Kristi's journey to a healthy lifestyle

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I would go with your mom's advice. I wouldn't dwell on it too much, you didn't know at the time. Also I always find the negative to almost anything when searching around on the internet. It's like only people want to talk about is the bad stuff.

Enjoy your pregnancy!
 
Hey Kristi :) Just came by to see how you're doin. I'm sorry you're so stressed but I'll pray about the situation with the meds for you and have my mom as well. I've never seen a prayer for a baby go unanswered and wow have I seen some miracles when prayer chains have got goin so hang in there, God's got you and the little one covered :)
 
LOL! How much longer until the 6 weeks are over(did it just start or is it almost over)? What torture!!!!!! The creative part is great and all...but c'mon!


Yea, tell me about it. Our anniversary, October 31st will be EXACTLY 6 weeks, so that is GREAT timing. The thing is, I am completely paranoid about it cuz since we've been trying for about 2 years this would be the time I would end up pregnant.

With that said, I understand how you feel about the drugs for your teeth. However, you really cannot concentrate on them being harmful. That stress might do you more damage than the drugs you were given. For one thing, it is not like you are continuing to take them throughout your entire pregnancy. For another thing, you have been getting excellent nutrition and exercise lately so your body is more capable of adjusting to outside exposures. And remember, there are so many people who drink alcohol or tons of caffeine the first month or even two before they find out they are pregnant. Since our bodies are designed so that we do not know the very second our eggs are fertilized, then they must also be designed to withstand the things we may do during that time.

You are a great mom now, and you will be a great mom again. Just concentrate on your continued health and enjoy every second of your pregnancy!!!

By the way, isn't yours & Chris's anniversary coming up soon also? If I remember correctly, it's just a few days before ours. Have anything fun planned?
 
Holy crap Stacy....my wedding anniversary is in three days (10/12) and I completely forgot until I was reading your post :X Says something about how stressed out with school I've been, lol.
 
since we've been trying for about 2 years this would be the time I would end up pregnant.

Been there! :biggrinjester: Done that!! :smilielol5:
We tried for like a year and decided to give it a rest in April of '99. Since neither one of was to overly fond of having a millenium baby.
You guessed it! Not only did we get preggers. we were also due on the 31st of December!! LOL
Oh well, you take what you can get.
 
Hey Kristi
I am agreeing with everyone else here telling you to not worry.
When I was preggers with my son I took all kinds of meds because I was sick most of the time with some sort of Bronchitis or Upper Respitory Infection. Apparently the little guy was cramping up my lung space making it impossible for the germs to be fully eradicated.
Even though I wasn't to excited to be taking all the meds he turned out just fine.
Also when I looked into having a procedure done (ahem for female things, I am trying to be delicate here for those of the male persuasion LOL) I researched it on the net.
SweetiePea is right most everything you find is negative. I almost didn't have the procedure done because of that.
Thankfully I talked to the doctor about all the things I had found and he calmed my fears.
So talk to the OB that you are going to see. I think that you will find that eveything will be okay.
God Bless!
Auntie Bella :beating:
 
One of my wife's friends discovered she had advanced breast cancer when she was pregnant and ended up needing chemo during the pregnancy (not to mention a double mastectomy). Her daughter is a very healthy 7 year old now, and was strong and healthy right from day 1.
 
Oh Kristi, You poor thing!!! That is a hard thing to worry about.. when it's your baby. All I can say is that I had to take vicodin and percocet and then I found out I was pregnant with my son and he's 5 years old now, perfect healthy little boy. So don't worry or read too much into it. You're a good person and god will bless you with a perfect little bundle. Just believe it and thank the lord for it and know you will recieve. The baby will be fine. I'll keep you in my prayers. :)
Natasha BIG HUGS!!!
 
Wow, thanks everyone for the reassurance, prayers, and kind words. That means a lot to me and has really helped me. I am going to put it out of my mind as best as I can and I'll keep reminding myself that worrying does nothing good for me or my baby. I appreciate y'all so much!


