This may get a little detailed so I'm just warning you ahead of time. Some of this is even quite embarrassing to share. Just feel like explaining though.
I went to the Dr. today to see if I could find out why I've been sick lately. I feel like I've been singing the pepto-bismol commercial. Sing with me "Nausea, Heartburn, Indigestion, Upset stomach, Diarrhea" minus the heartburn really.
Josh and I started our Medical Weight Loss plan again early in May and then that lasted about a week until we made up excuses for not wanting to do it. We do have busy schedules but if we wanted to do it bad enough that wouldn't be a good excuse. I was really hoping we could switch to Weight Watchers if our insurance would have covered it but we found out they don't. So I know I'm sure my stomach problems would be cleared up if I just changed my diet back. I don't eat horrible all the time though.
We went to Boyne City the 18th of May and I was the sickest I've EVER been. I'm not sure if this time was stomach flu or what or if it's just what I'll explain coming up. BUT I had an omelet, hash browns, and toast at a restaurant before we headed to Boyne City and that's all I had eaten the entire day and I ended up vomiting at the indoor water park. I won't be eating hash browns for a long time. I vomited so much I got extremely week. I was in the women's locker room and I didn't feel well enough to get off the shower floor to get back to our room. When I finally had it in me to leave I still felt horrible and continued to get sick at our condo. Not only did I vomit I of course had diarrhea as well. I was pretty embarrassed that I had to be naked in front of my mother in law and Josh's Aunt but I'm thankful they were there to help me because Josh was pretty mad and wasn't much help. He did get me water during the night otherwise I knew he just needed to be off with the group to try and enjoy the weekend. I was super bummed that I was so sick. I really wanted to enjoy the weekend also. On top of being sick Josie would not take a bottle so I had to nurse her in the tub. I kept having to pass her back to Jill because I would get sick. I felt like a horrible Mom. She was so upset.
After that it took a couple days but I was feeling better.
Then Memorial weekend we decided to go to Chicago and made the horrible decision to try White Castle. I will never eat there again. They have these cheeseburger sliders with onion - at first I thought the taste was a little weird but since it was the only thing we were eating that night I ate it. I didn't think it was horrible UNTIL the next morning. I did not vomit but felt very nauseous and again diarrhea. The after taste of White Castle was also disgusting! This sounds horrible but my burps would kill you if you smelled them.
This time I can say being sick was my fault. I shouldn't have eaten horrible food. I was not feeling well the entire time we were at the Shedd Aquarium. Thankfully the girls still had fun.
Today I've been nauseous and have had diarrhea again. I ate roast, carrots, and potatoes last night so I guess the roast could be considered the culprit maybe. IDK? I was fine the entire day yesterday though. I even had a variety of foods at a luncheon that did not seem to bother me?
So I called the Dr because this was the 3rd time. I of course don't want there to be a problem but If it's just that I need to change my diet - I'd feel stupid.
I had some blood work drawn to check some things. The dr will call me to let me know what those results show. Until then he said it may be Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Possibly my gallbladder but not likely. Probably not an ulcer. May need to do an ultrasound on my gallbladder.
Here's some more info on IBS... http://www.webmd.com/ibs/digestive-diseases-irritable-bowel-syndrome
After reading that - it does seem like that could be the problem. I'm hoping once I feel like eating again I can try to get back on my MWL diet and all will be ok.
Thanks to everyone who has commented on my statuses on facebook.
I'm hoping to do another blog with more updates but maybe I'll wait until School is out.
June is going to be a very busy month for me. I start cleaning. I'm pretty nervous.
I just want to clean well and I'm hoping Josie will do well if I leave her while I'm gone.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Thursday, May 16, 2013
7 Weeks
I had my "6 week" check up today but it's been 7 weeks since I had Josie. Time goes so fast and babies grow soooooo / too fast!!
Everything went well at my appointment - all was normal and I'm down another 4 lbs since my Monday weigh in at Medical Weight Loss (more on MWL later). They did ask how my "little bit of depression" was going and I said I feel much better. I still have days where things seem to "come to a head" but I think that's just normal Amanda stuff not really related to post p. depression. Those first couple of weeks though were crazy. Crazy how hormones can do that to you.
I feel like I have quite a bit I'd like to update and not sure how to properly put it all into words to explain it all well enough.
