Daisalana

Raw sushi is not OK, don't eat it during pregnancy. I got a flyer about it, I think it's either a bacteria or food poisoning thing. I forget now, cause I don't eat raw sushi. I eat the cooked rolls like california roll or crunchy shrimp roll, etc.

LOL Pam!! Haydee, I meant to comment on that.. THAT SUCKS!! What was she doing poking out of a moon roof, that is DANGEROUS!! Look, I'm getting mommy instincts! My friend has been asking me for months, questions here and there about the lap-band. She was only barely chubby when I met her, and she got married and moved away so we just talk online now.. but she apparently gained weight, so she kept mentioning diets, and saw my progress with the band, she told me last night she decided to get it.. because of the last set of pics I posted on my myspace LOL! She is self-pay too, and had some questions about finding docs, etc.. so I directed her to this website. She said she is looking at maybe going to Houston, so I told her she should check out Dr. Davis(s) if she does. She said she's looked around the forum but hasn't posted yet. I wish she still lived close, so I'd have a band buddy nearby!! Plus she never heard of the surgery till I got it, so I feel like I could give her a lot of info and support especially post-op when you are still realizing what just happened.. anyway.. I had 2 mini reese cups & 1/2c applejuice for b'fast.. going to lunch with russ & a co-worker, not sure where yet. Had the best tilapia of my life at that lunch yesterday, the southwestern cedar-planked tilapia at Chili's, without the green stuff and pico on top.. MMMMMMM it was so good.

Heather- everything I have read said things like, 1st pregnancy doesn't show till well into 6month for some, but when you're on your 2nd pregnancy they show really early (as early as 8 weeks!!). So I'm sure that has something to do with it! WOW LJM.. you are most definitely showing.. I wanna baby bump This is my belly today.. 17 weeks and 2 days. No bump. Any definition down there is just my flab from deflated belly.

My husband and I hypothetically talked about doing these things. I had a 3-some before I met him, and got all my adventuring out.. he had not, so I entertained the idea. Anyway, I think what ended up sounding ideal (because I don't want to 'watch' him with another girl, and I don't want him to 'watch' me with another guy) is swinging. We had talked about it, and it ended up fading out because we didn't care that much, or never found people we actually wanted to swing with.. but swinging with another couple, at the same time.. seems a lot safer, no one is 'left out', everyone is getting equal attention.

Are you showing yet LJM? Did you show Wheet? I think I have the same body type as you, and so I'm curious how you showed.. I'm starting to think due to a long torso I may not show very much.

No one insisted besides my husband, I think he heard radio commercials.. But I asked my OBGYN about it, she said pregnant women who get the flu are high-risk for hospitalization due to complications because their bodies can't handle the flu as well. Pnemonia is one of the risks. The flu is actually what put my mom into labor with me, she and my dad had the flu horribly and she thought all of her labor was just sickness from the flu.. I was crowning in the car and born in the lobby by time they realized it wasn't just the flu.

Morning! Glad to see you back Terry :tongue2:) Violet dreams are the best, I get a kick out of em! I am at 227lbs, so YAAAAAAAY I plateaud with the weight gain and even lost 3lbs. Baby's heart is still strong and all that.. I check it every night. I'm reading the worst drinks list-- "Caffeine abstainers will find little nutritional refuge in Starbucks' hot chocolate concoctions." HRMPH. Well, they provide yummyness in my belly, so.. Luckily the only time I go to Starbucks for their hot chocolate is when I am in Tunica because they have one in the lobby of our hotel. There's no convenient ones in town. We actually only have 1 (weird concept eh?) and it's at a walk up mall that you gotta park a mile away to get to. Not going through all that for a drink. I found my title last night. It ended up in my shirt drawer.. how does that even happen?? Now I don't know where to go, we have DMV with loooong lines, then the DMV satellite but they do specific stuff I'm not sure about, then the courthouse a city away where we got our licenses last year with no wait.. but I don't know if they do titles.. and of course no one has people that answer phones anymore, it's all automated generic info. Holy cow!

Have a source for this info?

