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| If you're pregnant, here's something to consider before using insect repellents: Repellents and insecticides linked to birth defects in baby boys They're very clear that there's no clear causation, just a statistical link. But if you're pregnant and not in an area where a bite risks other health problems, you might want to consider skipping the repellent and use other avoidance measures, just to be on the safe side. | ||||||
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December 10th, 2009
March 4th, 2008
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| Holy crap! Identical In-Vitro Triplets Born in NY Some of you may recall that when I got my positive pregnancy test from the fertility clinic, they told me that it was definitely at least twins, quite possibly triplets, since they'd implanted three frozen embryos. In the week and a half we had to wait for the first ultrasound to find out, I teased Corran every few hours that I could "feel" that those three were all splitting into multiple identicals. By the time we got to the ultrasound I was joking that there were at least 8123 of them in there. And there you go, now it has actually happened to someone! | ||||||
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October 19th, 2005
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| Expensive baby! Just opened the statements from the hospital (we don't have to pay anything, we've got full coverage, thankfully!)...my costs came to US$14,300ish and Peo's (listed as CHAPMAN, BABY GIRL) were an additional few thousand...already forgot the amount in the time it took me to come upstairs. Is a tin of Tucks pads *really* $32?! Is one ibuprofen tablet *really* $2? Sheesh! I know, I know, it's all including the staff charge to bring it to you and all of that, but still! Man, if I wasn't so tired, I'd be going on yet another big fat rant about national health care. After all, we're covered, but for those who aren't, what kind of financial life is started if a kid comes into the world owing almost $20,000? But I'll be good and go nap with Peo instead of ranting. All y'all know this song and dance of mine by now anyway... On a completely different note, the one show of The Colbert Report we've seen so far was awesome. Let's hope he can keep up that punishing pace! :) | ||||||||
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shockedOctober 11th, 2005
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| Note: I've been reading the email and comments here giving us congratulations, but I haven't yet had time to reply to anyone. I do appreciate all of the kind words, though! :) Here's my account of Peo's birth, rambling and rough because if I take time now to turn it into beautiful prose, I'll never get it done before I start to forget stuff! ( behind a cut for flist space and because this post contains medical information that some readers may consider too intimate, and it also contains a small amount of needle discussion, so folks who don't like that stuff should not read this ) | ||||||||
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accomplishedOctober 8th, 2005
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| This is Kim's husband Corran logged in to her LiveJournal (I'm home briefly to shower, change clothes and eat). Peo Miranda Webster arrived at 11:35 pm Friday night a little over 24 hours after induction was started. She weighed in at 7lbs 7 oz (3.380 kg for the metrically inclined), is healthy and doing well, has a powerful set of lungs on her when she chooses to use them, and is, of course, the cutest, most beautiful baby in the world. Kim is fine, if tired and a little weak, and will be out of the hospital tomorrow morning most likely. She'll update things for you all some time after that, probably with photos. Thanks to all Kim's friends who have helped her (and as a result, me as well), deal with the ups and downs of getting Peo here. Corran (Peo's dad) | ||||||||||
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tiredOctober 6th, 2005
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| I'm back. Fastest birth ever, or they had no beds? You guess! Grrrrrrrrr. They actually did call while I was in the shower at 4:30 but I didn't think to check the phone for messages. So we arrived and they told us to come back at 10:00 pm. But now I'm nervous as all hell that they'll postpone to next week. So to keep me from freaking out, we're going to watch the Daily Show from last night, then maybe something else on TV, then call first to see if we should come in. This is me trying hard not to have a major spaz. >:( (If you don't see another post from me tonight, we got in.) | ||||||||
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Okay, my bags are packed and ready to go...(now I'm avoiding singing a John Denver song that starts that way, just for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} bodacia's sake ;D)Gonna shut down the computer *gasp* to let it have a few days off. They will give me Internet on my IV, right? Meep! Then I'm going to have some egg salad on a pita as a light dinner, then we're going to the hospital! Wheeeeeee! I'll post piccies as soon as I can when I'm back. If it turns into a c-section or any other delayed thing, I might have Corran pop home on the weekend and post here on my behalf. Otherwise, I'll let you all know what's up when I can. (I'm leaving comments open because I don't like turning 'em off, and I'll read anything when I get back but I might not reply.) | ||||||||
