Adding Emails from my Pregnancy

Today I am going to start adding emails that I sent to people while I was pregnant with Colin. I didn't keep a physical diary while I was pregnant and I regret that. I lost a baby October 2003 and I kept a diary with that baby. Once I was pregnant with Colin I was too scared to do anything that I did with the last baby. We called it Baby Bear. I was Momma Bear LOL But maybe with the emails I saved with my pregnancy I can use that as a diary.

Today I sent out for a diet patch. I've lost alot of weight since Colin was born. I'm already weighing less than I did before he was born. But I want to be back down to the 110-120 that I was before Cody. Right now I have 50 pounds to go. Whew! I also sent out for an ebook on how to make money on ebay. It's something I've been doing research on for the last month or two and I'm really considering it. We will see how that goes!

Hump Day

Today is Wednesday already. Can't wait until Friday.

I called my mom last night. She was a mess. She said my brother and his girlfriend were splitting up. They've been together for 6 years and have a little girl. The four of them live together. My brother is a firefighter/paramedic and I think his jobs is too stressful for him. I don't think he should quit, I just think he needs counseling. There's a bunch of changes that they are talking about, but I don't think everything will end up happening. He really needs help. He's been pretty screwy with his girlfriend too. I really don't see him being with anyone else. My $25 says they will work it all out.

I looked online too see how much a plane ticket would be for my mom to fly down. If she does it right, it would be $59 each way. But with her job I don't see her getting time off. But she needs to get away.

I've got SO much done tonight. I've got dishes done, 3 loads of laundry done, my bedroom cleaned, and supper cooked. Colin goes to the doctor tomorrow. His rash has gotten worse and he's got mucous in his stools. They want to check it to see if he's passing a little blood too.

Well, it's off to bed for me!

Getting Started

I didn't make it to bed until 1:30 am last night. Colin decided to wake up to eat. Then he woke up again around 4:30 to eat and never went back to sleep. I gave him to Marty at 6:30 so I could get Cody ready for school. After dropping Cody off I went to meet with the guy at the company I'm making the site for. He got the domain name set up and the hosting was giving us trouble. Since he had another meeting to get ready for, I left and went home. Shortly after I got home he called me back because he was having trouble with it again. I talked him through it and he let me go. He ended up having to call me about 4 times. But he got it going!

Then I went in the bedroom with Marty & Colin and went to sleep. He had Fox News on and while I slept I was listening to what was going on and dreamt I was in Iraq. It was so scary. I can't imagine what it is like really being there. Or taken hostage. That's a place filled with pure evil. I hope things get better there.

Well, I finally started on the website more.

Oh my Mom just sent an email telling me to call her when I got that message. Hope nothing is wrong.....

The Deal

Well I had the meeting this morning and they've decided to go with me for their webpage development. I have to go back again tomorrow morning to set up the domain name and hosting. I am so tired. I went to bed yesterday around 2am. I got up at 6:30 and stayed up. I took a nap around 4 until 5:30. I'm ready to drop. I'm still up because I got started on the color scheme for the web page and got started on their logo. I also tried looking at one of their competitors websites, but it was so heavy with Flash that it kept locking up my computer.

Cody and his friend are both grounded for a week. He stayed with his friend and her friend while we went to church yesterday. When we were leaving, he wanted the house key and we told him no. Turns out before we left he unlocked the back door so he could get back in the house. While we were gone, the friend of his friend went into our bedroom and went through all of our drawers. We figured it out as soon as we got home and boy did Cody get in trouble! His birthday get-together is Saturday and I'd hate for him not to have his friend over for it. Plus school is out Thursday and it *would* be nice for him to play with her that day. I'll talk to her mom and see if she's been on good behaviour. Maybe we can take them off of their punishment a little bit in advance... but I don't want them not to learn their lesson. UGH!

Well, I'm off to bed! Maybe I'll have to post again tomorrow?????????

A Nice Saturday

Today was nice. Cody had a few friends sleep over last night and they were up early. Helped me to wake up with the baby. I'm trying to lose the extra baby pounds so I had 3 cups of coffee and didn't eat until 7 tonight. What did I do after that? Started a fire in the fireplace and roasted marshmallows! Of course!

I got the kids email accounts so I could register them with a Santa's Wish List at walmart.com. I had fun making a list for the baby. I'll have Cody make his tomorrow so everyone knows what he wants. He's hard to shop for sometimes. He really needs jeans. He wears through jeans so quickly.