Well, I went to the pregnancy center on Thursday and got proof of pregnancy and started getting the ball rolling with getting a doctor. I go back to the pregnancy center this coming Wednesday, and then two weeks and a day from Wednesday I will get an ultra-sound and get to hear the heart beat and see my little bean :) Yay! I will be 8 weeks by then.

Yesterday morning(Friday) I weighed 210. I haven't gained or lost any weight for 3 weeks, but my pants are feeling tighter.



So, I totally went crazy on Friday feeling the need for more room in my house and just started throwing stuff away (very unlike me) and getting the unbelievable urge to rearrange all the furniture in my house! Of course, I know better than to move anything heavy so I just took all the books off of the book shelves (three bookshelves loaded with books) and put them in boxes. I also started packing up Erik's toys to move to the other room. Chris got home and was like, WHAT?! He was such a good sport about it! He moved all the furniture that I was wanting moved and helped me get the house clean. He took Erik to his brother's house for the evening since I was having some friends over for dinner (without children and hubbies.) Fun night!

Today we continued with organizing and rearranging rooms. Erik's moving into the spare room and his old room will now be Baby's room (...Oh, my husband calls Baby, "Nemo" since in the movie they say that it means, "Without a name!" LOL...so if I refer to Baby as Nemo...this is the reason for that!") Erik is graduating from crib to big boy bed tonight. WISH ME LUCK!!!!!!! I've seen the trouble that my friends and family have had with this transition, so I'm not exactly looking forward to it. I hope it will go well.

Tonight we are going to Chris' brother's house (his identical twin) for dinner and to hang out with some friends. I was sort of hoping to stay home and hang with Chris, but he really seems like he's looking forward to going so I guess we are.



Breakfast: toasted whole wheat pita with natural pb and low sugar jelly. vitamins and orange juice

Snack: 1/4 pita cut into triangles & baked with olive oil, carrot sticks, snap beans, spicy thai hummus dip. 1 % milk

Lunch: Kashi Chicken Rustico Pocket Bread Sandwich 1% milk

Snack: Honey Nut Cherrios with 1% milk, 2 sliced strawberries and 2 blackberries

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Dinner: At Brother-in-law's-- Chicken sausage gumbo and rice (small serving), potato salad, a sugar cookie, water with lemon

Snack: I ate at 6, so I got hungry a little while ago at 11 and ate a sandwich: whole wheat pita, shredded broccoli,carrots, and cabbage, cherry tomatoes, and 2 wedges of Light Laughing Cow French Onion Cheese. Orange juice.
 
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By the way, isn't yours & Chris's anniversary coming up soon also? If I remember correctly, it's just a few days before ours. Have anything fun planned?

Yes, I can't wait! We are going to the same bed & breakfast that we stayed in for the first part of our honeymoon. Our anniversary is on Oct. 25th but our stay at the B&B won't be until the first weekend in November. We also wanted to go camping, but with the way I've been feeling (tired and cranky) I don't know how well that would go over! We'll see when it gets closer I guess. I still would like to do that, but I just don't know how I'll be feeling. And EVERYTHING is about feeeeelings these days! What did you say y'all are doing? My brain is fuzzy!
 
Hey Kristi, when you clean out stuff and rearrange your whole house while preggerz, don't they call that "nesting"? lol You're so cute :) Have you got your nursery decor narrowed down yet? My co-worker does fostercare and just got twin premies...well the boy is still at the hospital but doing good so she just got the girl...3lbs! I get to see her tomorrow but today we looked at so much baby stuff at different stores. I like looking at the baby things but then after a bit it starts to get to me because I want a baby so much, then I gotta walk to another section of the store, lol. I know, I'm nutty. Anyway she has ladybug nursery stuff and it's really cute.
 
