Showing posts with label pregnant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pregnant. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
ARE THEY ALL YOURS?!??: The Cause and Cure of Morning Sickness and Hyperem...
ARE THEY ALL YOURS?!??: The Cause and Cure of Morning Sickness and Hyperem...: This post is one very near and dear to my heart, and one that I have been very eagerly wanting to write and publish for some time now. If p...
Monday, September 3, 2012
A little bit of everything
Wow! Has it really been almost 2 months since I've blogged about something? I guess morning sickness will do that to you! Yes, I am around 16 weeks along and have had the hardest pregnancy I've ever had so far, but am blessed I have made it this far this time.
I am very thankful to have so many midwife friends who helped me through these past few months. They had me taking 100mg of Vitamin C and 50mcg of Vitamin K at the same time 3 times a day. Also I was told to eat pickles, since they are a good source of potassium and sodium. I couldn't believe how well these simple things things helped me, instead of having to go to a doctor and have drugs prescribed. Also if I forgot to take the vitamins (only happened 2 times) I could tell a huge difference.
I finally have felt well enough this past week to get out of the house, which we took full advantage of since Eric was on vacation. We stayed home, but did local activities. This past weekend we stayed at the lake to visit with Eric's parents and also plan the menu for the upcoming Jaime's wedding reception. On Wednesday, we went on a picnic at McKinley Monument and then Thursday, we went to the Stark County Fair. Friday, we surprised the kids with going to Phineas and Ferb Live at Canton Civic Center after spending most of the day cleaning and getting a huge bag of corn parboiled, cut off the cob and in the freezer for winter. Saturday, I started getting my garden in order. I harvested all of my sunflowers, found about 1/2lb of ground cherries, picked some of my pickle cucumbers and made refrigerator pickles with dill and garlic from the garden, picked about 1/2lb of cherry tomatoes, and about 1lb of Roma tomatoes. The Romas, I have been slowly harvesting, peeling them, and saving them in a 2 gallon Ziploc in the freezer until I have enough to try and make sauce with them. I am very sceptical that I am going to get enough to do anything substantial with, since the drought this year really took a toll on most of my garden. Sunday, I decided to finally get the fall sewing started. I am planning on copying all the patterns and cutting out all the material before I start sewing, so that I can sort everything into same colors. That way I won't have to change thread so often. The sewing machine thread isn't that hard to change, but the thread on the serger can be a headache at times. I did get a slip for Tabitha finished that is Hanna Andersson inspired. I used a tank top pattern that I already had and added an eyelet skirt to it.
Today's plan is relaxing and getting more sewing done.
A few weeks ago I over did it, but got quite a bit canning done. I made applesauce, pearsauce, peach butter, peach slices, peach puree', and peach jam. It was a lot of work, but now we are pretty much set with peaches and pearsauce for the winter. We will be going back to the orchard in about a month to get more apples to make more applesauce and have an abundance of apples to make into pies and fresh eating for most of the winter.
Well, that is all I can think of right now. I hope all of my readers have a blessed day!
I am very thankful to have so many midwife friends who helped me through these past few months. They had me taking 100mg of Vitamin C and 50mcg of Vitamin K at the same time 3 times a day. Also I was told to eat pickles, since they are a good source of potassium and sodium. I couldn't believe how well these simple things things helped me, instead of having to go to a doctor and have drugs prescribed. Also if I forgot to take the vitamins (only happened 2 times) I could tell a huge difference.
I finally have felt well enough this past week to get out of the house, which we took full advantage of since Eric was on vacation. We stayed home, but did local activities. This past weekend we stayed at the lake to visit with Eric's parents and also plan the menu for the upcoming Jaime's wedding reception. On Wednesday, we went on a picnic at McKinley Monument and then Thursday, we went to the Stark County Fair. Friday, we surprised the kids with going to Phineas and Ferb Live at Canton Civic Center after spending most of the day cleaning and getting a huge bag of corn parboiled, cut off the cob and in the freezer for winter. Saturday, I started getting my garden in order. I harvested all of my sunflowers, found about 1/2lb of ground cherries, picked some of my pickle cucumbers and made refrigerator pickles with dill and garlic from the garden, picked about 1/2lb of cherry tomatoes, and about 1lb of Roma tomatoes. The Romas, I have been slowly harvesting, peeling them, and saving them in a 2 gallon Ziploc in the freezer until I have enough to try and make sauce with them. I am very sceptical that I am going to get enough to do anything substantial with, since the drought this year really took a toll on most of my garden. Sunday, I decided to finally get the fall sewing started. I am planning on copying all the patterns and cutting out all the material before I start sewing, so that I can sort everything into same colors. That way I won't have to change thread so often. The sewing machine thread isn't that hard to change, but the thread on the serger can be a headache at times. I did get a slip for Tabitha finished that is Hanna Andersson inspired. I used a tank top pattern that I already had and added an eyelet skirt to it.
