What a heck of a day. Didn’t get a mile from home on my way to work at 8:30 a.m., wet and foggy out, I was stopped in traffic. Started to move forward and I let off the brake, then my foot slipped (wet shoes) when I went to hit the brake and it hit the gas instead, and I got into a decent fender bender. The cars aren’t that bad, my front bumper is pretty messed up (other car looks fine), but more importantly the lady I hit complained of neck pain and was on the phone before I could pull over and get out and ask if she was ok. She nodded and was calling 911 because we were on a busy 2 lane route blocking traffic. She then noticed that I’m pregnant and said “are you pregnant?” I said yeah and she kinda did a ‘oh geesh’ and rolled her eyes and let me know an ambulance was coming.

I called my husband and he was just about to get on the train to go into the city to work, so he wasn’t that far away. The cops and paramedics showed up and we got our cars off the road. The paramedics wanted to take me too after finding out I’m about 30 weeks pregnant. I called my doctor’s office and they said not to refuse treatment and go get checked out even if I felt ok, which I did. I told the paramedics my husband was going to take me to the hospital (he had arrived) I was already registered at, and they said ok and left. I don’t think they would have let me not go with them if my hubby hadn’t showed up and said he was taking me to our hospital. The cop didn’t give me a ticket, just a case number.

We went to the emergency room and I love this hospital, it’s just not too busy. They took me up to L&D within 5 minutes and had me on the monitors for about 3 hours. I was having some small contractions and the baby’s heart rate was all over the place, from 170 to 120. We had lunch and the contractions stopped, and the baby’s heartbeat leveled out at about 150 for a good hour, so they sent me home. The doctor there was actually the one from my group that I have an appointment with on Friday, she was really nice.

I had a feeling everything was ok. The baby was really active, trying to kick the monitors off my belly. They did blood tests to check for placental abruption and any bleeding since I’m RH- (I just had a rhogam shot anyway) and all came back negative.

They let me go home around 1:30 p.m. with a list of signs to watch for. I feel ok. Just a bit sore from tensing up during the hit I think. More importantly the baby is fine. I feel horrible, but accidents happen and on a scale of 1-10, this was a 2.

It is very upsetting. I never had an accident before I got pregnant, and now I’ve had 2 in 3 months. I’m getting scared to drive.

Why do people feel the need to comment on how big or small you are? Who are they to say? Just because I’m not huge like they may have been when they were preggo, doesn’t mean that I am small. No there is nothing wrong, I’m measuring fine thank you!

Sorry, I’ve noticed since I’ve been working, that people all the time are asking me how far along I am, and when I tell them they are shocked, because I look small apparently. It’s just frustrating because everyone is different!! Some people have bigger feet than others, do they feel the need to comment on that? I don’t think I look small at all.

Thanks for letting me get that off my chest, because I think I might explode at the next customer who tells me I’m small!

You just found out your friend or family member had a baby and you can’t make it to the hospital, what do you do, and what will they think?  Sometimes, life’s hectic schedules can get even the best of us, and even though we would like to be there for all of life’s events we can’t.  That is why a gift basket is always a great gift and a well appreciated idea when someone has a new bundle of joy.   Sometimes the new mom is so exhausted after giving birth, that she would probably prefer the quiet time alone for rest and to bond with her new baby anyway.  Below are some pictures of my favorite gift basket ideas.  With these gift baskets, your gift is sure to be a hit and greatly appreciated.

These yummy cookie baskets will please the new parents and their guests

These Fruit Baskets are healthy, cute and creative

Every woman loves flowers

Burt's Bees makes healthy and natural gift baskets for mom and baby

 

Diaper Cakes make fun and creative gifts

My sister has a 12-year-old son and just had a baby girl about 8 weeks ago. I asked her how her son dealt with her pregnancy and having a new baby sister come into the family.

She said at first he wasn’t sure how he felt. It didn’t really seem real to him until she started to show. He had a hard time grasping the reality of it all. My sister had to get a Caesarean Section and her son knew this. As her pregnancy went on he became excited but also very worried and anxious at once. She was feeling very tired and sick all of the time. This worried him and made him scared that something bad was going to happen to her or that she might even die. My sister said this was because someone being pregnant was something completely new to him so he did not know what to expect. Once my sister had the baby, her son was over joyed and became more relaxed in knowing he could see and feel his new baby sister and that his mom made it through alive and healthy. When she got home from the hospital her son was very helpful around the house and with the new baby. But sometimes he would fight for attention and almost revert to acting like a baby himself by wanting to climb on her lap and things like that. Overall, everyone is happy and doing well. I think children adjust differently and come to acceptance at different times.

My husband and I are the same age and we both met in Junior High; even though we were young, it was love at first sight. Unfortunately, but also of course now happily, we had our son when we were only 18 and then our daughter at 24. Now at the age of 40, we both just realized that I am pregnant again, which is a very unexpected surprise! It feels a little odd that my son could be old enough to be the baby’s father (our son is 22, soon to be 23); but at the same time, I am really looking forward to having another baby and I am very excited. What makes the surprise even better, is my best friend who also has older children, just recently found out she was pregnant, also by surprise; so our children we will be able to grow up together, which I think is great J

I’m a vegetarian and a gym addict; but while pregnant with my second daughter, I craved roast beef sandwiches and chocolate and peanut butter ice-cream on almost a daily basis.  The first time I asked my husband to pick me up a roast beef sandwich and a pint of ice-cream, I thought he was going to faint.  I still laugh to this day thinking about it.