Fun facts!

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For today's post I'm keeping it light, enjoy some fun facts about pregnancy.

We have all heard the common expression a pregnant woman can glow, most people use the term to say the woman's excitement about becoming a mommy. But glowing skin is a very real thing for pregnant women. While you're pregnant, the amount of blood in your body will increase by 50%. The extra blood ends up showing through the skin in many areas. Hormones cause the oil glands to become more active, making you have a softer, shinier appearance. When the increased blood flow combines with shine, the result is a noticeable glow. 

Do you feel like you smell everything? During pregnancy, your sense of smell increases drastically, as does your sense of taste. They say it is to help pregnant mothers avoid eating small levels of toxins that would be harmless to us, but not so harmless to our baby.

Did you know that contraction don't end after birth? Most mothers will have contractions for the first few days after birth. The muscle cramps are the body's way of stopping excess blood loss. 

Not all pregnant women will have cravings, pregnancy cravings are rooted in the body’s extra need for minerals, so listen to your cravings. 

Remember I was telling you about eating for two? Most women will only need an extra 300 calories per day and only need to gain about 25 pounds throughout their entire pregnancy.

Wanna be jealous of some women? Approximately 70% of pregnant mothers report experiencing some symptoms of morning sickness during the first trimester of pregnancy. I am jealous of the other 30% who don't! 

If you need an excuse to buy new shoe, I have a great one for you. Did your feet get bigger? Did you grow in shoe side? Towards the end of your pregnancy, your body starts to release the tightness of its ligaments to help with the birthing process. This also means your feet start to lose their arch and stretch out on the sides. If it looks wider now that will probably be temporary, but if they grew to much That can be permanent. 

Are you so into you due date and think your giving birth that exact day? Truth is that only less than 10% of babies are born on their exact due date, 50% are born within one week of the due date, and 90% are born within two weeks of the date. 

As creepy as it may seem, one in every two thousand babies are born with a tooth.

Did you ever think if the baby feels anything when the cord is cut? Don't worry your baby does not feel a thing when the cord is cut after birth.

Babies in the womb get hiccups because of breathing and drinking the amniotic fluid. As the fluid enters and exits the lungs, the diaphragm contracts bringing about the hiccups.

If you know of any other fun facts about pregnancy feel free to share! 

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Letting your hormones get the best of you!

I noticed yesterday as I was writing the post, how I don't mentioned much of other story's where I let my hormones get the best of me. (I did once about the black pepper in my dinner) It wasn't the first time that I cried from something that happened, but never as bad as Sunday. So for today's post ill embarrass myself and write short story's on some of the other times I cried for dumb reason. Hey I can't help myself sometime, I'm pregnant, my hormones take over and just let loose in the form of tears! 

Ok so I might not be the only one in this situation, we all have trouble sleeping at some point in our pregnancy, but did you ever cry over it? A couple of times I'd cry because I was so tired and couldn't fall asleep, I would get frustrated and just cry about it. Adventaully the cring put me to sleep, I should cry more often before I go to bed, it seems to help me sleep. I also one time came home from a busy day and just cried that I'm so tired, and I wanted to take a nap, nut dinner wasn't made yet. My dear husband told me to go to sleep and he'll take care of it, I woke up about two hours later to a heaven dinner. 

I was calling afew pediatric offices for information about there practice, to find the right doctor for my baby. I called an office and the resection couldn't have been more rude. I was put on hold for about 20 min right away, when she finally came back this is how our conversation went

Me: Hi my name is Chumy Herman, I'm due in February I wanted to know if the doctor is taking new...(interrupted)

Her: Are you a patient? 

Me: No, I'm looking ... (Interrupted)

Her: Well, Is your child a patient? 

Me: No, I said I'm due in February... If you listen to me I can tell you why I am calling, I was wondering if the doctor is.. (Interrupted)

Her: Well if you or child isn't a patient I can't help you.

Me: I just wanted to know if (interrupted yet again) 

Her: I told you, I can't help you, and the doctor isn't taking any new patients.

Me: Ok thank you, that is all I wanted to know, I'm not sure why you had to be so rude. If you would have listened to me in the first place you could have answered my question much faster. 

Her: I'm sorry You thought I was rude, but you weren't...

(as soon as I heard she was ganna blame something on me)

Me: Thank you, have a nice day (CLICK!! I hung up)

I don't know why at the time it bothered me so much, but I hung up the phone and cried. 

