tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70730709690641508002024-03-13T11:17:51.985-07:00Baby Georgia Peach Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073070969064150800.post-73406476114391200572013-05-31T14:00:00.002-07:002013-05-31T14:00:25.083-07:00Baby Georgia Peach has moved!Hey ya'll,<br />
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In an attempt to only have to keep up with one blog, I transferred all my baby blog stuff to my main blog, <a href="http://lilgeorgiapeach.blogspot.com/">lilgeorgiapeach.blogspot.com</a>.<br />
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So come visit us there!Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073070969064150800.post-72464007262695870002013-04-08T20:10:00.000-07:002013-04-08T20:21:21.483-07:00Week 20--HALF WAY THERE!!!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b>How far along? </b> 20 Weeks</div>
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<b>Total weight gain? </b>About 11 pounds (I don't have a scale, so I'm actually not</div>
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<b>Maternity clothes? </b>I haven't purchased any, but I love the ones that were loaned to me. So comfy!</div>
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<b>Stretch Marks? </b>No.</div>
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<b>Best moment this week? </b>Finding our apartment that we'll be living in when the baby comes!</div>
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<b>Miss anything?</b> I miss not being able to eat a lot in one sitting. I have to eat lots of tiny meals.</div>
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<b>Movement?</b> Yes! So much kicking and moving! I love it! I can't wait</div>
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<b>Food Cravings: </b>I'm starting to want sweets more now, namely zebra cakes. But I still</div>
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<b>Anything making you sick or queasy? </b>Not really.</div>
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<b>Worst symptom: </b>Indigestion! It sucks so bad.</div>
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<b>Labor signs: </b>Not yet.</div>
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<b>Belly button in or out? </b>In.</div>
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<b>Wedding rings on or off? </b>On.</div>
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<b>Happy or Moody most of the time? </b>"Moody." says my husband.</div>
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<b>Looking forward to: </b>Registering for baby stuff.</div>
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Little girl is the size of a banana this week and about 10.5 oz! She is just growing and growing! I have loved feeling her move more and more. I can't even describe the feeling. It's almost like little bubbles but I can totally tell that it's baby and not normal tummy bubbles.<br />
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We toured the birthing center today and I love it! The birthing suite is so cozy. It looks like a home and not like a hospital at all. The bed is big enough for mommy, daddy and baby to snuggle and they never take baby away from you.<br />
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My biggest concern was complications that would cause me to be transfered to the hospital in an emergency situation. They said that there are two main reasons that women transfer to the hospital, 1) They want an epidural 2) They are getting too tired pushing and won't progress. Both of these situation aren't emergency and there is no rush to get to the hospital. The midwife assured me that two of the biggest complications (mom hemorrhaging or baby not breathing) they have the equipment to take care of it at the birthing center.<br />
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We've been praying a lot about it and I feel really good about our decision to birth there. Our next step is to find out whether our insurance will cover any of it. (If not, it's pretty inexpensive).<br />
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I've been researching <a href="http://www.dona.org/mothers/" target="_blank">doulas </a> and trying to decide whether I want one or not. So I'll keep you updated on that one.<br />
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The next step in baby preparations is registering for baby gifts. I'm so excited to be a mom!!!Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073070969064150800.post-81926761558141532282013-04-01T19:25:00.004-07:002013-04-01T19:26:24.523-07:00Week 19<br />
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<b>How far along? </b> 19 Weeks</div>
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<b>Total weight gain? </b>About 11 pounds</div>
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<b>Maternity clothes? </b>In the picture I'm wearing maternity jeans that my Sister-in-law loaned me. I haven't bought any yet though.</div>
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<b>Stretch Marks? </b>No.</div>
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<b>Best moment this week? </b>My family oohing and ahhing over my teeny baby bump.</div>
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<b>Miss anything?</b> I miss not feeling so big when I try on clothes.</div>
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<b>Movement?</b> Yes! I am positive that I have felt some sort of flutterings. </div>
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<b>Food Cravings: </b>Still hot wings. Send some my way!</div>
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<b>Anything making you sick or queasy? </b>Mostly just oranges.</div>
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<b>Worst symptom: </b>My back has been especially sore lately and I don't<br />
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<b>Labor signs: </b>Still a ways off.</div>
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<b>Belly button in or out? </b>In.</div>
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<b>Wedding rings on or off? </b>On.</div>
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<b>Happy or Moody most of the time? </b>"Mostly happy," says my husband.</div>
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<b>Looking forward to: </b>Touring BellaNatal birthing center to see if it's the right place for us!<br />
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This was by far my most favorite week of being pregnant (besides the day we found out the gender)! Christopher and I were in Oklahoma all week visiting family and it was so fun to see everyone. It was the perfect trip right after we got back from Hawaii. The newest addition to our family, my niece Grace Anna, was getting blessed. I loved getting to play with her and imagine playing with our own baby girl.</div>
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I also got my first outfits for baby girl!</div>
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The first is from my sister, Jessica and the other two were in baby girl's easter basket from my sister-in-law, Kensie.</div>
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Then Kensie gave me a ton of maternity clothes that I am so excited to wear. I just need to be a little bigger and I'll basically have a brand new wardrobe. I'm so grateful for her! I probably won't have to buy any new clothes. Now whether I buy any or not is another story.</div>
