This post will document the pregnancy happenings I've been having that will hopefully be helpful in the future.
Due date: 1/9/2019
First Trimester (during roughly the first 15 weeks)
Aversion to most smells and food. The only thing I can stand to smell (and it actually smells good) is the bread baking at Subway's. I can also tolerate their sweet onion chicken teriyaki sub on white bread so we eat there when I can stand to. My taste changes daily and hourly so we have to determine what is for dinner at the end of the day when I'm about to pick Ben up from work. If I don't feel like eating anything, I can get by on anything tasteless like bread, milk, plain spaghetti and mashed potatoes. I can also stand to eat anything I ate as a kid like Mac and Cheese and PBJ sandwiches. Egg McMuffins are also a godsend.
I have trouble with my energy as well during my first trimester. I work a full day, pick Ben up, eat dinner on the way home and crash on the couch as soon as I walk in the door. Ben's cooking has been put on hold while I can't stand to tolerate any smells (unless I live at Subway's. They need their own bread-baking candle). He bought me a face mask to wear (picture a gas mask) but it doesn't work very well because I can then smell the mask and my face. Not pleasant.
Second Trimester (about the next 11 weeks)
I am starting to eat regularly again. Food still does not sound appetizing though, but I can eat most anything and my super sniffer has died down enough where normal smells don't bother me. Animal smells still bother me a lot though. I'm starting to feel baby move more and we found out we're having a girl :) Ben doesn't like touching my stomach.
**TMI WARNING. SKIP THIS NEXT PARAGRAPH. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED**
My sex drive has sky rocketed. So has my mood swings. I was put on antidepressants that I take only when needed because Ben doesn't seem to want to have sex ever. The few times we had it were ok but each time hurt more than the last. So life sucks right now because I'm not active.
Third Trimester (weeks 27 and on)
I am starting to get tired again, mostly from lack of sleep. I wake up every 2 hours to use the bathroom and switch positions. I can't lay on my back because it will close off an important artery to the heart so I have to sleep sitting up or on one of my sides—mostly my left. I can't spoon Ben anymore so he has to spoon me, which is hard because his torso isn't as long as mine. It's getting harder to breathe, especially after eating. Baby keeps me up most of the night jumping around. I swear she's going to be a gymnast. She loves listening to music, especially video game music by OC Remix. She's always bouncing off the/my walls when music is on next to her.
Ben and I are close to having a name for her. It's not what I wanted but it's pretty so I'll take it. We both like it and that's what's important. I've been having more and more Braxton Hicks contractions lately, especially if I'm sitting up at a 45º angle. Next thing we need to get ready for is a go-bag for the hospital and buying a freezer so we can start making freezer meals for when we're too tired to do anything.
Week 38
We have the go-bag packed, dresser full of baby clothes and thankful hearts for everyone's gifts to get us ready for the baby. I had my OBGYN appointment 12/26 (exactly at 38 weeks), he swept my membranes and confirmed I was 2 cm dilated. 12/28 I lost my mucus plug so everything is in motion! I'm hoping to go into labor in about a week because I don't think I (or baby) can wait until 1/9/19, even though that would be a neat birthday. If she stays in till then though, I will be induced to try to deliver her that day.
Friday, November 9, 2018
Wow
So it's been quite a while. Way too long to try to catch up on everything that's happened, but in a nutshell: Ben and I got married in LA, lived there for about 6 months while I worked as an art director and he worked in security. Moved to SLC valley where I took a job as a Jr. Graphic Designer with more pay than the art director position and Ben still found work in security. After a few years I changed jobs to work as a designer at Mountain America Credit Union and Ben lost his job for a few months and is now head of logistics at Coco Joy where dad is the President of the parent company and Beth is... something along the lines of Vice President of Coco Joy. I've now been working for almost 3 years at MACU and Ben about 2 years at Coco Joy.
This past year Ben and I finally visited China to visit his relatives and take a vacation with his family. While there, his mom prayed to every shrine we passed that we would have kids (more specifically a boy and a girl—twins). She made us pray at the big ones with her and took us to an herbalist that prescribed some weird medicinal tea we were supposed to take twice daily. I took mine about 3 days into it and it didn't bode well with my stomach, so I stopped taking it (especially since we were supposed to carry our own toilet paper and I did not have enough for the ramifications...). Low and behold, when we got home a few weeks later I got my first positive pregnancy test.
I was told to keep a journal of the pregnancy because it will help later. I might write it down later on paper, but before I forget, it's going up here in another post. To be continued...
This past year Ben and I finally visited China to visit his relatives and take a vacation with his family. While there, his mom prayed to every shrine we passed that we would have kids (more specifically a boy and a girl—twins). She made us pray at the big ones with her and took us to an herbalist that prescribed some weird medicinal tea we were supposed to take twice daily. I took mine about 3 days into it and it didn't bode well with my stomach, so I stopped taking it (especially since we were supposed to carry our own toilet paper and I did not have enough for the ramifications...). Low and behold, when we got home a few weeks later I got my first positive pregnancy test.
