Third Times a Charm

It is amazing what changes when you have been pregnant 3 times (4 if you count the miscarriage) in 5 years.  Let's just make a list and compare (and I know, I know, don't yell.  But really 30 months of not being able to do anything!!!  900 plus days!!!  Seriously!!!)

• Prenatal vitamins.  Diligently taken every single day.  Now I am lucky if I remember once a week.
• Nutrition.  Uhm, what is nutrition.  Uhm, what is food.  You know how they say that your baby develops a taste for food in utero?  Yeah, my baby is going to have a taste for coffee and peanuts.  That is about all I ever remember to eat and yes, I have still gained over the recommended 25-30 lbs.
• Limited Caffeine:  HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!  whomever decided that obviously didn't have other children that decided sleeping through the night is so overrated.  I mean really.  Go to bed at 10.  Wake up at 1, 3, 5 and start your day at 6.  Now, don't even look at caffeine.  Really, pretend that there is no such thing as caffeine.  Now, work and run around after a 4 year old and 2 year old.  I bet that recommendation on limited caffeine increases 3 fold.
• No alcohol.  Ok.  Yeah right.  No alcohol.  Excuse me, see limited caffeine.  Then add taking care of a husband.  Kids are clingy and crying.  No one is listening.  There is 6 feet of snow outside and you are snowed in. You have spent the entire day watching Spectacular Spiderman, Power Rangers, Diego and every other annoying show on the planet (I do thank god that I have boys and am not forced to watch Camp Rock and Hanna Montana).  Now tell me that I can't have a glass of wine, every once in a while.
• Add on to this, count your baby's kicks (yeah right). Remember which fish have mercury and don't eat it.  Heat up your cold cuts before eating.  Don't eat hot dogs. And the list goes on and on. 

So what I am saying, to all you out there is give me a break.  I say everything in moderation.  

I am not saying go out there and follow my lead and forget to eat a nutritious meal 5x a day.  But I am saying, if I forget to eat a nutritious meal/snack say 3 out of 5 times a day, my baby won't come out with 6 heads.  (At least I hope not).  And I am not saying that I go get wasted every night, but I am saying that a glass of wine once a week while eating a meal most likely won't really hurt. I mean, they  are allowed to in Europe.  Especially when there is only 7 weeks left.  And I am tired.  And we are having a yummy meal and it is cold outside and a fire in the fireplace and friends all around.  

Just saying, if you see me at a restaurant.  With a glass of wine, a bowl of nachos and a huge belly.  Don't give me the dirty looks.  See the smile on my face?  That is because there is a glass of wine and a bowl of nachos.  Maybe instead just smile and think what a glow I have.  The flush is definitely the heat and not the wine.  Promise  ;)

 

PS>  I just had to remember all the other things.  Just even about baby!!

How about prewashing all the clothes in Dreft?  The only thing that is sensitive enough for a baby's skin.  Now, I 100% adore the smell of dreft.  It just smells of baby.  But that does equate to an additional 2 loads of laundry every time.  I mean, can Tide really be so bad?

Or sterilizing the bottles and binkies in boiling water?  How about just using the dishwasher?  

Comments

[misty]

the way i see it, you did it right the other times so you're obviously an expert. :)

and you are RIGHT to be grateful for now hannah montana... ick...

[Shannon]

Isn't it funny how we loosen up after the 1st kid?

I boiled water for making bottles, sterilized all the nipples and pacifiers... all that stuff, for baby #1.

Then baby #2 comes along, and she's lucky I wiped the pacifier off after it fell on the floor! HA! ;)