- My pregnancy symptoms are turning from 24 hr nausea to just plain exhaustion... I prefer exhaustion to nausea, just wish it didn't get mistaken for lazy and also wish it came with a maid service to clean the house in the mean time.
- 201012/28Elizabeth A Guilbeau Laying on the floor unable to sleep where dog hair abounds gives me a better understanding of why hybrid hypoallergenic dogs are ever so popular.
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- 201012/30Elizabeth A Guilbeau Just got back from one of my favorite Hallsville activities: hanging out with Felicia Bell. Bonus today was getting to meet her very sweet boyfriend Kyle. Back to Austin tomorrow to spend New Year's eve with my husband and babydaddy Chris Guilbeau- miss you!
- 201012/31Elizabeth A Guilbeau Made it in time for the fireworks! Hurray!
- 20111/5Elizabeth A Guilbeau Okay, went to bed at 5:45 pm and got up at 8 am and feeling better than yesterday. Now I am sitting at the computer because I am not ready to get into the cart to go to work. I don't mind the work part, its the going to work part that makes me nervous... I get so dang car sick these days.
- 20111/6Elizabeth A Guilbeau When you have a good landlord/lady life is so much more simple. Our landlady hooked us up with a brand new and huge washer and drier.
- 20111/7Elizabeth A Guilbeau I wish I could send a bill to the doctor for all my time they waste when I have to wait more than an hour after my appointment time. How rude.
- 20111/7Elizabeth A Guilbeau Dear Texas Aggies, please beat LSU tonight.
- 20111/9Elizabeth A Guilbeau Yeah yeah yeah, everyone on my facebook newsfeed has snow but not us. :(
- 20111/10Elizabeth A Guilbeau I'm getting off work so I can go hit my work out... that's right, on my Wii Fit.
- 20111/10Elizabeth A Guilbeau Hey if someone is thinking of moving to Austin or moving to the Tarrytown area, the other half of our duplex is opening up in February and it would be awesome to have friends move in!
- 20111/11Elizabeth A Guilbeau I have been having so much fun finding out all the things that people say you need for a baby but you really don't. American advertising and media have done a good job brainwashing people into buying a lot of crap! :P Makes me less and less afraid of having a baby... maybe even more and more excited. :)
- 20111/14Elizabeth A Guilbeau What's up with becoming a facebook addict again? How do I make it stop besides deactivating my account again?
- 20111/14Elizabeth A Guilbeau The old wives tale says "The more heartburn you have throughout pregnancy, the more likely your baby will be born with a full head of hair." Well, let's look forward to a hairy baby!
- 20111/15Elizabeth A Guilbeau Rain Rain go away, there is a window of opportunity where I could actually go climbing and you are taking it away from me!
- 20111/16Elizabeth A Guilbeau I've lost my phone and haven't seen it since yesterday....
- 20111/17Elizabeth A Guilbeau I love it when my mom Shari Slaven Miles calls just to chat.
- 20111/19Elizabeth A Guilbeau Cures for heartburn when you are pregnant??
- 20111/20Elizabeth A Guilbeau Finally new episodes of Parks and Recreation and 30 Rock tonight! Oh yeah, and The Office, who cares about that show anymore?
- 20111/21Elizabeth A Guilbeau Today as I look for something cute to wear out tonight, I'm reminded of a saying, "When a man says he has nothing to wear it means he has no clean clothes; When a woman says she has nothing to wear it means she has no new clothes."
- 20111/24Elizabeth A Guilbeau What happened to 2nd tri-mester being easy? I'm home sick today- yuck. But good news, going to see a midwife on Thursday who will hopefully help me figure out better eating habits and what not to get me feeling better. :)
- 20111/26Elizabeth A Guilbeau Awe man, I got duped! I accidently went to facebook with 2 Ks instead of 1 and got tricked into thinking I was one of the lucky few who was asked to fill out a survey and would get a free TV. I kinda knew it was fake, but went along with it for a couple minutes till I realized I would be at the computer all day saying "no thanks" to about a million offers.
