WHY?

I walked by a child this morning with an armload of books and accidentally bumped her with my elbow. Her response? Wow.....you're tummy's so big it's hard for you to see me! Seriously? It was my ELBOW!!! This is the same "hot air balloon" child. She's obsessed that I'm getting huge, yet I've only gained 6 pounds so I can't be THAT much bigger than I already was. I'm sure she'll have another zinger for me tomorrow.

This is the conversation I had with a child a few moments ago.

Him - "Hey, are you still having a baby?"
Me - Yep - He's growing right now!
Him - Why?
Me - Why is he growing?
Him - No, why would you want a baby?

and then he walked away.....shaking his head in pity towards me.

Big Beautiful Hot Air Balloon vs The Swine Flu!

I'm worried about that damn Swine flu....I mean I'm old, and pregnant and work with 30 snot blowing children each day. I think my chances of getting it are pretty high. It's stressing me out. A 2 year old asked me to wipe his nose today and I told him I couldn't and to go ask another teacher, I've never done that - but I'm not touching any one's snot until the swine flu has passed.

At lunch today I was serving the children when a little girl at my table clapped her hands, in that "happy, happy, joy, joy" kind of way and said "Oh Teacher Becky you're just getting bigger and bigger everyday like a big beautiful hot air balloon!" I almost dumped rice in her hair, luckily her next sentence was "I know because your baby is growing everyday and he's making your tummy poke out" - she's lucky she saved herself from a rice shower with that last comment. So, that explains the SWINE shaped Hot air balloon picture! I love that they are both together.

I'm sitting in my stupid abnormal psychology class right now trying to make it through the next 2 hours by pulling out my eyelashes one by one, and writing in my blog! This class makes me crazy, the teacher makes us read the chapter, take the test about the information and THEN she lectures on it, my father would call this an ass-backwards way to teach with I completely agree with. Why must I listen to a lecture that I have already been tested on? ugh...I just want to take off my bra, and sit in front of bad TV. Someone save me.

Kicking!

I can't believe there was a time that I thought something was wrong because this baby wasn't kicking, he kicks now.....all day, all night, all the time. It's very reassuring to me to feel him there, every time he kicks me I feel like I need to say thanks!
I'm feeling very pregnant now, there is a bump (not just fat anymore) and hopefully people can tell I'm pregnant, however I was shopping in Carter's yesterday and the sales lady ringing me up said ... "Oh these (outfits) are so cute, I'm sure your grandson will look adorable in them!!", Is this your first grandchild? I had to respond with...."No, it's my first REGULAR child!" She looked appropriately horrified for her remark (as she should have) and I went home feeling old and pregnant.....such is the life of a 39 year old pregnant lady.

Placenta Sandwich

Ok the title is enough to kill me but this is the article my Doctor handed me yesterday - Here is the article - there was also a picture of a "placenta sandwich" but that didn't really come through. I'm sure my eyes were as wide as saucers when I responded to her question with WHAT??? Like a cat??? she laughed and said it's this new progressive things that some Mom's are doing to increase their energy levels after birth. Well, good for those Mom, I'm so not one of them - my response is a big loud EEEWWWWW!!!!!!!
The article follows is in italics because they aren't my words.

She ate her placenta and it was good

So says Chrissy Schilling, a new mom who recently feasted on placenta pasta and placenta sandwiches two days after giving birth to a baby girl.

“The energy levels I had before and after the [placenta] consumption were immediately noticeable to me,” Chrissy told Momlogic in this post. “The first 24 hours after my daughter’s birth, I would nurse on the move around the apartment, showing her around, but would have to take frequent breaks to sit because of how light-headed I felt. But after that second night, with a belly full of placenta, those dizzy spells completely vanished….”

Chrissy’s twin sister, Kathy, was the chef who gleaned placenta-eating inspiration and recipe ideas from this scatological blog (which I find disgusting and creepy). She told Momlogic she had “fun” preparing the heavy, beefy organ that is rich in feel-good hormones.

“First, I washed off any clots and snipped/tore away the membrane,” Kathy said. “…The umbilical cord required a pair of scissors to cut through and I had to marvel at how incredible tough that piece was. After it was pretty clean, I sliced it into bite-sized chunks, and cooked it….The taste of the meat itself was surprisingly tasteful (I thought it’d be bland, but it absorbed the flavors of the ingredients very well). It wasn’t tough, but not sloppy either. Just the right kind of texture I like.”

In some cultures, women eat their nutrient-rich placentas to restore postpartum hormone levels, thereby warding off depression, according to this and other reports; however, no scientific studies have proven that human-placenta ingestion prevents the baby blues.
But Kathy told Momlogic she felt “pretty giddy” after eating her sister’s afterbirth.
Yeah, I’d feel giddy, too, because I’d have to be stupid-drunk to eat placenta. And even then, I’m pretty sure I’d puke and faint.
First off, I’m a vegetarian (except when pregnant). Secondly, I’m a unadventurous eater. I’m still traumatized from two Saturdays ago, when I attended a pre-wedding dinner party at a fancy, expensive, trendy restaurant. One of the menu items was fried pig’s head, which just makes me sad.
There’s no way I’d even consider eating placenta. What about you? What do you think about the practice? And if you’ve tried it, please tell us what it’s like.

24 weeks and doing great!!

Today was that 24 week appointment and things went well. No gestational diabetes, and I've only gained a total of 4 pounds for 6.5 months in that's pretty good! This was the first time the Dr. could hear the baby's heartbeat with just the doppler and not the ultrasound. So all in things are going as perfectly as they can. I feel blessed and so grateful that this pregnancy is finally working for us!
Here's a funny story I have to share. All the children in my class know that I'm pregnant with a boy and Monday one of the kids (Katie) and I had the following conversation.

Katie - Hi Becky, how's that baby in your tummy?
Becky - I think he's doing OK Katie!
Katie - That's good, can I have a peek?
Becky - A peek at the baby? How do you think you can do that when he is inside my tummy?
Katie - Just lift up your shirt and I'll check on him through your belly button window
Becky - Oh, well that's a good idea, but my belly button isn't a window.
Katie - Well, it's not for YOU because you're too big, but it's just MY height! Let me check.

I let her know that only Doctor's could check when he was still inside me, then I distracted her with bubbles - but oh what a funny conversation!!
Hope you all had a great Easter, more to come later!
Love,
Becky

Latest Pictures!

My Baby finally moved today!! I was in the car with Mom and it felt like a wave rolled across my stomach - It wasn't gas and I wasn't hungry so that had to be him!! HURRAH!
We did some 4D shots today and he looks alot like Mykaela, well from what I can see.
Hopefully you can make him out!
Here he is!
I put the pictures on her rather large just to make them easier to see - it's blurry through the placenta and amniotic fluid but if you look hard you can make him out!