Everyone at work is sick
Everyone in town is sick
No big shock then that I have caught another cold. Fingers crossed it passes before the baby comes. I am less than amused but at least it is not the stomach bug that is going around.
I have an OB appt next week. It will probably be my last one as I don't usually do weekly appointments unless there is something wrong. How weird to know that I have less than a month of ever being pregnant. The Canadian continues to take whatever I throw at him without blinking.
Hubster wanted to go to a car show tomorrow but I don't think we will. It is 3 hours away and would involve a ton of walking. Not smart at 37 weeks pregnant. We can go next year. Instead we are going birthday shopping for boy #2 and going to see a movie...Mama...which looks really good and scary. We will be in the town I will deliver in all day so that is good just in case something happens, which I'm sure it will not.
I had six or seven real, honest to goodness contractions yesterday at the basketball game. They piddled out when I got in a hot bath at home but it's nice to know the body is tuning up.
Typing awaits so I will end this...just wanted to say still here, still pregnant, and still doing well.
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Friday, January 18, 2013
Updated picture of the great white whale
Any guesses on size? I think 8 to 9 pounds if we go to 40 weeks.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Time keeps on slipping.....
Come on...you know that title has you singing the song. No? Ok so I am the only crazy one.
Where have I been? EGADS...busy is the only way to sum it up. I finally recovered from the cold of doom and can breathe again so that's good. The boy has played in 87 kajillion basketball games (slight exaggeration, but only slight), I have been working at the lab, typing at night, solving that pesky world peace problem in between (ok, ok, another slight exaggeration). It's all been good, just busy. We've been seeing boy #1 every Sunday which is weird but good. He went down the wrong path many years ago and has not been a part of our life much ever since so it's nice to have him around again but just takes some adjusting to. We've also been seeing girl #2 and the grandbaby every weekend which is really nice. But all this adds up to a very full, busy, hectic life and add to that the fact that I'm almost 36 weeks pregnant and you might be able to understand my life a bit.
I have maybe two more OB appointments to go (no, I don't do the weekly appointments, I am bad). The guys have booked their flights and motel. We are on the final countdown. I still feel really good. I'm uncomfortable and the baby is a huge octopus with arms in my cervix and legs is my ribs but he's healthy and that's all that matters.
Mycotoxin issues continue to consume my life in the lab, taking up about 3 hours a day. I wish it would start raining now and continue to rain every day for a month to resolve this drought but I don't see that happening so I think the mycotoxin issues will continue. It makes for busy, busy days with absolutely no chance to sit down and we rarely even get a lunch break, meaning we have become adept at eating on the run and packing lunches that can be consume on the run.
Better end this and get my hiney in gear...typing awaits.
Where have I been? EGADS...busy is the only way to sum it up. I finally recovered from the cold of doom and can breathe again so that's good. The boy has played in 87 kajillion basketball games (slight exaggeration, but only slight), I have been working at the lab, typing at night, solving that pesky world peace problem in between (ok, ok, another slight exaggeration). It's all been good, just busy. We've been seeing boy #1 every Sunday which is weird but good. He went down the wrong path many years ago and has not been a part of our life much ever since so it's nice to have him around again but just takes some adjusting to. We've also been seeing girl #2 and the grandbaby every weekend which is really nice. But all this adds up to a very full, busy, hectic life and add to that the fact that I'm almost 36 weeks pregnant and you might be able to understand my life a bit.
I have maybe two more OB appointments to go (no, I don't do the weekly appointments, I am bad). The guys have booked their flights and motel. We are on the final countdown. I still feel really good. I'm uncomfortable and the baby is a huge octopus with arms in my cervix and legs is my ribs but he's healthy and that's all that matters.
Mycotoxin issues continue to consume my life in the lab, taking up about 3 hours a day. I wish it would start raining now and continue to rain every day for a month to resolve this drought but I don't see that happening so I think the mycotoxin issues will continue. It makes for busy, busy days with absolutely no chance to sit down and we rarely even get a lunch break, meaning we have become adept at eating on the run and packing lunches that can be consume on the run.
