My baby likes to dance.

Last night Alex, my mum, and sister all went to Derby Dinner, and watched their show, Hair Spray. As I have never seen either of the two movies I was new to the story. I am not big on musicals, but this was a well done show. The story was nice and music was fun. Even the Bun had fun, she moved so much every time the music got going, I could swear she was reacting to the music. Now I want to watch the movies.

Jason's Deli

I Love This Place! They have free ice cream! And it is really really good.
Okay, let me explain. We had a family get together to celebrate two things. Nora's graduation, she is now Dr. Nora, she has finished her PhD. and we are so very happy for her. (Nora is Alex's older sister)
The other reason is we were doing Mother's day with Alex's family.
Okay, so Jason's Deli is really awsome, it has great food, and seems to be on the healthy side. It has food for Alex, which means I can go there with him. Oh and did I mention the free ice cream?!?

Mother’s Day

My sister and I always make crepes on Mother’s day for our Mum. I always buy her toilet paper (because she never buys the good stuff), and we all just hang out and enjoy our time together. This year is the last of a kind for me. Next year will be a whole new world, and have a whole new meaning.

When I picture it now I can see my coming over with my daughter, putting her in bed with grandma (who is strictly told to stay there till breakfast is made), those two enjoying each others time while my sister and I do our break fast making morning thing. Lots of fruit, setting out the flowers.

Of course now that I have said it, it almost certainly won’t go that way.

I just can’t wait to see my mum with my daughter, it will be a picture worth taking.

Sixth Pre-Natal

This appointment was not a great meeting. I was told today that my iron levels are low and the doctor over seeing the midwives say I should go to the hospital and get an intravenous pumping iron into my system. Now I am sure this would scary most people and a lot of people will call me crazy, but no I did not jump up and freak out like I was dying, or killing my child. No instead I simply asked what my levels were and what the range is. Two weeks before I was fine, now all of a sudden I have to go to the hospital and get an IV. Not cool. I Do not like hospitals, and I do Not like doctors who don’t care about why something is happening to me. I want to know why this happened so fast. I am not just going to do every thing they say with out question. Yes I told you a lot of you won’t like this about me. I have a very paranoid and suspicious personality. I want to be 100% sure this problem can be fixed by extra iron. So I told the CNM I would think about it, talk to my ‘others’, and get back to her.
On the way our I asked for copies of my lad results. Faxed those to my, ‘others’, then took a look at them.

Turns out, my iron is fine, its my hemoglobin numbers that are off. I am under the threshold by .1 point. Hemoglobin is a regulator of iron metabolism, and they are a oxygen-carrying protein. Follow the links, they can explain better. So I am now supposed to be anemic, with out any of the symptoms save one uncommon one, edema.

I see this problem right now as, my system is a bucket, and water is the iron, and there is not enough water in the bucket. Well that could be form a number of reasons, but because my hemoglobin numbers are low, it means there are holes in my bucket; because that’s what hemoglobin does, it’s what helps hold the iron in. So instead of adding more water (which I will do any way with out making another little hole), I want to patch the holes that are not supposed to be there.

Okay, look I know most of this has come out all crazy like, and I just can’t seem to write well. But I am really upset about this whole thing. I feel like I am losing control of my body and I am scared of the domino effect. Don’t get me wrong, I can see this from most of the logical and rational sides, but I am still scared of what could happen if this is not fixed promptly and most of all properly. I am a naturalist, I wish I heal my body in a natural way. So I will change my diet, add more iron. And let you know what else I find.



p.s.

They tried to use scare tactics on me saying if my numbers stayed too low, that after the birth they would have to use pitocin on me to make sure I “don’t bleed a drop”. I get that in regards to low iron levels, but still Not cool. When I asked about breast feeding instead, the CNM just pooh-poohed that thought. How can she call herself a real midwife?

I think my dogs know!

I think my dogs know. I never really thought about it, but I realized the other day that they keep sniffing me in specific areas. Now, we all know dogs are butt sniffers, I don’t get weird about it like some people, (it can be a tad awkward during my moon times), but it’s a dog thing. Well they have been coming up to me and inspecting my growing belly, and now my swollen feet. They will spend quite a bit of time going over my belly, I really think it’s sweet.

It’s like they know someone is in there, and they want to say hello. Or maybe I am just silly and they want to know why I am getting ‘fat’ really fast, like they see it as a sign of bad health (which it would be if I were not pregnant). Or maybe my stretching skin has a different smell than other parts of my body (hence the feet also).

I love my dogs, and this just helps me feel…well, like they love me too.

Party Pooper

There are only six weeks till the baby shower. I am getting nervous, as I am not sure if I can get every thing done and ready in that time. I have delayed on the sending the invitations because I keep thinking if I can not get every thing ready I will not have it. But I know the show must go on. I still have to get a program set up in here to do RSVP, and give directions, and more information. I don’t have a single idea who will even come. I know who I want to invite, but of those people I just don’t know why will show up. Okay I do know some people, like my very good and loyal friends. I still don’t even know how to throw a party, much less a baby shower. Now I see why someone else is supposed to plan this.

If any one has ideas or thoughts, I would greatly appreciate some advice.

Ultra Sound Number 2

I had another ultra sound today. I am happy, and yet disappointed at the same time. I am happy because we know the baby is progressing well, looks healthy and good, every thing is in tact, and most of the spine looks good. (That was why we got another, we couldn’t see the spine the first time). We are told she is at 3lbs 7 oz.
I am disappointed because of three things. One we could not see the very tail of the spine, should be okay but I also wanted to check one more time to be sure it is a girl. Two, she is breech still, not to worried there as she can turn when ever she wants. Three I was told I could have other family members come, but they had to wait till all the measurements were taken, then the sonographer would show off the baby. I think she forgot I had my mum and sister in the waiting room. Oh okay, one more. Four, she did not take any good shots of the babies head or face. She took over 70 of every thing else, but just never saved any good views of the head.

So that was my ultra sound. I am lucky to have gotten another, as I have a healthy baby with no problems to look at. I just hope she will turn before her grand entry.

Lamaza Class

Today is the first day The Fox and I got to our Lamaze class. I do not know what to expect, but it should be fun. Being in a room full of pregnant couples. At least now I feel and look pregnant.