Chain Reaction

After almost a month-long fiasco, I have learned that making sure you get enough iron when you're pregnant is really really important. Hmm, go figure. Especially getting enough iron when your blood volume is peaking during pregnancy.

Otherwise you will:

Experience what feels like heart palpitations followed up by dizziness and lightheadedness which is, well, kinda scary. Then, you will have to go to the Doctor for an EKG. When that isn't conclusive, you will then have to wear an itchy, wiry, Holter monitor for 24 hours to monitor your heart. When that shows you are experiencing a rapid heartbeat you then have to have an echocardiogram (ultrasound of your heart) to make sure it's functioning alright, along with an extra poke to get even more blood drawn. And don't forget all the time in between waiting to hear back results from all these.

Moral of the story? A bottle of iron supplements cost around $8. All those heart tests and extra doctor visits cost a LOT more. Lots and lots.

Silver lining? We've hit our deductible so insurance gets to foot most of the bill for these tests. And, at 34 weeks and counting, we are sure getting excited to see our little boy!

Whew.

"Necessity...

...is the mother of invention."


Ew.

Car Seats Are Overrated

Weeping and Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth

I've often wondered exactly how this scriptural reference would be manifest. I think tonight I saw it. And if I were Webster and had to define this phrase, it would go like this:

Weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth: The reaction mom gets when she tells her girls they will not be able to have their ice cream after dinner because they have not listened to mom after repeated opportunities.

Really, it was as though I told them they were doomed to eternal damnation.

Thank goodness- actually, triple and quadruple thank goodness for the wonderful mother in my own life who has put up with my weeping and wailing over the years. I'm certain I've had my own bouts of gnashing of teeth as well. And she is still always there when I need her. I am so incredibly grateful for my mom, and my mother-in-law as well, who have raised me and my husband. As I am going through a lot of the same things they have encountered over the past 30 years, I am so grateful to have someone who has endured and is able to give me counsel, and for someone who seems to continue to endure. I guess I have at least 30 more years of being a mom. I have a feeling, though, it's a role I won't easily give up. What an opportunity to be a mom. Even if I put up with some weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth on occasion.

Laugh

This came in an email I got, and it just really made me laugh. Enjoy!



If you were around in 1919 and came upon the following Mormon poster.....
I mean...seriously...wouldn't you just keep drinking?