Let’s see, where do I start. Well, yesterday while we were at Wal-mart, I passed out. That was really not fun. I was starting to feel sick, so I sat on a bench while Rick bought the groceries. When he came over after he bought them, I realized I’d fainted. He helped walk me out, and between the glass doors, I passed out again; I guess I just slumped into his chest. When I came to, I was on the handle bars of the cart and Rick was wheeling me out to the car. It took a couple minutes for me to completely regain consciousness. Yikes. Turns out, I need to eat more food. Especially protein. So ever since then, I’ve been making sure I eat meat and cheese and nuts, and I’m feeling better.
Today, I had my very first doctor’s appointment since I got pregnant. It was ever so wonderful to hear the heartbeat! But the most amazing part was SEEING the baby. She/he looks so adorable. Its legs are long and it likes to kick them a lot. It was bouncy and moved all around so we could see all different angles of its cute little body. Its toes and fingers and eyes and nose and everything were so perfect. Beautiful, beautiful baby. We could even SEE the heart beating. How amazing is that?!
After leaving the doctor’s appointment, our car broke down. It ended up being a transmission problem and was way too expensive to fix - not worth it for the kind of shape the car was in, anyway. So we are going to actually give it to the people at the transmission place. We drove a rental car home and we’ll probably start going car shopping tomorrow. Also, if anyone here in Monroe has a car that we could borrow for a few days or so, let us know!
March 8th, 2005 at 9:14 pm
Is it a boy or a girl? ….or a penguin???? ::crosses fingers::
March 8th, 2005 at 9:34 pm
Well, it’s too early to tell the sex, but the baby kept sticking its leg up in the “air” like a diva, so I dunno…Then again, it could just be a future NFL punter. It did have a bit of a belly (taking after me).
March 8th, 2005 at 10:28 pm
Boy or a girl? No! Definitely an alien or a penguin.
Glad to here things are all okay — protein was key for me to feeling good while pregnant. Counting grams for a week or two really helped me to see what got me lots of protein easily (for example, cottage cheese has tons more than other dairy, bite for bite).
March 9th, 2005 at 10:49 pm
Yay!!! I’m happy for you, no, actually, thrilled!! Whooooohoooo!
Eat that protein, girl!
March 11th, 2005 at 11:33 am
Hey guys, wow Rachel that is really scary, but I’m glad you are learning how to fix it with protein. Cheese is my biggest snack food! I’m so glad you have a healthy baby and could all is 2000 working and kissable parts (or whatever they call it on those Lever2000 commercials) Are ya’ll planning on finding out what it is?
About the car… Chuck and Mary Katherine are looking to sell his 2002 Alero if ya’ll are interested. Just thought I would pass that along to ya.