My Mom Thinks I'm A Hypochondriac

So ever since I've been pregnant, it's been basically one thing after another. First, I was sick all the time to the point where all I could eat was chicken noodle soup or Lean Cuisines. And then I'd get motion sickness in the car. After the first trimester passed those disappeared and I started to have dizzy spells, one WITH my mom and sister right there beside me! A little later after that I had this one really bad night where I could not sleep on my left arm. I cried and cried it hurt so bad. It felt like someone took a piece of metal and crammed it straight down the center of my bone. Aldo tried to rub it out, but that didn't work. I finally took a Tylenol and he warmed up a towel for me and luckily I fell asleep to that. In the morning it was sore, but not as bad as the night before. We ended up mentioning this to his mom and she said it sounded like rheumatism. Explanation: going from cold to hot to cold back and forth too quickly. The bone and muscle get cold, but then the muscle warms up faster and the bone is still cold, thus hurting.

Now, by no means do I think my husband is a medical expert, but this made sense. I was working at a Christmas tree farm at the time in those exact conditions. And, he said that my body is more sensitive because I am pregnant. Also makes sense. Well, I was asking for it when I told mom. She rolled her eyes and asked if I'm really suffering from all of these things or am I just making it up...

Last night the "rheuma" came again. Neck, shoulder, arm, elbow, all the way to the wrist on my left side. My mom must think I'm a wimp. But it seriously hurts!

Til tomorrow,
~*WimpyMama*~

I Love How Things Just Work Out

Didn't get to read my email til right now. And guess what I found?

Nutrition Nibbles:

3 cravings a pregnant woman can love
 

Here's why these three common food cravings aren't so bad — in moderation, of course:

• Ice cream can pack on the calories and saturated fat but it's also a great source of calcium. One half cup of chocolate ice cream has 109 milligrams (mg) of calcium — that's 11 percent of the recommended daily amount. (Lower-calorie ice creams, bars, and frozen yogurts will lower the fat content but still fulfill your sweet craving!)

• Hamburgers can be high in saturated fat but they're also a great source of iron. One large homemade burger contains about 5 mg of iron — that's 16 percent of the recommended daily amount during pregnancy. To keep your fat intake from going over the top, buy lean meat, and skip the mayonnaise and side of fries.
• Pickles are loaded with sodium, but they also contain vitamin C, iron, magnesium, potassium, fiber, vitamin A, and vitamin K. One large dill pickle (3 to 4 inches long) has only 18 calories. (Note: Stay away from the pickle jar if you have chronic high blood pressure or if you're retaining a lot of water. Too much sodium can make your condition worse.)
So I got 2 out of 3.. because I don't and I never will like pickles. There was another article mentioning something or other about that hair line from my belly button to down under appearing soon... and something else about sharp pains around my utie from the stretching. I'm not putting it on here because I'm not looking forward to it. :P

19 Weeks

It's been a busy week and I'm glad things are finally slowing down. We went over to my mom's at some point. And made it official.. as soon as our lease is up at the apartment we're moving in with my mom. In the basement. I swear it's like a dungeon down there and the bathroom is the exact replica as the one on Psycho. But you know, save money.. be with family.. baby gets his/her own room.. sounds good to me.
Hung out with my sister yesterday while Aldo was at work. First all three of us played cards til he had to leave. Learned a new game: Nerds. Somehow I ended up winning quite a few turns... but I am by no means Queen of the Nerds. Then just us girls stuffed our faces with hamburgers and ICECREAM! Mine was called Chocolate Devotion. Yumm. Later, baby went nuts! Then we watched a movie that wasn't worth watching. The Invention of Lying. I would rate it as lame. Because one day there will be a need for a movie critic... and I will be there to take over.

