Diary of a Pregnant Chick

Before I knew what has knocked me out.....

End of January - I kept wondering why I was always hungry. I always needed a meal between breakfast and lunch. 10.45 am appears to be the jinxed minute. So I ate away, snacked on Reese's pieces between lunch and going home. Although I still exercised, thanks to the elliptical that practically occupied a quarter of our living room. As expected, I bagged about 5 pounds in 4 weeks. I did not know any better.

Early February - It does not make any sense, my hands and feet were freezing but my head was practically boiling over. I sent LB an email saying I was practically blowing hot and cold. I still stuck with the exercises, but noticed I needed to drink about 16 gallons of water to get through the day. Mother nature was a few days late, no worries.

February 9 - Left work a little late and went to get clear blue. Yeap, it was. I totally saw that coming once I looked back over three weeks. I was totally freaking out at work, for no reason. One of my colleagues tried pointing it out a few times, his favorite phrase , "did you realize you just freaked out".

February 10 - It was a really snowy day in New York, I decided to work from home. I was not feeling any different anyway, just wanted to be lazy.

February 11 - I got a new hair do and went out with my colleagues at work for PN's send forth. I really could not say I was not drinking because I don't have a reason not to or do I? But it was way too early. It is a secret LB and I have decided to keep until week 12. Men, that was some heavy one

Week 6 - Had the first doctor's visit. Did not like the fact that I have a male ob, but I will get used to it. I am still exercising, and drinking down Brooklyn to stay hydrated. No cravings, no MS and no drama yet!

Week 7 - Had a cheese cake at work for dessert, introducing the awful, painful and annoying nausea. I threw up for the first time. Nausea at night, every night. I bought my pregnancy pillow and a few books. The pillow is awesome. Even LB had to agree. I abandoned exercising, it was taking too much. My joints were gone to hell already.

Week 8 to 10- Night nausea getting worse. I can feel the hard pouch in my tummy. No shaking yet. I am exhausted a lot these days, trying to stay away from most people at work. The secret is killing me!!

Week 11 to 14 - Things fall apart, I now live on the couch when I am not at work. I seem to be able to make it to work only thrice a week. Not bad for the way my heart beats these day. Ended up in ER on a faithful afternoon! Can someone remind me why I could not stop crying? Yes, I wanted to sleep and they did not give me a bed. I got a sofa in the hospital for a 5 hr wait. Only in NYC!!

Week 15 to 18 - Waiting patiently for our trip to Italy. Slept some more and cried some more. The cardio gave me a hip monitor, still crying a lot these days.

Week 19 - Italy here we come, Venice is beautiful, but whatever happened to a decent breakfast. No eggs for breakfast! I wanted to go home really bad. There is no place like home New York, New York. Found a decent place that serves American breakfast in Rome, we paid our arms and legs for breakfast; did we not learn anything from the trip to Paris??

Week 20 to 22 - They are freaking out in the hospital!!! We wished we stayed back in Italy where the only real problems we had was getting a good breakfast. I had to get the amnio. I had a major meltdown at work on the day I was scheduled for it. The baby did not like the amnio as well,she was moving plenty.

Week 24 to 30 - I am beginning to feel more like me, I am even going to work five times a week these days, Yippee, welcome to second trimester energy, about 10 weeks after it started. Better late than never. The little one is turning out to be a really kicker. Loving it!

Week 31 to 34 - We finally decided on a name for our little pumpkin. Although she is really beginning to show her personality, we ended up in L&D at 3.AM one faithful Friday morning. Baby shower on weekend of week 33, had a lot of fun, can't believe I have not hosted people in a long long time. Maybe I will try doing it soon.My doctor said I have not gained weight in 7 weeks. Can you imagine? I told him his scale is definitely broken.

Week 35 to 39: All sorts, they want me to keep dragging my behind to work everyday. I now work from home 2 days a week. I really could not finish packing this hospital bag no matter how I tried. The doctor decided he is going to induce me early, I am really not ready to have this baby yet. Can you believe that? after 9 months. Anyway, we held out till week 39.I finally stopped work half way through week 39.

