The "Preggo" brain

If you've never heard of it, it is where the pregnant woman is a complete idiot because all the nutrients, blood, and good air go to the fetus and she is walking around aimlessly trying to remember why she's walking upstairs. I actually think those movies about zombies are not actually zombies. They're just pregnant women who can't remember what they were doing a few seconds ago.

This blog was started so I can write my thoughts about becoming a mom. But whenever I remember to log on, I can't remember what I want to write about. In the back of my addled brain, I remember something funny or scary had happened but for the life of me, I can't remember what. BWB suggested that as soon as my brain thinks, "hey, I should write this down", I should jump right on while it's fresh in my mind. And yet, I've been somewhere that makes it impossible. So then I think, as soon as I am in front of a computer. But here we are, 20 days after my last post. I know a great many things happened, I just can't remember what, or the details.

I'm running a marathon...

...or it's the baby's heartbeat.

I'm not sure if it's cute that BWB thought the 165 beats per minute we were hearing was my heart or it's scary that he's so clueless.

Fair weather environmentalist

Did you know that from the time the baby is born until it is potty-trained, you would have thrown away 5000 diapers into a landfill? In an average year, Americans throw away 16 billion diapers or 2.7 million tons of diapers into landfills. That is staggering. Being a fair weather environmentalist, I didn't use to care. I recycle when the boxes are put out, use fluorescent bulbs in the house, and turn off the air/heat/lights when I am not home. Essentially, I try to save the planet when it's easy to do so. Mai, on the other hand, does so much more. She recycles everything. She and her husband are trading in their car for a hybrid. They pay more to use green energy. They even compost. So when it comes to diapers, I totally assumed that she would do something green like the gdiapers. I knew she wouldn't go with cloth since the ick factor is much higher on the list of importance than being green. But it surprised me that she is going for full disposable. I AM doing the gDiaper route. I feel so superior to her.

Eating for 10

Ok. I have a love/hate relationship with my pregnancy pants. I love them because they're so comfortable. No cutting into my stomach. No trouble breathing. But I also hate them. My belly isn't big enough to hold them up so they slide down after walking around for a bit. So I'm constantly pulling them up and I look retarded in the middle of the street trying to hike my pants up. And then there's the eating. I don't feel full because they stretch as my belly stretch as I stuff myself. I went to a chinese buffet last night and litterally ate 3 full plates of food. And not the good expensive meat and seafood either. I couldn't get enough of the various noodles. Just stir-fried carbs with soy sauce. And on top of that, I didn't get any sympathy from BWB. I've got to return these pants or at least wait until I actually have a stomach to wear them.