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Kensie was also kind enough to take a few maternity photos for me since she's an awesome photographer, even though my baby bump isn't so big yet. You can see her incredible newborn and senior photography <a href="http://www.kensiem.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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We're headed back to Utah tomorrow and I'm so excited to find where we'll be living for the next while.</div>
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Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073070969064150800.post-40455100882986221472013-03-27T13:45:00.003-07:002013-03-27T13:46:40.724-07:00Week 18<br />
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<b>Total weight gain? </b>About 8 pounds</div>
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<b>Best moment this week? </b>Finding out the gender and getting to see cute<br />
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<b>Miss anything?</b> You know, not really.</div>
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<b>Movement?</b> Yes! I am positive that I have felt some sort of flutterings. </div>
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<b>Food Cravings: </b>Spicy buffalo wings. I want them 24 hours a day,</div>
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for any meal of the day. Always.</div>
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<b>Anything making you sick or queasy? </b>Mostly just oranges.</div>
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<b>Worst symptom: </b>The awkwardness of not being able to lay on my belly.</div>
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<b>Labor signs: </b>Still a ways off.</div>
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<b>Belly button in or out? </b>In.</div>
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<b>Wedding rings on or off? </b>On.</div>
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<b>Happy or Moody most of the time? </b>"More so happy probably," says my husband.</div>
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<b>Looking forward to: </b>Seeing my family and my cute new niece soon.<br />
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Sorry, this post is a little belated. It's been a hectic week. We moved from Hawaii on Monday night, got to Utah Tuesday morning and then left for Oklahoma this morning (Wednesday). This chilly weather is not being nice with my Hawaii wardrobe and Hawaiian adjusted temperatures.</div>
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On a side note, I have been feeling especially fat lately and that I just look large and not pregnant at all. But today a man in the airport congratulated me on my pregnancy! I look pregnant for legit!! I feel much better about life now.</div>
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My belly appears to have popped out just in time for our last Sunday at church before we moved. Everyone was coming up and congratulating me as they said goodbye. </div>
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I still haven't bought any baby clothes since finding out that we're having a little baby girl. (With all the travelling and tight packing and whatnot). But I'm really excited to do so. I don't want to buy a ton of stuff until after our baby shower (when/if we have one) but I think it's a right of passage and makes the whole baby thing seem that much more real. As if all the vomiting, indigestion, food aversion and gaining weight weren't real enough. </div>
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I guess it makes more sense to buy more baby stuff when we actually have an apartment. We're sort of homeless right now. But all in good time. I've got family to visit!</div>
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We had our ultra sound early this morning and had the technician seal the gender in an envelope. It was SO hard not to look. The ultra sound was incredible! Our sweet baby actually looks like a baby now and not a blob. We saw it's little fist and little toes. I'm so grateful for technology that we could check for any problems and have some cute pictures of our little growing baby.<br />
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This evening, Chris' cousin and his photographer wife took our gender envelope and bought balloons for our awesome gender reveal photo shoot.<br />
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I knew it was a girl! Chris was convinced it was a boy but he's still happy to have a little princess.</div>
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I have to give a huge thank you and shout out to our amazing photographer, Amanda from Campbell Photography (visit her website <a href="http://networkedblogs.com/JdXfP" target="_blank">here</a>). She did such a fantastic job. We're so thankful that she could be there to capture this special moment for us.</div>
<br />Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073070969064150800.post-62650932076761267132013-03-17T23:29:00.003-07:002013-03-17T23:29:55.567-07:0017 Weeks<br />
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<b>How far along? </b> 17 Weeks</div>
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<b>Total weight gain? </b>About 5 pounds</div>
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<b>Maternity clothes? </b>Nope.</div>
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<b>Stretch Marks? </b>No.</div>
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<b>Best moment this week? </b>My husband letting me leave work for a donut run</div>
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<b>Miss anything?</b> I miss not feeling bloated...which is basically how this feels.</div>
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<b>Movement?</b> I wish, but no.</div>
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<b>Food Cravings: </b>I had a random hankering for donuts on Wednesday. </div>
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So I went and bought 5, and ate 4 of them. #fatty</div>
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<b>Anything making you sick or queasy? </b>Random things set me off. Today </div>
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it was Christopher's potatoes (even though I ate the same thing yesterday).</div>
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<b>Worst symptom: </b>The awkwardness of not being able to lay on my belly.</div>
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<b>Labor signs: </b>Still a ways off.</div>
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<b>Belly button in or out? </b>In.</div>
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<b>Wedding rings on or off? </b>On.</div>
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<b>Happy or Moody most of the time? </b>"A little moody," says my husband Christopher.</div>
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<b>Looking forward to: </b>WE FIND OUT THE GENDER IN TWO DAYS!!!</div>