Oct 5th - I went to the hospital for the usual NST/BPP. Because it was an early appointment I did not eat breakfast, just needed to get it over with since I needed to get my hair done. Alas!! the doctor decided I will not get the chance to do the hair. He sent me to labor and delivery to have the baby ASAP. I could not believe it, I started crying. I did not have my hopital bag with me and I was starving. I called LB at work to go home and finish packing the bag. I was induced a few hours later. For the first 9 hours after being in L&D, I was just hungry and bored. Still could not believe what was happening. Took the epi at 3cm, took a nap and alas I was 10 cm already.

Oct 6th 2010 - Olutomi Elizabeth Akinkugbe is here. She weighed 5 pounds at birth. Welcome my Angel.

All sorts

I have been wondering about way too many things these days, like a 99-question that can only be dealt with one at a time. A few months back, I was convinced I am destined to win a lottery, as in WIN BIG, no kidding. So I waited until the loot was about $51 million and started buying tickets. LB thinks I always over do stuff. SO after I wasted a some good bucks on no-winning tickets; I moved on with life. Knowing that when the day comes, I will buy a ticket and wins the big loot. O what a wonderful day!

It occured to me that almost everyone I know has a baby, just gave birth or is expecting. That seem like a lot of pressure. I am beginning to think once a woman turns aproximately 30 (i.e. plus or minus two years) everything becomes clear and has to be done with the urgency of now.

I seem to have lost all interest in idle conversations, phone calls and good old gossip!! Have I stopped being a girl or I am just simply old....I wonder what old is these days. I remember when I turned thirty and I thought that was old. For today, I feel five hundered years old.

Our Wedding Anniversary

Ok, my mind has been pretty clear these days. I seem to only think of one thing at a time. But today, I seem to be drifting all over.

- Finally found myself on my page; alas I have a blog, not been here in a long long long time. I wonder when life became so boring. Nothing to write or is it more of a lot to write but no zeal to type. Maybe!

A few months back, it was our wedding anniversary, Yippie. Happy married life to Tade and Bunmi, it still feels strange that now I have to write Tade and Bunmi. I could no longer write my name as I love writing it "Tadebunmi". Funny enough one fake chick in Biz school thought Bunmi is my surname."duh".

Since this is our first anniversary, we started planning for the anniversary in October, the big trip for 2010 would be for our anniversary. We decided it was going to be Europe again. This time around Italy will be the destination. I have heard so much about Florence, but we could not make it there. We covered Venice, Rome and a lil of Milan. Don't ask.

The first stop was in Venice, by the time we made it there, we have used all existing forms of transportation - car, plane, bus, train, a vaporretto and we walked. Finally we got to the hotel, small but very nice. We took a nice evening walk around town, had some proper italian pasta for dinner and we called it a night.

Trouble started at the breakfast table in the morning, no eggs. My newly found obsession was clearly missing. I walked gingerly to the reception area to ask the clerk if they could provide eggs. Unfortunately for me, the guy does not speak English. So I proceeded to describing what I wanted in English, since I could not master more than one italian word before we started the trip. That was a battle lost. We gave up trying to find egss in Venice. We explored the city; discovered the market and how to walk accross town without taking the very expensive Vaporretto that can't get you anywhere. Venice, Water Baby!! Two days later, we were ready to roll. I am so excited I fulfilled my romantic dream of visiting Venice with my husband before it sinks. Not sure it is sinking, but there was water everywhere.

A Roma! Rome in a weird way is like New York city, but with a lot more chao and no controls. O yes!! I loved Rome, the ancient Rome - btw, what is the hype about Sistine Chapel? by the time we finally made it there, we have seen so many beautiful works of art; rooms and tapestry. I expected I will be super impressed by the Chapel, if all those were just preparing us to see it. And I hated Rome, the modern Rome - stop signs and red lights don't mean dilly-squat to drivers. The fear of pick pockets, planted firmly in our minds by Rick Steves, prevented me from being able to enjoy the train and bus rides. Our hotel was perfect, close to the central termini. Although I still can't get over the fact that you almost always have to get to the termini to change trains. My favorite sight is the Colosseum, I could only imagine how the gladiators felt. It was imppressive. I equally loved the spanish steps, the fanciest hangout place ever. Did I mention we finally found our American breakfast in Rome? One more reason to love Rome.

We were in Milan for only one day, but it was easy mastering the trains and trams. Coming from NY, we could not bring ourselves to buy anything in the over-priced shopping district. End of Trip. New York here we come. Back to work and life.