ME: After I finally found out that I would not be returning to work (YAY!!!!) I decided I'd like to start cleaning homes again and continue to sub. I was hoping that I'd find enough homes to clean so that I wouldn't have to find some place to work. I'd much rather prefer to be my own boss and create my own schedule. I've been mostly advertising on Facebook and if all works out I'll have about 9 people to clean for and hopefully 3 "regulars". If I do have the 3 regulars every week then I'd be pretty booked. It makes me so happy that I've had such a great response so far. I had always thought about possibly cleaning again and just didn't know if I should or not, so with all the response it feels "meant to be". I love saying Home Cleaning by Amanda. I enjoy knowing people can come home and smile once they see a clean home and know they didn't have to do any of the work. <3 I'm hoping they'll like my work ;)
If you haven't LIKED my page on Facebook PLEASE do!! ALSO... SHARE to help me spread the word. Thank you!!
www.facebook.com/HomeCleaningbyAmanda
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I love subbing so I'm anxious to that again as well. I could have subbed today but I had my apt. Then I'll be subbing at Comstock Park on the 22nd.
ME & JOSH: Josh and I (before I got pregnant) started Medical Weight Loss. We both followed the diets strictly, did very well, and of course lost weight. Then once I found out I was pregnant we both stopped the diet and put our weight back on (of course I didn't eat well but I also gained from being pregnant). We decided last week to return because we still had weeks left. We had to pre-pay for this up front so it was all paid for at the beginning. Well we have both come to the decision that we're just going to stop doing MWL and do Weight Watchers. We need to contact our insurance but we're pretty sure they cover WW. I have done WW in the past and I liked it so much better. I had lost 68lbs before. I hate to think that we wasted the money we spent for MWL but even though this sounds silly - it just doesn't make us happy. It's hard when you have to take so much out of your diet that you enjoy eating. Of course our weights are not good but WW is a lot more livable MWL is like a short term fix that just doesn't last. If you were the type of person to eat that way to begin with it'd be fine. The thing with WW too is that you can have a piece of pizza if you want you just have to count it towards your daily points and just make sure you don't go over your points. With MWL you can't eat pizza. I think most people would agree that once you tell yourself that you can't have something you want it even more. Will I ever be skinny? No! Do I want to be skinny? No!
Do I want to be healthy? YES Do I want to have pizza every now an then? YES Who doesn't? I hope this will be the right decision. The biggest thing is - I just need to make healthier choices and watch portion sizes etc but not feel so restricted.
We'll be going to Boyne City this weekend it will feel nice to feel like we're having a mini-vacation. Josh does not have any more vacation days to use after taking a week off for Josie so I'm glad he was able to get this Saturday off. Then his work is closed on the Saturday of Memorial Weekend so we'll probably do day trips or something to make the best of it.
ABBY: We have to meet with Abby's teacher next week. I'm a little nervous. We have spoke in the past of the "struggles" she's been having in Math and occasionally reading. So this time we're discussing her progress. I don't know if her teacher is going to recommend that she stay in 1st grade or not? We really do not want Abby & Jasmine to be in the same grade. Abby has been going to Aunt Sue's for tutoring and then during the summer we're going to have her tutor with Aunt Sue and my Aunt Tracy (who's a teacher). I'm hoping that she'll progress during the summer and all will be OK. I want to do what's best for her. It's just hard because most of the time she does all the work well at home and I know she knows it she just for some reason struggles at school. I think she sometimes day dreams or gets easily distracted / etc. Sometimes things just don't "click" - which HELLO math for me doesn't CLICK in my brain either. If you can pray about this that would be great. I know she is the smartest sweetest girlie - just not sure what to do. LOVE YOU INFINITY Abs.
JASMINE: For Jasmine everything just "clicks". She reads well, she knows Math. She's so smart and such a stinker. Totally opposite from Abby. Lately she has been crying very easily and sometimes will sleep in our bed. I think it's kind of like the middle child syndrome or something. I feel horrible. I'm trying to make sure the she gets enough attention. I know she probably feels like well Mom is always with Josie feeding her..then Abby has tutoring and guitar lessons etc. Jasmine does have t-ball but then she feels like she doesn't get to see anyone because she's playing tball and gets upset after the games because she didn't get to talk or play. We watch her of course and tell her everyone comes to watch her so she feels special but she just takes it as she didn't get to see anyone.
