I just got through a nesting bout. It started with me wiping down doors and ended with the bathroom, kitchen, baseboards, under-couches, carpet and stairs clean :). Yay me...I'm sweating like a horse now and can't wait for my dessert that I made earlier (peppermint/chocolate creme, yummo)
Good luck Chrystal tomorrow. Keep us updated.
AFM, baby's up to something this week.. yesterday I was so hungry, and today I ran out of energy by noon. The low wasn't as low as I what I felt most of the time earlier in the pregnancy, but I sure didn't have a full tank. This became really clear when hubby got home- man, I am grumpy tonight! He's cleaning the dinner dishes now, which is a wise move as far as I'm concerned. ;)
Sleep well, all! (Speaking of.. am I the only one that feels like I have a bag of rocks tied around my waist when it comes to turning over in bed? The mechanics are certainly.. different these days, and bound to get more interesting in the weeks to come, I'm sure.)
Hyde, I have been exhausted the last few days! Like I seriously can't get through the day without a nap. And I start out with a half-hour timer, then it always ends up to be an hour or more and I'm drooling I'm so out of it! And yes, rolling over is taking longer than it used to!
MissE--I agree with you on waiting. I had my wisdom teeth out during college and for a week following I was on plenty of pain-killers that I'm sure weren't pregnancy safe. They were very strong! I had full conversations with my friends that made no sense at all!
Good luck with the follo up US Crystal!
MissE - I would have made the same decision on the wisdom teeth. I still have all of mine too, although 3 are still down in my jaw. The 4th one decided to erupt this year - at the age of 33, I pretty much thought I was done teething, but apparently not! I figure unless it's really driving me nuts I'll leave it alone until this baby is here, and if it's still OK I'll wait until we're done nursing too.
Hyde - I know what you mean about turning over. I sort of do a 3 point turn to get from one side to the other now! I'm still not sleeping well, and I'm not looking forward to 3rd tri tiredness coming back. DH is going to be away for work quite a bit over the next few weeks, and while that makes things harder in general, the one advantage is that I don't get woken up when he gets up in the morning!
Sorry to everyone else! I got way behind on posting this week, and while I read everything, I've been too lazy to post.
AFM, we have a busy couple weeks coming up. My Dad decided he wanted us all to do a 5 km walk/run this Saturday as his Father's Day present, so that takes care of Saturday morning, then I have In laws coming in to town Saturday afternoon. I need to get DD's Father's Day craft done today too.
Then next weekend DD turns 3! It doesn't seem like all that long ago she was my tiny little baby and now she's barely even a toddler anymore! 
DH is away most of the week so birthday party prep is all on me. For some reason DD really likes pigs right now so we are doing a piggie theme. It's hard to find pig themed party items. It almost (but not quite) makes me wish she was into disney princesses as apparently that's the only thing that the stores think appeals to lilttle girls right now!
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Well, I haven't been online almost all week. I didn't have access to internet for almost the whole week so I did catch up reading today but I'm too tired and foggy brained to make any coherent replies. I'll just say "Hello" to everyone :). I've just had such an awful emotional day, I keep crying off and on. For some reason the mechanic at the dealership where I bought my car was being horribly rude and mean on the phone today. My car broke down last week...it overheated, smoked up, and died in the road. The first place we took it to gave us a free estimate and said it was a warped head gasket and a thermostat that was sticking needed to be replaced....they wanted $1600. The dealership has a mechanic and they said they would charge only for the parts and just to have the car towed over there. So I did last weekend. Yesterday I talked to the mechanic and he said as long as we caught up on our payments (we only made partial payments the past month) we could just pick up the car and he would add the cost of the parts onto our account. So this morning I call in and make the payment over the phone. Then later the mechanic calls me back and tells me there is nothing wrong with my car....he was not making any sense, would not answer any of my questions. I know the car is not okay, it died on us several times...the other mechanic we brought it to said we were lucky the engine didn't crack. This mechanic got angry the phone accusing me of trying to start a pissing match (his words) because I was asking questions about the car and how they could think there was nothing wrong with it! I feel like they just wanted me to catch up on my payments and that they never intended to fix the car.
@Worldshakerz: Ugh? What? That sounds like a ripoff. Did they fix the car or not? I mean, how can they say there's nothing wrong when it smokes up on you...that's weird. And the customer service...even worse. You don't talk to people like that...I mean "pissing match" Geeee...
@Crystal: Aye Aye. I never had a VBAC consult. I told my OB I wanted to VBAC and he said ok. First he had some stipulations but was willing to kinda losen it as we went on. All those numbers are scary, be it the risk of uterine rupture or a 71%chance of you having a VBAC. I find it odd that they would throw statistics at you for something so natural. I mean, you had a c/s (what was the reason for it?) and now you want to birth naturally, that's all. I believe continuous fetal monitoring is normal for VBACers. I have been and will be on a CFM for my second VBAC and that's ok with me though. I'm more worried about being GBS Positive and have another needle in my arm. You can move around somewhat with the monitor on you though. I was able to be on the birthing ball, rocking chair, stand up, walk back and forth. Probably not comparable to a birth center/home birth VBAC but way better than the hospital labor that lead to a c/s in the end.
MissE - They didn't fix it. There was definitely no customer service involved today. I picked up the car, it leaked coolant on the way to get my husband. I didn't pay them for any repairs so they didn't actually rip me off in that way - but why lie about it after they had if for a week and say there isn't anything wrong?? It made no sense whatsoever. I was going to pay them for the new parts - so I don't get it. Actually, the radiator wasn't cracked before I brought it to them. I think they might have cracked it when they drove it around to "see what was wrong". I had already told them what was wrong and they drove it and I think it cracked the radiator. I am happy we got it home, but it was just starting to smoke a little bit when we pulled into our parking spot. I am going to get another mechanic's opinion over the weekend.
