It has been so fun being pregnant this last few weeks, I can feel Ginny moving throughout the day, she's getting bigger and stronger all the time!
We just got back from our honeymoon/babymoon to South Carolina and Florida- it was so fun to see so many new places and spend time with Steve's folks.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Sunday, January 3, 2010
19th week, already!
The past month has been absolutely amazing, my nausea disappeared, I'm starting to show a blissful belly, and we got to visit Salt Lake to see family and friends! It is so fun being pregnant right now- I can feel little flutterings and can't wait for the moment when Steve can feel her too (he keeps trying!).
A couple weeks back we got confirmation that she is indeed a girl, and we're naming her Virginia Beth Isabell. Virginia is Steve's mom's name and Beth is my paternal grandmother. We'll call her Ginny. I have had a couple of dreams about her- each time she is tiny with a shock of really dark hair. I can't wait to meet her!
A couple weeks back we got confirmation that she is indeed a girl, and we're naming her Virginia Beth Isabell. Virginia is Steve's mom's name and Beth is my paternal grandmother. We'll call her Ginny. I have had a couple of dreams about her- each time she is tiny with a shock of really dark hair. I can't wait to meet her!
Saturday, October 10, 2009
The Peanut
Holy *&^$#%! We're going to have a baby.
For now, we call her/him "The Peanut" and she/he is due 5/28/2010.
Front-runners for names are: Virginia (we'd call her Ginny or Vivi, middle name maybe Bliss or Beth) and for a boy, Oscar (middle name the source of much contention, though we both like Wayne!). These are both family names for Steve. We plan on doing some more research into names when we visit the Holy Halls of Family Name Researching (a.k.a. the Mormon genealogy library) in Salt Lake City over Christmas.
For a part of my job, I teach classes called "Am I Hungry" which help people get in touch with their hunger/fullness levels and all the other reasons we eat. Of course, the end product of working on this kind of thing is that people end up feeding their physical hunger, stop when satisfied, and have better ways to deal with stress, loneliness, boredom and etc. Doing this work myself has meant I am not longer obsessed or fearful about my food choices, and I let my body take the reigns, paying attention to when it needs to be fed, and when it is satisfied.
In the past couple weeks I have discovered a whole new physical reason to eat that isn't hunger- it's called: "to avoid the pukes!" At this point, I'm wearing the acupressure nausea wristbands (they do actually lessen the seasick feeling!), and drinking lots of ginger tea too. I've heard lemons work- so Steve's at the store! This whole experience thus far has given me a heart-full of gratitude for my mom, and some awe and wonder at the thought of her doing this SIX times. Whoa. That's a lot of lemons.
I'm trusting in the process and my body, and marveling at the fact that the thought of ice-cream makes me sick!
For now, we call her/him "The Peanut" and she/he is due 5/28/2010.
Front-runners for names are: Virginia (we'd call her Ginny or Vivi, middle name maybe Bliss or Beth) and for a boy, Oscar (middle name the source of much contention, though we both like Wayne!). These are both family names for Steve. We plan on doing some more research into names when we visit the Holy Halls of Family Name Researching (a.k.a. the Mormon genealogy library) in Salt Lake City over Christmas.
For a part of my job, I teach classes called "Am I Hungry" which help people get in touch with their hunger/fullness levels and all the other reasons we eat. Of course, the end product of working on this kind of thing is that people end up feeding their physical hunger, stop when satisfied, and have better ways to deal with stress, loneliness, boredom and etc. Doing this work myself has meant I am not longer obsessed or fearful about my food choices, and I let my body take the reigns, paying attention to when it needs to be fed, and when it is satisfied.
In the past couple weeks I have discovered a whole new physical reason to eat that isn't hunger- it's called: "to avoid the pukes!" At this point, I'm wearing the acupressure nausea wristbands (they do actually lessen the seasick feeling!), and drinking lots of ginger tea too. I've heard lemons work- so Steve's at the store! This whole experience thus far has given me a heart-full of gratitude for my mom, and some awe and wonder at the thought of her doing this SIX times. Whoa. That's a lot of lemons.
I'm trusting in the process and my body, and marveling at the fact that the thought of ice-cream makes me sick!
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