39 weeks

So i went to the docs today which im super glad i had an appt today .. i started leaking fluid in the wee hours of the morning ... so i researched what it was happening and i read that it was normal and i read that it meant my water was leaking , so i got excited thinking my water was going to break today and i would be bale to have my lil girl in my arms no such luck :/ i went in and had to get 3 test done and had to get hooked up to a continuous fetal monitor they thought i was leaking because my membranes were ruptured ... thank goodness the test came back neg and my membranes are just find :]] so i got sent home from the hospital and i was in good spirits until i asked if i was dilated and my doc said no .. but i forgot to ask if i was thinned .. darn me!! so i was kinda bummed , i am leaking fluid but i was told not to worry about it because i have enough fluid in my tum tum :]] so i went to the store got my red raspberry leaf tea and some caster oil tomorrow i will be walking on the gazelle for a very long time trying to coax her out .. if the caster oil dont take then i guess ill let her cook some more :]] but we shall see ..


Hooked up to the continuous fetal monitor

8 days left to go / Banana Nut Bread

Making some Banana Nut bread to help calm myself down ... not been a good day ... dont know what put me in this bad mood but let me tell ya i sure am on one! its bad because like my love keeps telling me the more i stress the more the baby is stressed! and i feel like crap because of it .. i just dont know how to snap out of it :/ ... i took a long bath earlier and that seemed to help but then i took a trip to walmart and well ... lets just say i came out with a worse attitude then i had when i went in!!! not good ... but oh well i only have 8 days till my EDD , i go into the docs tomorrow to be checked , then i have to talk to a few Peds Docs for my lil girl, i was told that if i have a natural birth with no pain meds and no complications and my lil girl is nice and healthy and my doc and her peds docs signs off then i DONT have to stay over night in the hosp! which would be super nice ... because im sure im going to want to go home and relax with my daughter and love instead of staying in a hosp without my love and not to mention the interruptions that im sure would happen more often then not there! i dont want to be woken up by anyone unless its my daughter or my love ... so finners crossed that i get a peds doc that will sign off on me, i cant wait to see how far along i am, i feel like she is super low i get contractions quite a bit now , they just don't hurt that bad i mean they are uncomfortable but they dont hurt ... and i have yet to lose my plug or at least im not sure if i have lol ... well i shall update tomorrow after my interview and my appt!

2 days from being 39 weeks


as for the bread this is the receipt i used :

http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/banana_bread/

Turkey Day!

Happy Turkey Day everyone!

Well i am currently baking two cream cheese pumpkin pies .. i tried the batter and it was yummy so i hope they taste as good ... im also making a sour cream topping for one of the pies .. im very worried that my pie crust will burn which would make me cry! but if it happens i can always go buy more pie crust i reckon, So tonight i am going to my moms for a late Thanksgiving dinner, i cat wait ... if there is one thing my mom can do is cook! it'll be nice because it will be a small gathering not a huge affair ... which is nice because i don't have to make/bring anything lol then tomorrow my love has to work a 12hr shift due to black Friday which makes me sad because he'll be 2hrs late to his family's thanksgiving dinner :/ but i on the other hand will be free until that dinner so i plan to do some black Friday shopping at some baby store with my friend/family Christine ... my love is so scared of me going but i refuse to stay home and miss the awesome sales! he is scared ill get trampled and like i told him were going at 9ish not midnight or 6am lol plus i think it will be good for me :]] i only have 12 days left and then my due date will be here ... with my daughter i hope lol! well i will check in tomorrow after my eventful day tomorrow and let you know how i did with the sales and how the pies turned out! i will also post the receipt for the cream cheese pumpkin pies as well as the sour cream topping.


HAVE A WONDERFUL AND SAFE TURKEY DAY!


Receipt for the cream cheese pumpkin pie is

8oz cream cheese (room temp)
2 cups pumpkin puree
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 eggs (slightly beaten)
1/2 cup half and half
1/4 cup melted butter
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

Sour cream topping

2 cups sour cream
1/3 cu sugar(or to taste)
1 teaspoon vanilla(or to taste)

BOTH PIES WERE DELISH!!!

Cream cheese pumpkin pie

Cream Cheese Pumpkin pie with a sour cream topping

Homemade Butterscotch Cookies

So my love loves cookies and when i mentioned making some butterscotch cookies i think he started to drool! lol so there i went to make some cookies


the receipt i used for the cookies
*i used butterscotch chips in place of chocolate chips
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/best-big-fat-chewy-chocolate-chip-cookie/detail.aspx

They taste divine!

