I'm home from my ultrasound.
I'll just get right to the point.
We're having
A Girl!!!
And
A Girl!!!
Hello! My name is Leanne and I'm having twin girls!!
More to come. Stay tuned. PRAY FOR US!!!!
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
A Date
Now for the appointment we've all been waiting for:
My ultrasound is scheduled for Tuesday, September 28th at 8:30 AM!
Just an FYI!!
Yes, I'm nervous! Yes, I'm excited! Yes, I'm happy! And yes, I AM counting down the days!!!!!!
I'm going by myself because I want to surprise my husband with Baby's gender. We will all decorate the table with Baby's name, cupcakes, balloons, onesies and socks in the colors of Baby's gender, so that when he walks in he will see right away who is on their way!!
I will let you all know next week!!!!!!!!!!!!
GYMBOREE, HERE I COME!!!!!!!
My ultrasound is scheduled for Tuesday, September 28th at 8:30 AM!
Just an FYI!!
Yes, I'm nervous! Yes, I'm excited! Yes, I'm happy! And yes, I AM counting down the days!!!!!!
I'm going by myself because I want to surprise my husband with Baby's gender. We will all decorate the table with Baby's name, cupcakes, balloons, onesies and socks in the colors of Baby's gender, so that when he walks in he will see right away who is on their way!!
I will let you all know next week!!!!!!!!!!!!
GYMBOREE, HERE I COME!!!!!!!
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
A Must Read
I stumbled across a site recently that reported that an agency based in California had bought and tested many, many brands of juices and baby foods marketed to parents for their children, and the agency found levels of LEAD that far exceeded the EPA's guidelines.
Here is only one link where you can read about this:
/http://pregnancyandbaby.sheknows.com/blog/baby-health/lead-found-in-popular-baby-food-and-juice-products/
You can also just google "lead in baby food" and a whole host of links will come up.
There is an extensive list of juices and fruits made by many companies, but a lot of them are made by the Nestle corporation.
Most of the brands and foods are approved for purchase by WIC.
Please, all of you who have babies or young children, would you please do a bit of research and pass this info on to your friends and family?? Lead is a serious neurotoxin with a whole host of dangerous side effects. I encourage you to know what you are feeding your families!
Here is only one link where you can read about this:
/http://pregnancyandbaby.sheknows.com/blog/baby-health/lead-found-in-popular-baby-food-and-juice-products/
You can also just google "lead in baby food" and a whole host of links will come up.
There is an extensive list of juices and fruits made by many companies, but a lot of them are made by the Nestle corporation.
Most of the brands and foods are approved for purchase by WIC.
Please, all of you who have babies or young children, would you please do a bit of research and pass this info on to your friends and family?? Lead is a serious neurotoxin with a whole host of dangerous side effects. I encourage you to know what you are feeding your families!
Brilliant!
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Hellen Keller
Hellen Keller
Update
I'm so thankful for your prayers!!
Stay tuned to your emails as I get caught up on responding to your comments.
Today I'm 17 weeks. I've been paying very close attention to what I eat and have been checking my blood sugar regularly. Yesterday I think I poked my poor fingers six times or more! I always use different fingers, for obvious reasons! I think my blood sugar, after testing two hours after a meal, is in the low 100's to about 125. I think that's normal?? No idea. I have read some research and facts about blood sugar, but it's all so conflicting and confusing! Dr W, when I was pregnant with Lucie just two years ago, said that a blood sugar of 110 after a meal was in the high range, but last week he told me that the safe range is 145!!! See what I mean??
My blood sugar seems to be normal, to me. I'm not sure whether my glucometer is the most accurate. It is more than 5 years old, and maybe there's a more effective, accurate model out there. I'm going to Dr W Thursday to do my fasting blood sugar test and another test, it's a relatively high-tech blood test, and the name of it escapes me right now. Then we'll know how accurate my glucometer is. If it isn't accurate and if I'm not getting a good reading, I'll get a new meter.
Gals, I can tell you that I am TIRED! I haven't been sleeping well!! Yet, I'm so exhausted when I go to bed at night! I know it's hormone-related......that, and the fact that my body (read: my bladder) compels me to wake up at LEAST 2 times a night to go to the bathroom. Last night, it was EVERY TWO HOURS!!! I don't usually have to go to the bathroom like at night during my pregnancies. Old age?? Lol! I know lack of sleep affects blood sugar, or that's what I've read. One of the guidelines, after exercise, is to get good sleep.
I can't tell you how many people think we're having twins! It's so funny!