Yah take lots of pics Haydee!!!! I just got back from a long lunch with my friends.. They're friends that when we were kids, we all hung out in a group *4 of us*, we all grew up, 2 of us moved away, I moved back.. I get together with them one on one, but we've never all gotten together.. I arranged for us to do lunch together today IT WAS SO MUCH FUN. It was like we were kids again, we were talking about the stupid crap we use to do and the drawings of our 'future' we had in someone's closet.. One of them is the one who had a baby while we were in Gruene. So she brought her baby, who is 6 months and so adorable. I am so nervous with babies, I don't want to break them but they insisted I hold him and get use to it. By the end of lunch he was attached to me, when I gave him back he kept giggling and staring at me, and would follow me wherever I moved.. wee. Ok I want one :thumbup: I kept sayin, he's staring at me cause he knows I'm makin his future wife! Hah. Cute in theory, but I think it's a boy.

Oh and I'm having a sad day, my mom keeps saying Bovine Syndrome--which I still can't find on the internet!! Anyway, I paid off my car a couple months ago, they sent me the title thingie majig (I have no idea what all this crap is/means) and a paper saying I need to go to DMV and put it in my name essentially. Well somehow.. SOMEHOW.. despite having a folder in my drawer of important papers, an entire folder dedicated to car payoff with the overnighted cancelled check blah blah.. I lost the title they sent me. I'm so frustrated, I cleaned out my entire filing cabinet and it's not there. I checked my cabinets at home, no luck. I am on hold with the bank and they go "You need to come into a branch..." and I said.. I don't live in new Mexico anymore.. so on hold a while longer, she just came back and said "We don't have any Alabama address for you". Yet, I get my statement every month from them for 2 years+ now, they sent me the title before, and I saw on the title when they sent it to me, they had my old address out here listed. Gimme a break with no Alabama address on file. Wah.

Wait, when did we get kicked out of a buffet???

Wow that is crazy.. I wonder why no one ever did a fluero?? They would have seen the band was out of place at the very least. The few times I've been worried, fluero is the first thing they do. Glad you're better and back on the wagon!

When did you have surgery? --- April 16, 2007 Where did you have surgery? --- Regional Medical Center in Anniston Who performed your surgery? --- Dr. Bryan Freeman When is your first fill? --- uhh.. not sure, I had several 'fills' that never went in because of a flipped port, my first real fill was during revision surgery sometime in Sept. 07 When is second fill? --- Really haven't kept up with this :/ I've been filled/unfilled/filled/etc.. lots.

I can't believe I forgot again. I just looked at the calendar, though I was doing good (thought tomorrow would be 1st Thursday).. dangit..

It's not inevitable though! My boobs are as big (but look bigger due to smaller chest width size) as they were pre-op.. now they look nice because they aren't like 'one with the stomach'. Of course I say they look nice, and I certainly mean in a bra. Without the bra.. well.. it's a sad site, something from a spam e-mail about getting old and what's her name cartoon.....Patty or Betsy something?

I am not in this boat, but just reading the remedies you've found.. Please don't put anything.. yogurt or garlic into your vagina unless you've asked your doc about that :/

My mons & labia are as fat as they were pre-op. I lost 120lbish with no change, so it actually looked really bad.. It sticks out farther than my legs. Rest of me looking good and then a big eh down there. I plan to check into a mons lift when I get a tummy tuck one day.

Not sure how true it is, but my mom said she was trying to get pregnant for years.. they timed it and yadda yadda.. she said they finally gave up, and ended up going over a month without sex.. and the next time they had sex she was pregnant. She thinks it has to do with spermies 'building up' or taking a break, however you want to look at it.. and I have to not think of this as my parents!

I've heard someone mention this stuff before, but I can't wrap my mind around squeezing chocolate or orange flavored fish oil into my mouth lol. 90% of the time with the pills I am taking, it's fine.. but 10% of the time it makes me have fish burps for hours.. That being said, I have never liked fish in my life.. and since pregnancy I am in love with fish.. and even fishy fish like Salmon. I still hate fish burps from fish oil, but I eat Salmon, Tilapia and Catfish on a weekly basis (my doc said I can have 3x servings a week when I told her how I want it all the time and with the mercury thing).