16 days and counting (first run in with BH contractions)

So yeasterday was a normal day for me, went to my nieces 3rd birthday party , got home cleaned a little bit and got dinner going the usual, well my love comes home and suprises me with the new kindle fire (my xmas present) and so after dinner i started to mess around with it and totally ignored the BSU game that was playing(not like me im a huge fan!) we had some friends come over and after the game we watched some political stuff, then not even 5mins after our last friend left i start having these painful contractions .... not going to lie the first one brought tears to my eyes because until then i have yet to have any powerful contractions! i knew what it was but that didnt help i tried walking around and that made it worse tried drinking water that didnt help so i went to bed and laid down on my back (it hurt to much to be moving around in bed) and they finally started to taper off , i did try to time them and they were 10-15 mins apart but they could of been further apart as i fell asleep shortly after they stopped. My love was so scared and he told me he hates seeing me in pain :/ i hate seeing him upset ... but like i told him all the pain i have to go through will ultimately make the joy after words that much more wonderful! i said i could get pain meds and be numb to having our daughter and then still feel some joy after all the meds ware off ... but i dont want that i want to feel every contraction and know when my bobdy is telling me to push not some nurse who dont know my body and cant feel my baby! So i laid down on my left side and i was out like a light! they must of taken alot out of me those contractions :]] when i woke this morning i had the same dull pain im my pelvis as i did last night but that was it, i could walk and not even a little bit of pain so im sure its just her moving lower and getting ready to meet us.


So that's my first run in with BH contractions

Broccoli and Cheddar Soup

so tonight for dinner i will be making Broccoli and Cheddar soup for the first time! Broccoli and Cheddar soup is my all time favorite soup! i hope i can do it justice! I also made some homemade bread sticks i sure hope they turn out fluffy in stead of hard!


the receipt im using is
**i used fresh broccoli instead of frozen and i did not have white pepper so i used black

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/broccoli-and-cheddar-soup

the receipt im using for the bread sticks is
http://jamiecooksitup.blogspot.com/2009/10/quick-and-easy-breadsticks.html

i will post pics after its made and of course ill also share how it tastes!



The soup is DELISH! as well as the bread sticks!!!

homemade french bread

People also suggested that i write about the food i make ... so here is goes...

I love to cook/bake it give me a feeling of accomplishment when i pull out the fragrant food that i know i prepared! Last night i made a wonderful Lemon bread .. it turned out delish to say the least! i have in the course of two weeks made pumpkin chocolate chip bread,banana nut bread, and now the lemon bread, i started baking more often due to the fact i wanted to start freezing the remainder of the food. I will be starting to make meals to freeze this week, those meals will be Lasagna, Broccoli and Cheese soup, and Chicken enchiladas. For Thanksgiving which due to my families over whelming support for BSU will be held on Nov 26th lol I will be making homemade pumpkin pie ... this will be a first for me .. i will not be making a homemade pie crust , i want to get the filling down before i try making the crust and filling :]].



So on the Menu for dinner tonight will be Spaghetti Squash... if you have yet to try Spaghetti Squash i highly recommend trying it, you will never want to eat spaghetti noodles again!



its very simple to make...
all you do it buy a spaghetti squash
cut it in half
take out the seeds and membranes like you would a pumpkin
place it in a baking sheet rind side up with some water in the bottom of the pan
then bake for 40-45mins at 350 degrees
then let cool so you dont burn your hands
then with a fork scrape out the inners
and top with your fav spaghetti sauce


there is a crunch to the noodles which reminds me of onions without the flavor:]]




along with the spaghetti squash i am attempting to make homemade french bread ...
its now set aside to rise ... i will post a pic when it is done and let everyone know how it taste :]]




About to go into the oven :]]






Baked and ready to eat ... (i tried it and its DELISH!)

Breaking Dawn Premier

So i went to the 12:01 showing of Breaking Dawn pt.1, we got there at 7:30pm so we could beat the rush. well we did beat the rush, we were with in the first 30 people :]] , so here i am 8 1/2 months pregnant lowering myself to the ground not thinking anything of it (i can still get up and down kinda well on my own) until i looked around and everyone is staring at me and asking me if i wanted a chair! which i later on ended up accepting that offer, it felt a lot better then sitting on the hard ground with no back support! I ended up not being stationary for very long (i kept going in and out of line) so i might of made people upset but OH WELL , then 9:00pm rolls around and we're about to get seated into the theaters and they tell everyone that they are taking free pictures and well i had to get one with Miranda and Bri ... but bri chickened out so it was just Miranda and myself lol, we then got seated in theater 2 and i must say we got some awesome seats! besides the couple that was behind us (dont get me started!) and so our wait began again just in comfy chairs this time lol ... when it finally hit 12:01 and the movie wasnt playing due to previews Bri was like hyperventilating! when the movie first came on everyone cheered ... but no one said a word until the end. the movie its self was amazing! i couldnt of been happier with the movie! i wont leak anything on here because i think everyone should see it! but all in all it was a wonderful night out with the girls! until we had to leave the parking lot ... i almost went up to a random car and yelled at the driver! we ended up finding the back way out and i must say i felt bad for the people who tried to to find a way out through the entrances lol then off to jack in the box to get some food and we all had to pee very bad (it didnt help that Alisyn kept hitting my bladder!) so when we ordered our food and got up to the window i told the lady that "this 8 1/2 month pregnant chick has to pee and that ive been holding it for 2 hours!" she right away let us go into the lobby and use the bathrooms! she was very nice about it and we thanked her profusely! then i got home and fell into bed ... even though what i really wanted to do was wake my love up and tell him all about the movie but i knew he would rather sleep then talk twilight lol (he hates the movies... can you believe that lol ).

well there you have it the gist of my night :]]



Miranda,Bri and I

20 days and counting!