The maternal fetal medicine clinic down South, where I have my ultrasounds, has not called me to schedule my ultrasound appointment. I should have gotten a call no later than Monday. I will be calling to check on that tomorrow. My gal at my Dr's office called them last Thursday and tried to get me set up for an appointment, but the gal on the other end said she needed to review my records first, then she would call me for an appointment. No call yet. Sitting on pins-and-needles here!! Dr W wanted to have my ultrasound done at the end of this month. The end of the month is quickly approaching.......
One reason I'm antsy about knowing what we're having: I've got $175 GymBucks burning a hole in my purse!!! The coupon is good till October 10th!!! If you all shop at or have EVER shopped at Gymboree, you know what that means! Ladies, let me tell you, just between us, I ADORE ME SOME GYMBOREE!!!!............
"Hello, my name is Leanne and I'm a Gym-o-holic!!!"
PS: I think we've changed the boy name Daddy picked. I confessed to him that I wasn't terribly crazy about the name. I was going to use it though because he liked it. I do have a name that I adore picked out.....we'll see.
PSS: Renata, if you're reading this, please please leave me an email where I can reach you!!! Love you.
Stay tuned to your emails as I get caught up on responding to your comments.
Today I'm 17 weeks. I've been paying very close attention to what I eat and have been checking my blood sugar regularly. Yesterday I think I poked my poor fingers six times or more! I always use different fingers, for obvious reasons! I think my blood sugar, after testing two hours after a meal, is in the low 100's to about 125. I think that's normal?? No idea. I have read some research and facts about blood sugar, but it's all so conflicting and confusing! Dr W, when I was pregnant with Lucie just two years ago, said that a blood sugar of 110 after a meal was in the high range, but last week he told me that the safe range is 145!!! See what I mean??
My blood sugar seems to be normal, to me. I'm not sure whether my glucometer is the most accurate. It is more than 5 years old, and maybe there's a more effective, accurate model out there. I'm going to Dr W Thursday to do my fasting blood sugar test and another test, it's a relatively high-tech blood test, and the name of it escapes me right now. Then we'll know how accurate my glucometer is. If it isn't accurate and if I'm not getting a good reading, I'll get a new meter.
Gals, I can tell you that I am TIRED! I haven't been sleeping well!! Yet, I'm so exhausted when I go to bed at night! I know it's hormone-related......that, and the fact that my body (read: my bladder) compels me to wake up at LEAST 2 times a night to go to the bathroom. Last night, it was EVERY TWO HOURS!!! I don't usually have to go to the bathroom like at night during my pregnancies. Old age?? Lol! I know lack of sleep affects blood sugar, or that's what I've read. One of the guidelines, after exercise, is to get good sleep.
I can't tell you how many people think we're having twins! It's so funny!
The maternal fetal medicine clinic down South, where I have my ultrasounds, has not called me to schedule my ultrasound appointment. I should have gotten a call no later than Monday. I will be calling to check on that tomorrow. My gal at my Dr's office called them last Thursday and tried to get me set up for an appointment, but the gal on the other end said she needed to review my records first, then she would call me for an appointment. No call yet. Sitting on pins-and-needles here!! Dr W wanted to have my ultrasound done at the end of this month. The end of the month is quickly approaching.......
One reason I'm antsy about knowing what we're having: I've got $175 GymBucks burning a hole in my purse!!! The coupon is good till October 10th!!! If you all shop at or have EVER shopped at Gymboree, you know what that means! Ladies, let me tell you, just between us, I ADORE ME SOME GYMBOREE!!!!............
"Hello, my name is Leanne and I'm a Gym-o-holic!!!"
PS: I think we've changed the boy name Daddy picked. I confessed to him that I wasn't terribly crazy about the name. I was going to use it though because he liked it. I do have a name that I adore picked out.....we'll see.
PSS: Renata, if you're reading this, please please leave me an email where I can reach you!!! Love you.
Monday, September 20, 2010
17 years........
Saturday was our 17th wedding anniversary.
It always causes me to contemplate how fast time flies when our family celebrates a milestone.
I met Dave when I was 15. Our "story" is somewhat legendary in our circles of friends, and we have a very long history together and apart. Maybe sometime I'll do a series of blogs about our history.
But today, I want to post about some of the things I love about my husband. Although we have been married for 17 years, I chose 22 things I love about him because I have loved him for 22 years. Sometimes it seems that I have loved this man from the time before the Lord scattered the stars, or at least from before my birth. He is intertwined in my soul and my heart. So, here goes.