Josie got a blanket with her name on it and Abby got one when she was born so Jasmine said Mom I never got a blanket with my name on it. Her flower on her new flip flops broke off so she cried thankfully Papa Randy fixed them. Today she told Grammy that she couldn't find her suit. Well Grammy said she'd buy a new one if she can't find it (because of Boyne City this weekend). Well she found it and then came and showed me. Then she went in the other room, came back out and said Mom, I put my suit somewhere and now I can't find it so I'll have to get a new one. (if you saw the look on her face you'd know she hid it). Well then when I told her that we'd find it because she just showed it to me - she cried and said Mom you just don't believe me! I didn't hide it. Anyone have middle child advice? =) LOVE YOU INFINITY Jas.
JOSIE: Josie's 2 month appointment is like the 29th so I'm anxious to see what she weighs. She's becoming quite the little chunk. She eats well. Only thing I'm not use to is her spitting up. I don't know if it's because I'm nursing too long, if it doesn't digest properly, if we just move her too soon, if it's something I ate. I read an article today that said it's pretty normal. Abby and Jasmine never spit up. I'm thinking it's more that she just eats too much and over fills herself - sometimes when I nurse I loose track of time and she nurses longer than I was going to nurse her for. I've been experimenting with shorter nursing times too but that hasn't seemed to work. She sleeps very well. Usually by 9pm she's asleep and then sleeps for 3-5 hours. Then after I feed her again she sleeps another 2-3 hours so she usually only gets up 2 times a night. She's been smiling alot lately and Papa Randy calls her Smiler. Papa Jerry calls her scooter. I've been calling her babycakes. She actually giggled once this week too.
Well she just woke up and is crying quite hard so I've gotta go. I think that pretty much covered everything. I'll update more later if I forgot something.
Thanks for reading!
MUCH LOVE!!
Everything went well at my appointment - all was normal and I'm down another 4 lbs since my Monday weigh in at Medical Weight Loss (more on MWL later). They did ask how my "little bit of depression" was going and I said I feel much better. I still have days where things seem to "come to a head" but I think that's just normal Amanda stuff not really related to post p. depression. Those first couple of weeks though were crazy. Crazy how hormones can do that to you.
I feel like I have quite a bit I'd like to update and not sure how to properly put it all into words to explain it all well enough.
ME: After I finally found out that I would not be returning to work (YAY!!!!) I decided I'd like to start cleaning homes again and continue to sub. I was hoping that I'd find enough homes to clean so that I wouldn't have to find some place to work. I'd much rather prefer to be my own boss and create my own schedule. I've been mostly advertising on Facebook and if all works out I'll have about 9 people to clean for and hopefully 3 "regulars". If I do have the 3 regulars every week then I'd be pretty booked. It makes me so happy that I've had such a great response so far. I had always thought about possibly cleaning again and just didn't know if I should or not, so with all the response it feels "meant to be". I love saying Home Cleaning by Amanda. I enjoy knowing people can come home and smile once they see a clean home and know they didn't have to do any of the work. <3 I'm hoping they'll like my work ;)
If you haven't LIKED my page on Facebook PLEASE do!! ALSO... SHARE to help me spread the word. Thank you!!
www.facebook.com/HomeCleaningbyAmanda
ME & JOSH: Josh and I (before I got pregnant) started Medical Weight Loss. We both followed the diets strictly, did very well, and of course lost weight. Then once I found out I was pregnant we both stopped the diet and put our weight back on (of course I didn't eat well but I also gained from being pregnant). We decided last week to return because we still had weeks left. We had to pre-pay for this up front so it was all paid for at the beginning. Well we have both come to the decision that we're just going to stop doing MWL and do Weight Watchers. We need to contact our insurance but we're pretty sure they cover WW. I have done WW in the past and I liked it so much better. I had lost 68lbs before. I hate to think that we wasted the money we spent for MWL but even though this sounds silly - it just doesn't make us happy. It's hard when you have to take so much out of your diet that you enjoy eating. Of course our weights are not good but WW is a lot more livable MWL is like a short term fix that just doesn't last. If you were the type of person to eat that way to begin with it'd be fine. The thing with WW too is that you can have a piece of pizza if you want you just have to count it towards your daily points and just make sure you don't go over your points. With MWL you can't eat pizza. I think most people would agree that once you tell yourself that you can't have something you want it even more. Will I ever be skinny? No! Do I want to be skinny? No!
