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By Emmie B, February 15, 2010 8:07 AM

So, I’ve mentioned before that my dogs are BADDDD. Continue reading 'Gross but kinda awesome.'»

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By Emmie B, February 1, 2010 8:14 PM

& sometimes?!

You barf OJ and Bagels & Cream Cheese on a Doctor. Continue reading 'Sometimes you have a bad day,'»

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By Emmie B, January 4, 2010 6:54 PM

So today- well, yesterday, I noticed that Hudson is GRINDING his four little toofers together. He only has four & he is already trying to file them down. I goggled it for fear that I needed to get a dentist appointment lined up right away because clearly, teeth grinding means my kid is as stressed out as I am! Continue reading 'Hi, my kid has personal issues.'»

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By Emmie B, September 8, 2009 7:16 AM

Yikes. Lots of stuff this weekend!!

I don’t know where to start or if it’s even interesting to read- but whatever. Hudson is sleeping so I’ll go for it.

Friday we headed to Tahoe with Lisa & Harley for The Chetnin wedding. This in itself was a feat as Lisa and I ran around allll morning in preparation and Scott and I had to tear ourselves away from our little man for our very first overnight trip. We got on the road after a few stops around 4 and it took about 5 and a half hoursssss to get there. Which we can mostly contribute to the baby bridge closure and the gridlock on the San Mateo bridge- causing us to drive all the way to the Dumbarton and then back up to 80. A clusterfuck, but the traffic was never bad. We just had to take a Verrrrrrryyyy long route, unfortunately.

Scott and I spent most of Friday night awake because we both missed Hudson so much. I know it’s silly but it is soooooo hard not being with you kid every minute. Even when he is fussy and crazy I still want him right there. It’s a very hard thing to adjust to.

Saturday morning I woke up BEFORE bottle time and realized, again, that my little guy was not there. I couldn’t fall back asleep so I got up and read magazines with Lisa’s mom while she made an AMAZING breakfast and everyone else slept. We basically spent the day laying around before heading to Northstar for the wedding.

The wedding was beautiful and if I had had a wedding it would have been very much like Boris and Lee’s. Lee looked amazing and it was great to see so many old faces and meet new ones. I didn’t take too many pictures because we were chatting allllll night but when I unload my camera I’m sure to have a few. They also had a photo booth which was super fun, except Scott and I are apparently retarded and all our pictures were so gross. We didn’t do any redos since it was a very popular wedding attraction and the line was always long.

Sunday we left Tahoe by 7 AM and were home by 1030, I think. That was GREAT! I was so excited to see my Hudson!! I didn’t want him to forget his mama! It was so nice of my mom and stepdad to watch him all weekend. They are really great grandparents! They hung out with us for most of the day while Georgie helped Scott clean out our loft for the construction of the kid’s room! Then we headed to Jeffrey’s for dinner.

Monday, Scott, Hudson & I walked over to Starbuck’s for coffee (well, I get hot chocolate) and sat outside for an hour having family time. It was fun as always. I know a lot of you know how great doing nothing with your family is!! Nothing I love more. <3

When we got home John came and started work!! We now have a giant whole in our wall! YAY! Then we ordered pizza and Steph and Favio came to hang out too. Good times. Steph even took me to the store since the Jetta STILL isn’t fixed!! Hopefully Scott will take care of that today!!

This morning has been very stressful so far. I woke up just KNOWING things were gonna be hard. Of course, I immediately threw up for the first time in a while. Then, my hunny brought me my new favorite Starbuck’s drink (Venti NF 1/2 chocoate Zebra hot chocolate) and they had made it a zebra MOCHA and of course, A. I hate coffee and B. even if I loved coffee- I’m prego!! Boo!!! I didn’t have the heart to send him back after such a sweet gesture. There are of course other less trivial stresses this morning, but the blog is not really the place to vent business related items.

I guess that’s the weekend in a nutshell. I’ve got a ton planned this week with my next free evening being Friday!! Oh man!!! I can’t wait till the weekend!

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By Emmie B, August 19, 2009 7:38 PM

This morning I was able to get into Kaiser at 10AM for an appointment. I saw a new doctor and she decided I would need to get a few bags of fluids before I could go on with my day. That was OK except I guess I got the newbie. Homegirl stuck me multiple times for an IV and I already have bruises. Oh well. I got my IV and I feel a bit better.

I came home and took my medicines and I haven’t barfed yet since I got home. Good stuff. Hope it continues.

My parents came over tonight and we watched Coraline. It was weird but had a really cool message. I thought it was well done and I’m usually not into that kind of stuff. But, I do agree with Kristi- dolls scare the shiz outta me.

