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Category: Baby One

Six years ago.

I remember it like it was yesterday. I was working for the travel agency at the time and I got a phone call from the urgent care I’d seen just two days prior. “Ms Karambelas, we got your test results back and you don’t have a kidney infection.”   I was confused. This felt the same as the last kidney infection I had had a few months prior. They already put me on a medication to treat the infection before even getting the results of the urine culture because they were so certain I…

Baby One: 40 Weeks

*Please note, this post was originally published on my former blog “Here Comes Baby One” on May 16 & 19, 2012. I’m republishing this content on this website to have it all in one place. Hope you enjoy digging up memory lane with me! ________________________________________ The End of a Pregnancy and the Beginning of Motherhood = TOMORROW Tomorrow is D-Day! (unless I go into labor between now and then) Tomorrow morning at 6am I will call High Point Regional Hospital and they will tell me what time to come in and be admitted for my induction. They will put…

Baby One: 39 Weeks

*Please note, this post was originally published on my former blog “Here Comes Baby One” on May 12, 2012. I’m republishing this content on this website to have it all in one place. Hope you enjoy digging up memory lane with me! ________________________________________ Update: So I went to the doctor on Wednesday and was hooked up to a machine that monitored his heart rate and such for a while. Dr Patel and I talked a little and he said that he wanted to avoid inducing as much as possible, especially since I don’t want any pain meds…

Baby One: 38 Weeks

*Please note, this post was originally published on my former blog “Here Comes Baby One” on May 3, 2012. I’m republishing this content on this website to have it all in one place. Hope you enjoy digging up memory lane with me! ________________________________________   BIG NEWS:  I had a doctor’s appointment on Monday and the doctor asked if I had an ultrasound lately and I said no so they scheduled one for me for Wednesday. Looking back, she did seem a littletoo  reassuring when she kept saying they just want to check his size, that’s all…

Baby One: 37 Weeks

*Please note, this post was originally published on my former blog “Here Comes Baby One” on April 22, 2012. I’m republishing this content on this website to have it all in one place. Hope you enjoy digging up memory lane with me! ________________________________________ How far along? 37 weeks! I’m fullllll term 🙂 (this was supposed to be posted on thursday! I’m always late!) Total weight gain/loss: I swear it fluctuates each day… on Monday it was 34 lbs and then Tuesday is was back down to 28 lbs… Maternity clothes…

Baby One: 36 Weeks

*Please note, this post was originally published on my former blog “Here Comes Baby One” on April 22, 2012. I’m republishing this content on this website to have it all in one place. Hope you enjoy digging up memory lane with me! ________________________________________ So let me start by saying on Monday I went to the doctor and he killed all my dreams of having a natural, water birth. Apparently nowhere around here does them and he claims “you’ll be fine” without pain meds. While I am PRAYING I can have an &#8220…

Baby One: 35 Weeks

*Please note, this post was originally published on my former blog “Here Comes Baby One” on April 14, 2012. I’m republishing this content on this website to have it all in one place. Hope you enjoy digging up memory lane with me! ________________________________________   How far along? 35 weeks! Only TWO more weeks to go until full term! Total weight gain/loss: It seems to change every time I see the doctor! It was 28lbs on Monday but only 27lbs on Friday. Maternity clothes? yes! Bought a pair of maternity yoga pants that I’ve been…

Baby One: 34 Weeks

*Please note, this post was originally published on my former blog “Here Comes Baby One” on April 8, 2012. I’m republishing this content on this website to have it all in one place. Hope you enjoy digging up memory lane with me! ________________________________________     How far along? 34 weeks (and three days) Total weight gain/loss: 24-25 lbs as of Thursday. I haven’t gained any weight really between this week and last Maternity clothes? even those are starting to get really tight.. Stretch marks? no more than last week Sleep: still a lot of…

Baby One: 33 Weeks

*Please note, this post was originally published on my former blog “Here Comes Baby One” on April 1, 2012. I’m republishing this content on this website to have it all in one place. Hope you enjoy digging up memory lane with me! ________________________________________     How far along? 33 weeks 🙂 Total weight gain/loss: 24lbs as of my doctor’s appt on Monday the 16th Maternity clothes? only! Stretch marks? It has finally happened… not on my stomach but on my sides/love handles 🙁 Sleep: Crazy dreams, peeing constantly, sleeping for longer than 12 hrs in…

Baby One: 32 Weeks

*Please note, this post was originally published on my former blog “Here Comes Baby One” on March 24, 2012. I’m republishing this content on this website to have it all in one place. Hope you enjoy digging up memory lane with me! ________________________________________   How far along? 32 Weeks! So close!! Total weight gain/loss: Somewhere around 22lbs I believe Maternity clothes? Oh yes! 😉 Stretch marks? nope Sleep: Still having crazy dreams! and I feel like I fall asleep the second I get home from work! Best moment this week: seeing baby Jude in 3-D/4…