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9, 2007 |
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4:49pm
i haven't been able to take a nap.
i got in touch with 2 of my best friends from school. one from way back in elementary school and another from high school. it is wild to see the roads we have taken and that we are still able to find each other after all this time. it makes me happy :)
with my elementary school friend,
we are just polar opposites of each other, but we always got along the best.
probably because she is just so darn NICE and she was never judgemental of
me.
she is a math teacher and just did everything by the book. went to college,
got married, had children.
now she is a sunday school teacher and youth leader and still at the church
we met at way back before 6th grade!
that is amazing.
i can't imagine ever having a life that is THAT solid, perfect, and seemingly
mapped out.
and i really would be skeptical of it if i didn't know her. but because i
do know her i know it's completely 100% genuine.
my other friend is also married with
2 kids and she works in media as a producer.
but before that she was a heroin addict and all sorts of things.
so my friends really run the gammut of experience.
i wish i could find all the friends
i used to have. but so many change their last names when they get married
that it's really hard to find them.
2:04pm
i was awakened this morning by the
maintenance man and he fixed all the little stuff in here. so yippee :)
but then i could not get back to sleep. will i ever get enough sleep?
then i talked to my midwife about my blood test results and my hemoglobin
is still not up there where she would like it, i am still a bit anemic :(
so i read up more on iron:
http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/iron.asp
and i'll try to get more. i'll eat
malt o meal every day.
because i hate liver.
even tho the iron in liver is better absorbed.
i already take my prenatal vitamins and the liquid iron supplement called
floradix, now i will add the malt o meal and whatever else i can eat.
argh.
tonight is the 2nd birthing from
within class.
i am going to try and take a nap now because i am so so so so tired.
i'll put some clothes in the washer and then nap.
i am making a whole bunch of colostrum
today.
every time i squish my breasts a bunch of big drips come out.
my midwife told me that the more i express it, the more i will make it.
but i have to express it or it hurts!
thankfully it's not a huge deal to just squeeze my breasts and get it out.
although if i am in public, this is much harder to do!
but whatever...you have to do what you have to do.
i get the braxton hicks contractions more often and they last longer and are VERY uncomfortable, sometimes taking my breath away and i just can do nothing but go on my bed and breathe through them.
i'm going to get together with my
mom on thursday and see my dad on monday.
they are both so supportive of me and the pregnancy, i am happy :)
reading more about:
http://www.unassistedchildbirth.com/
i get more and more pissed off about
the medical community in regards to childbirth the more i look at the LJ pregnancy
communities. and i am truly mystified as to how so many women who post on
there can be so extremely uninformed about what is happening with them.
thank god there is the internet at all because i cringe to think how uninformed
women would be is we did not have it!
i cringe to think how uninformed *I* would be if i did not have the internet
to help me.
it has truly been a godsend to me.
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baby registry!
I thought you might like to know that I have created a Baby Registry at Amazon.com. You can find it anytime by searching for my name at http://www.amazon.com/babyregistry.
Best Wishes,
ana voog and matthew bruce
You can see ana voog and matthew bruce's entire Baby Registry at:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/baby/3BKBUJCBUDKXC
ok, here it is!
if you can think of anything else that would be good for me to add, let me
know :)
if you find a better price for things or want to buy it somewhere else or simply send something else or give us a gift of money (yes!!! $ will go to buy fuzzi bunz cloth diapers and medical costs)
please send to:
ana voog
p.o. box 76152
saint paul, MN
55175
make cheques and money orders
out to:
rachael olson (my legal name) or matthew bruce
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