The best part was my mommy fixing my hair. I know that sounds strange but I’m gonna give a back story here- I can barely brush my teeth or wash my face. My hair,  is now pretty damn long and I’ll be honest, brushing it is like the last thing on my list. Last time I washed my hair I put in like a gallon of conditioner and STILL couldn’t comb through it. Horrible. So, my mom combed through my stage C dreadlocks. I’d say Stage E is probably the point where I would have just gone for the dread look. It was bad. But an hour of brushing and spray conditioner and the rats nest was out. I washed my hair and she combed it again and put in into neat little pigtail braids. I love my Mom. A lot.

Now- bedtime.

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By Emmie B, August 19, 2009 6:01 AM

So, I’m having a problem.

I understand I put a lot of personal information on the interwebs. A blog is basically a public diary and I do appreciate the support of people who read it, regardless of if I know them or not.

I write a lot about my struggles with pregnancy, parenting and especially hyperemesis, which at this point consumes my life.

Hyperemesis is something I struggled with throughout my first pregnancy and as I am going through this pregnancy I find it has worsened 10 fold.

I write a lot of detail on this matter because I feel like this disease (because it is one) doesn’t get much attention. When I explain it to people they say “oh, you’ve got morning sickness” No. It’s not morning sickness. It’s hell.

I have several readers that I don’t know personally and I can assume that maybe they found this blog or read this blog because they can relate and it makes them feel better about what they are going through.

Most people cannot identify with what I feel. Luckily most of you never will. My pregnancies have been probably the worst parts of my life. I have never felt such pain, sickness or depression. Support means everything. But judgement? It doesn’t help.

I’d appreciate for the sake of my sanity and for readers who may be here for support wth their own hyperemesis that supportive comments when it comes to pregnancy and sickness, drs, meds etc be the only thing that is left.

You can say whatever you’d like when I’m talking about soemthing less important.

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By Emmie B, August 17, 2009 7:06 PM

Also: I went to Kaiser this morning for a weight check, in which the dr discovered I have lost 8 pounds in 7 days even AFTER Thursday’s trip to the ER.

So, to make my life more miserable (although they swear it’s to help) they have prescribed prednisone. That’s a steroid and it makes me legitimately nervous to take while pregnant. The interwebs says in can cause birth defects and all that lovely wonderful stuff.

I was aware that Prednisone was a pretty strong drug only given out for breathing disorders or cancer. So, I immediately asked “uhhhh isn’t that DANGEROUS!?” to which they replied “In this case the benefits outweigh the risks.” Translation: Your kids may be a whole lot more than retarded if you don’t take this drug. So- I’m kinda having a panic attack- but I gotta do it. Honestly, If I can’t gain weight and get better I’m not gonna be helping these little munchkins at all.

So, tomorrow: Prednisone. Yayyyy.

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By Emmie B, August 15, 2009 8:55 AM

Have been pretty trying. Thursday at about 5:30 I decided enough was enough & I was headed to the emergency room. Luckily, my Dad & Stepmom watched Hudson. We went in and didn’t get home till after midnight. 4 bags of fluid and 3 medications later, I was still feeling pretty rotten. Luckily, Friday I woke up feeling a bit better. I took my meds with apple juice and when Lisa came over to babysit Hudson & I she brought bagels. I ate 2!!! and thanks to one of my new medications, I didn’t barf them up!!! (Although, I definitely though I was gonna.) Anyways, the rest of the day was apple juice, apple juice apple juice. It was great because the day before I would have immediately rejected the apple juice and this time it was allll good. I got SUPER tired like half way through the day and sometime during Maury, passed out and eventually, after making it to my bed, slept till 6PM. It fet pretty great.

I woke up for a few more hours from 6 to maybe 10 and then fell asleep for the night. It was good, except right before I fell asleep the dreaded sickness came back to visit. At least it was only for 10 minutes yesterday instead of the entire day like it was usually.

Now, I’m just waiting for Scott to get back so I can take another nap. Sleeping through my life seems to really help the barfing. lol.

I just can’t wait to feel better and enjoy this pregnancy for a little bit before I get too big to enjoy it!!

Hopefully everyone will have a great weekend and blog about it so I can live vacariously through people who actually get to walk more than 15′ from the bathroom during the day.

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By Emmie B, August 9, 2009 6:45 AM

but at least 95% sure that I’m headed to the emergency room today.

I have just tried my last ditch effort to keep some liquid in my stomach long enough to digest it.

If this fails- then I guess we are Kaiser bound.