A Follow-Up of Stress.

Today I followed up with a doctor after getting fluids pumped into me on Friday. She said based on being pregnant, anxious and not eating or drinking enough my symptoms are exactly what she would expect. I am to first try to stay calm: prenatal yoga, benedryl for stressful days, etc. Then to drink 60 ounces of fluid a day; the type of fluid does not matter at this point, just get it in me. Then to eat whatever I crave be it healthy or not. She said first I need to get nutrients in me, then we can worry about what they are. And the baby will take what it needs without worrying about me, which is why I am low energy, dizzy and unable to walk more than twenty feet. So we went out today and bought a snow cone machine for $17, a bag of ice and two flavors. I have been drinking 30oz of gatorade a day, 10oz of juice and just need to add in 20 more. A snow cone will be at least another 8, along with either ice cream or a strawberry fruit popsicle if I just add in one glass of water or lemonade I can hit that 60oz mark.

The loan on the house was approved today and we know the current owners have fixed the roof. We may be moving in as soon as 9 days - yikes! DH packed a total of two boxes today and I did none. I am avoiding it. The house is about 400 square feet larger than what we live in now - but it all went to a third bedroom and laundry area. The actual living space is pretty tiny. I'm finding myself incredibly stressed at where everything will fit and how we will get rid of things that we actually use. We'll have an extra bedroom, but it will be a nursery so it isn't like there is extra space there we can have. With only a small living room and a kitchen - not even a eat in kitchen - it kind of leaves communal space to be desired. I'm hoping we may be able to cheaply finish off the porch - it already has a roof over it - to make it a small eating area and sunroom. But that won't happen for quite sometime. It is beginning to feel claustrophobic.

On another somber note, we realized before Magoo gets here we will need to figure out how to afford a new-to-us car. My 15 year old Chevy isn't really cutting it anymore, the engine doesn't really rev up all the time and the engine trouble light has been on for almost 2 years. Mechanics can guess at three or four things that MAY be wrong with it, but fixing those will cost more than the car is worth. Plus trying to drag a kid in and out from a two door car isn't ideal either. Along with that, DH drives a car that a baby can't even be in. A sick fil, a new house, higher bills, new baby, new car? And me not working and DH without a guaranteed job. When did any of this sound like a smart idea again (okay so babies and ill fil's were obviously not ideas to consider one way or another. Those two are there to find strength, grow and survive, but all the rest)?