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October 4th, 2005
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| *whiiiiiiiiiiiine* The amnio didn't hurt a bit, but the doc eyeballed the fluid and warned us that it looks very very clear, which is a potential indicator that her lungs *aren't* ready yet, in which case everything might get put off. *much pouting* It wouldn't be so bad if they hadn't gotten me all pumped up to deliver this week. I've had my panics and my "omg it's going to hurt" and gotten through that and relaxed, and now I'm all worried that the whole thing will be put off for a week or two and I'll have to do it all again, but then with the increased risks to Peo's overall health. Not to mention for every pound she gains, the less chance of a vaginal birth. I only got 3 hours of sleep so I'm going to go try to nap now (because we have an OB/GYN appointment at 4:30 and will find out the results then, if not sooner by phone), but I'm afraid that exhausted though I am, I might not sleep because I'm so anxious. I'm being very whiny and cranky and fussy in all things now. Not a fun day so far. Corran pointed out a potential upside to a delay...we might get to see Wallace and Gromit after all. But as of yet that's not helping because my psychology is all screwy with the up and down of it all. | ||||||||
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| As I'm pottering around with computer stuff (the rib pain is there but thankfully still mild, so maybe I can get another half hour's stuff done), I've got my music playing and I'm singing along, mostly for Peo's sake. She seems to like it. And I have some bad news for bodacia...she seems to react the best (as far as I can tell without being able to read her mind) to two things in particular: "Wooden Heart" by Elvis Presley (for more than a week now she has consistently made gentle wiggles to that and then started kicking hard when it's over) and pretty much anything by John Denver.I suspect it's the simple melodies, but there you have it. Be afraid. :D | ||||||||
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October 3rd, 2005
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| *much whining* ( an online order of baby stuff gone wrong ) That, and the hospital called to say pending a need of change with the amnio results tomorrow, I'm booked for Thursday night at the hospital, not Wednesday. Which would have been fine if I knew that a few days ago, but I busted my ass all day trying to get stuff done thinking I had less time, and now I'm all psyched up for Wednesday and have to wait an extra day. I know, I know, it still beats not knowing at all or going past 40 weeks or whatever, it's just that I was psyched up and I'm *REALLY* getting achy and whiny and now I have to wait an extra day... ( much bitching about my domain ) I am having a sucky, whiny, sulky day. Stuff that ought to be simple is all turning out to be hard. :( And now I want to work on other computer stuff but I just know I have probably a half hour before my ribs ache and then I'll have to lie down but I'll be mentally awake and miserable...and yet I need to get up early because the amnio is at 9 am way across town. :( eta...I should probably clarify that we didn't actually have an appointment for Wednesday yet, it's just what the perinatologist told us to expect. The hospital called tonight with the Thursday appointment. They didn't actually cancel anything. We figure either there were no slots on Wednesday, or our OB/GYN, not knowing the perinatologist had told us Wednesday, booked it on Thursday so the baby will come on Friday when he (the OB/GYN) is on duty at the hospital. So it might work out that we get our regular doc, which is good, but I'm still whiny about the change in expectation. I don't have a valid reason to be...I just am. | ||||||||
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annoyed and whinySeptember 30th, 2005
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| THE NEWS: Peo currently weighs about 7.2 lbs. That's 63rd percentile, so apparently I done real good with the diabetic thing. Perinatologist says no reason to go to c-section, but that it's probably time for her to come out. Everything else on the ultrasound and monitoring looked good. THE SCHEDULE: Tuesday, Oct 4, 9:00 am - monitoring and amniocentesis to check for lung development. Perinatologist says it is "extremely likely" that at that point, being 37 weeks and showing breathing all this time, her lungs will be fully mature. Should get the results by late Tuesday. Tuesday, Oct 4, 4:30 pm - appointment with OB/GYN to go over final details. If he has the amnio results and all is well as expected, we will be booked into the hospital sometime on the following evening. Wednesday, Oct 5, evening - probably will be induced in hospital. Sometime overnight or in the morning on Thursday - Peo will probably arrive, assuming all goes well with the induction. I'll definitely post when we know for sure when we're going in on Wednesday, and probably shortly before we leave, but don't count on me being flist-good from here on out. We've got the guys coming over for D&D tonight, I want to finish the knitting gallery tomorrow and post all of that stuff, Monday I want to wrangle with Yahoo if the tech support is back in the Houston offices by then, and after that point it'll all be medical and baby stuff! | ||||||||
