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I said I would post here more...

...but I've been bad. I haven't even updated my son's baby book in several months. Ugh, there's just not enough time in the day and I cherish my sleep, especially since I'm pregnant.

Anyway, here's a quick update on the pregnancy. We found out at 20 weeks that we're having a little girl. We decided to name her Emily Rebecca. Rebecca is my maternal grandmother's middle name. We went with Emily because my husband and I both liked it.

Emily kicks like a bucking bronco. She's my little acrobat. I had my glucose test done this past Thursday. I failed it. So I went in Saturday to the medical mall to get the 3 hour test done. They drew blood twice from both arms and my left arm is bruised a little. I won't know the results probably in about a week. Hopefully everything is fine. I didn't have any problems with my last pregnancy. The nurses said I would probably pass my 3 hour test since my glucose numbers were just over the cutoff mark of 140. I was at 145. There's apparently a history of diabetes on my dad's side of the family which I didn't know about until recently. My husband and I are going on a diabetes diet regardless if I have gestational diabetes or not. He's lost 10 lbs (I'm so proud of him!) in a week so far and I've lost a lb. I don't need to lose too much, just maintain a healthy pregnancy weight and I'm a little over into the unhealthy weight range. Cutting back on bad carbs and eating good carbs makes a big difference it seems =)

But Emily is doing well, her heart rate at my last checkup was 148 and measured at 26-27 weeks (i'm 25 weeks). She likes kicking the nurses and swimming around while they try to find her heart beat lol. She got the hiccups for the first time last night. It was so cute =)

So just 3 months to go before we get to welcome our next little bundle of joy!

I'm so lucky

A friend of mine posted a link to a blog and I couldn't help but to cry while reading it. A woman lost her her 4 month old baby last week and she and her husband had to bury her today. She didn't say what happened, just that the baby stopped breathing while at the babysitter's and it's still under investigation. After reading all that she had to go through, I feel so lucky to have a healthy baby boy. I don't know what I would do if I lost him. It's hard to believe you can love something so much it hurts but feels so good at the same time. There's no love like the love of being a parent.

I may not have been so emotional on a normal day, but today is not a normal day. I'm 10 weeks into my second pregnancy. I'm slowly getting over morning sickness, which hasn't been that bad. I'm able to keep food down.

I had my 8 week appointment on the 10th. Everything looks normal. The baby's heart rate was in the 150s. I have still have that cyst on my right ovary, but it's nothing the doctor is worrying about so I'm not going to worry.

So far this pregnancy is going exactly like the last: no morning sickness the first month, then morning sickness through the second month, and subsides after that. Also, the heart rate is the same as my first, so I'm thinking I might be having another boy. Which is fine with me, I won't have to buy new clothes! A small part of me wants a girl, but I'll be happy with either.

My 12 week appointment is on 3/10 where I get the pelvic exam and cultures done, oh boy, fun fun.

So for anyone following this blog, I'm going to try to keep up with updates on the baby on here. I'm doing horribly with keeping up with my first's baby book. I haven't written anything down for Christmas yet!

Healthe Trim - Day 2

This morning I woke up exhausted. I didn't sleep well last night because I had that soda too late in the evening. So no more soda while on this stuff.

I had a scary symptom this morning. It felt like someone put a large bell over my head and rung is hard as they could. Think of how that would feel minus the sound. I felt like head was buzzing and I was disoriented. The feeling only lasted a minute or 2 but it was scary. Maybe this is because I didn't sleep well last night. Who knows.

I took my dosage like yesterday: one in the morning and one after lunch. However, I think I'm going to reduce the dosage to only one in the morning. I feel so loopy after the second pill and there is no way in hell I'm going to take 2 in the morning.

So I just weighed myself and I'm down another pound. Again, this may just be water loss. I usually retain about 2 pounds of water while ragging so if I'm down more weight tomorrow I'll know it's working.

The appetite suppressant seems to be working. I don't feel as hungry but I'm starting to get a headache which may be from low blood sugar.

