Hormones

Pregnant Jane’s 35 weeks pregnant belly picture is on the left and it has been added to Jane’s pregnancy week-by-week belly pictures page.  From a father-to-be perspective, everything is going really smooth lately.  Really smooth!  Dare I say this… but I believe Pregnant Jane’s pregnancy hormones are not acting up like they were a week or two ago.  Or a month or two ago… or months and months ago…

It’s great to see my beautiful little 35 week pregnant wife back to her normal self.  Well, minus a few things here and there such [click to continue…]

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Pregnancy week 19.  What have I gotten myself into?  I usually have no problem coming up with words to explain something as you have seen in several of my pregnancy blog posts.  However, I’ve sat here spacing out in front of a blank screen for the last ten minutes trying to think of how I can explain what happened to me this evening.

The only term that I’ve been able to come up with to explain what happened is “hormone hurricane“.  I’ve never seen or experienced anything like this in my life.  I was inches away from losing it myself.

I guess the only way to explain what happened to night is just to tell you how it all want down [click to continue…]

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Today started off as a typical morning for Jane and I.  We woke up, let our dog out, fed her, and Jane and I talked about everything we need to do today.  But our typical morning quickly turned into untypical morning fueled by pregnancy hormones and emotions.

I was sitting at the kitchen table eating my cereal and checking email, and Jane was in the living room on her computer watching TV and eating her bowl of cereal.

After a few minutes I hear her sniffle.  I didn’t think anything of it, but then it happened again.  And again.  Uh oh. [click to continue…]

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Jane is now 18 weeks pregnant and her belly is now growing by jumps and springs. Seriously. Her belly is growing faster than those weeds that grow like crazy on the side of your walkway in the summertime.

We were just looking at Jane’s pregnant belly week by week pictures and we’re amazed by the difference over the last few weeks.  I mean seriously amazed. I know I keep mentioning that every week, but really, this is getting out of control.

I have to admit, the thought of going out to get another ultrasound has crossed my mind.  I’m starting to wonder if our son was hiding [click to continue…]

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It’s a boy!  I’m so excited!  You know, as crazy as this may sound, I’m the last of my kind.  I’m an endangered species of sorts.  I’m the last male in my family that carries my last name that has any shot of fertilizing any eggs.

I do have one cousin who is around 35 or so, but if you’ve ever seen the movie Napoleon Dynamite and remember his brother… that’s my cousin.  Not literally, but my cousin looks and acts like him.  Don’t get me wrong, I love the guy, but I just don’t see him freeing his boys any time soon.  Or ever.

I knew it was up to me to pass the torch.  I’ve had a lot of talks with my boys and told them that they should really consider making a boy [click to continue…]

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I didn’t dare blog about Jane’s pregnancy hormone flare-up yesterday.  But I feel safer today to share some details because Jane’s in a great mood (for now, and hopefully the rest of) this evening.

I first shared some thoughts about the pregnancy hormones creating instant mood swings over a month ago.  And to be honest, there have been several times since then where I wanted to share what was going on, but feared something I wrote here would cause Jane’s mood swing [click to continue…]

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I’m 15 weeks pregnant and my nose is still runny and I’m sneezing so much!  This happened right at the beginning, after I got my BFP.  I went from hardly ever sneezing and very rarely having a runny nose to needing to keep kleenex on hand all the time, you know, just in case.  

I didn’t know what it was about being pregnant that caused me to sneeze, have a runny nose during the day, and then a snuffy nose at night.  Well, I got an [click to continue…]

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Being pregnant definitely has its ups and downs.  Sure, the final result of popping out a baby out of your vag. is fantastic and totally worth any hell that you might experience throughout pregnancy, but pregnancy sure has its moments.  

I was feeling pretty good today and decided that I just had to have a chicken salad sandwich with tomato basil soup.  It was a necessity, I tell you.  

Of course I went and picked it up (remember, I don’t cook) and scarfed it down like it was going to be the last time I ate.  It was delicious going down at first, but then there was a point where I had to put down the croissant and regroup.  My stomach was telling me no more and it was tasting BAD.  I threw it [click to continue…]

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My 2 pimples as a result of being pregnancy have now tripled.  It’s such a sad day for me (well a sad past couple of days).  I thought the second trimester was supposed to be a breeze.  

What in the hell is going on??  

I put in a call to my nurse to see what I could put on my face to shrink these suckers.  It’s not good news…

She said that I could not use anything with salicylic acid, but that benzoyl peroxide was fine.  The bad news is that I have such sensitive skin and benzoyl peroxide makes me break out in a huge rash.  The nurse did say that she could call in a prescription to treat the pregnancy pimples if I wanted her too.

I told her that I will wait and see if they get better.  She told me that usually [click to continue…]

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