"Just what I need to hear!"

Sunday, December 16, 1990

     I've been really lazy about writing in here lately.  I think it was in the afternoon I wrote last time and never finished.  That Sun. night two weeks ago (Dec. 2) was when I first knew for sure I felt the baby moving.  I'd been having little feelings for a couple of weeks before that but wasn't sure if it was the baby or gas.  But I told Guy after church that morning that I thought it was the baby I was feeling during church but I wasn't sure.  That night after he rubbed the lotion on my tummy I just laid there & we kept watching it til we saw it jump at the same time and place I felt inside.  Then we knew that it was the baby.  It's been moving pretty regular, mostly when I'm being still.  The books say it's normal for them to be more active when you're inactive because when you're up & moving around it sort of rocks them to sleep.  It hasn't woke me up in the middle of the night yet.  There'll be plenty of time for that.
     It wasn't too long after that I started having heartburn really bad.  I'd had it that first week after I saw the nutritionist and was stuffing myself.  But when I let up on the eating it didn't bother me.  Now it seems however much I eat, big or little, I get it.  Of course it's worse the more I eat.  Next time we go for milk Guy said we'd get me something that's on the list of things that are ok (from the dr.).
     I decided to try sleeping on 2 pillows to help with the heartburn, then a week ago Friday I didn't wake up an hour or so later & take one pillow away.  It was about 4:00 in the morning.  I had apparently not moved at all and my left hip (the side I was laying on) was in extreme pain.  I got up & went to the bathroom and then rubbed it some & laid back down but it didn't help much.  I decided to get up & try walking around but that didn't do a lot for it either.  All my grunting & groaning finally woke Guy up.  He rubbed it for me for awhile & it started feeling better enough for me to get back to sleep.  But it still does that a lot whether I've been propped up on the pillows or not.  And it bothered me all through church this morning.  I asked Anita if she ever had that problem & she said, "oh yeah, it just gets worse and you'll never be able to sleep good again."  Just what I need to hear!  She had brought me some maternity clothes last week.  The tops and jumpers fit fine but the pants were all to tight in the thighs so I took them back to her today.
     We had been to Sears on Dec. 1 to shop for maternity clothes.  They don't have as much as I thought they would.  Anita's the only one who's given me any clothes except Linda Pugh.  She gave me a jumper she said wasn't really maternity but it was too big & she didn't like the way it looked on her.  It is big & long but I can wear it with a blouse or sweater underneath.  She's going to look through her patterns & bring me some.  She said her clothes are at her mother's & she'll look through them when they go home for xmas.  I've been wanting to make the dress I was getting ready to start on last time but I haven't yet.  I'd like to wear it for our anniversary.  I need to get started on it soon if I'm going to get it done in time.
     A week ago yesterday, Dec. 8, I got my hair cut.  I've been debating it for over a year & finally decided that it had to be done.  The Sat. before, I had gone with Carol Wilson when she had an appt. to talk to her hairdresser.  I'd been asking around to see who had someone they liked & Carol's was close by.  I looked through some books & talked to her (her name is Lisa) & decided to get it just above shoulder length, turning under a little, with some wispy bangs.  Guy went with me to do it.  She measured it - 28", pulled it back into a low ponytail and cut it.  It looked great when I left there but when I got up Sun. morning the bangs were all wacky.  She'd told me there was a cowlick in the middle of my bangs & it made them separate, & that I'd have to work with them awhile to get them to do right.  Well, some days they do ok and some they don't.  I may let them grow out but that would be a pain too.