Placenta Brain

I see dumb people...every time I look in the mirror.

I've heard many different terms for the dumbness that happens during pregnancy. Preggo brain, baby brain, the list goes on. I've always liked the term Placenta Brain because the adequate description I was given how the placenta takes up so much blood to grow and nourish your baby that there is not blood left over for your brain.

I also love the stories I've heard of woman having their own placenta brain moments. My girlfriend sat through an entire business lunch at a restaurant with her keys in the ignition and her car running outside...for over an hour. My blog friends have had funny tails of putting the milk away in the pantry and the cereal in the refrigerator. Recently, I've had a few funny stories myself:

Last week I was taking a shower. When I was done with my shower, I just got out of it....without turning the water off. As I stood in my bathroom drying off with my towel a few minutes later I realized that the water was still running. Duh? How does that happen? Turning the water off before you step out of the shower is a habit created from like 5 years old on. How the heck did I mess that one up?

Yesterday I got all ready for my morning walk with the dogs which I do just about every morning. Had my ipod, my earphones, my blackberry, my sunglasses, the dogs, their leashes and I even remembered to bring the poop bags. We were off... Halfway around the block I realized I was slightly uncomfortable. Then I realized I was wearing my flip flops!! What? For 8 years I was in the fitness industry and wore tennis shoes every day of my life. How the heck could I have put on flip flops instead? Needless to say I have a massive case of shin splints today.

On a side note: Here's an updated pic. 28weeks. 3rd trimester. The beginning of the end!If you haven't noticed I've started to feel like my face has finally started to get a little rounder. (I know I've been lucky so far in that I don't gain weight in my face usually....hubs says he still can't see it, but I do) So I've began to take on the theory that the bigger the hair do, the smaller the face. With anymore hairspray I'll belong on the Real Housewives of NJ!!

Tiffany

We're Up And Running!

I finally got my new "family friendly" blog up and running. Like I said, this is still my main blog where I am able to really "be me" and post about all the tmi stuff that second cousin Bob on the hubs side twice removed doesn't need to hear about. But if you would like to follow along to both of my blogs, I would love to have you!



www.dusinafamily.blogspot.com



Tiffany

Scary

I just googled "what age do kids start kindergarten"

It made me wonder...How the hell did our parents raise us without Google? How the hell did they know what to do? What, did they like actually read a book about stuff? A book? Huh?

When our mother's were on a walk and felt their underwear completely become saturated from mucous and weren't able to pull it up on their iPad to research it then and there, how did they handle that?

When they had unprotected sex for the 847th time and still weren't pregnant and they couldn't blog about another unsuccessful round of baby dancing, who did they tell?

How did we as infants not die when our parents put us in cribs with bumpers and blankets and stuffed animals ON OUR STOMACHS for gosh sakes?

How did mother's get milk out of their boob without a $300 device that comes looking like a cute back pack?

This all would be so scary without the instant knowledge in which technology provides us!

Tiffany

A Few Tricks I've Learned

There's definitely a few things, no, a lot of things that people don't tell you. I think you can read as many pregnancy books, and talk to as many moms as you can and still you will figure stuff out that people never tell you. Most of mine have been bathroom related. Here's a few things that might help other preggo's or soon to be preggo's.



- My new favorite outfit to wear around the house is a skirt without underwear on. No, not to be sexy, it just makes the bathroom trips way more convenient. No more bending over to pull anything down. Just sit and go.



-On that note, take a book with you to each bathroom trip. If you sit there for at least 3 minutes longer while reading you will pee again. Knock out 2 pees with one sitting.



-With each diaper purchase to build up your stock, also buy a bottle of stool softener. You will need just as many as you can get your hands on.



- Baby powder will be needed pre-baby. It has a wonderful use for the rubbing that now occurs under your boobs, that went from small B cups to now laying on your stomach.


-There will be days where you gross yourself out by totally out eating your hubs with the amount of food and calories you just ingested.



Tiffany

A Nursery Work In Progress

So here's an updated look at the nursery. As you can see we don't have any decoration up on the walls yet, that will come later after my shower. (Wink wink to Grandma who is supplying those gifts!) Also, we don't have the dresser yet which is also going to serve us as the changer. That will be our next purchase after I close on another property....come on commission check!