Better end this and get my hiney in gear...typing awaits.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
On final approach
We are nearing the end here folks. C-section is scheduled. We have discussed labor, delivery, breastfeeding (I will be breastfeeding the baby in the hospital and then pumping afterwards). I have asked off for work, have my release to return to work that the doctor has to sign, have my "master plan" in my head for how my life will go after, have a set of triplets that I will be pumping for after the Canadian goes home. I'm as ready as I will ever be. And yet part of me is already shriveling up....how do you say goodbye to a large part of who you are. How do you sum up a year and a half of friendship and partnership and close it out and move on. I've done it three times before. I can and will do it again. I am not sad, I am just...I don't know. Other surrogates get it...no one else really can. The end of a great adventure is near, with all the drastic shifts that that entails. All I can do is sit by and wait and watch and try to be prepared for the storm of emotions that are approaching. Here we go again folks...one last time.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Blindingly white
Beware....my belly is as white as a blizzard but here it is in all it's glory...33w2d. Egads. The end is not in sight yet but it's just over the next hill.
We made it
To 2013 that is. I can now say "the baby is due next month." I can also now breathe a sigh of relief since my deductible on my health insurance is 1500 dollars instead of 8,000 so the guys are now getting a "discount baby" so to speak. Woo hoo.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Goodbye 2012, hello 2013
33 weeks pregnant today. I saw the OB on Thursday and all was well. I've had a strange rash for a week or so and was worried it might be PUPPS, which I've never had. Thankfully it is simply my body's reaction to the strep and is starting to clear up. Yay. Otherwise I'm still healthy as a horse...bp was 102/64, weight gain was 23 pounds and urine was clear of protein and glucose. Just chugging along. We did go ahead and schedule the c-section so the guys could plan and buy plane tickets. We got a date pretty close to my due date so hopefully the baby will be fully cooked by then and ready to come out. I'm not at all thrilled at the thought of the spinal when not being in labor but hey, if I learned anything last time, it's that my preferences in labor don't really matter as long as we end up with a healthy baby and an alive surrogate at the end.
It's that time of year...time to make New Year's Resolutions. I guess I could say it is my resolution to move on from surrogacy but that is going to happen regardless of if I want it to or not (for the record...I want it to) so that's kind of cheating. My typical one is to eat out less. We still eat out way too frequently and there's really no reason for it. I try to keep quick meals on hand for those nights we don't get home until 9pm or later (this happens more and more frequently lately) but I still get lazy and run through the drive through. That has to stop. Healthwise it is not good. I also want to get back into exercising and run another 5K. Since at this point I can hardly walk a mile without breathing heavy, courtesy of the cold and the Canadian, that should be an interesting one. I guess my biggest resoultion would be to finally bite the bullet and do something about my work situation. I have a plan for that and I know what I want and need to do...I just know how tremendously hard it will be to follow through with it. Let's see if I grow some gonads between now and March because I can't go on the way I have been.
The kids are all well. The surrobubs are all well. Life is good. Resuming the holding pattern until mid February.
It's that time of year...time to make New Year's Resolutions. I guess I could say it is my resolution to move on from surrogacy but that is going to happen regardless of if I want it to or not (for the record...I want it to) so that's kind of cheating. My typical one is to eat out less. We still eat out way too frequently and there's really no reason for it. I try to keep quick meals on hand for those nights we don't get home until 9pm or later (this happens more and more frequently lately) but I still get lazy and run through the drive through. That has to stop. Healthwise it is not good. I also want to get back into exercising and run another 5K. Since at this point I can hardly walk a mile without breathing heavy, courtesy of the cold and the Canadian, that should be an interesting one. I guess my biggest resoultion would be to finally bite the bullet and do something about my work situation. I have a plan for that and I know what I want and need to do...I just know how tremendously hard it will be to follow through with it. Let's see if I grow some gonads between now and March because I can't go on the way I have been.
The kids are all well. The surrobubs are all well. Life is good. Resuming the holding pattern until mid February.
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