Friday, October 15, 2010

here's the blog

i had been urged by a few bloggers during my pregnancy to start a blog myself. i even registered the name, but was too scared of computers, self-conscious, halted by other meaningless anxieties to actually do it. plus, i was extremely sick during the majority of my pregnancy and the idea of staring at a computer and getting frustrated with page alignments and picking the right color scheme was just about going to make my already on the verge of exploding achy head actually explode.

but, i was always thinking about what i would write if i was to start a blog, and felt like i had some good stories to share. i even started a list of things to blog about so i could remember them as they happened. i'm gonna see if i can find it now...wow, it's quite a list so i think i'll just share it here to get you up to speed.

here is what happened the first three months of pregnancy:
  • 10/18
    • third times a charm - taking the test for the third time
    • first reactions: shock, tears, doubt, it was supposed to be february!
    • immediate mommy/baby mode: whole foods for vitamins, babysafe products, books, etc
  • 10/19
    • at work, cant think, secretly looking up prego websites
  • 10/20
    • doc's test, blood test
    • therapist meeting
    • yoga class: love, gratitude
  • 10/22
    • the biscuit
    • spooning, david's hand on belly, love
  • 10/23
    • pos preg blood test
    • calling possible OBs, CNM, etc
    • only preg friend calls crying about her ultrasound, breech posish baby, needs csection.
  • 10/23
    • going out with friends/fake drinking
  • 10/25
    • gorgeous day
    • walk to dolores park
    • late afternoon lunch at cool resty with large open windows
    • VIRGIN bloody mary - first ever
    • scheming creative announcement ideas
  • 10/26
    • worked over time.
    • kids are expensivo!
    • my pee is bright neon yellow/green from the vitamins
  • 10/27
    • called in sick to clinic volunteering
    • researched more OBs, extremely frustrating
    • cried at therapist office
    • davids out of town
    • missed yoga because lost wallet at grocery store
    • prego brain?
    • made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies
  • 10/28
    • work, really sick kid
    • david comes home, hes got the flu
    • make chicken and veg soup for sick hubs
  • 10/29
    • work, same really sick kid. care conference. sad.
    • trivioke party planning committee
  • 10/30
    • got up early for clinic volunteering
    • left to return in afternoon for vaccine shots
    • slept alllll day
    • gave out vaccines to a mil prego women, kids and homeless peeps
    • got a vaccine myself and told Sr. Kathleen i'm preggers bc she had to give me the 'correct' vaccine
  • 10/31
    • more vaccinations in the morn
    • football watching/halloween celebration = more fake drinking with friends
  • 11/1
    • enjoyed the extra hour of sleep
    • took first belly pic
    • bestie sent an email that she thinks shes preggers. oh my! what if?
    • slept alllll day
    • felt dizzy, horrible nausea, forced down a banana
    • made easy mac, ate chick fingers from wholfies
    • watched bye bye birdie, sang along
  • 11/3
    • is this what they mean by morning sickness
    • something is wrong with me
    • total disbelief
    • looking up prozac withdrawal symptoms
    • worst headache ever
    • do i have the flu david had last week?
  • 11/4
    • gun shot wound patient
    • worst smell of my life changing C-collar
    • emergency ginger snaps delivered by hubs
    • only thing i can eat
  • 11/6
    • first doc appointment
    • possible delayed ovulation bc of neg tests
    • scheduled a dating ultra sound for next week
    • np was kind of annoying, disappointing
  • 11/9
    • purposefully turned phone off because didnt want a 5am wake up call for overtime
    • turns out i was supposed to work today! whoops!
    • people have been calling me frantic since 7am
    • i wake up casually at 930
    • end up working from 11-7
    • dont go to book club bc exhausted and worried about fake drinking wine
  • 11/10
    • this must be morning sickness
    • feel awful
    • cant eat
    • worst never-ending hangover feeling
    • looking up home remedies online, none work
  • 11/11
    • call in sick, cant get out of bed
    • shelley, 39 weeks pregs, comes over
    • cry to her that im pregnant and feel awful
    • call doc, get otc med unisom
    • sleeeeeeepppp
  • 11/13
    • ultrasound