It was really nice hanging out with her. Probably the person I most missed when I moved out. :( Now she texts me. And usually it's about clothes or boys, which is really funny. Lately she's been talking about courtwarming and her "date" to the dance. She liked him for about a week and now she is just plain out annoyed. (teehee... I remember those days.) Everything's going to work out though because mom won't let her go to the dance with a boy anyway and is seriously debating letting her go at all. Moms... <roll eyes>. So last night she asked me if she thought mom would let her go to a friend's house today. (Earlier mom said to influence my sis into helping her clean the house.) I said.. forget about it. As of now, Mom's not letting you go to the dance, even without a date. Tomorrow, first thing I would do is clean your room (Here is where she starts to argue that her room is clean. I hush that nonsense up by asking where the stacks of clothes on her bed are going when she tries to sleep.), then finish the dishes, take out the trash, start some laundry... those are easy jobs. Keep going and don't mention anything to mom until you run out of things to do. And when you do that... say, mom I did this and this.. and is there anything else that you were wanting done? She wasn't too happy with what I said, but turns out it worked. I got a text this morning from mom saying the house looks wonderful and then asked what I said to make her do that.

And today... I've been working all morning and Aldo has the car. So again I will be hanging out with my sister and mom. Hopefully the house is fully cleaned by the time I get there. And hopefully they have some type of edible food. The house wreaks of old meat.

18 Weeks, 5 Days

This morning I woke up worried because my little glow worm hasn't moved too much in the last two days. Maybe if I eat some chocolate that should spike some energy...
I really didn't do much today. Aldo kept reading and I hate when he does that because then he ignores me. It's all because of this darn Read Challenge. We're supposed to read as many pages as we can, but only teenage and juvenile books. My goal this year is to read 100 books rather than so-many pages. I'm currently 2nd place with 9,565 pages and we are only into the third week. Tomorrow I have off so guess what I'm going to do?
Last night on the way home.. I don't know what got me started.. but I was trying my best to speak only in Spanish sentences. Hey, I got to learn sometime! And it was past 12 o'clock, midnight.. so you can only imagine how horrible it was. I can only remember a few things. That's what's bad.. I might understand what you're saying and can repeat it for about an hour or two after, but the next day whooosh! completely gone. Yo se is "I know" (which I already knew from highschool), but I learned the tu form. Tu no sabes... "you don't know". Also, I was trying to explain to Aldo that if we didn't get prenatal vitamins last night then he would be depriving his kid. Here's what I got.. Tu quieres por tu bebe que no tienes sus vitaminas? "You want for your baby to not have her/his vitamins?" So the whole point of this story is that today at work some Spanish-speaking CDs came in. I'm going to put them on my ipod so I can learn and impress him! With my luck it'll be the preschool stuff I already know.

P.S. I hope our child is some type of cute like this ↓ That would be my hubby. Aww...

18 Weeks, 3 Days

Anxious to see what this thingy is!!!! Only one week!!!!
Here's my thrilling day: Woke up early could not sleep even though I really wanted to, ate a yummy breakfast of sausage and eggs, went to sign up for WIC but I had to make an appointment instead (at least we know I qualify), went to Aldo's mom's and I just sat there, got our pictures taken, ate some tortas but I was craving peaches so it wasn't as great, just didn't meet my needs.., dropped Aldo off at home (I bet he's been reading this entire time...), went to work and ever since I've been here I've been busy. Since we had off yesterday our drive-thru bins were piled high, and then all of our carts are backed up so I've been stacking all checked-in items into my other rolly bin. Also, all items from other libraries weren't checked in yet, so nobody received their holds today. And then I had to do extra work here and there.
My gosh, being a librarian is tough business. I'm pooped. But that's alright. I think we're having enchiladas tonight!!!

18 Weeks, 1 Day

I love, I Iove.. I love your presence. I love, I love.. I love your presence. I love, I love... I LOVE YOU JESUS!! I love, I love.. I love your presence.
Today was a great day at church. I got kind of sick standing up for so long, but the entire time we were singing I was thinking that there is no way this kid is just floating around... he/she is definitely like flipping in my belly right now! And then I got all excited thinking about when the baby is born and how my kid is going to pray before bed and sing Jesus songs in the shower and want me to read from his/her little beginner Bible every night. It's going to be wonderful.
Oh, and I'm ready for a blessing!!! You know when everything seems to hit you from every end? Right now we don't have much of a car, we have no idea what we're going to do when the baby's born... are we going to move in with my mom? who will babysit? should I switch to full-time?, we have some federal paperwork to take care of.. kind of expensive, there's been some job searching in the fam, etc. etc. There's so much to think about you know? but where does my help come from, it comes from the Lord. Jordan said something really good in church today, "God likes it when we're poor and needy." That's true. Because he can bless us. And today was a message of good things and comfort. So everybody out there be comforted because God wants to give you good things and bless you. Keep your head up!

