Today I have been so busy thinking, planning and writing lists preparing for our new baby. I can't help but feel anxious with everything I want to get done. It is crazy how with each pregnancy I get less and less done...that is fine...I just need to find away to get the most done during the holidays. I really feel like since I have about 9 weeks left that with the holidays some of the weeks are just going to count as gone already since we are traveling to VA for Thanksgiving and then hopefully there again when my sister has her baby here soon. Plus, with Advent, Christmas, all the shopping I have to do I feel like time is running out!
I am grateful though that my husband's niece has been coming to help me out a few times recently which has been nice although I am not very good at telling someone what to do. The first day I was like, would you like a cup of tea" and now I am like "can you vacuum, can you do the dishes, can you give the kids a bath," and so on. HUGE help I must say :)
I was reading a blog recently and came across a birth pool that you can buy that sounds like an excellent idea to set up in our living room for the active part of labor. Not very expensive either :) I think it sounds like a great way to relieve some of the pain during the whole thing...
Tomorrow is my midwife appointment down in Ithica which is about 55 min. away and so I think I will talk to her about the idea since she mentioned a trough (sp?) before (that doesn't sound to cozy).
I have made it now just 4 days cutting sugar, gluten, and most dairy out of my diet. I have to say it is so freaking hard! One day I had to keep sitting down because I kept feeling shaking and shortness of breath. Crazy! I really hope to keep it up as best I can through out the rest of this pregnancy and afterwards. I do know it is better for me so I just have to stay motivated!!!
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Monday, November 18, 2013
7 Quick Takes
1. We now live in Auburn, NY. We moved here June 23rd...huge change for us! This has been an incredibly stressful year for us. New house, new job for hubby, new baby on the way, all in a new location. We are still adjusting to living here, but I just have to say it has been a very difficult move :( I have been very lonely here without friends so I thought I would try to take up blogging again and reach out to my online blogging friends for company...I hope I can keep up with updates!
2. Charlie is now 19 months and such a big boy. He is such a lover and a daddy's boy. He really, really keeps me on my toes. I always have to check and see what he is up to!!! He certainly keeps up with his big sister now and can say several; shoes, boots, brush, I love you, sorry, mama, dada, lalu (Lucy), bottle, boo-boos, etc...He is still nursing but not as interested as Lucy was. He will actually point to his bed at night while nursing and ask to go to bed instead of nurse which is sooo very different than his sister. He always makes me laugh :) He wakes up asking for daddy and goes to bed crying to see daddy again! Such a huge daddy fan!
3. Lucy is 3 and 3 months and becoming such a little girl. I am still working on potty training her...it just doesn't seem to click. She will hold it all day and wait for her night time diaper or just have an accident but rarely makes it to the potty...any suggestions? She is a mama's girl. I love snuggling with her and doing crafts together. She loves to help me bake, or be my little helper around the house. She keeps an eye on Charlie and loves to shout out, Mama look what's Charlie doing? when Charlie is doing something he is not suppose to be doing...which is often :) She loves to go to Church, library, grocery shopping, and to visit family. I love watching her be a little mother to Charlie. So precious. I am working on weening her very tiny nursing session before bed. I keep telling her my mee-mees are getting smaller and going away to get ready for baby. She always suggests I call the grocery store and get more. I keep telling her the grocery store doesn't sell the mee-mees but she insists we call them and ask them to sell more for her!!! I really need to do something about this before the next baby arrives.
4. I am 30 weeks now! I can't believe it! I feel so blessed to be having another baby! I am due end of January and I can't wait to meet this new little one. I am guessing that I am having a girl just because this baby seems to be so gentle in my womb like Lucy was but then again I am really bad at guessing the gender of my babies, haha! I feel pretty well most of the time just very uncomfortable a lot. I am at the weight now that I usually am when I deliver so that kind of freaks me out big time. I am really trying to watch what I eat now, like stay away from my kids Halloween candy, but it is really hard sometimes to eat healthy when I just don't have the energy to take the kids shopping etc. This is worrying me for labor so I have started exercising again trying to build up stamina over the next ten weeks.