Healthe Trim - Day 1

My bottle of Healthe Trim came in on Tuesday, so I started taking it on Wednesday (yesterday). The dosage I started out on was one capsule in the morning before breakfast and one after lunch. After taking the first dose and a water bottle full of water, I start to feel the caffeine surge through me within 15 minutes. It made me feel a little light-headed and fuzzy like caffeine normally does to me. I eat breakfast about 3 hours later like the instructions say (by this time it was lunch, but whatever). After about an hour or 2 of the initial dose the rush wears off and I had a decent energy level. About lunch time, though, the spike in energy almost completely wore off leaving me a little run down. So I took another and had a glass of water and I get the rush once more. And again it dies down after about an hour or 2.

However, with dinner I had a Dr. Pepper. This was a bad idea. I got the jitters bad. Also, I was a little restless that night. I mainly attribute that to the Dr. Pepper. I have a rule for myself and that's no caffeine after 7 pm, I broke that rule and I payed for it.

One thing to note, since the product urges to drink lost of water, you will pee a lot. Caffeine is a diuretic which dehydrates you. So to replace the lost water, you must drink water. Now, I was also coming off my period so it might have been retained water that was shedding, but I had to go 6 times in a period of 4 hours and each time was a full bladder.

When I checked my weight this morning, I had lost 1.5 lbs. But this is probably all water weight. My weight tends to fluctuate about 1-2 lbs throughout the day.

I will try to post regularly with updates on weight, mental status, etc.

Healthe Trim - Intro

So as stated in my last post, I have about 15-20 lbs of pregnancy weight to lose. My friend started a group on Facebook called "Fatty McFatterson and the Pleasantly Plumps" in which we talk about dieting and staying fit or trying to get there, at least. So someone in the group had mentioned her Healthe Trim diet. She said she lost several pounds on it before she got pregnant. Another friend of mine decided to try it and she says she has more energy now. So, given my situation, being a mom, not having the time or energy to exercise, I decided to try it out too.

And so starts my Healthe Trim Diet series.

A little bit about this product:
It costs about $60 after shipping and taxes and you can only buy it online. It is a dietary supplement that contains several different herbs including hoodia (appetite suppressant) and green tea extract (energy boost from caffeine) and the mineral chromium picolinate (supposedly increases metabolism). The instructions tell you to take 2 capsules first thing in the morning before breakfast with 2 glasses of water and avoid food for 2-3 hours. Or, if you're sensitive to caffeine, take one capsule in the morning with water and another 1 hour after lunch with water. Don't drink and sodas, tea or coffee (even decaf). This could mean a caffeine overload and if your sensitive to caffeine, it's bad news. The instructions also say to avoid artificial sweeteners (which you should avoid anyway, they're bad news as well) and even chocolate.

I did a little research on chromium picolinate and found that safe levels of this mineral are 50-200 mcg (micrograms) per day. Two capsules of Healthe Trim contain 200 mcg of this mineral. So even though the instructions say "If you are not feeling the energy or appetite suppressant, increase the amount of capsules you take" I would recommend not taking more than 2.

So the downfall of Healthe Trim, according to reviews, is that none of the ingredients are backed by research. All in all, this product may or may not work for you.

A quick update before I post my next blog...

So after reading my last post and realizing how old it was, I thought to myself, "Jeez, that was a long time ago". Almost 2 years, in fact.

Well, a lot has been going on since then. I found out I was pregnant around July last year. I now have a beautiful currently 8 month old baby boy named Sean.

During my pregnancy I gained 45 lbs total, 10 of which was baby, placenta, amnio fluid, etc., and another 10 of which was retained water (doctors gave me 2-3 bags of fluids before my c-section to counter-act the side effects of the spinal). I managed to lose 10 lbs on my own by breastfeeding and walking the baby 3 times a week. But when baby got to a certain age, going for walks was a little more tasking and it being mid-summer. No mother wants to take their infant child out in 90-100 degree weather. So with the lack of exercise and weaning Sean, I've not lost any more weight since 2 months after giving birth. Before weaning, I didn't want to starve myself or reduce the amount I eat since that goes to the baby. But now that he's weened, I can focus on myself.

This leads me into my next post: Healthe Trim.