News on me…
Hello Blogland! It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything personal on here, so I thought since it’s 1420 hrs, and I’m bored out of my mind, what better to do before I leave work for a trip by daycare then home…So, here ya go, some new info on me…
I’m pretty sure I haven’t told you this yet, since I just found out about 3 weeks ago, I am having a little girl this time! My son is a smidge over 10 months old now, and I am in my 27th week of my second pregnancy. I am so excited about having a little girl! I love my little boy to pieces, he makes me so happy. I can’t be around him and not have a smile on my face. He is my entire world, and when my little girl gets here, they will both be my entire world!
My husband and I worked together in coming up with our son’s name, we had a big list of names that we compiled, and then we went down the list eliminating names until we came up with what we thought of, and still think of, as the perfect name for our perfect little boy. When I found out I was pregnant this time, I instantly told my husband that if this baby turned out to be a little girl, then I already had her name picked out, and I would not budge on it. I told him the name, and he agreed that it was / is the perfect name for our little girl. So now we have our son, Riley, and we will have our daughter, Olivia, very soon!
When people find out that I have a little boy, and I am about to have a little girl, they always jump at the chance to say something about me having a boy and a girl, and since I have both I can quit having babies. I’m so glad that people think it’s their place to tell me when to stop having children…When they tell me whatever version of that statement, I always tell them, no, I do want at least one more little one. Why is it that people think they can tell new mothers and pregnant women when it is right to have babies, and when it is right to quit having babies? Just like why do people think it is alright to molest a pregnant woman’s belly? I’ll never understand it.
I am still in the Army, so yes, I am a Mom, a Wife, a Daughter, a Sister, and a Soldier. I have many roles, and I love each one of them. My favorite one though is that of MOM! This year will make my ninth year being a Soldier. One year shy of being half way to retirement!
Doctors put my due date as being 3 November 2009, but honestly, I think my little girl will be here a few weeks sooner than that. I figure I’ll have her during the last two weeks of October…We’ll see I guess!!
Anyway, I am going to end this post here. I want to leave work early. I am bored, I am tired, and I am sick of being here…Until next time….Happy Blogging!!
Need to lose pregnancy weight? Go to sleep!!
Check this out!
Snoozing may help women shed baby weight Fri, Jul 24, 2009 (HealthDay News) — New moms who can’t zip up their pre-pregnancy jeans might not be catching enough zzzs. Getting a good night’s sleep, in fact, may be just as important as diet and exercise for shedding baby weight. One study of new mothers found that those who slept five or fewer hours a day six months after giving birth were three times as likely to hold onto those extra pounds as were women who got seven or more hours of sleep. Short sleep duration “stood out as an independent risk factor” for weight retention, said Erica P. Gunderson, a research scientist and epidemiologist at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, Calif., who worked on the study. For many women, postpartum weight retention is a serious issue because it can lead to long-term weight gain. Some studies show that up to 20 percent of women retain at least 11 pounds at six to 18 months after giving birth, Finnish researchers reported. Lifestyle factors that lead to postpartum weight retention — including a woman’s diet, physical activity and sleep patterns — have not been well studied, researchers report. But as every bleary-eyed new mother knows, slumber is frequently disrupted or cut short in the first year after a baby’s birth. “Sleep deprivation can cause changes in the levels of hormones involved in appetite regulation,” explained Dr. Sirimon Reutrakul, a clinical associate in medicine at the University of Chicago Medical Center. “Keep in mind, though, that there are multiple factors involved in causing postpartum women to sleep less,” she said. “These include just having a newborn, having other small children at home, possible postpartum depression, illness of the newborns, if any, work, etcetera,” she said. In Gunderson’s study, the sleep and weight retention patterns of 940 Massachusetts women were analyzed. A year after giving birth, 124 of the women had retained 11 or more of the pounds they had put on during their pregnancy. Short sleep duration was associated with a threefold higher risk of substantial weight retention, when compared with women who got seven hours of sleep. How long a woman breast-fed, however, was not a significant factor. Dr. Truls Ostbye, a professor and vice chairman of research in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Duke University Medical Center, is currently leading a study designed to promote weight loss in overweight women after childbirth. Preliminary data from that study show that “women who sleep less at six weeks lose less weight from six weeks to 12 months,” Ostbye said. But the relationship between sleep and weight loss isn’t that simple. After adjusting for the fact that heavier women lose less weight and sleep less, “the effect of sleep on weight loss nearly goes away,” he said. “The relationship between obesity and sleep is there,” he added, “but it is as likely that less sleep is a result of obesity as the other way around.” Advising women to get more sleep may not get to the root of their sleep-deprivation problem, Reutrakul said, “although stressing the importance of a good night’s sleep is a good idea.” — Karen Pallarito
Babies can talk to dogs???