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Alright humans, the gender knowledge is fast approaching which means if you haven't already voted on what the gender will be..do it now!!! (Left side of the page at the top.) If you want me to know your vote so you can do a victory dance when you're right, gimme some comment love and let me know what you think it will be.</div>
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Little babylang is 6 inches this week, about the length of a grapefruit, and weighs about 5 oz. I'm so excited to see my little baby on the ultra sound again. If my research serves me right, it will actually look like a baby now (but the blob was cute).</div>
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So stay tuned because in just a few days I'll post an exciting gender reveal!</div>
Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073070969064150800.post-23301711726573490712013-03-10T22:31:00.002-07:002013-03-10T22:33:31.882-07:00Week 16<br />
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;"><b>How far along? </b>16</span><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; line-height: 1.4;"> weeks</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda'; line-height: 1.4;"><b style="line-height: 1.4;">Total weight gain/loss:</b><span style="line-height: 1.4;"> About 5 pounds</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda'; line-height: 1.4;"><b style="line-height: 1.4;">Maternity clothes? </b><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Not yet!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda'; line-height: 1.4;"><b>Stretch marks? </b>Nope.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4;"><b style="line-height: 1.4;">Best moment this week: </b><span style="line-height: 1.4;">"</span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Hearing" the baby kick with the doppler</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; color: #333333; font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4;"><b style="line-height: 1.4;">Miss anything: </b><span style="line-height: 1.4;">The c</span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">lothes I love fitting properly. I might need to get </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; color: #333333; font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">some maternity clothes soon.</span></span></div>
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<b style="line-height: 1.4;">Movement:</b><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.4;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">I think I feel "flutters" but I might be imagining them</span></div>
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<b style="line-height: 1.4;">Food cravings:</b><span style="line-height: 1.4;"> Not especially.</span></div>
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<b style="line-height: 1.4;">Anything making you queasy or sick: </b><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Anything gross just sets me off.</span></div>
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<b style="line-height: 1.4;">Worst symptom: </b><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Backaches</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; line-height: 1.4;"><b>Have you started to show yet: </b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.4;">Just a little.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; line-height: 1.4;"> <b>Gender: </b>I don't know yet, but we find out next week!!</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda'; line-height: 1.4;"><b style="line-height: 1.4;">Labor Signs: </b><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Not for a while yet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; line-height: 1.4;"> <b>Belly Button in or out?</b> In.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda'; line-height: 1.4;"><b style="line-height: 1.4;">Wedding rings on or off?</b><span style="line-height: 1.4;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">On.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda'; line-height: 1.4;"><b style="line-height: 1.4;">Happy or Moody most of the time: </b><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Mostly</span><span style="line-height: 1.4;"> moody.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda'; line-height: 1.4;"><b style="line-height: 1.4;">Looking forward to:</b><span style="line-height: 1.4;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Feeling the baby and finding out the gender so I can go SHOPPING!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cherry Cream Soda;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Little baby is the size of an </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">avocado</span><span style="line-height: 1.4;"> this week! It's about 4.5 inches long (head to bum) and weighs about 3.5 oz. Baby is working hard to grow eyelashes and eyebrows and it's ears are developing so it can hear my voice!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cherry Cream Soda;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">And don't forget to vote on what you think the gender is, we find out next week!!!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Cherry Cream Soda;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">BONUS!!! This is what happens when my husband takes pictures and I'm not ready for them...</span></span></span></div>
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Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073070969064150800.post-2956842113721477402013-03-08T13:22:00.001-08:002013-03-08T13:22:46.425-08:00Pregnancy Yoga<br />
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I've never really had a good body image. My best friends during those awkward stages of puberty and unfortunate weight gain were wonderfully, beautifully, jealousy-inducingly thin (you know who you are). So as vain as it is for me to admit this, one of my biggest concerns with getting pregnant has been the impending weight gain and subsequent weight loss.<br />
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Now I realize that I will gain weight. And by weight I mean there is another human inside me gaining it's own weight and becoming more humanly everyday. I have no problem with that. The fear and anxiety comes in gaining too much weight and not being able to lose it and forever being the person who just never went back to her normal self after pregnancy.<br />
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In order to overcome this, I am trying to make a strong effort to exercise (safely and moderately) and now that my morning sickness is basically gone (Hallelujah!) I am trying to do a little exercise. This usually consists of short walks/jogs through our neighborhood with my husband. I like to do 5 minutes walking, 5 minutes jogging, 5 walk, and 5 jog. It's short and I take the jog at a mind numbingly slow pace but it gets my blood flowing and I feel good about it. I find that after spending a month and half almost entirely in bed, I'm a little out of shape. The key to this pregnancy exercise stuff is to never work so hard that you can't carry on a conversation while exercising.<br />