I was on line at the gas station to get gas, and I saw that aisle the other side had no line. I motioned to the worker if I can go to that spot and he said ya. To make sure he understood what I said I rolled down my window and asked again, "can I go there" he said ya. All excited, I leave my line and go to the empty spot. I pull up and the guy says you can't do that, I was so confused, didn't he just tell me I can? He says "you can't cut the whole line, people are waiting." I asked him "didn't you just tell me I can come here?" He says "no, I must have miss understood what you said you have to go back in line." All mad and all confused, of course came the tears. I went back to the long line I was in, but only to be 3 cars behind now. I haven't been to that gas station since then, it's still emotional for me. 

Is four story's enough? I have more but as I think of  them now, it's kind of embarsing why I cried. But I'm sure you all have your crazy stories as well, feel free to share them, it will make me feel better about mine. 

 

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Major problem, simple solution!

Oh wow, what a day I had yesterday, oh boy was I nesting. I woke up, from a very sleepless night, and decied I wanted to organize my closets and some draws, and place them in containers. I took everything out and made piles for each container, I needed about 10 containers in all different sizes. I had it all written down on paper,  each pile had a name, hats, belts etc. and what kind of organizing item it needed. I get to the store feeling all confident how I have everything under control. I found good containers that were even on sale, and nice fabric ones for the front closet. I was also looking for a simple book self to place all my albums on, but I had a very specific measurements. I searched for a while but I couldn't find any that fit the measurements, so I gave up and I didn't get any. 

After spending about two hours in the store, I paid for my stuff and got home all excited to start putting everything away. The view when walking in was a disaster, things were fling every where, it all needed to be put back away. So far sounds good right? I take out my fabric buckets and filled it back up and brought it to the closet. But that's when I started to burst out in to tears, the buckets I bought were to big and didn't fit on the shelf. I was so disappointed (probably just extremely over tired) I worked so hard in the store, and to come home and find out it was all a waste was devastating. 

I called my husband in a panic, crying my eyes out how the dumb buckets don't fit. He must have thought I was insane, but I had never gotten so mad over something so simple before, so he knew it must have really bothered me. He said he'll come home right away, comforted that he'll come and help me calm down, I took the containers to do the other closet. Filling them up was a breeze everything fit perfectly, It was making me feel less as bad about the other closet. 

Everything was in container and now it was time to cover them, but the tears came again and even harder this time. For some odd reason I left half the coveres in the store that I needed and the other half was completely missed size. I have no idea how that happened, I was so so so upset, (or really really over tired) how can I forget to take covers. I called my husband again, crying even harder this time, and he said he'll be home in two min and we will go straight back to the store. 

He gets home assesses my mess, and discovers something so genius. The fabric buckets may have not fit on the bottom shelf, but they sure fit on the top one, problem solved there. I felt kinda dumb that there was such a simple salution to want seemed like such hassle to me. But I felt very greatfull for having him figure that out, but we still had the cover mess to figure out.

We went back to the store got all the right covers needed, and he even found a sulation to my book shelf problem and we were able to get one of those as well. I still am confused to how I managed to mess up something so simple, who knew buying containers were so difficult. 

My husband had a engagement party last night, so he said he'll have to build the shelfs another time.

I was to determined to get everything done, I couldn't wait till everything was all cleaned up. So I built the whole bookshelf myself, put it into place and filled the shelf up. My husband had a nice surprise when he came home, he was confused how I was able to built it, he thought he would have even had a hard time doing it. But don't mess with a nesting pregnant lady, we can do anything our mind is set to, except maybe the real simple stuff, like putting the buckets on a different shelf. 

I was proud of myself at the end of night of how much I was able to get done in one day. My mistakes just made it a better store and I feel like I got even more done because they were all fixed by the time the day was over, thanx to my dear husband of course. I look back now and I think it's kinds funny how much I really cried over something like this. I AM SO PREGO!! 

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Dear baby!!!!

Dear baby,

Last night was no fun at all, but I'm glad you enjoyed it, how was your party? While you were dancing mommy was trying to sleep and you just didn't let me. You twist and turned as if you were demanding attention, so I layed rubbing my belly to calm you down, but nothing did the trick. I think the party or shall I say fight started for you, when I felt that Braxton hicks contraction I guess you didn't like it. It probably made you uncomfterble, you got squished I'm sorry. It wasn't any better for me, it was a strong one we never felt that before, but I'm glad we're going through this together. But next time don't go all nuts after, it made it worst for me, every time you moved it was so uncomfterble. 

