Alright you leech loving blood suckers that are my blood sugar levels – lets get one thing straight here. I do not like you. I do not like that you’re in my body, that you’re messing with me in any way. You are to me what Sam I Am is to Green Eggs and Ham. Effing annoying.
I’ve been reading about you and all your stupid suggestions since I found out you were invading me and let me just say – you totally suck. I know I’m not dieing, I do have perspective here, but I’d like to unleash my rage on something right now and since you’re the reason for it – you get it, you tasty little bitch.
Thats right. I said it and I meant it, wholeheartedly. I’ve got 4-letter words coming out of my ears for you. Not only do we not have maternity coverage for this pregnancy – and not only are you already expensive enough – but now I’m almost guaranteed to have more tests and expensive things done to me, all of which we have to pay in full for. I HATE YOU.
I also am disgusted with the fact that although this is in the cards for some people, for others it’s preventable and I can’t help but thinking – was this preventable for me? Did I do something wrong? I’m not one to second guess most things, I’m pretty laid back – easy going and Blood Sugar, tonight you’re messing with that and I have more than myself to let you know how stupid that is. Jessica, for one, would like to kick you in the butt and scream in your ear. I’m going to let her.
And Aaron – he’d like to have some peace and quiet after a long and hard day – and he’s pretty much going to be greeted by a pregnant monster overtaken with high levels of glucose who is crying because my damn wedding ring doesn’t fit any more.
COME AND GET IT – I AM SO READY TO KICK YOUR ASS, BLOOD SUGAR.
Seriously.

Jessica’s 3 year stats are:
Weighs 31 3/4 pounds
Measures 38 1/2 inches tall
She’s a healthy bean.
Baby Boy stats are:
Heart beat at 137
Measuring right on schedule (24 weeks) and still due May 10
He’s a healthy ear of corn. (which is about how long he is these days … )

Our first doctor’s appointment is this morning – I don’t think anything very exciting will happen but I’ll let you know what does …
UPDATE:
Doctor’s appointment went fine – we didn’t get to try and hear the heart beat but we did schedule an ultra sound for next week! So hopefully we’ll have some fun photos to put up here after that. Other than that, nothing too exciting. I just got a bag full of literature to go over (or throw away as the case may be) …

I’m a tad bit outraged with the implied standard that whatever our pediatrician says is gold. I will publicly say that I had a hard time deciding whether or not to vaccinate Jessica and after a few months of thinking and talking it through with Aaron and finding the right pediatrician, we did finally decide to vaccinate.
Which isn’t a problem anymore – once we’ve made a medical decision I’m fairly stable within the perimeters of that decision. However, this last doctors appt for Jessica I asked the doctor about her meat intake, mainly because she’s not getting as much since we stopped feeding her the canned baby food. I now make every one of her meals.
We talked about it and then he gave me a list of foods not to give her before she’s one. On this list was egg whites, and honey.
She has eggs at least 2ce a week, if not more. I was so stunned with the list he gave me that I said nothing, accepted it and went home to the internet. Now I know, you’re thinking I can’t believe everything I read on the internet and Pediatricians go to school and learn these things, where as – I didn’t.
However, from the research that I did do – I found that the only reason egg whites are on the list was because there are some proteins in the egg white that an infant could be allergic to. No side effects, nothing like loosing a limb or getting some disease and dieing. Allergies. Yet when questioned it’s merely “It’s not recommended.”
For once, I would like to know why it’s not recommended. And not the text book answer – if she’s having eggs on a regular basis and has a clean bill of health – then why, WHY are egg whites on the list of things to NEVER give your baby before age 1.
And then the honey. Now this one gets me just because the numbers, because lets face it – that’s all this is, statistics and numbers and letters, not patients or health or heart-felt recommendations based on MY child – honey is on the list because of the bacteria, or spores, in honey could cause Botulism.
“Infant botulism is an illness that can occur when a newborn ingests a specific type of bacteria that produce a toxin inside the body. The condition can be frightening because it can cause muscle weakness and breathing problems. But it is very rare: Fewer than 100 cases of infant botulism occur each year in the United States. Most of the babies who do get botulism recover fully.” (source)
Let me highlight a few things for you – But it is very rare: Fewer than 100 cases of infant botulism occur each year in the United States. Most of the babies who do get botulism recover fully.
Jessica has a higher risk of dieing of SIDS than of ingesting the bacteria and contracting botulism. Yet when I searched for honey and infants on google, the articles always had bold face warnings “NEVER FEED HONEY TO YOUR BABY”. Because LESS THAN FREAKING 100 CASES OCCUR A YEAR IN AMERICA.
Why don’t we get this information along with the canned responses?