An article from this web site I thought was interesting…
Babies may understand what dogs are saying Fri, Jul 24, 2009 (HealthDay News) — What’s in a bark? A new study suggests that 6-month-old babies know the answer. Researchers found that most infants who were tested could figure out that an aggressive bark goes with an angry-looking dog. They also seemed to know that friendly-looking pooches voice their feelings in a different way. The babies managed to do this even though they weren’t very familiar with dogs. It’s not clear whether the babies actually know that a dog baring its teeth is a sign of trouble, but they’re showing a level of sophistication regarding how dogs reveal their emotions, said study author Ross Flom, an associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. “We think babies have a broad-based set of abilities and skills when they enter the world,” he said. “And those become broadened and honed based on the individual experiences in their lives.” Flom spends his time studying how babies perceive emotions, and previously found that they can tell the difference between upbeat and gloomy music. In the new study, Flom and his colleagues recruited 128 infants and toddlers, almost all of whom were white. All of the participants had little or no exposure to dogs during their brief lives. The researchers showed the babies video stills of aggressive and non-aggressive dogs, and watched what they did when they heard sounds of barking. The study results appear in the July issue of Developmental Psychology. The researchers believe that they can glean whether a baby is making a connection between two things by monitoring how long they look at a picture. In this case, 6-month-old babies were more likely to look longer at the picture of a canine expression that matched the bark. Only about 15 percent of the babies spent more time looking at the wrong dog picture or looked equally at both, Flom said. Older babies — at 12, 18 and 24 months — were likely to look at the correct dog, but for just a flicker of time, Flom said, and then look around the room or equally between the video stills. While some have interpreted this to mean they can’t distinguish the correct picture, Flom said it’s actually a sign that “the task is almost too easy for them.” The study didn’t examine what the babies actually perceived about the barks and the canine expressions. No one knows if they’re aware that a normal-looking dog is a better prospect for playtime than one that looks — and sounds — like it wants to take a bite out of the nearest leg. Still, it’s “remarkable” that babies that aren’t exposed to dogs can figure out how to link their barks to their faces, Flom said. That means they can connect audio and visual cues, he said. As for the future, researchers are exploring how humans relate to dogs, which have a long history of interacting with people, and wolves, which don’t. Over time, Flom said, dogs and humans have learned how to communicate with each other. And, of course, each gets what they want from the other, whether it be the newspaper or a long back scratch. — Randy Dotinga
I’m having a problem…
OK, so I have a 6 1/2 month old son and I am 2 months pregnant with my second child. My son used to sleep through the night pretty well, falling asleep between 1900 & 2000 hrs, and then waking back up again between 0400 & 0500 hrs. But, then he started getting ear infections and since his first ear infection, he hasn’t slept through the night except for a handful of nights.
I am married to the father of both of my children, we sleep in the same bed most nights, (I sleep in the full size bed in the baby’s room when I get pissed off at my husband..) so my husband is beside me and should be able to hear the baby crying from the baby monitor that is right beside out bed, especially since I have it turned up full volume. My husband is a very heavy sleeper, but I thought that if I tried to wake him up when I needed help at night with the baby, or when I needed a break from getting up every couple of hours, I thought that he would get up to help me and do his fatherly duties by taking care of the baby. The other night, (13 April 09) before we went to sleep, my husband told me that if I needed his help with the baby, to wake him up and he would take care of whatever the baby needed.
So, being the wife that believes what her husband says about helping during the night, I woke up when the baby started crying at around 0200 hrs, I fed him a bottle, I tried to rock him back to sleep, I failed. So, at 0300 hrs, I was getting frustrated, I was extremely tired from being up a couple of hours before that for an hour, plus I pregnant, I decided that I didn’t need to take care of the baby anymore because my nerves were shot, I was getting frustrated and upset, and I just plain needed help. I tried to wake my husband, and the father of my baby, up to help me.
Instead of him waking up, he rolled over, and after moaning to make me think he heard me, he was sound asleep. I tried to wake him up again. This time, he woke up after I shouted at him “DID YOU HEAR WHAT I SAID?” and replied by yelling back to me “YEAH, you want ME to take care HIM?!” and then rolled over again and went back to sleep. So, I stayed up another hour trying to get MY son to fall back to sleep.