18 Weeks

I'm anticipating the day I find out if my baby is a boy or a girl. January 28th please hurry up!
I'll tell you how it started... well, the first test I took was negative. Later I told Aldo (my hubs) what I did and asked what would he have done if it were positive. He always gives me the best answers. And I asked what he would name it if it were a girl. The first one he said was PERFECT! The rest were ok, but didn't compare. When we tried to come up with boys names. Zilch. Not even a good idea. Which is one reason I hope this baby is a girl.

After a week I still hadn't started a thing. Took another test and guess what... positive! I surprised Aldo at work. He kept wanting to yell out that he was gonna be a daddy, but I told him not to. So he called up his best friend on the way home. Next week we were at the doctor getting confirmation and everything.
About a week later is when the nausea started. It was soooo bad. I could not eat. I was probably driving him crazy. We would go through each aisle of the grocery store looking for stuff that I may feel like eating at some point and then later, I wouldn't feel like it. Or I'd ask him to make something and after smelling it cook for so long, my stomach just couldn't bear it. I lived for 3 months on Cup of Noodles. I'd also get sick in the car. That's when I realized Why didn't my mom ever say anything about this when warning me about reproducing??? This would've scared me ten times more than.. "You'll never have time to yourself ever again..." etc. That's right. When my kids get older I promise to tell them their going to be woozy and wish they could eat cottage cheese and brussel sprouts for the rest of their lives rather than going through this horror!!! That should freak them out.

Well, no longer feeling that way. People say my tummy popped. Whatever. I think it's just fatty. And I'm guessing that those gas bubbles I feel every once in a while are movements. Not too sure. We'll see as this progresses. A special shout out to all those that had it worse than me. I feel for you. I can take the pain, but the sick feeling is not my thing.

P.S. I deeply want a Fanta. A Diet Coke. And a Frappacino!

18 Weeks - Car Venting

So two days ago I got the car stuck in my mom's driveway. My husband had to basically lift the back end and push it out by himself with me inside. Later that day, my steering wheel wouldn't turn because we found out I was low on power steering fluid. Easy fix right?
Yesterday, I got the car stuck in my mom's driveway again. There's 3 ways to get out from my parking space... 1. Back up past the turn-about and then go forward through the turn-about (however it is entirely ice and it falls on a hill, which is filled with 4-5 inches of snow) 2. Back into the turn-about and go out the way you came (the way we got stuck the first time) 3. Back up past the turn-about to the V-shape, which is a sharper turn but not as bad because it's not covered in snow (the way we got stuck the second time).
We were stuck for one and a half hours. As I was going to get the shovel and some cardboard to put under the tires, I noticed a huge puddle in my parking spot. Power steering leak. The shovel didn't help, the cardboard didn't help. Rocking the car back and forth didn't help. Luckily, a friend of the family was nearby and pulled us out (right back to where we started in my parking spot) with his truck.
Turns out there's a 4th option. Back all the way out. And don't get stuck doing it. Went to the gas station and checked the leak. As we were pooring fluid in, it was going straight through onto the ground. Took it to the mechanic... and it's not a simple hose loose at the top... no, it's something deep into the vehicle.

Point of the story.... we had two wonderful, working cars before Christmas. Afterward, my husband's engine went out. Pointless to get a new one because his is so old so we sold it for it's parts. Now mine is out of commission. We have absolutely no way to get anywhere until mine is fixed. :(
I'm soo frustrated! I just want to take a bat to it and make it work again. Obviously that won't help... but it would sure make me feel better.

17 Weeks, 5 Days

This is my second blog. Hopefully it will last a little longer than the first, which I started yesterday only because it's for a class I'm taking through my work. And... I didn't tell my mom about this one. (She linked hers to my other one.. I'm trying to prevent that.)
Right now I'm just working part-time at the public library where I grew up. It's slower than my last job (clothing sales associate), but I like it. People are nice and like everywhere there's unusual stories. Be prepared. I recently got married to my wonderful, gorgeous, MEXICAN husband :) back in July 2009. And then three months later found out I was pregnant. Wasn't planning on this early, but excited just the same. Due date: June 19, 2010. I want a girl. 


Tell more later, my time's about up (doing this at work shhh..)