The Daily Hailey

I got an email from my mom late last night. It was about 11:30, but I think she sent it a few hours earlier asking if I would call her if I was still up. I’m sure I was up then, but I missed it and as a rule, I try never to call anyone past 10pm. So I emailed her back saying I’d call in the morning.

She emailed when she was awake and when I received it, I called her up. She had read my blog from yesterday, which was a pretty low post about just feeling like crap. She wanted to come over and lend a helping hand. I accepted without a doubt. I love my mom. She is crazy busy these days and is about to enter an even busier, more uncertain time, so I was very thankful that she fit me into her busy, busy week.

Turns out a mother has lots of great insight and experience and can be a wealth of information. We compared my pregnancies and now my last one felt so much better. However, I was up and around at my job, drinking TONS of water and I always had a lunch packed. Now, at home, I have fallen into a bad pattern of really only eating supper. I know, I know, its awful. But don’t tell me none of you have done the same thing! Last time around, I didn’t have amazing eating habits, and my doctor never really encouraged or forced me to change them, but they did change, because they needed to. I think morning sickness really freaked me out, and I am now a tad more suspicious of food, so my habits haven’t formed around my pregnancy the way they did last time. I clearly needed a bit of a kickstart. So, to break it down, I will try my hand at meal planning. I’m going to try a very easy version of it. I’ve currently planned the rest of this week and next week. My mom and I compiled lists of really easy breakfasts, lunches, afternoon snacks, and suppers. Nothing hard, all just quick. Especially the morning stuff, since I’m so dizzy and headachey in the mornings. Every meal or snack has to consist of a fruit or veggie, and every day is planned around protein. Breakfast and lunches are things like a bagel with cheese and some tomatoes, or maybe a muffin and a banana. Snacks are raisins, cashews, cold veggies, or an apple. And suppers are just my regular suppers – chicken spaghetti, stroganoff, chicken BLT salads, etc. Even throwing a ham in the crock pot is sooo quick, takes little to no planning, and would be great for snacking on throughout the week! Its all obvious stuff I guess, but sometimes its really hard to get out of the rut you’re in. Whether you’ve been in this one or not, I’m sure everyone can relate in some way.

Since feeling so yucky, I’ve become much more diligent with taking all my vitamins. I was taking a prenatal, a folic acid, and two vitamin D, when I found out that my vitamin D levels were still dropping wildly even though I was taking 2000 IUs per day! I was pretty ticked when I was told to start taking 4000. I really was struggling to take 6 pills a day, so I basically stopped taking anything. My doctor suggested drops, so I did, and I’ve finally started taking everything before bed, since I take a sleep aid right now. But my wise mom suggested I take my vitamin D in the day for an extra energy boost.

I’m sure she’ll read this and say to herself what she’s been saying to me all day – “You’re going to get sooo tired of me telling you what to do!” but she would be wrong. I really needed help!! And while I don’t view myself as someone who hides stuff and is afraid to ask for help, this one was puzzling because I had no idea what to ask for! “Um…I’m too lazy to prepare food for myself…” or “I can’t keep up with my dishes.” Seems so unfair and weird to put on another person. But you know what, thats why we are moms 🙂 To back up our kids. My mom came in with amazing ideas! She entertained Dekker while he was awake, changed some diapers, brainstormed with me, and did ALL of our dishes. She unpacked our dishwasher and washed everything else by hand. I would be ashamed if you all knew how far behind I was in dishes. But now, I have a tidy kitchen I can prepare food in, I’ve taken my vitamins for the day, and I know what I am having for breakfast tomorrow. My muffin is even sliced!

I’m pretty confident this will help me feel much better in the near future. This evening I had a good laugh at a commercial on TV and it made my head hurt a bit, but I think I have some catching up to do before I stop feeling like garbage. Onto bigger and better things!

All of that being said, I will be seeing my doctor on Thursday and will likely ask for some bloodwork, just to make sure my sugars are all in order. But I have faith 🙂

Thanks for everything, mom. What a great day we had together. Looking forward to more very soon!!!

If anyone wants to see what I laughed at, lol! Watch the slaps at the end. SEAL!