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[SaguaroMoon]

Originally Posted by rozziemama 

YUM I am all about peanut butter right now.  Peanut butter, honey and banana sandwiches to be exact.

I LOVE peanut butter & banana sandwiches. When I went on a trip last month with DH to San Diego, we went to a cool little cafe for breakfast, and I had peanut butter and banana french toast - basically, it was a peanut butter and banana sandwich fried in egg batter. It was really heavy, and I felt a little ill afterwards, but YUM!

[BubbleMa]

Originally Posted by casmer 

For some reason I decided to put peanut butter on my pancakes this morning...OH MAN!!!!

We used to eat that all the time as kids.  :)  Sometimes with jam too.  YUM!

Originally Posted by rozziemama 

YUM I am all about peanut butter right now.  Peanut butter, honey and banana sandwiches to be exact.

YUM!
 

Originally Posted by SaguaroMoon 

I LOVE peanut butter & banana sandwiches. When I went on a trip last month with DH to San Diego, we went to a cool little cafe for breakfast, and I had peanut butter and banana french toast - basically, it was a peanut butter and banana sandwich fried in egg batter. It was really heavy, and I felt a little ill afterwards, but YUM!

Double YUM!

lol  Ya'll are making me hungry. 
 

[casmer]

I bought some bananas yesterday, but of course I have to wait a few days for them to ripen...PB, Honey and bananas sound amazing!

[cristeen]

Originally Posted by casmer 

For some reason I decided to put peanut butter on my pancakes this morning...OH MAN!!!!

This is how I always eat pancakes (at home).  PB with syrup if I want to use a fork (not usually). 

Originally Posted by rozziemama 

YUM I am all about peanut butter right now.  Peanut butter, honey and banana sandwiches to be exact.

Yeah.  I read this and then had to go in the kitchen and get it.  Not on a sandwich, but on my toaster waffles, which I've been totally into lately.  For someone who is such a "from scratch" and "homemade" cook, the amount that I'm relying on packaged food right now is a little... odd... distressing almost. 

For PB, honey and banana, I like to pick a soft banana, then mash it up with the PB and honey all together.  It's much less messy to eat and the flavors blend beautifully.  Thankfully I found a soft banana in the bottom of the fruit basket.  DS prefers them partly green and firm, so they don't usually make it to that stage. 

[Ruby2]

Originally Posted by alittlesandy 

I've been feeling this way too. Happy and calm and optimistic in the morning, and then just angry, angry, angry late in the day. I COMPLETELY run out of physical and emotional reserves. Last night I had another meltdown. I try to hide my emotions from my 3-year-old, but last night he was very solicitous of me, which made me feel very guilty. I hope he is not scarred for life!

I totally got the "watch out for the crazy pregnant lady!" look the other night at the cell phone store...those darn 20 year old know-it-alls were completely unable to fix my problem and unwilling to help figure out what I should do next...I was so ANGRY that it was a little scary! :-) I got back in my car and went "whoa!!!" Of course, I'm like that with poor DH every few nights, but it surprised me how quickly I could change into the crazy pregnant lady in front of strangers!

Originally Posted by Astraia 

Just got back from my midwife appointment... anyone have any ideas on the Group B Strep? They talked to me about it today, told me to think about it and start preparing soon by taking lots of probiotics, and they can talk mroe about the test at my next appointment and the appointment after that I can test. I can test if I want to but it's not necessary, and if I test positive I can either do antibiotics immediately during active labour OR I can wait and if I have signs of infection or my water has been broken for more than 4 hours without signs of birth being imminent, I can do antibiotics then. The choices are all mine. I researched this a lot before and I can't remember anything now :/ Anyone else have opinions on it?

That's great that you don't have to test if you don't want to. It totally makes sense to me to wait and see. My midwife from my first birth pointed out that I could be positive for the test and negative again by the time I gave birth, but they don't test at that point. I had to take the test because I was having a hospital birth and protocol was to treat un-tested moms as positive and do iv antibiotics...genius. Anyway, the midwife recommended garlic as a way to kill the strep before the test. Do a search for it on here and you'll see that it's a common home remedy...I think I strung some yarn through a big needle and threaded it through a garlic clove and inserted it like a tampon each night for 3 nights, but I can't remember exactly. My midwife had recommended wrapping it in cheesecloth and tying the yarn to that. 

