Wednesday, November 28, 2007

baby mullet


Current mood: confused

my baby has a mullet!!! all that hair that she was born with is already getting longer. unfortunately, like most babies she is losing a lot of that pretty hair. REALLY unfortunate is the fact that she is losing that hair on the sides of her head creating a mullet. she still has hair on the top. and i just cant bring myself to cut her hair. how do i make it grow back in the bald spots?

Monday, November 26, 2007

Natalia update



Current mood: exhausted

For a few weeks now she has been able to track me with her eyes and yesterday she started trying to "use" her bouncer. She was bouncing herself and hitting the rattles to turn the lights on. She seems so big now, absolutely huge. If the scale in my parents' bathroom was correct, she is now over 9lbs. Crazy! Well, that's pretty much all she does besides eat, cry and poop (notice I didn't say sleep?).

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Not being pregnant is nice

The benefits of not being pregnant anymore:
No more heartburn as soon as I'm done eating
No more heartburn because it's been too long since I've eaten
No more heartburn just because I'm breathing...
I am able to sleep in my bed again
Getting in and out of the car is getting easier
Pants are staying up better
My feet aren't swollen
Much less back pain
I don't have to sleep in a semi-sitting position to avoid vomiting in my sleep
I can wear my wedding ring again
My fingers don't hurt anymore when I flex them
Most of my joints have stopped popping
Even though I'm still not sleeping, I have much more energy
I'm losing weight instead of gaining it!
I can go 4 hours without peeing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I do miss the little internal heater though, it's kind of cold now.

But I do have an adorable little baby I get to play with, well, more like AT. There isn't a lot of interaction at this point, but she's so cute to watch!

Most of you know already

that I finally had the baby. Yes, Tara, I "pushed that kid out" finally! I thought the day would never come, then when it did, I wished it hadn't. I had been having contractions since Wednesday morning, but they were very small. Friday they got stronger, but they were still ok and I thought "ok, I'm going to be able to do this" since everything was building gradually. I was uncomfortable, sometimes in some pain, but I would count to 60 and it would be over. Friday night they got a little stronger where I needed Bruno to rub my back when they came, but it was still ok, I was able to keep doing whatever I wanted in between them and they were 8-20 minutes apart. Then, at 8:50 PM on 10/19, my water broke. We arrived at the hospital at about 10:30 and I was admitted at about midnight.
Since my water had broken, but my contractions were still too irregular to be considered "active labor" they started giving my pitocin. Not only did this make the contractions much stronger, but they were also much sharper and right on top of each other. By about 4:30, I couldn't cope with them anymore, I was becoming exhausted so I asked them to give me something for the pain. Because I was only dilated to 2.5 cm, they wouldn't give me an epidural, so they gave me phenti-something, a narcotic. I thought, "this will be ok, I know that it will still hurt, but I will be stoned and won't care, right?" WRONG!!!! All it did was make me even more tired, but the contractions were so strong, I couldn't sleep, so I was very worn out.
I finally got the epidural at 6AM (administered by the worst anesthesiologist ever, he stabbed me at least 6 times while trying to find the right spot, but every time he did, he would wiggle the needle around to try and get it in the right spot, hitting every nerve possible in my spinal column; it felt like someone was dragging a knife up and down my hip bone) and at 8:20 AM informed the nurse that I needed to push.
She agreed with my since she could feel the head only about 2 inches in when she checked me, and after only 30 mins of pushing (ha, beat that Lisa!), out came my little baby girl.
She was pretty icky and purple, but I decided to keep her anyway. She was 7lbs 15.2 oz and over 19 in long.
We named her Natalia (no middle name) Montes Borges.
We are very happy to have her home, but also very tired.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

how much information do you really want?

