Sex: Definitely having an upswing. My husband's going to be in India for the next week and a half so I'm a little out of luck for the next little bit.
Appetite: Mine roared to life on Tuesday! I could not stop eating all day! Thankfully that seems to have slowed down a bit or i'd have to be going to the grocery store every day!
Hi everyone. Finally checking in after a bit of a crazy week!
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We move in 2 months! YAYAY! It's early, but I am so excited. It means I get to go back to Boston just 6 weeks after I get back to Japan instead of the original 4-5 months. Things have happened that were unexpected (being called back from sabbatical?? <--weird) but I am quite fine with it. Take me home!! Back to where I can find GF food and not get mysteriously sick! Back to friends and, well, not family. Thankfully they live 1800 miles away! :D
29 days to Christmas! 
Sorry your SIL was such a wanker! I have one of those SILs too. The other is lovely! And YAY, how exciting that you are going to be home soon!!
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So mum are officially amazing arent they :S my mum has just totally broken my brain.. she said she darent get excited, that she could get excited when i actually managed to have my baby.. insinuating that i'm not going to manage and basically that my chances of miscarriage are higher then non miscarriage.. so even tho she is just being the wonderful mum that she is and puttingme down shes got an idea into my head.. on top of that, i found out my cervix is short (25mm) and im having lots of checkups and i wasnt worried about it.. but trying to reassure my mum (so as she could stop worrying me) i found this out.. and found out it wasnt as good as i thought it was (infact quite bad really for 15 1/2 weeks when the scan was done) i know there keeping a close eye on me, but i now cant get the thought out of my head about miscarrying.. i've never had a late miscarriage before, just ones up to 12 weeks and they were horrible enough.. and i felt so lucky to be pregnant past that point.. and thought.. yay past 12 weeks im safe and everything.. and now the doubt my mum put in my head (she didnt even know about the cervix issues.. i thought the cervix result was good tryed to tell her my cervix was good then read my notes and realised it was bad eek) has just sent my head off in a spiral.. i just dont understand why as my mum .. she cant for once in her life just be supportive.. and not have to put a downer on everything for me.. like shes setting me up to fail :S
Sorry your mom made you feel that way. She's probably just worried for you and not very good about filtering herself appropriatly. My mom has the same issue. But I sure hope that you get some positive answers about your cervix and that everything goes ok.
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How's everybody's sex life been this pregnancy? Mine is sucking! Even when I am in the mood I am getting claustrophobic if touched too much. Yea, we can have sex but don't touch me too much....sexy! Most of the time I am just not interested. Poor DH, but he is understanding. I tried to initiate this morning but then started getting claustrophobic and changed my mind. He seemed a little frustrated but DD woke about a minute later anyway. Later I tried to explain about feeling that way with the extra weight of boobs and the baby pushing up into my organs, etc. He said he could see how it could be like wearing a lead vest and trying to have sex.
Well, my sex life has not been great lately. Poor DH. I think I have the clausterphobia thing too. I just feel like I don't want to be touched and that I can't be bothered to make the effort. And, when I do have any type of interest the timing seems off so I end up just taking care of business myself (it's more efficient anyway 
). Romantic, huh? Not at all like last pregnancy when DH probably felt like a piece of meat. So I keep hoping this will change.
Bit of a crazy week here. Poor DS got really sick on Monday night. He wouldn't eat any supper, and was super clingly and tired. He had a bit of a temperature, so I have him tylenol and put him to bed early, but he slept really poorly and essentially just cried from 5am on even though I was cuddling him in our bed. The next morning he was really burning up, and he had a rough day, then another rough night and then another rough morning before his fever finally broke yesterday afternoon. Thank-goodness we have a nanny or I'd have had to miss work. As it is, I was far from productive after getting about 8 hours of sleep in 2 nights.
And I'm so sad. It is our nanny's last week before she moves home to Kenya to get married. She is so amazing, and her and my DS love each other so much. She's really become a member of the family in the last year and a half. I'm sad for me, but I'm more sad for them.
