T minus 34. I prefer 8 months pregnant to being anything less. I don't know why, but I feel great. Now, here at the end I would do it again even though I know the first 3 months were so horrible... how am I forgetting the feeling.
No stretch marks yet, cannot believe it.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Infant tub review
I just met an overweight hispanic women with heavy eyeliner and fake eyebrows at Target to purchase her used infant bathtub. The tub is $28 new at Walmart. I paid her $5. I thought maybe she was going to go into Target to buy things, consolidate trips. She didn't. She made a special trip to meet me to sell a tub for $5.
This is the tub:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Fisher-Price-Pink-Sparkles-Tub/15443716
Tub review.
This is the tub:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Fisher-Price-Pink-Sparkles-Tub/15443716
Tub review.
more than i expected
05/20/2011
Omg, omg, omg. Just received my tub today and i just cant express how pretty it looks. I could tell it was pretty from the web pic but i didn't expect it to look this pretty in reality plus its so spacious my baby can use it for a long time. i love it
Three omgs. She has no words to express how beautiful the tub is. This is one special infant bathtub. I couldn't wait to see it!
My review: Omg, omg, omg, OMG. The tub is so nice. So sparkly, like diamonds. Amazing, just an amazing infant bathtub. We love it so much when we are not using it we hang it over the fireplace just to look at it.
I am as big a loser as the original reviewer. I know. I need a real job.
53 days
I did not get any calls regarding the management jobs. I am now so very pregnant I cannot look for a job. Well I could, but no one will hire a pregnant person. And I still have not won the lottery.
53 days to go. I can relax now because if the baby is born tomorrow she will live and be fine. There is the death zone called the second trimester. During the death zone if the baby comes it will likely die, or worse, live and be retarded/disabled. The horror of the second trimester is mostly that you have suffered the first for 3 months, only to lose the baby. Pregnancy books talk about the loveliness of the 2nd trimester, you are not sick anymore, but you are not heavily pregnant. I found that middle zone the worst. Now that I am almost cooked, I can relax and start to think about the baby. I love her. Sounds odd, but she moves so much I feel like she is already real. We interact.
My zero dollar baby/low cost baby plan is moving along. I scored a $5 tub, new $27. The tub deserves it's own post. $10 potty, new $27. $44 overpriced wrap for $20. $20 is still too much. $20 breast feeding pillow with extra cover. 200 disposable diapers at 40% off Amazons price. My big score is 14 Bum Genius diapers, free. They need stripping, hopefully I can rehabilitate them.
Mom and Aunty are giving me a party in March, without me. I made a registry, I should get a few gifts. I loaded it with diapers from Green Mountain Diaper, $700 worth. If people actually bought them all (I doubt it) I would have all the diapers I need for the entire period of diapering. I am excited about diapering. I know. Diaper just hold poop.
Husband spent $16k on Spanish stock. I couldn't stop him.
What else do I want to remember. Not much happens at home waiting to have a baby.
53 days to go. I can relax now because if the baby is born tomorrow she will live and be fine. There is the death zone called the second trimester. During the death zone if the baby comes it will likely die, or worse, live and be retarded/disabled. The horror of the second trimester is mostly that you have suffered the first for 3 months, only to lose the baby. Pregnancy books talk about the loveliness of the 2nd trimester, you are not sick anymore, but you are not heavily pregnant. I found that middle zone the worst. Now that I am almost cooked, I can relax and start to think about the baby. I love her. Sounds odd, but she moves so much I feel like she is already real. We interact.
My zero dollar baby/low cost baby plan is moving along. I scored a $5 tub, new $27. The tub deserves it's own post. $10 potty, new $27. $44 overpriced wrap for $20. $20 is still too much. $20 breast feeding pillow with extra cover. 200 disposable diapers at 40% off Amazons price. My big score is 14 Bum Genius diapers, free. They need stripping, hopefully I can rehabilitate them.
Mom and Aunty are giving me a party in March, without me. I made a registry, I should get a few gifts. I loaded it with diapers from Green Mountain Diaper, $700 worth. If people actually bought them all (I doubt it) I would have all the diapers I need for the entire period of diapering. I am excited about diapering. I know. Diaper just hold poop.
Husband spent $16k on Spanish stock. I couldn't stop him.
What else do I want to remember. Not much happens at home waiting to have a baby.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Applied to four residential property management jobs, for some reason I am sure I will get one. I don't know why I feel this way. I also often feel sure I will win the lottery, so. Let us just see if I get a call back.
Thinking I should be doing pre birth exercises, breathing and perhaps some sort of meditation. Four months to go. I am looking at a DVD here on the table, yoga prenatal. I should start as my back often hurts now with a small 1.4 pound baby, this will only get worse.
I would like to move before the baby is born to place with a more accessible tub. The tub here is gross and the door is a mold trap.
Thinking I should be doing pre birth exercises, breathing and perhaps some sort of meditation. Four months to go. I am looking at a DVD here on the table, yoga prenatal. I should start as my back often hurts now with a small 1.4 pound baby, this will only get worse.
I would like to move before the baby is born to place with a more accessible tub. The tub here is gross and the door is a mold trap.
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Christmas is sad
Christmas is sad alone in SoCal miles from a family I cannot afford to visit. Christmas will be sadder when I have the baby because then I will wish for a family even more. With a baby, we won't ever be able to fly home, not to NewEngland, not to Europe to visit Husbands family.
Christmas trees are $40 now. We have no money to buy ornaments, and no space to store them, and no desire to move ornaments when the rent goes up and we have to move a year or two.
I see that the "Christmas" that I knew as a child was luxury for the families of the past. As renters in SoCal on a budget, Christmas is just another day to feel alone.
