I had a friend of mine suggest that I read a book. It is called "Healthy sleep habits Happy Child" by Marc Weissbluth.
I myself had issues with sleeping starting in about 2nd grade, and I had a very smart man who worked with me to help me find "tricks" to put myself to sleep. Now as an adult, I very rarely have issues with sleeping.
So I believe that sleep is a vital part of children being happy. As well as I have seen many parents I know personally struggle with thier children at bed time, as well as that tv show "the Nanny" She is always trying to fix a non sleeping child issue. So I got the book.
Now on to the book. It so far has been a very informational book (it is written by a doctor) albeit a bit textbooky, but here lies my problem. I have not been sleeping really well of late (hence me blogging at 4:30 in the morning) but mostly because I toss and turn and am uncomfortable.
So I sit down to read more of the book, and reading about sleep and the benefits of such all the sudden I am so tired I cant keep my eyes open! lol
So I have not gotten very far in fact I have had it for a week, and I am on page 14. I cant seem to stay awake while reading this book.
And I really am interested. Oh well. hopefully I can get through it before the girls come, because I have a feeling that if I don't...I wont...I will be wayyyyy to tired then.
Maybe someone else could read it and then come stand by me and transfer the contents by osmosis?
Sunday, March 20, 2011
20 weeks
I don't have a ton of maternity clothes, so on my casual days I usually end up wearing mostly the same items. So my last two pics have been in the same outfit, but this is 20 weeks.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
New Doctor
For the past few weeks,
I have been struggling with whether I should switch doctors or not. One of the first things I told my doctor when I met her was that I was a person that wanted to know everything she could tell me about my situation. Good and bad. That I do not get depressed over bad news, but I want to prepare for the worse situation, and hope for the best.
So what I have been struggling with is having to change doctors based on just the one fact that I wanted my doctor to be affiliated with a different hospital. There are two major hospitals around here. One has a strong neonatal unit with one that is specifically for twins and a specialist and two specialized nurses. The other one has a very small neonatal unit with no doctors or nurses that I am aware of that specialize in just that.
My doctor was affiliated with the second. So where I like my doctor, I finally made the decision that I needed to change.
So I looked around on all the websites, and spoke to quite a few people to try to find a good doctor to go to.
I finally found one that I thought would be a good choice, set up an appointment, and went through the rigmarole of getting all my current medical files from the one doctor and get them to the other doctor.
I felt pretty bad about leaving my old doctor because I really liked her. Oh well.
My first appointment with the new doctor was great. I am actually really glad that I have switched. You know how they say you don't know really what you are missing if you have never had it?
That just happens to be the case. This doctor/and staff is so much better that the last one. The doctor that I was seeing before actually did not do delivery, so her schedule was more open so I had pretty short wait times and it was easy to get in to see her. Which now I have a feeling that my wait times, and just the fact that my new doctor has surgery rotations and delivery will be harder to make appointments.
But the care, and thoroughness that I got from my new doctor and staff was amazing.
So sometimes hard decisions turn out to be really good ones. I am very glad that I was strong and made a hard choice.
Not only that, I am now better prepared for a bad situation should one arise. That makes me more confident and calm.
But as always I am hoping and praying for the best situation possible! And I have faith that whatever will come will come.
Ben and I will handle it.
I have been struggling with whether I should switch doctors or not. One of the first things I told my doctor when I met her was that I was a person that wanted to know everything she could tell me about my situation. Good and bad. That I do not get depressed over bad news, but I want to prepare for the worse situation, and hope for the best.
So what I have been struggling with is having to change doctors based on just the one fact that I wanted my doctor to be affiliated with a different hospital. There are two major hospitals around here. One has a strong neonatal unit with one that is specifically for twins and a specialist and two specialized nurses. The other one has a very small neonatal unit with no doctors or nurses that I am aware of that specialize in just that.
My doctor was affiliated with the second. So where I like my doctor, I finally made the decision that I needed to change.
So I looked around on all the websites, and spoke to quite a few people to try to find a good doctor to go to.
I finally found one that I thought would be a good choice, set up an appointment, and went through the rigmarole of getting all my current medical files from the one doctor and get them to the other doctor.
I felt pretty bad about leaving my old doctor because I really liked her. Oh well.
My first appointment with the new doctor was great. I am actually really glad that I have switched. You know how they say you don't know really what you are missing if you have never had it?
That just happens to be the case. This doctor/and staff is so much better that the last one. The doctor that I was seeing before actually did not do delivery, so her schedule was more open so I had pretty short wait times and it was easy to get in to see her. Which now I have a feeling that my wait times, and just the fact that my new doctor has surgery rotations and delivery will be harder to make appointments.
But the care, and thoroughness that I got from my new doctor and staff was amazing.
So sometimes hard decisions turn out to be really good ones. I am very glad that I was strong and made a hard choice.
Not only that, I am now better prepared for a bad situation should one arise. That makes me more confident and calm.