- 20111/27Elizabeth A Guilbeau poor outfit choice today on my part. Turtlenecks make me feel like I'm being strangled by a very weak person. It's going to be a long day of pulling at my collar.
- 20111/27Elizabeth A Guilbeau When you faced hostility, it kept you away. When you saw love, it won you. Do what it is that won you, and changed you. That is the method of the Gospel.
- 20111/29Elizabeth A Guilbeau Errrrg. I hate having physical limitations! Cleaned just one room and rearranged furniture and now I feel like I got hit by a car.
- 20111/31Elizabeth A Guilbeau So there is this saying, "Keep Austin Weird" but I don't really see what is so weird about Austin. I guess the campaign failed.
- 20112/4Elizabeth A Guilbeau Never thought I'd get a snow day living in Austin!
- 20112/6Elizabeth A Guilbeau "The dream of the 90s is alive in Portland..." that song is way too catchy.
- 20112/7Elizabeth A Guilbeau ╔════════════════ ೋღ☃ღೋ ══════════════╗ ☼ I have an amazing Mom ☼ ╚════════════════ ೋღ☃ღೋ ══════════════╝
- 20112/8Elizabeth A Guilbeau Oh no, I think my turnip baby has already inherited my caffeine addiction. A coke is the only thing I can drink that calms my tummy. I can only have one a day, and turnip wants more.
- 20112/12Elizabeth A Guilbeau Terrible morning sickness on this beautiful Saturday. :P
- 20112/14Elizabeth A Guilbeau Sweet Potatobeau gets serious cases of the Mondays. No joke!
- 20112/23Elizabeth A Guilbeau Dogsitting Hodel means I am meeting lots of neighbors this week... I hope baby Guilbeau has the same cute affect for conversation starters.
- 20112/26Elizabeth A Guilbeau Had a fun day with Chris Guilbeau, Heather Braun Morris, & Russ Morris, but they wore me out! Rock Climbing, Walking all down S Congress, and partying it up. Gotta stay home and watch some TV now.
- 20113/5Elizabeth A Guilbeau First Yoga class ever today. Prenatal yoga is free at Austin Area Birthing Center, Inc. so I'm totally taking advantage of it. :) It was fun to be around a bunch of other hippy pregnant women.
- 20113/6Elizabeth A Guilbeau Great time at church today! The service was great, but also Baby Guilbeau kept kicking me and for the first time I actually SAW the kick! Crazy kid.
- 20113/8Elizabeth A Guilbeau Tomorrow Chris and I go to our first "centering" class at Austin Area Birthing Center, Inc.. Its part prenatal visit, part support group, and part childbirth class with others expecting in July. Pregnancy is starting to get fun. :)
- 20113/9Elizabeth A Guilbeau warning: just got out of birthing class and I'm a bit more eccentric in my ways than even before.
- 20113/11Elizabeth A Guilbeau 3 hour lunch break to go rock climbing... I guess that's one of the things I like about living/working in Austin. :) Also if I could hang out outside in 70 degree weather the rest of my life I'd be pretty happy. :)
- 20113/14Elizabeth A Guilbeau I got huge over the weekend, and I don't know how to move in my new body.
- 20113/15Elizabeth A Guilbeau Chris Guilbeau has been spending about 5 minutes stirring our new organic peanut butter to make sandwiches. I guess the work out comes with being a bit more healthy.
- 20113/16Elizabeth A Guilbeau Yoga at 10! I'd be lying if I said I love it, but I know its good for me, so here we go.
- 20113/16Elizabeth A Guilbeau Rookie mistake: trying to drive downtown Austin during sxsw
- 20113/17Elizabeth A Guilbeau A bird made a nest in my mail box today! EEEK! I hate to kick em out, but bad location bird.
- 20113/18Elizabeth A Guilbeau Today is the pirates of the Caribbean's 44th anniversary! Yo ho yo ho a pirates life for me!
