Savvy Toddler Mom

I sat down to blog last night around 11:30pm and discovered that our cable was out — internet, phones, tv.  Ack!  I was cut-off from the world! 

Luckily, I managed to find something else to do: go to bed.

I’m still trying to recover from the Daylight Savings Time change.  Ugh.  I consider moving to Arizona constantly for the weather… and this week, because they don’t do DST.  I do enjoy it being lighter longer in the evening, though.  Really, I just can’t wait for spring and summer!  I miss being WARM.

Since I’m a little behind (as usual), let’s have update time! 

SavvyTodderMomFitness
CTM and I are back at the gym this week after taking a week off due to CTM’s cold.  Yeah, I could go by myself… but I didn’t.  I thought I would… but I didn’t.  Wow.  I really need to work on that self discipline.  Anyway, the good news is that we are back on schedule and going three days a week again.  Also, I did some gardening on Monday and MAN, I am sore.  I think I need to add squats to the “to do” list.

SavvyToddlerMomQuitsCaffeine
It’s done, folks.  I quit!  I’m through.  I did have a little slip last week — I’ll be honest with you — I had a horrible migraine and I pounded down a Relpax and a Diet Coke in no time flat.  Felt SO much better!  However, I got to thinking about how hard it was and how long it took to quit in the first place and gave my permission for SavvyDad to take the remaining Diet Cokes to work.  Big step for me — no crutches.

SavvyToddlerMomBabySaga
I went to see the “new” perinatalogist on Tuesday.  He was great — took his time reading through our history and lab work, etc.  He went through all of the things they usually look for — and complimented my OBGYN on his thoroughness.  Unfortunately, he didn’t have an ALAKAZAM moment.  There really isn’t much else we can do.  He said the baby aspirin/heparin treatment is pretty experimental (which we didn’t know) and that if we did absolutely nothing, we would have a 65% chance of having a healthy baby.
 
Interestingly enough, he and a fellow of his are doing a study on 10-20 week miscarriages and they asked if we would participate.  We agreed and they drew our blood (both of us) and got our consent to get samples from Elizabeth’s and James’ placentas that were used for the pathology work we had done earlier.  They will do a genetic comparison — our genes vs. the babies’ — and see if there are any anomalies that can offer an explanation.  He said that second trimester demises are usually due to genetic problems, but there is so much genetic data that they haven’t been able to pin it all down yet.  Really interesting!  They said it’ll probably be a year or more before we hear anything back, but it’s nice to know that we can possibly help someone else down the road by assisting in solving the puzzle.

If you or someone you know has had a 10-20 week miscarriage and would like to participate in this study, please email me at savvytoddlermom @ gmail.com and I will send you the contact information for the doctor heading it up.  It’s actually a female doctor and she is great.

I also want to tell you all THANK YOU for reading SavvyToddlerMom.com… my readership has grown considerably in 2008 and it’s so fun to know you are all out there reading.  I hope you are having fun reading — hopefully taking something away — and laughing.