The doctor’s appointment went well this morning. Aside from the screaming that was commenced as soon as placed in the car seat – it was soon soothed with lots of rocking and a pacifier …
Anyway – Her new stats are:
8 lbs 1 oz (From 7.9 birth weight)
20 and 3/4 inches (From 20 inches)
Head circumference is 35 cm (From 34 cm)
She is in the 50th percentile. Doctor thinks she’s doing fantastic.

The doctors appointment went well – things are progressing. I wish faster, but hey – atleast we have progression.
Said I’ll most likely be back next week for my appointment – so I have one more week of this, at least. I think this baby is going to make it’s debut right around it’s due date, if not after.

Well for not throwing up at all during this pregnancy I sure had a bad night last night.
Let me elaborate for you.
Not once did I get sick from the onset of morning sickness, I was nauseated, sure – but never got sick and this pregnancy has, so far, been a breeze mostly. Until last night.
What a way to end a pregnancy. I have the flu. I couldn’t even keep water down – so we called the doctor and he wanted us to go to the ER to get checked out.
So I spent my night last night in ER, hooked up to and IV of fluid, throwing up. I am SO done being pregnant. The baby is fine, heartbeat is still strong and it’s moving hasn’t decreased in my sick state.
I feel so awful though – it must sound terrible to the baby when I’m getting sick, and the convulsions my stomach goes through … no wonder the baby’s been squirmy – I’d want out too. Actually, I do want out.
I have my regular scheduled doctors appointment today – so I’ll be sure to keep the site updated with progress and or what’s going on.
I’m feeling better this morning – it wasn’t until about 4 am this morning that I stopped throwing up – I took some Tylenol and ate some applesauce, all of which have stayed down thus far. This morning I’m taking it easy with water and Rice Chex, and more Tylenol.
The funny thing is last night we had planned to have a bunch of friends over to watch the premiere of our favorite TV show – ALIAS. Aaron and I always joked that I would go into labor on the premiere night and we’d both miss it. Well – it wasn’t labor, but it was the hospital and we missed the premiere all the same. How’s that for irony.

I DID IT!!!!!
There was no gas in the exam room today people. Thank you, thank you very much.

This morning is my first weekly check up at the doctors. They’ll do an exam and tell me where everything is in the process, if anywhere. I’m pretty excited to find out whats going on, if anything at this point. But I would be lying if I said I wasn’t a little bit nervous about repeating the last episode of an exam. With the farting, in the doctors face.
I’m trying not to be nervous – because thats when I get gassy in odd situations … and I seriously haven’t been randomly gassy for the past week … so I took this as a good sign, until this morning when I got gassy FOR NO REASON.
So lets just hope that all goes normal – and yes … if something goes array in that area I’ll be sure to let you all know. What kind of website would I have if I didn’t tell you all that I yet again couldn’t keep it up there while in those darn stirups.

I had a doctors appointment this morning – we’re now down to meeting every week. How exciting! Everything is good and normal. I’m 35 1/2 weeks pregnant and measuring ar 37 weeks. So we’re looking at an 8 pounder, approximately.
Other than that nothing too new or exciting is going on. Still kicking vigorously and has the hiccups every day. I’m so excited to meet this person. I just can’t wait to see who’s been in there and finally put a face to a name