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Monday, May 19th, 2008
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8:29 am - Non-Emmeline Pictures
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| Sunday, May 11th, 2008
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8:54 pm
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My degu died today.
Apparently the average lifespan of a degi is 5-8 years, and Miru was 7 1/2.
That doesn't make it hurt any less though.
current mood:  sad
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| Monday, May 5th, 2008
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7:20 am - Heehee!
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Emmeline's birth announcement came out in the paper. They list all babies born in each of the hospitals in their own column. Hers was the only entry listed in a category all by itself.
They mistakingly put her under the heading, "At Home."
I wonder how many people are going to think Craig and I didn't make it to the hospital in time!
current mood:  amused
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| Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
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3:15 pm
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| Sunday, April 27th, 2008
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4:51 pm
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No Baby Yet.
They want me to check into the hospital tomorrow night in order to induce me on Tuesday.
I'm scared.
current mood:  scared
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| Thursday, April 24th, 2008
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9:31 am - No Baby Yet
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My due date was yesterday.
I emailed my mother from work and told her, "The next person who says to me 'Haven't you had that baby yet?' is going to die a swift and terrible death!"
My phone rang at my desk not 5 seconds later.
Me: "This is Tracey."
My Mother: "Haven't you had that baby yet?"
Me: "Swift and terrible death, Mother. Swift and terrible death."
She did take me out for pizza and salad after work though, so all is forgiven.
Please think labor-and-delivery thoughts for me today, I'm ready for her to come out! The ultrasound tech we saw on Monday estimates her weight at 6 pounds 9 ounces. That's a perfectly respectable weight. It's time to come out!
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| Monday, April 21st, 2008
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7:52 am
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Craig: "My friend Julie said that she knew she was going to go into labor when all three of her cats lined up on the bed and just stared at her."
Me: *Looking at the four cats who are on the bed with her, as usual* "LOOK AT ME!!!"
Didn't work.
I have an ultrasound today. This will be my fifth one. They're really monitoring her closely, but according to the doc there isn't a problem. I think they just want to make sure she's big enough to come out. I'm hoping Craig can take off work to come with me, but it's not looking promising.
*Cat wanders in*
LOOK AT ME!!!!!
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| Friday, March 28th, 2008
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7:44 am
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I went to my family doctor yesterday, per my OB's instructions. The verdict is bronchitis that is sending me into one long, continuous asthma attack. She put me on baby-safe antibiotics (hoping I'm not allergic to them the way I'm allergic to most other antibiotics), and Prednisone.
She had to convince me to use the Prednisone. I didn't want to, because it's category C, which means it may or may not be harmful to the baby. She explained that there was very little risk with only a 5-day dose, and that Prednisone has been used in mothers who are at risk for pre-term labor to help speed up the baby's lung development. I was still a little resistant until she pointed out that my oxygen saturation level was 85%. That meant that I could either try the Prednisone, or wait a day or so and wind up in the hospital unable to breathe (which meant baby wasn't getting oxygen either). So I'm on Prednisone. It's been less than 24 hours, but I can already tell the difference.
My doc was still very worried, so I have to go back today to be rechecked (should be leaving right now, in fact). She didn't want me to wait until Monday, since my oxygen stats were so bad and I'm so far along in my pregnancy.
Doesn't it just figure? I go through the entire pregnancy with only a few little sniffly colds, and in the final weeks, I get bronchitis! At least I got in this time before it turned into pneumonia, right?
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| Saturday, March 1st, 2008
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8:20 am
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I was lying in bed, enjoying the sleepy knowledge that I don't have to get up for work. Then someone walked by my bedroom window, sending the dogs into a loud fit of barking. Right when they started, the baby kicked, flipped, and rolled.
Heh. We can mark this date down as, "The First Time the Dogs Woke up the Baby."
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| Thursday, January 24th, 2008
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8:15 pm
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We're leaving for Washington DC tomorrow. You all know how phobic I am of flying, so think good thoughts, please! The doctor did give me Ativan for the flight over and back, but I'm still a bit of a wreck. At least packing was easy. I have a limited maternity wardrobe, so I basically threw everything in the suitcase that currently fits.
Flight aside, I am excited. It sounds like I will be on my own quite a bit, since Craig will be at the conference. I have my map and guidebook though, and there is no shortage of things to do in DC. The hotel is a mere four blocks from the National Zoo, so I am already planning to go there. Plus Craig and I will get to finally meet ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) tracytracy, whom we have "known" for over six years but never met.
OK, wish me luck! If anything bad happens, my friend Cindy has the flight info and my LJ password.
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| Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
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12:52 pm
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Poll #1111241 Christmas Poll
Open to: All, results viewable to: AllDid you have to go to work today? Did you go/will you be going anywhere today? (check all that apply) Christmas Dinner? (check all that will be on the table) Dessert? Do you observe Christmas?
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9:24 am - To All Those Who Observe It;
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| Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
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7:35 am
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| Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
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7:49 am - Christmas Card Post
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Going to the in-laws in Seattle for Thanksgiving. I'm hoping the pass is bare and dry.
Hope you all have a good weekend!
It's about time to send Christmas cards again. If you would like one, please leave your address in the comments. All comments are screened. Don't assume I have your address...I lose things!
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| Friday, November 16th, 2007
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7:49 am - Baby Poll!
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The ultrasound is scheduled for December 7th. If baby cooperates, we should find out the sex then.
What do you think?
Poll #1089736 Boy or Girl?
Open to: All, results viewable to: AllI think you are having a Name Suggestion for a girl? Name suggestion for a boy?
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| Thursday, October 4th, 2007
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11:18 am - Wow
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Three things hit me this morning.
1) I am three days away from being into my second trimester.
2) I put on leggings and a long shirt, and noticed I have a small tummy bulge going on.
3) I have an actual living human being inside me.
That's an awful lot to process before noon.
current mood:  indescribable
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| Sunday, September 30th, 2007
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10:40 pm - On Max and Autumn
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Fall is here. The weather is turning colder, the days are getting shorter, the leaves are turning, and Max is getting his Fall-is-here anxiety.
For the past two Octobers, Max has had severe separation anxiety. It begins around the first of October, and tapers off around the middle of November. He becomes whiny, clingy, and doesn't want us (especially me) out of his sight. We assume it's tied to when his last owner died and he was trapped in the house with him for three days. It happened at the end of October, right around the changing of the seasons. It doesn't seem like he has ever forgotten that.
It's heartbreaking to watch. He has come so far in the last three years, but every time Fall rolls around, he becomes a basket case. Yesterday he was whining outside and actually launching himself into the air at whatever window I was near. We normally don't reward behavior like that, but I let him inside anyway. He is so tortured this time of year that it wouldn't have done any good to leave him outside.
Poor Max. Even after three years, he still thinks that Fall is when he has to lose his owner and go live somewhere else.
current mood: sad
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| Friday, September 28th, 2007
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7:43 am - *Crawls out from the rock under which she has been hiding*
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| Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
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7:59 pm
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I don't get it. Why would the mailman skip our house today? Our neighbors got their mail, but the letters Craig set out to be picked up were still there, and no new mail in the box.
What's up with that? Why would he skip us?
current mood:  confused
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| Friday, September 21st, 2007
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7:25 am
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Is it just me, or did it all of a sudden get cold? Monday I wore a short-sleeved shirt to the office, and by yesterday I was in long sleeves and a sweater.
I hope the temperatures don't fall too far. We haven't harvested most of the garden yet, plus the apples aren't quite ripe.
*Shivers*
current mood:  cold
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