i woke up this morning at 6 am because i felt something come out of me. first thought? i just peed, on myself and the couch; fabulous. so i went to the bathroom, and when i turned on the light i could see that it was blood on me. and it was bright red blood. so i started getting scared. we called labor and delivery and they told me to come in. it took about 45 mins to get dressed and get to the hospital, and she never moved. so that made me even more scared. we got in to triage and they put the fetal monitor on me and we heard the heartbeat. it was such a relief. she was still there and her heart was still beating, but she still wasnt moving. i poked, i rubbed my belly, i massaged her and she still didnt move. i know she was sleeping, but i thought some of that would have woken her up, but it didnt. so the nurse gave me some juice and i sat in the bed hooked up to the monitor. about 10 mins later she woke up! and she started moving all around and kicking at the monitor.
2 hours later they finally did an exam on me. my water hadnt broken and all that was happening was apparently the "bloody show." so at least that means that something is happening! and the monitor showed that i was having contractions. only a couple of them were strong enough for me to feel though.
but in all of the classes that we took, every time they talked about "bloody show" they said that if it was bright red, call labor and delivery. they said that it would be kind of pink, or dark red, or brown. they also made it sound like it was just something that you might see when you wipe or a little bit on your underwear. but every time i stand up it feels like it just gushes out! it is so gross!
BUT IT'S A SIGN, SOMETHING IS HAPPENING AND SHE IS ACTUALLY GOING TO COME OUT!!!!

Monday, October 15, 2007

i want her out!!!

so, i had a doctor's appointment today and found out (drum roll please!): NOTHING IS HAPPENING!!!! she is at 0 station, i am 0 cm dilated and only 25% effaced.
i ate a huge prego pizza this weekend, and: nothing.
ive been walking, and: bupkis.
sex: zilch (well, baby-wise, zilch)
i want her out!!!!! i need to do something to make it uncomfortable in there for her. im obviously too generous of a host and provide too comfortable of an environment.
get out baby bling!!!! right now! you have to listen to me, im your mother!
i have another doctors appt next tuesday, at that point they will talk about inducing if she hasnt come yet. but, i wont need that appt, right? cause shes going to be here tomorrow, right?
GET OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday, October 8, 2007

signs, signs, are there any?

no! there arent! bling hasnt dropped, there are no contractions and no signs that i am dilating or efacing. shouldnt some of that be happening if she is going to be born on 10/15 like i told her she is? i can tell she is definitely stronger though. maybe shes planning on coming out through my belly button. does she know that that isnt an exit? but maybe that would be better... that guy from spaceballs looked like he faired a lot better than the women we watched on the birthing videos (hello my honey!), his ordeal was much shorter!









but ive only got 7 days left until shes supposed to be here, shouldnt something be happening?
at least we installed the car seat last night. there is no longer room for passengers in my car. if we need to take a "family" trip somewhere we now have to take 2 cars. we couldnt install it using the LATCH system in the middle of the backseat, so its behind the passenger seat, which has to be a teeny bit past vertical to fit the seat in; comfy! i guess we could just get a new car... oh, wait, i have no income, maybe a new car isnt such a good idea! and i love my car. anyway, im digressing.
tchau.

Sunday, July 22, 2007

what do you think baby bling is?

we had our appointment yesterday for the 3-d ultrasound. just as we were about to head into the city i got a phone call from the clinic, they called to inform me that they were running behind and wanted to push my appointment back 30mins. i said "ok," hung-up and was glad that they had the decency to call. this left me with high hopes for the appointment. not only did they seem courteous, but the reason they were so far behind is that the babies weren't cooperating and each appointment took longer than expected to get good pictures, translation, they knew the importance of getting good pictures, they didn't just take your money, slap some goo on your stomach and send you home with a bunch of pictures of knee caps. so we got to south san francisco at 530 to see some pictures of our baby ling. at 608 we were still waiting for them to finish up with the people before us. i think it was about 630 when they finally called us in. so i hopped up on the table (ok, so i used the step stool and kind of flopped on it) and waited to see the pictures of our little bling. he started with the 2-d pictures, the same ones that they do at the dr's office, to check the placement and see if i was going to have to move around so we could get some good shots. we saw the grainy, fuzzy little profile of our baby. he zoomed in on the head and switched to 3-d. i was pretty cool. then, he went back to 2-d to tell us the gender of the baby. he said we came at a good time to tell the sex, the baby isn't too big or too small. so i rolled over so he could get a good angle. so he poked around for a little bit and was able to get a good shot to tell us what the gender is. it was so weird to hear... now we know what bling is! it's so strange to know now.
so then he took some more pictures, but baby bling started to turn. so i had to get up on my knees and elbows and wait for baby bling to turn around. it was very uncomfortable. but, as you can see, we got some good pictures of our little baby bling!
it's getting so close, it's terrifying! i cant believe we are going to have a baby in our house soon. bruno spent last weekend painting the baby's room. he is redoing the closet now and it looks really good. we are moving furniture back in there today.