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SO today we just took a 20 minute walk and I thought I'd try out some pregnancy yoga. I have the most amazing pregnancy app EVER called <a href="http://www.pregnancycompanionapp.com/index.php" target="_blank">Pregnancy Companion</a>. I paid to get the full version and it's got a ton of great features like a weight tracker, a way to make sure you're getting the right number of calories, a forum to ask doctors questions, a way to look and keep track of your favorite names, your status in pregnancy, a way to keep track of contractions (when that time comes) and a wellness section that shows pregnancy yoga as shown in the photo below.<br />
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So if you are in the market for a GREAT pregnancy app, I highly recommend this one. Anyway, these are the pregnancy yoga poses that I tried out today. It doesn't tell you how long to hold the poses which is kind of nice because I can just hold it however long feels good. I've done a little yoga before, so thankfully I already knew how these poses were supposed to work since there was no video to follow or anything. And I was able to choose my own music.<br />
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Some of the poses were a little more difficult than I remember, what with the being out of shape and all. But I feel really good. And it feels so good to be exercising again. My body is just so happy. I'm going to try really hard to keep up with this throughout my pregnancy and hopefully it will help me to A. not gain too much weight, B. get back into exercise easily after I have the baby, and C. make it through labor and delivery a <i>little</i> easier.<br />
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But in case you're into following a video with an instructor, just go ahead and search pregnancy yoga on youtube. There will be so many results that you won't know what to do with yourself. I'll try some of those out at some point.<br />
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<br />Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073070969064150800.post-14626002217911436172013-03-04T19:51:00.001-08:002013-03-04T19:51:12.079-08:00KickingSo I don't feel anything yet but we heard the kicking at the Dr. appt today!! She used one of those machines that they use for the heartbeat. But all we heard was a 'thump' every time it kicked. And boy was it kicking!<br />
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Omg it was the coolest thing. The baby was like training for the World Cup or martial arts or something! Ahh! I can't even handle how excited I am to feel it move. THERE'S A BABY IN MY BELLY!!<br />
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And more excitement...we get to find out the gender in 2 weeks!!! BAHH!!!Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073070969064150800.post-3207193659609035962013-03-03T20:41:00.000-08:002013-03-03T20:42:14.259-08:00Week 15<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;"><b>How far along? </b>15</span><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; line-height: 1.4;"> weeks</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda'; line-height: 1.4;"><b style="line-height: 1.4;">Total weight gain/loss:</b><span style="line-height: 1.4;"> About 4 pounds</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda'; line-height: 1.4;"><b style="line-height: 1.4;">Maternity clothes? </b><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Not yet!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda'; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%;"><b>Stretch marks? </b>Nope.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; color: #333333; font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4;"><b style="line-height: 1.4;">Best moment this week: </b><span style="line-height: 1.4;">We'll talk to the doctor tomorrow about </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; color: #333333; font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">when we can see the gender!</span></span></div>
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<b style="line-height: 1.4;">Miss anything: </b><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Going an hour without having to pee.</span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.4;">Movement:</b><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.4;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Not that I can feel.</span></div>
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<b style="line-height: 1.4;">Food cravings:</b><span style="line-height: 1.4;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">I don't know that I'm really craving anything, but I </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">want cheese a lot (pretty normal)</span></div>
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<b style="line-height: 1.4;">Anything making you queasy or sick: </b><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Anything that looks dirty</span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.4;">Worst symptom: </b><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Frequent urination</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; line-height: 1.4;"><b>Have you started to show yet: </b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.4;">Just a little.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; line-height: 1.4;"> <b>Gender: </b>I don't know yet.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda'; line-height: 1.4;"><b style="line-height: 1.4;">Labor Signs: </b><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Thankfully no.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; line-height: 1.4;"> <b>Belly Button in or out?</b> In.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda'; line-height: 1.4;"><b style="line-height: 1.4;">Wedding rings on or off?</b><span style="line-height: 1.4;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">On.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda'; line-height: 1.4;"><b style="line-height: 1.4;">Happy or Moody most of the time: </b><span style="line-height: 1.4;">I'm pretty moody.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda'; line-height: 1.4;"><b style="line-height: 1.4;">Looking forward to:</b><span style="line-height: 1.4;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Finding out the gender.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda'; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">People keep commenting on how small I look which makes me sad because I want to start looking pregnant and not like I really like cake (which I do but people shouldn't be able to tell that easily).</span></span></div>
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<b style="line-height: 1.4;">Best moment this week: </b><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Baby is coming with us on our very belated honeymoon!</span></div>
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<b style="line-height: 1.4;">Miss anything: </b><span style="line-height: 1.4;">At this point I miss my appetite.</span></div>
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<b style="line-height: 1.4;">Food cravings:</b><span style="line-height: 1.4;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Pizza!</span></div>
