We had another Doctor's visit on May 2nd. We saw a different Dr. who I liked a lot also, Dr. Wheeler. My blood glucose screen test came back at 131 and they like them to be under 140. I also had gained two more pounds, for a total of 10.5. My blood pressure was "textbook" (his words, not mine), I think it was 110/70. They measured my uterus at 28 inches, which is also where I should be at. Evidently, you should grow one inch for each week along you are. It is hard to imagine my stomach growing ANOTHER 12 inches! Everything is looking good, progressing as it should be.
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Monday, May 7, 2007
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Old Emails #5
This email was written to a friend of mine in Oregon on 1/17/07:
" I thought you would enjoy hearing the news. I'm due on July 21st. We will find out the baby's sex for sure, but have to wait about another month. I am a little spacey, switching words around, using wrong words, not remembering things, etc. I'm assured this is because of the hormones and not because I'm losing my mind and/or going crazy.
I think of you because I've been having LOTS of straaaange dreams, tornadoes in some, old friends in others, and of course I am eating in lots of them! It reminds me of my Phase 1 dieting days. I have really not had any of the bummer symptoms, I've been eating good, and feel good. The only thing is I am not exercising. I have no excuse."
" I thought you would enjoy hearing the news. I'm due on July 21st. We will find out the baby's sex for sure, but have to wait about another month. I am a little spacey, switching words around, using wrong words, not remembering things, etc. I'm assured this is because of the hormones and not because I'm losing my mind and/or going crazy.
I think of you because I've been having LOTS of straaaange dreams, tornadoes in some, old friends in others, and of course I am eating in lots of them! It reminds me of my Phase 1 dieting days. I have really not had any of the bummer symptoms, I've been eating good, and feel good. The only thing is I am not exercising. I have no excuse."
Old Emails #2
This email is written to a cousin of mine in Washington on December 27, 2006:
"I heard you were @ Dan & Jody's on Christmas...and heard the news, eh? I was actually going to write you after Christmas and tell you, but wanted my bro to know first. I guess Aunt Charlene & Uncle Joe accidentally found out from my mom and dad because they had planned to tell them and I said are you kidding, they can't know before Dan. So, I told my mom that and my dad didn't get the message. Oh, well. We are excited, and I am due on 07/21/07. Perhaps he or she will come early, like 2 weeks and it can be born on 07/07/07."
I now no longer wish for the baby to be born early just to have a "perfect" birthday. I want him to be born after a full term, fully prepared for this world.
Also, the story is I had called right before my aunt & uncle showed up at my folks'. My parents had planned on announcing the news, until I said the above to my mom. But, my mom didn't get a chance to tell my dad because by the time she got off the phone they were already there. My dad says, "so are we going to tell them?" and my mom says "well, we can't anymore", and it didn't take too much detective work for my aunt and uncle to figure it out.
"I heard you were @ Dan & Jody's on Christmas...and heard the news, eh? I was actually going to write you after Christmas and tell you, but wanted my bro to know first. I guess Aunt Charlene & Uncle Joe accidentally found out from my mom and dad because they had planned to tell them and I said are you kidding, they can't know before Dan. So, I told my mom that and my dad didn't get the message. Oh, well. We are excited, and I am due on 07/21/07. Perhaps he or she will come early, like 2 weeks and it can be born on 07/07/07."
I now no longer wish for the baby to be born early just to have a "perfect" birthday. I want him to be born after a full term, fully prepared for this world.
Also, the story is I had called right before my aunt & uncle showed up at my folks'. My parents had planned on announcing the news, until I said the above to my mom. But, my mom didn't get a chance to tell my dad because by the time she got off the phone they were already there. My dad says, "so are we going to tell them?" and my mom says "well, we can't anymore", and it didn't take too much detective work for my aunt and uncle to figure it out.
Old Emails #1
This is a snippet from an old email, when I wasn't sure I was pregnant or not. I had taken one pregnancy test which said "no" (it was the 2nd of a 2-pack, and the first was 10 months earlier) and I had called my OB/GYN to say, what can I do to know? The RN suggested I could go have blood drawn, or wait a few days to take another test. I sent Dapo to Dan's to buy a First Response test, which I actually took on Friday night (November 17, 2006). This email was written to a very intuitive and assertively curious friend of mine at work, on Monday the 20th (after the test)...
