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Name: Beth
Location: Arlington, Texas, United States
Birthday: 11/24/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: I am interested in way to many a thing. Jesus, Warren, food, science, traveling, knitting (currently), any crafty thing, movies, and there's a bunch more.
Expertise: Phantom of the the Opera
Hugging (yes, I am an expert)
Dieting (I know ALL the secrets, I just dont apply them very well)
Occupation: Student
Industry: Other
Message: message meEmail: email me
AIM:  silverbethie
Member Since:
9/9/2003
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| Hey, Ive had a baby! It feels weird announcing it when he has been here for 2 months now, but that is my bad. I didnt have the internet at home and I had what probably amounts to the craziest maternity leave in recorded history because we found and purchased a home during that time. Any crazier and it may not have been considered a "leave". Anyway, to the baby part (which still surprises me that I havent posted anything about this yet...) He was born April 17, 2007 at 6:03am. It was a VERY fast labor and delivery, 3 hours. It is actually a really cool birthing story. Very exciting.  He was 3.5 weeks early, so that made him 6lbs4oz at birth. Yesterday he weighed in at 11-5, which makes this mama VERY proud. I am already back at work which is sad to me, but I am very lucky to be returning to such a great place. I am thankful for that. There is just soo much info that I cant even think of what to write about. Im just so stinking in love with this boy. He loves to cuddle and I love to cuddle him. Im afraid he might take life a little too seriously, but when he does smile I smile from the top of my head to the tips of my toes. Motherhood is both the hardest and easiest thing I've ever done or been. Watching Warren with his son makes me the proudest wife and mother. In short, so far, so good. I'll upload pictures, I know that is what you guys want anyway. | | |
| i think Ill update again, how strange.
Usually I do like to wait at least 3 or 4 long months between entries,
but I figure Ill be doing a lot of forgetting after the baby is born so
Ill just make up for it ahead of time.
I had a midwife appt on sat and has a Glucose Tolerance Test which
basically tests to see how well my body is doing with sugar and if I
have Gestational Diabetes. I am so not worried about because I have
gained a minimal amount of weight. (you can be jealous, but just
remember I started out 100 lbs overweight, so I don't want to hear it).
If my body weren't doing its job I would have gained so much more by
now, but as it is, my metabolism is FINALLY doing what I have prayed it
would do since I was 10, and that is work. Thank you sweet child.
This really is not exactly how I envision a fun-filled saturday, but the
test had to be taken. You fast the night before and the day of your
appt , get your blood drawn, drink what amounts to flat REALLY sweet
orange sodaish stuff, wait an hour and get poked again. Well I have
kind of a complex when it comes to needles and I faint, so between
having tiny veins and almost fainting a couple of times, I was poked 4
times on sat. And not just poked, poked and then she had to search for
a vein each time. I am still sore two days later! Bleck. And that drink
did a number on my digestive system, like everything else these
days..... so yeah, good stuff. But generally I LOVE my midwife, so this
is a easily forgiven offense. Plus, it is the worst thing I have gone
through to date in this pregnancy and that makes me one VERY lucky
duck.
Work is a whirlwind. I was hired on as a part time receptionist last
Jan. Then I got bored and started fooling with AutoCAD (a type of
drawing/drafting program). So they sent me to some classes because I
wasnt half bad at it. Then I started full time and that was EXTRA
boring, so I've been doing some drawing for them, just filling in
wherever there is help needed. Well that has turned into something
more and more but when I got pregnant I thought I was only going to
work part time. It doesn't make sense for me to work full time and spend
half my check on child care, so I was only going to work half time and
not do day care. Well, now it works out that Warren can watch the
booger during the day mon, tues, wed, and his mom can do thurs fri, so
that leaves me free to work full time. At first I did NOT want to do
this, but after more prayer and consideration, it really is a pretty
good idea and an awesome situation. So it looks like Ill finally be
getting more responsibility at work, which is soooo nice! Answering the
phone in an office of 8 is about as demanding as reading a book on a
rainy day. I'm just excited for the opportunity to actually have
something resembling a career!
ANNNNDDDD my feet stink. I wish putting on socks were easier. Maybe now Ill be more motivated...
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| its time for an update!! Sooooo... yup, I'm still pregnant, which is great. I am 24 weeks today, which is more than great news to me. At 24 weeks your baby becomes "viable". That means that if something were to happen, they could do a csection and give the baby a shot at life. before 23 weeks they pretty much just consider it a miscarriage, I mean, they try and save him, but usually it just cant happen. But at 24 weeks there is a real shot. Its not high, but it is there and that makes this mama very happy. And it is a boy. We have known for a month, but I forget who knows and who doesn't! His name is Matthew Grant Miller. Matthew is for Warren's best friend Matt Mar and Grant is after my dad. Its a family name that he didn't get to give my brother so I am passin it down. Our son can be grateful I didn't chose Carlton, which is my dad's middle name. The baby has been kickin me for about a month as well. It is wonderful, although pretty weird. If my friend kicks me I can kick her back, give a mean look and say, "stop it!", but when the baby kicks I'm supposed to think that is cute. But it is because it is painless. So far. He isn't big enough to get my liver, like my coworkers son is (doesn't that sound like fun? having your liver kicked?!) so that is nice for now. I am pretty impressed with this system God has devised. I grow an entire baby inside of my body for 9 months and magically neither of us hurt the other in the process (most of the time). If Matt were a tumor I would probably be dead. But he isn't, he is a baby, and that is pretty cool if you ask me. And I wish I had more to write about, but the baby is all I think about. I am consumed with thoughts of this little guy. Getting me going long enough and I'll start crying, promise. If a person would suffer me to talk to them for 16 hours a day, I think it would mostly be about the baby. With that, I hope everyone is doing well! | | |
| I seriously have the best husband ever. Ever ever.
