MALP’s Blarg

Jason came to our appointment today! Rory is going to be a Daddy’s girl…she was super cooperative today when her daddy was talking to her. So, we’re 3cm, 80% effaced, and at 0 station. Good little pumpkin dropped for mommy and daddy. I’ve been having contractions on and off the last few days as well.  It looks like she is going to wait for some of her grandparents to come home.

Only 12 Days to go until our due date. Excited! She hasn’t dropped yet- which makes me a little nervous about possibly needing to be induced for other medical reasons. We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it. Until then, rest mixed with walking and stretching!

Im still working, most of the time it is ok. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by planning to work up until she is born.. I guess I based that decision on having never been pregnant before.

Whatever date she would like to make her birthdate is fine with Jason and I now that she is full term. If she wanted to wait until October that would be good so that she could share her birthday month with her daddy. Also, a few of the grandparents are out of commission currently so they would not get to see her the first few days she after she was born. Grandma Debbie is feeling a bit under the weather. Grandma Dawn, Grandpa Rod, Great Grandma Ruth, and Great Grandpa Al are out of town until the 26th or 27th? She’ll come when she’s ready though.

I just thought I would jot down some people’s reactions to finding out Jay and I were expecting before I forgot completely.

Kim’s Mom: Are you sure? (Repeat this about 5 times)

Kim’s Dad: I was wearing a T-shirt that said “Geek Inside.” I asked “Do you like my Shirt?” Dad: “Yep, funny.. you’re a geek” Kim” Well a little deeper inside”….Long pause Dad: “Are you saying you’re pregnant?” Kim: “Yep” Slightly Shorter pause “Um ok… congratulations!” I think it registered then.

Jay’s Dad: Jay ” We wont be able to go to Florida this year, we’ll be in the hospital” Dad: “What? Is everything ok, why?” Jay: “We’ll be having a baby” Short Pause… Dad:” You’d better talk to your mom”

I dont recall Jay’s mom’s reaction but I she asked if the baby was planned.

I didn’t catch Mike’s first reaction either.

Silly grandparents!

One or Nine Years… Jason is my lobster and I feel so lucky that I can share my life with him. Kisses

Laundry List of Extra Pregnancy Symptoms aside from Standard Aches and Pains (Just in case Im silly enough to want to become pregnanzt a second time)

(Week 12) Bleeding- Ultrasound performed- not close to baby- resolved on its own- scared the crap out of me.

(10-24 Weeks) Morning Sickness- I thought it was pretty bad but I have no basis for comparison- though I find phsycial pain easier to deal with than nausea. Silver lining- nausea is a sign of good hormone production and baby development (also an early indication that she was a girl)

(Week 24) Gestational Diabetes – Diagnosed Early, Diet and Exercise maintenance only initially. Lots of Blood Work and Self-Monitoring (the testing supplies was not covered under my insurance- greeat) Also, Extra Ultrasounds (That was fun) and Biweekly Appointments with a Nutitionist and Endocrinologist. From this point on we got to worry about her size constatntly and the extra things that can go wrong with Rory because of the condition- most minor.

(Week 34) Gestational Diabetes- Insulin Shots + Diet – Most of the time the shots aren’t so bad. I was really disappointed that Rory will be taken to NICU for monitoring no matter what now, Jason gets to go with her though The insulin also lead to extra appointments with the Enodcrinologist and Non-Stress Test 2X a Week

(Week 36) Right Kidney Hydronephrosis – Not Sure what this will lead to yet. Possibly a stent- as I work with these I know how things can go wrong .. so Id rather not but we’ll see. The first internal exam was this week as well- 80% effaced and 1 cm dilated. They also took a swab to do Group Strep B Testing.  This week a large number of cases of H1N1 were diagnosed at Purdue.. something else to worry about..

Predictions: (Weeks 37-40) Everything was perfect and I didnt even need an epidural to deliver. Rory was born at 7lbs18oz and perfectly healthy. Positive thoughts right!  