"I am sorry I didn't call you yesterday...I didn't go to the hospital for the blood draw. I am just TOO busy. The movers are here now and I am trapped into this corner of the apt. After we are done with the movers all day Dapo I have dentist/thesis appointments tomorrow and then we have to clean and then we drive across country and then I get on a plane and then and then and then. As you can see I'm feeling a little stress. I made an appt. w/ my obgyn for next week. We'll do a blood test at that time. I definitely feel some symptoms and not others, so it could just be stress. i.e. I seem to be sensitive to smells, headaches, peeing, but my breasts aren't sore, no morning sickness, etc. But, I talked to Dapo and he doesn't want us to talk about it until we're ready to announce it...if anything needs announced."
"I am sorry I didn't call you yesterday...I didn't go to the hospital for the blood draw. I am just TOO busy. The movers are here now and I am trapped into this corner of the apt. After we are done with the movers all day Dapo I have dentist/thesis appointments tomorrow and then we have to clean and then we drive across country and then I get on a plane and then and then and then. As you can see I'm feeling a little stress. I made an appt. w/ my obgyn for next week. We'll do a blood test at that time. I definitely feel some symptoms and not others, so it could just be stress. i.e. I seem to be sensitive to smells, headaches, peeing, but my breasts aren't sore, no morning sickness, etc. But, I talked to Dapo and he doesn't want us to talk about it until we're ready to announce it...if anything needs announced."
Is that his name?
For those of you who might be wondering, I refer to the baby as "junior", but he will not be Oladapo Olufemi Temitayo Eso, II. I call him junior because I can tell while he is yet not fully formed, that he is so much like his father. I know that he will have some of my characteristics and only my good ones, at that (slim pickins, eh?). But just going by my aversions and cravings I had I know that he really has Dapo's taste. His name will also not be Junior anything, it's just something I call him, and right now he doesn't have a name. Dapo makes a great point, that he wants his son to become greater than he is, so he would never give him a name to say you are a smaller version of me.
So, what are we naming him, then? Initially, Dapo and I discussed giving him an English first name with traditional Yoruba names to follow, since an English name in America would be easier on all involved. But, then we found a Scripture in Proverbs 22:1 which reads, "a good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, loving favor rather than silver and gold". So, we began to pray about the names we were thinking of.
Dapo came up with the name Ayomide (eye-yo-me-day), which is "joy came to me". I like it because I've been so full of joy the entire pregnancy, and feel like he will be a bundle of joy. It has also been said that joy and melody will be in our house. People at church have said that he is going to come out singing and dancing. I am relieved no one has said playing the piano, because that would require a piano to be born, also.
I was online researching Yoruba names and their meanings, and came across Olujimi (oh-loo-gee-me). I ran it by Dapo and initially he didn't like it because I didn't pronounce it right, and what he heard meant something else. It means "God's gift". I think literally it means God gave me. We both like it for obvious reason. Okay, so Olujimi is a mouth full. I realize that, and just as Dapo's full name is Oladapo, Olujimi would go by Jimi. And, as Dapo says, that should be easy enough for the "the" Amercians. I also like Jimi because my dad's name is James, but he goes by Jim. And many of his friends call him Jimmy. So, it would be as though we were giving him a namesake, albeit coincidentally. I pictured me chasing him in diapers around the house when I found the name, so I was elated when Dapo agreed it would be a good one.
Alright, so it would seem that Olujimi Ayomide Eso (eh-show) would be enough and we would stop there, right? Evidently, in my limited understanding of the Yoruba culture, the grandparents of the child also have an opportunity to give the baby a name. The concept is to give the child many names so that they have lots of options to choose from when they grow old enough to pick their given names. So, my parents passed on the name game, and his parents gladly accepted. They came up with many names, but the one we liked was Toluwani (toe-loo-wah-knee), which means "this belongs to God".
So, there you have it. The name we've chosen for him is Olujimi Ayomide Toluwani Eso.
