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:: February 21, 2007 All Nighter
Sorry about the absence, especially to those people who are still volunteering to take the estate sale patterns. They are all spoken for! Thank you! I wish that former seamstress lady knew how much love there was for her old stuff. I've been knocked out by the flu since Friday. That + pregnancy = one sorry ass mofo! Last night I decided that I couldn't take another sleepless night of mouthbreathing and coughing so I went to my Approved Medications list and picked Robitussin. I worried about it and researched its safety and finally took a dose anyway. BIG mistake. I woke up at 11pm after taking the stuff at about 8, heart and baby pounding like crazy. I ended up awake, speedy and parched yet still congested and mouth-breathing and coughing, till 5 freaking A.M.!! When I may have fallen half-asleep it was those crazy work-stress dreams mixed with anxiety that I might have just seriously hurt my child. So, not a good night, despite the hot tea at midnight and the counting slowly and the breathing deeply. I still made it to work today, fortunately it's an easy and gentle day. I got three fabulous packages in the mail this last week. The first, and maybe the least exciting of the trio, is this, from eBay:
A baby quilt made from shirting in the book Last-Minute Fabric Gifts The other two packages deserve their own posts, and will get them, coming up next. I also have lots of works in progress I'm excited to show but are gifts for some of the 8 (!) pregnant people I know right now beside myself. Baby avalanche! posted by in Fabric , Miscellany
Comments ugh, i hear ya! being sick while pregnant sucks. i usually just go for the afrin nasal spray and tough out the rest. as long as i can breathe that's all that matters! Posted by gleek on February 21, 2007 6:41 PM Don't worry. I don't think the Robitussin is going to hurt your baby. I was such a worrier when I was pregnant that I gave up everything which included my much needed allergy medicine and coffee. It sounds like you're taking really good care of yourself and the wee one, so I wouldn't sweat one dose of cough medicine. It will all be okay. Trust me. Posted by Amy on February 22, 2007 9:50 AM You and baby will be okay. It's okay. Just drink lots of water and take good care of yourself. I've been using a neti pot for congestion. It helps a little. Posted by Susan on February 23, 2007 12:54 PM this really is a baby-heavy year. i have 6 pregnant friends (yourself included), and everyone's popping around the same time! ACK! Posted by boxing octopus (no baby on board) on February 24, 2007 12:14 PM Sorry you have the flu!! I am pregnant too and filled to the brim with boogers. My favorite medicated nose spray is on the DO NOT use list. :( I am going to buy some Breath Rite nose strips and Ocean saline spray in hopes that those two things will help with the mouth breathing. Hopefully it will work. Otherwise I will be sleeping propped on pillows for the next 7+ months. I hope you are able to get a flu shot if you haven't already. (one good thing about being a military wife is the shots are free- well, paid for by my taxes anyway.) Posted by Judith Roenke on February 25, 2007 11:46 AM Sorry you had the flu! I had mono when I was first pregnant. It sucks to be sick when you are pregnant! Posted by Natalie on March 8, 2007 8:56 AM |
inspired this purchase. I think some of this stuff has polyester content going on, but I love the patterns, especially the top-rightmost ones.