Christmas trees are $40 now. We have no money to buy ornaments, and no space to store them, and no desire to move ornaments when the rent goes up and we have to move a year or two.
I see that the "Christmas" that I knew as a child was luxury for the families of the past. As renters in SoCal on a budget, Christmas is just another day to feel alone.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Still pregnant
I am still pregnant. I am now half cooked.
Pregnancy is getting better, week 21 as compared to week 8. I suspect week 38 will be about as bad as week 12, but I really doubt it. The event of birth will be nothing compared to month long agony of failed digestion. I regret that I am already forgetting the experience of week 8 which should remain fresh in my mind forever. I never did write about the placental separation that left me on the couch for over a month, depressed. And in the end, all this crap for a girl child. And it is not over yet, I need to see the perinatalogist to look at a white spot on the heart of the baby (if she makes it) we will name Cora.
I don't like to use the name yet, because she could still fail. She could miscarry tomorrow. No one has chickens before they hatch.
The white spot could be down-syndrome, though all other tests were negative. I will likely need an amnio.
What else would I like to remember...
The 3 people, 7 steaks, two eaten dinner.
The bike stolen.
Jason Roos paid me $800 for the car damage. Cha-ching.
The summer was so hot, I will never complain about cold again. Unless I am truly freezing.
Obama was relected.
The Dems have a super majority in CA, which means taxes will go up.
CA citizens voted to raise the sales tax. It will move to 9%.
It looks like the payroll tax cut will expire, raising taxes 2%.
We still cannot afford a house.
Watching Battlestar Galactica.
Joel bought a new camera.
My phone only works on speaker.
Dad never made me the wooden thingies.
I threw away most of my plants. I was depressed during early pregnancy.
Joel and I fail at the budget. We spend almost $4,000 a month.
But, we are not going out any more. We did eat a Rubio's, because he had two coupons. We do love the salsa there.
I am making my own yogurt.
I was feeling inspired to say something earlier, that is gone.
Pregnancy is getting better, week 21 as compared to week 8. I suspect week 38 will be about as bad as week 12, but I really doubt it. The event of birth will be nothing compared to month long agony of failed digestion. I regret that I am already forgetting the experience of week 8 which should remain fresh in my mind forever. I never did write about the placental separation that left me on the couch for over a month, depressed. And in the end, all this crap for a girl child. And it is not over yet, I need to see the perinatalogist to look at a white spot on the heart of the baby (if she makes it) we will name Cora.
I don't like to use the name yet, because she could still fail. She could miscarry tomorrow. No one has chickens before they hatch.
The white spot could be down-syndrome, though all other tests were negative. I will likely need an amnio.
What else would I like to remember...
The 3 people, 7 steaks, two eaten dinner.
The bike stolen.
Jason Roos paid me $800 for the car damage. Cha-ching.
The summer was so hot, I will never complain about cold again. Unless I am truly freezing.
Obama was relected.
The Dems have a super majority in CA, which means taxes will go up.
CA citizens voted to raise the sales tax. It will move to 9%.
It looks like the payroll tax cut will expire, raising taxes 2%.
We still cannot afford a house.
Watching Battlestar Galactica.
Joel bought a new camera.
My phone only works on speaker.
Dad never made me the wooden thingies.
I threw away most of my plants. I was depressed during early pregnancy.
Joel and I fail at the budget. We spend almost $4,000 a month.
But, we are not going out any more. We did eat a Rubio's, because he had two coupons. We do love the salsa there.
I am making my own yogurt.
I was feeling inspired to say something earlier, that is gone.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Food prices
I just finished my pregnant gal's dinner feast of $3.00 a pound farmers market heirloom tomato, japanese cucumber at $2.00 a pound topped with certified California olive oil and a dash of salt. I also ate two small pieces of whole wheat organic bread with a slice of havarti melted on top. The havarti is husbands, not organic. As I drizzled olive oil on the exposed toast I thought, "This olive oil is so good." and I recalled the trip mum and I took and the wonderful olive oil store where I bought a gallon of it at tremendous cost. I am "lucky" I don't have to worry about how much my food costs. I live in a minority filled ghetto in SoCal, mexican music always blaring in cars that cruise, and an el camino across the ally that smells so bad on start up I have to run to close my windows lest the fumes infect my house, but my fridge is full of expensive organic greens, grass fed meats, and raw cheeses from europe. If we lived in a more tony location, we would be poor. (ok, not poor, but we wouldn't be able to save half of our income, which we need to do as 1,200 square foot houses cost $450,000 in a rough area of Pasadena. With the baby, earning $120k just is not enough.) I digress, I was thinking about rising food prices due to the drought and I thought, "I don't care". My food is not made of corn or soy, two items I do not eat. My organic meats (chicken and pork) and grass fed beef are not fed corn or soy, as almost no corn or soy grown in the US is organic. Even my eggs are the ultra snotty free range chicken eggs, the chickens peck in wild fields eating grass seed and bugs! The yokes are bright orange. If "chicken" suddenly costs $3 a pound, I don't care. I already pay twice that. If hamburgers are no longer $1, I don't care, I don't eat that. I do wonder if the price of my food will increase along with the common food, since it can... or is the price of the food more based on the cost of production and the demand for organic foods? The poor families around me won't pay $6 a pound for chicken that was $2, they will eat less $4 chicken - they won't say, "hey, since the mutant chicken and the heritage breed pasture raised chicken are only separated by $3, let's get the fancy chicken" no they won't say that. They will eat less $4 chicken, or less of some processed corn product, whatever. But, my grass fed beef could be affected, based on the amount of grass available for my tony cows. Well, I guess I will pay more. That is ok, we cancelled Cable.
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