I'm excited about Christmas this year. I hope we get snow, which it's unlikely. I miss Christmas in Ohio, where I grew up. We always had lots of snow to go with Christmas.

I had a very nice day being with Marty. I love him so much. My days are always wonderful when we're together.

Well, need to get to bed! Church and Steelers game tomorrow. We are going to Atlanta to show Colin off to everyone at the Steelers bar!

The Call

This morning I woke up when Marty came to me saying I had a phone call. It turned out to be one of the guys I had an interview with the other day. He said the interview went well with me and they were calling some people back for another interview. There are two other people who have more Quickbooks experience. But if things don't work out with them... But they want to meet with me on Monday morning to negotiate a deal designing their webpage. They said the work I did with my last jobs website was impressive and they want to use me. The amount of money I would get from that would come in just in time for the holidays. Plus Marty is selling his vacation. There's alot more money. Maybe someone is looking out for us, after all.

The baby has a bad diaper rash. I think the reason why is that Halloween was last weekend and I ate lots of chocolate since then. I'm breast feeding and supplimenting with a soy formula because he's allergic to milk-based formulas. I think eating the chocolate has a bad effect on him. He's got a horrible diaper rash. The poor baby SCREAMS when changing his diaper. He's got diarrhea too, which means I have to change him all the time. I don't want him sitting in the mess and making the rash worse. I've used Desitin creamy and he screams after I put it on. I don't think it's supposed to burn, but it does. So I'm trying cornstarch powder. It's just not helping. I've tried airing him out too. I've stopped eating the chocolate of course. Now I'm just waiting for the rash to clear. I just hope he isn't having a reaction to the ProSobee. Then he'd have to go on the hypo-allergenic formula, Nutramigen. I can't afford it right now. I have an appointment with WIC in a few weeks to see if I qualify. That would help so much.

Well, I still have alot of work to do around the house so I'm out!

Well this is my first posting. I don't know why I'm even starting this, I guess I'm so bored that it's something that seems interesting. I have an 8 year old son, who has a birthday in a few weeks. He just became a big brother 2 months ago. My boss made sure that while I was pregnant he'd try making my life a living hell. Him and his wife both. They were crazy! It did get tough. They piled more and more work on me and picked fights all the time. No wonder my blood pressure shot up after awhile. I ended up hospitalized and released on bedrest. About a week later I was hospitalized because the high blood pressure turned into Pre-Eclampsia. I was only about 35 weeks pregnant, but they had to do something, so they did an amnio to see if Colin's lungs were mature. They were so the next morning he was born by cesarean. He was a big 8 pounds 6 ounces! Pretty incredible considering he was premature. He ended up having trouble breathing and needed to be put on a ventilator. He came home a week later. My mom spent about a month and some here. She wants to move down. I think I'm considering it very seriously. The blood pressure problems continued after delivery, probubly because my boss didn't let up. He gave my job away to an old high school friend of his wife's. He offered me part-time afternoons. What a jerk. He knew I couldn't work that. Even at $12 an hour everything I would make would go to childcare. He KNEW that. I wish he had more employees because I'd sue his ass. But when I think about it, I won out. If I went back there, things never would have changed. I'd be stressed and with a new baby it wouldn't have been good. I'm happier than I have been in so long. I'm home with my fiance, Marty, more and I enjoy every minute of it. Plus I have time with Cody. He's not in child care until late and he has more times with his friends. Plus I have more time to take care of the house.

Well, it is time for me to get other things done. I'll have to do this again tomorrow!

Pregnancy Email to Christine - Few wks before delivery

Yesterday I called my drs office because of all the swelling in my legs & feet. I told them I was having a headache for 2 days in a row and I was seeing spots. So they told me to come in to the office. My bp was 162/108 and later it was a little lower. I had some protein going on in my urine so they told me to go to the hospital for monitoring. So I went to the hospital and had 2 of the nicest nurses in the world. They even signed themselves up for our delivery Sept 21st. They hooked me up to all these machines that checked his heartrate, uterine activity, and my bp every 15 minutes. They drew blood to check my liver & kidneys. My bp dropped dramatically when I laid on my left side and his heartrate was really good. I was also having painless, regular contractions. My blood & urine tests only showed I had a bladder infection. The dr wants me on 48 hour bedrest and then they want me to come in tomorrow to be reevaluated. Hopefully I can go back to work on Monday because I really need the money. It feels good to finally get some rest, but time isn't going by too quickly. I feel so bad for people who are on bedrest for longer. Just thought I'd let you know how things were going. 26 more days to go!!!!!!
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Hello Amy,I hope things are going better for you. I am glad you had a good experience at the hospital, makes a big difference when the nurses are nice. That is what I keep telling my students!!! Let us know what they say when you go back to get re-evaluated. I know working is important and you need the money but do not let that take over what is really important...taking care of you and the baby. Oh I was wondering, I know when we were down there you had talked about getting married in Aug? or Sept? I do not remember....if you already did congrats!!!! Let me know. What else do you guys need for the baby? Let me know want to get you something but do not want to repeat it