Ok minor correction for Week 37 – Tested Positive for Group Strep B…this means that during labor in addition to an insulin drip I will have an antibiotic drip for at least 4 hours. Which also means that as soon as it looks like im going into labor I will have to go to the hospital just in case my labor is quick. This is to make sure the baby is exposed to enough antibiotic. So much for being comfortable at home for part of my labor.  Im dilated to 1 1/2cm and they didnt comment on effacement. I started taking Zantac and my kidney isnt collecting enough fluid to start treatment prior to the baby being born. Also a possible torn abdominal muscle.

General Comments for the Week/ Pregnancy: “Awww Come On!!!”"

Obviously nothing in life is guarateed. But that isn’t going to stop me from whining about the things I don’t get that I expected to with being pregnant. I will start with least trivial to most bothersome.

1. Cravings- because really who craves anything I’m allowed to eat.

2. Sleeping In- I have to get up to take my blood sugar/ take a shot.

3. The suprise of going into labor naturally thinking I have as good a chance as anyone to avoid a c-section.

4. Knowing that she will be taken to NICU no matter what….

There are obviously so many things I am getting that others aren’t- I am very aware and happy for those things. I just felt like whining a bit and now I feel better and a little ungrateful- so I suppose the exercise served its purpose.

The end of September couldn’t come fast enough for me.

Let me start out with Rory’s heartbeat was beautiful and she is kicking up a storm. This weeks appointment, however, was not all rainbows and sunshine. Early last Saturday morning I woke up very nauseous with stomach pain and diarrhea. After about an hour I went back to bed and woke up feeling better but my fasting blood glucose was high. It has remainded high the entire week. Nothing crazy high, about 5-10 points outside of the desired range. The end result is that I went to an endocrinologist today and was prescribed Insulin for the remainder of the pregnancy.

The point of the Insulin is to keep the baby from putting on too much fat too quickly. This is a problem for two reasons:

1. If she gets too big I may go into pre-term labor and she could be born without sufficient organ development (specifically lungs).

2. A baby that is chubby in the abdomen is much harder to deliver than a run of the mill large baby due to shape and size distribution. Which means she could become stuck in the birth canal or not  enter the birth canal at all… leading to a c-section.

After delivery, Rory will be taken to NICU for at least four hours for observation. Jason can go with her and if I am well enough I can go to feed her and visit as well.

In the mean time I get to add biweekly appointments with the endocrinologist, approimately 82 shots, and 164 finger pricks to my To Do List. I have to stay on a low carb diet too…

I know complain, complain…. I am thrilled that Rory looks good despite the conflicts my body and the placenta are having. She’s a little trooper and I cant wait to meet her!

The nursery is looking good and I think Jay and I will finish up odds and ends this weekend. Car seat installation, packing the hospital bags, etc. I am in the process of working out my maternity leave and we’re working on our daycare options. Good Stuff.

27 (twenty-seven) is the natural number following 26 and preceding 28. Twenty-seven is the smallest positive integer requiring four syllables to name in English, though it can be unambiguously defined in just two: “three cubed.”

Twenty-seven is a perfect cube, being 3³ = 3 × 3 × 3. 27 is therefore the second smallest cube of a prime number. 27 is ²3 (see tetration). There are exactly 27 straight lines on a smooth cubic surface. 27 is also a decagonal number.

27 has an aliquot sum of 13 and is the first composite member of the 13-aliquot tree with the aliquot sequence (27,13,1,0). Twenty-seven is the aliquot sum of the two odd discrete biprimes 69 and 133.

In base 10, it is the first composite number not evenly divisible by any of its digits. It is the radix (base) of the septemvigesimal positional numeral system.

In a prime reciprocal magic square of the multiples of 1/7, the magic constant is 27.

In the Collatz conjecture (aka the “3n + 1 conjecture”) a starting value of 27 requires 112 steps to reach 1, many more than any lower number.

The unique simple formally real Jordan algebra, the exceptional Jordan algebra of self-adjoint 3 by 3 matrices of quaternions, is 27-dimensional.^[1]

In base 10, it is a Smith number and a Harshad number.

It is the twenty-eighth (and twenty-ninth) digit in π. (3.141592653589793238462643383279…).