Thursday, July 19, 2007

second chance

we have an appointment on saturday to try and find out if we have a bling-O or a bling-A. let's hope it cooperates!

Thursday, June 28, 2007

cankles

i am so glad that when we were in london we decided that cankles were a sign of royalty, i am so swollen i should be empress of the earth now! apparently just sitting at my desk causes ever ounce of fluid within my body (that isnt in my increasingly small bladder) to flow directly to my ankles. its really disgusting. my little toes seem to peek out from underneath my giant fat balloon foot. ive tried drinking massive amounts of water, but it doesnt help. it probably is counter-acted by the fact that the baby likes salty food. what am i to do?

Monday, June 25, 2007

craziest science experiment ever

i can now see the baby move from the outside. my belly jumps every time the baby moves. its odd how much things can change over a short period of time. when i went to san diego last weekend lisa could barely feel it. now i can actually see it moving. OMG!!!! freaking out! it is gonna be here so soon and we are so not prepared!!!!!

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

copy of blog posted 5/29

oh my god it moves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i think im feeling it move. it is so weird and creepy. it feels like a little muscle twitch or spasm. i think its just messing with me and flicking me. it made it really hard to concentrate on work. i just hope it is more like the creature in space balls than alien, we could use a little song and dance during the day.

copy of blog posted 5/18

it's a prude, a prude i tell you!!!
Current mood: surprised

we had our ultrasound on wednesday. we were all ready to find out if it was a menina or menino, a hot dog or a hamburger, an Elvis or a priscilla. but the only thing that we found out is that its a prude. it had its little knees pinched together the entire time. how could i, of all people, be raising a child that is a prude? one that is afraid to show the goods? how is this even posible???? but it has two kidneys, a functioning bladder, 4 ventricle heart, developing brain, 2 arms, 2 legs and a full spine. but idea if it has a va-jay-jay or a winkle!

Friday, February 2, 2007

im finally getting off my butt

i thought it would be cool working the night shift here, but it is really hard to go to sleep immediately when i get home from work, and even harder to get moving when i wake up. i always blamed it on not being a "morning" person, but i guess that doesn't apply now because i should be sleeping from about 4am to noon. i guess im just and inert person (objects at rest like to stay at rest!). but i am going to over come my inertia right now! i have 1 hour 15mins before our driver will be here to pick us up to go to work. i am going to get dressed and go for a walk and see what i can find. im going to go in the opposite direction than i went the 1st time. wish me luck in seeing all kinds of totally amazing things!!!

copy of blog posted 3:12pm 2/1: NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i just tried to log on to abc.com to watch greys and i got the following message:
ONLY VIEWERS IN THE UNITED STATES CAN WATCH THESE FULL LENGTH EPISODES.
how horrible is this? this is torture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

copy of blog posted on 3:04 Pm 2/1: oh so yummy

the food here is soooooo good. i love it. i am going to miss it very much. i do not miss american food at all. and naan is the best stuff ever. well, 2nd best. GARLIC naan is the best stuff ever!!! ive thought about getting a good cookbook here, but i know im just kidding myself in thinking that i will be cooking.

copy of blog posted 3:32 am 1/31: i think its the boobs

well, i am in heaven here!!!! apparently, in india, i am quite the hottie. i am starting to think that that whole staring thing i experienced on the first day was not due to the whiteness factor; every guy that i pass wants to talk to me and totally looks me up and down.
last night on our dinner break, one of the guys from the office here took us foreignors out to this really great restaurant (the food was absolutely fantastic!!! i am going to be very sad to not have it any more) and i totally scored digits on the way back from the bathroom!!!
bruno, you better watch out, they might just steal me away here!!!