5. There are so many things are want to get done before the baby comes that I can't help but get so frustrated on how little I accomplish. Now that I chase the kids around all day it is so hard to find the time or energy to repaint rooms, or decorate, or knock down closets, etc. Usually when the kids go to bed at night I am fried and normally rest the evening away...not much progress there!
6. Planning on a home birth. I really do feel at peace with this idea compared to what my options are here in NY. It is a crazy state with how controlling they are on where you have to deliver if you are having a VBAC again So frustrating that's for sure. I am trying to plan meals, and everything else out to make it that much easier for the lack of help I will have after this birth. Does anyone have any ideas on how to make it a peaceful time after having a baby if you don't have much help? I am open for suggestions. I really want to make this a very joyful occasion for us and not be so anxious about managing the house and the kids...please suggestions are welcome :)
7. Changing my diet while pregnant...probably a crazy idea but I am trying to go gluten and dairy free again right now to slow down my weight gain. I really gain a ton of weight when I eat breads, pastas, cheeses...but if I can just manage to stay away from these foods the weight stays off of me which would be a huge help after having a baby.
2. Charlie is now 19 months and such a big boy. He is such a lover and a daddy's boy. He really, really keeps me on my toes. I always have to check and see what he is up to!!! He certainly keeps up with his big sister now and can say several; shoes, boots, brush, I love you, sorry, mama, dada, lalu (Lucy), bottle, boo-boos, etc...He is still nursing but not as interested as Lucy was. He will actually point to his bed at night while nursing and ask to go to bed instead of nurse which is sooo very different than his sister. He always makes me laugh :) He wakes up asking for daddy and goes to bed crying to see daddy again! Such a huge daddy fan!
3. Lucy is 3 and 3 months and becoming such a little girl. I am still working on potty training her...it just doesn't seem to click. She will hold it all day and wait for her night time diaper or just have an accident but rarely makes it to the potty...any suggestions? She is a mama's girl. I love snuggling with her and doing crafts together. She loves to help me bake, or be my little helper around the house. She keeps an eye on Charlie and loves to shout out, Mama look what's Charlie doing? when Charlie is doing something he is not suppose to be doing...which is often :) She loves to go to Church, library, grocery shopping, and to visit family. I love watching her be a little mother to Charlie. So precious. I am working on weening her very tiny nursing session before bed. I keep telling her my mee-mees are getting smaller and going away to get ready for baby. She always suggests I call the grocery store and get more. I keep telling her the grocery store doesn't sell the mee-mees but she insists we call them and ask them to sell more for her!!! I really need to do something about this before the next baby arrives.
4. I am 30 weeks now! I can't believe it! I feel so blessed to be having another baby! I am due end of January and I can't wait to meet this new little one. I am guessing that I am having a girl just because this baby seems to be so gentle in my womb like Lucy was but then again I am really bad at guessing the gender of my babies, haha! I feel pretty well most of the time just very uncomfortable a lot. I am at the weight now that I usually am when I deliver so that kind of freaks me out big time. I am really trying to watch what I eat now, like stay away from my kids Halloween candy, but it is really hard sometimes to eat healthy when I just don't have the energy to take the kids shopping etc. This is worrying me for labor so I have started exercising again trying to build up stamina over the next ten weeks.
5. There are so many things are want to get done before the baby comes that I can't help but get so frustrated on how little I accomplish. Now that I chase the kids around all day it is so hard to find the time or energy to repaint rooms, or decorate, or knock down closets, etc. Usually when the kids go to bed at night I am fried and normally rest the evening away...not much progress there!
6. Planning on a home birth. I really do feel at peace with this idea compared to what my options are here in NY. It is a crazy state with how controlling they are on where you have to deliver if you are having a VBAC again So frustrating that's for sure. I am trying to plan meals, and everything else out to make it that much easier for the lack of help I will have after this birth. Does anyone have any ideas on how to make it a peaceful time after having a baby if you don't have much help? I am open for suggestions. I really want to make this a very joyful occasion for us and not be so anxious about managing the house and the kids...please suggestions are welcome :)
7. Changing my diet while pregnant...probably a crazy idea but I am trying to go gluten and dairy free again right now to slow down my weight gain. I really gain a ton of weight when I eat breads, pastas, cheeses...but if I can just manage to stay away from these foods the weight stays off of me which would be a huge help after having a baby.
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