I wish I would start commenting on these weekly chats sooner so I could keep up with everything! Oh well. Doing good here. My belly is so huge that it's starting to get a bit harder to sleep...lots of pillows already, which seems early. We are headed to Mexico this week for a family trip and I am so excited! I had to buy a whole summer maternity wardrobe that I probably won't wear again as it's not usually very warm here until late May. Got it all on ebay and at Goodwill, though! I love that we're able to do this one last trip with dd (2yo) before the baby comes. She's going to have so much fun. Hopefully our mattress isn't horrible. I'm almost more worried about my sleep while we're there than I am with dd's, which is highly unusual because her horrible sleeping  habits consume most of my thoughts! :-) We're staying in a small town in a funky little hotel right across from the beach...can't wait!!!

Edited by Ruby2 - 2/8/12 at 11:38am

[forestmushroom]

there are so many things I wish I could respond to directly!  This has been an insanely busy week... but I keep popping in to read the thread with the idea of posting... and then just don't have the time...

So I am going to ramble and hopefully something is topical ... I just cleaned my entire kitchen, after making dinner, and brownies, and doing 2 loads of dishes... drying them and putting them away.  Someone is totally insane!  The last few nights I have been totally wiped out by 8 pm so it is nice to have so much energy and be able to get stuff done.

I am obsessing over rearranging the house and getting all Ikea-ed up... I don't know why... Nesting?

[MeredithA]

This has been such a hectic week! I am just now getting the chance to catch up on the thread!

Originally Posted by LinnieThree 

First of all- my big BIG news... my kidney stone has DISAPPEARED- actually DISAPPEARED!!! It is really a miracle. It measured 4x6x10mm and I never passed it (I was straining my pee) and there is NO sight of it in my ultrasound! This is such an answer to prayer as I was dreading going in for surgery a week or two after my c-section and being put under and I was so nervous about leaving my newborn and having him have to take a bottle while I was in surgery. I am GIDDY with GLEE!!! The doctor's can't explain it .

Linnie, this is such a miracle! SO HAPPY!!

Originally Posted by JynxGirl 

So I've said no. Over and over and over and over I've said no. I've even had him put it in writing on my chart that I will not consent to a Cesarean section surgery unless the following conditions are true. 1. A transverse breech baby, which is not possible to be turned by at least two attempts of an external cephalic version with sedation and ultrasound monitoring. 2 Uterine rupture during an attempt at a vaginal delivery or 3. 45 weeks of pregnancy with a failed induction (because I had to consent to induction at some point, I picked a ridiculous date. :P)

This is great to have in your chart. You seem so confident and assertive. I like it! Did you have to interview a lot of doctors to find one that would agree to your conditions? 

Originally Posted by casmer 

For some reason I decided to put peanut butter on my pancakes this morning...OH MAN!!!!

I am about to make pancakes for breakfast...and I might just have to put some peanut butter on them now!!

 

Originally Posted by Ruby2 

That's great that you don't have to test if you don't want to. It totally makes sense to me to wait and see. My midwife from my first birth pointed out that I could be positive for the test and negative again by the time I gave birth, but they don't test at that point. I had to take the test because I was having a hospital birth and protocol was to treat un-tested moms as positive and do iv antibiotics...genius. Anyway, the midwife recommended garlic as a way to kill the strep before the test. Do a search for it on here and you'll see that it's a common home remedy...I think I strung some yarn through a big needle and threaded it through a garlic clove and inserted it like a tampon each night for 3 nights, but I can't remember exactly. My midwife had recommended wrapping it in cheesecloth and tying the yarn to that. 

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I like the garlic idea!! I don't know much about group B strep, but I know I'm not getting the test and won't have antibiotics at home so maybe I'll give this a try as I get closer to birth. 