I have one more thing to add: I am constantly amazed and totally thunderstruck and taken aback at the depth of the music which God gave to this man's soul. Even though I've heard his stuff millions of times, it still amazes me and I look at him in awe each time I hear his music. He is truly talented and beyond any shadow of a doubt enormously gifted by our Abba Father. Just weeks after we got together back in 1988 he played the concert grand piano at our church, and I sat there totally absorbed and in reverence and wonderment at what flowed from his fingers. I can tell you with clarity that that is the moment when I began to love him and I knew I was going to marry this man.
I'm so grateful and thankful to still be with this man. I know women who would give their closet full of treasured high heels to snag him. But he's mine and he's got it goin' on and ladies, I'm keepin' him!!
It always causes me to contemplate how fast time flies when our family celebrates a milestone.
I met Dave when I was 15. Our "story" is somewhat legendary in our circles of friends, and we have a very long history together and apart. Maybe sometime I'll do a series of blogs about our history.
But today, I want to post about some of the things I love about my husband. Although we have been married for 17 years, I chose 22 things I love about him because I have loved him for 22 years. Sometimes it seems that I have loved this man from the time before the Lord scattered the stars, or at least from before my birth. He is intertwined in my soul and my heart. So, here goes.
- I love that he is so incredibly clean. He is well kept and always neatly dressed. Even when he is out doing farm chores, his shirt is tucked in and a belt on. He keeps himself clean shaven too.
- I love that he was the first person to make me really laugh, I mean, a real belly laugh. He is corny and loveably dweeby!!
- I love it that he calls our girls "honey".
- I love that he is extremely organized.
- I love it that he prays with the kids and tucks them in each and every night, and tickles them and makes them laugh.
- I love that he knows how to do a whole bunch of things. He's a bit of a jack-of-all-trades.
- I love how he tirelessly researches a purchase (no matter what it is) before we make it and that he always buys the best. I love that he is not careless with his money, ever.
- I love that he has his finger on the heartbeat of so many issues that could potentially impact Christians and our family, both for the better and for the worse.
- I love that he goes to work 6 days a week, 10-11 hours a day, and then commutes 80 minutes round trip without so much as a whine or complaint, so that I can stay home with our children.
- I love his determination and enthusiasm to learn new things from the very best teachers.
- I love that he genuinely cares so much about our friends and how he is always lifting them up in prayer.
- I love that he is so willing to allow the Lord to sanctify and refine him.
- I love how he is willing to stand up publicly for what is right and how he never takes any "trash" from anyone, and how he is willing to fight against tyranny and Godlessness.
- I love how he makes our bed for me every single night.
- I love how he wants to keep himself healthy and that he cares about our health too.
- I love how he always wants to do things as a family. He never likes to be away from us for too long.
- I love that he wants to have Family Time every night, whether it's singing together at the piano or watching a movie or reading out loud together.
- I love how he's always telling me that "no cookin' is as good as Mama's!"
- I love how steadfast he is when it comes to finishing a project and how, when he's in the 11th Hour, when it's the Home Stretch, he's going to finish it and make sure it's absolutely perfect, even when it means staying up all night long to see it through.
- I love how he waves to me every morning as he's going down the long driveway heading to work.
- I love how he always wanted a big family, even when he was a boy, and how he wants to have as many children as God will grant us.
- I love how he's always been right there, totally involved, even at the "Business End" through each and every one of our labors and births, even when it meant seeing me lose quarts of blood, and almost die, even when it has meant saying Goodbye Till Heaven. I love how he has taken care of me through some very, very difficult and long recoveries.
I have one more thing to add: I am constantly amazed and totally thunderstruck and taken aback at the depth of the music which God gave to this man's soul. Even though I've heard his stuff millions of times, it still amazes me and I look at him in awe each time I hear his music. He is truly talented and beyond any shadow of a doubt enormously gifted by our Abba Father. Just weeks after we got together back in 1988 he played the concert grand piano at our church, and I sat there totally absorbed and in reverence and wonderment at what flowed from his fingers. I can tell you with clarity that that is the moment when I began to love him and I knew I was going to marry this man.
I'm so grateful and thankful to still be with this man. I know women who would give their closet full of treasured high heels to snag him. But he's mine and he's got it goin' on and ladies, I'm keepin' him!!
Thursday, September 16, 2010
PRAY!
Okay.
I had my 4-month check up today.
I've actually had some concerns this pregnancy that just won't leave me alone.
The weight gain issue has been haunting me. And ladies, I have gained 10 POUNDS in 5 WEEKS. Whew. That seems like a LOT to me in a short amount of time! Is it?? I'm thinking that I have 6 MONTHS left of this pregnancy and I can't be gaining that much weight each month! That makes 12 pounds of weight gain so far this pregnancy.......it's scaring me!
