Acupuncture, pregnancy, sleeping and more

I must say after months of feeling like the barely-walking-dead, I got my first pg acupuncture treatment done on Saturday afternoon and already today I am feeling better - like a *lot* better! Shocking! Acupuncture has been a good thing for me in general when I am need of it (my body responds to it quickly and well), so I should have gone in a long time ago, but not until I was waking up feeling like puking (or it was waking me up, either way) did I feel seriously compelled to get myself to the acupuncturist (heck, I'm barely feeling compelled to eat so sometimes it takes a bit to get me there). It was the best thing I could have done, and for a mere $45 I am happy as a clam. If I get any sense of not feeling good again I'm going to be back in a flash... but for now, I'm doing pretty alright!

And as for sleeping... there is something inherent in our children to know exactly when we need it most and then they signal each other to cut it as short as in toddler-possible. So what is this 1/2 hour crap? :sigh: It's a conspiracy I'm afraid. Well, maybe my heavenly 2 hour napping is now done for the rest of pg (tears)... but I'm holding out just in case.

I've also been to two births with my midwife friend recently and they have been awesome! I'm learning SO stinking much... about charting, about collecting cord blood, blood-typing babies (whos Moms are Rh-), doing heart tones, setting everything up and putting it all away. I don't think I can do a whole lot more than that (though I am desperately needing to learn how to take blood pressure... unfortunately I suck at it SO badly that I'm not letting myself do it until I get practice on non-laboring Moms). I keep trying on my friend but I just haven't had good experience - how pathetic. Oh well!

I tried to find my sister's baby's heartbeat on Sat. but I wasn't able to... I kept hearing shadows of it though I swear. It's funny, baby being all of about 1 inch... it was hard to pinpoint and once they know you are looking with the doppler, they get out of the way (since the doppler (condensed ultrasound waves) heats their tissues and makes a loud noise to them). That's awful huh? Make you never want to use a doppler (or it does me anyways).

Things are going well... I'm 9w pg and praying for a long time still - it's feeling much more real and I'm starting to kind of enjoy it (not feeling like crap-ola all day). I'm wondering though, now that acupuncture has made me feel so much better, if my sense that it's a girl is going to be SO totally wrong now. Oh well, adds a little fun to the end I guess. : ) My chances of having a girl this time are like 25% or so (because we already have two boys). Still... that's my bet.

Gotta get the boys out of the bath.