It's cold outside!

Well I went to the doctor again today. Everything looks fantastic. Have gained 14 pounds to date which the doctor was ecstatic about! My belly measurement was fine and blood pressure was good. Max's heartbeat was 140 beats a minute... always makes me smile to hear that sound - so reassuring that he is doing well. My heartburn this last week or so has been excruciating. Lots of nights I am up waiting for it to go away so I can just get some rest. It wakes me up at night and it is just unbearable. The other night I woke up at 2 something and was up for over an hour ---- looking up heartburn relief tips on the internet. All I could find that was helpful (only a little) was to drink milk. I drank all that was left in the gallon and waited for it to calm down. The doctor wrote me a prescription for Nexium today. She said if that doesn't work she wants me to go to a gastroenterologist because she knows it is going to get worse before it gets better. As my uterus keeps growing upwards and pushing on my stomach and lungs the heartburn and other problems will only be more of a pain!

Everything has been making me out of breath lately - just walking up a flight of stairs can wear me out more than I could ever have imagined. The cold weather today makes it harder to breathe too ! And I have no coat that will fit me to keep me warm - only a stupid hoodie! Oh well! Good thing it probably won't get much colder than it is already.

Maddy is looking at me crying and annoying me right now as I write this. She wants attention - go figure! It is cold here and she thinks she wants to play outside but as soon as we go outside she wants to go back in because it's cold! Crazy dog!

I am getting tired of being pregnant. I am so ready to meet my son! My hormones have been raging for no reason. It seems like I can get so upset pretty easily - people annoy me more quickly than ever before (not that I have ever been a particularly patient person to begin with). Matt and I argued last night about what we were having for dinner! Stupid argument that never got resolved. It ended with me pouting and eating a bowl of cereal. So silly how dramatic I have become I suppose. He kept telling me he didn't understand why I was so mad and I just started bawling telling him I don't know either. I didn't even want to be around myself ! Then I cried later because I had heartburn and I was mad that he was going to sleep and I couldn't go to sleep with such pain and that I had to wait for it to go away and I was jealous that he got to sleep before I could!

Ridiculous! School is winding down - I am in the middle of finals and trying to finish up clinic stuff for the end of the semester! Plenty to keep me busy. Went and looked at day cares yesterday. The one we like is going to cost us $220 a week when we enroll Max. I don't know how we will ever afford it - but I guess we will find a way to manage somehow someway.

I love you all - can't wait for the holiday!!! I booked all of our appointments at the doctor today all the way to February --- I have to go every 2 weeks and at the end of January I go every week! SO exciting!!!