Freebies my ass

So being prego I decided to take advantage of some great freebies and samples...mistake.
I wont name the companies but let me say this...

1. Largest producer of baby food
2. Largest producer of any over the counter item you buy in a drug store, diapers and baby products
3. Your baby probably slept, ate, rode in the car and played in their products

So...Some of the well known pregnancy sites I joined has areas you could sign up for freebies/samples. So I did...now I have...

Remodeling companies
Magazines
Online Colleges
Home Insurance
Auto Insurance
Steak of the month
Grocery Stores
Credit Card
Department stores

FLOODING my email and phone all day at all hours with "offers"

I guess thats what I get. These sites said they didnt sell my info...obviously they did.

Oppsie

Today has not been my day. I am suffering from sever pregnancy brain. Don't believe me?

I forgot my purse this morning....
I had to drive back home for my purse and the papers I needed for a design meeting today...

I drove into a telephone pole....
I am not kidding. I have never had an accident. I was driving home to retrieve the above items and then next thing I know I am heading for a giant pole. My car hopped the curb. My front fender has a small dent and all the plastic wheel guard came off along with the inner guard in the wheel well. Opps......
I was fine, car will be fine after some new bolts get stuff attached back down where they are supposed to be. I am fine..I think. I called my midwife and she said I should be fine. I was supposed to stay home in bed today but I am on a deadline, so here I am at work chugging water like she said, and sitting my arse down. At least I cant run into any more poles at my desk.

Seriously I have no idea how it happened. I am so out of it lately. I am tired, cranky..did I say tired? I know this happens to preggo women all the time. Good luck having a conversation with me, because guess what..I cant follow. Jeez and I have a long way to go.

Some of our choices we have come up with...

SAYA~ JAPANESE ~SWIFT ARROW
SHANDRIL ~Forgotten Realms Character
ROWAN ~ Gaelic ~Flowering Tree
HAZEL ~Old English ~Hazel Tree
LARK `Middle English ~Little Songbird
ADAH ~Hebrew ~Little Dark One
NAHLA ~ Arabic ~A Drink of Water
YUNA ~Yuna (Final Fantasy) ~Pretty/Apple
SENDRIL~ N/A~ N/A
GAIA ~Greek ~Earth
TEAGAN~ Irish ~Good Looking
FIONA~ Gaelic~ Fair
LUNA ~Latin~ Moon

RIKU~ Japanese~ Shore
SEBASTIAN ~Greek ~Sacred/Intelligent
LOKI~ Norse ~god of mischief
ARCHER~ Latin ~Bowmen
RYDER~ English ~Horseman
KAI~ Various ~Keeper/ Sea

Arrrg

So we have a pretty large house. It is 5 bedrooms. We have two downstairs one which is ours and one is our office. We have three bedrooms upstairs. We are still fixing our house and decided that the baby will be going into the office for at least the first 2 years. Our children are very loud when they are upstairs. So we have to move our office.
Right now our office furniture does not match, and it doesn't bother me because no one sees it. However we are changing our dining room into the office since well...we never use it.
I am a huge fan of IKEA and I found the perfect desks for the room, that match the colors and everything. Only we don't have an IKEA here and the shipping alone was $200. The two closest ones are Woodbridge (almost in DC) and the other is over 250 miles away.
Maybe I can get my great brother in law to go pick them up? I am hoping so I dont want to drive 145 miles just to get the desks however I sure as hell am not paying that much in shipping.
I feel like a spending spree is about to happen. The kids starting school, a baby, things still needing to be done to the house. I can see all our cash trickling away..oh well..shopping is fun.

Little too much..

This weekend was a ride. Friday I was tired. My work load is H..E..A..V..Y. That night my sister, her husband, my niece and two nephews came to visit for the weekend. Friday night we went to bed around 3am. Saturday we went to bed at almost 5 am.

I had a ton of fun with my family and our friends that came by, but I have felt horrible all weekend. I cant eat, I am tired, my back is killing me.

5 weeks pregnant and I feel as if my life force has been removed from my body. I am thinking of finding a dark quiet room, buying a delivery food service and hiding for the next 7-8 months. I might as well since, I cant concentrate on a conversation, I fall asleep mid conversation, I can no longer cook anything, carry anything, no where anything is or be productive. Its pathetic.