Today's plan is relaxing and getting more sewing done.
A few weeks ago I over did it, but got quite a bit canning done. I made applesauce, pearsauce, peach butter, peach slices, peach puree', and peach jam. It was a lot of work, but now we are pretty much set with peaches and pearsauce for the winter. We will be going back to the orchard in about a month to get more apples to make more applesauce and have an abundance of apples to make into pies and fresh eating for most of the winter.
Well, that is all I can think of right now. I hope all of my readers have a blessed day!
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
MY do's and don'ts of pregnancy
I thought I would share some of MY do's and don'ts for pregnancy. (Updated 9/11/12)
DO'S
- Take folic acid at least a month before becoming pregnant. I take 800 mcg a day. Stop this once you start taking the prenatal vitamins.
- Take a vegan whole foods prenatal vitamin (Rainbow Light Prenatal One).
- Take a prenatal fish oil (only because I do not get to eat a lot of fish, since Eric doesn't really like it).
- Take a probiotic (50 Billion Vaginal support) the entire pregnancy to help with digestion and boosting your natural bodily flora. I have also found out that L. Rhamnosus will prevent growth of GBS, which most MD's will test you for at the end of your pregnancy. (If you are positive for GBS, it leads to many interventions and problems even with breastfeeding.)
- I am also taking a colostrum supplement to boost my immune system. The only way to get this, that I know of is through a Naturopath. I have never seen it in a regular supplement store.
- Eat dried papaya and dried pineapple to help with nausea, if that doesn't work, there are always unsalted pretzels. OR take 100mg of Vitamin C and 50 mcg of Vitamin K together 3 times a day.
- Start eating the Brewer Diet!
- Start doing pelvic rocks and squats before bed every night. Skip the kegels.
- Rest as much as possible.
- Try not to stress out about every little thing... easier said than done.
- Drink lots of water.
- Drink Red Raspberry Leaf Tea everyday after week 16, this will help hydrate you as well as give you natural vitamins and minerals.
- Stay at home and eat. Restaurant food is so full of preservatives and artificial colors, it's disgusting.
- Keep the sweets to a minimum.
- Get an excercise ball. It will help when your hips are aching in the middle of the night, as well as during labor.
- If you can afford it, get a monthly prenatal massage starting in the 2nd trimester, or better yet just have your husband watch YouTube for prenatal massage techniques and get this pregnancy massage pillow! ( Then your older kids can "help" too.) If you do go, make very sure they know you are pregnant, because there could be essential oils that they use that could be very dangerous for your baby.
- Seriously take a look at how you plan to birth your baby. Home birth is wonderful!
- Consider a midwife instead of an OB. Midwives are trained in normal birth, whereas OB's are trained surgeons looking for something wrong with you. Most OB's have never seen a woman birthing unless they were hooked up to wires and laying on their backs. Gravity is your friend...
- Consider waterbirth.
- Limit your caffeine intake.This includes chocolate, coffee, tea...
- Take a Bradley Method or Esali birthing class.
- Read, read, read, and read some more! Especially if you are planning on nursing. Don't expect the nurses or even your doctor to know what to do...
- Have support lined up, so you know where to go or call if you have any problems breastfeeding.
- Eat real whole foods, preferrably organic.
- Avoid anything with MSG, nitrates, nitrites, and fake sugars.
***- If you use all natural products, please make sure they do not contain calendula, neem, tea tree, lavender, basil, clary sage, cedarwood, cypress, fennel, jasmine, lemongrass, marjoram, myrrh, origanum, parsley, peppermint, rose, rosemary, thyme, arnica, barberry, bee balm, black walnut, blessed thistle, catnip, chapparal, chicory, colsfoot, comfrey, ephedra, fenugreek, gentian horehound, horsetail, ipecac, juniper berries, lobelia, oregon grape root, rhubarb root, uva ursi, yarrow, angelica, black cohosh (may be used in the last 2 weeks of pregnancy), blue cohosh (may be used in the last 2 weeks of pregnancy), cotton root, elecampane, lovage, osha, tansy, turmeric, borage, damiana, dong quai, licorice, sarsparilla, siberian ginseng, rue, golden seal, juniper, autumn rocus, mistletoe, bearberry, pennyroyal, poke root, southernwood, wormwood, mugwort, tansy, nutmeg, cotton root, male fern, thuja, beth root, feverfew, and sage. Some of the above are safe to use in cooking (sage, rosemary, basil, thyme, marjoram, parsley, and nutmeg) but otherwise avoid them.
- Sleep on your side with lots of pillows for support. Arrange the pillows correctly especially if you are co-sleeping still.
- Consider safe co-sleeping.
- If at all possible, decide to stay at home with your children. They deserve to be with their parents, not strangers.
