32 weeks

Much has happened in the last week or so! First of all I went and got my H1N1 shot. It took me a while to decide to get it, but once I have made up my mind, I was going to stick with it no matter what! The reason it took me so long to decide was all the conflicting and incomplete information I was getting everywhere. If one official website/news article says get it, the other says, don't get it and there's also two different serums out there, one with additives and one without, well, that's a lot of ifs and buts! If it was just me, I wouldn't have gotten the shot to start out with. I haven't gotten the flu shot for like 10 years and some years I catch it, some years I don't. The year I got the shot, I did get it, pretty badly, too. So anyways, this was for the baby. But I wanted to know what I was getting before I got to the clinic. My doctor carefully avoided the topic of which serum to get, the news said get it without additives, while the government told me to get it with additives, because I am over 20 weeks pregnant. Now this would have made a way better long term impression on me if the same government didn't give me the one without additives when I showed up at the clinic... Anyway...

Just for the future, so I will remember - H1N1 (or swine flu) has everyone panicking, there's tons of issues with Canada running out of the serum and people getting really sick and dieing, and now with the priority groups being served with the available serum while they wait on more to arrive... The news is full of people who are pointing fingers at members of the "general public" who jumped the immunization lines. It's pretty crazy actually! The media hype is so powerful that it's hard to tell how bad the situation really is.

We also had our Prenatal class today... Well, let's just say today was a weird, weird day and I am not proud of myself...

The class started at 9 am. By the time we were standing around the door, waiting to be let in, I was feeling weak and slightly light headed. I kid you not, by 10 am, I was not feeling well to the point where I put my head on Doug's shoulder and the next thing I remember is that I am in a strange room where a bunch of people are looking at me funny. I guess I fainted and I had no clue where I was when I came to. I was still in the same class room, but took me a good 5 minutes to puzzle that together. Good times. Then I just couldn't get any better, for the next half an hour I kept drifting in and out and then made a bee-line for the garbage can and there went my breakfast. I spent the next 20 minutes in a hallway throwing up. Yup. Then we watched some birthing story videos and I found them so sweet and emotional that I kept crying (and trying to hide it). So yes, by noon (lunch break) I was that girl who kept fainting, throwing up and crying. Great story to tell my kid. Doug's only comment (after making sure I was okay, of course) was that the kid will be grounded for this one.

I guess this is all I have to share for now, but I am sure there will be more. Hopefully I will get some less horrific and humiliating experiences to write about. Cause this was WEIRD. Doug thinks it was the heat inside the classroom and the instructor kept telling me that there's always one person who faints due to the heat, too, but that just doesn't make me feel better at this point. Again, this was not one of the highlights of my pregnancy!!! (But it will sure make a great story to tell my kid!... Some day...)