Release

I can practically feel my ovaries releasing eggs right now and I can't do anything about it since our new (not even in effect yet) insurance has a rule that the maternity endorsement must be in effect for 30 days prior to conception.  

June cannot get here fast enough. Tomorrow I would have been 11 weeks pregnant.

Slacker Mom

Things around the Mungee household have been pretty busy and I've severely neglected this blog.  Mungee is quite an active baby toddler, and she's hard to keep up with! She speaks in full (2-3 word) sentences, like "Hold it, water!" Or "Milk, kay?" Or, "Like that cookie!" Or "Lick the door .... that's silly!"

Being coy

We're still going to MyGym, we attend Shalom Baby and we joined a playgroup.  The most drastic change that will be here before we know it is that we enrolled Mungee in preschool.  Right now, we have her signed up for 3 days a week from 8:30 am - 12 pm, but that may change if I go back to work.  I'm currently working on changing her nap schedule to one early afternoon nap, since a requirement for preschool is that she can stay awake until noon.

On a sad note, we recently experienced a heartbreaking loss. I found out I was pregnant on February 25, one day after my period was late (I'm very regular like that).  From the time I found out, I almost immediately felt a sense of dread that something was not right.  We did not plan this pregnancy.  We were not actively trying, but not doing anything to prevent either.  Despite the sense of uneasiness, I still told my entire family and many close friends that Mungee was going to be a big sister.  

On Friday, March 25, I went in for a sonogram when I was supposed to be 8 weeks pregnant.  Looking at the screen, I didn't see anything flickering.  I thought maybe the technician just hadn't gotten to where the heartbeat should be showing.  She asked me if I was sure of the date of my last period - that's when I really knew.  She took a measurement that showed the baby had only developed to 6.5 weeks.  There was no heartbeat.  My midwife recommended a D&C for that day because she didn't want me to end up in the ER over the weekend.  The OB who would perform the surgery was not in, so we were asked to wait in his office.  It seems like we waited an eternity, only to be told to go home and come back later that afternoon.  During this time, I asked DH to change Mungee's shirt since she was wearing her "Big Sister" shirt, it hurt too much to look at it.

DH's dad came over to babysit Mungee and DH took me back to the OB's office.  Where the first thing the receptionist said to us was "It's going to be $400".  Thank you for your compassion!  I was taken back to a room (without DH) and I waited and waited and waited, and eventually I was told that the OB still wasn't in.  Once he finally arrived, we exchanged pleasantries.  By that I mean he casually said "Oh, uh, sorry about what you're going through".  Then he decided that since I am still nursing he did not want to put me into a twilight state, so he performed the procedure while I was completely awake, only numbing me with a local that I am quite convinced Did.Not.Work.  I felt everything.  G-d forbid I ever go through this again, I am going to the hospital and they are going to knock me out.

I never had any physical pain after the procedure, which was surprising.  I did break out in hives about 3 days afterward, and I thought it might be because of the antibiotic I was taking, but the OB said, at my followup appointment, that if the antibiotics caused the hives, then while I was still taking them, they would not have gone away, which they did.  He told me that there was no medical reason to wait to try and get pregnant again, which gave me a lot of hope.  That hope had been carrying me through the time in between the D&C and the followup appointment.  However, I've now come to find out that the health insurance company we've applied with has a waiting period to get pregnant.  This is what DH tells me anyway.  It makes me totally *fist shaking*ANGRY!  And I think it's from the date the policy becomes effective, not from the date we applied.  Which means I cannot try to get pregnant until July and of course there is no guarantee that I will get pregnant on the first try.

So that's what has been going on around here.  

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Wordless Wednesday: Happy Purim!

 

18 Months ... A Year and a Half ... Whoa!

My baby toddler is a year and a half old.  What?! 

Mungee is a little firecracker.  She's always going, going, going!  I've given up trying to keep track of how many words she says.  It's probably well over 200.  She repeats anything and everything.  She's like a little parrot.  She gets concepts too.  She tells us she's scared when she hears a loud startling noise.  She holds up her bowl and says "Empty" when she's out of Cheerios.

Some of the funny mispronunciations Mungee uses are "strawbellies" for strawberries and "mo-mote" for remote (control).  She finally says "phone" instead of "some", and will put it up to her ear and very clearly and articulately say "Hullo".

She can count to ten, then we say 11, 12, 13 and she says "14!"  Honestly, I have no idea how she learned that number.  She thinks everything is the color green and that all animals are named Luna (the original name of our cat).

I'm still breastfeeding, though I would be relieved happy if I was able to wean soon.  I feel like Mungee is so dependent on nursing before naps and nighttime, that I am nervous about trying to wean her.  I know I am taking the easy road, as far as using nursing to get her to sleep, but she's got to give up the boob eventually.  (Right?)  Any tips? P.S. She can't drink cow's milk, she gets hives.  We've tried soymilk, but she only takes a few sips and the rest goes to waste.

She has gotten very proficient at walking, and is experimenting with running.  She also likes to dance and "jump", though she doesn't leave the ground at this point.  I always try to get her to jump on the trampoline at MyGym, but I don't think she gets it yet.

We'll probably enroll her in school this fall.  She will just make the age cutoff (2 years old before September 1), so she'll be in the same class as her best friend (the daughter of my best friend).

She's still taking two naps a day for the most part, but we will have to cut back to one once she begins school, as they require the students to be able to stay awake until 12 pm.  I'm not really in a hurry to cut her off from that morning nap because that's usually the time when I take a shower and get dressed!

Bedtime is around 7 pm.  We went through a major sleeping-through-the-night setback, but I'm crossing my fingers and toes that it's over now.  If Mungee wakes up early (between 5:30-6:30), I'll usually nurse her and then put her back in her crib so her Pa and I can get some extra sleep.

Mungee has had 12 teeth for a while now and has just recently begun cutting all.four.canine.teeth.  The first to come through was the top left, followed by the top right.  I think I noticed the bottom right peeking through her gums today.  Are we done with teething for a while, or will those dreaded two year molars be agonizing her soon?

Mungee's favorite TV show is Yo Gabba Gabba, but she still prefers to read books.  She has words and phrases memorized and it's so much fun to read a few words and then have her fill in the next ones.  She doesn't even need to see the book, all she needs to hear are the words.

With her increasing sense of independence, Mungee has taken to throwing tantrums when she doesn't get her way.  I mostly stop her from doing something out of safety concerns (things like leaving the driveway and walking into the street).  She'll go limp and slither to the ground and cry, or if I try to pick her up, she raises her arms straight up and I think she tries to dislocate her shoulders so she can slip out of my grasp.  Or she'll just scream.  I typically try to ignore the screaming because I don't want her to enjoy the attention from it and continue.

Eventually I will upload the most recent pictures I've taken and add them to this post.  Or just write a new one :)