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| Dear Peo, As we sit here waiting for it to be time to go to the doctor's office so you can be measured and it can be determined when you're likely to enter the world, we figured it was only fair to give you one last warning about the nerds you've chosen as parents. You see, for the last day or so I've had a nagging feeling that there's some information I want, so I keep going to Google and trying to remember what it is I want to look up. Then I remember that what I want to know is when you're coming, and Google can't help me find that information. It can help me find almost anything else, but not that. However, instinctively I feel like I ought to be able to find this information online. I just explained this to your Daddy. He then told me about story he recently read on Salon.com about modern airplanes that email mechanics to let the mechanics know that something is wrong. Daddy then concluded that clearly, you need to email us to let us know when you'd like to come out. You have been warned, little one. Sincerely, Your eager parents | ||||||||
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| Hey ladies who have had kids (and any gentlemen who know details, I guess!)...talk to me about breast pumps. I'm going to want one eventually. It's not a rush since I'm stay-at-home, but eventually I'm going to want to have breast milk for others to feed Peo. Any brands you like? Don't like? Features I shouldn't live without, other features that aren't worth the money? And any of you moms-to-be who have done research for yourselves, feel free to share as well. :) Thanks! | ||||||
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September 29th, 2005
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| Did the same thing as the other day...started with the most recent flist post and worked back for a bit, but my ribs are just sore sore sore sitting in this chair. Which sucks because like I said yesterday, I want to make the knitting gallery and post it and the double-pointed needle tutorial. Maybe I'll try a nice long hot shower and see if that helps long enough to do the webwork. But I think I have to call it quits for flist. I honestly just went backwards in order, so if I missed you, it's not personal. It's almost 12:30 am and I haven't had dinner yet. My lunch and Corran's dinner was at 8:30ish. I had to wait two hours to test as usual, and I just feel too full to eat. Meh. Maybe I'll have a piece of fruit before bed and just not bother to test. I realized tonight that I have a healthy level of fandom insofar as I know WAT premiers tomorrow, and I am excited, but I'm way more excited about being closer to Friday when we'll find out when Peo is likely to be delivered. And that'll probably be my one and only WAT without an infant around...so I'll savour it, but really, I want my baby please. :) If I manage to get the knitting stuff posted, I'll let you all know, but otherwise I think this is it for me for tonight. eta...mmmmmm...hot shower was very happymaking...I turned it on full hot and let it run down my achy sides...mmmm...but very sleepymaking, so nitey-night all... | ||||||||
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September 28th, 2005
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| Oh wow! I just finished reading the freebie issue of Baby Talk magazine that came in the mail a few days ago, and I have to say, I'm rather impressed! ( Read more... ) | ||||||||||
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| Long day. These double-appointment days aren't just exhausting, they're bad for my eating as well because I tend to be away from home so long that I either have to skip a meal or I end up eating my third meal very very late, and then have to wait up for two hours to test. Luckily, it's probably close to being over. ( the current projection for Peo's delivery ) I know I said I'd scan the ultrasound from last Friday today, but it's downstairs and I'm incredibly lazy/tired. Besides, it looks like in a week and a half I'll have better pics to share. :) While waiting to be able to do my blood test tonight, I wrote up a tutorial for my website on using double-pointed knitting needles. It's not posted yet, though, because I want to proof-read it tomorrow. I'll also make a knitting gallery tomorrow and post that as well. But for now, I have photos to share of the knitted DNA. I showed it to folks at the OB/GYN's office (they keep noticing my other knitting and are amused by it, especially when I get tons done waiting in their clinic for hours since the doc is frequently triple-booked), and now they all want one, including the doc himself, his med student, his nurse, the receptionists... I don't think I'm going to make ten thousand of these things to give away, but the nurse thinks I should start a business. :) Unfortunately, that makes it work, and I'm a very lazy person! Here are the pics: ( knitted DNA pictures behind cut to save flist space ) | ||||||||
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September 26th, 2005
