Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Been awhile

Yes, it has been quite awhile since I made a post on the blog. July is usually a busy month for me, and this one has been even more so with a baby in the oven slowing me down. What all has happened so far this month? I had a birthday, turning 30 this year (OMG!); had a tooth removed that was causing me a lot of trouble; had John's birthday party over at our house that went splendidly. This weekend is going to be a video event at the church, and the weekend after that we're hosting Snippets at our house. Greatfully, Mom and John and myself will be going on vacation to San Francisco in mid August, so I can get out of this heat and get some rest away from work before the baby comes.

As far as the baby goes, I'm starting to feel like I've fallen behind in getting prepared. I haven't done a registry, or taken any birthing classes. Heck, we don't even have the room cleaned out to start turning it into the nursery yet. I keep thinking that I need to like, set up a phone tree for people to call each other when I go into labor, start thinking about my hospital bag, and that I need to get myself into a birthing class or something. Of course since this is my first I'm not even sure if I'm behind the curve or not. I'll be at six months after this week passes, so am I too soon to be thinking about these things? Right on time? Wasting time!? Who the heck knows!

On the physical side of things I'm noticing a lot of changes happening. My feet and hands are both swelling, I can barely get my wedding rings off any more and I can only wear a couple of pairs of shoes still. After John's birthday party was over this past weekend my feet looked like little feet balloons that someone had blown up real big. I was limping around Saturday night and all Sunday because my feet had become so swollen from being on them so much preparing for John's birthday that my toes were like little sausages, and my ankles were almost none existent. My hair is getting thicker, my nails are getting longer, and my belly has gotten bigger. Some chairs are getting difficult to get out of and I'm starting to waddle around more. All this and still 3 months to go.....John may need a crane to move me around by the 8th month.

Thankfully, after Dr. Jackson took out that tooth, I haven't been in any more pain. That thing was causing some major pain in my mouth. I got really scared about taking too much Acetaminophen. I've never been much on taking medication for my woes. Usually, if it's bearable, then I'll bear with it. I don't take allergy medication, even though I have pretty bad allergies. I'm just not a pill popper, if I do need something I'll usually opt for a holistic or homeopathic option if one is available. So for me to be taking OTC pain killers on a regular basis (up to 8 a day for two weeks), that should tell you how much pain I was in.

I was terrified that I was hurting the baby with all that acetaminophen, and resolved to stop taking the pills no matter what. However, the day I stopped taking the medication was the day that Dr. Jackson came in on a Saturday for me and yanked that danged tooth out of my head. I've felt 200% better since then. So now it's just the usual feet swelling, gaseous, midly nauseaous pregnancy woes I'm dealing with. Though now I not only have more energy, but I'm no longer in pain so I'm more willing to get out there and do something now. If only I could motivate my bank account to grow a long with me, I would get myself into those danged birthing classes. Oh well, if anything it's not as though the baby is going to stay up there because Mom didn't take the birthing classes. It has to come out at some point right?