Petrie has been gone a long while. My body is all back to normal. Which is something to be thankful for. It's your going to miscarried it's nice when it's a nice clean goodbye. no need for meds. no need for surgery.
We have plans for a big trip in a few weeks so I'll be gone working on packing. See you on the flip side.
15 October 2010
12 October 2010
Hang in there Petrie
In my last entry I hinted at Petrie. Petrie is number 3 for us and we have some great hopes and dreams for this little one. Petrie is the womb name we have given this little one, I'm voting it's a little girl. Not sure why, but somehow I just feel it.
We found out about Petrie on Saturday Oct 2nd. Petrie was named Buttons for about a day and a half, but one evening I mentioned a bit of gas felt like a little foot was pressed on my tummy. We joked about the name Little Foot and ran the gambit of all the other names from Land Before Time and decided that Petrie was the name for our little one.
But it seems Petrie is a bit of a Drama Queen. On the evening of Thursday Oct 7th I started bleeding. A call to my primary care (who I was schedule to see the following Monday to confirm the pregnancy) said to go to the ER. While there they also admitted SqueekMoo because his cold had headed to his chest and it sounded awful. Eight hours later we left, SqueekMoo didn't have pneumonia but a chest cold (nothing new for him) and I was discharged with threatened miscarriage. The pee test said I wasn't pregnant. The blood work levels are high enough to say I'm pregnant, but its not high enough to say I am very very much pregnant and not low enough to no longer be pregnant. and the ultrasound test... well lets just say a needle in a hay stack would be easier to find than tiny Petrie... the tech said my left ovary was hiding as well. fun times. I must now wait till Friday the 15th to find out more.
We were suppose to have a wonderful four day, but oh no. the tears and the pain. I try so hard to be optimistic, but something tells me that it's over. that instead of just one sweet dear angel in heaven we now have two. And it's a very hard pill to swallow. I don't suppose the fact we already told my parents we lost the baby helps this any. We had no intentions of mentioning our pregnancy till we were out of the first trimester. But my dad was meeting us for lunch on a 3 hour layover and being we were in the ER till 4am we kind of had to let him know in case we couldn't pick him up at the airport. Not to make things complicated we just said we had a miscarriage. And thus we had to tell my mother.
But then there are moments that I'm optimistic and think that maybe, just maybe, Petrie is still in me. I still like to look at all the sewing patterns that I had mused over getting last week. I will be pregnant. and I hope so much that I still am. But it not we will try again.
We found out about Petrie on Saturday Oct 2nd. Petrie was named Buttons for about a day and a half, but one evening I mentioned a bit of gas felt like a little foot was pressed on my tummy. We joked about the name Little Foot and ran the gambit of all the other names from Land Before Time and decided that Petrie was the name for our little one.
But it seems Petrie is a bit of a Drama Queen. On the evening of Thursday Oct 7th I started bleeding. A call to my primary care (who I was schedule to see the following Monday to confirm the pregnancy) said to go to the ER. While there they also admitted SqueekMoo because his cold had headed to his chest and it sounded awful. Eight hours later we left, SqueekMoo didn't have pneumonia but a chest cold (nothing new for him) and I was discharged with threatened miscarriage. The pee test said I wasn't pregnant. The blood work levels are high enough to say I'm pregnant, but its not high enough to say I am very very much pregnant and not low enough to no longer be pregnant. and the ultrasound test... well lets just say a needle in a hay stack would be easier to find than tiny Petrie... the tech said my left ovary was hiding as well. fun times. I must now wait till Friday the 15th to find out more.
We were suppose to have a wonderful four day, but oh no. the tears and the pain. I try so hard to be optimistic, but something tells me that it's over. that instead of just one sweet dear angel in heaven we now have two. And it's a very hard pill to swallow. I don't suppose the fact we already told my parents we lost the baby helps this any. We had no intentions of mentioning our pregnancy till we were out of the first trimester. But my dad was meeting us for lunch on a 3 hour layover and being we were in the ER till 4am we kind of had to let him know in case we couldn't pick him up at the airport. Not to make things complicated we just said we had a miscarriage. And thus we had to tell my mother.
But then there are moments that I'm optimistic and think that maybe, just maybe, Petrie is still in me. I still like to look at all the sewing patterns that I had mused over getting last week. I will be pregnant. and I hope so much that I still am. But it not we will try again.
04 October 2010
03 October 2010
Wonderful Weekend
We had a splendid weekend (not weather wise), but it was so worth the happy dance we had. As you saw in prior entries I worked on the scarf for my sister. I should have that done by tomorrow if not Tuesday. i plan on giving it to my dad who has a lunch time layover with us Friday.
MacMac helped me put the cover that came with Cassie, the Uniquely You dress form, on to Cassie. We figured out the trick to doing it. It requires two people and the best place to help squish is from the sides not trying to wrap around. So have one person on the back side manning the zipper. Have the other person pushing on the sides. One in back pulls out the slack in the cover created by the foam compression and zips as far done was they can. And then scoot down and repeat.
We took measurements for the free corset drafting pattern from the Foundations Revealed website. And I got about a quarter of the way drafted with that.
The goals of the week are to finish the scarf, finished the cover I drafted to refit Cassie, and work on the corset.
We will be going on a trip in a few weeks for a few weeks, but when we get back I'll be going to the thrift store and refitting some pants with some nice stretch cotton knit in the belly area!
MacMac helped me put the cover that came with Cassie, the Uniquely You dress form, on to Cassie. We figured out the trick to doing it. It requires two people and the best place to help squish is from the sides not trying to wrap around. So have one person on the back side manning the zipper. Have the other person pushing on the sides. One in back pulls out the slack in the cover created by the foam compression and zips as far done was they can. And then scoot down and repeat.
We took measurements for the free corset drafting pattern from the Foundations Revealed website. And I got about a quarter of the way drafted with that.
The goals of the week are to finish the scarf, finished the cover I drafted to refit Cassie, and work on the corset.
We will be going on a trip in a few weeks for a few weeks, but when we get back I'll be going to the thrift store and refitting some pants with some nice stretch cotton knit in the belly area!
01 October 2010
Scarfs
I ran out of yarn on the red scarf that i was making testing the pattern for the scarf I'm making for my sister:
I used Lion Brand Hometown USA in red.
The pattern is Mistake rib: (k2, p2) k1
I casted on 25 stitched and went from there
One skein was too short.
I started on the actual scarf for my sister:
The pattern is Mistake rib: (k2, p2) k1
I casted on 25 stitched and went from there
One skein was too short.
I started on the actual scarf for my sister:
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