(I like beans)
just got my mind map!! yaaaaay 
THANK YOU !!!
Monthly Archive for January, 2006
so, as some of you may have deduced, I got pregnant in september and then had a miscarriage around the end of october;
as it turns out, there must’ve been more than one fetus inside of me, because while I assumed I was no longer pregnant, a secret baby remained.
I still hadn’t had a period by january, and I began speculating about the possibility of twins. it seemed rather far-fetched, but hey, stranger things have happened.
given that I was barfing and couldn’t keep my food down, alongside the fact that I continue to have difficulty keeping my bladder from filling up so fast, I figured there was no harm in seeing if a pregnancy test showed me as pregnant.
lo and behold, the test results were -identical- to the ones we’d gotten -before- the miscarriage. the vertical line was very dark, and the horizontal was light because it didn’t have as many lines in it. nevertheless, it showed me as pregnant. I booked an appointment at the doctor’s for the next day, and they had the same result: I was pregnant. so they managed to sneak me in for a visit -today- (friday, the test was on tuesday) and I got all the basic womanly stuff taken care of (the squeamish stuff that women endure every year) before the doctor started in on the baby. she was speculating, based on all the facts I’d given her, that the baby was about 10 weeks old. Upon deciding this, she started doing the physical that centers on the baby. she felt my belly/uterus area, and said, outloud, “there is no way this baby is 10 weeks old”
so out comes this little device that looked like a microphone attached to a walkman (or something), she squirted jelly on my belly, then stuck the microphone thing on my belly. there was a “woosh woosh woosh” sound, and instinctively I -knew- that was the baby’s heartbeat. she said “yea, that’s a heartbeat. this baby can’t possibly be 10 weeks old.”
so I said, since I’d been reading up, “because of the heartbeat, that means the second trimester already, right?” she agreed, and said “it can’t be 18 weeks, it must be 16 weeks, because of its size”
so, based on the size of my belly and my baby’s -heart-beat- !!!! my baby is -not- ten weeks as the doctors thought, but 16 weeks, which sounded more plausible to -me- than to those doctors 
anyway!
little surprises like that are -awesome-
just letting ya’ll know
THE BABY’S HEARTBEAT!! aaah! that was the most awesome awesome thing that I’ve -ever- heard. it was like a “woosh woosh woosh” and then I’d get giggly cause of it and there’d be a weird whirling noise, and then the woosh woosh again that was the heartbeat.
eeeeee =^.^=
*jump jump jump*
happy new year everybody!
hope yours was filled with fun!
our first of january was spent with the power out for the -entire- day. woot 
Jason and I decided today that due to the marital status, all terms regarding “boyfriend”, “girlfriend” and “ex” are obsolete: all former ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends are now called “old friends” XD
the term “ex” when one is married insinuates ex-husband
the amnesia thing is no longer an excuse for me! I’m working hard to keep my brain from forgetting things. I’m doing a lot better physically, too.
I’m able to stand up for longer than ten minutes without getting dizzy, I’m eating every two hours like I’m sposed to, and my buddy Brendan pretty much took over control of my diet. gave me a tour of albertsons (half of which I didn’t pay attention to because damn if I hate albertsons) and pointed out things I should be eating, and things I shouldn’t be eating. haven’t eaten anything with “lays” or “doritos” written on it, and I feel -great- (everybody should try that. it seriously works )
eating veggies more, which I love. cheese of course, but not very much.
my caffeine problem was sorta balanced out by coke-zero, which doesn’ t have sugar. Unfortunately it was causing severe pain in my side/kidney area. By severe pain, I mean excrutiating. Jason asked “what kind of pain is it?” and I gave him an example by rapid-fire punching his side, then alternating to scratching at it. it seriously felt like I had a whole nest of -some- strange alien hatching in my side it got better after work on wednesday, and I didn’t drink any sodas until later that evening, when my caffeine headache set in. Thursday night and friday morning I was in pain again, but in my side this time. A choice between headache and side-pain, I think I’m gonna pick headache at least I know the headache will eventually disappear, after denying the caffeine gland in my body for long enough.
also been drinking lots and lots of cranberry juice. for kyle, his juice is alcohol. for me, my juice is cranberry juice. always resets my .ini, so to speak
anyway!
HAPPY NEW YEARS!
may everyone be safe and healthy this year. don’t get blown away in the winds, anybody, and try to stay warm and dry =^.^=
