Just in case you were wondering what an IUD looks like on Ultrasound

I find this fascinating.. lol

That is an ultrasound of my IUD

See that really bright line? That's it!

 I wish I had a good image of what it looks like without the IUD in for comparison. .. lol

I hope I haven't offended anyone, but this is pretty cool to me (since I'm going to school for ultrasound and all, lol!)

Diaper rash!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ugh. My poor baby has really bad diaper rash and she is just so miserable. I have no idea where it came from either because she's NEVER had it this bad. Ever. So we called her pedi and they suggested mixing gold bond with a liquid antacid to make a paste to put on her butt. Huh? The gold bond has got to burn! But I did it and she only screamed bloody murder the first time. The second application went better. But my goodness did she wake up screaming last night! She never ever poops in the middle of the night anymore, but last night was a blowout and so with her sore butt it made clean up take forever and she was so hysterical I just wanted to smother her in kisses and love and tell her I'd never do it again. Well... she's been pooping up a storm lately so of course I had to wipe her again when she got up for the day. Boo.  But hopefully this gold bond/antacid concoction works and we'll be done with this by tomorrow.

Well, on to happier news. Abi has been dancing lately and it's just the cutest thing! She'll wiggle about in her carseat and high chair any time I'm singing to her or she really digs the music on the radio. It's my favorite sight right now! :) Also when my husband comes home she's been screaming "ah DAT!" at the top of her lungs, which we think means she's happy to see him. Then there's my next favorite thing.. now when hubby "chases" her around the house saying "I'm gonna get you!" she scrambles away from him and tries to climb me! I think she's thinking I'll protect her from daddy and his tickles, so cute!

Here's my pretty baby from Easter.

Finally, my baby is in 18 month pajamas!! We have been thinking we should go up a size because her arms are so long the sleeves on the 12 month p.j.s sit about at her elbows, lol. Well today we tried an 18 month and it fits almost just right. Which is how we've moved her up every other size, the almost just right rule. lol. 

Currently {link up}

Since Abi is asleep aaannnndddd hubby is asleep, it's just me again this week. lol

Currently...

Entertaining the idea of dying my hair. I've been saying it for years that I'm going back to being a redhead, but I have yet to actually do it. I'm ready for a change more than just cutting my hair.
Holding my laptop on my lap. It likes to slide down, lol!
Building ... I'm not exactly building anything, but there's pressure building in my head and I'm thinking a headache's coming on... 
smiling thinking about my beautiful baby girl and just how much she's grown in the past few months!
frowning over my past few weeks of classes. I haven't been doing my best because I've been lazy and have been super distracted.

Short and sweet. Oh, tell me how you like the new layout! I think it's kind of confusing, but at least it's different.

Planning for the future *some TMI*

So today... I got an IUD placed. I have... it's been a... hmm... let me start from the beginning. ;)

I was on the pill for about 7 years and went off the month after hubby and I got married. Once I realized how much better I felt without the random, extra hormones I was hooked on never going back. But unfortunately my cycles were so screwy I never knew when my period was going to show up (which reminded me why I went on the pill in the first place!) I finally bought a book on how to track your cycles and fertility signs and started that. Well.. I got pregnant after the second cycle. Kind of an oops, but a very welcome one. Seems there's such a thing as a "triphasic chart" ... that's for another day, lol. Anyway, it has been such a roller coaster this past year, ups, downs all arounds with my emotions and such. I love love LOVE love Abi. But it is really hard for me to do the wife/mother/student thing. I know other women have done it and made it work, I'm just saying it's really hard for me. So while hubby and I have been using condoms, they're not the most reliable birth control (especially when you don't use them.. oops) And right now I'm getting ready to start clinicals and I just cannot fathom going through all that pregnant. Not to mention we want to move into a house soon and I need to graduate and find a job. So needless to say it's not the best time to be having another baby. So I opted to get the Paraguard, a copper IUD that has no hormones. My Dr. today kept asking me if I was suuuuurrrrrrrreeeeee that I want to wait a minimum of 2 years or more before having another baby. I explained everything to her and she said "so if it wasn't for all that?" "We'd be trying right now if we were both working and I wasn't in school." Yup. Two years isn't a long time, but I figure it will give me enough time to graduate and find work... for us to settle into a larger place and to have at least a little time without diapers. The only major issue I've realized is that two years places me dangerously close to too close to 35... At 35 your risk of downs skyrockets and I am not willing to risk it so I want to be done having kids by then. Not to mention it's considered "advanced maternal age" and is high risk with most Dr.'s... plus the incidence of twins increases a lot after 35. Twins would be fun.. when I was 25 and had more energy.. but not when I'm 35 and lost all my energy at 30. I kid you not. I have zero energy and it sucks! lol.

I was pretty nervous before my Dr. came in to put in my IUD. But I love my Dr. and she always talks me through every procedure and is very reassuring. It went much better than I could have hoped, I only had a little cramping and it didn't hurt nearly as bad as what I thought it would. I do feel kind of strange, knowing there's this "foreign" object in me. LOL. But so far so good! And it's nice to know I no longer have to worry about losing the spontaneity and having to fish for a condom in my bedside table. I actually can't wait for Wednesday to get an ultrasound done (we've been studying female pelvis this semester) no one in my program has an IUD so we haven't had the opportunity to see what they look like in real life. I haven't told anyone, so I think it will end up surprising whoever scans me. HA!