This Game May Be Called on Account of Pregnancy
I spent a lousy day in the hospital being tested for preeclampsia. I don’t have it (yet), but my blood pressure is high and I am helplessly pukey a couple of nights a week. I wrote a post for 5 Minutes for Parenting about my thoughts on the matter.
The Toddled Dredge blog is getting a little dusty. At this stage of pregnancy, I’m afraid survival is about all I can manage. Even the usual insistence it takes to get computer time for myself seems currently beyond my stamina. There are only a few weeks of pregnancy left (please, God), and then things should get a little better. It’s not easy to blog with a newborn either, but the inviolate house rule around here is that, since nursing is the world’s most boring activity, the Breastfeeding Woman gets the computer. Every time. No exceptions. Deal. The whining of a four-year-old who loves PBSkids.org a little too much will NOT be tolerated.
In the meantime, I just finished re-reading Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (wonderful!), I watched all of the episodes of Burn Notice on hulu.com, and I have a decent man crush on Dangerous Davies from the BBC series The Last Detective. If only he would ditch his annoying friend Mod, we could be very happy together.
As long as he doesn’t mind an enormous pregnant woman who can’t keep her food down. Because really, what’s more attractive than that?
Clemntine
I’m with you, sister. SO with you!
Managing my pressure, coping with nausea, controlling gestational diabetes and counting the days until the alien symbiant parasite is evicted….oh, did I type that out loud?…I meant until the blessed arrival of our much-adored offspring…
In fact, the reason I’m up at 1:56am commenting on your dusty blog is that the contractions won’t leave me alone. I just want to sleep.
Happy gestating to us both!
Blog Antagonist
I hope you don’t develop pre-eclampsia, but if you do, know that the risks to you and your babycan be managed quite effectively. I had it with Diminutive One and we both came out of it alright.
Don’t worry about the blog. It will bide. Just gestate. ;?)
Jennifer (Et Tu?)
Possible preeclampsia, puking, third trimester exhaustion — sounds like you need a break!
We’ll be around. That’s the beauty of feed readers, you can stop blogging for as long as you want and not lose many readers. Have a good rest of the pregnancy!
Kimberly
I can so sympathize. I feel as if I am 8 mos. pregnant and am only half way along, because everything that hit me in my third trimester last time is hitting at 4 mos. this time. And everyone says that will happen. Serves me right for waiting until I was 36 to have my first kid.
Ah well. Hang in there. Will be so much easier to blog with a baby attached to your breast, eh?
chaotic joy
Ooof. I know, I know. Boy how I remember this. Poor dear, it will all be over soon. I read that book recently as well. I had to slog through it a bit in parts, but overall thought it was a brilliant undertaking.
suburbancorrespondent
It’s easier to find time to read and blog when you’re nursing, I find.
Mrs Lemon
No kidding, when it’s time for me to pump, Mr Lemon evacuates the computer chair. That’s the only way I can get through it.
Jane @ What About Mom
Blog-nursing is the best!
I love Burn Notice on hulu! Dick and I watch it on his laptop after the kids are in bed. Never had a “TV” in the bedroom before!
Have you seen the show Life? It’s coming back for another season, but I wonder if the first season’s on Hulu? Should be.
Good luck on pregnancy/preeclampsia!
Herb of Grace
Oh boy, just had to drop you a congratulatory comment on your taste in books! I loooove Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell!!
Sorry about the pukey-ness
Hang in there!
Sue
I’m not even pregnant and my blog is dusty. You at least have Good Reasons.
I keep meaning to watch Burn Notice. You know what I just found and love? Psych. Cute show.
Alice
I’ve never met anyone else who loves Dangerous Davies. And yes, Mod is annoying (but I get a kick out of him). We’re in the midst of watching season 4, and frankly, I’m a little jealous of Julie…
JulieC
You just do what you need to do. Er, don’t do what you don’t have to do?
Your post on 5 Minutes made ME want to hold your new baby! And sniff her little head. (Aren’t you glad I don’t know where you live? ha ha)
Ashley
I hope your last few weeks get easier. I just had to comment that Burn Notice is definitely my favorite TV show right now.
Beck
Yeah, I well remember the vast, mind-numbing discomfort of pregnancy quite well. Take care of yourself and don’t worry about blogging.
Beth
We must be due around the same time… I’m due Sept. 10 with my first, and I’m terrified & excited in more or less equally proportions! When are you due?
Antique Mommy
That last paragraph cracked me up.
jolyn
Wishing many blessings for you and your new baby to have a smooth, wonderfully uneventful delivery.
Mrs. Smoochy
Hang in there, Mama. Why is it the final stretch always seems the longest?
Alison
Nursing and blogging will definitely be easier. Hang in there.
Tonggu Momma
My momma was preeclamptic with me. Hang in there!!!!
I now have a mental picture now of nursing and blogging… but, being the klutz that I am and never having nursed… how do you type?
PJ
Oh those last few weeks do crawl by!!! Hang in there! This too shall pass…then it’s nursing and blogging.
Kelly @ Love Well
I can’t imagine a better reason for a blogging hiatus.
The last trimester is bloated and slow. Just mothering your three little ones is enough.
Rest up. And practice your one-fingered typing. That’s the only way I get blogging done these days. (Reading, however, is another story.)
Octamom
Not fun, girl! Hope your symptoms ease and the rest of the pregnancy goes quickly!
Blessings!
Kelly @ Wisdom Begun
I am so right there with you, except for the preeclampsia. And I still have three weeks left to go! Hang in there, we’ll get through it!
Heidi
Oh, pregnancy. It’s the worst of times. I was going to type the opening line to Tale of Two Cities, but the best of times would have been a lie. It’s just the worst of times.
Good luck!
Shalee
Ugh. I’m no where near your condition in life, but I’ll sympathize with you. Every woman needs some loving when she’s in the throes of pregnancy.
Becca
Call me crazy, but I think pregnant women are pretty. Maybe its because I love children so much and I know the pregnant woman will have one soon. I don’t know. ha.
Hopefully the sickness will get better soon.
Marion
Hang in there–I just had my fourth…ahh the joys…breastfeeding and typing, not an easy task.
Mrs Lemon
Will you please twitter or something and tell us if you’ve had the baby?
Musing
Oh, my. I sympathize. My fourth pregnancy almost did me in!
Also, I’d like to quote you on my blog. Would you email me about it?
Julie H
I was pregnant in the summer with each of my kids. The bottom line…it’s tough with all the uncontrollable factors, mainly the weather. Take care, Julie
Pieces
I love the fact that you used “deal” as a sentence. That word is used far too often in our house. It is only annoying when The Loved says “Shall I go get you a pack of cards?” Urg.
Yesterday, though, he distracted me from crying. I was apologizing for crying for nothing (depression hurts) and how he must hate putting up with me and he said kindly “Should I send you to Vegas so you can deal?”
I replied, “I’d rather deal in Monte Carlo.”
“Ah!” he said. “So you can deal in French!”
I gotta love the man.