Thursday, March 25, 2010
kickin it just for youuuuu
i felt her kick for the first time! not just moving around, cuz i've been feeling her shift positions inside me for a lil while now. but i had my hand on my belly and i felt her kick my hand! so exciting! she's actually a real live person inside me! oh and my belly's been itching a lot more. my books say that it's because the skin is stretching a lot so i'm being really diligent in putting on my cocoa butter lotion to keep stretch marks at bay. but gosh, i've definitely been growing faster this week. everytime i look down, i feel like it's grown more every hour!
and i'm excited for our baby showers! we decided to split them up some cuz there's just too many people. so don't call us crazy, but we'll have one for our family, then our friends, then our church friends, and then probably his work will throw one and my work will throw one too. you know me and being craftsy... i'm totally excited for the themes and preparing the invitations and decorations. i hope people like em!
and i'm excited for our baby showers! we decided to split them up some cuz there's just too many people. so don't call us crazy, but we'll have one for our family, then our friends, then our church friends, and then probably his work will throw one and my work will throw one too. you know me and being craftsy... i'm totally excited for the themes and preparing the invitations and decorations. i hope people like em!
Monday, March 15, 2010
i'm bald!
walking like i rode a horse kind of bald, that is. god it hurts soooooooo bad! not that didn't expect it, but it hurts!!!!!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! i can't wait til 3 days from now when the swelling subsides and it just feels nice and smooth! till then, ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Maternity tour #1
We had our maternity tour at kaiser sand canyon in irvine today. Totally brand spankin new facility and it was so nice! We got in a lil late for the orientation but it was so cute how they gave everyone hand-knitted beanies for their babies! It was a really useful presentation but I can't believe how emotional I got when they discussed the breastfeeding. They really emphasize breastfeeding a lot especially during the first hours of the babies life. After she's born, they will place her on my chest bare-skinned for that skin-to-skin contact with the mother. And then they wrap us both in one blanket. Just envisioning that totally got tears welling up in my eyes and I can't wait to have that connection with my daughter! They said that research shows that the skin-to-skin contact in the first hour of life totally stabilizes the baby's temperature and heart rate after the trauma of childbirth that they go through. I'm so extremely impressed and happy with kaiser that they prioritize this kind of holistic treatment of mothers and babies. It sounds like a wonderful end to the birthing process and a peaceful way to welcome my child into the world. Thumbs up for kaiser orange county!
I have another hospital tour for the kaiser Anaheim facility in a couple of weeks. They just remodeled their labor & delivery area so it looks really nice from the slides too. We'll see which one we'll lean toward. Maybe both are the same and we'll just deliver at the closest one.
I have another hospital tour for the kaiser Anaheim facility in a couple of weeks. They just remodeled their labor & delivery area so it looks really nice from the slides too. We'll see which one we'll lean toward. Maybe both are the same and we'll just deliver at the closest one.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Movin on up!
Oh my goodness! She's moving, she's moving inside me!!! It's the coolest weirdest feeling and I absolutely love it!!! It's so exciting to feel her alive in there and I love being able to kinda interact with her! It's not a kick specifically but I'll feel her moving from way low in my belly and then all of a sudden it's like she swims up closer to my belly button area and I can feel certain parts of my belly get harder as she moves around. It's soooo cool!!!! It's an awesome opportunity to start talking/playing with her too, so when she moves around I ask her, "where you going baby?" and I just giggle to myself, hehehe! I love it! I love her!
Thursday, March 04, 2010
boy or girl?
today's the day! well, hopefully anyway! we have an ultrasound appt this evening and hopefully we'll find out if it's a girl or a boy! i've been leaning toward wanting a girl cuz i noticed when i imagine the baby growing up, i seem to be picturing a girl rather than a boy. i also can't think of any boy names i like. but of course, i just want it to be healthy. healthy and happy. i hope it has a happy disposition. i love happy babies where you just look at them and then they break out into a smile. i love that!
since i've discovered that the baby can hear, i've been listening to classical music radio. at first i didn't think i'd like it, but i'm actually growing such an appreciation for it and i'm learning a whole new realm of music. and i'm totally shocked that i don't just fall asleep. i used to put on Fantasia the disney movie on for my brothers when i babysat and what i loved about it was that halfway through the movie, they'd be sound asleep! but it's funny, cuz it actually gives me an opportunity to think clearly. maybe classical music does make kids smarter... i dunno.
since i've discovered that the baby can hear, i've been listening to classical music radio. at first i didn't think i'd like it, but i'm actually growing such an appreciation for it and i'm learning a whole new realm of music. and i'm totally shocked that i don't just fall asleep. i used to put on Fantasia the disney movie on for my brothers when i babysat and what i loved about it was that halfway through the movie, they'd be sound asleep! but it's funny, cuz it actually gives me an opportunity to think clearly. maybe classical music does make kids smarter... i dunno.
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"