So i now only have 20 days until my daughter is here!! I feel so much anxiety about her coming ... but not in a bad way .. i feel excited that shes almost here but i feel scared that i might mess things up , or that something bad will happen .... all these what ifs are killing me! i know what i want for my daughter and my family in general but have i covered all my bases ... i say that i wont need time off from work (i run an in-home daycare) but what happens if i get over whelmed that first day and i realize that i cant be a new mom and watch kids .... i know i should be able to do it i mean look at all the moms that have more then one kid! i mean at the very most ill be watching 6 kids it seems like a lot and it probably is but i know if i can put my mind to it i will be able to handle it , but the question is can my new born daughter handle it?? i want her to be around noise and other kids but will she get over whelmed?? shell have her own room upstairs that has her bassinet and i can always lay her down in there with the baby monitor ... does that make me a bad parent for laying her down so i can focus on the other kids?? i have so much running threw my mind and shes not even here yet! i guess ill have to do trial and error to find the common ground with watching the kids and spending time with my daughter ... oh and did i mention that im going to be nursing! that's another big hurdle because i dont want to nurse in front of the kids but i cant leave them unattended ... i will be getting a nursing blanket to cover myself but how do i explain to the other children what im doing and what happens if shes nursing and i need to tend to the other kids??? i know i would choose nursing my daughter versus changing a movie or getting lunch ready for the other kids just because i know they are older and can wait to be feed or can wait to have me change a movie or get the toys ...



I just need to get these thing out of my mind and into the open
on a good note here is a wonderful picture mt friend Vanessa took of me back in October

How i want my L&D to go ...

AS NATURAL AS POSSIBLE!


With that said let me be a little more in depth,

I WILL NOT BE GETTING THE FOLLOWING:

Any pain meds
Iv's
episiotomy


MY DAUGHTER WILL NOT BE GETTING THE FOLLOWING:

HEP B Shot
Vitamin K Shot
Erthomycin Eye cream




Ok so here we go, I will be having my daughter at the birthing center in our local hospital, i will not be bed bound! i dont want any IV's,pain meds etc.... i want to be able to drink water not have it pushed into my veins, i want to be able to walk around so ANY and ALL pain meds are a NO! i will have the lights dimmed and music playing to help me relax and forget that im in a hospital, i will be using the birthing tub to help with my pain management, when the time comes to push i want to be able to push in the position that feels comfortable to me not what is easiest for my doctor and his staff! When she is delivered her umbilical cord will not be cut right away im going to have them wait until its done pulsing (2-5mins) she will be handed to me right away and i will then nurse her, she will not be having any procedures done on her until i say! She will not be getting any vaccines or the Vitamin K shot nor will she receive the Erthomycin eye cream. she will be rooming with me so i will be able to nurse her when ever she wants to eat and so i can have skin on skin contact for as long as i please! they will not offer her any formula, sugar water, pacifier. My daughter needs nothing from them! she only needs what i her MOTHER can and will give her! if the hospital disregards any of my wishes i promise there will be hell to pay :]]...


there you have it a short overview of how i want my L&D to go :]]

37 Weeks

Today i am 37 weeks along in my pregnancy, i have a doc appt. this morning , i have been taking EPO(Evening Prim Rose Oil) since Halloween , So im hopping that when he checks my cervix tomorrow that it will show some sign of thinning :]] . So with that i guess i will update this after my doc appt.

OK, so just got home from my appt. sad because he didn't want to check me until my next appt. :/ but i did get another ultrasound .. which always makes me happy (its 3d) he did say she was in the right position and that everything is A-OK :]]... the only bad thing i guess you could say is my BP raised a little bit it was 139/82 he told me not to worry to much about it . She is getting big he said she is small/average in size and he said that's what i wanted for my first baby ... which i have to agree! i was scared she would be a huge baby considering how big her daddy was when he was a baby, me on the other hand was average so i guess this means she is taking after me :]]. She refused to let me get a good view for her face but we got some side shots none the less, everyone says she looks like me, i hope so! i do hope she has red hair like her daddy did! i can tell already she is going to be a looker (I'm not just saying that because shes my baby lol)! She is moving and a grooving as i type right now :]] , i think its the best feeling in the world when she moves(even when it hurts). I cant wait to finally meet her only 22 days until my due date! It seems like its coming fast ... but not fast enough for my liking! lol




Alisyn Monroe 37 weeks, trying to hide her beautiful face!