Sick during pregnancy

Claudia's got the flu and yesterday her entire body was aching. She sneezes every five minutes and her belly aches with that too. Each sneeze is like a punch on her belly. I wonder how the baby's feeling...
The bad side of getting sick during pregnancy is that women cannot take any kind of medication and the only one allowed is a not so strong one, which may delay her recovery.

And, the hurricane never became a hurricane. It was more like a nice pouring rain and it's gone.
This weekend we're going to Orlando with some friends with the intention of getting out of our daily routines and going to a water park, if weather permits!

Don't forget! Next week: Sep 6th, we will have an ultra-sound to learn our baby's gender...keep on following up!

Love to all!


Doente na gravidez

A Clau esta com um gripe desde ontem e o corpo inteiro doi. Ela espirra a cada cinco minutos e a barriga doi a cada espirro. Eh como se alguem tivesse batendo. Imagino como o bebe deve estar se sentindo...
O lado ruim de ficar doente na gravidez eh o fato de que a mulher nao pode tomar qualquer remedio e o unico permitido eh bem mais fraco que o normal. Logo a recuperacao demora mais.

E o furacao nunca virou furacao! Foi mais uma boa garoa. Esse fim de semana vamos a Orlando pra mudar de ares e se o tempo deixar, queremos ir a um parque aquatico.

Continue acompanhando: Dia 6 de setembro faremos um ultra-som pra saber o sexo do bebe...

Beijos a todos,
Rogerio & Claudia

Windy week
We're on our 18th week now. The baby is always kicking and Claudia is feeling some pain on her lower abdomen due to a normal stretching of the ligaments on that area.

Also, we may have a windy week since Hurricane Ernesto is coming towards our area. Forecast says it is going to be a weak hurricane, but still...after last year and so many hurricanes, all we want is some bonanza! Nothing bad is gong to happen to us, but just in case you don't hear from us, it could be we're out of electricity for a couple of days!

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Semana agitada
Estamos na semana numero 18. O bebe chuta toda hora e a Claudia sente um dorzinha na parte de baixo da barriga, devido os ligamentos estarem esticando.

Alem disso, a semana vai ser meio agitada ja que o furacao Ernesto esta vindo pra ca. A previsao eh de um furacao fraco, mas, depois do que aconteceu ano passado, tudo que a gente mais quer eh calmaria! Nada de ruim vai acontecer, mas caso voces nao tenha noticias por uns dias eh porque ficamos sem energia eletrica.
Nada demais!

06 de Setembro de 2006

Essa eh a data da proxima consulta no medico, onde faremos um ultra-som e supostamente saberemos o sexo do nosso bebe. Continue votando e dando os palpites!

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September 6th, 2006

This is when our next doctor's appointment is, which we - supposedly - will learn our baby's gender. Keep on following and sending your comments!

Look at this! Isn't she the most beaufitul mother? If you want to compare, just go back a couple of months and you'll see the difference!
The only bad thing with this belly is that sleeping may not be as easy as it's always been. Finding a comfortable position for her, may not be for the baby and vice-versa...
All she wishes was she could sleep during the day too!
Be ready: Soon we will have a date of when the baby's gender may be revealed!!!
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Vejam so! Nao eh a mae mais bonita de todas? Se quiserem comparar, basta voltar uns meses e voce vai ver a diferenca!
O unico lado ruim disso eh que dormir nao eh mais tao gostoso quanto ha alguns meses. Achar posicao confortavel pra ela, por nao ser pro bebe e vice-versa...
Tudo que ela mais queria, era poder dormir de dia tambem!
E se preparem: Logo, teremos o dia de quando saberemos o sexo do bebe!!!

Beijo a todos!!!

The baby has really started kicking. There has not passed a day this week he/she didn't kick at least once. That just reminds me that he or she may not be a big soccer fan as his/her father is as well as make some good choices for him/her. On the soccer matters the choice is made: Just look at Palmeiras apparel Lucas gave to him. By the way: Lucas is a little young fellow whose soccer's team is Palmeiras. We saw he being born and now he's already 1 year old.
Besides that, we already started buying furnitures. This week, a new computer desk to make room for the baby's bedroom...Also we started researching baby's bedroom furniture and we are not sure whether we buy a convertible crib - the ones who grow with your kid until he/she is a toddler - or a regular one and then later buy a real bed. What would you think?
O bebe ja ta chutando legal. Essa semana chutou todos os dias pelo menos uma vez. Alias, isso so me lembra que ele ou ela pode nao ser um grande apreciador de futebol como o pai, ja que nos EUA nao eh um esporte popular. Nem por isso, o pai nao precisa fazer boas escolhas por ele. Neste aspecto, a escolha esta feita. Veja a roupa do Palmeiras que o Lucas - um palmeirensezinho que vimos nascer e hoje tem um ano de idade - deu pra nosso bebe.
Alem disso, ja comecamos a comprar os moveis. Essa semana, comprar um novo movel pro computador e pra poder abrir espaco pro quarto do bebe e ja estamos pesquisando as opcoes de bercos. Opcoes sao o que mais tem por aqui...varia de 100 a 1000 dolares. Nao sabemos se compramos um conversivel - daqueles que viram cama ate quando a crianca atingir a idade escolar - ou compramos um comum e depois compramos uma cama de verdade. O que voces acham?