Do I want to be healthy? YES Do I want to have pizza every now an then? YES Who doesn't? I hope this will be the right decision. The biggest thing is - I just need to make healthier choices and watch portion sizes etc but not feel so restricted.
We'll be going to Boyne City this weekend it will feel nice to feel like we're having a mini-vacation. Josh does not have any more vacation days to use after taking a week off for Josie so I'm glad he was able to get this Saturday off. Then his work is closed on the Saturday of Memorial Weekend so we'll probably do day trips or something to make the best of it.
ABBY: We have to meet with Abby's teacher next week. I'm a little nervous. We have spoke in the past of the "struggles" she's been having in Math and occasionally reading. So this time we're discussing her progress. I don't know if her teacher is going to recommend that she stay in 1st grade or not? We really do not want Abby & Jasmine to be in the same grade. Abby has been going to Aunt Sue's for tutoring and then during the summer we're going to have her tutor with Aunt Sue and my Aunt Tracy (who's a teacher). I'm hoping that she'll progress during the summer and all will be OK. I want to do what's best for her. It's just hard because most of the time she does all the work well at home and I know she knows it she just for some reason struggles at school. I think she sometimes day dreams or gets easily distracted / etc. Sometimes things just don't "click" - which HELLO math for me doesn't CLICK in my brain either. If you can pray about this that would be great. I know she is the smartest sweetest girlie - just not sure what to do. LOVE YOU INFINITY Abs.
JASMINE: For Jasmine everything just "clicks". She reads well, she knows Math. She's so smart and such a stinker. Totally opposite from Abby. Lately she has been crying very easily and sometimes will sleep in our bed. I think it's kind of like the middle child syndrome or something. I feel horrible. I'm trying to make sure the she gets enough attention. I know she probably feels like well Mom is always with Josie feeding her..then Abby has tutoring and guitar lessons etc. Jasmine does have t-ball but then she feels like she doesn't get to see anyone because she's playing tball and gets upset after the games because she didn't get to talk or play. We watch her of course and tell her everyone comes to watch her so she feels special but she just takes it as she didn't get to see anyone.
Josie got a blanket with her name on it and Abby got one when she was born so Jasmine said Mom I never got a blanket with my name on it. Her flower on her new flip flops broke off so she cried thankfully Papa Randy fixed them. Today she told Grammy that she couldn't find her suit. Well Grammy said she'd buy a new one if she can't find it (because of Boyne City this weekend). Well she found it and then came and showed me. Then she went in the other room, came back out and said Mom, I put my suit somewhere and now I can't find it so I'll have to get a new one. (if you saw the look on her face you'd know she hid it). Well then when I told her that we'd find it because she just showed it to me - she cried and said Mom you just don't believe me! I didn't hide it. Anyone have middle child advice? =) LOVE YOU INFINITY Jas.
JOSIE: Josie's 2 month appointment is like the 29th so I'm anxious to see what she weighs. She's becoming quite the little chunk. She eats well. Only thing I'm not use to is her spitting up. I don't know if it's because I'm nursing too long, if it doesn't digest properly, if we just move her too soon, if it's something I ate. I read an article today that said it's pretty normal. Abby and Jasmine never spit up. I'm thinking it's more that she just eats too much and over fills herself - sometimes when I nurse I loose track of time and she nurses longer than I was going to nurse her for. I've been experimenting with shorter nursing times too but that hasn't seemed to work. She sleeps very well. Usually by 9pm she's asleep and then sleeps for 3-5 hours. Then after I feed her again she sleeps another 2-3 hours so she usually only gets up 2 times a night. She's been smiling alot lately and Papa Randy calls her Smiler. Papa Jerry calls her scooter. I've been calling her babycakes. She actually giggled once this week too.
Well she just woke up and is crying quite hard so I've gotta go. I think that pretty much covered everything. I'll update more later if I forgot something.
Thanks for reading!
MUCH LOVE!!
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