Last night, (the very next night), I told my husband what happened the night before, and I told him that if I was a single parent it would be OK if I didn’t have help at night when the baby woke up, but since I am married and he sleeps right beside me, I shouldn’t have to act and live as if I am a single parent. I went on to explain that I cannot wake up in the mornings and be on time to work because I am so tired from having to be up over half the night with the baby, I cannot function properly because I’m always tired, I never feel good pregnancy-wise because I am always tired, and it’s simply not fair to me that I have a husband that will not help, and actually yells at me like I have no business even trying to ask for his help when the baby wakes up in the middle of the night. I asked my husband what I could/can do in order to wake him up during the night for him to help me. I told him I will not punch him like he has told me to do before, because it’s ludicrous, and I told him that I have thought about throwing a glass of water on him, but then the bed I have to sleep in would be wet, and that he probably wouldn’t wake up even if I did that. Instead of him answering me, he just went to the bathroom to brush his teeth. I fell asleep while he was brushing his teeth because it takes him 10 fucking minutes to finish that task, and I was tired.
I need any suggestions my readers have for me, any advice, I would be so greatful. Anything you can think of that would help me get my husband to wake up and help me during the nights, at least one time when the baby wakes up. I do have one idea, but I really don’t want it to come to this….
I have thought about telling him that he cannot stay at the house until he can take some of the responsibility of having a baby, and start helping me during the night. I will do that if I have to, but I really don’t want it to come to that. However, I do feel that if I am going to be acting as single mother would act, and do everything myself without his help, then I do not need the stressor of seeing him get a full nights sleep because he refuses to help me.
My second baby is due the end of October or the first of November, and I know that if things don’t change now, they definitely won’t after the second baby gets here. What’s worse is that instead of working after the second baby gets here, I am going to go back to school and get my degree. ( I only have 1.5 yrs left before I get my degree, and the sooner I finish the sooner I can get a stable job and steady income..) I seriously don’t think I can go back to school and pass my classes if I am waking up at all hours of the night without his help at all to take care of a newborn and sometimes a 13 month old…
Please, tell me what you think I should do….Insight from others always helps…
Thank you….:-)
Carpal Tunnel…
Well, I woke up this morning, got ready for work, got my son ready to go to daycare, and realized that my left wrist hurt every time I moved my hand or fingers in a certain way…So, I went to the Dr. My doc told me that I am developing carpal tunnel syndrome. She said it is common in pregnant women, and then she gave me a brace to wear for the duration of my pregnancy.
It sucks because I do nothing but type stuff at work, I change diapers and make bottles at home, and I rarely ever do anything new or different with my hands…I pretty much have the same routine every day. My doc told me that I am kind of on the bad end of having Carpal Tunnel, because not only am I pregnant, but my job consists of mostly typing, and I have an almost 7 months old infant…So, all around, it sucks that my wrist has started hurting.
Oh, and to top it off, I have been getting progressively worse headaches. Each day they get a little worse and a little longer than the day before. So, the doc gave me some pregnancy safe migraine medicine…Problem is, I have to take the medicine at the onset of the headache, not after it gets bad…I hardly ever notice that I have a headache until it gets really bad, so that in itself is the problem…Also, the meds have a tendency of making people that take it dizzy, so I can’t take it at work, or before I drive somewhere, so the times that I can take it are limited anyway…
I will probably just stick to taking Tylenol…
So, that’s it…until next time, Happy Blogging!!!
Have I complained recently?
OK, so I know I haven’t blogged a lot lately. Mainly because I have a five month old baby, and my high-speed internet isn’t as high speed as i would like it to be…Any-who, because I haven’t blogged as of late like I used to, I have decided that it is time for me to bitch, moan, and complain about my job…or rather the people that think i work for them at my job…
I am still in the Army. I have no civilian job, I work full time for my Army Unit. I love being in the Army. The Army gives me some good friends, most that will last a lifetime, it gives me an extended family, it gives me job security (which with today’s economy security in your job is practically priceless,) and it gives me something to talk about with people. Whether it be complaining or praising…
So, I am my Brigade’s Paralegal Non-Commissioned Officer In Charge (NCOIC). I work for the Brigade Commander and in his absence I work for the SSA (who, on the military side, is my Battalion Sergeant Major) I don’t work for anyone in the friggin S1 Shop. (the S1 Shop is the office where all the human resource, personnel, and administration work is done)
I work directly for the Colonel or his representative, not a friggin Warrant Officer that thinks she is king shit on turd hill, not the SAS, not the HR SGT, NO ONE BUT THE COL OR HIS REP!
This WO1 continues to think, or act as if she thinks, I work for her. She tells me I need to give her updates instead of leaving her out of the loop about what I’m doing and the status of all the packets I’m working. She asks me, “Do you understand what I mean when I tell you that I need updates?” I want to tell her to go eat shit, or crawl into a whole and sit there until someone lets her know it’s OK to come out…I want to tell her to go f*ck herself. Do I understand….is she friggin serious?!?!?
She thinks I give everyone updates except her, when in actuality, I don’t give anyone updates until something is completed, or changed in some way. I don’t feel like it’s necessary to tell her that 1 day has passed since I mailed something out or that 2 days have passed since I last gave her the same f*cking update I gave her 2 days ago. It’s a waste of time and makes the work I’m doing seem monotonous.
