Oct
6
Not for the faint of heart!
Submitted by jessica on October 6, 2008 - 7:17pm
Week 28 is not for the faint of heart! Warning - the belly is herein exposed, in all its hugeness!
Last weekend my cute yoga studio had an open house. I got a free 15-minute prenatal massage that actually made my hips feel normal again, and then I got my first henna - on my belly. It's a lotus especially for Goose.
Since that shot was technically a 27-week shot, here is the official 28-week documentation:
And you all know what 28 weeks means...the third trimester is upon us! Three more months to go. We start seeing our midwife every two weeks, we begin our Bradley-style birthing class next week, and we go in for our follow-up ultrasound soon. Today we got the list of Things to Have On Hand For the Birth. Included on the list: an unopened bottle of olive oil, a shallow bowl or casserole pan, a large piece of fresh ginger root, a crock pot, and a cookie sheet. Apparently we will be cooking the baby. It's a good thing we have a working kitchen. Actually, that sounds like the plot of one of my recent dreams. In last night's episode, we lost the baby for three days but then found her in Iran. No big deal; we just had her shipped back.
P.S. I bought my own hour-long massage for next weekend, but if anyone wants to get me another, I wouldn't object! Here's the link to the studio.
Oct
13
Ten Years
Submitted by jessica on October 13, 2008 - 7:55pm
What do you know - last month was our tenth anniversary of dating. I had to go to Portland for work one weekend, so Joe came with me and we had a lovely, relaxing time. It wasn't officially in honor of our anniversary, but after we realized it was our tenth, we started to think of it that way. We stayed at the Ace Hotel in a room with a big clawfoot tub, ate downstairs at Clyde Common, which was totally delicious and unpretentious (hey, gastronaut, check it out next time you're in pdx!), went to see Marc's show at the Portland Art Museum, which was also delicious and unpretentious (hey, Marc, nice job!), and explored a new (to us) part of town: the Mississippi District. There, we were directed to an impossibly cute lunch truck called Moxie RX, where I had a tasty date-almond butter-banana smoothie. Also, we bought our first kid toy at a store called Black Wagon. It's a wooden ant carrying an egg. We don't know why, either.
Three cheers to the kitchen at Pilchuck Glass School for bringing us together in 1998. And thanks to all the other girls at Pilchuck that summer for being too old, too ugly, too in to glassblowing, or not enough in to Bombay Sapphire gin, so I could snag Joe for my own.
Here's Joe in our hotel room, under the sign for "together." How appropriate!
Oct
19
Celebrity
Submitted by jessica on October 19, 2008 - 10:35am
I try not to pay too much attention to celebrity pregnancies, bump watches, and the like, especially because they always look so cute in their designer outfits. But today I found out that Amy Poehler acts exactly like me in late pregnancy, as evidenced in this clip.
Oct
24
But really, I feel fine!
Submitted by jessica on October 24, 2008 - 8:25am
The 30 week update is here, and the belly has definitely grown!
To assure all of my readers (and myself), I feel fine despite the medical results to the contrary. A few weeks back, I wasn't gaining enough weight, so I increased my protein intake to make sure the baby was growing big enough. Then my blood test said my iron levels were a little low. So I started supplementing with a liquid rust drink. And then a blood test said my body wasn't processing glucose well. So I had to endure another blood test, this one while fasting and drinking the equivalent of 4 Cokes. Four Cokes, four hours, four blood draws. I spent the time sitting in my midwife's living room watching Lost in Translation. When that test came back, it was dangerously close to supporting a diagnosis of gestational diabetes. So I went to see a prenatal nutritionist and learned a lot about how I can eat to control my blood sugar and hopefully prevent developing diabetes in the future. Then, to wrap it all up to the beginning of the paragraph, she told me to lay off the protein so I don't grow a baby that's too big. Huh.
But really, I feel fine! My energy level is good, and I have relatively few aches and pains to complain about. Goose's movements are starting to feel like a crazy huge person is inside me, and they actually keep me from sleeping sometimes now. At the beginning, around the 17th week, the movements were an unmistakable fluttering in my abdomen. Within a few weeks, the fluttering was replaced by by a stomach-on-a-rollercoaster feeling, which in turn became a big-thing-flopping-around-in-water feeling. Now, at 30 weeks, there are definitely limbs involved, feeling for the reaches of their uterine home. We have another ultrasound today; I can't wait to see what it looks like when she's poking around at my lungs.