Don't get me wrong I am very excited and happy about being pregnant. However I had this misconception that getting up and going to work would be a breeze. Keeping up with everything would be cake..now I would love to eat cake...but the thought of ingesting anything makes me green.

I thought it would be easier. I thought by now I would be a pro. Instead I just want to crawl under a rock and have no stimulation what so ever. No sounds, no smells, no moving...nothing..it would be bliss.

I am hoping when I reach that 12 week mark it all slips away and I am once again my happy, cheerful, non evil, person.

Fog

I feel like atreyu in the never ending story, when he has to face himself to get to the last Oracle.....I am feel as if I am walking in a fog.

Today at work I could not concentrate. I was so tired and people would speak to me and I would hear them, but could not comprehend what they were saying to me.
I do not remember being this tired with my first two.
All I think about is a nap..all day...every second, I am like a 14 year old that just discovered that people have sex..only its not sex for me, its NAPS.
Someone, somewhere is taking a nap, they are relaxed in a quiet place loving that foggy silence as they drift off. I WANT IT! I want to take it from them and horde it like I am an angry dragon.

I fantasize about naps, I day dream about naps, I would trade almost anything for a 45 minute nap.

Today I was beat, I have a heavy work load right now and my brain is not concentrating. When I got home I didn't take a nap because that's what I have been doing for the last 2 weeks and I feel guilty.

We went to watch the new Harry Potter movie. Something I have been waiting for a long while. Only even though I watched the movie, and I wasn't asleep, I don't remember much of it. I was in a haze. I have come to the conclusion in a few months I will be completly brain dead due to being preggers.

The last few days my thoughts have also been drifting to my grandmother who just passed away. I am not able to go pay my condolences and it is depressing. My grandmother was an amazing women, but she deserves a whole post of her own which will come this weekend.

I am off for a bath..and bed...oh sweet sweet slumber.

Hypno Birthing

Opps

I decided for lunch I would eat a banana. I am watching my diet very carefully. Banana...not a good idea...gag. I am still having my morning star bucks though. There are some things I cant give up or I would loose my sanity. I have been feeling ok in the morning. However once around 10:30 hits I get hit with waves of nausea. I am so tired I think my hubby is tiring from the evening naps I am taking against my will. I could fall asleep standing up at a Metallica concert.

5 weeks

Uhh so Ive gained some weight and my tummy is out there...whats worse is I was almost at my goat weight of 135, I was 10 lbs away..hey I was 160 this time last year. Two weeks ago I was at 147, now I am 152. I guess its since its the third kid. I think my uterus screamed BABY and automatically made room, it doesn't help I am bloated, anyway here is the 5 week photo..enjoy.

I told my boss's and my co-workers today. I was a little worried. They were very happy for me. They said it shouldnt be a problem and for the last month I can cut back hours, or work from home. When I have the baby I can take my 5 weeks and do some work from home. Perfect!

I am so tired. I don't remember being this tired with my other pregnancys. I could barley get out of bed then came home and took a 3 hour nap. Seriously how much sleep do I need? I had a fruit kick today, I wanted nothing but a ripe nice plum...only the store by my work didnt have any....sniff

The Husband

My husband has a ****** up sense of humor. He cannot be serious...EVER! Good luck ever tying to get anything serious from him. I have a feeling it is going to be a long long pregnancy. I feel bad for him. My mood swings at 5 weeks are already from hell. It doesn't help when he just smiles back at me. Eventually he does get me to laugh.
I feel bad for him. He will probably pack up in run shortly when he realizes that my sense of humor is clouded by raging hormones. In fact..I am starting to think I have lost all sense of humor.
I made Banana Pudding tonight. I spent a while with my ocd layering the wafers and banana and pudding and cream. The kids and I had some, he said he would have some later. Then next thing I know he walks in with my pretty banana pudding like hes going to eat it out of the bowl..Hellll Nawwwwww. I flipped out on him, I even yelled at him, he knew it would irritate me so he was trying to joke around, only I flipped out because he was about to dig in and destroy my beautiful dessert dish.The worst part was is in my head I was like its no big deal, its just pudding, while my mouth was raging...so if anyone knows where his wife went, I am sure he would like to know where, so he can eat his pudding in peace.