DON'TS
- Eat raw fish or meat (I don't in the first place, but most fish have so much mercury content and have possible dangerous parasites, and are possibly not handled correctly, if you really like it, you can just wait the short 8 months until you can have it again).
- Drink any amount of alcohol.
- Smoke, or be around anyone who smokes.
- Take ANY medication. If you have a headache, go lay down. If you have heartburn, eliminate what you just ate out of your diet for a couple weeks (or months), drink some soda water with a splash of lime juice, or even eat some papaya or pineapple. If you are in to homeopathy, you could take Carbo Veg 30 or Pulastilla 30.
- Diet. Dieting will only harm you and your baby, because your body needs real food to get the right nutrients to sustain your pregnancy. Your body will gain the necessary weight it needs and then as you breastfeed the weight will come off naturally. (Just in time to get pregnant again, LOL)
-Take hot baths or showers.
- Take being a parent lightly. It is a blessing given to YOU and your spouse, take responsibility of what you are given.
An interesting website:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/18828217/Dos-and-Donts-During-Pregnancy
DO'S
- Take folic acid at least a month before becoming pregnant. I take 800 mcg a day. Stop this once you start taking the prenatal vitamins.
- Take a vegan whole foods prenatal vitamin (Rainbow Light Prenatal One).
- Take a prenatal fish oil (only because I do not get to eat a lot of fish, since Eric doesn't really like it).
- Take a probiotic (50 Billion Vaginal support) the entire pregnancy to help with digestion and boosting your natural bodily flora. I have also found out that L. Rhamnosus will prevent growth of GBS, which most MD's will test you for at the end of your pregnancy. (If you are positive for GBS, it leads to many interventions and problems even with breastfeeding.)
- I am also taking a colostrum supplement to boost my immune system. The only way to get this, that I know of is through a Naturopath. I have never seen it in a regular supplement store.
- Eat dried papaya and dried pineapple to help with nausea, if that doesn't work, there are always unsalted pretzels. OR take 100mg of Vitamin C and 50 mcg of Vitamin K together 3 times a day.
- Start eating the Brewer Diet!
- Start doing pelvic rocks and squats before bed every night. Skip the kegels.
- Rest as much as possible.
- Try not to stress out about every little thing... easier said than done.
- Drink lots of water.
- Drink Red Raspberry Leaf Tea everyday after week 16, this will help hydrate you as well as give you natural vitamins and minerals.
- Stay at home and eat. Restaurant food is so full of preservatives and artificial colors, it's disgusting.
- Keep the sweets to a minimum.
- Get an excercise ball. It will help when your hips are aching in the middle of the night, as well as during labor.
- If you can afford it, get a monthly prenatal massage starting in the 2nd trimester, or better yet just have your husband watch YouTube for prenatal massage techniques and get this pregnancy massage pillow! ( Then your older kids can "help" too.) If you do go, make very sure they know you are pregnant, because there could be essential oils that they use that could be very dangerous for your baby.
- Seriously take a look at how you plan to birth your baby. Home birth is wonderful!
- Consider a midwife instead of an OB. Midwives are trained in normal birth, whereas OB's are trained surgeons looking for something wrong with you. Most OB's have never seen a woman birthing unless they were hooked up to wires and laying on their backs. Gravity is your friend...
- Consider waterbirth.
- Limit your caffeine intake.This includes chocolate, coffee, tea...
- Take a Bradley Method or Esali birthing class.
- Read, read, read, and read some more! Especially if you are planning on nursing. Don't expect the nurses or even your doctor to know what to do...
- Have support lined up, so you know where to go or call if you have any problems breastfeeding.
- Eat real whole foods, preferrably organic.
- Avoid anything with MSG, nitrates, nitrites, and fake sugars.
***- If you use all natural products, please make sure they do not contain calendula, neem, tea tree, lavender, basil, clary sage, cedarwood, cypress, fennel, jasmine, lemongrass, marjoram, myrrh, origanum, parsley, peppermint, rose, rosemary, thyme, arnica, barberry, bee balm, black walnut, blessed thistle, catnip, chapparal, chicory, colsfoot, comfrey, ephedra, fenugreek, gentian horehound, horsetail, ipecac, juniper berries, lobelia, oregon grape root, rhubarb root, uva ursi, yarrow, angelica, black cohosh (may be used in the last 2 weeks of pregnancy), blue cohosh (may be used in the last 2 weeks of pregnancy), cotton root, elecampane, lovage, osha, tansy, turmeric, borage, damiana, dong quai, licorice, sarsparilla, siberian ginseng, rue, golden seal, juniper, autumn rocus, mistletoe, bearberry, pennyroyal, poke root, southernwood, wormwood, mugwort, tansy, nutmeg, cotton root, male fern, thuja, beth root, feverfew, and sage. Some of the above are safe to use in cooking (sage, rosemary, basil, thyme, marjoram, parsley, and nutmeg) but otherwise avoid them.
