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One Down, Two More to Go!

This week, we reached the second trimester of the pregnancy. I was very excited to meet this milestone for two main reasons...1st you can breathe easier because the baby will most likely be healthy and less chance of miscarriage and 2nd there is hope that morning sickness will be gone! Don't get me wrong, I wasn't as sick as some people who throw up 3 or 4 times a day, but just about every day all day I was nauseous and queasy-I only actually got sick 3 or 4 times a week. It really is true what women say, it seriously goes away as soon as you hit the 2nd trimester! What a relief!

Not too much is going on here. We are just trying to be patient and wait to find out the gender of our baby. Some days it seems like the days and weeks are flying, but then other days it seems like it is going slowly. I just can't wait to call and pray for our baby by name.

On a much funnier note, I think I will now include some of the awesome advice I have recieved from my 4th grade student, we'll call her A, for privacy sake!
  • The day I told my students I was having a baby, A came up and said (in a rough, manly voice), "How many weeks are you Mrs. Brooks?" I answered "11." She responded, "How's that? You can only dialate 10!"
  • "Mrs. Brooks, you better watch out when you go to the bathroom, or that baby will fall out! You gotta be careful!"
  • "Mrs. Brooks, when you have that baby, you're gonna bleed a lot. I just want you to know. That happened to my sister, she bled all over the place and had to take a shower!"

How a nine year old student knows all this is beyond my understanding. I am sure in the next month she will give me plenty more advice and I will try to remember to post it for your entertainment.

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  1. The AdventurersMay 6, 2009 at 11:20 PM

    Students are hilarious aren't they! At least she hasn't asked you how it got in there. I over heard two of my students pondering that once, but they didn't ask me directly. Gotta love kindergartners!

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  2. TiffanyMay 7, 2009 at 4:26 PM

    The students' comments are hilarious! It is amazing (and scary) how much kids know now.

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