I was feeling just awful earlier in the week. I think I must have had a little virus or something. Terrible back ache, completely exhausted, unable to eat, just generally uncomfortable. I took GSE and cranberry in case it was a kidney infection (thanks Sarah for the home remedy!) and I am finally feeling normal again. My belly is ridiculously huge -- I thought it might seem smaller since i could hardly stomach any food earlier in the week, but apparently that didn't stop my little guy from growing!! I go back and forth between loving my huge belly and being a little scared about what it might look like in 13 more weeks...baby is going to get a lot bigger...yikes! DH actually bursted out laughing at me the other day when I tried to zip up pre-pregnancy a blue fleece jacket. It barely zipped and DH started calling me his giant blueberry and making willy wonka jokes. 

[Astraia]

So I've done a ton of research on GBS now. I think I've decided I'll start proboitics and continue them until baby is born (maybe a bit beyond? who knows?) but I won't do anything else to prevent/clear up GBS. I'll do the test. If it comes back positive, I'll do a zillion things to clear it up (garlic, etc) and maybe opt for the water birth option (decreases GBS colonization on a new baby by sheer volume of water) but not antibiotics. It looks like antibiotics decrease the rate of early onset GBS- but not the risk of general infection, and doesn't change the death rate. Antibiotics during labour increase the chance that if baby does have GBS, it will be antibiotic resistant already- which scares the snot out of me.

I was talking to someone at work whose wife had a baby a year and a half ago. She was positive for GBS, had a hospital birth, and refused antibiotics. For some reason I keep thinking I can't refuse things in the hospital... but I can. I can say no. I think I need to bring a picture of Jynx with me to the hospital as my focal point, haha! So if my file is marked "GBS positive" and I transfer to the hospital for some reason, I can refuse nursery "monitoring" for baby (what a joke!), refuse antibiotics, refuse ALL vaginal exams (I looked up the hibiclens protocol, and it is effective at preventing "vertical transmission" of GBS bacteria, but if I just refuse all exams that will make it really easy to avoid vertical transmission, right?!?) and then everyone knows to watch baby more closely for signs of GBS colonization/ infection. I'm okay with that.

I'm apparently also part of this peanut butter kick... Just scraped out the very last bits of PB out of the jar, and I just bought it last week! Enjoying it on some apple-cinnamon pitas, yum yum.

[BubbleMa]

Originally Posted by MeredithA 

This has been such a hectic week! I am just now getting the chance to catch up on the thread!

Linnie, this is such a miracle! SO HAPPY!!

This is great to have in your chart. You seem so confident and assertive. I like it! Did you have to interview a lot of doctors to find one that would agree to your conditions? 

I am about to make pancakes for breakfast...and I might just have to put some peanut butter on them now!!

 

I like the garlic idea!! I don't know much about group B strep, but I know I'm not getting the test and won't have antibiotics at home so maybe I'll give this a try as I get closer to birth. 

I was feeling just awful earlier in the week. I think I must have had a little virus or something. Terrible back ache, completely exhausted, unable to eat, just generally uncomfortable. I took GSE and cranberry in case it was a kidney infection (thanks Sarah for the home remedy!) and I am finally feeling normal again. My belly is ridiculously huge -- I thought it might seem smaller since i could hardly stomach any food earlier in the week, but apparently that didn't stop my little guy from growing!! I go back and forth between loving my huge belly and being a little scared about what it might look like in 13 more weeks...baby is going to get a lot bigger...yikes! DH actually bursted out laughing at me the other day when I tried to zip up pre-pregnancy a blue fleece jacket. It barely zipped and DH started calling me his giant blueberry and making willy wonka jokes. 

lol  I'm glad you're feeling better!

[cristeen]

Originally Posted by Astraia 
I'm apparently also part of this peanut butter kick... Just scraped out the very last bits of PB out of the jar, and I just bought it last week! Enjoying it on some apple-cinnamon pitas, yum yum.

Apple cinnamon pitas?  Where on earth did you find those?  That sounds yummy.

We tend to go through about a jar of PB a week, DH is a PB fiend.  I prefer mixed nut butters, but only get up to the place that makes them every 6 months or so.  Last time I bought 4 pint containers, and they lasted maybe 2 months.  I need to buy more next time.