Alrighty… finally got my butt down to write this update. I
feel somewhat accomplished if this gets posted before Friday!
The funniest thing is I thought I would be on time these two
weeks since it was Spring Break and I didn’t work but life happened with me
getting miserably sick and just running around getting stuff done.
But yeah, I think I’ve been complaining about me being sick
for 3 weeks already… well because I’ve been sick for 3 weeeks. It started with
a double ear infection and sinus infection. I took amoxicillin for that, that
gave me a yeast infection- oh joy! I seemed to start feeling slightly better
but the very next day after finishing my antibiotics I seemed to be getting
sick all over again! My ears didn’t even have time to fully clear up and my
sinuses were awful again. Then the chest congestion started in the middle of
the week. By Friday I was so miserable, I couldn’t breathe, very heavy ad
painful chest congestion that made me sound like a man.
On Saturday I didn’t seem to be getting better and made an
arrangement with my boss to come into work a little earlier to do the
money/bookkeeping stuff (so I don’t
screw him over because for some reason I always seem to get sick on the 1 or 2
days I work for him!) so then I can get done earlier and head to urgent care.
Since this was Saturday, doctor’s offices were closed. Usually I wait it out
til Monday but I had trouble breathing and was beyond miserable.
There was a little “issue” with whom I should be seen by. My
primary care provider- Slocum Dickson was telling me to go to my OB, and
Cooperstown was telling me to go to Slocum Dickson because it is not pregnancy
related. We ended up going to Slocum Dickson and they said they usually don’t
see pregnant women but will do an exception this time, some BS!!!! I just
needed antibiotics!
Anyway, they gave me Azithromycin, and Guafenesin with
Codeine. I double checked with Cooperstown if those meds were okay, and they
said they were. The cough medicine which everyone warned would make me sleepy
did nothing for me. I legit took it only 2 times before bed hoping it would
help me breathe and stay asleep as opposed to the every 6 hour directions on
the bottle. I still sound like a man,
but thankfully I think I am getting better and hope I won’t be sick anymore.
So, 30 weeks means there are only 10 more weeks to go!!!
This is pretty amazing…! 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2…1… blast off! Or blast out for that
matter!! :)
I am ¾ of the way done with this pregnancy so baby is 75%
done cooking! ;)
I weighed myself in the beginning of the week and I was
159.6 pounds. Which means I basically gained .2 of a pound?? Maybe it’s me
being sick? Or my body balancing out with me gaining 6 pounds that one week.
Regardless, surprisingly no change really in that department that week.
Although my belly is GROWING… as you all saw in my 30 WEEK BELLY SHOT. Which I
was able to shoot outside due to the nice weather. A maternity shoot with my
hubby is still in order… I am thinking sometime soon, since weather is warm now
and we can just go take some pics together
of my belly. That would be fun!
As far as symptoms, I had 3 leg cramp episodes this week
again! :( I had one really bad one on the way home from NJ ( we visited my
grandfather there since he is staying with my aunt currently.) We stopped for a
bathroom break and as I tried to get out of the car it hit me. And this leg
cramp was super long!! Usually they don’t last long, but this was lasting a
minute long! And I couldn’t walk on it for a while too! Ugh, they are the
worst. Some friends told me bananas and magnesium should do the trick. I have
been eating bananas, how I can at least… I should try the magnesium… But let me
tell you… those are not fun!
Heartburn has really been getting to me too. It’s been here
and there, but this week it’s been bad. I don’t know if this has anything to do
with it, but baby has been chilling a lot right under my boobs. Kicking me in
the pit of my stomach, sometimes it feels like he hits my boobs, my ribs… he
has been all up in there! And hence
maybe more heartburn? Who knows… but not fun… especially the way I eat… and
everything I eat gives me heartburn but I can’t NOT eat either. Trying to drink
fizzy things like ginger ale helps. Also tums when it gets REALLY bad…
And now a quick life update! I have mentioned several times
that we were planning on moving due to the neighbors downstairs. We have been
apartment hunting and even considering buying a house, and finally found
something. It’s not a house unfortunately, we decided not to rush into it and
figure how the heck it even works when
the end of the pregnancy is nearing… so we decided to look for something
to rent. We looked at a few places and were debating between 2.
