So it's been about a year now since my last post. Boy, have things changed. Life, baby, school, etc. I am FINALLY finished with my undergrad. Yay!! But now, the real world kicks in. Baby and job. Baby is actually not a baby anymore, mind I say, a year has gone by. Today, she is 1 year and 3 months. She is full of life, energy, and most of all curiousity. She loves attention. Did I mention, that she talks now, but not in full sentences. Everywhere we go, she either says "Hi" or "Hi-Five" expecting it from everyone and everywhere. I've been told she's a character. And a character she sure is.
She loves to play rough with daddy and a jokester. When I look back at her being a baby, I never really understood why ever mom you come across say "Enjoy it, because they grow up fast". Well, today. I surely miss her being a baby. Not that I enjoy watching her grow and explore right before my eyes, but because I miss the dependance that she once needed.
So to new mothers or soon to be mothers, as a Mom to a new Mom, Please enjoy every day with your little one, because in a blink of an eye, they will be walking and talking and no longer wanting/needing your help. Enjoy the journey....
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Thought I could do it All
So it's been quite awhile since I've been blogging. School just started on Monday, Jan. 24th. And man, let me tell you something. I thought I could do it all. So lately I've been wondering about the Super Mom thing. Does it really exist? Can a mom really be super, and do everyhing? Well, I guess we'll have to find out together. I've just recently returned back to school to finish my degree that has taken me over a decade to finish. So after all these years, I'm finally on my last semester. Who knows what I'll do next, but for now, I'm focus on school. So far, I'm completely drained out at the end of the day. I was one of those people who, and may I emphasis, LOVE to SLEEP. My family makes fun of me and calls it Judy's Snydrome.
Anyhow, school hasn't really kicked into gear yet, just the basic homework, and the structure of the class, but boy, I'm so exhausted at the end of the day that when I get home, I just want to sleep. Staying up to do homework is really hard. Let me give you a recap of my daily schedule. Get up around 7ish, because the alarm clock is crying (baby). I change her and feed her, and sometimes if I'm lucky she goes back to bed in an hour, on a bad day takes about 2 hours for her to fall back to sleep. So let's say it's an hour for her to go back to bed. It's then 8:30 or 9am. I get washed up get ready for school. I have about an hour before I leave to my first class that starts at 11:30am. I finish getting ready, eat, and leave. Sometimes she catches me before I leave for school, but I try to make sure that she sleeps longer because my mom (the babysitter during my school hours) is pretty busy with other things, so I try not to put her back too bed too soon. I get back from school around 1pm. My mom leaves to work at 1:30, so it has been working so far. Of course as I walk in the door, she's up. So I usually either feed her, or if not I bathe her then feed her. This takes about 1 hr and a half. So once she's good for another nap it's around 2:30. It then gives me a good window of 3 hours to eat and do some homework before I return back to school at night. My next class starts at 7pm - 9:45pm. I get home around 10ish. (During that time, my sis-n-law watches the baby) She's either still awake, or just about ready for bed time. But I've noticed that she doesn't sleep until 11:30pm. I eat, and do some more homework. By the time I'm ready for bed, it's usually after midnight. The good thing about it is that she's been sleeping through the night now and wakes up either right at 7 or before 7am. So I'm getting a longer sleep. (Thank god!) And there you have it, my crazy schedule. Hoping to survive for the next couple of months. Wish me luck!
Anyhow, school hasn't really kicked into gear yet, just the basic homework, and the structure of the class, but boy, I'm so exhausted at the end of the day that when I get home, I just want to sleep. Staying up to do homework is really hard. Let me give you a recap of my daily schedule. Get up around 7ish, because the alarm clock is crying (baby). I change her and feed her, and sometimes if I'm lucky she goes back to bed in an hour, on a bad day takes about 2 hours for her to fall back to sleep. So let's say it's an hour for her to go back to bed. It's then 8:30 or 9am. I get washed up get ready for school. I have about an hour before I leave to my first class that starts at 11:30am. I finish getting ready, eat, and leave. Sometimes she catches me before I leave for school, but I try to make sure that she sleeps longer because my mom (the babysitter during my school hours) is pretty busy with other things, so I try not to put her back too bed too soon. I get back from school around 1pm. My mom leaves to work at 1:30, so it has been working so far. Of course as I walk in the door, she's up. So I usually either feed her, or if not I bathe her then feed her. This takes about 1 hr and a half. So once she's good for another nap it's around 2:30. It then gives me a good window of 3 hours to eat and do some homework before I return back to school at night. My next class starts at 7pm - 9:45pm. I get home around 10ish. (During that time, my sis-n-law watches the baby) She's either still awake, or just about ready for bed time. But I've noticed that she doesn't sleep until 11:30pm. I eat, and do some more homework. By the time I'm ready for bed, it's usually after midnight. The good thing about it is that she's been sleeping through the night now and wakes up either right at 7 or before 7am. So I'm getting a longer sleep. (Thank god!) And there you have it, my crazy schedule. Hoping to survive for the next couple of months. Wish me luck!