- 20113/20Elizabeth A Guilbeau Me want cake
- 20113/21Elizabeth A Guilbeau Any opinions on Super Reds European Night Crawlers vs Red Worms for composters? Or should I just find my own worms in the yard?
- 20113/22Elizabeth A Guilbeau Sometimes I miss land lines. At least once a day I either say or hear someone say "you're cutting out"
- 20113/24Elizabeth A Guilbeau Ah stink, I think someone has figured out how to hack the facebook instant messaging thing. Someone I haven't heard from in 10 years just messaged me about how her and her family "are in a deep mess now." Come on hackers! Give it a rest!
- 20114/5Elizabeth A Guilbeau So I'm interested in having a doula, only because I'm interested in becoming one! Probably won't actually do either one, but it seems like such a rewarding job to have.
- 20114/6Elizabeth A Guilbeau Wish there were more fb status updates to read, cause I can't sleep and status reading is my odd new hobby.
- 20114/7Elizabeth A Guilbeau Papa Johns Pizza is currently my favorite restaurant. Gotta feel sorry for Chris Guilbeau who has to eat it at least once a week with me... he is a good husband.
- 20114/8Elizabeth A Guilbeau Kate: I hope you don't mind; I bought you some organic food. I thought you might want to start eating healthier food. Angie: Eh. That crap is for rich people who hate themselves.
- 20114/10Elizabeth A Guilbeau Weird how people who want to follow Jesus decide to use Facebook to hate on their president rather than using the platform to tell their friends about how our hope is not in politics but in God our Father. Doesn't matter if it's Bush, Obama, Tiberius Caesar, or Nero... Think about it! Jesus didn't die to change governments, he came to change lives!
- 20114/18Elizabeth A Guilbeau Ever have one of those big sighs of relief when you find out that something doesn't have to be as terrible as you've been told before? That's what I have been doing throughout reading Christ Centered Childbirth. Please pray for me to remember: "God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." 1 Timothy 1:7
- 20114/24Elizabeth A Guilbeau Easter service
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- 20114/26Shanha Goodwyn Hi, I need your address please. :)
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- 20114/26Elizabeth A Guilbeau I have an estimated 11 more weeks to go. Wowsers.
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- 20114/27Elizabeth A Guilbeau Today is admin appreciation day and my oh so lovely colleagues sent me Tiff's Treats cookies, even though they are all out of town. :)
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- 20114/27Elizabeth A Guilbeau Happiest Birthdays to my dad and brother today! Паша Километровый & Curtis Miles
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- 20114/27Elizabeth A Guilbeau Love this website. It has the best baby clothes ever too.
- 20114/28Elizabeth A Guilbeau Its weird to me when two people in the office are talking to each other on the phone and I can hear both sides of the convo and one of them has their speaker phone on so I even get the echo effect.
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- 20115/1Elizabeth A Guilbeau If you are not watching TV right now, turn it on! Historic day!
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- 20115/1Elizabeth A Guilbeau I wish Barack Obama would hurry up and make his speech, I'm tired of listening to ridiculous network and cable news give their spin on things.
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- 20115/2Elizabeth A Guilbeau I wish I was better about blogging.
- 20115/2Elizabeth A Guilbeau I know this song circulated a while back but I haven't seen it in a year or so, and it totally made me happy today when I watched it again. So if your looking for a pick me up, watch it again! :)
- 20115/2Elizabeth A Guilbeau https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7_rBidCkJxo I am playing this song to the baby every night starting in the womb right now.
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- 20115/4Elizabeth A Guilbeau I think my days of doing crazy things while pregnant are coming to an end. So sad I can't rock climb Or ride my bike any more and have no desire to even hike... Just picking something up off the floor takes so much effort. What can I do to boost my energy for the next 6 to 12 weeks?
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- 20115/7Elizabeth A Guilbeau I will never take for granted being skinny again. Love this little one inside me, but looking forward to loving it not inside even me more! :)
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- 20115/8Elizabeth A Guilbeau Happy mothers day Shari Slaven Miles!