Take Care,
Christine

Yesterday I called my drs office because of all the swelling in my legs & feet. I told them I was having a headache for 2 days in a row and I was seeing spots. So they told me to come in to the office. My bp was 162/108 and later it was a little lower. I had some protein going on in my urine so they told me to go to the hospital for monitoring. So I went to the hospital and had 2 of the nicest nurses in the world. They even signed themselves up for our delivery Sept 21st. They hooked me up to all these machines that checked his heartrate, uterine activity, and my bp every 15 minutes. They drew blood to check my liver & kidneys. My bp dropped dramatically when I laid on my left side and his heartrate was really good. I was also having painless, regular contractions. My blood & urine tests only showed I had a bladder infection. The dr wants me on 48 hour bedrest and then they want me to come in tomorrow to be reevaluated. Hopefully I can go back to work on Monday because I really need the money. It feels good to finally get some rest, but time isn't going by too quickly. I feel so bad for people who are on bedrest for longer. Just thought I'd let you know how things were going. 26 more days to go!!!!!!
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Hello Amy,I hope things are going better for you. I am glad you had a good experience at the hospital, makes a big difference when the nurses are nice. That is what I keep telling my students!!! Let us know what they say when you go back to get re-evaluated. I know working is important and you need the money but do not let that take over what is really important...taking care of you and the baby. Oh I was wondering, I know when we were down there you had talked about getting married in Aug? or Sept? I do not remember....if you already did congrats!!!! Let me know. What else do you guys need for the baby? Let me know want to get you something but do not want to repeat it

Take Care,
Christine

Pregnancy Email to Christine - 6 months

I went to the dr today and for the first time everything looked perfect. I'm measuring 27 weeks. I've only gained 1/2 pound in the last 2 weeks (16 total pregnancy). My blood pressure was 120/70. Colin's heartrate was 150's. My average blood sugar over the last 2 weeks was 103, which is remarkable. They didn't increase my insulin for the first time since I started. I also got my Rhogam shot. It hurt for a second because the needle was real thick, but it went away right away. I had no sugar, protein, leukocytes, or ketones in my urine (had some protein Tuesday). And only 82 days until he is born!
Take care!
Amy

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Hello,Sounds really great. I am glad things looked good. Keep up the good work!!!
Talk to you later!!
Christine

Pregnancy Email to Christine - 5 months

Pregnancy Email to Christine - 5 Months

Wow cool! I look forward to seeing yall here!! I'll let you know now, but I don't have an exact date, but Marty and I are getting married probubly next month or in August. We have alot of planning to do. I know it's short notice, but it's something that his family won't let us wait on. We HAVE to be married before Colin is born. I went to the midwife again this morning and my bp was 150/86. The nurse said my heart was just pounding. It's staying in that range quite a bit and she asked when I see the specialist. I told her I see them today at 11:15. She told me she wanted me to ask the dr what they want to do about the bp. I asked them and they said that they've noticed it's elevated and if it gets any higher they will treat it. I'm still having a little ketones but the infection is gone. I have an ultrasound in 2 weeks with the specialist. They will look at his heart real closely. In 4 weeks I have an ultrasound at my regular doctors. The specialist told me to inform my boss now that in my third trimester they will watch me every week and do ultrasounds to watch the baby. So I'll have alot of appointments then. He's just going to have to understand. The midwife is concerned about me running into pre-term labor and depending on how things go, in the last month she will only let me work half days! . It seems like now that I'm getting furthur along, they aren't playing games anymore. They are watching things, like my bp, more closely. He's still got a good heartbeat and I'm growing like I should. My daytime blood sugars are good, maybe even a little over corrected. My nighttime ones are still a little elevated, averaging 145. I'm on 36 units combined insulin at night. That sucks because now I have to double inject. My syringes are only 30 units. But it's all worth it ya know!? Marty's mother and brother have been great. His brother gave us a nice bassinette, swing, boxes of toys and clothes, a vibrating seat, and a few other things. His mom got us a crib and a stroller/car seat combo. It's REAL nice. Only used one time in a photo shoot. She also got us a playpen with a baby insert and a child gate. Looks like we're about set! I don't think I need a baby shower! Unless all the presents are all diapers! LOL I'll talk to you later. Let me know if you need anything before you come down here.

