I thought morning sickness was bad before… holy crap! It kicked in BIG time. I spent most of the other night in bed with every remedy I could think of. Lemons, ginger, peppermint, heat… nothing worked. I was so sick I couldn’t sleep very well. I woke up sick the next morning and called the doctor who called in some Reglan. It helps so much!!

I’m starting to show, too. I figured as much for a fourth baby. And I’m even down four pounds! *lol*

Five weeks from today and I will be in the wonderful second trimester. Hopefully the morning sickness will go away!

Your baby is now 5/8 of an inch long, about the size of a kidney bean. New this week: Webbed fingers and toes are poking out from your baby’s hands and feet, his eyelids practically cover his eyes, breathing tubes extend from his throat to the branches of his developing lungs, and his “tail” is just about gone. His arms have lengthened, too, and his hands are now flexed at the wrist and meet over his heart. His knee joints have formed, and his feet may be long enough to meet in front of his body. In his brain, nerve cells are branching out to connect with one another, forming primitive neural pathways.

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We got the apartment we wanted! We move next weekend. I can’t wait!

Will and I are sitting on the edge of our seats waiting for that one phone call to tell us we can move. We found an apartment. It’s HUGE. It’s a little more expensive than what we’re paying now but still well within our budget. It has a gas fireplace, more closet space, an enormous kitchen with washer/dryer hookups (and we’re getting a washer and dryer from a good friend), it has a covered patio and a garage… this place is awesome. It’s ground level and seems to stay cool all day long. It doesn’t have A/C but if it stays cool who cares lol We’ll pay the same utilities there that we pay here too. So our bills won’t really go up much at all and we’ll have a lot more space and my husband will be happy as pie with his garage So we’ve got our fingers crossed. And at least with this place we won’t have to change the kids’ schools, we’ll be in the same neighborhood. And still within bike-riding distance from the kids’ school. *crosses fingers*

Gotta love those mood swings I can’t complain too much because it’s just another pregnancy symptom I’m glad to have. I’m right in there where I was last year when I was having the problems. 7 1/2 weeks. I just need to pass 8 weeks and still have everything going okay. I’m a nervous freaking wreck!! I think I overdid it yesterday and last night and I’ve been sore today. Nurse says to take it easy, keep the feet up, no heavy lifting, no sex.
I have been so moody the last few days. I hate it. I get SO pissy over the stupidest things. Poor DH. He gets the bulk of it. Can I just crawl in a hole and hide until they go away?

One more post about the welfare issue…

So, remember the breakdown? Did you see it? Here it is again in a nutshell. We make $2400 a month right now. His income and mine combined. Remember that with his tow truck driving, this fluctuates, but this seems to be the average. Anyway, daycare for three kids is $2400 a month. If I get a job I bring home roughly $1000 a month. Bills: Rent - $600, Utilities - $200, Car payment - $200, Food - $300, Gas - $300 if I’m working. Health insurance - $200 as long as it’s offered, $400 if I have to get it elsewhere.

Once you add all of that up, keep reading.

I post this because there are some of you who seem to think you can solve all of our problems by telling me to get up off my ass and get a job. Let’s take a look at the situation we’re actually in:
Our monthly income - $2400. Daycare - $0. Rent + Utilities - $800. Gas - $80. Food - $300. State pays for only half our food right now and takes care of the health stuff for the girls. Our income limit is $2615. If we go over $2615, we lose our assistance entirely. This means if I work, we don’t qualify for assistance of any kind whatsoever.

So tell me, since some of you know how to fix all my problems, PLEASE. FIX MY PROBLEMS NOW. What is that magical answer that will get us off assistance so we can still EAT?? Let’s hear it!!

Otherwise, fuck off.

Asthma risk from eating nuts during pregnancy
Peanut allergens may make child more prone to the disease, study finds
Reuters
updated 9:25 a.m. ET, Tues., July. 15, 2008
LONDON - Pregnant women who eat nuts or nut products like peanut butter daily raise the risk their children will develop asthma by 50 percent, Dutch researchers said on Tuesday.

The study also showed that moderate amounts did not seem to have an effect, meaning it is too soon to say whether pregnant women should give up nuts because they contain many important nutrients and healthy fats a developing fetus needs, they said.

“We were the first to find these strong effects on asthma symptoms,” said Saskia Willers, an epidemiologist at Utrecht University, who led the study linking nuts with asthma.

“But until we are certain we don’t want to restrict them from the diet. So it is important that other studies replicate the findings,” she said.

Asthma is an inflammatory disease causing wheezing, coughing and labored breathing that can be life threatening. In some countries as many as 30 percent of children develop the condition, according to the World Health Organization.

Scientists do not exactly know why some children develop asthma, although some believe that allergies can trigger the disease that causes a narrowing of the bronchial tubes.

Nuts and seafood are known to contain allergens that cause food allergies but the Dutch team only found a link between peanuts and asthma, Willers said.

In their study, more than 4,000 pregnant women completed a dietary questionnaire that asked whether they consumed vegetables, fresh fruit, fish, eggs, milk, milk products, nuts and nut products rarely, regularly or daily.

The researchers, who published their findings in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, then assessed the children’s diets and looked to see who had developed asthma over an eight-year period.

Children whose mothers ate as little as one peanut butter sandwich a day had a far higher risk of asthma, Willers said in a telephone interview.

“If you eat moderately, it is probably not a problem,” she said. “It is only if you eat nuts or nut products on a daily basis.”

The study did not find a mechanism but Willers said peanut allergens may be crossing the placenta and sensitizing a fetus, making a child more prone to the disease.

The researchers also found a small benefit from eating fruit daily, and reported that the link between asthma and nuts remained after factoring for the child’s diet, Willers added.

One of my favorite parts of pregnancy lol

Today I’m craving blueberry muffins like there’s no tomorrow. Last night it was steak. I wanted a big fat juicy rare STEAK. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, cook it thoroughly… I’ve had a rare steak with every single one of my pregnancies and it’s never made me sick or caused me to lose my baby or caused my kid brain damage so I went ahead and had one It took me last night and this morning to eat lol but it was gooooood. Right now… it smells so good in my house! It smells like muffins.

I will be one happy pregnant chick in about seven minutes…

I figured it was a matter of time before the migraines kicked in. Today is day two in a row dealing with the lovely wonderful things. I’m trying to cut out caffeine completely which means no Excedrine (calm down people, it’s just Tylenol and Aspirin and some caffeine and I only take one, it’s perfectly okay). But cutting out the caffeine means more headaches that turn into migraines I drink a crapload of water and take naps and my head is still pounding I’m happy to be pregnant but shit, OUCH!

I received a nasty comment today. I have no idea who this person is, they have no balls. They didn’t post their name and the email address is most likely a fake. Who has hater 1968 at hotmail as an email address? If it’s real, I don’t even want to know… that’s a lot of hate for one person.

This comment was rude and ignorant. I don’t mind a nice intelligent debate, but when someone comes right out and slams people like me for our life choices with the full intention of putting us down, that’s just childish and immature right there and speaks volumes about a person’s character and education level.

If you disagree with me, let me know with a bit of intelligence and maturity (and use your real name or at least your real email address for crying out loud). Let’s debate it out, try to see it from each others’ view points, and then agree to disagree, like adults. Like educated, well-spoken adults.

This person said to stay in Montana because they don’t want me and my kids anywhere NEAR their kids… GLADLY!! This person strikes me as incredibly stuck up and conceited. This person thinks they are better than everyone else and needs to put down others to feel good about themselves. Sorry, that’s not the kind of person I want to be around. But thanks for thinking I think so highly of you, whoever you are!