- 20115/8Debbie Branch Bell Happy Mothers Day
- 20115/8Elizabeth A Guilbeau My first mothers day gift ever! A composter! Chris said I can be "the mother of dirt." I love it :)
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- 20115/8Elizabeth A Guilbeau 30 weeks
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- 20115/8Elizabeth A Guilbeau Curtis Miles bravely took this photo for us :)
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- 20115/9Debbie Branch Bell Where are you registered for baby gifts.
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- 20115/10Elizabeth A Guilbeau My husband is so lucky, he is sitting at his work desk looking down at Congress/Cesar Chavez where Barack Obama will be driving by very soon.
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- 20115/11Kelli Wells Miss you BFF!!
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- 20115/11Elizabeth A Guilbeau http://babyguilbeau.ourbabychannel.com/
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- 20115/13Elizabeth A Guilbeau Oh, it's Friday the 13th? I guess that's why the day started off on the wrong foot. No longer though, not going to let a date get the best of 'ol liz.
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- 20115/14Elizabeth A Guilbeau 1:15 am in a car still got 2 hours and 21 minutes to go. Miiiiiissssssserrrrrrry.
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- 20115/15Cornelia Albu Thank you for the time spending with you all ,today! I am praying for you and want that you know, I was very encouraged to see you and your hearts full of love for God! Love and appreciate you very much! hope you got well to Austin :)
- 20115/16Elizabeth A Guilbeau Facebook sent me this message: "Your anniversary with Chris Guilbeau is on 23 May.Send him a message" Yeah, sending a facebook message on your anniversary isn't gonna cut it.
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- 20115/17Elizabeth A Guilbeau When I first got pregnant people told me not to read internet things or it would just freak me out... hasn't been the case, I'm usually encouraged. So, I just googled if there was such a thing as too much fetal movement and from what I've read it just might mean we're going to have a handful of a kid! What can you expect when putting my genes and Chris Guilbeau's together though?
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Facebook Status
Making a facebook status is so much easier than making a whole blog entry. That is why I post so infrequently on my blog and so much on facebook. But lets see if we can move them over to here!
Friday, March 18, 2011
Cloth Diapers Exposed! The Facts and the Fiction!
Cloth Diapers Exposed! The Facts and the Fiction!
When parents considers using cloth diapers, they inevitably must wade through the mass of misinformation that abounds wherever cloth diaper discussions occur. No doubt these inexperienced parents hear that cloth diapers are unsanitary, that they perpetuate unpleasant odors, leak profusely, and require a lot of back breaking work. But these parents can take comfort in the fact that these are all cloth diaper myths. You can get the facts here ...Myth #1 - Cloth Diapers Are Expensive
It is estimated that using disposable diapers can cost you between two and three thousand dollars per child, from birth to potty training. That is an astounding amount of money to spend on what is essentially garbage. Cloth diapers, however, are much cheaper in the long run, even if the initial investment is more. Assuming that you will not be sewing your own diapers, it is entirely possible to cloth diaper a child for 3 years for $100-300 dollars. These diapers will likely last for one or more subsequent children as well. Do the math…the numbers don’t lie.
Myth #2 - Cloth Diapers Smell
Cloth diapers do not smell any more then a disposable diaper does. The smell that emanates from a cloth diaper thrown in a diaper pail can not be more offensive then a soiled disposable diaper thrown in a garbage can. Innovative new diaper pails and odor controlling accoutrements in a variety of sweet smelling fragrances have eliminated this problem entirely. Odors are also held at bay by using a dry pail method for storing soiled diapers so that the diapers are not left to sit in stagnant and possibly malodorous water. With these new advances, there are no reasons why cloth diapers need to "smell".
Myth #3 - Cloth Diapers Are Hard to Care For
Many cloth diapering parents have adopted a dry pail method of storage. This means that they simply remove a soiled diaper, dispose of any solid waste by dumping it in the toilet, and then toss the diaper in a diaper pail until laundry day. While some cloth diaper users may still rinse diapers in a toilet or sink before putting them in the pail, or even soak them in a wet pail before laundering, these methods are not necessary. A no rinse, dry pail method has been proven to be just as effective.