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Thank goodness for MOMS
So today, I was planning on making Shabu for dinner. Did all the shopping and was going to start on making the sauce. But my Mother-n-law wanted to come by and visit the baby, and with her she brought over dinner. God Bless your soul. It's such a time saver, and really helped me out. (I think I'll take a nap after this post) The baby has been up all afternoon, and for some reason would sleep for an hour and wake up. Well actually she's been doing that for the past week after 6pm. I call her Princess Fiona, cuz she's a princess during the day, and after 6pm her Fiona (Shrek) side comes out. Everyone whose been a mom keeps telling me that her sleeping habits will get better, and that I should start training her. I try, but that girl has got herself on another time zone. Cross my fingers that her sleeping habits will change and that my sleep deprivation would soon end. Happy Sleeping Everyone!!
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Baby Has Arrived..
So it's been about almost 2 months since I last posted. And may I say, a lot has happened. Baby has finally arrived after 40 weeks and 1 day (Nov. 23, 2010). It has been quite an amazing & life changing experience.
Where to begin.... Well labor alone was about 20 hours. Went to the hospital at 2:30am and had her at 9:17pm. You know what they say once you had a baby, you've experienced it all. My idea or plan birthed was to be strong and have the baby naturally, but the pain was unbearable. The worst that I have ever experienced. I don't want to scare any woman, but for me it was not one of my best memory. Eventually throughout the day, or should I say at 1:30 pm I had to get an epidural. After that I was in heaven. Serval hours later had the baby. Oh yeah did I mention that throughout all the pain and almost 20 hours in the hospital, I was not allowed any FOOD or Water. Just Ice Chips. The Ice Chips (aka: crushed ICE) is another story.
Now that she has finally arrived, the first month was very exhausting. Well it's still exhausting today, but it's a tad bit easier. She's sleeping longer through the day and night now. She entered the world at 7lbs and 3ounces and 19 inches. People were shocked that she was that big for my size considering I gained no more than 28lbs-30lbs for the pregnancy. It's a good thing most of the weight was for the baby.
Month 1:
So in my culture (Hmong) we have this crazy special diet. After birth, every woman is suppose to go on this diet. (I'm surprised I made it through the whole month) It's called the chicken diet. Not any kind of chicken diet, BOILED broth Chicken with rice - 3 meals a day and with hot boiling water to drink per meal. I can honestly say that I missed REAL food so bad that, hey, I had to cheat ever so often. But it wasn't like a big cheat, it was more a bit of chocolate here and there, or a few fries here and there. Never a full meal to cheat with. And on top of the chicken diet, I was not able to leave the house for 30 days and had to cover myself from head to toe. And was not able to brush my hair. I think this is a bizzare way to recover after birth, but hey, it's been done for centuries with my culture, so I had to follow it, per my mom. After all "mothers know best". All in all, I can honestly say the diet helped shed off alot of the post baby weight.
Month 1 and a few days later:
So people have been asking me during my 30 day diet what my first Real meal was going to be? Funny thing was I had this whole idea of places and food that I wanted to eat first thing after my 30 day, but my first meal was McDonalds (2 cheeseburgers, fries, and coke). I know not very impressive for my first celebration of real food. But reason being for the McDonald was that after my 30 days was over it was 3 days away from Christmas. So on my first day out of the house, and able to consume what I wanted, I had major Christmas shopping to do. So that's why I had to eat McDonalds as my first real meal. Sad huh... Also it's my Hubby's favorite place to eat, go figure huh!