We also will be experiencing many more of those soon, so start getting used to it. Try not to freak out, or you'll make me a nervous reck, and will make it harder for both of us. 

I was starting to worry that something was wrong, because you really hit all the right spots. But they weren't the same spots as always, so I got scared that maybe after you being squished you changed positions. I usually feel ur feet and hands kicking and punching on the right side, but last night I felt it on the bottom left. I think you moved back though cause I don't feel you there anymore, I will keep an eye on that today.

Last night I was trying all sorts of different positions so we can both be comfterble. I even tried sitting with my legs crossed and 6 pillows on my lap, but I couldn't fall asleep like that. I tried the couch, but that didn't work either. We got comfterble leaning back on 3 pillows, with my knees bent. You finally calmed down about 2:30 am and let me fall asleep. Let's not let this happen to often, you have been making trouble these days and all I want is a good night sleep. I hope you behave tonight, I will be avoiding any unnessasry sugars to keep you nice and calm. 

Love mommy! 

P.s These hick ups you have been getting lately isn't fun either, there actually quite annoying! No offense. Mwa love you xoxo 

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Unaccomplished and unproductive? Or accomplished and productive!

I can't believe how time goes by so fast, it's crazy how I am nine months already. It seems like yesterday that I found out I was pregnant, and thinking how far February is and how long it will take to get there. Usually times goes by when your busy and productive, but I wasn't even so busy or productive do to the fact of my pregnancy. Because I had such a hard time in the begging of my pregnancy I had to put my carrier on hold, I was hopping to get back to it when I got better, but my health was to unpridtable and I became unreliable.

There's was a few aspects of my job that made it almost impossible to work during my pregnancy. My job required me to do a lot of talking, and in the beginning of my pregnancy I was even to weak to talk. Beside for being weak, almost every time I opened my mouth I would grab a bag and gag hopping not to barf. How unprofessional would it be if I was sitting in a meeting and gagging every few minutes. My job also required a lot of traveling, and some days I couldn't even sit because of back pain and when I'm in the car its even worst. (still hurts in the car) But like I said it was someday, not all, but I wouldn't know till that day if I was able to or not and my job needed a lot of scheduling involved. 

It's not easy putting your life on hold so u can have 9m of sick days, sitting in bed in pjs all day isn't as fun anymore. I get anxious and restless to get out somedays even though I'm not feeling great at all. Now that the I'm almost done I look back and wonder what I did all this time, And it's not that much at all. I worried, I cried, I laughed, I complained, I cooked, I cleaned. I slept, I slept, I slept, and I complained how I don't sleep, because most of my sleep time I get is in the day. But even though it kinda feels so unacomplishing, my baby gives me alittle kick and it suddenly becomes the most productive months of my life! I am creating a life inside of me, I am pregnant and we all know it's not the easiest thing, so it's the most accomplishing and productive thing I could have been doing.

The next time someone asks me what I did these last few months I won't feel guilty, and say nothing. I can say I was busy being pregnant and taking care of myself. For me to put my life on hold to make sure my baby and I will be healthy, that's accomplishing, that's something I should be proud to say I did these past few months, and I shouldn't feel guilty about it.

If anyone of you are in a similar situation then me, and is feeling kinda down and ashamed, it's time we don't be. We have so much to look forward to when it's over, we will have accomplished so much, we will have created a human, and how is that not accomplishing?

This is what we accomplished! 

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Newlywed and pregnant!

Over the weekend I got to see a really old friend of mine, we actually have been friends since were really younge, like diaper age even. As we were catching up about everything in life, of course we got to the topic about pregnancy. My friend had mentioned how she sees girls from her grade who got married alittle while ago that are pregnant for almost the same amount of time as there marriage. Yes they should be extremely blessed that god gave them the ability to become pregnant so easy, but she said they seemed very depressed. So why it that these younge girls who are in there honeymoon stage and pregnant, which is the greatest miracle ever, seem so down and depressed? I can't speak for all of them because of course there very well mite be something wrongs with the marriage, but I think I can understand and im sure more of us can relate to this issue as well. 

Before we got married and were buying all the kitchen supplies, we probably had all dinners planed out for the next few weeks and in which pot and pan it will be made in. When buying the laundry basket we pictured ourselves doing the laundry. We kept thinking how cute of a wife well be, fancy dinners clean house, and laundry done. Of course we will look picture perfect because how embarsing it will be if our husband saw us looking ugly. And hate to break it to you men also think this way, unless he's a chief or very clean person, chances are he's relying on us to do it. They know we won't always be in makeup and in dresses but that's how they know us, so that how they imagining it.