Using cloth diapers will usually only mean another 1-3 loads of laundry a week. This should not represent a significant difference in workload on laundry days. Putting cloth diapers outside on a line to dry will not only alleviate some of this work, but it will also help conserve energy and “sun†out any stains that washing did not get rid of. All things considered, it is no more difficult to clean cloth diapers then it is to clean any other clothing types.
Myth #4 - Cloth Diapers Are Not Sanitary
Cloth diapers need to be clean, plain and simple. They do not need to be absolutely sterile. Most adults probably do not find it necessary to sterilize their underpants, so laundering cloth diapers should be sufficient to ensure that they are clean and ready for use. Diapers should be washed with hot water and then dried in a dryer or on the line outside. Both of these drying mechanisms, providing either heat from the dryer or heat from the sun, will actually help to sterilize the diapers and kill any lingering bacteria that may be present. They should be sufficiently clean and acceptable to diaper your baby with.
Myth #5 - Washing Cloth Diapers Wastes Electricity and Water
This argument is truly baffling. Washing cloth diapers does require water and energy usage. However, advancing technology in washing machines and dryers has helped tremendously to keep the energy and water usage to a minimum. Even if you are washing cloth diapers with the oldest and most archaic washing and drying machines, the water and energy output in washing a few loads of diapers a week is infinitesimal compared to the energy wasted on disposable diapers.
Just consider the energy and fossil fuels used to cut down and transport thousands of trees to make the paper pulp used in a disposable diaper, not to mention the devastation this causes to our national forests. Water and energy are then used to create this paper pulp and bleach it. Even more energy is used to make the outer plastic shells and then assemble the diaper. These diapers are then packaged in plastic wrappings and put in cardboard boxes, which also had to be specially made for transporting these diapers. It doesn’t end there, however; these diapers are then transported from the factory all over the country and all over the world using trains, trucks, and cargo planes, so that they can be delivered to the stores that sell them to the public. No doubt, more energy is wasted by the consumer who must drive to and from these stores to make their purchase. To make matters worse, these consumers use these diapers and throw them away, essentially throwing their money in the garbage as well. The garbage must then be transported to a landfill using even more energy and fuel. This energy consumption is never ending. Cloth diaper users reduce, reuse, and recycle. Can any disposable diaper users claim that?
Myth #6 - Cloth Diapers Leak
Cloth diapers today come in many different styles, and are made with a wondrous array of fabric and absorbency levels. Even parents of children who are very heavy wetters are sure to find a diaper that works for them if they search hard enough. Parents must consider though, that disposable diapers are made with chemicals that allow them to be super absorbent and act as a high-volume portable toilet. Yes, disposable diapers may hold in more urine, but is that really a good thing? The holding capacity of disposable diapers seems to be breeding laziness and unrealistic expectations in many parents. We should not be lulled into the thinking that a diaper should last through several urinations before it is changed, simply because it is inconvenient to change diapers every 2-3 hours or less. When a diaper is soiled or wet it needs to be changed ... end of story. If diapers are changed immediately after they become soiled or wet, then leaks are rarely a problem.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Leave me alone!
So our baby is starting to let the personality shine now. One of my midwives was looking for the baby's heart beat with the Fetal Doppler. After what seemed like 5 minutes, probably more like 20 seconds, we couldn't hear it. As she kept moving the stick around looking for the heart beat she told me how often babies don't like the sound of the sonogram and move around to get away from it. Finally, we heard the soft sound of a heart beating just 3 or 4 quick beats and then "BAM!" The midwife laughed and kept trying with another "BAM!" She laughed and said, "Did you hear that?" She told me that we caught the heart beat just for a second there and then he kicked the doppler a couple times to get her to stop!
Since I wasn't sure I heard the heart beating she told me she could keep trying, but she promised it was there. Her promise and the baby's kicks were good enough for me today. I feel like the baby is starting to show some personality and that makes me even more happy than hearing a heart beat.
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