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One of my blogs...
Hey guys! I keep a pregnancy blog and I have always wanted to share parts of it with you guys. Unfortunately because of the personal nature and the amount of personally identifiable information I link anyone to it. I decided to post up a blog I wrote a few days ago. The names have been changed to protect me and my family. "John" will refer to the baby's father. I've had to put stars (****) to hide information that I don't want being available to strangers.
November 6, 2009 - Friday
http://x.myspace.com/images/spacer.gif 17 weeks, 2 days pregnant.
Current mood: http://x.myspacecdn.com/images/blog/...Brads/blah.gif pensive
Hey guys! This is actually the second blog I've written today, :x. I was typing up a blog about STD and pregnancy prevention and after 90 minutes I clicked a button on accident and it erased everything! I got so damn frustrated that I just closed the browser and did something else for a while. I'll rewrite it next week and it'll be even better than the first draft, no worries. I think some of the information I had in it was somewhat redundant anyway. http://x.myspacecdn.com/images/blog/...ads/amused.gif
It's 7:12 PM right now and John should be calling me within the next 15 minutes. Sometimes he gets out late on Fridays because it's pay day and they take a while to give him his money. What can ya do? He's probably hungry so maybe we'll go out to eat together. Yesterday I went to an Indian Restaurant at ****** and ******** Rd called ****** with him. We've been there before but I couldn't eat anything from there yesterday because it is too spicy and hurts my tummy when I'm pregnant. :( That's OK, I ate left over spaghetti and meatballs from Olive Garden the day before. I'd like to try and see a movie with him tonight or something, we don't do much during the week because of his work schedule.
Meh, sex kinda sucks when you're pregnant, to be blunt. I mean, it still feels good but you have to worry about everything. John and I were having sex and it was kind of rough (with me on top) and I kept getting worried about the baby. What fun is that? When you orgasm your uterus contracts and as it gets bigger you can really feel it, I don't like the sensation. My doctor told me that sex and orgasms feel like a massage to the baby because the amniotic fluid moves and tightens around them. I'm glad it's a happy activity for all three.
I've been thinking about my baby playing with his or her umbilical cord lately. (I know it's a friggin boy, I saw it's penis on the ultrasound a few days ago I swear. The doctor was a bitch and wouldn't tell me the gender because she was "in a hurry"). I've read that fetuses play with their umbilical cords in the womb when they are in a playful mood, and I've been thinking about that a lot. It must be dark in there, I wonder how that is. I feel bad because doctors speculate that fetuses cry in the womb (they've seen facial movements that resemble crying) and I can't soothe my baby if they are upset and in my tummy. I try not to raise my voice as often so as not to scare them, they can hear me pretty clearly at this stage in my pregnancy.
I tried listening to the baby's heartbeat with my mom's stethoscope to no avail. I've been told it can't be done until late in pregnancy by a trained professional. They have dopplers you can rent online for like $30/month, but I'll be feeling regular, hard kicks within 2-4 weeks. I have an anterior placenta as I said before, so it makes it harder for me to feel the early kicks and punches. I've felt some movement and quickening thus far, but only for about the past week and a half to two weeks.
I find myself overeating a lot. My mom is like retarded and can't understand that I need specific foods. She buys a bunch of shitty junk food and I never have a healthy diet. I usually eat cereal in the morning and try to eat whatever fruit we have. I eat a lot of wheat bread because that's all we have. As you know my liquid diet is about 90% water right now, I like it. Pop and juice is too sugary and gives me headaches and tummy aches. I wish I could have a Red Bull and a Shirley Temple here and again though. (I snuck a Red Bull in about two weeks ago, don't shoot me).
Some of the symptoms I've had at this stage in my pregnancy include constipation, headaches, back aches (also related to my sciatica), vivid dreams, leaking breasts (colostrum), acid reflux type symptoms, and the urge to urinate 1-3 times a night. My uterus is pretty hard and the fundus (top of my uterus) is about an inch below my belly button now. I'll likely post up a picture of my baby bump around 19 weeks once I know the gender. (We find out the gender at 18 weeks, 5 days). I'll be sure to post up a special blog right after I find out with the gender and all of the other information we find out. It's going to be an hour long ultrasound scan that will look at all of the baby's internal organs and bones to make sure everything is developing properly. I think it's a boy though, I'm about 80% sure it is.
If it's a girl and I'm wrong we already have the name picked out; Madeline Elizabeth. If it's a boy we were considering Hayden Joseph but we've both kind of started disliking the name Hayden. I don't like that you can't shorten it into something cute (Madeline can be Maddie) and it seems too gender neutral for me. We might keep the middle name depending on the first names we think of, but we haven't talked much. If it is a boy (like John and I think it is) then I'll be asking for your guys' help in my baby gender announcement blog with name picking. We need lots of suggestions, but you should know that John doesn't like unique names like Ryder or Dawson like I do. We can both agree that a unique name is best, just not a strange one on John's end. You can make suggestions of middle names if it turns out we are correct about the gender too!
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If you have any questions about anything I write in my blogs you can comment them or send me a message, I will get back to you promptly. I have no qualms with answering personal questions and I do try to be honest and not leave out any details.
Have a safe and happy weekend everyone. John and I will likely be spending some quality time together so I probably won't make it onto the computer much to update my blog or check comments or anything like that. Sunday night he is supposed to go out to dinner with his dad (weirdo treating his relationship with his son like a fucking business arrangement) so I might be able to snag some computer time then.
Best wishes
- Laurisa