If you start counting with 0 it is considered one of few Self-Locating strings in pi.

In science

• The atomic number of cobalt.

Astronomy

• The Messier object M27, a magnitude 7.5 planetary nebula in the constellation Vulpecula, also known as the Dumbbell Nebula.
• The New General Catalogue object NGC 27, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
• The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which began on -1993 March 9 and ended on -713 April 16. The duration of Saros series 27 was 1280.1 years, and it contained 72 solar eclipses. Further, the Saros number of the lunar eclipse series which began on -1944 July 17 and ended on -411 January 23. The duration of Saros series 27 was 1532.5 years, and it contained 86 lunar eclipses.
• The 27th moon of Jupiter is Sinope.
• The planet Uranus has 27 moons

Electronics

• The type 27 vacuum tube (valve), a triode introduced in 1927, was the first tube mass produced for commercial use to incorporate an indirectly heated cathode. This made it the first vacuum tube that could function as a detector in AC-powered radios. Prior to the introduction of the 27, home radios were powered by a set of three or more storage batteries with voltages of 3 volts to 135 volts.

In religion

• There are a total of 27 books in the New Testament.

In music

Wolfgang Mozart was born on January 27, 1756. He completed 27 concerti for piano and orchestra.

Many talented and famous rock/blues musicians died at age 27. These include Robert Johnson, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Pete Ham, Richey Edwards, and Kurt Cobain. These musicians who died at this age are often referred to as the 27 Club.

There are many songs titled just “Twenty-Seven,” so it will suffice to list the most famous: a song by Scottish band Biffy Clyro from their 2002 album, Blackened Sky; the song by the Dave Matthews Band “#27,” which they began playing on their 2007 summer tour; the Lagwagon song on their album Double Plaidinum. Fall Out Boy also has a song titled 27 from the album Folie à Deux (2008).

The number also occurs buried in the lyrics without occurring in the title. American parodist “Weird Al” Yankovic hides the number in many of his songs and videos.^[2] Ben Weasel also likes to include the number in his songs for his bands Screeching Weasel and The Riverdales.

In the United States, the number 27 is associated with the East Bay punk scene. There is also a band from Boston simply called 27.

In art

The Minneapolis-based artist Deuce 7 (a.k.a. Deuce Seven, Twenty Seven, 27).

In other fields

Twenty-seven is also:

• Gilles Villeneuve’s famous Ferrari number now adopted by his son, Formula One World Champion Jacques Villeneuve in his NASCAR debut
• Right Fielder of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Vladimir Guerrero’s Major League Baseball jersey number
• The total number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet (22 regular letters and 5 final consonants)
• The current number of Amendments to the United States Constitution
• The modal age of the peak performance year for major league baseball position players, according to a commonly accepted theory by sabermetrician Bill James
• The code for international direct-dial phone calls to South Africa
• The designation (I-27) of a US interstate highway in Texas
• The designation (US 27) of a United States national highway from Fort Wayne, Indiana to Miami, Florida
• The name of a cigarette, Marlboro Blend No. 27
• The number of outs in a regulation professional baseball game for each team
• Alternate name for The Hunt, a book by William Diehl
• The number of the French department Eure
• IAbbé Faria’s prisoner number in the book The Count of Monte Cristo
• In WWE’s annual pay-per-view event Royal Rumble, four WWE Superstars had won the 30-man Royal Rumble at #27 more times than any other number, including #1 and #30.
• The number of species Captain Jean-Luc Picard has made contact with in the series Star Trek: The Next Generation
• One of the anthropomorphic math symbols Lisa Simpson imagines talking to her in The Simpsons episode “Girls Just Want to Have Sums“, that instead of offering the expected pun-based aphorism, rather unhelpfully only says “twenty seven”
• Known to be the “magic” number in sex, with 27 identified as the ideal number of participants for an orgy.
• According to little-known socio-agricultural philosopher Matthew O’Donnell, the Number Of Yorkshire.

Also my age today!

Im tired and missing taking a vacation this year, Jay is too