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Need to feel like a winner?

20 Nov

I have been desperately searching for inexpensive baby leg warmers for my 2 year old.  These are very popular with those “trendy” moms out there and several people recommended I get a couple of pairs to help with the potty training.  Once I got the concept, it made total sense.  It’s too cold in our house for him to walk around pantsless so he needs some sort of covering, but it’s so much easier if he doesn’t have pants on to teach him to potty.  See the dilemma?

So these little leg warmers cover him up, but keep the pertinent potty parts much more accessible.  But it’s hard to find them for boys at a reasonable price.  I’m sorry, I can’t afford to pay $10+ a pair right now!  Then someone directed me to babySNAZZ where I found some on sale and got a couple of pairs at a *very* good price.  And then I saw that they are also running a contest to award 20 pairs of these things!  I could get more for him to wear while he potty learns, as well as some for Violet to keep her warm in what I fear will be a very rough winter and later protect herr little legs while she learns to crawl.  Serriously, these things are very cool.

So I entered the contest and want to share the link here.  Not only because it’s a good contest, but because I also get bonus entries for posting it.  So if you win after finding it here, I’d love a couple of pairs for my little ones. ;)

http://www.babysnazz.com/contest/

 
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Pregnant? Or just fat?

20 Nov

This pregnancy has been so unlike my others.  So I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that I *look* different, too.  I am one of those weird women who revels in the roundness of my body while pregnant.  Since I’m pretty round anyway, I feel like it’s the only time I look the way I should.  I once had a “friend” tell me I am the only person she knows who looks skinnier when she’s pregnant.  I’m sure there was a veiled dig in there somewhere, but it’s really true.  My PCOS kind of goes into remission and I don’t gain much weight.  The weight I do gain is all in my belly and my body shape really shifts significantly to move a lot of my excess there as well.  My skin clears up.  My hair gets thick and grows a lot faster.  If I’m honest, I’d say that typically my self-esteem improves a lot while pregnant.  (Don’t hate me!)

But not this time.  While my weight gain has stayed low, I think I still have that questionable “Is she pregnant?  Or just fat?” kind of look.  My skin is really gross and nothing seems to help clear it up or cover it up.  My hair fell out in huge clumps for the first several months so it thinned quite a bit and it’s not growing like it normally does.  It has really been a rough time for me in the self-esteem department this time around and I don’t like it one bit.

Normally by this point in my pregnancy, I’m getting shocked looks and “I don’t think you’ll make it that far!” comments when asked when I’m due.  I made a comment to someone the other day about having a baby in January and she looked surprised and told me she couldn’t even tell I was pregnant.  Not really the reaction I want to hear when I’m feeling a bit like a beached whale when I lay in bed and try to watch the TV over my belly.

This is all a new experience for me and I don’t like it.  At all.

Editing to add that the current ads are cracking me up…I’m sure they’re telling me how to get a flat stomach because of this post, but ironically, this is the only time I don’t want one!

 
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It’s only Wednesday?

19 Nov

I have had a very long week.  Sick child (thought it was pneumonia again, but looks to be just a virus) and lots of other things have kept me busy.  And so it feels like Friday to me…but we still have 2 days to go!  And it’s freaking cold outside…seriously, I live in the south because I don’t like the cold.  Why does it suddenly feel like February when it’s still November???  I nearly started crying when I stepped outside this afternoon and I could smell snow in the air.  (Yes, I’m one of those people who claims she can “smell” snow.)

I did have a wonderful night on Monday, though.  I met a group of friends at the Carolina Brewery in Pittsboro.  I thought it was just a regular girl’s night out, but they bought me dinner, gave me presents, and a HUGE bag of hand me down clothes for baby Violet.  It was a great night and I feel so lucky to have such great friends!

 
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Posted in Health, Me Stuff, Pregnancy

 

I am supposed to be at school.

17 Nov

Every Monday morning, I volunteer 2 hours to help in my son’s kindergarten classroom.  It’s hard to wake up, but I’m always so glad when I get there.  I love watching how they learn things so I can bring it home and help him with his schoolwork.  And it’s a great opportunity for me to see how the teacher interacts with the students and how he behaves at school.

This morning, I got up just like every Monday morning and started getting ready.  And then it hit me…the morning sickness that has mostly been held at bay for weeks now came back full force.  I’ve had nausea in the mornings, but nothing like this.  Needless to say, I crawled back into bed and sent my husband in my place.  I envy the women who don’t spend the entire 9 months fighting their gag reflex or severe nausea.  I’ve never been sick enough to be diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum, but it’s still pretty miserable.  I think this is one of my biggest reasons for not wanting to be pregnant again!

The worst part?  I pulled a muscle in my shoulder while I was throwing up and now it really, really hurts!  Time for the heating pad…

 
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I am SO glad we ordered that book.

15 Nov

We ran to Durham tonight to get some plastic pants and underwear for my toddler.  He’s worn underwear all day!  There have been some accidents, but I’m hoping that’s because we had kind of a hectic day.  Hopefully the new undies and plastic pants will help his awareness.

On the way home, my oldest son piped up with that question I’ve been dreading.  “How do babies get in mommies’ tummies.”  Oh, crap.  I have to admit I laughed.  Luckily he could not see or hear my immature reaction.  I knew it would come some day…after all, that big question mark has been staring him in the face for months now!  When I was pregnant with my second son, my oldest was only 3 and we had used fertility treatments to get pregnant so the answer was easy.  I just told him the doctor helped put the baby there.  Since he always asked specifically about me, I felt like it was the best way to sidestep a potentially difficult conversation.  He had been dragged to Charlotte for all of the appointments and knew mommy was seeing a doctor so he accepted it.  At 3, it seemed good enough.

But at 6, he is old enough to have some of the basic details.  So I explained the sperm+egg=embryo concept.  Explained how it took 9 months for an embryo to grow in a mommy’s uterus and become a baby ready to be born.  When he asked where the uterus was, I fielded that question with ease.  I was able to explain how the baby came out…how most mommies are able to push the baby out of their vagina (Which he asked the location of and when I explained, he asked if it was near the buttcrack.  That set off another round of immature giggles.) but that I had to have a hole cut in my tummy and uterus and have the baby born that way.  I thought I did a pretty good job of explaining the pertinent details.

And then he asked how the sperm got to the egg.  Oh, shoot.  (Except that’s not really the word I was thinking when that question popped out of his mouth!)  There were questions about invisible tubes (um, no) and other strangeness and I knew that this had to be addressed soon so he didn’t get the wrong idea.  Luckily I’d purchased a book this past summer that explains it all in a way that a kid can understand.  It leaves out the morality issues, which is something we prefer to address ourselves, but explains the mechanics and basics of sex and procreation.  His daddy got the job of reading that tonight and I’m just waiting to hear how it went.

I was SO not prepared for this.

 
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