I was told to keep a journal of the pregnancy because it will help later. I might write it down later on paper, but before I forget, it's going up here in another post. To be continued...
Monday, December 24, 2012
Pre-Wedding Blues
Merry Christmas-eve (and happy birthday Dad)! It's about 2.5 weeks until I get sealed in the Los Angeles temple to Ben. Everything is going to be small and so it's low stress for me right now. Everything is done so now I just have to wait. He moves out here on Jan 10th and we are in the process of looking for apartments in LA. I just graduated and am working full-time at Stansport, but I haven't completed a full week of work yet since it's the Christmas season and weeks are cut in half cuz the business is closed. I won't be able to work a full week until the week of my wedding... and even then that Friday I have to leave early or take the day off because I have to do pre-wedding photography. I'll probably just take the day off because I don't see how I'll be able to get things ready otherwise.
The reception will be sometime in May or June so everyone can come because Beth will be in school til April and plus April (oh yeah, I'm a new aunt! :D) is too young to fly yet and will be 5 months old in May. That's old enough for a baby to fly... right? Then we will probably still have to fly out to New York to have a Chinese reception for Ben's family. That's all I can think of for now. I'll probably update this after the wedding :) Don't pay any attention to the title of this blog-post.
The reception will be sometime in May or June so everyone can come because Beth will be in school til April and plus April (oh yeah, I'm a new aunt! :D) is too young to fly yet and will be 5 months old in May. That's old enough for a baby to fly... right? Then we will probably still have to fly out to New York to have a Chinese reception for Ben's family. That's all I can think of for now. I'll probably update this after the wedding :) Don't pay any attention to the title of this blog-post.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
New News is Better than No News!
So yes, we all know I fail at keeping a journal/blog. What else is new? Well, aside from going to CSUN now, Baboon is married, Jessi got engaged, and SO DID I! :D (Finally!) Though it doesn't seem like it because I still can't plan anything with Ben until he talks to his parents and gets a firm YES YOU ARE READY TO BE MARRIED from the big man upstairs (Which he should have done FIRST before getting my hopes up with the question and ring... but oh well). I'm going to mark *'s next to things that I USUALLY don't overlook and can figure out that it's out of place. So on to what happened:
About a month or 2 before, Jessi had brought up that she wanted to go to do baptisms for the dead with me before school started or at least got too much into it. Usually I would find some excuse to say no, *but I had a prompting that I should go, so we set a date for Friday February 17th. Before all of this, I should add that I told Ben that I wanted it to be a complete surprise to me when he asks, because it's REALLY hard to surprise me. But somehow, Ben is good at it. So anyway, February 17th rolled around. Jessi said she had called and set up an appointment at *2 to go with a large group. I didn't think it was suspicious at all that a large group would go in the middle of the day on a schoolday/workday. I told Jessi to be at my house around 9am so we could do wedding stuff before we had to leave and get ready. I also wanted to call the temple to make sure we didn't need to bring anything with us besides our temple recommends. *Jessi wanted to do it herself but was pausing a lot and didn't call right away so I took the phone and did it myself (She was scared to death that they would say "What? We don't have an appointment for 2pm..." but they just answered my questions and hung up). When I was getting ready I totally didn't put any makeup on because I figured after I was dunked, it would wash all my makeup off anyway. I also didn't put on the most fabulous outfit... I kept getting promptings that I shouldn't just go with "good enough" but I brushed that away -.- (My outfit didn't look BAD but it could have been better if I had known what was coming) I kept thinking to myself This would have been the perfect day to have Ben come down and propose... I'm going to make sure when I get home to tell him that.
So we left and *Jessi was videotaping me some of the ride, which I thought was strange because she said it was about to die, but I went with it. When we got to the temple, I was rushing cuz she said the temple people told her we needed to be there 15 min before the appointment and it was 10 til, *but she said she wanted to film the back of the temple where the bride comes out for her mom. I was huffy and started for the front door, but Jessi started going off the side way anyway so I followed her, miffed that we were going to be late. We got to the end of the walkway and saw someone was having a wedding when *I heard someone running towards us at full speed. I thought to myself someone is late for that wedding and they're going to crash into me. Great. I didn't turn around cuz... I don't know why o_O but instead of someone running past us, arms glomped me from behind. After that my eyes got really big cuz I knew this had all been setup LOL Ben had come from the airport with his cousin Stella by taxi and had just gotten there right before us. So he took me to the fountain to the side of the temple and proposed, of course I said yes, and Stella and Jessi took us around to take pics of us in front of flowers and the reflecting pool etc...
After the pictures we went to Santa Monica to Yummy Cupcakes, our eyes glazed over by the amount of frosting and sugar we went through, and walked along the beach back to the car. Then we spent 2-3 hours in rush hour traffic or trying to avoid rush hour traffic by taking side streets. That was a bad idea LOL. So now I'm engaged and just waiting until Ben is ready to be engaged...
