Bye, Burley ;(
We had our Burley tandem stolen right off the bike rack in our garage yesterday, on freakin’ thanksgiving of all days! And we loved that bike! Loved it! It was such a great bike. Granted, we weren’t going to be riding it this year, the new baby would be much too young for the trailer, but still…so many years ahead.
Ugh it just creeps me out someone stole it. Shocking. ON Thanksgiving! Nice.
They stole it!
Feeling a smidge better
Nights are still bad. Evenings, I should say. But the daytime is improving, along with my appetite. Which is good. I’m on the thin side still. I’m almost 10 weeks now (or rather, starting my 10th week this week) so I would expect the morning sickness to begin to abate. It was pretty much gone by 11.5 weeks last time.
I’m thinking about Christmas, what to get everyone this year. I don’t want to spend a lot, so a list and budget is going to be essential. And I am doing a church gift and a toys for tots at our HOPING meeting gift for charity. It’s really about giving back to others who are less fortunate. I’m so lucky. We have food, we’ve paid our bills, we are doing OK.
I hoped to sew, but alas, I’m not in any kind of shape to attempt that big sew-a-thon for the holidays now. I’d settle for finishing the training pants, and sewing a couple maternity outfits. I have in my mind three basic things:
Jeans, a skirt and a couple of cute tops for winter and early spring. Maybe a jacket or dress.
A transition set – dress, skirt, pants, top and loose cardigan in knits that can go from May and June’s big-belly to July and August’s post-partum belly.
And nursing pajamas. Mainly for summer, in light cottons and seersucker to start with. Something pretty and light.
And in between all of this, sewing for my little girl!
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the news is either grimmer than I thought, or our other partner is not looking at the same numbers I look at. If they’re the same, then it’s grim, and we’d better start looking at plan C.
The challenge is right now is that I’m actually FIRED UP about our new marketing program. And I love what we’re doing for small entrepreneurs. And I believe! But there’s a lot of negativity around me, lots of “it was good in the old days”. The old days were harder, with more deadlines and their own problems.
So, let me put this out there, universe, I want a successful thriving business and I am willing to do the work to get there.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming (’etters, by my toddler).
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this morning sickness is ucky. But I did manage to have pasta salad (with beans in it for protein). Online, they suggest cold foods, or broth or simple soup or baked potato. That’s been working for me so far, and the pasta salad was a big surprise.
Otherwise, every two hours I have to eat something or it gets worse. I’ve had some ovarian pain – not uterine – but my ovaries. It could be some sort of ligament, or even the corpus luteum cyst that is left over from ovulation. So I sit when that happens. It goes away.
This has been much harder than last time. And I wonder if I was foolish to want this again. I’m 40! But no, I do, and I’m confident things are still going along well. I do believe.
But geez, now I feel heartburn, really? Sigh. Oh well, I guess I forgot how hard this was (it’ll be like when labor starts – oh yeah, I forgot how this went too).
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Actually despite the huge suck in of breath as I pinched an inch of belly fat, and a grimace to go with it, it went in surprisingly easy. (one eye squints downward to see if indeed, the needle is in). And then the plunge, which also used to hurt like a sonofab#@ch, that, too, was not painful.
And I found out today that ginger, as in ginger tea, is fantastic as an anticoagulant, which is great, because this 24×7 morning sickness has GOT to go. I’m functioning about half a person right now.
And my other halves are out and I should take a shower alone, but you know, I cannot stand up that long, isn’t that sad? I’m just so tired. But I suppose I have to do it. I won’t get much alone time. I’ve asked hubby to help, and he’s not been too good, but tonight he took them both for a walk and mercifully, it’s quiet in the house. With no naptime or bedtime any more for me to have mama time, I have to take it where I can get it.
But being back to the shots wasn’t too welcome. It’s not too bad either, kind of like much of this (the drive to chicago, etc.) I do not remember it fondly, but I do remember it was necessary.
And a tiny part of me says “what the hell was I thinking??” But only the small part.
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Hold onto your hats. My NKs are….
Normal! Holy cow! Normal!
Now, my APAs are borderline, and she prescribed heparin (at my request, she said the only diff between lovenox and heparin was hep was 1/4 the cost and it was a 2x / day injection.) That and they hurt like a mo-fo, way more than the lovenox injections. But I digress. What’s another needle amongst friends? The nurse said “below belly button, above pubic bone” and friends, that does not leave much room, especially in a hard pregnant belly to come. I don’t relish this, but it must be done.
And we discussed the aspirin issue. I said I couldn’t while nursing, and she said while borderline the heparin should be fine, but if it goes up “you will have to make a value judgement”. I’ll wean. But oh boy, that is going to break BOTH our hearts. So I’m off to take copious amounts of fenugreek which I did NOT disclose, but I do know, though there are no clinical studies on that side of it’s efficacy, that it IS an anticoagulant. We’ll see how the appt in two weeks fares. fenugreek is a uterine stimulant. scratch that. See next post about ginger.
And then, that’s it. My OB would take over from there. Can you believe it? A pregnancy without (too much) fanfare! Universe, I don’t want to wean my baby. There, it’s out there. Now, I have to find some of those prego pop things, because this 24×7 nausea is hard work.
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I haven’t posted anything on my (public) sewing blog. This one’s more or less unlinked and so I consider it the more unconnected site. But the plans I had for this fall and winter are changing. I will still work on the handbag patterns for sale. And I will still sew some, but probably not all, of the things I had imagined for Christmas gifts. I will have to buy some, but will try to favor artisans and crafters this year if I can. I’m just simply too tired now to do anything much. And yes, I will sew maternity wear. That’s the biggest change. More maternity and nursing. I’ll probably need a maternity swimsuit (I do have alteration instructions for the Elizabeth Lee tank suit for maternity) for the indoor pool. That’s likely to be the only ‘winter vacation’ we’re gonna get – both monetarily and risk-wise.
But plans change. And things I didn’t think I’d get to do, I’m considering. About a month ago I reorganized all my patterns back into notebooks, to go down in our bookshelves downstairs. And as I did so, I had a maternity, nursing and kids’ patterns book, and looked wisftully at them thinking… maybe.
Today I dug out my wool jersey pants (with the velvet designs down each pantleg) and brought those. I thought, for the drive home in the car, these would be comfortable and warm. They’re also roomy and my belly is already feeling sensitive to constriction in my jeans. I can still button them, but it’s getting more bothersome.
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