But as always I am hoping and praying for the best situation possible! And I have faith that whatever will come will come.
Ben and I will handle it.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Pills
For the past almost decade I have really tried to remove all "pills" from my life. I stopped relying on naproxen, ibuprofen and such for aches and pains, and started relying on essential oils and more natural remedies like massage.
Plus I really hate taking pills. They make me gag!
So now that I am pregnant, I have to take 2 in the morning, and 3 + a powder I mix in water that tastes like elmers glue at night. And not these little Advil tablet like pills, no these are freakin horse pills.
Granted they are not really "pills" they are vitamins, but it is really odd to have to remember to take something morning and night. Especially since I tried so very hard to not take anything for so many years!
Plus once again the whole gag thing. :)
Yes, it will all be worth it, and I am not complaining (too much)! It is just odd when I think about it.
Plus I really hate taking pills. They make me gag!
So now that I am pregnant, I have to take 2 in the morning, and 3 + a powder I mix in water that tastes like elmers glue at night. And not these little Advil tablet like pills, no these are freakin horse pills.
Granted they are not really "pills" they are vitamins, but it is really odd to have to remember to take something morning and night. Especially since I tried so very hard to not take anything for so many years!
Plus once again the whole gag thing. :)
Yes, it will all be worth it, and I am not complaining (too much)! It is just odd when I think about it.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Dallas or Bust
Well, we finally worked it out that we will be able to go to Dallas. I had to change my Vacation once more(this has been a bit of a hassle). But we asked the doctor if I could travel the last week of April, and she said she would not recommend it. So we nixed that, but really wanted to be able to visit before the babies come.
So we worked it out that we can go the last week of March instead. I will be under 24 weeks at that point, so still ok to travel with Twins. They get leary about 24 weeks with twins. So we have purchased our tickets. which by the way, I was going to get the insurance just in case, and I read the disclaimers to ensure it covered pregnacy complications. Nope. It doesn't. So I am glad I read it. It would have been wasted if I actually had a problem and could not go they would not have covered it.
The rental car is booked, and we are set. So all yall in Dallas, we are coming!
So we worked it out that we can go the last week of March instead. I will be under 24 weeks at that point, so still ok to travel with Twins. They get leary about 24 weeks with twins. So we have purchased our tickets. which by the way, I was going to get the insurance just in case, and I read the disclaimers to ensure it covered pregnacy complications. Nope. It doesn't. So I am glad I read it. It would have been wasted if I actually had a problem and could not go they would not have covered it.
The rental car is booked, and we are set. So all yall in Dallas, we are coming!
Names
So the ultrasound tech is positive one of our babies is a girl, but the other baby was moving around like crazy, and she had a really hard time getting a look. She said she thinks it is a girl.
So if we end up with two girls, the names we have picked out are
Emily Viola, and Ana Elise.
And if that one baby turns out to in fact be a boy, we are still working out names for Boys.
We have about 5 boy names that we are struggling through. The girl names were easy...maybe it is a sign!
So if we end up with two girls, the names we have picked out are
Emily Viola, and Ana Elise.
And if that one baby turns out to in fact be a boy, we are still working out names for Boys.
We have about 5 boy names that we are struggling through. The girl names were easy...maybe it is a sign!
Frustrating!
So I worked really hard on a post of our Trip to Vancouver with all the pictures, and I had about 2 more pictures to upload, and my Internet crashed. We have been so disappointed in our "bundle" with Comcast. Our Internet service is spotty at best, and is crashing all the time. Our cable tv has the same problem, and it does not stay consistent. The cable box is always having technical difficulties. And it can only have about 10 recorded shows at one time then starts to delete. And I mean half hour shows, not movies. It is a pile of junk! Comcast is not who I would choose again, but now we are in a contract. In the beginning, we called support all the time, but they were incredibly unhelpful. so we quit calling, and are just frustrated.
So I am going to try to get that post up again today!
So I am going to try to get that post up again today!
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
"BabyMoon"
I was reading on a website that I frequent now days about something they call a "babymoon" I didn't even remember that until just now, and I thought to myself, hey, we just went on our "babymoon" It is apperantly a trip where a couple goes to have a quiet celebration (like a honeymoon) before thier baby is born.
I have been laughing about it since I thought about it! :)
So here are pictures from Ben and I's Babymoon! lol
Driving through Vancouver. I am not sure what this was for, but I had to snap a picture!
Our first Stop, English Bay
Crossing the Lionsgate Bridge
Museum of Vancouver
Stanely Park (Thanks Rozanne for the tip!)
Totem poles
Vancouver Aquarium
I have been laughing about it since I thought about it! :)
So here are pictures from Ben and I's Babymoon! lol
Driving through Vancouver. I am not sure what this was for, but I had to snap a picture!
Our first Stop, English Bay
Crossing the Lionsgate Bridge
Museum of Vancouver
Stanely Park (Thanks Rozanne for the tip!)
