8 Week Letter

Dear Harpie Jr,

Happy nine weeks, my sweet little olive!  You are officially a fetus, swimming in the ute with the new facial features Momma made you this week.  Daddy’s straight nose, perchance?  Let’s hope so, considering one of your parents has had reconstructive surgery on that particular body part.  errrmmm…right.  It hit Momma this week that we have made it to nine weeks!  Nine weeks with only one small, tiny bit of spotting that was barely noticeable versus two major spotting occurrences back in the fall with your sibling.  The past weeks have flown by, & I only pray your life won’t speed by me this quickly for the next 20 years.  I want to savor every second with you.
Days like today make me yearn for you to be here & healthy already.  With the steady rain outside, the warm house inside, it made me wish that you were snuggled between me & Daddy while we lazed in bed this morning & chatted.  Today was the perfect day to stay inside with my little family, playing on the floor with you or rocking you in the nursery.  Sometimes I close my eyes & just dream of kissing your chubby cheeks, or walking into the nursery to your tear-stained face & lifting you out of the crib.
I know that my dreams aren’t always realistic, & life may not always be perfect…except you, HJ.  You will be perfect & you will make our lives perfect.
I love you.
Love,
Momma
p.s.  hope you liked the cold stone cuppycakes, baby!  those were just for you icon wink 8 Week Letter
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First Act of Pregnant Psychosis

regarding food. And ice cream.

I totally just called my local Cold Stone to ask if they have these in store:

 First Act of Pregnant Psychosisand they totally do. I’m buying some.

Oh, and after another near-fainting experience while I was innocently sitting at my desk, I had my blood pressure taken (110/70 so it’s fine) and called the advice nurse. Who suggested that I start downing between 60-90 oz water per day on top of milk & juices, plus eat 6 small meals of protein. That is just zero fun. ::blair nom noms on a peanut butter cracker::

Hit the deck!

So…I almost fainted in Target. Wandering around, staring aimlessly at baby clothes and I just felt…weak. & wobbly. Like I was completely going to hit the floor in 2.5 seconds. Things got fuzzy, so I scurried out the door & ripped into my granola bars.

After discussing it with friends, I don’t think it was a blood sugar issue. I haven’t puked today & I’ve eaten pretty steadily. Kept water down. Which leaves blood pressure as the likely culprit. This is unfortunate, because in conjunction with increased blood volume & flow in pregnancy, I’ve had low blood pressure problems in the past.

& I would prefer to not have them again.

Cool things. Literally.

This kid is making me sick. Ridiculously, horribly sick.   I have puked more with this baby in 8 weeks than I did in an entire 11 weeks with Harpie.  Thankfully, I have an “in” on the Zofran black market.

Which is why I don’t blog much.  Because I am too busy dry-heaving over my trash can during the day, & lying on my couch at night begging Nate for a glass of milk….or a knife to stab myself with.   But if I were to blog religiously, it would be about vomit.  & how I spent the majority of Sunday in bed, dry heaving for endless hours on my 400 thread-count sheets.  And how I keep puking up 1/3 of dinner on a nightly basis, even though cupcakes go down & stay down with ease.

Cold things are also very, very tasty.  Milkshakes.  Cold milk.  Very cold deli meat.  Cold fruit.  Cold cereal with very cold milk.  Cold pasta salad.  Chilled potato salad.  Pimento cheese, always served very cold.  Crisp, cold lettuce with Ranch dressing that’s just above freezing temperature.
These are a few of my favorite things.

Bird rattles

From BlaBla. ::squeeeaaaaaa:: This is so precious that I could not help myself. Check out the dolls, which are also over-the-moon-to-die-for.
 Bird rattles

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