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| I started reading flist from most recent and then backwards, and almost got through 100 posts but now my ribs kinda hurt from sitting up at the computer too much, so I'm stopping there, sorry. As usual, not that I don't care...I'm just not up to it. I've decided to let the frustration with the domain issues go for now. If I can't get it switched before Peo arrives, so be it. The hard part (uploading the pages) is done. The rest really does require other people to do most of the work, with me just filling in a few short forms and clicking to consent. If I'm double-paying for a month, meh...one site is less than ten bucks and the other's only 15. Whatever. Not worth freaking about. OMG...that sounds dangerously mature for me. Meep! Perhaps I'm a pod person of myself! But how would I know? Oh wait...that's insane enough that I must be me. :) I finished the DNA toy today and took pics, but again, I'm in too much pain to sit here and deal with loading them into the computer and resizing and whatnot. Tomorrow, mmkay? Well, late tomorrow, since I have two doc appointments back to back (regular Tuesday monitoring and then OB/GYN). I know I also haven't scanned the promised face pic from Friday, but it's downstairs and that's an awfully long way away... My brain is too awake to sleep, so I'm going to find something more engaging than Calvin & Hobbes to read (although starting a new novel might be incredibly foolish right now) and go lie in bed and hope the aches let up there, and also hope that I can eventually sleep. | ||||||||
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achySeptember 25th, 2005
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| Every site/mailing/book/etc. is reminding me now that I have to have a car seat because I can't take the baby out of the hospital without one. No problem; we have one, it's been inspected by experts so it's properly mounted, all is well. But I am curious...wtf are you supposed to do if you don't have a car? What if you're taking a bus home? Can you even mount a car seat in a bus since there aren't belts? Or what if you're walking? Because newsflash: not everyone in the US has access to motorized transport at all. Seriously, there are entire regions where if you don't own a car and can't afford a cab, you walk because there is no public transit. And like it or not, desperately poor people get pregnant and have babies. Reproduction has a way of working regardless of economics. So what do hospitals do in those cases? Can you take the baby away in a stroller? Do you have to have an infant carrier? Because those don't work as car seats unless the bottom piece is attached to something. Social-Justice Girl is concerned. Ensuring that the majority of folks who will be driving away have proper car seats is a Good Thing. But any such policy that doesn't have room for exceptions is a Bad Thing. Anyone know? | ||||||||
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curiousSeptember 24th, 2005
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| I'm exhausted after my busy day of mostly sitting around knitting while watching Corran clean and move furniture. Well, I did move some stuff around, but mostly it was moving my knitting box off of the furniture he was moving. I think I might be getting into the "I'm sick of being pregnant" stage. I was okay not so long ago, tired and not enjoying the hard kicking, but resolute. Now it feels like the end is within reach and I'm increasingly getting a mentality of, "Okay, is it over already?" Plus Corran and I are both *really* in the mood to take her for a walk in the stroller. We want to take her out in the improving weather and get to know her, y'know? Then again, I still have stuff I want to finish up before she's here...but I totally lack the brain power and energy to do it. Oh for just a day or two of how I felt in second trimester! Man, when I think back to spending 6-8 hours a day in the ceramics studio, often without bathroom access, I can't believe I ever had the energy for that! Crap, I don't even feel safe to drive myself anywhere lately, let alone do the physical labour of ceramics! So that's me, lazy and tired, too brain-dead to read articles and flist. But Corran dug out my Calvin & Hobbes books so I think I'll head bedward early and let Peo dance herself out while I do some mindless, non-committal reading of that innocent little cherub Calvin and his oh-so-sweet stuffed tiger. :D Hope you're all doing well...feel free to nag me if there's something specific in your LJ you want me to go read. eta...almost forgot...WE FOUND THE STEREO REMOTE! It was hiding in plain sight, buttons down, camouflaging itself on top of one of the speakers. So we gave it much praise and kisses for coming back to us. :) | ||||||||
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| I've been singing to Little Ms. Wiggly for THREE HOURS STRAIGHT because it does seem to make her fairly calm, and her wiggles are gentler (ie no rib-displacement-kicks). But every time I stop she starts popping all over the place, and I can't stay awake any longer...zzzzzzzz...... At least my website is fully uploaded to Dreamhost now, and I've checked the majority of it out to make sure I didn't miss anything. That means I can do the switchover game next, contacting the registrar, cancelling Yahoo, etc. Oh swell, while typing this she popped so much she's given herself hiccups. Oh, and today during the monitoring, she was seen to be chomping on her toes. I know babies do that, but it's kinda freaky that she has room to get her foot up to her mouth IN UTERO. That would explain some of the funny lumps I see shifting around! zzzzzzzzzzz...... | ||||||||
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