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<b style="line-height: 1.4;">Worst symptom: </b><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Peeing every 5 minutes or so is getting a little old.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; line-height: 1.4;"><b>Have you started to show yet: </b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.4;">Just a little.</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda'; line-height: 1.4;"><b style="line-height: 1.4;">Looking forward to:</b><span style="line-height: 1.4;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Actually looking pregnant!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cherry Cream Soda;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">to bottom it's 3 and a half inches! It's getting all kinds of facial developments: it </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Cherry Cream Soda;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">can squint, frown, and grimace and may be sucking it's thumb. (So cute!)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cherry Cream Soda;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Also I basically live in the bathroom which sucks. My daily exercise is walking </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Cherry Cream Soda;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">back and forth to the bathroom </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">approximately 85 times a day.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Cherry Cream Soda;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">I still get queasy but I haven't thrown up in about a week!! (That's a lie, I threw </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cherry Cream Soda;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">As far as mood goes, Chris says that he can't wait for the baby to come so </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Cherry Cream Soda;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">'nice Jocelyn' can come back. I sort of hate people a little right now. But I can</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Cherry Cream Soda;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;"> be happy too (*Sheepish grin).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cherry Cream Soda;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">I'm in my second trimester so according to all the pregnancy literature I've</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cherry Cream Soda;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">I guess living in Hawaii just gave us the perfect opportunity.</span></span><br />
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Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073070969064150800.post-6612195273134932392013-02-18T12:18:00.002-08:002013-02-18T12:18:48.011-08:00Christmas Baby Surprise!Chris and I told our parents on Christmas about our big, exciting news. You can read the story <a href="http://babygeorgiapeach.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-grand-parents-got-special-present.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Well I finally edited the videos of them opening their special gift so you can take a look. You'll have to excuse the poor video quality. We had siblings record them (on phones I think) and so the files aren't great. But you'll get the drift.<br />
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On an unrelated note, I'll be into my second trimester on Wednesday and I'm starting to feel loads better! I even went for a jog/walk this morning. And also I'm at that weird pregnancy stage where my belly is poking out just enough that I look fat and not actually pregnant.<br />
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Stay tuned for more pregnancy updates and baby bump pictures!!!Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073070969064150800.post-58939647462067303252013-02-12T12:18:00.000-08:002013-02-12T12:18:00.192-08:00A rose by any other name...When I was little, I got anxiety over naming my Barbies and baby dolls. Naming an actual human being that you can't change the name of when you get tired of it is WAY harder.<br />
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The thing that makes it easier is that I already know what I want the name to be if it's a girl. It's a family name, and a name I decided on when I was like 16 years old. I had a list of boy's names but suddenly when I pictured calling my child that, I didn't like them anymore.<br />
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Names on my boy list (none of which I think I like anymore):<br />
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<li>Ryder</li>
<li>Desmond</li>
<li>Jude </li>
<li>Titus</li>
<li>Declan</li>
<li>Theodore</li>
<li>Nolan</li>
<li>Chandler</li>
<li>Donovan</li>
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So instead of continually googling 'boy names' I went to the library and got the most recent baby name book I could find:</div>
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So far it still hasn't helped me find more names that I like, but it has some rather amusing lists that I thought you might enjoy.</div>
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For instance, if I wanted my future daughter or son to be a fashionista, I might choose from the " Future Fashionistas" list which has names like:</div>
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<li>Ant (B)</li>
<li>Barkan (B)</li>
<li>Blevin (B)</li>
<li>Calum (B)</li>
<li>Kenji (B)</li>
<li>Anoushka (G)</li>
<li>Chiara (G)</li>
<li>Elkie (G)</li>
<li>Joonypur (G)</li>
<li>Tirsa (G)</li>
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<li>A'Dhron (B)</li>
<li>Bonita (G)</li>
<li>Biondi (B)</li>
<li>Detra (G)</li>
<li>Kemper (B)</li>
<li>Fara Lynn (G)</li>
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<li>Future Models</li>
<li>Future Doctors</li>
<li>Future Republicans</li>
<li>High Spirited Kids</li>
<li>Bad-to-the Bone, Death Row Names (obviously choosing from this one, the first name is Adolph.)</li>
<li>Scary Creepy Names</li>
<li>Names that make kids feel weird (why???)</li>
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Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073070969064150800.post-23513768965693035682013-02-11T15:30:00.000-08:002013-02-11T15:34:06.683-08:00Welcome! (FAQs)Well now that the cat's out of the bag, I guess I can welcome the world (i.e. Facebook community) to my baby blog!!!<br />
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If you haven't seen the announcement video yet, watch and enjoy!<br />
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Now, so that I can answer these questions once here are some frequently asked questions when people have found out that we're pregnant!!<br />
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<b>When are you due?</b><br />
August 22<br />
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<b>When are you moving from Hawaii?</b><br />
Chris and I are planning to move back to Provo, Utah sometime in late March/early April. We haven't set a specific date yet.<br />
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<b>Are you going to find out the gender?</b><br />
Absolutely! I think we will find out when we get back to Utah so that we have an excuse to throw a party with all our friends! Oh also, make sure you vote on the left sidebar for what you think the gender will be.<br />
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<b>How far along are you?</b><br />
I will be 13 weeks on Wednesday, which means I'm almost done with my first trimester and hopefully almost done with morning sickness.<br />