copy of blog posted 3:52pm on 1/29: she works hard for the money

today was my first day at work here, 630pm to 330am. i woke up from my nap at 5pm so disoriented that i didnt even know where i was. i thought for sure that i would never make it through the night at work. but once i got there and started interacting with everyone i woke right up. ive now been off work for 2 hours and am just starting to get sleepy. the uw's that im training are very smart and very concerned about doing their job correctly, but its amazing how many simple things they havent been told. im running thru the kind of ever day stuff that goes into a file and reviewing conditions. everyone is very friendly and it was a great 1st day in a new office. i really enjoy the trainer role, my ability to retain random and/or useless facts is totally coming in handy, and i can share it with people who completely and undividedly give me their attention. im hoping i will get used to the accent soon b/c i am having a very difficult time understanding many of them.
i also went shopping today (before work) and got a really beautiful saree and a set of saphire jewelry (earrings, pendant, ring). everything was so beautiful it was really hard to decide. and i had a super yummy dinner/breakfast of chooza makhni and naan. oh, and we saw and elephant on the way to work tonight!!!!!

copy of blog posted 11:16pm 1/28: stranger

it feels a little strange being here. i went on my first mini-excursion by myself yesterday. i walked around the block (left my toothbrush, toothpaste and deodorant in a suitcase i ended up not bringing, brilliant). the thing that feels strange is that everyone stares at me. its a little bit creepy when everyone, whether they are walking or driving by, turns their head to stare at you because you dont belong. i wonder if i will get used to it. its very hard to ignore and not stare back.
today i went shopping with steven (he is from my office, hes a funder there) so we drove through delhi a bit. i had my first experience with beggars then. i knew they would be coming up to the car, but what i didnt know was that they would be pounding on the windows to try and make you look.
i bought some saphire jewelry and a saree for myself. it is really pretty. it was very hard to decide because everything is so beautiful. i had to say no and practically run when he started showing me carpets and furniture (ma'am, we take care of the shipping for you, you do not worry) because i wanted it all!!
i start work tonight. i am excited to see what is going on in the office here.
also, my expense report will be tons of fun to do when i get home as no one uses cash registers so there are no receipts.

copy of blog posted 3:14 am on 1/28: ive already seen two monkeys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so ive been here in new delhi for a few hours now (about 7). i have spent most of them unpacking and trying to shake off the flight (rude arm rest hog who kept elbowing me in the ribs and wouldnt let me look out of the window sat next to me, then, she practically knocked me down once the "fasten seat belt" sign went off to get her bag and then dropped it on my head, welcome to india!). Anyway, I'm not letting the flight lower my level of excitement over being here. most of my time in the room ive had the tv on. its very interesting that there are so many english speaking programs on, and the commercials are sometimes english, sometimes an indian language (i have no idea which one, so i make no assumptions, though its probably punjabi, as that is the most common one, i think), and sometimes in both english and an indian language. it kinda throws you off.
im staying in the radisson here and it is gorgeous! i need to find a store that sells fat girl bathing suits b/c i forgot mine and i HAVE GOT to hit this awesome pool!
and as for the title of this blog, i have seen 2 monkeys already. they were huge!! they were on the rooftop of a building behind the hotel. i was looking out, surveying what i could and i saw an animal walking on the roof. at first i thought it was a dog b/c of the size, but it was walking weird, then i thought,(here is the conversation i had w/ myself) "is it a cat?" "that would be one huge cat" "maybe its a leopard or something" "thats stupid, like there would be a leopard- OMG ITS STANDING UP!!!" "ITS A MONKEY!!!!!!!! wheres my camera?"
i have some very fuzzy pix of them, i couldnt get the window open, hopefully i will get some better ones before i leave.
its almost 5pm here and i am off to explore (and replace everything i left in the original carry-on bag that i was going to bring).
Please do the Needful!!!