Anyhow, here's the look from the hallway. As you can see, even though my deepest desires are to have a glider chair with ottoman, I have gone with our lazyboy rocker/recliner. Two reasons for this choice: 1) We already had it and so it was FREE. 2) We already had it and so it was FREE. You see, it was a no brainer in my mind.



Here's just a better look at the crib. It showed up much more beautiful than I'd imagined. The ebony color was a deep rich black just like we'd hoped. And yes, I do have the bumper on the crib for now, just for show. Don't call CPS on me!

The wall to the right is eventually where the dresser will go, and the swing will not be in the room. I thought it looked good there for now. Also, do you notice our shed out back through the window? Well I always told Hubs that if we had a girl I don't know where he would put the lawn mower because I was going to turn it into a doll house. Lucky for hubs he gets to keep his tool shed a bit longer!

Lacy and Kilo in front of the playmat. They've already had their sniff of everything!

Lastely, aren't these the cutest little crocks you've ever seen?

Tiffany

The Weird Thing About Time

Time. It's so weird to me. I once heard a description about time that really resonated with me. "Time: It is an equal opportunity employer. No matter who you are; what class, what status, amount of money you make, or where you live, everybody is always given the same amount of it." I really liked that description, especially when it comes to being a business minded person. Basically I look at it as there is no excuse why I shouldn't be as successful as John Doe is out there. We are all given the same amount of hours in a day and it is all up to me what I do with them.

With that being said....Where the hell did the time go?

Today is August 9th. My due date is November 9th. Wow, only 3 months away from B-Day.

I am 7 months pregnant. That just sounds crazy.

Why is it that the 2ww takes f o r e v e r and yet 9 months of pregnancy goes by in a flash.

I guess time really does fly.

I have a few really exciting posts coming up. I'll have nursery picture updates. I'll have feedback from next weeks OB apt. when I'll be having go get my Rh shot. I'll also have an exciting post all about Hubs and my tour of our birthing center which will also take place text week. Hubs in the birthing center tour will surely provide some entertainment to a post. Have a great week!

Tiffany

"Braxton-Itis?" Funny Stuff Hubs Says

So I started being aware of, and really being able to feel Braxton Hicks contractions a few weeks ago. They are nothing painful they just definitely get my attention. My whole stomach gets hard as a rock and it just feels like real tightening for a few minutes, then it's over. It happens mostly when I'm on the move: walking, climbing stairs to get to our seats at a ball game. However sometimes it just happens when I'm laying down as well. I've really not been too concerned about them at all because....well here's the definition via Wikipedia:



Braxton Hicks contractions, also known as false labor or practice contractions are sporadic uterine contractions that usually start around 6 weeks however are not usually felt until the second trimester or third trimester of pregnancy.



Well on Saturday I was hit with quite a few of them. I'd say maybe 6x during that day. Well, when the first one hit hubs and I were getting ready to go for a walk and I just kind of stopped for a second and felt my belly.

"Are you OK?" Hubs asked.

"Yeah" I said "I'm just having a Braxton Hicks"

"A what?" He asked

"A Braxton Hicks" I said kind of in a shocked voice that he had never heard of them before. Only because he's been so good at reading up on things and sometimes he even knows things that are happening in the pregnancy that I don't know. "They are practice contractions. Haven't you ever heard of them"



Well he said he hadn't heard of them so I actually wrote the name down on a sticky note and put it in his wallet and told him to dr. google it when he's at work on Monday. We went off on our walk.



It wasn't too far into our walk that I started having another one. Again, it wasn't painful, it is just enough to be uncomfortable during a power walk so I slowed down and grabbed my belly again.



"Are you having Braxton-Itis?!" Hubs exclaims with authority.

"Braxton-WHAT?" I ask with a huge smile on my face.

"Braxton-Itis or that thing you were telling me about" He asks again, starting to laugh.

"Do you know what the meaning of Itis is?" I ask. "Itis means Inflammation!"



At this point we both pause, look at each other, and look at my belly.



"This is not an inflammation!" I demanded with hands on my belly. "This is a baby!"



We both had a good laugh at how is fumble of words actually had a funny pun to go along with it.



I ended that conversation with a final play on medical terms and said, "Well if this is an itis then I need an ectomy!" (Which means surgical removal) and Hubs said well not yet, let's keep him in there a bit longer. I agreed.



Tiffany