Beijos a todos.

Rogerio e Claudia

Geez!! Claudia is really pregnant...you won't believe how her belly is popping out!
By the way; It must not be easy to be pregnant, I mean for women. Just so you know, the woman body goes through a lot of changes. Hormones, Fatigue, Cravings, Some pain, vomiting are the most commom, but it's always good to remind you about the 100-times-a-day need for peeing and not having control about that, how hard it is to sleep in a comfortable position, let alone her pshycological changes: "There might be some many thoughts going around now."

Thanks God, I'm the father....It sounds much easier from this side of the bed!

A.N.D.: Thank you my beloved mother for going through this without giving up on me!

Anyway, the real changes are appearing day by day. Last Saturday we went to research some options for the baby's bedroom and she felt a huge pain on her belly, as if somebody was kicking her. The belly was as hard as a rock too.

When we arrived back at home, while flipping channels, on Discovery Channel there was this beautiful documentary about pregnancy and its phases, so we - of course - watched it. The funny thing was that they said that the baby starts playing with its first toy - umbilical cord - on his/her 16th week, which is exactly the one we're now. So, I guess there was A REAL SOMEBODY kicking her... Now the real changes are going to start: This kid's presence in our life forever!

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Meu! A Clau ta muito gravida. Voces nao acreditam no tamanho da barriga!
Alias, estar gravida nao deve ser nada facil. O corpo da mulher muda tanto em tao pouco tempo. Hormonios, Cansaco, Fome, Dorzinhas e Nauseas sao as mais comuns, mas eh sempre bom lembrar que a vontade de fazer xixi multiplica e ela "quase" nao consegue se controlar, a dificuldade que ela tem de dormir confortavelmente e, sem falar no lado psicologico da coisa. Quanta coisa nao deve passar na cabeca dela?

Gracas a Deus que eu sou o pai. Parce bem mais facil olhando daqui!

Ah.: Obrigado muito, maezinha querida, por ter passado por tudo isso comigo e nunca ter desistido!
Bem, as mudancas estao acontecendo mais a cada dia. Sabado fomos pesquisar uns moveis pro quarto do bebe e a barriga dele ficou dura e ela sentiu uma dor, como se alguem tivesse chutando a barriga dela. Quando chegamos em casa, passando os canais, vimos que na Discovery Channel estava passando um belo programa sobre gravidez. La, eles contaram que o bebe comeca a brincar com seu primeiro brinquedo - o cordao umbilical - a partir da 16a. semana. Semana em que estamos! Logo, tinha REALMENTE UM ALGUEM chutando a barriga dela. Acho que as mudancas de verdade vao comecar: Uma crianca na nossa vida, cada vez mais presente!

Beijos a todos,
Rogerio e Claudia

Hoje fomos ao medico na 3a consulta.
A Clau tem 15 semanas e 3 dias de gravidez e foi uma consulta meio sem graca, pois o medico apenas ouviu o batimento cardiaco do bebe e pediu pra ela fazer um exame de sangue, pra detectar algum problema genetico, do tipo Sindrome de Down. Tudo rotina! A consulta durou 10 minutos e so vamos voltar em setembro, provavelmente na primeira semana de setembro!

A Clau tinha a expectativa de saber o sexo do bebe, mas o medico disse que eles fazem esse exame somente na 20a semana. Ela ficou um pouco chateada, pois ja quer sair comprando roupinhas, mas nao quer errar no que comprar! Fazer o que? Mais um mes imaginando...

Enquanto isso, ja comecamos a imaginar como re-organizar o quarto pra acomodar o berco e os afins! Alem disso, onde vamos por nosso outro bebe: o computador!