So, what are we naming him, then? Initially, Dapo and I discussed giving him an English first name with traditional Yoruba names to follow, since an English name in America would be easier on all involved. But, then we found a Scripture in Proverbs 22:1 which reads, "a good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, loving favor rather than silver and gold". So, we began to pray about the names we were thinking of.
Dapo came up with the name Ayomide (eye-yo-me-day), which is "joy came to me". I like it because I've been so full of joy the entire pregnancy, and feel like he will be a bundle of joy. It has also been said that joy and melody will be in our house. People at church have said that he is going to come out singing and dancing. I am relieved no one has said playing the piano, because that would require a piano to be born, also.
I was online researching Yoruba names and their meanings, and came across Olujimi (oh-loo-gee-me). I ran it by Dapo and initially he didn't like it because I didn't pronounce it right, and what he heard meant something else. It means "God's gift". I think literally it means God gave me. We both like it for obvious reason. Okay, so Olujimi is a mouth full. I realize that, and just as Dapo's full name is Oladapo, Olujimi would go by Jimi. And, as Dapo says, that should be easy enough for the "the" Amercians. I also like Jimi because my dad's name is James, but he goes by Jim. And many of his friends call him Jimmy. So, it would be as though we were giving him a namesake, albeit coincidentally. I pictured me chasing him in diapers around the house when I found the name, so I was elated when Dapo agreed it would be a good one.
Alright, so it would seem that Olujimi Ayomide Eso (eh-show) would be enough and we would stop there, right? Evidently, in my limited understanding of the Yoruba culture, the grandparents of the child also have an opportunity to give the baby a name. The concept is to give the child many names so that they have lots of options to choose from when they grow old enough to pick their given names. So, my parents passed on the name game, and his parents gladly accepted. They came up with many names, but the one we liked was Toluwani (toe-loo-wah-knee), which means "this belongs to God".
So, there you have it. The name we've chosen for him is Olujimi Ayomide Toluwani Eso.
Cravings
Early in the pregnancy I had cravings for chicken, bacon and cheese. I also had aversions to sweets and fats. In addition, I craved apples. That's when I actually suspected Jr. was in fact "junior", as Dapo doesn't like sweets at all. I could not eat packaged candy or potato chips or anything like that. I also ate a lot of salad and pears.
In the second trimester I regained my appetite for most sweets and would have mozerella sticks and chocolate milkshakes from Arby's for a snack. I also got even more hungry than I had been in the previous trimester and found myself eating constantly. I really enjoyed peanut butter on almost everything. In the 2nd 1/2 of the 2nd trimester a craving came for jalepenos/cayenne pepper/chiles/anything with heat. You are all probably thinking "that poor baby!". I would not have eaten those things if I thought he objected. I never had so much as a hint of any indigestion, heartburn, or other associated maladies. I thank God for that! I also enjoyed a good pickle and ice cream. Once my feet became so swollen they were more like "legkles" (no, not cankles, legkles) I had to taper off my salt intake...which meant pickles in moderation, which meant baby dills.
Now entering my third trimester I find myself free from cravings or aversions, and focusing on having fun again with cooking. We set up our BBQ in the backyard and I have really enjoyed cooking that way. I am able to cook seafood for Dapo without smelling up the house! We've been delighting ourselves with lots of veggies, meat and water. We are doing our best to eat well and I appreciate Dapo being so supportive of me in that regard.
I've gained only 8.5 lbs at last weigh in at 24 weeks. I feel like I am now making up for lost time, though, and expect to see another 3 or 4 lbs tomorrow. Until then!
In the second trimester I regained my appetite for most sweets and would have mozerella sticks and chocolate milkshakes from Arby's for a snack. I also got even more hungry than I had been in the previous trimester and found myself eating constantly. I really enjoyed peanut butter on almost everything. In the 2nd 1/2 of the 2nd trimester a craving came for jalepenos/cayenne pepper/chiles/anything with heat. You are all probably thinking "that poor baby!". I would not have eaten those things if I thought he objected. I never had so much as a hint of any indigestion, heartburn, or other associated maladies. I thank God for that! I also enjoyed a good pickle and ice cream. Once my feet became so swollen they were more like "legkles" (no, not cankles, legkles) I had to taper off my salt intake...which meant pickles in moderation, which meant baby dills.