So with pregnancy comes extreme amounts of fatigue. I mean extreme
abouts of fatigue. And with all the sleepiness means lack of time to
complete certain chores. Well, I really lack the ability to do any
chores. Warren has picked up the entire slack, and it has been AMAZING!
If you know me at all, you know Im a rather sad housekeeper, but Warren
used to work anywhere between 60-80 hours a week, so there was no way
he was coming home to do chores, so they kinda sotra got done. But NOW,
now they are done all the time because Warren is a master at keeping
the apartment cleaned up. It really is amazing. I wish I could tell
you. It has made me a happy woman. And he does it all with no
complaining. And he hugs me when I need to be hugged and puts up with
my crying and laughing at inappropriate times. It's great.
I think everyone around me is pregnant. My sister-in-law is done being
pregnant as of today (more on that later), my coworker is 6 weeks in
from of me, my friend Jenn is 8 weeks ahead, my friend Shay is 10 days
ahead. That is 5 pregnant woman (we are still counting Tammy as she was
pregnant for most of the day). That is a whole lot of nausea and crying
and bellies, let me tell you. Now that Im showing, but I am rather
large and have a belly.
Speaking of my belly, I wont start to show until way later. That isnt
true, but what actually is pregnancy will just look like Im getting
fatter. How great is that?! Im pretty annoyed with myself. I was on a
weight loss mission before I got preggers and had lost like 20 lbs. Now
Im gonna gain em right back. Yippy skippy. just had to complain.
So yes, my niece was just born (seriously like minutes ago, I just got
off the phone) 6lbs 4oz, so another small baby. Tammy is a small lady,
so small babies run in their family. Im sure I will be having a huge
baby because huge babies run in my family. I can't wait to see
them! I know she will have those deep set miller eyes. Im excited.
and I have to go, check ya later gator.
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| I've been meaning to post this for awhile, but one of my symptoms is
ranting and raving, as evidenced by my post the other day. I didn't
really want to say, "BLAH BLAH BLAH, RIP AND ROAR, by the way Im
pregnant!" Because that post had nothing to do with me, really.
Obviously no one can give me crap about being pregnant as I am married.
although that doesn't stop some people.
But yes, I am preggo, carrying a little alien that I got to see on
tues. His (yeah, i'm going with a boy for now, I really don't know or
care too much) little heart was just beating away on the screen, I
really couldn't believe it. His heart rate was 142. I say was because it
will get faster before it gets slower. Im learning so much about what
is going on "down there". Lol. I would scan the sonogram picture, but
every scanner I touch turns to doo doo. And really, its an 8mm little
grey blob that is only significant to me, Im sure. But we are
really excited. Really really excited. Im only 7 weeks along, but I
really couldn't not tell people. A lot of people choose not to say
anything until week 12 because miscarriage becomes almost irrelevant at
that point (and a lot of people are just starting to show at 12 weeks),
but Im going to er on the side of optimism because I know a great deal
of the readers here pray, and even if it is just a quick thought, that
means the world to us. And for those who aren't so into the prayer
thing, I know you will be wishing us well in your thoughts and that is
very important as well. So that is my reason for releasing the good
news so early.
Well, all that and I have a big mouth (never trust me with a secret,
and for those of you who have, I promise, I have forgotten it and
really, what could be a better safeguard than a faulty memory?).
So there you go, other tid bits of info are that the due date is may
11th, which seems like an eternity away. Yes, I am having morning
sickness, but not throwing up, just nausea. Crackers and prenatal
vitamins are my caloric staple at the moment, although I am guaranteed
that will change. I want a boy first, but I don't care if its a girl,
that would be just as awesome. And I don't care if I have all boys or
all girls. Although, I really do think Ill make a better mom to boys,
but that is just my opinion. If it is a boy, we have a name, Matthew
Grant Miller, and if it is a girl, we have no idea. I just found
Micheala the other day, which I LOVE, so hopefully Warren will like it
too. He has been picking very strong female names and I have been
picking very soft female names. I'm scared to bring Michaela up because
I don't want him to immidiately shoot it down. and no, we are not going
for the while MM initials game, It just so happens that warren had
wanted to name his first son after his best friend Matt since matt
saved his life and it just so happens that micheala speaks to me, so
guido my toochie. (that is unintelligible, btw)Lol, so that is what we
know. Im sure I will not be able to keep myself from posting about baby
for the next 7.5 months, so block me if you don't wanna hear it.
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