Right now we pay $675 a month for a pretty nice sized 2
bedroom apartment with a dishwasher and balcony. When we moved out of the city
after paying $875 for a studio, plus traveling so far we didn’t look at many
apartments, so we saw this one and grabbed it! What we were trying to decide
between were the following apartments. The first one was in Ilion as well $525
a month plus utilities ( which is basically what we pay now and super cheap.) A
good investment to save money, but it is super small and crowded and dark and
has a funky smell. And it doesn’t have a dishwasher.
Now, the thing about dishwashers… Call me picky an prissy
and lazy or whatever you want to call me but I hate washing dishes. I can do
laundry, I can vacuum, I can clean the bathroom but dishes are my weakness. I
don’t know if I just did way too many of them in my life that I have a negative
reaction to them now… but living in an apartment for almost a year with a dishwasher you learn how necessary it is. And being lazy how I am now, I can’t imagine
being able to tackle the dishes on my own with a baby. Call me horrible, I know…
not a very good wife/mom quality to have… but that is how I am. And the kitchen
in the cheap apartment is so small we couldn’t even get a portable one if we
wanted to, so that would suck.
Now the other apartments we looked at. This is through a
real estate company, renting out a house with 2 apartments basically. Both are
2 bedroom, first floor one is $650, 2nd is $600. This is in
Herkimer, so not far. They both have dishwashers and washer and dryer machines
IN the apartment!!! They are both beautiful and large and in wonderful
condition. The one on the second floor is HUGE and roomy, larger than what we
have now. So that is the one we decided to go with. We have a porch, 2 parking
spots and a small backyard. In a nice, pretty, calm, family oriented neighborhood.
The thing is utilities are separate. And it is through national grid which isn’t
the cheap stuff we have been paying in Ilion. I think during the summer we should
be fine, but when winter hits we may have some obstacles. We’ll see… we got
Heap about a month ago for the small utility bill we had as is, so if it gets
hard maybe we will get heap again to assist us. But it is beautiful!!!!!! We
gave the lady the security deposit today and plan to move at the end of May
when our lease is up to get our security deposit back. I spoke to our current
landlord yesterday and asked him what our options are on moving now and getting
our deposit back, and he said we would lose it if we did that. He said if we
stay til the end of May, he will speak to the Owner and thinks that we can just
not pay rent for the month of May, and they use our security deposit. That
would be awesome! Because then the security deposit we just gave for our new
apartment is basically our rent that we would pay in 2 weeks, so it’s like we
are still staying in the same cycle.
So the next few weeks are going to look like this…. This weekend
my older siblings are coming up to visit me because they decided instead of
coming up for the shower they rather spend some alone time with us, which is
probably the best. Then 2 weeks from this weekend we have our Easter- PASCHA!!
Woo! And two weeks from Easter it’s our
baby shower, and then in a week we plan to move. From there one I will have one
month left – or sooner (I can hope right?) til baby is here! Crazy stuff going
on!!
Honestly, once we move in… once June hits this mama plans to
walk, drink raspberry tea, and do all sorts of things to get this baby coming
out! I am terribly afraid of being overdue…
One more thing about what has been going on lately, which I
briefly mentioned in one of my random posts this week and you probably have
noticed with my other posts. YouTube. I started my YouTube channel. Like I
mentioned in my other post, hubby has been doing this and if you truly get
enough subscribers, and viewers and such this could be a good opportunity to
get some money. Having a baby on the way, it is a perfect opportunity. Don’t
get me wrong, it’s not just about the money. I think having a video blog is cool;
I follow a mom on YouTube and think it is amazing. I’m just shy. That’s why
right now I am kind of trying to get the feel of all this. Posting some old
videos, making slideshows, things that don’t require me to talk or show my face…
yet. I have plans to make it a useful
blog kind of how I express myself here but need to get the feel of it first.
Post life events on there and maybe we will have some vlogs of labor and
delivery who knows… we are trying it out and we could have lots of fun with it
right now.
Like I also mentioned before, I still plan to write here, so
that doesn’t change yet. I might incorporate both like I have been sharing
links to videos on here for now. Regardless, we shall see how this works. So if
you follow me here and read my blog here, stay tuned to see what my YouTube
blog may turn into… it will get interesting, I promise :)
That pretty much sums it up for 30 weeks! Thank you for reading!
;) I wasn’t super late this week… you guys should be proud ;)
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