today i'm 16 weeks and the fetus is the size of an avocado, i love avocados so this is a good stage. i was just reading "your pregnancy week by week" (thanks gretch for the books), but i accidentally flipped too far ahead and freaked myself out. i saw this picture:
now this picture freaks me out on so many levels. dear God my baby cannot possibly fit through my pelvis. and this will surely hurt. and my belly/baby has to get so much bigger than an avocado. and 10 centimeters is the size of my thigh (at present anyway) which is much much larger than where i usually shove a tampon. and i picture myself yelling during labor, "it won't come out!!!"
that's why you don't flip ahead class. enjoy the avocado stage. relish in still being able to move with ease. right now ignorance is bliss.
just got back from my first highlands mommies outing. highlands is the neighborhood i live in and there are about 2000 "mommies" in the club. my sub-group has women due in the first half of 2010. tonight there were 9 of us eating dinner, swapping pregnancy stories and who's due when and where we are delivering and what classes are you taking and have you registered... oh my!
i'm excited to have a built in support system as i wade through all things babies, but everyone must tread lightly. for as many mommies, there are just as many opinions and paths on this journey. we found that out by where each of us is delivering and how we are delivering. you might think that we all live in a 10 block radius that surely there would be an obvious hospital nearest our home. nope, i heard 6 different locations for delivery.
as we begin to have our babies, we will start play groups and outings and use the site to ask questions of other experienced moms. what a great resource!
it's been snowing none stop for the past 2 days, but snow days
are not quite as fun as when i was a kid. peter and i worked from home unfortunately we were really working. the good old days a snow day included sledding, snowball fights and building an igloo.
we did enjoy a nice walk around our neighborhood yesterday and i ventured out to a yoga class today. i think we might get a long winter with lots of snow. hopefully not 18 inches with every storm.
no i don't have h1n1 flu... yet! but everyone around me does. how's a pregnant lady suppose to stay swine-free when everywhere i turn someone has a fever or is coughing? so i've decide to self impose a quaratine and work from home.
drastic measure for drastic times, but my coworkers seem to need a lesson in illness etiquette.
- if 2 out of your 2 children have confirmed h1n1, do not come into work the next few days... we will not miss you.
- if 5 out of your 5 children have some sort of flu and they go to public school, assume they have h1n1 AND assume you will get it as well and work from home... we will not miss you.
- if both you and your spouse are very sick and said spouse is a in physician assistant's school, assume you have h1n1 and take sick time, ALU pays 90% of salary on sick days... stay out a week.
The moral of the story is stay home if anyone in your household is sick because it is most likely swine flu and it takes 2 days for you to show symptoms. So you could have it and not know.
Stories like this in the New York Times make me want to avoid it like the plague.
So wash your hands, cover your mouth and stay home... you won't be missed.
so i've been away for quite some time, my faithful readers... all 3 of you. but I'm back to announce that I'm almost 14 weeks pregnant! peter and i are so excited and a bit nervous. i never expected to be scared, but now I understand the thought of carrying around a little human inside of me. at the same time, i sometimes forget that i am with child since i had a very mild 1st trimester and i'm not so much showing.
yesterday i was in gap looking at maternity clothes and i felt silly, like everyone was sizing me up, thinking "what that girl doing in that section of the store?" i probably need to wait a few more weeks/months until i really need to start shopping there or i'll just buy stuff online so i don't have to be sized up.
i feel a weird tension concerning weight gain. part of me really wants to start showing so i can start feeling pregnant, but i also like that i'm not showing yet. it's hard in a culture that tells women that beautiful is 5'10" size 0. our culture should be celebrating a pregnant body as that is what our bodies were made to do. weird to think that since the age of 15 (yes, i was a late bloomer) my body has been ready and willing to host a baby. now it is actually getting to do what it was designed to do, amazing.
so check back more often as I hope to be more diligent about posting pictures and thoughts on this journey.
it's been crazy around here and you know when there is so much to blog about and end up not blogging at all? but thank God for fridays and working from home which is code for being able to surf the web without feeling guilty. here's a splattering of happening around here:
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we aren't building in golden anymore! what a relief, so much stress.
- we are trying to fix up the existing house to rent out in golden. more stress as we figure out how to be handy with a hammer.
- there is house under contract with our name on it! berkeley area, here we come (aka an extension of west highland, aka west of downtown denver).
- this house is turnkey which is music to my ears. maybe a can of paint later on down the road, but we won't do a thing to it before moving in (well maybe clean everything since it's been vacant for the past 6 months).
- new house means packing, agh. less is more as i purge myself of junk.
- escape from my crazy life has been Sarah's Key, quite the page turner.
There you have it, just a taste, more to come later.
now this picture freaks me out on so many levels. dear God my baby cannot possibly fit through my pelvis. and this will surely hurt. and my belly/baby has to get so much bigger than an avocado. and 10 centimeters is the size of my thigh (at present anyway) which is much much larger than where i usually shove a tampon. and i picture myself yelling during labor, "it won't come out!!!"