I just wish she would shut her fat f*cking mouth and let me work the way I know how, and the way I’m supposed to. It’s Micro-Managing at it’s worst. She also feels it necessary to tell me when her deadlines are. I want to tell her that I don’t give a f*ck when her damn deadlines are, I have my own to worry about and if she hasn’t noticed I don’t try to burden her with mine so please do me the courtesy of not trying to burden me with hers.
I hate it when people that are not my boss act as if they are. Like they have some major influence in or on what I do or do not do. I want to take this time out and tell her to kiss my tush!
Thank You for letting me vent! Until next time~~Happy Blogging!
Beautiful Baby!!!
Ok, so my mother-in-law asked me & my husband a few months ago if we had thought about entering our son into the Photogenic category in our town’s pageant. I of course said no, and that I disagreed with parents putting their children in pageants when the child is too young to be able to say they want to or they don’t want to. I think it should be up to the child, not up to the parents. When I told her that, she quickly informed me that all I would have to do is enter a photo, and that my baby wouldn’t even have to be present the night of the pageant, as long as they had his picture. She told me she would pay the entry fee and she would take care of everything, the only thing I had to do is pick out a picture, professional or snap-shot, and give it to her to enter.
So, I gave in…Since he didn’t have to be there, except in a frame…
Well, the pageant was on March 7, 2009. We entered a photo that we had taken for his 3 month picture(s). He has a big smile, and is wearing the cutest little striped outfit with a wolf face on the chest…He looks perfect!! Wouldn’t ya know, my baby won the photogenic category! My mother-in-law told me the title he received, it’s something like “Little Prince” or something similar….anyway, He won a trophy and his picture will be in our town’s newspaper. I am so proud!
I feel a little hypocritical because of the way I really feel about pageants, but I can’t help it…I think that entering a picture is a smidge different than actually making your child parade around on a stage all dressed up and made up. We just entered a picture that we had already had taken-before we even had knowledge of the pageant, so…am I really a hypocrit or is it just my defiance against pageants poking through??
Oh well, who cares, I just really wanted to share the fact that my baby boy won most photogenic!!! YAY!!!
My Little Boy!!!
Here are some recent pictures of my little boy…I think he is hands down the cutest baby in the world!! Of course, I am biased…But, really, can you blame me????
In a couple of the pictures, he has a pink frog, I bought it for him for Valentine’s Day, and because it is so soft, it is his favorite toy….It’s so funny to see him get excited about me giving him this frog, so he can immediately put the frog feet in his mouth and the little eye bump things too…it is too cute!!!
The plaid base ball hat is his first baseball hat….I think he looks adorable in this hat, he also has some beanie’s that he wears when we go outside when the wind is blowing so his ears can be covered up and his head can stay warm…
He loves to jump in his jumper…He just bounces in it for as long as we let him….It’s very good exercise! Plus, it has so many different toys and lights and songs that it makes it exciting all of the time!!!
He is amazing!!! I love him so much!!!
Irish Twins?
I know that the term “Irish Twins” may have a derogatory meaning to some people, but I’m not one of those people. I don’t think it means anything rude or crude, at least, it doesn’t to me.
I just had my first baby on 29 September 2008. My son is just wonderful. He is sweet, beautiful, smart, everything that mothers think about their babies. His laugh lights up the room, his smile is contagious, he is wonderful! Initially I wanted him to be an only child for the first few years of his life. You know, that way he could have all of my attention, have all of his daddy’s attention, his grandparents attention, etc….
However, just this week, I found out that I am pregnant again. I’m due on 28 October 2009. So by definition, he won’t actually be an Irish Twin, but since he will only be 13 months older than the second baby, we are just going to use the term anyway.
When I found out that I’m pregnant again, I was shocked, and happy at the same time…I walked out of the bathroom smiling, and instantly my hubby knew what my smile meant. It will be tough having two little ones at the same time, but it will also be fun. They will be close enough in age to be good friends, and play together all the time.
I still want to have at least one more after this one, and hopefully I will be blessed again someday. For now, I am counting my blessings to have the sweetest baby in the world, and to be pregnant with another one that will make me the mother of the two sweetest babies in the world.
~Happy Blogging!!~~
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In my blog I will vent about things that piss me off, tell funny stories, or just type about things that might not be of interest to you, but these things will be part of my life. If at any time you don’t like what you’re reading, then by all means, go somwhere else!
Here is me and my cute puppy, Kobe…He is the cutest dog in the whole world! He loves to play and cuddle…He’s such a momma’s pup too, I love him! He’s great when I just need to hug someone, always ready for a hug! He is so precious! 
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