Parenting Thoughts
Toes seem to be an alternative to food/formula.(Sarah likes to try and fit her whole foot in her mouth when she’s getting changed.)
Learning that feet are good for more than chewing on is gleeful. (We bought her an exersaucer, she was so surprised to find she could make herself turn.)
Babies produce enough drool to power a small house. (She is thisclose to having a first tooth.)
Being a parent is one of the few times you can be excited about poop. (self explanatory)
Music does soothe the savage beast. (Sarah loves to dance.)
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Sarah had her 2 month appointment today. She weighs 12 pounds 8 ounces, making her in the 90th percentile for her age and she’s in the 95th percentile for height. She’s doing well otherwise. She also got her first set of shots today *pout*. Poor thing didn’t really like that at all. But what’s awesome is that nowadays what used to be three seperate shots came in one. She got DPT, Hib and Polio all in one vaccine. Isn’t modern medicine great? She also got her second HepB shot and one to prevent meningitis. She also got a liquid vaccine for rotovirus. She also seems to possibly be getting her first tooth in. Yay teething!
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Baby Stuff
We’re home and have been since yesterday. Sarah had to stay an extra day at the hospital due to jaundice. The bruising she had on her face didn’t help any, but we were home by Monday afternoon. That is after being paraded around by Nana at her work. My mom loves to show off her grandbabies. Lol
Barry was unsure of how to react to Sarah when he first saw her. We’ve let him smell near her. And apparently last night he got on Brad’s lap while Brad was holding her and licked at her foot. Then today he was sitting in the chair next to the crib, waiting for one of us to show up there. Wait until she’s old enough to pull his tail.
Other than that, we’re adjusting to being parents again. We’ve kind of got a schedule going, so both of us get plenty of sleep and there’s always someone to keep an ear/eye out for Sarah. She’s got her first doctor’s appointment on Friday, that should be fun. We’ve also got things in motion to get more assistance from the state, of course that means paperwork. How the government loves it’s paperwork. *sigh* That’s all for now.
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Please? I’m trying to be extra patient, knowing that letting Sarah arrive on her own is what’s best, but I’m seriously ready for her to come. I was one cm dialated at my appointment Thursday and I just have this feeling that it’s going to be soon. And Sarah has also already committed her first act of parental defiance. Brad was lobbying for her to be born yesterday. He just wanted a Halloween baby. The next biggest day is the fourth. It seems a lot of people think it would be very awesome if she was born on election day. All I know is that I’m ready.
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So now I get to watch out for signs of pre-eclampsia.
When the nurse took my BP it was high (132/93). The midwife said that in combination with my swollen feet raised a red flag for her.
Now, I get the BP thing, because I generally have low(ish) BP anyway so any major deviation from my norm is certainly cause for concern. But the swollen feet? They’ve been that way since I found out I was pregnant, so to me, no red flag. And I would have thought that would have been the case with the midwife since I’ve had the swelling since I’ve been seeing them, but…whatever.
So I had to lay on my side for five minutes and then have the BP redone, and it was fine. Then she sat down and brought up the pre-eclampsia and the words “modified bed rest” came out. Basically I’m supposed to lay around (or in this case sit) and do nothing, which is basically what I’ve been doing (minus a few chores which I gave up just this week)! She wanted me to come in earlier than one week so I could get my BP taken again but it couldn’t be arranged. So she said, find someone who has a BP cuff/machine (mom does yay!) and check it on Monday (laying down) and if the bottom number is over 85, they want to hear about it. She also gave me other symptoms to watch out for: further swelling of my feet, bleeding, headaches, pains in the chest that aren’t heartburn related. And then she actually said, “Can I trust that you’ll page us if any of this happens?”
WTF??? I’m 32 years old, college educated and after everything I went through with Liam (which I’ve told them about, several times) why wouldn’t I call???? I’m just as concerned about my own health as well as that of Sarah as you are!!! I wanted to say something, but by that time I just wanted to get out of there so I could go to the store to get milk and go home. Now I love everything that the midwives have done for me so far, they have given me far superior care than I ever got with the health department when I was pregnant with Liam. But that…*seethes* it made me want to hit something.
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At which I am currently sitting at in an battered but comfy chair. It’s kind of nice not to have my laptop perched on the edge of a chair’s arm.
But more importantly, the reason I have a desk is that it was moved from the office/third bedroom to make room for the crib. Tomorrow there is massive amounts of cleaning happening. In the office, in the living room, just lots of cleaning. And somewhere in there I go see the midwives.
Most of my days lately have just involved trying to get into a comfortable position while sitting. While Sarah thwarts those plans by sticking her head/foot/some body part just under my ribs. Two weeks ago the midwife was all “well, she’ll start slowing down now, less moving because she’s getting bigger and there’s less room to move around in there”. Uh huh. Somehow I don’t think Sarah got the memo. Of course my child is going to be stubborn. I don’t think she’d be my child otherwise.
Oh, unofficially, we’ve started a baby pool. No money involved, but if you wanna take a stab at when Miss Sarah will be making her arrival into this world, go right ahead. My baby sister has already claimed Nov. 4th, cause she thought it would be kinda cool for Sarah to be born on election day.
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That’s right, as of today, I am 36 weeks pregnant. And boy do I feel it.
Getting to sleep and staying asleep is an adventure. Solid eight hour nights are going to be a thing of the past until Sarah is sleeping through the night. When I stand up, I can’t see my feet, that’s how big I’m getting. I’m not sure how I feel about that. My bellybutton is threatening to become an outie. That never happened with Liam. And best of all (sarcasm), the nausea has returned. Depending on what I eat, when I eat or how much I eat, my stomach protests. All perfectly normal the midwives assure me.
Next week is the bigger milestone. 37 weeks is typically considered “full term”. That means Sarah has pretty much done all her important growing and can survive outside the womb should I go into labor. So, yeah, after next week, all bets are off as to when she’ll arrive. Then Brad goes and tells me stories of one of his online friends who, despite all the ultrasounds saying there was only one baby, had twins. Good God, if that happens…… Now there have been twins, on my mother’s side of the family, but none in two generations. I prefer to think the two ultrasounds I had were correct and that Sarah’s the only one in there.
So basically at this point, it’s all sit and wait. The office/nursery is almost clean so we’ll be moving the crib in there soon. We have everything else we need; stroller, car seat, playpen. Clothes are coming from my family. Here’s to waiting.
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I did take Liam with me today and he thought hearing the hearbeat was cool.
So all the bloodwork turned out okay, so baby is healthy. They had to recalculate it after redoing the baby’s age but as long as she’s healthy I don’t care. My blood glucose is good, so no diabetes yet, but I will want to get it redone later because of the risk that I had for it when I carried Liam.
Based on the ultrasound, I am at 19 weeks, it will be 20 on Saturday. I have a new due date of November 8th. And the midwife said because of all of this and they fact they didn’t see everything quite as clearly as they would have liked on the ultasound (cause Sarah was so small and all bunched up), it gives them an excuse to do another one. So next month, another ultrasound. I’m gonna take Liam to that too.
She also said that I have lost my immunity to measles, mumps and ruebella. I guess they got that from the bloodwork. So after I give birth I get to get revaccinated. Oh joy. But I can understand it wearing off, it’s been almost like twenty years since I had the booster for it. So I have that to look forward to.
But all in all everything is going well, so I’m very happy about that.
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Yeah, it’s there, small but there. I’ve been noticing it lately. Rainne wants pictures. Anyone else out there want to see the baby bump?
