Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Cravings

I think I've done pretty well with the pregnancy cravings so far, but there have been two distinct instances that required special attention. G got off pretty easy on the first one, thanks to Dave being in town and staying with us. I was reading a novel around 10:30 p.m. on a Saturday night, and it mentioned Fruit Loops. All of the sudden I HAD to have Fruit Loops. But I was too embarrassed to make G quit his XBox game with Dave and go get them, so I just toughed it out. A couple of days later the craving was still there, though, so he ran to the grocery store for me.

The next was night before last. We were watching Weeds and they mentioned mini donuts. I am apparently very susceptible to the mere mention of sugary snacks. Garett says we can't watch Weeds any more, because all they do is mention munchies. Despite that, he ran to the corner store and got me powdered sugar donuts. Nom nom nom. If the old wives' tale is true, Baby T is a girl... :)

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Hot Flashes

So, my new fun thing is crazy hot flashes. I get them pretty much every morning around 9:30. Seriously feel like I am sweltering at my desk. I dug out a little hand held fan this morning, but that makes it hard to type... G's bringing me a desk top fan tonight. Hooray!

Tummy's certainly growing, but at least I haven't reached this state just yet (for clarification, nor do I have plans to). Scary.

84 days to go.

Monday, February 9, 2009

3 lbs.

28 week visit was easiest yet - they didn't even draw blood! Blood pressure is good, weight is good. Baby T's heartbeat is strong and about 145 BPM. Doc estimated baby is about 3 lbs. Go back in four weeks for the next visit and to get another sono just to make sure everything is on track. After that, increases to visits every two weeks. Glad I get a bundle deal and don't have to pay a co-pay on every visit!

87 days to go.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Woot!

When G and I went to register at Babies 'R Us, it was quite the ordeal. We were both very much out of our element, and spent an inordinate amount of time in the stroller/car seat section. We knew we wanted to be able to have bases in both vehicles, with the ability to move the car seat from one to the other. I'd heard 'don't waste your money on an infant car seat', but all the convertible seats didn't have the option to transfer between bases. And we wanted a stroller we could just drop the base in to, but didn't want a huge travel system.

Eventually, we threw up our hands in despair, picked an infant seat/stroller combo that was on clearance, and went ahead and registered for a convertible seat for the next stage. Of course, G picked the RECARO model, one of the most expensive offered. But - they make race car seats!! So they must be good!! I was totally out on it, didn't really care as long as Baby T was strapped in safely. But. Geeze. Nearly $300 for a car seat. Man.

Then, at midnight last night, the most awesomest thing happened. Woot.com had our car seat - at 1/3 the price!! G was prescient enough to wake me for the OK, and got us a super bargain. Woo hoo!



Ain't it fancy? (Ours will have cobalt accents rather than blush...)

92 days to go. Depending on which site you read, I'm either officially third tri or will be next week. And today, for the first time, I'm actually really uncomfortable. :(