About a month or 2 before, Jessi had brought up that she wanted to go to do baptisms for the dead with me before school started or at least got too much into it. Usually I would find some excuse to say no, *but I had a prompting that I should go, so we set a date for Friday February 17th. Before all of this, I should add that I told Ben that I wanted it to be a complete surprise to me when he asks, because it's REALLY hard to surprise me. But somehow, Ben is good at it. So anyway, February 17th rolled around. Jessi said she had called and set up an appointment at *2 to go with a large group. I didn't think it was suspicious at all that a large group would go in the middle of the day on a schoolday/workday. I told Jessi to be at my house around 9am so we could do wedding stuff before we had to leave and get ready. I also wanted to call the temple to make sure we didn't need to bring anything with us besides our temple recommends. *Jessi wanted to do it herself but was pausing a lot and didn't call right away so I took the phone and did it myself (She was scared to death that they would say "What? We don't have an appointment for 2pm..." but they just answered my questions and hung up). When I was getting ready I totally didn't put any makeup on because I figured after I was dunked, it would wash all my makeup off anyway. I also didn't put on the most fabulous outfit... I kept getting promptings that I shouldn't just go with "good enough" but I brushed that away -.- (My outfit didn't look BAD but it could have been better if I had known what was coming) I kept thinking to myself This would have been the perfect day to have Ben come down and propose... I'm going to make sure when I get home to tell him that.
So we left and *Jessi was videotaping me some of the ride, which I thought was strange because she said it was about to die, but I went with it. When we got to the temple, I was rushing cuz she said the temple people told her we needed to be there 15 min before the appointment and it was 10 til, *but she said she wanted to film the back of the temple where the bride comes out for her mom. I was huffy and started for the front door, but Jessi started going off the side way anyway so I followed her, miffed that we were going to be late. We got to the end of the walkway and saw someone was having a wedding when *I heard someone running towards us at full speed. I thought to myself someone is late for that wedding and they're going to crash into me. Great. I didn't turn around cuz... I don't know why o_O but instead of someone running past us, arms glomped me from behind. After that my eyes got really big cuz I knew this had all been setup LOL Ben had come from the airport with his cousin Stella by taxi and had just gotten there right before us. So he took me to the fountain to the side of the temple and proposed, of course I said yes, and Stella and Jessi took us around to take pics of us in front of flowers and the reflecting pool etc...
After the pictures we went to Santa Monica to Yummy Cupcakes, our eyes glazed over by the amount of frosting and sugar we went through, and walked along the beach back to the car. Then we spent 2-3 hours in rush hour traffic or trying to avoid rush hour traffic by taking side streets. That was a bad idea LOL. So now I'm engaged and just waiting until Ben is ready to be engaged...
Thursday, August 4, 2011
So...
I phail. School ends and I have no time to post, and now school is about to start again so I post :D I think it's suppose to be the other way around. I don't really have much going on. We got a new owner at the UPS Store. He's cheap but in some ways he's better (...or worse) than our old owners. I'm doing more graphic design work on the side. One I am actually employed in and not freelancing. But she's crazy. So... I'm surviving.
Still not married... or engaged. I get to go to New York in a month over Labor Day weekend. I HOPE BEN PROPOSES but I doubt it. My (It's so weird saying MY instead of OUR now that boon is in Hawaii. I'm learning.) cousin Anne came down for the weekend and brought her friend Monica with her. We went to Santa Monica on Saturday and went boogie boarding (Though it was only 70º and not really warm enough to go in the water... BUT WE TOUGHED IT OUT and went), hung out on the pier, then walked a few blocks to get cupcakes at Yummy Cupcakes.
Mmmm.... Yummy....
That's all I really have going on... Jessi started working at the UPS Store :D But our owner is too cheap to actually have me work with her >3> He always wants a Notary to be on-site and neither of us are Notarys... So we'll see if one or both of us can become one eventually.
Still not married... or engaged. I get to go to New York in a month over Labor Day weekend. I HOPE BEN PROPOSES but I doubt it. My (It's so weird saying MY instead of OUR now that boon is in Hawaii. I'm learning.) cousin Anne came down for the weekend and brought her friend Monica with her. We went to Santa Monica on Saturday and went boogie boarding (Though it was only 70º and not really warm enough to go in the water... BUT WE TOUGHED IT OUT and went), hung out on the pier, then walked a few blocks to get cupcakes at Yummy Cupcakes.
Mmmm.... Yummy....
That's all I really have going on... Jessi started working at the UPS Store :D But our owner is too cheap to actually have me work with her >3> He always wants a Notary to be on-site and neither of us are Notarys... So we'll see if one or both of us can become one eventually.
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Macs
So I only have 12 more days left of school :D Yaaaaaaay. My last speech is due on Tuesday and it's a persuasive speech on why you should buy Macs vs PCs. I could end it in 2 seconds by saying "Macs are better, period" and be done with it, but it needs to be like 10 minutes long so I have to think more >:
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Saturday is a special day...
Weather: Raining :D Well, it was and now it's kinda not >: But it's suppose to rain more tomorrow so yay<3 I'm at work and it's so quiet. I feel like taking a nap, but I still have hw to do and songs to pick out for RS tomorrow... Boon says they got 2 Christmas trees up at home and are making cookies.
I WANT COOKIES (image from google images)
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