Thursday, February 18, 2010
aches and pains and avocado
warning: gripefest ahead...
my back's been hurting the last couple of weeks. i think it's the couch and sitting on it too much. it feels like something is being pinched on my lower back and it radiates down to my leg. i feel it when i'm driving in the car too. i could use a good massage.
and then yesterday, my right lower belly started hurting. i thought maybe it was just gas or being hungry. but the pain was actually keeping me from wanting to eat anything. then i thought about the fibroid lump that was found during the last ultrasound. it's pretty sizable, 7cm, almost 3 inches in diameter. it's right by my right ovary, but not obstructing anything so the ultrasound tech said that my doctor will probably just watch it and make sure it won't be in the way of anything. and most likely, it will go away by itself. well, now with the baby growing, i think it might be getting in the way of things and that's why it's starting to hurt. i have a doctor's appt next week, so i'll definitely have him check it out.
so today is officially week 16! my belly's definitely bigger. clothes are a bit of an issue, cuz pants generally don't fit, but more importantly, feel more restrictive. so i really like wearing dresses, but i gotta be creative with work clothes. i need work appropriate dresses, not so much casual dresses.
the baby is the size of an avocado now. and his outer ear is developing so he can hear now. time to start actually playing the mozart cds that my mom gave me for christmas, "to make the baby smart" she says. and i think i'll start reading to the kid. :) i like the fact that he can hear. it feels more appropriate now to talk to him/her. before, it didn't seem to make sense to talk to something that can't hear me. but now, it won't feel so silly.
my back's been hurting the last couple of weeks. i think it's the couch and sitting on it too much. it feels like something is being pinched on my lower back and it radiates down to my leg. i feel it when i'm driving in the car too. i could use a good massage.
and then yesterday, my right lower belly started hurting. i thought maybe it was just gas or being hungry. but the pain was actually keeping me from wanting to eat anything. then i thought about the fibroid lump that was found during the last ultrasound. it's pretty sizable, 7cm, almost 3 inches in diameter. it's right by my right ovary, but not obstructing anything so the ultrasound tech said that my doctor will probably just watch it and make sure it won't be in the way of anything. and most likely, it will go away by itself. well, now with the baby growing, i think it might be getting in the way of things and that's why it's starting to hurt. i have a doctor's appt next week, so i'll definitely have him check it out.
so today is officially week 16! my belly's definitely bigger. clothes are a bit of an issue, cuz pants generally don't fit, but more importantly, feel more restrictive. so i really like wearing dresses, but i gotta be creative with work clothes. i need work appropriate dresses, not so much casual dresses.
the baby is the size of an avocado now. and his outer ear is developing so he can hear now. time to start actually playing the mozart cds that my mom gave me for christmas, "to make the baby smart" she says. and i think i'll start reading to the kid. :) i like the fact that he can hear. it feels more appropriate now to talk to him/her. before, it didn't seem to make sense to talk to something that can't hear me. but now, it won't feel so silly.
Monday, February 08, 2010
registering
so guess how long we were at babies r us on sat? we arrived at 2:30pm for what was advertized as a safety expo to learn about safety features of baby stuff. when we got there, it was just a couple of tables and if we had questions, we could ask any of the workers. so that wasn't as useful as i thought it would be, but we thought it was a good opportunity to start registering. o. m. g. talk about one of the most overwhelming things i've ever had to do. this is infinitely worse than wedding stuff. there are so many options to just baby bottles and nipples. we stood by the breastfeeding items aisle and we asked one of the workers to explain some stuff to us. i think we were both really overwhelmed. i know i wanted to cry. but even henry was feeling like, can't she just stay with us and explain every aisle? goodness, i think that was the first time i ever felt that overwhelmed where i just didn't know what to do and where to start and how to choose. it's one thing to have a preference, but i feel like with baby stuff, you definitely want what's best and it's so hard to decipher what that is. so... after the breastfeeding aisle, the bottles and nipples aisle, the bath stuff aisle, we just looked at car seats and the strollers cuz that's a whole other day's research that i wasn't ready for... and then we found a crib that we liked along with a dresser, and custom ordered a glider with an ottoman... skipped all the decorative stuff cuz we don't even know if it's a girl or a boy yet... so guess what time it was when we left? it was dark already. and when we returned the gun to the lady, my goodness, it was 6pm. they gave us a nice little goodie bag that had suggested items that we'll need. i discovered that we had registered for like less than half of that list! hay buhay! we'll definitely have to have round 2 on another day.
Monday, February 01, 2010
bedrest = boredom
anyone who knows me pretty much knows that i can't seem to get through any year without either a ticket or an accident. try as i may, i just can't shake this stupid pattern. and this year came pretty early. last wed, i was falling asleep on my way to work in the morning. i was actually almost at work on the side streets, but it was roughly stop and go traffic. it's that rhythmic lull that totally makes me more drowsy, so next thing i knew, BAM! i hit the car in front of me. aughhhhhh! the poor 350z that i hit... the poor young lady whose head apparently hit the steering wheel (while wearing a seatbelt... which is odd to me). and it was her first accident ever, so she was kinda scared and didn't know what to do so her mom told her to call the police and she promptly called 911. my first thought was oh crap, i can't have this reported to the dmv... i can't get another point on my record. but when we exchanged information peacefully, the cops didn't see any need to take any police report. oh thank goodness. i actually stayed with her a lil while until her mom came. she wanted to get her daughter checked by a doctor asap, so they went off to the hospital and i went back to work. i was more shaken up than i thought cuz i started crying on the phone with henry. i felt really crappy that i got into another accident. and while prego too. :( and then to top it off, my belly started cramping, so i got really scared. i got to work still pretty shaken up and ended up crying again when phoebe came by my cube and she started going on and on about taking me to the ER. i don't like to be all dramatic and all, and i was probably going to be fine, but this time, i said that was a good idea. thankfully, phoebe and kim took me to the ER and we got to see the baby again on the ultrasound. i was probably cramping due to the seatbelt that was across my belly, but the doctor didn't think there was anything worse. as a precaution, he did put me on bedrest. i was not happy about this at all! it was a busy week at work and i had a huge board meeting with important agenda items. oh and i was supposed to go to vegas during the weekend to help mina move and celebrate her birthday. so i had to cancel on that. i would've been just in the way anyway. so instead, i was stuck on the couch for days on end just chillin. booo! i love rest and all. and i definitely love to sleep. but um, days and days of the real housewives of orange county, the kardashians and what not to wear are probably not the best use of my time. *sigh*
quotable quotes
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"To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the
greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks
nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid
suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change,
grow, live, and love."
~unknown
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
~ Abraham Lincoln
"live a life that others will remember years from now, NOT because it pointed to you but because of how it pointed to the One who made you."
~ Mark Hart, the Bible Geek
"we grow up learning to become self-reliant, but really we need to be God-reliant"
"we could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same box"
"never wound hearts that love u, never give them the endless pain, because wounded hearts are like roses that never bloom"
"there comes a time when we have to stop loving someone not because that person has stopped loving us but because we have found out that they'd be happier if we'd let go"
