motormouth's blogreflections from a week into mamahoodIt's totally not contradictory to want to smother child in kisses at one moment and then the next moment- just want to smother them.
Born Yesterday!LLuc El.liott C H
sent home from the hospitalI've been having contractions for the last 12 hours, but not at a steady pace- I'll have them every 15 minutes for a couple of hours and then every 7 minutes for a while and then tapering down to every 4 minutes for about an hour but then suddenly back to 7 minutes back out to 15 minutes. I'm 80% effaced and 1.5 centimetres dialated loosing my mucus plug gradually.
itty bitty photo dump (productivity waning)First of all my bathroom is totally fucking awesome now.
need vibesI seriously can't take it any more! I want my uterus back. I want to see my son's face, and feel his little toes with my fingers instead of my rib cage. I'm crawling out of my skin.
bad news- good newsBN- I was really hoping that motorboy would have made his appearance by now, but there's nothin' goin' down at donutland. I guess I know that pregnancy is not like an easy bake oven- the timer does not just ding at 40 weeks and let you take out you your delicious piping hot son, but i still feel vaguely disappointed.
SERIOUS Nesting- obese photodumpFIrst of all a serious taints up for motorman. I'm so glad that i'm having a baby with him! For so many reasons that are only becoming more and more evident as we're getting closer to our birth oddyssey (sp?).
nesting photo dump
we're at term- ultrasound dump
Abundance, my merry christmas/happy new year photodump
you know you're way too pregnant whenYou wake up to pee for the fourth time at 6 o'clock on a sunday morning, and as you're trying to fall back asleep you remember you got the mother of all toaster ovens for christmas. And suddenly all you can think about is cornbread. So you get up and mozy into the kitchen and as you're pulling out your baking stuff you notice that the peanuts and carob powder in the cupboard are screaming at you. So you whip up an improvised carob cornnut bread. And your husband who hasn't slept right (between your incessent peeing, massive leg cramps, and crazy dream talking in your sleep) in weeks, doesn't wake up once- not even when you're smashing the peanuts with your morter and pestle- even though your kitchen shares a door that doesn't close right with the bedroom. And then you eat half that carob cornnut bread all by yourself within ten minutes of pulling it out of the mother of all toaster ovens, only to be reminded that eating too much makes you feel like your stomach is trying to hop right out of your esophogus.
I'm disappointed by my birthing classes- aka is it really possible that I'm the only 8 mnth prgnt lady that feels like shipoopy?I'm feeling kinda lonely as a pregnant lady. I have all of 0 friends with kids (not that I have many friends to begin with). My dh has lots of friends with kids, but not that i've really made great connections with. So i have really been looking forward to my birth prep classes. I was hoping to find some people i could commiserate and swap complaints with, but no such luck.
taking a big photo dump- or what I'm up to:Before I start i just wanted to say that today i talked to my boss about how worried I am that they haven't found an appropriate substitute for me yet, and she said ¨But you're planning on having the baby late- right?¨. I shit you not.
I'm officially a big phat pregnant lady
I screwed myself out of a baby shower, but at least we have the trading fair.By switching continents. Here in spain they just don't do baby showers, and I haven't been able to drum up much interest in adopting the custom when talking to the few (although very good friends) that I have here. Apparently, my family is also unwilling to host a party in my absence and send me the plunder (which is understandable).
to pack and play or not to pack and playI can't sleep because of this whole long story with the neighbours and the cops coming, but that story is way too long and complicated and it looks like it's all going to turn out in our favour in a bigger way than i expected (fingers crossed for that) and I don't really feel that I need advice about the situation. But i just keep going through my head and practising conversations to have with these neighbours if they try to get all uppity and in my face. Which I know is not the best way to be passing my time at 2:30 in the morning... especially since after what the cop told me he was planning to say to the neighbours- I don't think they are gonna want to talk to me or get in my face anyway. It's just when i get flustered my catalan doesn't come out as good and it gets all mixed up with spanish and it's really frustrating. But if i practice things i can say i don't get as flustered.
sicko sewingI've been home sick with sinus congestion that my doctor was concerned could turn into an infection. In between neti pots and steam treatments I've managed to convert three t-shirts into two maternity tops and 4 more t-shirts into a knockoff baby buddha carrier.
pHOto update
My brain on pregnancyI'm having a hard time re-adapting to my school schedule. I'm teaching classes that I never taught before (but i always do every year), and I'm stuck with a lot of low motivation classes because I had to pass off all my exam prep courses so the students would have consistency up until and after their first exam attempt. I have a lot of classes with really small children 3-6 yrs, because it's becoming all the rage to get the kiddos started on english at a very young age- which is really fun but also really tiring. (i have to dance and jump my preggo belly up and down get my freakin' chucky cheese on for a whole hour).
MotorBOYI read that the secret to seeing the babies genitals for sure was having a lot of fruit and fruit juice 1/2 hour- 1 hour before the ultrasound. So motorboy was SO hopped up on fructose that he wouldn't stop kicking me, which the ultrasound technician thought was funny and irritating, because he kept having to look and look for the things he was trying to measure. For me it was also funny and irritating because my bladder was about ready to explode, and as trippy cool as ultrasounds are i kinda just wanted to get it over so i could take a freakin' leak. It is awesome to see the baby in action tho.
Leg spreading vibes pleaseTomorrow we've got our 20 week ultrasound. Things we allready know about the bean: Things we would like to know about the bean: Please s
skype sucks- what's better?I've been trying to video call my mom all night and we keep having these stilted conversations that have long time lags and keep collapsing. Anybody know which of the other free internet video call services works better? I need to talk to my mama.
pregnant lady hos- 18 weeks 0 days- hey lapis, check out the fertility doll
The enjoy your pregnancy part of this processSorry about the blog barrage, but since my other blogs are more about things that i'm doing and thinking about. I just wanted to tell you that I'm FEELING GREAT!
freakin' doctors are trying to break my headMy obstetrician called me yesterday, but i missed the call and they left me this message saying ¨please contact us tomorrow morning at 9 oclock about your blood test results¨. So I was all wound up because the doctor told me that if they didn't call that would mean everything was fine, but if they did call that would mean that there was a risk that the baby had a genetic problem.
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