Otherwise, I am looking forward to our work Children's Chistmas Party on Saturday. It's at the local science centre which just opened and is supposed to be really cool. DS is also getting really into the idea of "Christmas" so I'm excited to decorate a tree this weekend and get the house all Christmas-y. I feel like we're going to have such a short window where Christmas is truly magical to our kids that I really want to make it as amazing as possible! Speaking of which, I should probably actually start some Christmas baking and cooking and shopping! I have a few gifts so far, but only 1 little cardboard book about Christmas for DS.
adventure girl-thankyou lovely :) hehe glad its out in the open
Porcelina- YAY :D so pleased for you, i got pregnant IMMEDIATELY after my last miscarriage (i miscarried 17 weeks ago.. i'm 17 weeks now!) its crazy!
bailey- Ah sex.. i rediscovered that a bit recently (bearing in mind daddys not in the picture) i'd been very very scared about potentially meeting someone else and having sex with someone who wasnt him whilst preg (he made it very clear to me that would be disgusting) but its done my brain a lot of good, relationship was soo unhealthy and left me such a mess.. needed a bit of healing.. however now im a bit worried because of the cervix.. so i dont know what to do.. so backing off a bit for the short term
Just got antibiotics for another kidney infection so hoping LOTS that this one doesnt deteriorate and end me up in hospital like they so often do.. Im so tired, and im hoping this is why, made it to the christmas market last night though which was loooovely :) felt really in the chritsmas spirit
OMG, I know what you mean about the kidney infections. I use to get bladder infections all the time, and then started going from 'I think I have a bladder infection..' to 2 hours later being doubled over in pain from it turning into a kidney infection. Bleh! I haven't had one in over a year I think, THANK GOD!
Sex: Definitely having an upswing. My husband's going to be in India for the next week and a half so I'm a little out of luck for the next little bit.
Appetite: Mine roared to life on Tuesday! I could not stop eating all day! Thankfully that seems to have slowed down a bit or i'd have to be going to the grocery store every day!
Not this week but the 2 weeks before, it would be Thursday and I would be on my third trip to the grocery store! It was nuts! I would buy things thinking they would last a week or 10 days and I would eat half of what I bought in 2 days and then the rest of what I bought would be unappetizing to me or I would try to eat it and it would unexpectedly make me nauseous. It is nice that it has slowed down since our budget was being torn apart by my eating. This morning I only had 2 pancakes and some coffee and water and I am only starting to feel like I could use a snack in a bit. Def better than the 3 breakfasts I was having by 10 before!
We took DD to a lighted Christmas parade lastnite. She thought it was AWESOME! She ate 3 candy canes! Then they had a lighting of central park trees and carolers. She is turning into such a tornado around here, though. I put up the pack n play to see how it would fit down stairs and she wanted to know if she could climb it. I might have to hide her chalk and chalkboard soon because she has "decorated" a wall, her dollies' heads, and now the office chair with it. It's like having a 1 year old again. She is even ripping up her board books, and she loooooves to read so I can't believe she is destroying them. I remember now why we were signing up for open swim before she injured her finger. Too bad it isn't healed enough that she can go swimming yet. I don't trust the cleanliness of the public pool to not infect her finger after we have kept in infection free for the last 8 weeks.
bailey-yeh that happens to me.. its so painful.. i end up in hospital every 6 months with my kidneys.. have to catheterise now, and take prophylactic (sp?) antibiotics.. so they are slitely less awful until i get a terrible one ;) but yeh... horrific things.. did u do anything around the time yours stopped? xx
I don't know why they stopped. I had some really weird things going on with my gut and they kind of disappeared too around the same time. I couldn't hardly eat anything, especially diary, and I would go for more than 2 weeks without pooping, but I had gained 20 lbs somehow. Of course no doctor believed me! And then I would have a bladder or kidney infection every 4-5 weeks. Now there aren't really any antibiotics that I can take to cure a bladder infection if I get one because I had to take so much. Both issues started when I was in college and ended after 3 or 4 years (but I was only in college for 1 of those years. I went about 5 years total of not being able to eat or drink dairy. Now I can eat cheese and other dairy but I can only drink milk when I am pregnant. The bladder and kidney stuff got better after stopping dairy originally and now both issues are 99% gone. I wish I knew what had happened. My guess was the huge amount of family stress I was going through and stress from a huge life change. I guess looking at the timeline of things it calmed down and then stopped after getting married and feeling settled in the place where we lived, and not feeling so frantic in my life. When everything started originally, I had stopped eating diary and gluten but even meat seemed to be hard on my digestion. Those of you with gut issues and food intolerances I totally feel for you, and I only had it for a short time.
