We aren’t going to do much with painting the walls or anything because we’re renting and would have to paint over it, but we’ve got furniture picked out and have our theme (dinosaurs, rawr!)

ARE YOU WITH THE BABYS DADDY?
Definitely. Wouldn’t be here without him, he is my best friend.

DO YOU HAVE YOUR OWN PLACE OR LIVE WITH PARENTS?
We have our own place. It’s going to be a change from having my first two, since I was living with my parents then… it was nice knowing someone was always around if I needed help in a pinch, but at the same time it sucked. We’ll see how experience compares.

WHATS YOUR BIRTH PLAN?
Up until about a week ago I was certain I had the plan down. Go to the hospital when I have contractions, get an epidural as soon as I can, have a baby. But now, and I realize how crazy this sounds, I don’t think I want an epidural. Maybe just some pain meds, something to take the edge off, you know? I don’t know if I’m suddenly afraid of needles in my spine, or if I really think it’s unnecessary. With my first I didn’t get to have one (got to the hospital too late) and it was seriously painful, but bearable. With my second they gave me one at 7cm because I was such a terrible screaming unhappy patient (they induced and the pain was beyond reckoning). It sounds corny, but this time around I think I just need my husband there and everything will be fine.

WHOS YOUR BIRTHING PARTNER/S?
My husband. We’re going to start childbirth classes soon so that he can be prepared. This is his first baby and I don’t think he knows what he’s in for! I’m not opposed to anyone else being in the room either.

HAVE YOU PACKED YOUR BAG FOR THE HOSPITAL YET?
No, I’ll probably just call a friend on the way to the hospital and have them get some stuff for me. I don’t really remember needing anything in particular.

SMOOTH PREGNANCY OR TOUGH?
This one’s been pretty tough. Nothing medically difficult, thankfully, but I just haven’t been feeling great. It’s been really draining, I’ve had a lot of pain in the ligatures in my groin, and I’ve had bad nausea (but not vomiting).

WHAT WAY IS THE BABY LAYING AT THE MIN??? TRANSVERSE, BREECH OR HEAD DOWN?
Not sure. Last time we checked he was breach, but he’s got plenty of time to turn around.

LASTLY....... WAS THIS PREGNANCY PLANNED?
Definitely planned. We tried for almost a year before it happened and we’re so excited!!!

Tuesday, 26 Feb

It `s been a long time since I `ve posted. Things have been going pretty well. Still don `t have the nursery done, but that `s okay - we `re kind of waiting until after the shower anyway. The shower has been kind of a weird deal. My best friend asked to throw it, which was fine, but then my mother in law expressed that she felt a little left out. She got over it, but for some reason the drama resonated throughout for a little while. I don `t care who throws me a baby shower, seriously. So, my shower is supposed to be March 15th and my friend asked me if I could give her labels with the addresses. I had them ready two weeks ago, but she couldn `t come over to pick them up and I could never swing by her place (she lives a couple towns over and I `m always too tired after work). I finally got them to her this past weekend and when I asked her what time the shower was planned for, she didn `t even know. Hadn `t really decided yet. I thought this whole time she was waiting on me to send the invitations and she hadn `t even started them! Bleh. I think what she REALLY wanted to do was plan the games, which would `ve been great - my MIL could `ve handled the rest and everyone would `ve been happy. I hope it turns out cool, but I `m not going to stress about it - just not worth it. Baby showers are fun and beautiful (and dead helpful), but not worth the stress... Sigh. Last week we were all pretty sick. I went through a few days of not being able to keep anything down and that sucked a lot. I still have a pretty bad cough. Teddy has been super active, though. Brian and the girls got to see him really rock n roll the other day. School is over for this quarter, which I `m totally happy about. I need to get the tuition reimbursement papers in before I go on maternity leave (which is only like a month away!), but I have to wait until grades are posted first. Tonight Brian is running the vta au meeting ... so Bekah is making mac n cheese for her and her sister. Phew - so much more going on, but I think I `ll cut it off here. More later :)

Saturday, 15 Mar

Oh man, there `s so much going on right now. My baby shower is tomorrow - I `m excited and nervous at the same time. My best friend has been organizing it for months now, but didn `t send the invitations out until last Friday - and then expected everyone to RSVP by Monday... WTF? Then today she asks my husband to bring some booze. You know, I `m all for drinking and having a great time, but this is a baby shower - not a bachelorette party and I `m starting to get concerned that `s what they `re going to turn it into. I `m too fragile for that right now, I will be so embarassed. On top of that, we suddenly found a bigger house that is only $200 a month more than we `re paying right now... and we `re moving into it in two weeks. This all happened very quickly, but it was a great opportunity and we needed to take it. I positively love the house we `re in right now - moving out is going to be liking breaking up with a boyfriend that you still care about - but this new place has 4 bedrooms and 2 full baths with BATHTUBS!!! OH MY GOD!!! We have been living in this 1 bathroom place with only a shower for a year and a half and I `m soooo ready for a bathtub. It also has a laundry room inside the house (our machines are currently outside) and a garage. So, now we get to pack and move (woo hoo! /sarcasm). I `m tired, cranky, and emotional lately - especially by Friday. The stress of the week just piles on and by the end I `m totally exhausted. My goal is to make it at least through next week at work... I `ll take it day by day after that. Only a few more weeks to go!

Tuesday, 1 Apr

Well, the baby shower went well. Nothing to be embarassed about. Several family member decided not to go with our dinosaur theme and instead go with a teddy bear theme - that was kind of perplexing for me for a while, but I `m over it now. It was really the cribset that I was most upset about, but we were able to return it for the one we registered for. A little over a week ago I thought my water broke, but we went to the hospital and found out that was not the case. They gave me an exam there and I was 100% effaced and 1 cm dialated. I bled a lot after the exam, but was better in a couple days. A couple days after that I went on maternity leave, which has been really nice. Like a huge weight off my shoulders. THEN we moved. It was quite a feat, now we just have to unpack. Teddy `s room is pretty much ready to go, it looks adorable! We have the essentials for him. What we still need is some kind of a dresser and I need a breast pump - otherwise we `re set to go. So excited. You can come out any time now son!

Monday, 14 Apr

So... today was my last scheduled doctor's appointment. No need to schedule one for next week because I won't be pregnant by then. If Teddy doesn't come out on his own this week, I'm scheduled for induction Saturday morning!

I commented to Brian that now that we have a date I will probably relax and just go into labor. I'm so excited, though, and it's nice to have that peace of mind with certainty that by the end of the week I will have a baby on the outside of my body :)

Had to get over my fear of induction, but I'm so there right now. I'm still only about a centimeter dialated, no real progress to date, but that's enough to get things going at the hospital I guess.

I do have high-ish blood pressure, swelling, and some protein in my urine so they drew some blood to check to see if I have preeclempsia. I don't think it'll make much of a difference if I do because the cure for that is having a baby and I'm already scheduled to be induced on Saturday. So, unless my case is severe (and I would think that if it were severe, my symptoms would be more severe), we're already good to go.

:)