So, as those of you who read my TMI post will understand, I got paranoid about what would happen if my UTI symptoms came back while I was in Wisconsin. I left a message with my clinic and got a nurse back a couple hours later. I explained how I’d taken the pills on Saturday [...]
Archive for August, 2009
The TMI post
Posted in UTIs, pregnancy, tagged pregnancy, UTIs on August 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I thought I would give fair warning to friends who follow this blog as well as strangers who happen upon it, that I feel like writing about some body parts and functions that you may not want to hear about. I don’t mind either way; this is something you must choose for yourself. So I’ll [...]
12 weeks!
Posted in Budgeting, Frugality, Parenting, personal finance, pregnancy, tagged Budgeting, Frugality, Parenting, personal finance, pregnancy on August 24, 2009 | Comments Off
This was an all-important milestone for me, equal to hearing the heartbeat (if not quite as dramatic and awe-inspiring). The time seemed to drag, especially with feeling tired and slightly sick all the time. Now I feel like the pregnancy will go faster because I won’t be counting every day. I’m still scared about the [...]
11 weeks, 1 day: waking up a little
Posted in pregnancy, tagged pregnancy on August 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Just six days till we hit that magical 12-week mark where the chance of scary bad things happening drops off dramatically. We’re so close, figlet, just hang in there! (Yes, that’s its nickname. AS started calling it that and it stuck.) By this time the baby is developing genitals and eyelids (even if they are fused shut) [...]
10 weeks, 3 days, and a really awesome heartbeat!!
Posted in Polyfidelity, polyamory, pregnancy, tagged polyamory, Polyfidelity, pregnancy on August 13, 2009 | Comments Off
Today was when we went in to discuss genetic testing options. After listening to all the possibilities, we stuck with what we’d tentatively decided on–to get the standard tetrawhoozits test (it goes by about 4 different names, so I couldn’t get one to stick in my memory) when we go for the ultrasound. If we [...]
A baby with a tiny footprint
Posted in Budgeting, Environmentalism, Frugality, Green, Parenting, personal finance, pregnancy, tagged Budgeting, Environmentalism, Frugality, Green, Parenting, personal finance, pregnancy on August 12, 2009 | Comments Off
We’re realizing more and more that it’s an important goal for us. We’d already resolved, for frugality reasons, to borrow as much stuff, take as many handouts and buy as many things used as we could. But then NT heard that one of his friends had a nothing-new baby shower, and that sounded really right to us. It [...]
Week 10: We have a fetus! and other random notes
Posted in Frugality, Parenting, Polyfidelity, polyamory, pregnancy, tagged Frugality, Parenting, polyamory, Polyfidelity, pregnancy on August 10, 2009 | Comments Off
We’ve been taking side photos of my belly every Friday, but if you look week to week there doesn’t seem to be much difference. Though when I look down at myself the bump seems obvious. Well, I just thought to look at the first pic (taken at about 5 or 6 weeks) to the one [...]
Egregious error on last blog post re: parental leave
Posted in Budgeting, Parenting, pregnancy on August 3, 2009 | Comments Off
In my last post, I whined that U.S. parental leave is terrible compared to Western nations; I was basing this on my scant knowledge of the leave policies of England and other parts of Western Europe including Scandinavian countries. I regret this deplorable error of omission.
Had I done my research, I wouldn’t have so unjustly excluded the [...]
The real Week 9 (warning, it sucks)
Posted in Budgeting, Parenting, Polyfidelity, personal finance, pregnancy, tagged Budgeting, Parenting, personal finance, Polyfidelity, pregnancy on August 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So I should now be in my ninth week, which I thought I was in last week, so I don’t have any more interesting baby trivia to add.
Today I’ve been feeling nauseous off and on for about four hours. This really is one of the first times I’ve had feel-like-I’m-going-to-vomit type nausea; smells and things [...]