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<b>Have you thought of any baby names yet??</b><br />
Why yes, yes we have. In fact watch out for the next blog post which will be all about our baby name adventures.<br />
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<b>Have you been sick?</b><br />
Why yes, yes I have. Take a little look see at some of my previous blog posts (like this <a href="http://babygeorgiapeach.blogspot.com/2012/12/if-there-were-ever-time-for-carbs.html" target="_blank">one</a> or this <a href="http://babygeorgiapeach.blogspot.com/2013/02/fighting-food.html" target="_blank">one</a>) and you can get detailed descriptions of just how sick I have been.<br />
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<b>Have you had any ultra sounds?</b><br />
Yep! Check <a href="http://babygeorgiapeach.blogspot.com/2012/12/theres-really-baby-in-there.html">here</a> for ultra sound 1 and a picture and <a href="http://babygeorgiapeach.blogspot.com/2013_01_01_archive.html">here</a> for the deets on ultra sound 2.<br />
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<b>When did you find out?</b><br />
We found out on the last day of my internship in December. You can read all about it <a href="http://babygeorgiapeach.blogspot.com/2012/12/pee-on-stick-day.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<b>Are you showing yet?</b><br />
No, I wish that I was, but I'm not. But you better believe that as soon as I do I will post pictures weekly.<br />
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<b>Will you still update your other blog?</b><br />
Yes I will. I'll reserve this blog for baby updates and that one for everything else. In fact, there will be a link on that blog that will take you directly to this one. Go and see for yourself. Go to <a href="http://lilgeorgiapeach.blogspot.com/">lilgeorgiapeach.blogspot.com</a> and on the left side where all the other pages are, it says baby at the bottom. It will take you right back here.<br />
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If you have any other questions, read around my other posts and feel free to ask me anything! Chris and I are absolutely ecstatic and we can't wait to meet our little baby! We're so excited to be parents!!Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073070969064150800.post-91738867381571862412013-02-10T11:47:00.000-08:002013-02-10T11:47:13.424-08:00Thank you!I get bored pretty easily and I love doing something with my hands. Since I've been in bed so much lately, I've been pretty bored. So to help with this boredom I made a little card for Chris (in bed of course). <br />
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What will I eat? What can I eat? What sounds good? What have I not thrown up recently? (Something about seeing food come back up makes it really difficult to swallow that same food down later. I.e. yogurt, tomato soup, babybell cheese, Taco Bell, mashed potatoes.)<br />
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Before getting pregnant I was always struggling with dieting. Not any no carb thing or really specific plan. I was just working really hard to eat the right amount of the right foods and count my calories to ensure I wasn't eating too much. However, my 'diet' often diminished into "I'm watching TV and I'm bored I'm going to get a snack...and another snack....and another snack" until all of a sudden I've eaten so much food that I'm incredibly full and don't even want to figure out how many calories that was. <br />
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Now it's more like:<br />
Chris- what do you want to eat?<br />
Jocelyn- I don't know...<br />
Chris- do you want A, B, or C?<br />
Jocelyn- no. None of that sounds good. <br />
Chris- how about you try and eat some D. <br />
Jocelyn- ok, I guess I can try that<br />
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Then I get whatever food D is and I stare at it. I move it around with my fork. I take a tiny nibble. I gag. And then I tell Chris I'm done and feel miserable. <br />
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Eating is such a chore. I don't enjoy any aspect of it. I wish I could just get all my nutrients through some sort of feeding tube inserted directly into my stomach so I don't actually have to eat. That would be nice. <br />
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What have your food experiences been like in pregnancy? Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073070969064150800.post-75537432745426938872013-02-05T11:59:00.001-08:002013-02-05T12:00:24.774-08:00It's ALIVE!!!We had another doctor's appointment yesterday. Can I just say how much I hate getting up on those little beds and trying not to rip the paper? I hate it a lot. Chris made fun of me cause I sort of hopped onto the bed so I wouldn't slide the paper up. I don't know. Just agitating.<br />
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In other news, we got to hear the heartbeat! It was difficult to make out at first, but once I heard it in the background I couldn't help but start beaming. That's my little baby in there with the most beautiful rhythmic heartbeat I've ever heard. I wish I had a recording of it that I could listen to all the time. I've never heard such a pleasing sound. That little thump -thump- thump, thump- thump- thump... there's really a little baby in there.<br />
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I have to be honest, despite all my MANY pregnancy symptoms, sometimes I forget that I'm growing a child. It certainly explains why I'm so tired all the time, but usually I just feel sick. I haven't been able to successfully associate the two things in my brain. Maybe it's because I don't want to associate my precious baby with such a wretched feeling.<br />
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Speaking of pregnancy symptoms, I'm not nauseous all the time anymore! YAY! However, I do throw up a whole lot more. In fact I lost two pounds since my last doctor visit. The doctor didn't seem concerned but the only thing she seems concerned about is me going to a genetics testing information meeting. I've done some research and already decided that I don't want to get genetics testing. But she's pushing this meeting on me like my baby's life depends on it. I wonder if she gets some kind of bonus for each patient she sends. I really don't like my doctor. I'm looking forward to moving to Utah and finding a midwife.<br />
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Unfortunately the doctor pushed my due date back from August 19 to August 22. The closer this gets to the start of Fall semester, the more worried I get. The good news is that I get to spend the end of my pregnancy relaxing and eating bon bons (if I so desire) out of school. The bad news is that school starts like a week after the baby will be born. I wonder if my teachers will help me work out some kind of maternity leave. I mean this is BYU after all, girls are having babies left and right. I'm sure it will all work out.<br />
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Now I'm going to relax, read my baby name book, and replay that little thump-thump-thump over and over again in my head.Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073070969064150800.post-45977927901750681962013-01-14T10:08:00.001-08:002013-01-14T10:08:14.185-08:00Seeing spotsHad a little bit of a scare last week.<br />