- Sleep on your side with lots of pillows for support. Arrange the pillows correctly especially if you are co-sleeping still.
- Consider safe co-sleeping.
- If at all possible, decide to stay at home with your children. They deserve to be with their parents, not strangers.
DON'TS
- Eat raw fish or meat (I don't in the first place, but most fish have so much mercury content and have possible dangerous parasites, and are possibly not handled correctly, if you really like it, you can just wait the short 8 months until you can have it again).
- Drink any amount of alcohol.
- Smoke, or be around anyone who smokes.
- Take ANY medication. If you have a headache, go lay down. If you have heartburn, eliminate what you just ate out of your diet for a couple weeks (or months), drink some soda water with a splash of lime juice, or even eat some papaya or pineapple. If you are in to homeopathy, you could take Carbo Veg 30 or Pulastilla 30.
- Diet. Dieting will only harm you and your baby, because your body needs real food to get the right nutrients to sustain your pregnancy. Your body will gain the necessary weight it needs and then as you breastfeed the weight will come off naturally. (Just in time to get pregnant again, LOL)
-Take hot baths or showers.
- Take being a parent lightly. It is a blessing given to YOU and your spouse, take responsibility of what you are given.
An interesting website:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/18828217/Dos-and-Donts-During-Pregnancy
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Pregnancy part 2
Well, I have yet to feel "pregnant" yet. I know some people would give anything to have my pregnancies. I have never thrown up, except last time when I hit transition. I am blessed. I do have lower back aches, but that really doesn't count. I know I am only a few weeks along, but I do long for the day that I have a slight bit of nausea from Eric's cologne (happened both times before).
Another thing I wanted to write about is breaking the news. Everytime I find out, I just can't help but shout tothe world how happy and excited we are to have a new baby on the way. Everyone always seems very happy for us, until this time. I don't know why, but all 3 times my Mom has never seemed happy. She is always... I don't know the word for it! With Tabitha we called her first. The response was "Are you sure?". With Grady she was the 3rd to know, the response was "Oh, ok...". This time was "OOPS!!". REALLY!!!??? I honestly don't get it. Also this time when we told Eric's parents, they seemed less than thrilled and commented on me still nursing Grady. Are our parents really trying to push us away? It seems so.
Another thing I wanted to write about is breaking the news. Everytime I find out, I just can't help but shout tothe world how happy and excited we are to have a new baby on the way. Everyone always seems very happy for us, until this time. I don't know why, but all 3 times my Mom has never seemed happy. She is always... I don't know the word for it! With Tabitha we called her first. The response was "Are you sure?". With Grady she was the 3rd to know, the response was "Oh, ok...". This time was "OOPS!!". REALLY!!!??? I honestly don't get it. Also this time when we told Eric's parents, they seemed less than thrilled and commented on me still nursing Grady. Are our parents really trying to push us away? It seems so.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Pregnancy... The beginning
I have decided to use my blog to keep up with what I do during my pregnancies to stay healthy.
Since I am still nursing Grady and I am planning another homebirth, I must take responsibility for every action I do and do not make.
First, I take prenatal vitamins, which should be a given.
Second, I drink at least 8oz of Raspberry Leaf tea daily, from the day I find out I'm pregnant until a couple weeks after the baby is born.
Third, I eat the Brewer Diet http://www.bradleybirth.com/PD.aspx as closely as I can EVERYDAY. If you are planning a homebirth, you must be nourished throughout. This pregnancy should be very nourished, since I now make our own bone broths and we do not eat out more than 2 times a month.
As I progress through this pregnancy, I will get more in depth my thoughts on birthing and other issues.
Since I am still nursing Grady and I am planning another homebirth, I must take responsibility for every action I do and do not make.
First, I take prenatal vitamins, which should be a given.
Second, I drink at least 8oz of Raspberry Leaf tea daily, from the day I find out I'm pregnant until a couple weeks after the baby is born.
Third, I eat the Brewer Diet http://www.bradleybirth.com/PD.aspx as closely as I can EVERYDAY. If you are planning a homebirth, you must be nourished throughout. This pregnancy should be very nourished, since I now make our own bone broths and we do not eat out more than 2 times a month.
As I progress through this pregnancy, I will get more in depth my thoughts on birthing and other issues.
Friday, December 10, 2010
False Negatives
I am so relieved that I am finally not going out of my mind as of this morning! After an error and 2 negative pregnancy tests, I finally got the positive result I knew it had to be.
I am so excited! It was a month earlier than planned, but a baby is a blessing. I think I can handle sharing a birthday month :)
I am so excited! It was a month earlier than planned, but a baby is a blessing. I think I can handle sharing a birthday month :)
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