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
I don't know why they stopped. I had some really weird things going on with my gut and they kind of disappeared too around the same time. I couldn't hardly eat anything, especially diary, and I would go for more than 2 weeks without pooping, but I had gained 20 lbs somehow. Of course no doctor believed me! And then I would have a bladder or kidney infection every 4-5 weeks. Now there aren't really any antibiotics that I can take to cure a bladder infection if I get one because I had to take so much. Both issues started when I was in college and ended after 3 or 4 years (but I was only in college for 1 of those years. I went about 5 years total of not being able to eat or drink dairy. Now I can eat cheese and other dairy but I can only drink milk when I am pregnant. The bladder and kidney stuff got better after stopping dairy originally and now both issues are 99% gone. I wish I knew what had happened. My guess was the huge amount of family stress I was going through and stress from a huge life change. I guess looking at the timeline of things it calmed down and then stopped after getting married and feeling settled in the place where we lived, and not feeling so frantic in my life. When everything started originally, I had stopped eating diary and gluten but even meat seemed to be hard on my digestion. Those of you with gut issues and food intolerances I totally feel for you, and I only had it for a short time.
That's really interesting. Did you ever get tested for food sensitivities?
We had DS tested recently due to an inflamed lymphnoid that didn't go away for over a year. The naturopath explained that a sensitivity acts on your immune system over time. So, if you are healthy, and not under much stress, everything is ticky-boo you can eat foods you have a mild sensitivity to. But if you are stressed or your immune system is otherwise compromised, you should stay away from those things or your immune system can't handle it and you'll get sick, etc. So maybe this is what happened to you?
I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen what a difference it made for my mom. She was having these awful asthma attacks in spite of her asthma meds, and once she started following the diet the same naturopath prescribed, she was off of her asthma meds completely within less than two months. It was truly amazing.
That makes a lot of sense. Back when it started I was young and stupid about health stuff and ate junky and what not. We do want to start seeing a naturopath, too. We have to renew our insurance next summer and we are hoping to choose a less comprehensive plan that costs less so we can have extra money to use towards a naturopath.
Bailey, are you double jointed? sounds like u had an attack of bendyitis.. gastroparesis, slow transit, water retention, and kidney probs are all symptoms that come hand in hand with ehlers-danlos syndrome and dysautonomia.. mite be worth looking into..
So i've had a bit of a weird few weeks.. i have been spending a lot of time with some friends who are just wonderful.. and so supportive.. an ive sortve fallen into seeing one of them.. its nothing too serious at the moment (altho its clear he likes me more then just a little bit, hes being cautious with the whole pregnancy thing) but i guess its just lovely to have someone giving a damn about me. I didnt tell him about the pregnancy at first (because i didnt expect it to go the way it did) and then when i didnt tell him i found it hard to tell him later, but eventually when i did tell him instead of being angry like i expected,he was wonderfully understanding about it. He is polar opposite of my ex.. and he has been kind, and talking to me about the pregnancy, holding my belly and stuff, and i guess its just nice. Its the one bit of pregnancy i've been so jealous of people doing it together, because of being able to share it with there men. And i know hes not the dad, but its nice to have support from someone who seems to care not only about me but the baby aswell :) fingers crossed i guess.. this weekend we have been putting up the christmas tree and just having a wonderful time making my house christmassy and lovely. I sortve cant believe my lifes trying to go right again. I'm not sure exactly how i feel atm, so i'm just taking things as they come, but im so greatful to have the support :) .
Whos got there christmas decorations up? also do u have an advent calender? i have a chocolate one for now but me and my friend are making each other persent filled ones for each others christmas preesents :) its quite exciting (im such a child!!.. its not for me.. its for the baby ;) )
Timesaway, that sounds nice about having a nice guy in your life. It sounds like you definitely deserve it. We have our Christmas decorations up and I got DD a chocolate advent calendar. She doesn't really understand it other than she gets a piece of chocolate everyday. I will have to look into those things put up above.
UUUGGGHHH!!!! DD is driving me nuts! Got to love her but seriously! She is up before 6 am now, crabby as heck, comes in our room and demands we get up, and then dislikes everything the whole first half of the day. Takes 2 bites of breakfast and decides she doesn't like, is mad at me if I don't turn her cartoons on at the exact moment she wants to watch them, colors for 30 second and then says she is done and bored. And its not even 8.30 yet. And....now she just pushed her toys down the stairs....
It's winter, and raining, and our town sucks for things to do with littel kids. We don't even have a mall or anything so now I have to figure out how and where to take her, added expense to our little budget.
Frustrating! And now I will have 2 of them like this next year.....
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