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On Thursday, late afternoon, I noticed some spotting. To any normal not pregnant woman this means <i>that time of the month</i> is coming to an end, usually a good sign. To a pregnant person, it could be nothing, or it could also be:<br />
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It's little heart was just beating away and it has little buds where it's starting to grow arms and legs. Such a clever little baby growing arms and legs all on its own (can you do that?).</div>
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Oh and get this, I totally have a super power! Smell! No really, it's totally legit. All super powers are, are heightened senses right? Seeing through walls, jumping super high, uhh...flying...those are all senses right? Anyway, I can smell anything and everything. What the neighbors are making for dinner, how recently a dish has been washed (based on how strong the scent of dish soap is), the scent of your shampoo, conditioner, bodywash, cologne, and aftershave, approximately the last time you brushed your teeth, or the last thing you had to eat. </div>
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Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073070969064150800.post-67688437746586815092013-01-04T11:09:00.001-08:002013-01-04T11:09:26.006-08:00PatheticChris just contracted some sort of terrible cold. He has a fever and chills, coughing and sneezing, achey body, the works. I still have such horrible nausea and can't make it into the kitchen without gagging and running back into the bathroom.<br />
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Now that we're both sick, it's the most pathetic display of affection. We both feel bad but we still have to take care of each other. Him making me food in the kitchen, wrapped in a blanket and whimpering every so often. Me...well let's be honest the most I can do is rub his back and say, "Oh honey..." in an empathetic voice.<br />
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Maybe this is getting us ready for having a baby, because even when you're sick, the baby still has to be taken care of.<br />
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We're just so pitiful.Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073070969064150800.post-83254648436505128182012-12-29T18:18:00.001-08:002012-12-29T23:42:48.251-08:00Decisions, decisionsI seem to have forgotten what life is like without constant nausea. I have vague recollections of exercising, going into my kitchen, cooking meals, enjoying food, standing for more than 10 minutes consecutively. But those all seem like dreams now. Being nauseous is the worst. I feel like I would be so much more excited about my new baby if I didn't feel so lousy all the time. <br />
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Don't get me wrong, I'm way excited! I just think I would be more so without the poorly named "morning sickness." <br />
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In other news, the doctor called and all is well and good in the baby department. All the tests I did came out with a big fat smiley face so hurrah!<br />
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As pregnancies go, at some point this child will have to come out and surprisingly enough there are a lot of options in this area: natural or epidural? hospital, birthing center, or at home? should I induce? Should I get a c-section? Midwife, doctor, doula or all three? And lots of other things I haven't thought of having never done this before. <br />
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SO to correct my ignorance I have been doing my fair share of research. Mama Birth is a great resource (the link is on the right sidebar) and I just re-watched two documentaries: Pregnant in America and The Business of Being Born. And I have to say, I'm leaning toward a home birth. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEhyphenhyphen1UgrDC_CeMspXP5pCkVORLVpvcCiMPE4Sf2J4JJFt0yEf3roEJVzDyXphkrR2be4USLmImg8gqydWnH8knVF5BdUVSHq0RqDzSz_XDb5WlGEmIkC3jbHMIzd-KTSWPNozX74dabyc/s640/blogger-image-1274860701.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEhyphenhyphen1UgrDC_CeMspXP5pCkVORLVpvcCiMPE4Sf2J4JJFt0yEf3roEJVzDyXphkrR2be4USLmImg8gqydWnH8knVF5BdUVSHq0RqDzSz_XDb5WlGEmIkC3jbHMIzd-KTSWPNozX74dabyc/s320/blogger-image-1274860701.jpg" width="211" /></a>You may be thinking that I have some sort of pregnancy insanity but do a little research before you judge. The hospital is not your friend. They take patients. And quite frankly, when you're pregnant you don't need to be fixed, you're not sick (unless you're throwing up in your first trimester) and therefore you should be treated as a client and not a patient. <br />
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I believe that I should be allowed to labor for 30 hours if I need to and not have a doctor pressing me to get a c- section so he can be home for dinner. There are a lot of steps between the one and the other but you get my drift. A hospital is a business much like a restaurant. Restaurants want tables filled and emptied as fast as hospitals want beds filled and emptied. They can't make money if they're full.<br />
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Now that being said, I am not done with my research and my mind is not set. Obviously this kind of birth is not for everyone. What happens if you're birthing at home and something happens that could hurt mother or baby?? I guess that all depends on the midwife's skills and how close I live to a hospital. I think I'll get a midwife and a doctor and if my pregnancy is high risk I'll just take my midwife with me to the hospital. <br />
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Anyway, I am excited about all this and I'm excited to learn more and make the best decision for my family. And pray a lot about it. And soon enough I'll be doing research on whether to use cloth diapers, disposable, or EC (look that one up). I love research, It makes me giddy! <br />
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<br />Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073070969064150800.post-77234753385848843082012-12-26T21:01:00.001-08:002012-12-26T21:02:10.114-08:00There's really a baby in there!Up until this point I have had a sinking suspicion that I'm not really pregnant. That suspicion has only gotten stronger since we told our families that we're expecting. I was so nervous that now that we had made the announcement to the world, it would turn out that my body was just making those pregnancy symptoms since I wanted to be pregnant so bad. Well today, I learned that those three pregnancy tests I took weren't lying.<br />
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I had my first doctor's appointment today! It started off by the dreaded, "Here, pee into this cup." Of course the one time that I'm being asked to pee, my bladder is empty. Some how I mustered up a little something and in the process, peed all over my hand. Does anyone ever do those things without getting pee all over themselves?? But that pee led my doctor to assure my that, yes I am pregnant.<br />
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I spent the rest of the day getting poked and prodded and probed. I feel so violated. I've been feeling sharp pains in my stomach which I read were due to my uterus growing, but the doctor seemed a little concerned, so she sent me to get some blood work and an ultrasound.<br />
