Weather and how things are going

It’s been so very gray/grey out the past few days mostly. Thank goodness it’s also “normal” like temps for January, highs near 51, maybe over, maybe a bit under, and lows not too low mostly, so that the heatpump works to keep some of the house feeling warmer than cold, and the fireplace can happily be used for good will, cheer, and warmth in our main floor area of the house [that has the higher (cathedral vaulted) ceiling] which is difficult to heat. Our house is on one “zone” with the heatpump/AC which is troublesome in winter and summer.

The gray/gey days of winter make the house much, much cooler, and the sunny days of winter make the house so much easier to be kept comfy warm enough.

Well, my pregnancy continues. I actually finally felt the baby moving a little on Friday, then more on Saturday, but nothing really since … so I was more confident on Saturday and into Sunday, then grew less so confident as Sunday wore on, wishing to feel things as I had the day before … not sure if it’s just that things are less feeling if the baby is moreso moving in a different part of my/their womb space. I’m 18/19 weeks now. Things moved around alot during our trip to WI last week, it seems, I noticed it on Thursday moreso, when finally I felt bit more rested after returning home. I surely noted it for certain on Friday. (I haven’t seen midwife yet, won’t be able to until some weeks from now, which is similar to how I approached my third pregnancy, my natural baby A. who is now 6.)

I’m using SuperMom vitamin/supplement from Beeyoutiful.com and also TummyTuneup, and a few other things that I take or will take sooner than later every so often. Good stuff to make things go better for me. I need to get on a good routine with the main thing, SuperMom, but overall I’m doing better with it than I have with any other prenatal in my past. It’s a big pill, but really goes down alright, and I have no ‘aftertaste’ burps from it, when I have from most any other vitamin that contains B’s for one thing.

I do think I feel better after I’ve taken a few days of SuperMom, and just need to be sure to keep up with it day by day and not forget even once to take it when I should. I also have SuperDad for hubby, and am trying to get HIM routinely taking it (wanting him to be healthier and lose inches …) eat better … the TummyTuneup is important for both us, as we aren’t “good yogurt” eaters, I can’t stand the texture of yogurt (I have a very sensitive pickiness about textures) and hubby eats icky yogurt like when on the road, hotel breakfasts, the type they stock. I do buy decent yogurt to use in recipes and for the children to eat occassionally, but I don’t do that for them often enough, will in the future. So then, me and hubby use TummyTuneup a few days a week at the least, and if the children seem to need it, they get some a day or two in a row, for now, until I get them on a regular yogurt habit.

I was also supplementing the children’s D Vit. via Cod Liver supplementation, and should have kept up with it, but dropped off of it a few weeks ago, and the children picked up head colds from our trip to WI … which aren’t that bad, but worse than having none! I sort of have felt a tad under the weather, but feel like it hasn’t taken hold of me, I fought it off with less symptoms, which is great (and often the case over the years, with the children’s ill times being worse than mine when we share the germs. With some things, like viruses that immunities are created in one for dealing with it, children have to deal with things differently than adults, who have gone through more since they were once children and have grown up and so on.)

As that goes though, I do know that the “national average” for colds in children is 6 to 10 a year, or more for some, and in our home we are under that, but we do homeschool and also my hubby doesn’t work in a corporate office, having most of his work at home, with some in-town like travel and some out-of-town travel. A big difference is not having “office” life to gain germ transfer from, and no school groupings to gain germ transfer from. A healthier bottom line comes from staying healthier, therefore being sick less often, and stronger and able to fight off any germs that do come by to visit more easily. 🙂 This is important to me for my family since we are an allergy suffering family and have to be careful, be vigilant. 🙂

As far as my baby goes, I do think I am feeling some things every once in awhile, but since he/she is so small still, it’s not as evident unless they are banging into the walls of their enclosure, like the front which faces my outer-ness, as on Friday and Saturday, so I need to just ‘chill’ and wait and see how things develop in the coming weeks, which I’ve done all along.