Yes, I can't wait! We are going to the same bed & breakfast that we stayed in for the first part of our honeymoon. Our anniversary is on Oct. 25th but our stay at the B&B won't be until the first weekend in November. We also wanted to go camping, but with the way I've been feeling (tired and cranky) I don't know how well that would go over! We'll see when it gets closer I guess. I still would like to do that, but I just don't know how I'll be feeling. And EVERYTHING is about feeeeelings these days! What did you say y'all are doing? My brain is fuzzy!

That sounds like so much fun!!! We are going to dinner on our Anniversary, Halloween night. Then the next day we are having professional pictures taken. On Sunday, we are running the 5K with Ace. Got the whole weekend planned.

Hope you start feeling unfuzzy soon... lol!
 
I'm still alive! I've been super busy with Erik and have had stuff to do everyday this week leaving me with barely any computer time. After this weekend I'll have some time to catch my breath and catch up with everyone! Everything is going fine with me...but I did gain two pounds this week. I think it has more to do with the sweets that I've been eating than with the pregnancy! Way too many gatherings, appointments, and birthdays shoved into one week! I'm ready for a relaxing weekend at HOME!

Talk to all of y'all soon! Hope everyone is doing great!
 
Hey Kristi, sorry you're so busy but glad you finally had a chance to stop and take a breath and post :) Are you any less exhausted than you were last week? Hope you're feelin better. ~Lisa
 
Hey Sunshine!! Glad you had a chance to stop in. We miss ya around here ya know? Hope you're enjoying your weekend!
 
Hey Kristi! I came here to apologize for being MIA but it looks like you have been busy too! Phew, off the hook! hahaha I hope everything is going well for you and your family (and your baby!!!) so I can't wait to hear about your relaxing weekend!
 
Hello hello! I've missed y'all!!!! And I've missed having time to get on the computer. I'm still in organizing mode and when I'm not doing that, I'm laying on the couch trying not to fall asleep! I get a burst of energy in the late morning and then after lunch when E goes down for a nap I colapse on the couch. I've been going to bed super early now, so that's another reason that I've gone missing.

I've been doing so-so on healthy eating. If I can get out of the habit of eating sweets I'll be just fine. I actually lost 3 pounds this week from the nausea. I am 209 now. Smells are really getting to me and I can't stand food commercials now! yuck!

The only exercise I've been doing is staying busy in the mornings around the house. It's all I can do for now, because the tiredness is still going on in full swing. I can't seem to sleep past 4 a.m. so that's probably the main factor. I lay there for about an hour or two and then fall asleep for one more hour and then wake up b/c my bladder is on the verge of exploding! I've been peeing like a crazy woman, or should I say like a pregnant woman! haha!


I really need to get back into the habit of staying accountable on here with my eating. Please excuse me if you ocassionaly see peanut butter m&m's and orange juice for lunch or something weird like that! Sometimes that's all I can stomach.

Today:

Breakfast: (sandwich) 2 pieces of toasted whole wheat 7 grain bread. butter and sliced strawberries on one slice and natural pb on the other. 1 c. organic hormone free 2% milk. prenatal vitamins

5 peanut butter m&ms

Lunch: spinach noodles, spaghetti sauce (with ground meat), parmesan cheese. Diet Iced tea




I think we are going out for chinese tonight...dun dun duuunnnn!!! :willy_nilly: I'll try not to go crazy. I don't even remember the last time I ate chinese food but I really am looking forward to it. My hubby doesn't really care for it, but since tomorrow is our anniversary he suggested it. We aren't really celebrating until two weekends from now since that's when we have the B&B reserved. Oh! Speaking of....Chris said that he had t-voed the local news(where he is one of the editors) this morning and that I should watch it. Towards the middle of the program, the main reporter said, "I'd like to make an announcement...Chris {last name} in the back is celebrating his 5th anniversary with his wife this weekend and he would like to say that he loves you. Happy anniversary, you two!" I freaked out!! It was soooo cute! haha!


What do y'all think of the names, Molly for a girl and Andy for a boy? Those are the two names that we are leaning towards for now.
 
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