Take care!
Amy
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Hello there,
Well congrats on the upcoming nuptuals. I am glad your accu-checks are coming down. I imagine they will continue to monitor you closely.I will talk to you later.
Christine

Pregnancy Email to Christine - 4 months

Pregnancy Email to Christine - 4 Months

Hi how are you two doing? Thought I'd write and let you know the latest edition of my journey to September 21st. Yesterday I noticed I was having a bunch of Braxton-Hicks contractions. Collin wasn't moving as much as he usually does either. But I checked his heartbeat with the doppler and it was just beating away! Today I just got this bad feeling. My stomach kept tightening up but it didn't hurt. It was uncomfortable to sit and Collin still wasn't moving much. So I called the drs office. They told me to come on in and get checked. So I went in and the nurse said my bp was up (155/90) Then they checked my urine and said I had alot of white blood cells and ketones in my urine. That's funny because I drank about 4 glasses of water before going (I was thirsty!) I figured it would have diluted everything. The midwife checked the babys heartbeat and she was impressed at its strength! It was a good 155. She checked my cervix and fortunately it was long, hard, and closed. She said she thinks that I have a bladder/kidney infection and prescribed Macrobid. T! hat makes alot of sense because all this week my back has hurt really bad. I figured it was just because I'm getting bigger. She also said the heat/vibrating chair pad I use was ok. Just not to put any heating pads over my stomach. She also let me know if the contractions get stronger and real painful to go to a particular hospital in the area that has the equipment to handle real premature babies and to call her before I go. Fortunately that's the hospital I've already elected to have Collin at. After I left I called my boss and told him I was going to go home and lay down for about an hour. With everyone else always calling in sick or leaving for petty reasons (the other girl in the office left without asking because her gas bill was late and tomorrow she's off because it's her kids last day of school-so is my sons! Do I get the day off? Heck no! And last week the boss and two employees went on a fishing trip, the other girl got off at 1:00, & the bosses wife took the a! fternoon off. The other guy who didn't go on the trip called in saying his kids were sick. I was the only one holding things down!) I didn't feel bad at all for calling in. I told my boss I'd be in around 12:30, so I'm back before the other girl goes home for the day. So I went home and got a little rest. Woke up throwing up but my stupid butt came back to work anyways! I tried eating some food to take with my antibiotic, but I ended up throwing up. My whole body hurts right now. I just want to crawl into bed! Well, just thought I'd let you know how today went with that. Please write me back!

Take care,
Amy
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Hello there,I hope they are watching your BP that kinda bothers me it screams watch for pre-eclampsia. I hope you start feeling better.On a more pleasant note, I made reservations at the Hampton Inn in Conyers. We will be there June 17th and leave June 20th. We are leaving Lima the 16th and driving until whenever and then doing the rest the next day. Ashley is looking forward to seeing everyone.
Take care and see you in a few weeks.
Christine

Pregnancy Email to Mom - 4 months

*This email was especially funny to me. Well, I can say that now cause I'm looking back. It's hard to believe at this point I still had another 4 months until Colin was born early. Thank God my mom is so forgiving of me. This is me in the midst of a bad pregnancy tantrum.*


No, I'm tired and I have a headache and I'm ready to puke. And I still have 45 minutes until I leave here. Send those pictures now. Don't wait another 2 months. That's just not right.Trust me, a Super Walmart here is nothing wonderful. It's packed with a bunch of idiots. I mean, imagine if your Walmart was the only store around for 5 hours and everyone within a 5 hour radius comes to your store and has absolutly NO class or sense whatsoever. It is literally jam packed with idiots. Anyone with any sense does not shop there. I only go if I absolutly have to. The one in NC wasn't so bad. But it was bad. The one here is horrible. You'll see. I'm going to take you there and drop you off. Make you stay for 10 hours. Any normal person would commit suicide after the first 2 hours. You, on the other hand, would clear out the middle of the store, arrange the furniture in a great big circle, bring over some food, and have a little get together with all the shoppers. Kinda like Santa around the holidays. Geeeeeawwwwdddd!!!!!See if yall can come through I-75 to Macon or to I-20. I live right off of I-20. Believe me, you don't want to come see me right now while I'm pregnant. I'm beginning to believe I'm the antichrist. I'm the bride of satan. I will have you in tears after my first migrane. Just ask anyone. I'm gonna let you go now. I'm going to tie my boss up and hang him from the ceiling and leave.
Talk to you later...
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Ok..You're funny, you are not satan believe me! If you get migranes then you need to ask your Dr. if you can take anicin for migranes. I'll send those pictures now. You're just like me, you think every living sole is an idiot unless they think like you. You have to accept people for who they are and not at face value. You will find it's easier to get along with people that way. A person has a reason for why they are the way they are. You didn't answer my question...how's Cody's shoes holding up? Does he still have his scanner? When's your next Dr. appt. with O/B? You need to talk to him about your headaches!! I'll let you go and I'll talk to you later. I'm working 2p-10p today and I'm off tomorrow.
I love you...Mom