    • wasnt prepared for the intravaginal ultrasound, thought it was over the tummy!
    • forgot everything when that little peanut showed up
    • couldnt breathe when i heard the heartbeat. tears.
    • baby is 7 weeks, 6 days. due date is june 26.
  • 11/15
    • sick sick sick sick sick
  • 11/17
    • shelley and chris welcome joseph liam, healthy baby boy
  • 11/18
    • call doc again for something else, nothing is helping
    • get rx for reglan
  • 11/20
    • at work
    • projectile vomitting all day
    • cant keep anything down
    • awful!!!
    • doc says to go to ER
    • get iv zofran and fluids
  • 11/21
    • call in sick
    • fake thanksgiving
    • fake drinking
    • wear pajamas/sweats all day. nothing new!
  • 11/24
    • dentist appt
    • no cavitites!
    • need to floss more
  • 11/25
    • doubling my zofran dose
    • not really helping
    • never felt worse in my life
    • people at work are wondering what is wrong with me
  • 11/26
    • real thanksgiving
    • work
    • red-eye flight to boston, then montreal
    • david and i fight at airport. high anxiety.
    • david's put up with a lot of my bullshit these past few weeks
  • 11/27
    • arrive in montreal
    • haven't pooed in 7 days.
    • not feeling well
    • announce news to yeagers - picture contest
  • 11/28
    • poo status is reaching emergency levels
    • haven't pooed in 8 days
    • feel extremely bloated and cant move
    • talk to french pharmacist, in french
    • prune juice, epsolm salt, suppositories, enema, HOrRibLE!
    • hide out in room/bathroom for most of day
    • can barely eat thanksgiving meal
  • 12/3
    • more poo issues
    • crying on bathroom floor
    • how am i going to deliver a baby if i cant even get this shit out??
  • 12/11
    • dr appointment
    • hear heart beat on doppler
    • get miralax for constipation
    • talk about restarting prozac
  • 12/11
    • karen and jesse's holiday party
    • big reveal to friends
  • 12/12
    • craft time with david
    • baby daddy and pregs sweatshirts
    • threw chicken sandwich at husband, not on accident.
    • there was mustard on the sandwich
    • i hate mustard
    • cry in bedroom
    • seriously consider restarting prozac. yikes!
  • 12/12
    • big reveal again to more friends at christmas parties
    • stayed out til 2am
    • haven't been out that late in months, seems like years
  • 12/16
    • 12 week ultrasound
    • baby is constantly moving and doing somersaults in my belly!
  • 12/19
    • christmas activity in sf
    • symphony choral christmas spectacular!
    • barf during intermission in extremely crowded bathroom
    • feel need to explain to everyone that i'm pregnant and not bulimic
  • 12/20
    • sick sick sick sick sick
    • convinced i will never feel normal again
    • how can one feel this tired?
    • slow slow at work
    • charge let me rest for an hour. angel!
  • 12/23
    • christmas with david
    • exchange presents
    • listening to christmas music nonstop
  • 12/24
    • christmas eve
    • travel to chicago
    • so nervous to tell family
    • announcement video
  • 12/25
    • tell dad. he cries.
    • great christmas day with family
    • cooking
    • singing and dancing
    • trivial pursuit, girls win!
  • 12/26
    • visit friends to tell the news
    • laura and meghann are pregnant too! knew it!
    • crazy all day snowing in chicago. gorge.
  • 12/28
    • lunch with mom
    • 'be prepared for a big baby'
  • 12/30
    • knitting store
    • anxiety over color
    • get pink and will make two if needed
  • 12/31
    • new years eve
    • work!
    • come home, make pasta, start knitting blanket
    • asleep by 930pm
  • 1/1
    • happy new year!
    • cancelled from work
    • new years resolution: have a baby!
    • and start blog
well, its october 14th, almost exactly one year from getting the positive pee test, and almost 4 months since my baby was born, and i'm finally starting the blog! better late than never, eh? I'll fill ya in on other stand-out stories from the pregnancy, the birthing and the first three months as I go along, but I also just want to jump right into life with Scarlett and what it's like being a new mamma.  it'll be a work in progress. cools?

thanks for reading and sharing!

2 comments:

Maureen said...

i feel terrible that you were this sick and i didn't know about it! poor thing!

Ms. E said...

Holy cow! We had the same due date! (But a year apart and he came a month early!)