You’re expecting. Congratulations! Looking forward to your baby glow, picking things out for the nursery, buying baby clothes, putting together your registry, and the lovely bigger boobs everyone talks about. Those are all great things about pregnancy everyone tells you about. But, what about all the other stuff – the yucky stuff? Let me shed some light on the dark side of pregnancy for you. Here’s a list of the things they didn’t tell you to expect during pregnancy. You will feel fat. You’ll feel fat while your husband tells you you’re beautiful (because you are really beautiful as all pregnant women are). Just be prepared to get that “I’m…

Earlier this week, I wrote about my newborn having bloody mucus in her stool and the possibility that it was a milk protein allergy. You can read about that here. Yesterday, she still had the bloody mucus in the stool. It was a lot less than earlier in the week after changing her formula to similac alimentum, but nonetheless, we had to head to the pediatrician. I brought along a stool sample for them to test. The pediatrician put some of the “clean” stool onto a card to test if blood was it in & it was positive. We also discussed the possibility of her reacting to the large amounts…

The title sounds great doesn’t it? Lil lady had a bloody mucus stool all weekend. She doesn’t have any other symptoms. She’s not fussy and not gassy. She wakes for feedings and feeds without issue. We called the pediatrician on Sunday and they think she’s allergic to milk protein. To err on the safe side, the pediatrician changed our formula to Similac Alimentum. The same day that started, I developed this terrible cough. My family & elders think it’s because I ate too much ginger due to my Chinese post pregnancy diet which then passed to lil lady in breast milk. Plus I also drank milk all week because when…

Been feeling like lil lady is literally sitting at the bottom of my belly on top of my bladder lately. Went to the doc today and he confirmed she is in fact standing upright aka “breeched”. Some who have babies in this position close to their due date end up having a C-section because it’s not as easy to give birth to a baby legs first. But, my doctor says not to worry – we still have 3 months after all. So, I’m hoping for the best and that in the next three months she’ll turn around to the proper position for a natural birth. For those who’d like more…