Totem poles
Vancouver Aquarium
Ultrasound
So I finally figured out how to capture a picture from the DVD we had made. I still have not figured out how to copy the whole disk, but here are three pics from the ultrasound.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Weekend Trip
So I took off Friday because this was the day of the long awaited ultrasound to tell us if everything was ok with our babies. I decided to take it off, because if it turned out to be bad news, I did not want to have to feel like I needed to go back to work.
So Ben and I decided that if everything was good, we were going to celebrate by going to Canada. We have been talking about it, and I figured this was going to be the best time for it. I am still early in my second trimester, and it is not too far away.
The ultrasound went very well, it looks like both babies are growing the way they should be. It is hard to tell what is really going on because it is not the doctor doing the ultrasound, it is a technician which has to be really careful what they say, but we saw all the major parts and that they were normal as far as we could see.
We truly were surprised to see that we are going to be having two girls, we did not expect that. Plus I really wanted to be able to have a boy so that I could be done with these two! But now I may have to try again. We will see.
Back to the trip. Ben and I loaded up and started our trek to Canada. It took much longer than we planned because we hit Seattle during rush hour on a Friday. That was a mess. So we got to our hotel about 9pm and pretty much went to bed. We got up early and hit the ground running. We went to English Bay first, and then as we were going to walk around the beach, we saw that there was a Museum, so we figured we would stop in. It was the Museum of Vancouver, and they had this highly published sculpture of a parka. It was SOOOOO dumb, then downstairs they had the history of Vancouver which was pretty cool. However it took us about 40 minutes to walk the whole place, and it cost us 30 dollars (which Canada’s dollar is more than ours right now, so our exchange rate we lost money. ) So that was a bum deal.
After we were done doing this, we walked around the Beach at English Bay, it was very nice. It was quite chilly, and overcast, but it was not raining! After we did this, we decided to go to Stanley Park and see all the stuff there. We decided to hit one of the restaurants there, and went to “The Fish House” It was very good, and after that we found our way to the Aquarium. It was pretty good. These events pretty much took the entire day, which was mostly walking. Near the end of the Aquarium, I wasn’t too well off. I was hurting pretty bad, and my babies were pressing down pretty hard causing quite an achey sensation. I told Ben that I was absolutely done for the day. We needed to go back to the hotel. So we did, and I have been resting for the past hour or so, but now it is past 7, and I am starving…problem. I do not want to go out. I am not yet feeling great, but there are not any delivery places around here. So it is time to lock the dog in his kennel again, and head out. We have made reservations for “Cheshire Cheese Restaurant and Grill” apparently it is a British type place. I hope I can find something good to eat and not have to resort to Bangers and Mash!
More later! And some pics!
So Ben and I decided that if everything was good, we were going to celebrate by going to Canada. We have been talking about it, and I figured this was going to be the best time for it. I am still early in my second trimester, and it is not too far away.
The ultrasound went very well, it looks like both babies are growing the way they should be. It is hard to tell what is really going on because it is not the doctor doing the ultrasound, it is a technician which has to be really careful what they say, but we saw all the major parts and that they were normal as far as we could see.
We truly were surprised to see that we are going to be having two girls, we did not expect that. Plus I really wanted to be able to have a boy so that I could be done with these two! But now I may have to try again. We will see.
Back to the trip. Ben and I loaded up and started our trek to Canada. It took much longer than we planned because we hit Seattle during rush hour on a Friday. That was a mess. So we got to our hotel about 9pm and pretty much went to bed. We got up early and hit the ground running. We went to English Bay first, and then as we were going to walk around the beach, we saw that there was a Museum, so we figured we would stop in. It was the Museum of Vancouver, and they had this highly published sculpture of a parka. It was SOOOOO dumb, then downstairs they had the history of Vancouver which was pretty cool. However it took us about 40 minutes to walk the whole place, and it cost us 30 dollars (which Canada’s dollar is more than ours right now, so our exchange rate we lost money. ) So that was a bum deal.
After we were done doing this, we walked around the Beach at English Bay, it was very nice. It was quite chilly, and overcast, but it was not raining! After we did this, we decided to go to Stanley Park and see all the stuff there. We decided to hit one of the restaurants there, and went to “The Fish House” It was very good, and after that we found our way to the Aquarium. It was pretty good. These events pretty much took the entire day, which was mostly walking. Near the end of the Aquarium, I wasn’t too well off. I was hurting pretty bad, and my babies were pressing down pretty hard causing quite an achey sensation. I told Ben that I was absolutely done for the day. We needed to go back to the hotel. So we did, and I have been resting for the past hour or so, but now it is past 7, and I am starving…problem. I do not want to go out. I am not yet feeling great, but there are not any delivery places around here. So it is time to lock the dog in his kennel again, and head out. We have made reservations for “Cheshire Cheese Restaurant and Grill” apparently it is a British type place. I hope I can find something good to eat and not have to resort to Bangers and Mash!
More later! And some pics!
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