Since they fell pregnant some nine over months ago, people around decided it was their right to weigh in on how she should manage her pregnancy, her delivery, her confinement and how they’d raise their child. “Get a maid.” “Do it yourself.” “Move into a bigger house.” “Move back with parents.” “Eat this, drink that.” [...]
Archive for the ‘Pregnancy issues’ Category
Pregnancy issue: Everyone has something to say
Posted in 3rd Trimester, pregnancy, Pregnancy issues, pregnancy lessons, stuff for baby, tagged baby, baby whisperer, gina ford, on demand, pregnancy, pregnant, raising baby on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
pregnancy issues: when things around fall apart
Posted in 3rd Trimester, About Life, emo-ments, just me, pregnancy, Pregnancy issues, pregnancy lessons, socks & blessings on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This girl likes to think that she’s got some capacity for empathy, for feeling for other people and for being able to feel at least some modicum of an emotional impact for the people about her. Death, birth, success, failure… they should all mean something even if one is simply standing at the sidelines watching [...]
pregnancy week 33: weight for me!
Posted in 3rd Trimester, pregnancy, Pregnancy issues, pregnancy weekly, tagged pregnancy, pregnancy weight, pregnant, third trimester on February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This girl has been having weighty concerns this past month or so; think the sheer number of people telling her how compact/tiny/neat she is has finally gotten to her. Anyway, they visited the OBGYN yesterday and this girl is pleased that the doctor allayed her weight issues: Firstly, baby is at a great weight/size. At [...]
pregnancy week 31: weight concerns
Posted in 3rd Trimester, friends, just me, people she loves, pregnancy, Pregnancy issues, pregnancy weekly, socks & blessings, the boy, tagged fetal growth chart, fetal weigh, maternal weight, pregnancy, pregnancy weight on February 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes this girl finds it hard to believe that the weeks have just flown by and its February already. Where did January go?! With their initiation into the last trimester, this girl now sees her OBGYN more frequently and as a result, they get to see baby more often too. Which is always nice; if [...]
Pregnancy issues: Day 4 of monitoring
Posted in 3rd Trimester, gestational diabetes, kitchen adventures, Life in the Town House, pregnancy, Pregnancy issues, tagged 3rd trimester, diet, food, gestational diabetes, meal planning, pregnancy, pregnancy diet on January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
About two weeks back her OBGYN found out that This Girl was glucose tolerant and she was sent home to monitor her blood levels twice weekly for two weeks. As blogged before, Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3 passed with little fanfare, if with a lil confusion over her generally low glucose levels. Today was the [...]
pregnancy issues: Day 3 of monitoring
Posted in 3rd Trimester, gestational diabetes, kitchen adventures, Life in the Town House, pregnancy, Pregnancy issues, tagged diabetes, diet, food, gestational diabetes, pregnancy, pregnancy food on January 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This girl has been told to monitor her glucose level twice weekly these two weeks. The first two days passed with little incident. Day 1 was a little confusing with her levels generally being way lower than the normal boundaries. She didn’t know if it meant she was eating badly or needed more sugar in [...]
pregnancy issues: Day 2 of monitoring
Posted in 3rd Trimester, gestational diabetes, kitchen adventures, Life in the Town House, pregnancy, Pregnancy issues, tagged 3rd trimester, diet, food, gestational diabetes, pregnancy on January 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
For the first time in This Girl’s life she’s eating three square healthy meals. No real choice seeing how she’s got to find a system, no less to monitor and manage her gestational diabetes. All through the pregnancy she’s been eating, sometimes more often than others, relatively healthy and more regular than her non-pregnant days. [...]
pregnancy week 27: where does genuine emotions begin?
Posted in 2nd Trimester, emo-ments, pregnancy, Pregnancy issues, pregnancy weekly, tagged emotions, pregnancy, pregnancy emotions, third trimester on January 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
As pregnant women go, This Girl likes to think she’s not particularly been wrecked by raging hormones that that cause her emotions to go on roller-coaster mode. She’s kept up with some of her other pregnant friends, their husbands and other by-standers to have they return with tales of weepiness at something as small as [...]
Pregnancy week 26: Insomnia
Posted in 2nd Trimester, just me, Life in the Town House, life learnings, new things, pregnancy, Pregnancy issues, pregnancy weekly, tagged 2nd trimester, insomnia, pregnancy, pregnancy insomnia on December 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The good news: This Girl is feeling less like a beach whale this week. No, its not that she’s any slimmer (Ha! As though that were possible) but it comes to reckon that she’s learning to carry the extra weight a little better. She’s not put on much elsewhere, like her limbs and such, and [...]
gratefully yours
Posted in emo-ments, friends, GOoD things, life learnings, pregnancy, Pregnancy issues on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An old classmate had one of the most harrowing- and traumatic- pregnancies. Her little girl had organs in the wrong places, liver and lungs had not progressed as per normal and she knew, even in the months and weeks leading up to the birth, she, her little girl, her husband and friends and family were [...]
learning to leave pregnant women alone
Posted in pregnancy, Pregnancy issues, pregnancy lessons, tagged annoyance, pregnancy, stupid people on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
People get incredibly bossy and busy-bodied when dealing with pregnancy women. Everyone else knows better. Everyone has a belief. Everyone has a best way to do things. Everyone has a nugget or two to share that, is, of course, the gospel truth. Everyone wants a say in the baby’s well being, the mother’s well being, [...]