First Doc Visit

I called my Reg Doc today. She was booked but I needed to get my confirmation of my pregnancy. Believe me we know its positive! Instead I saw her assistant, they drew blood and sent me on my way. I cant make an appointment with my chosen mid wife for 3 more weeks.
I had planned to have a home birth with this baby, come to find out our insurance will not cover it. So instead I found a group of wonderful midwives who deliver in a very nice brand new birthing center.
My first birth with my daughter who is almost 10 was a nightmare. Military Hospital, and I was stuck in bed and they would not let me get out and move around. It took 2 doctors and 5 residents to deliver one baby. It was horrible.
When I had my son who is now 6 his birth wasn't horrible but it wasn't much of an event. Due to personal things going on in my life (my mother passed away and other reasons) I was on bed rest 4 months. I was in labor constantly. I was given an epidural, induced and went to sleep 6 hours, I then had a baby. It was easy, but it didn't seem like a big event, I dont know maybe that sounds strange?
I want a very non evasive delivery with this baby. I dont want IV's, I dont want a doctor, I want a midwife. I want to labor in a nice jacuzzi tub and be able to move where I like. The birthing center offers the comfort of home birth in a safe place..and my insurance pays!
I am scared to death of a natural delivery, but I figure its something I want to be able to say I did, and of course its better for the baby.

On a downside, my grandmother of 91 years passed away today. How sad, two life events in the matter of two days.....I am heart broken, and I dont think it has hit me and I dont think it will for a while. I will miss her, she was an amazing women.

Interesting...

It has been an interesting past few days. Since Thursday prego symptoms have been coming by full force.
I am tired..and when I say tired I mean that Saturday I headed to a ren faire. I slept the way there, I took a 30 minute nap under a tree, I slept on the way home and later fell asleep on a friends couch.
Smells are not doing so well with me. I find myself wanting to shove dryers sheets in my face since they have a wonderful fresh smell, so much better then what keeps attacking my senses.
I feel like I am starving. My first pregnancy I craved cotton candy and Baskin Robbins Smoothies.
The second pregnancy ended in me eating probably over 100 cheesecake samplers and gallons of potato soup.

This time I am finding it very strange as this is what I am craving.....

Bacon

And do not try to give me "turkey bacon". I want greasy bacon. I could have ate a whole package the other day. This is not a good development since my cholesterol is off the charts. But..ohhhh myyy goodddddd....bacon..drool.



Cabbage

I don't know what it is about a big heaping pile of freshly steamed cabbage..my poor poor husband.



Brussel Sprouts
I have always been a fan, most people hate them, I love them. At this point I could eat them like popcorn.



Morning Sickness is not "morning sickness" for me. Its all day from the time an eye opens until I fall asleep sickness. I used to use preggie pops to help however I find I cant stand the taste. I have found a few expensive alternatives however I found something cheap..that works just as well. They are called Melty Mints.



These are smooth, minty and have some sugar in them. My blood sugar takes a roller coaster ride when I am knocked up. Mint helps with nausea, and these actually work really well. I also plan to head to a health food store this week to pick up some ginger, and raspberry. Which also helped me in the past.

My body temp is high now also or at least I feel like it. I swear at any moment I am going to burst into flame. I am constantly sweating. Jeez only 5 weeks and already being hit so hard..its going to be a fun 8 more months.

Yayyers!!!!

o I have figured out how to cure my infertility. We have been trying for quite a while, this is what made it happen….

I bought this book on Monday….

Getting Pregnant all you need to know

Yesterday I didnt feel great. When I got up this morning at 4:30 am and had to beeline it to the bathroom for tummy troubles. All day I was hot, stick, sweaty, had a killer headache and no appitite. As I was leaving I noted the date on my planner…humm I wondered. I stopped at Wallgreens and bought a pack of two prego sticks. Something I made myself stop doing 3 months ago due to hating the let down.

I got home and had to pee so bad I barley made it. I was in shock as I watched and this appeared….RIGHT AWAY!

I got this…

and then this…

Soooo we are finally with baby. We obviously have a lot of things to figure out. We have told some family, and we have told close friends. I will tell the kids in 2 or 3 weeks. I am so excited, and I also feel like barf.

Etsy here I come!!!

So…I guess thats all it takes is buying a book..who knew. I find it pretty messed up that when i bought the book, I rememeber thinking..”Now watch..I will get prego”.