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I'm lying. They're not cute. Mine are black and they look like sweatbands and I look like a tard and I'm not even sure they're working. They're made for sea sickness or motion sickness but in theory they should work for morning sickness too. The idea is that the little white plastic thing pushes a pressure point (acupressure) that relieves nausea. I think my nausea has gone from an 8 to a 3 but it's still not gone. We'll see if I'm able to go to work tomorrow.</div>
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Then we headed to get blood work, and after that the hospital for my ultra sound. I've never had an ultra sound so that was an experience all on it's own. For the most part the technician was looking at my uterus and organs and whatnot, nothing too interesting. Chris was absolutely enthralled which made her laugh because she wasn't looking at anything.</div>
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Chris told his sister Jessica our exciting news, and I told my little sister Maddie. We got them each to find a babydoll, attach a little note and wrap it from 'Chris and Jocelyn'.<br />
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Their reactions were priceless. Both sets of parents were so excited for us and we were so happy to hear it and to finally have some people find out about our exciting secret.</div>
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Now, it's only a matter of time until the rest of the world finds out, but at least for now it's pretty much sequestered to family.<br />
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As for the rest of my Christmas, it was fantastic! Did I mention that I'm typing this post on my brand new macbook pro?!!?! I have the best husband in the WHOLE world!<br />
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I'm going to go take a nap.Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073070969064150800.post-61005778145304543822012-12-21T19:55:00.000-08:002012-12-26T19:57:58.754-08:00If there were ever a time for carbs...I. Cant. Eat. Anything. Not that I'm puking up everything I eat, I just have zero appetite, overwhelming nausea, and a loud, obnoxious, and frequent gag reflex. I almost would prefer to be throwing up, maybe that would offer me some solace.<br />
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I was surprised to learn that even if I'm not puking, it's still called morning sickness. And what a joke that is. I might actually be able to function if this nausea only lasted during the morning hours. But no, I've been feeling the awful pain for three days now and it hasn't stopped since it started.<br />
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I'm freaking out, and I'm sick of being sick! What if the baby isn't getting enough nutrients because it's hard for me to eat anything besides dry frosted flakes. I should probably stop worrying and start eating.<br />
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The only thing that I feel like I can eat is bland carbs. Rice, mashed potatoes, english muffins, bread. It seems to help me feel a little better when my stomach isn't empty. But still, I don't want to get out of bed, I don't want to walk from one side of my room to the other.<br />
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Poor Chris is starting to feel like my hand maid and I feel awful about it...well sort of. If I was feeling better, I would really enjoy all this service I'm getting.<br />
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Worst of all is that at this time when we should be saving every last penny to prepare for our upcoming itty bitty, I have a really hard time going to work. All I have to do at work is sit at a stool and sell tram tickets and smile on occasion. And yet, even that is seeming impossible.<br />
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Well here's to hoping that this nausea doesn't remain an ever presence in my life for the next three months.Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073070969064150800.post-51346373372423899982012-12-14T19:02:00.000-08:002012-12-26T19:42:09.647-08:00Pee on a stick dayI woke up at 4am, as I had become accustomed to over the past several days, and groggily made my way to the bathroom. The pregnancy test was right where I left it, sitting on the toilet lid where I placed it the night before after deeming today "pee on a stick" day.<br />
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Roughly two minutes later a little plus crawled across the display window. I couldn't keep a smile from erupting onto my face and I ran to wake up Chris who was still fast asleep, as any normal human would be at 4am. He wouldn't believe me until he saw the result for himself.<br />
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There was no going back to sleep after that. We hugged, we smiled, we laughed, we could hardly believe that this little plus meant that our lives were changed forever: we were going to have a baby and it was already growing inside me!<br />
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We crawled back into bed and dreamed about whether it would be a boy or girl, an athlete or a dancer or a musician or a writer. And then the panic set in, and with it the water works.<br />
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Our lives are really changing forever. We will never not be parents after this. And I have to birth a child (and a couple documentaries have shown me exactly what to expect for that). What if I'm a bad mom? What if the kid hates me? What if we don't have enough money? And there were about a million other what ifs that followed.<br />
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But Chris held me and assured me that everything would be alright and thankfully I have roughly nine months to come to terms with our new baby and read and research and prepare.<br />
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As much as I didn't want to, I had to get ready to go to my last day at my internship at Hawaii News Now. Worrying about my pregnancy would have to wait. It was a great last day, and it was definitely newsworthy.<br />
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I was heartbroken to learn that on the day I found out I was bringing a child into the world, at least 20 young children were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary. It sickens me to think of the kind of world this is that crazed people shoot innocent children at a seemingly safe place like a school.<br />
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My immediate thought was that I would homeschool my children. And after that started to think about the hardships that my child will have to face in this crazy messed up world.<br />
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I'm already starting to think like a mother. And with a steadfast faith in my Father in Heaven, I know that somehow I'll be able to raise this baby the right way to help it succeed. I have a ton of crazy changes ahead of me and I'm honestly looking forward to every step in this journey.Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964noreply@blogger.com0