Okay so I'm not to good on updating this blog weekly. At least you get lots of pictures with today's post.
We'll start with showers, as in the two baby showers I had recently. Heather and Renee threw us a baby shower on October 18, which family and close friends attended. To the left is a sample of the goodies they whipped up. I think I had about six or so of the mini-cupcakes. Blue and pink were the colors of choice since we don't know if we're having a boy or girl. We had a great time playing games, eating lots of food, and checking out all the baby gifts (where there was lots of Awwwww's going on). David couldn't believe all the stuff we ended up with that day. I will say that I was exhausted by the time the last guest left. I thoroughly appreciated Heather and Renee cleaning up and doing the dishes because my lazy bum was on the couch after that event.
On October 29 I had a baby shower at school thrown by Valerie, Dianne, Jaime, and the Literacy Ladies (and I honestly don't know who else was involved). More yummy food, games, and presents. Jaime and Emily constructed the diaper cake pictured here. I was impressed by their talents. We got a lot of gift cards at this shower which helped us purchase some of the bigger ticket items on our registry such as the stroller system. I managed to upload a slideshow of pictures from both showers. It's at the bottom of the webpage.
Speaking of strollers, SuperDad here put together the stroller, the pack-n-play, and installed both car seats this past Saturday. I must say the stroller was probably the easiest of the bunch. David had that together in no time. Now the pack-n-play was a different story. I saw the directions myself, and they were horrible. Poor David got most of it together in the living room, then went to move it to our bedroom before attaching the final two pieces only to find that it didn't fit through the door. He had to fold that sucker up, fit it through the bedroom door and then fix it again. I helped with the remaining items. But boy was that one a pain. Here are pics of the completed stroller and pack-n-play.
I am starting to believe that little boys are made out of "puppy dog tails." Why you ask? Apparently I have PUPPS. No that's not a typo; I'm not talking about the cute little dogs. I'm talking about
Pruritic Urticarial Papules and Plaques of Pregnancy (go ahead google PUPPS, be sure to check out the pictures as well). Okay this itchy rash was not mentioned in any of the pregnancy books I read. I noticed I was itchy under my belly button last week and after using a mirror to see under my belly (cause you know I can't even see my feet) I saw these little red bumps. Thought "great, I have a rash." Luckily (well not so sure about that) I had a doctor's appt the next day with the other doc in the practice. That doc said, Oh you have PUPPS (
excuse me?), it's a pregnancy rash that some women get and it will probably spread all over your belly (
what!?!), and it doesn't go away until after you have the baby (
aw man!). But the good news is that it seldom occurs in additional pregnancies (
um, yay?!) So I got a prescription for some steroid cream; the tube is the size of a travel toothpaste and I've almost used up the whole tube in one week. Thank goodness for refills. I discovered today, a week later, that 1 - the steriod cream was helping the oldest part of the rash be less "bumpy" and 2 - the rash is now beginning to spread to my arms and upper legs. Yep, found little red bumps on my arms today. The itchiness comes and goes; I am allowed to take Benadryl which has been a blessing to some degree. I now get more sleep at night because of the Benadryl. So there is a bright spot. And why mention that boys are made of puppy dog tails. Simply because there are two theories about what causes PUPPS. First theory, the one that sounds totally medical, has something to do with the rapid abdominal wall distension damaging the surrounding tissue and causing inflammation. The second theory is that male fetal DNA acts as a skin irritant; this being based on the fact that 70% of women who get this rash have boy babies. So all you people who think it's girl, well your odds just got worse. Then again the only other person at my school who has heard of PUPPS, had it herself with her first pregnancy, and she has two girls. Guess she was in that 30%.
That post should hold everyone for about a week or two. I have another appointment tomorrow, so we'll see if the doc will give me more refills for the cream (seeing as how I only have 2 refills left and if I'm using a tube a week, well I'm gonna need more). Roughly four more weeks until this baby decides to come along. Good thing David and I finally finished our childbirth classes. Guess they'll let us have a baby after all.