Now entering my third trimester I find myself free from cravings or aversions, and focusing on having fun again with cooking. We set up our BBQ in the backyard and I have really enjoyed cooking that way. I am able to cook seafood for Dapo without smelling up the house! We've been delighting ourselves with lots of veggies, meat and water. We are doing our best to eat well and I appreciate Dapo being so supportive of me in that regard.
I've gained only 8.5 lbs at last weigh in at 24 weeks. I feel like I am now making up for lost time, though, and expect to see another 3 or 4 lbs tomorrow. Until then!
Catch up
This post is to catch all of us up. With our recent move, we are far away from all the curious people of our lives, and what better way to update everyone at once than a blog.
I'm currently in the last trimester of my first pregnancy, at 28 weeks. At our twenty week visit my husband, Dapo, and I learned that we are having a boy. That excited us both. We didn't care either way, but are excited to have a baby boy join our family.
I have had a very good pregnancy, thanks to God for that. I did not have any morning sickness. I basically ate, peed and slept for the first 12 weeks. Right around then we told our family and friends the good news. We got our first glimpse of Jr. at the Dr's for our 11 week visit. They could not find the heartbeat (most likely thanks to my "insulation"), so they took us to ultrasound. We saw another ultrasound at 16 weeks. We found out the sex on the 20th week. We heard the heart beat for the first time at 24 weeks. That was pretty cool, too, but I like seeing the baby better. His heart beat was 153, and I thought, "the Kid has good rhythm". Not surprising!
I started feeling Jr. kick after the 16 week visit. The RN had just asked me at that morning's visit if I had been feeling the baby move, and I said I didn't think so. She didn't seem concerned, so I wasn't either. Then, I had no more walked in to my house and sat down at the desk when I felt his first movement. It felt like a cross between a muscle twitch and a vein sliding over a bone. I know that's gross, but that's how I can describe it. Now it feels like a MLS match inside. Goooooooooooooooooal!
Tomorrow I have another visit, and begin "rotations" with the other three Doctors. Every two weeks for the next two months I will have a visit. We are trying to decide whether or not to have the 3D ultrasound. I almost think I want to be surprised to see what he looks like. I have dreamt he has Dapo's nose and lips, but he probably has Dapo's everything.
We only have three months until we get to find out, anyhow!
I'm currently in the last trimester of my first pregnancy, at 28 weeks. At our twenty week visit my husband, Dapo, and I learned that we are having a boy. That excited us both. We didn't care either way, but are excited to have a baby boy join our family.
I have had a very good pregnancy, thanks to God for that. I did not have any morning sickness. I basically ate, peed and slept for the first 12 weeks. Right around then we told our family and friends the good news. We got our first glimpse of Jr. at the Dr's for our 11 week visit. They could not find the heartbeat (most likely thanks to my "insulation"), so they took us to ultrasound. We saw another ultrasound at 16 weeks. We found out the sex on the 20th week. We heard the heart beat for the first time at 24 weeks. That was pretty cool, too, but I like seeing the baby better. His heart beat was 153, and I thought, "the Kid has good rhythm". Not surprising!
I started feeling Jr. kick after the 16 week visit. The RN had just asked me at that morning's visit if I had been feeling the baby move, and I said I didn't think so. She didn't seem concerned, so I wasn't either. Then, I had no more walked in to my house and sat down at the desk when I felt his first movement. It felt like a cross between a muscle twitch and a vein sliding over a bone. I know that's gross, but that's how I can describe it. Now it feels like a MLS match inside. Goooooooooooooooooal!
Tomorrow I have another visit, and begin "rotations" with the other three Doctors. Every two weeks for the next two months I will have a visit. We are trying to decide whether or not to have the 3D ultrasound. I almost think I want to be surprised to see what he looks like. I have dreamt he has Dapo's nose and lips, but he probably has Dapo's everything.
We only have three months until we get to find out, anyhow!
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