Despite the car drama, I am feeling good pregnancy wise. I'm doing lots of swimming and walking but also taking lots of naps too. This day has been particularly long and I think I am going to bed early. I may have Ben N Jerry's first :P
'Wow, Pregnancy is Weird' moment of the day:
Going to bed with achier than usual breasts, waking up to my first little bit of colostrum!
Worldshakerz, do you know anyone who is a mechanic or handy with cars at all? You need to have someone else call for you so that whatever BS that guy is trying to feed you doesn't fly! Does the car have aluminum heads? Aluminum heads will warp any time the car overheats and if you have a messed up thermostat, that would cause the car to overheat. Thermostats are cheap to replace. Heads, not so much - you can sometimes take them to a machine shop to see if it can be re-machined to spec. When a head is warped, you have loss of compression. Any mechanic can test to see whether or not that's the case. There's also the possibility (rare) that the head gasket can be blown without damage to the head. The gasket itself is not expensive, but it takes some labor to replace it because you have to pull the head in order to do it. The thermostat is such an easy fix, you should make him throw in a new thermostat no matter what and ask specifically what the compression tested at. Used car dealerships are notoriously shady and I would do everything I could not to deal with them if you can help it!
Sorry. Hope this is at least somewhat helpful.
Worldshakerz, do you know anyone who is a mechanic or handy with cars at all? You need to have someone else call for you so that whatever BS that guy is trying to feed you doesn't fly! Does the car have aluminum heads? Aluminum heads will warp any time the car overheats and if you have a messed up thermostat, that would cause the car to overheat. Thermostats are cheap to replace. Heads, not so much - you can sometimes take them to a machine shop to see if it can be re-machined to spec. When a head is warped, you have loss of compression. Any mechanic can test to see whether or not that's the case. There's also the possibility (rare) that the head gasket can be blown without damage to the head. The gasket itself is not expensive, but it takes some labor to replace it because you have to pull the head in order to do it. The thermostat is such an easy fix, you should make him throw in a new thermostat no matter what and ask specifically what the compression tested at. Used car dealerships are notoriously shady and I would do everything I could not to deal with them if you can help it!
Sorry. Hope this is at least somewhat helpful.
LOL...maybe she can have you call Moto. You seem like you know what you're talking about. Seriously, I envy people that understand cars and engines and such...I'm just glad my car works when I turn the key in the ignition. That's all I need :).
@Teegan: My boobs - especially the right - have been leaking a bit every now and then, expecially when I'm bra-less in a shirt or so. Not fun but tolerable.
i need baby position help. Usually I'm feeling little kicks and bumps on my - when I look down on me - left side and larger movements, like rolls and such on the right. The back was usually down my right side, with a little butt up. Now ever since my dental appointment - when she was partying hard in there for 3+ hours - I'm feeling punches WAY low...like in my pelvis. I don't feel any movement above my belly button and my belly almost feels like it's empty cause I just can't seem to get a hold of her. Every now and then I can feel something right below my belly button but I can't really figure out what it is. So I'm guessing she has somehow turned into some weird position. Could the punches I feel be feet very down low? When is it time for her to turn head down? I sure hope she gets back into the right position.
Motomom, that was actually very helpful thank you so much. I actually had taken it to a different mechanic first who did say the head gasket was warped and they were going to do the remachining that you mentioned. They also said the thermostat was sticking and they would replace some hoses at the same time while they had everything taken apart. We just don't have the $1600 they want to do those things so I gave our dealership a try..that's why I know they are either completely incompetent or liars or both. So if the head gasket is warped - what would happened if I just replaced the thermostat. Would it still have major problems?
MissE, there is lots of room in there still. Even if she turned with her feet down I bet she'll turn right back around soon. Benji likes to hang out on my right side with is butt up on the top right also. Sometimes he hangs out on the left. But once in a while I feel what you describe...almost empty on top and possibly kicks down low. But he goes back to his favorite spot later.
I had a dream that Benji was already born and I was nursing him. His hair was very blond in my dream. It will be interesting to see when he is born. My 9yo ds was born with very thick, long, dark brown hair. My daughter was born with very short, fine, strawberry blond hair.
i ALWAYS feel movement way down low. From the very beginning. We're all, MW, included, figure the baby is head down. I feel the most movement down low, both the low movement and the 'side/top' movement is all pretty equal in terms of strength.
I, too feel most movement down low. The rolling/pushing movement I feel is usually at the top/side. The poking/fluttering is all at the bottom.
I feel little fluttery, pokey movements down low, and bigger rolling, turning movements up high most of the time, and I've gotten some pretty good boots in the ribs. Occassionally I'll get some good kicks down low by my right hip. I think baby is head down, but still has quite a bit of room to move so sometimes feet are up high, and sometimes s/he is in a pike position and can kick down low.
I did a 5 km walk/run (mostly walk) that my Dad wanted us all to enter for Father's Day this morning and I'm so sore right now. My hip bothered me a bit during the walk, but now I just feel like all the tendons and ligaments in my pelvis are stretched out. Ouch!
I feel hiccups all the time, if you feel them down low, does that mean baby is head down? I am pretty sure baby is head down, my midwife said at the next appointment she should be able to get a better idea of position. Third trimester! I just bought baby a lovey (my DD has a True Love Elephant lovie that has been a life saver for us, she picked out a cow True Love lovie) and some nursing pads (I had a ton but that is one item that i have not been able to find). I need to buy a dresser for the babies clothes and then I can nest and get the clothes set up. The nesting is definitely easier this time around!
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