Present time:
The baby is now over 10lbs and over 21inches long. She is amazing. At 2 weeks she was able to hold her own head. Now her head/neck is stronger then ever. She's aware of things and is such a brat now. She's talking and smiling and always wanting attention. And her aunt and uncle makes fun of her cause she fake cries just to get attention. (She's definitely a tiger baby)
Where to begin.... Well labor alone was about 20 hours. Went to the hospital at 2:30am and had her at 9:17pm. You know what they say once you had a baby, you've experienced it all. My idea or plan birthed was to be strong and have the baby naturally, but the pain was unbearable. The worst that I have ever experienced. I don't want to scare any woman, but for me it was not one of my best memory. Eventually throughout the day, or should I say at 1:30 pm I had to get an epidural. After that I was in heaven. Serval hours later had the baby. Oh yeah did I mention that throughout all the pain and almost 20 hours in the hospital, I was not allowed any FOOD or Water. Just Ice Chips. The Ice Chips (aka: crushed ICE) is another story.
Now that she has finally arrived, the first month was very exhausting. Well it's still exhausting today, but it's a tad bit easier. She's sleeping longer through the day and night now. She entered the world at 7lbs and 3ounces and 19 inches. People were shocked that she was that big for my size considering I gained no more than 28lbs-30lbs for the pregnancy. It's a good thing most of the weight was for the baby.
Month 1:
So in my culture (Hmong) we have this crazy special diet. After birth, every woman is suppose to go on this diet. (I'm surprised I made it through the whole month) It's called the chicken diet. Not any kind of chicken diet, BOILED broth Chicken with rice - 3 meals a day and with hot boiling water to drink per meal. I can honestly say that I missed REAL food so bad that, hey, I had to cheat ever so often. But it wasn't like a big cheat, it was more a bit of chocolate here and there, or a few fries here and there. Never a full meal to cheat with. And on top of the chicken diet, I was not able to leave the house for 30 days and had to cover myself from head to toe. And was not able to brush my hair. I think this is a bizzare way to recover after birth, but hey, it's been done for centuries with my culture, so I had to follow it, per my mom. After all "mothers know best". All in all, I can honestly say the diet helped shed off alot of the post baby weight.
Month 1 and a few days later:
So people have been asking me during my 30 day diet what my first Real meal was going to be? Funny thing was I had this whole idea of places and food that I wanted to eat first thing after my 30 day, but my first meal was McDonalds (2 cheeseburgers, fries, and coke). I know not very impressive for my first celebration of real food. But reason being for the McDonald was that after my 30 days was over it was 3 days away from Christmas. So on my first day out of the house, and able to consume what I wanted, I had major Christmas shopping to do. So that's why I had to eat McDonalds as my first real meal. Sad huh... Also it's my Hubby's favorite place to eat, go figure huh!
Present time:
The baby is now over 10lbs and over 21inches long. She is amazing. At 2 weeks she was able to hold her own head. Now her head/neck is stronger then ever. She's aware of things and is such a brat now. She's talking and smiling and always wanting attention. And her aunt and uncle makes fun of her cause she fake cries just to get attention. (She's definitely a tiger baby)
Monday, November 22, 2010
Still COUNTING at 40 Weeks exactly
So today is exactly 40 weeks of my pregnancy. It has been a journey for me. Now the only part is the anticaption and waiting for the little one to join our new lives. The last time I saw my doctor he said the progress is coming along. But my question is "how far is coming along?" It could mean 1 day or a whole week. He also suggested that by this weeks end, if no BABY! I would have to get induced. He also mentioned that statistically every woman that goes into labor has a 30% chance of getting a C-section. Should I be worried if I do get induced? I'm also just considering getting induced if she doesn't arrive within 1 day?
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
39 weeks and still COUNTING
So it's 39 weeks and 2 days. Still no sign of her. What's going on? I am now more than anxious to meet her. On my last doctor visit, he said I could get induce if I wanted to. But there are downsides to it. So I'm going to wait until my due date which is Nov. 22. I hope she makes her appearance before her due date, if not I'm starting to get worried about what will happen?
Thursday, November 11, 2010
38 weeks 3 days
So it's 38 weeks. Still no sign of the baby coming yet? Is it just me or am I selfish. I can't wait for her to come out. By the way, still have no idea what contractions are? Cross my fingers and hope I can tell if it's the real thing or not.
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