I've been having weird symptoms, like thirst and dizziness and extreme fatigue about a half hour after eating. My gut has been telling me to get back to checking my blood sugar, which I was doing very regularly after each meal not too long ago. I ran out of my tester strips, and when I went to get them, they told me it was going to be $125!!!!! Excuse me??? I had NO idea you had to have a prescription for them! Needless to say, I didn't get them. But I talked to Dr W about my concerns today, and likety-split, he had a fasting blood sugar and another blood test ordered, which I'll go in soon for, and he said he'd fax in a prescription for those tester strips. He wants me to see a dietician too. Ladies, I feel great.......IF I DON'T EAT!!!! The good news (sort of) is he does not want to do the glucose tolerance test next appointment, yay! He just skipped it totally and we'll do the fasting thing........which I've never done. I'll just go in in the morning and get that done......
The news that surprised me is that I don't have to wait till mid-October to have my ultrasound! He wants me to have it at the end of the month. I was taken aback. I had prepared myself to wait a loooooong time, or what seemed like a long time, to see our Baby. The office is going to call me to set up that appointment.
So, the reason I asked you all to pray is because I am navigating very unknown and strange waters here! I've never had blood sugar problems a day in my life. I just feel really weird physically and this pregnancy is already taking a toll on me, big time, and I'm not sure why. I know I should choose to believe and cling to the thought that our Baby is perfect and fine........I tell ya, I feel like this is my first pregnancy with all of these symptoms and concerns!
I know that blood sugar problems can cause severe weight gain. Since hearing all of this, my husband has gone extreme with me, but I expected that. My husband has gone from a hard-core sugarhead to being as anti-sugar as they come! So he told me that I am not having any more COFFEE DRINKS and no more of my favorite Blue Sky Natural Cola........but truthfully, I knew I needed to quit the coffee drinks anyway. It's just kinda tough when Husby is on board and watches eachandevery move I make and eachandevery thing I put in my mouth......isn't that what spouses are for??? Lol.
I'm excited to think that we'll know who our Baby is by the end of the month. Ought I to reveal the names we have picked out????
I'll let you know the very latest breaking news as soon as there is any to report!!!
I had my 4-month check up today.
I've actually had some concerns this pregnancy that just won't leave me alone.
The weight gain issue has been haunting me. And ladies, I have gained 10 POUNDS in 5 WEEKS. Whew. That seems like a LOT to me in a short amount of time! Is it?? I'm thinking that I have 6 MONTHS left of this pregnancy and I can't be gaining that much weight each month! That makes 12 pounds of weight gain so far this pregnancy.......it's scaring me!
I've been having weird symptoms, like thirst and dizziness and extreme fatigue about a half hour after eating. My gut has been telling me to get back to checking my blood sugar, which I was doing very regularly after each meal not too long ago. I ran out of my tester strips, and when I went to get them, they told me it was going to be $125!!!!! Excuse me??? I had NO idea you had to have a prescription for them! Needless to say, I didn't get them. But I talked to Dr W about my concerns today, and likety-split, he had a fasting blood sugar and another blood test ordered, which I'll go in soon for, and he said he'd fax in a prescription for those tester strips. He wants me to see a dietician too. Ladies, I feel great.......IF I DON'T EAT!!!! The good news (sort of) is he does not want to do the glucose tolerance test next appointment, yay! He just skipped it totally and we'll do the fasting thing........which I've never done. I'll just go in in the morning and get that done......
The news that surprised me is that I don't have to wait till mid-October to have my ultrasound! He wants me to have it at the end of the month. I was taken aback. I had prepared myself to wait a loooooong time, or what seemed like a long time, to see our Baby. The office is going to call me to set up that appointment.
So, the reason I asked you all to pray is because I am navigating very unknown and strange waters here! I've never had blood sugar problems a day in my life. I just feel really weird physically and this pregnancy is already taking a toll on me, big time, and I'm not sure why. I know I should choose to believe and cling to the thought that our Baby is perfect and fine........I tell ya, I feel like this is my first pregnancy with all of these symptoms and concerns!
I know that blood sugar problems can cause severe weight gain. Since hearing all of this, my husband has gone extreme with me, but I expected that. My husband has gone from a hard-core sugarhead to being as anti-sugar as they come! So he told me that I am not having any more COFFEE DRINKS and no more of my favorite Blue Sky Natural Cola........but truthfully, I knew I needed to quit the coffee drinks anyway. It's just kinda tough when Husby is on board and watches eachandevery move I make and eachandevery thing I put in my mouth......isn't that what spouses are for??? Lol.
I'm excited to think that we'll know who our Baby is by the end of the month. Ought I to reveal the names we have picked out????
I'll let you know the very latest breaking news as soon as there is any to report!!!
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