Pregnancy Email to Mom - 4 months

*I just lost a baby before I got pregnant with Colin so I was very superstitious when I was pregnant with Colin. I didn't want anything to bring me bad luck. My biggest was not wanting to buy anything for Colin early on in the pregnancy. Fortunately, I got over it. My stepmother bought some baby clothes and gave it to me when we went to Ohio to visit. It shocked me, but I didn't tell her about my superstition. But it was the best thing to happen to me. Nothing bad happened after she gave me the clothes and it showed me it was ok to go ahead and buy for the baby. I went shopping after that and it was GREAT!*

I go back to my regular OB today, Dr Robinson. I haven't been there in like a month. Marty told me yesterday that I'm starting to show (EEEK!) Saturday we actually went garage sale-ing. Christine scared me when we were there by buying those baby clothes, because I was being superstitious that maybe it would jinx everything. But it showed me that it's ok. So Saturday we bought some really nice clothes for Collin. So far everything is ok. In a couple months if everything is still ok, I might let someone go ahead with a baby shower. I'm just SOOOOOOOOOOOOO scared something is going to go wrong. If Collin dies inside of me, I'm not letting them take him out. I won't let him go. Damn, now I'm crying. I'm gonna let you go now and see how much I can clean out of my inbox.
Take care...
Love ya!
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Amy..it's ok..I bought clothes before you were even born. That's a superstition you need to get over. You're in your 5th month, and you have been seeing Dr's and everyone of them tell you everything is ok...although Dr's aren't God..they do know what they are talking about. When you were pregnant for the first child..you were under alot of pressure, and yes, I'm talking about your David, and his Dad. Don't tell me otherwise cause it won't do you any good. You're alot happier now and you have nothing to worry about. You have a good man to take care of you and you have Cody..and of course..ME.. What more could you ask for..I'll call you in a little bit to find out what the Dr said. Now calm down and stop worrying so much. If you believe in the good Lord above, I believe everything will be ok...I love you all..Love Mom

Pregnancy Email to Christine - 2 Months

Pregnancy Email to Christine

Ok...I need your help with this. I went to my doctor on Monday. He did an exam and sent me over to the hospital the same day for an abdominal ultrasound (abdominal and transvaginal). I seen the screen for the abdominal ultrasound and I seen a sack, but nothing inside of it. Knowing a week prior my hcg levels were over 6800 there should be at least a yolk sac or a fetal pole, but there was nothing. So I assumed there was a blighted ovum. Today they tell me the diagnosis is an intrauterine pregnancy of 5 weeks 6 days with cardiac activity. This would put me pregnant around December 31st. I had a hcg test January 12th that came back negative (0). I have also had some brown spotting for the last 3 days. I go in tomorrow for them to look into giving me progesterone suppositories. But I'm doubting I'm even pregnant. What are the odds with being on the pill for one cycle and using condoms as backup on occasion, that I'm pregnant AGAIN?! This doesn't seem right to me AT ALL. I think I might pose as a wonderful training tool for your schooling. Please give me some hope! I'll be anxious to read your response!
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Well I hate to tell you this but it sounds as if you are pregnant. If they saw cardiac activity then there is no doubt. At 5 weeks it is real difficult to see much at all to the untrained eye. As far as the HCG levels I do not know, unless there was in error at the lab and the blood. An ultrasound with cardiac activity would be the best indicator rather than a blood test. Why are they looking into giving you progesterone suppositories? I guess congratulations are in order. If you are not trying to get pregnant obviously the pill does not work for you, look into an IUD they have come along way. Actually the office I am in now really advocates for them.
Christine