A barriga dela ja esta bem grandinha e ela cada dia mais linda tambem. Mulher esbelta com tudo em cima eh bonita, mas mulher gravida eh plena.
Acima foto de Hollywood Beach onde fomos domingo.

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We've had our 3rd doctor's visit today. Nothing interesting, though.
Clau is 15 weeks and 3 days pregnant and the doctor just listened to our baby's heart beat and asked some blood work to detect possible genetic problems, such as Down Syndrome. All simple routine! The visit took 10 minutes and the next one only on the first week of September.

Claudia was a little bit disappointed as she's very anxious to find out the baby's sex and start shopping appropriately. The doctor said only from the 20th week on they'll see that. What can we do? Another month wondering...
In the meantime while we have another month to go we’ve already started thinking and getting ideas on how to organize and what theme to do the baby’s room, and not forgetting where we’re going to place our current baby…..The computer!!!!

Her belly is developing rather quickly but she’s getting more beautiful as each day passes by. Slim women are beautiful, but pregnant women are absolute!

Above you see Hollywood Beach where we went last Sunday.

Love to all:
Rogerio & Claudia

A nossa vida esta numa fase onde-vamos-vemos-criancas. A vida eh mesmo feita de fases. Agora nossos amigos ou tem criancas pequenas ou estao em fase de te-las. Hoje fomos num churras na casa do Magal e tinha dois meninos e quatro meninas e o papo sempre em torno desses seres!

Obviamente que na rua, no shopping ou em qq. lugar que vamos, estamos mais atentos com as criancas em volta e logo, ficamos imaginando como a nossa vai ser. Eu digo:
-Vai ser uma menina loirinha como o pai. A Clau diz:
-Nao vai! Vai ter o cabelo bem liso e escuro como o da mae.
Ja quando se trata de pensarmos no menino, automaticamente imaginamos ele mais parecido com o pai.
O importante eh que nao tenha a tendencia hereditaria de pressao alta do pai e as alergias - a tudo - da mae!

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Our life is on a where-we-go-we-only-see-kids phase. Life is phased out, I guess. Most of our friends have little kids or are on their way to do so. Today we went to a barbecue at Magal's place and there was 2 boys and 4 girls and our conversation was always about them. Their stories, their fears, their habits!
Obviously, that on the street or wherever we are we notice the kids more than ever and we start wondering about how ours is going to look like. I say: - If it is a girl, it will be blond as her father. Clau doesn't agree and says: - It's going to have my hair. Black and straight. Now, when we think about a boy, it seems automatic that it would look like the father.
The important would be that he or she doesn't take after her dad's high blood pressure heritage nor to her mother's allergies to everything.
Love to all: Rogerio & Claudia

Oi pessoal:
Essa semana a Clau esta com a alergia atacada. O nariz nao sossega e ela ja comecou a perder a paciencia...Ela pode ate tomar remedio (Claritin-D), mas nao direto. Tem de ser de vez em quando!
Alem disso, ela sonhou de novo com o sexo do bebe. De novo, um menino so que desta buchechudo. Na segunda ou terca-feira a barriga dela - na altura no estomago - tinha um calombo duro e segundo ela doia muito. Como ainda eh cedo pra sentir o bebe, pode ser que sejam gases, mas segundo o babycenter.com, o bebe ja comeca a se mexer com 7-8 semanas e nao da pra senti-los por que as perninhas e bracinhos ainda sao fracos e ele eh bem pequeno pra isso! De qualquer forma, foi legar imaginar que o bebe ja esta comecando a se maifestar.
As vezes ela se sente desconfortavel e eu converso com o bebe e ela melhora. Das duas uma: Ou o bebe ja me obedece ou a Clau se sente mais segura quando faco isso!

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Hi all:
This week Clau's allergies are driving her crazy. Runny nose, sneezing all the time and she's starting to lose her patience. She could take some medicine, but not everyday. Besides, that she dreamed again about the baby's sex. Again, a boy with chubby cheeks. Last Monday or Tuesday (?) a little bump appeared on her belly. Since the baby's too small to be felt, that could be gas, but according to babycenter.com, the baby starts moving and kicking on its 7-8 weeks, but the mother cannot feel because the baby's little legs and arms are too small and weak to reach her. Anyway, it's been good to wonder about how the baby is starting to present itself.
Some times, when Claudia is feeling uncomfortable I talk to the baby and then she starts to feel better. Either the baby already senses me or Claudia feels more secure when I do this!

Love to all:
Rogerio & Claudia

P.S.: Special thanks to Rakhi who's been following the blog - perhaps, because she might be feeling her motherhood time is near - and pointing out my mistakes.