Jane- Thanks for the info, I will keep it written down and let you know if/when it sells. Waiting to sell my car first, who knows how long that will take! One place I am selling it, lists the carfax report.. and it says I have 60,000 miles as of last year! BS!!!!! I only have 35,000 miles on it, so I'm a lil pissed.. don't want people getting confused or think I'm scamming by saying it only has 35,000 when the carfax says 60,000. Gotta love the government, it's when I changed registration from NM to AL that they reported it as 60k. Michelle I am with you about the doom & gloom. I did same thing around 9/11 that I do now.. I just don't watch news anymore. It makes me sad, frustrated, and feeling helpless. Makes me wish pitchforks on the whitehouse lawn would make a difference. I can't believe this bailout BS, it infuriates me. Bail me out, I could live off of the money they spend on their little spa trips (and bonuses). So about the Altima, it's only been a week when I realized I liked them (I never saw them before, or noticed).. so this morning on the way to work we passed one of those moving tow trucks loaded down with new Altimas (and only Altimas!!) in every single color--so I got to pick out a color I like lol. Couldn't afford a new one, but the navy blue one looked sweet. Piehole report is boring.. 1/2 cup of apple juice this morning.. went to lunch at this place I ALWAYS since banding PB at, still can't figure out why.. PB'd most my food, then ate 3 pieces of zuccini & 1 mushroom and kept it down-so that's all I'm reporting for lunch.

Welcome back Kat!! Yeah the mysterious boobs that appeared, I have no idea what that's from! :thumbup: Was even funnier that Jane would still have it on there if we didn't fix it. We got kicked out of the bar because we brought in our own alcohol I think. Judy I got a kick out of the term 'legal' breakfast... I got up early today, but since I can't get Russ up for nothing before our normal time I won't be early for work either way. Got on LBT because he's in the shower. Men!! I listed my convertible for sale on cars.com and autotrader, hoping to sell it in the next month and then we're going to buy a used Altima (that's my choice anyway) so I have another 4-door for baby. He wants to put whatever leftover money into a CD, but I'm not sure yet.

There's a River..

Where's the pics of mommy with baby???

Hah hah I forget about Tracy getting sick till you bring it up, ohh yah. I guess I was a lil tipsy. But Sunshine to answer your question-- most the time if I have to actually throw up (from a bug) I can only dry heave, and it's miserable. It's hard to get vomit to come back UP through the band for me, and I feel it pulling my band during the heaves. I got food poisoning on our honeymoon and I thought for sure I ripped my band out from the dry heaving. I had them do a fluro to check it shortly after our honeymoon and it was fine thank goodness. I would eventually get a LITTLE bit of liquid to come up, but it was mostly very painful jerks in my stomach. I swear by Emetrol though, I keep a liquid bottle of it next to my toilet just for anytime I get nausea. I take a swig even if I haven't thrown up yet, to keep it at bay and it works wonders.

Ahh Wheet, I missed the update. NO TMI, we need the details! Really, I am with LJM I have actually been trying to read birth stories because I am clueless on L&D! The only good ones I find where people go into detail are natural homebirths, which is not what I'm doing. I haven't signed up for any classes yet, I guess I should?? Like the catheter, no websites I have looked at mention the catheter, but my mom said if you get an epidural you get a catheter, and that was my biggest fear for banding (they ended up not doing it).. I am terrified of the idea of a catheter!! And episiotomies, so I hate to hear you had a bad tear.. you'll have to let us know how long/how well that heals. Anyway.. the natural delivery stories mention the mucus plug and bloody show, but no one talks about bowel movements--these are important things to know. How funny that, when I saw your post, I immediately scrolled down to see pics first (she is adorable!!) and one of my first reactions was "How did they get that bow to stay on her, surely it's not a barette!" Then I read your whole post, and the very end you mention the KY lol. She looks so small, and so pretty <3 Re: Catheter.. I have even posted about it in my blog around time of banding, that's how terrified I am of such things!