We get married and we begin playing house, our fancy dinners made, our house is spotless and laundrys alway kept up to date. For some of use the fairytale continues a little longer but for some it ends very shortly. Suddenly they find out the greatest news of their lives, THEY'RE PREGNANT! 

About two weeks later their lives are completely different than what they imagine their marriage would be like. The fancy dinner turn into takeout or left over of left overs because they couldn't handle the smell of cooking or they were to sick and tired to make anything. The laundry basket is full and there husband has no clean socks to wear, so he helps and does the laundry. The house suddenly looks like a tornado hit it but they can't be bothered by cleaning, because they are to tired, sick and unable to get out of bed. The husband Image of dresses and make up is now of pjs, pale skin, and there face stuck in a bag. 

For any marriage pregnancy can be a real strain, the husbands are contestanly having to take care of us and the house. But those who aren't newlyweds, there husband know when we are overreacting because of hormones. He knows we always made dinner and the laundry was done, and he knows it's not done because of pregnancy and not because we just didn't want to. 

For a newlywed couple to be going through pregnancy can be really stressful, he doesn't know if this is the real her or it's just because she's pregnant, no matter how many times they tell him I'm not like this, he doesn't/can't fully believe her. Yes, sometimes it can be really depressing, that is not how they imagined it, their lives are a disaster, and they feel disappointed. Some days can go by without speaking normally to one another, pregnant women just complain and ask for thing all day. What else beside crazy is a newlyweded husband sapose to think of his wife, if thats the way she acts and that's the way he's being treated. Their husbands may be distant because he thinks they are a psychopath, for many reason, it can be because everything he say she's just cries and gets insulted and says how mean he is, when all he was doing was trying to help and comfort her. Or one minute you want something and then the next you don't.

It doesn't mean at all they have a bad marriage, it just means they have much more of a challenge to overcome, being pregnant is a big strain on their marriage. Some at the end of the day are still filled with love and joy for their husbands and with their pregnancy, and some are down/depressed and  feeling ashamed how they honestly wish they weren't pregnant. Some love there husbands even more, because of how helpful and understanding he is, and some are wishing their husband can be more understand. And some can be feeling all of these examples, depending on your day, mood and hormone levels. 

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The miracle within!!

As my baby grows more and more, the less room it has to swim around. This past week I have noticed a big change, every little move my baby takes is so noticeable even from the outside. Seeing the movement is the most amazing thing,  but ofcourse it has a down side. My baby gets hyper on apples and I can't seem to stop eating them. One night I ate an apple before bed and was up all night with my baby partying away. It wouldn't stop moving for 3 hours, yes it's amazing to watch I couldn't stop looking at it but it's incredibly annoying as well. Non stop twist and turns, and hitting me and all the wrong place can be kinda painfull and uncomfterble especially while trying to fall asleep. 

My baby just didn't seem to get the memo that it's night time and that means sleep! As I was laying there watching and feeling my belly I decied to record it, if I was amazed by it now I thought it would be a really nice thing to have. 

I hope you don't think I'm crazy for sharing it with you, but it will bring a smile to your face and show you the incredible miricale happening inside of us.

(I'm having trouble uploading the video to my website, you can find the video on our Facebook and Instagram page! Looking forward to your comments.)

Last night my baby was hyper again, and all I wanted was to see it moving around, if only we had acsess to sonograms when ever we wanted. So as I was wishing I made up alittle poem, I did it really fast and didn't think much of it. But I sent it to my sister and a friend and they both really enjoyed it, so I'll share with you the poem. 

I wish my belly was transparent, so I can watch you. 

I wish I can watch, so I can see you grow. 

I wish I can see you grow, so I can watch the miracle. 

I wish I can watch the miracle, so I appreciate my body more.

I wish I can appreciate my body more, so I can treat it better.

I wish I can treat my body better, so you can be safe. 

I wish it's safe for you, so you can be born health. 

I wish you can be born, so I can see you. 

I wish I can see you, so I can make sure your ok. 

I wish I can make sure your ok, so I can be able to love you more.

I wish I can be able to love you more then I do now.

Reading it now I probably would have changed it alittle but I wanted to share it, unedited and exactly what I was feeling in the spare of the moment. 

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