Namasté (नमस्ते)

today sophia went to her first "mommy & baby" yoga class!  we went to class in manhattan near union square with molly/annamaria and guna/gabriela, both from my 'astoria stay at home moms' group.  we had such a good time!  i really liked the class because it not only had me doing stretching and yoga poses, but also Sophia.  it was completely interactive with her, and i think she enjoyed it!  she slept the entire way to the class studio, i was afraid she was going to sleep during class... but she didn't!  she was awake and happy all the way up to the end!  well... the very very very end at the ending meditation she was fussy cause she didn't want to be on her tummy any more.  so i held her close and rocked her until meditation was over and she was calm.  we then diaper changed and got her in the sling.  instant sleep.  the yoga class was just enough!  we'll be going to more most definitely.  namaste.

Push-Ups... almost.

today was sophia's first time pushing up from her belly!!  granted, it was maybe half-an-inch to an inch up off the bed mattress, but she held her head up and pushed her chest up!  of course, this didn't last long.  I have been trying to get her to do more tummy time- as it is supposed to be good for her to work out her neck/back/stomach/arm/leg muscles to help her progress on to the next phase of movement... rolling over and then crawling.  She's not a huge fan of the tummy time for more than a few minutes or so.  she has her Boppy playmat (thanks nicole!) that she plays with, she has some time on my chest during the day (although it's tough to keep her awake then!) and sometimes i just put her on the bed and hang out with her on the side or front of her with a toy.  i learned a new tummy time from my baby newsletter-  essentially SUPERGIRL TIME!  she takes to that a whole lot better than just being put on her belly on flat surface.  she's still yet to throw up on me!  well, she's still yet to throw up on me while doing supergirl time.  

i also think that she's coming close to having her last days in her orange and white rugby stripe jumper.  :(  i'll probably try to have her wear it for another two or three weeks.  i just have more of a sentimental attachment to it since it's once of the first outfits she wore when she came home (although she was SWIMMING in it).  my little girl continues to grow up... *sigh* 

Last Day @ Work

Today was me and Baby XX's last day at work!  Chris sent us a beauuuu-tiful bouquet of flowers.  (See photo)  Tomorrow our shipment of baby furniture will be coming in, so it's a good thing that I won't be working anymore- someone needs to receive the shipments!  We will miss our friends @ Spon, but we will see them again... just in different shape.  Baby XX will be post-utero and I will be hopefully over 30lbs. lighter...

Passed with FLYING COLORS

YESSSSSSSSS. So Chris and I finished our Childbirth Education class. We took classes at St. Vincent's Hospital (where we're delivering the baby). Who was the best couple in the class? You guessed it. US. What is my final conclusion after so many hours of education? I never want to see another 70's/80's birthing video. Seriously... isn't it time someone made some money off of some recent docu videos for childbirthing classes? I would do it, but I'm having my fill by having a child myself.

It was interesting. There were a total of 4 couples including me and Chris. Once couple only came to one session. Talk about a waste of moolah! All of us oddly worked in production of some kind. One chick, Delia, was an editor, her boyf was the head of the editing department at the New York Film Academy and another guy was a broadcast producer. We did learn a lot- different positions to cope with labor pains, epidurals, stages of labor, natural childbirth, etc.  We seriously watched so many childbirthing videos.  All of them from the 80's.  I haven't seen that many perms going through labor and giving birth- ever.  I don't want to ever again either.  Watching all the birthing videos wigged me out.  I would have been fine with just one, even two.  It was just birth after birth after birth after birth after birth after birth.  Egad.  We got all kinds of handouts and worked on a lot of exercises together.  It was good for me to learn what Chris' concerns, fears, excitements were with everything and vice versa.  :)  It was great for us not only to learn, learn, learn... but to also grow and bond together.  Hooray!  

WASTED! She better not be!!

*HICCUP* *HICCUP* *HICCUP*

yes... Baby XX has had the hiccups! At first, I thought that she had already developed a sense of amazing rhythm (which i don't doubt now), but it's way more faint than her growing-in-strength kicks. it also happens pretty much every day where she gets them. TOO CUTE. i can only imagine. she's definitely getting stronger and squirmy in the her ever shrinking space. not that i'm getting smaller... NOOOOOOO... she's getting larger, so less space to move. she has been taking more interest in making her presence known in my upper cavity right below the "girls". not quite painful yet, but i can definitely feel the pressure. please pray that it doens't get super hot this summer. i'm already schvitzing when it's only in the 70's/80's. not mad schvitz... yet. just those annoying beads of sweat that form on my nose. cute? only for the first second...

REMINDER: PLEASE NOTE

please note the dates on these postings have been adjusted from the time i really posted. i changed the dates to make it more easy to follow along actual events with us chronologically. so no, i haven't had this page up since january. thank you. -Management.

Intense Glucose Test (part i & ii)- Week 28

today, i had to starve myself until around 11:00am.  christina at dr. elizabeth stein's office gave me a bottle of straight up glucose drink for my 4-hour test.  this is to test me for gestational diabetes.  i had previously taken a 1-hour blood test, but the levels were so "iffy" she wanted me to take the more intense test.  she said, take this an hour before they take your blood.  so i left work at 10:00am and drank the beverage.  (it tastes like straight up syrup from the Hi-C orange fountain soda from McD's).  i went to the lab place, and i basically fought with the blood taker/receptionist saying that i was instructed to take the drink an hour before.  apparently i was supposed to take it THERE and sit there for 4 hours until they took my blood.  i think i was trying to save time to where i didn't have to be away from the office too long.  so they sent me back and told me to come back the next day to drink that mess again.  so all i was for that day was extremely wired on pure sugar, only to have a major sugar meltdown crash.  

so i went in the next day and did it again.  drank it.  and i had to be there for 4 HOURS!  they took my blood about 4-6 times, and had to pee in a cup that many times.  i was like... I DON'T HAVE ANY MORE PEE IN ME after the first two times going to the bathroom.  somehow i managed to get the job done.  i am also not good with needles, so it was awful.  i tried to keep distracted by talking to the blood-taker, but she wasn't a talking type person, so i had to look around the room and grit my teeth when the needle went in and the vials were filled with my life juice.  

by the time i was done with that mess of bodily fluids i left and went to go get something to eat.  i went to We Liang Ye on the upper east side on 86th street.  i ordered and pretty much was shaking since i didn't have any food and i had had so much blood taken out of me.  it was pretty sad seeing me try to eat my first course of soup and spring roll with my arm shaking like a leaf.  i decided to reward myself by going to pinkberry.  a delightful frozen yogurt place where you can have fresh fruit toppings (among other toppings) on real frozen yogurt- and it actually tasted kinda tangy like yogurt!  quite refreshing for a hot, food depraved, almost passing out day.