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. 

First Mets Game - 27 weeks

here is baby xx at her first mets game! don't worry cards fans... i was wearing my cardinals hat! the place where i work, spontaneous, had a baseball night where we all went out to see the mets play the giants. of course, we were cheering for the cardinals #1, and the giants #2. for those who don't know... baby daddy is a HUGE giants fan. he was at the game as well, but in better seats with clients. you could probably see his speck of a face across the stadium above the dugout. that's where his seats were. again, millions of hot dogs around me, but none for me. *sigh*. so i got chicken fingers and fries and water and a pretzel and a frozen lemon chill. it was delish, but i was still longing for that foot long hotdog with ketchup and mustard. one day... one day... anyways. here's a picture of me caught red-handed with my frozen lemon chill. i'm thinking about entering this into gap maternity to see if they'll hire me as a prego model...

Auntie Jessi Visit & First Yankee Game - 26 weeks

So auntie jessi of BFFE (Best Friends For Ever (we didn't know how to spell back in grade school)) came all the way from D.C. to visit baby XX for the first time. jessi, her boyf Joe, chris, baby XX and i went to our first Yankee game of the season. on the train ride to yankee stadium, it was prego fest. i was sitting next to two pregnant ladies, both who had other younger children. so there we were... three pregos in a row. i should have taken a picture, but i didn't. i know, bad call. i wore my mother's day tank that chris got me that said "due in august". the game: quite exciting!! i must tell you that it was absolute torture not being able to eat a hot dog. that's one of the forbidden preggers foods... because of the nitrates and the crap gross meat in them. sausages, hot dogs, foot longs... oh the torture! so i had to go on this 2 inning trek around yankee statium to find non-hotdog food. jessi and i finally found a place after being directed to go everywhere but the right place. so i had a philly cheesesteak. Mmm... healthy. i definitely would have had at least 3 hot dogs normally. and a frozen lemonade. and a carvel ice cream. and dippin dots. anyway, enough about me. how bout my baby?!?! here is her first baseball game picture. first game. first yankee game. just to calm those st. louis cardinals and san francisco giants fan's fears... she will NEVER wear yankee gear. EVER.

We're goin back to school! - 26 weeks

This weekend I just set us up for a hospital tour of where the baby is going to be delivered. St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan, cause that's where Elizabeth Stein delivers at. The tour isn't until next month, but it will be interesting being in the actual place where a world of pain awaits me. HahaHAhhh. I also signed us up for our "Childbirth Prep" class. Since we have to work until at least 7pm, we have to do the weekend course. It's like one of those intensive ACT/SAT prep classes where you're there all day for two days straight. That should be fun. Lamaze breathing from 10am to 5pm. NONSTOP. I'm hoping that Chris will have to massage my back the entire time. ;)
My belly is definitely getting larger... but not nearly as big as it's going to be ultimately. Saturday was the first time she kicked (or punched) on my belly in slo-mo. It was SO weird, I was staring at my belly and it just raised slowly. It's all still very cool and exciting. She's definitely gotten more active as time has passed by. I can definitely feel it more with more force! She still likes her fruit! It's funny how much fruit I have been wanting, craving, eating and drinking. Watermelon seems to be a hit!