The Dentist, Broccoli, and Other Issues

It has been an incredibly long week. Last weekend I had my first graduate class of the semester and had to bashfully tell my teacher that I was pregnant and therefore could not wait two hours to take a bathroom break. She was very understanding about it, although it ended up opening a class discussion of weird cravings. I think the worst I heard was a woman who used to sprinkle Kool-Aid mix on dill pickles. That is too disgusting.

Beginning with lunch on Saturday I began having very strong cravings for pickled okra. Man, I felt like I could have eaten a vat of the stuff. I'm still craving it right now, actually. I'm going to have to get someone to take me somewhere with a salad bar so I can eat that and pickled beets.

Wednesday I made a trip to the dentist. I have heard that many woman have serious teeth problems resulting from pregnancy. I have never even had a cavity, so of course I am terrified that the baby is going to claim my teeth as the price of a healthy pregnancy. It turned out my hygienist was 7 months pregnant, so we chatted about various things early in pregnancy. She told me, to my extreme relief, that my teeth are in good shape and as long as I keep brushing (and remember to floss) things should be fine.

This was also a very frustrating week in that Tuesday afternoon Grandpa was checked into the hospital. Initially, we knew very little about why and Mom and I totally panicked. She was at work, so she couldn't go to see him and everyone voted that it was best for me to stay away from the hospital because of the baby. Luckily, Staylee went to see him and we found out it was just anemia and he needed a transfusion and some rest. He came home last night, looking and feeling much better. I was so glad Staylee went to see him. My mom was so grateful that she has such a loving, caring son-in-law.

I have another thing to add to the list of food aversions, although until now it was just yellow mustard. I now know I dislike the smell of cooked broccoli. Mom and Larry ordered some at dinner last night and the smell made me want to throw up. It was just disgusting.

I bought my first baby clothes this week. Toys R Us was having a clearance sale of all their winter baby stuff and so I bought some Christmas and other things (gender neutral, of course). Always the bargain hunter, I got three sleepers, two pairs of socks, two bibs, and two hats for under $20. Not too bad, in my humble opinion.