June, 2011 Archive

The Joy of Cooking… A Baby

by Alison Friedman in Mommy's Musings, Pregnancy

I was making dinner tonight for some macho men as a payment for their furniture-moving assistance. (Thank you Brian and Michael for your brains and brawn). I’ve never really been much of a Martha or Julia in the kitchen and have thought of myself more of the Swedish Chef, throwing equipment around, speaking to myself in foreign, frustrated tongues, and blindly tossing my unmeasured ingredients awkwardly with confidence that it’ll be just good enough.

So, it was no surprise when I found myself hobbling around the kitchen preparing some of my own version of BORK BORK BORK when I realized, “I am even more helpless than usual!” As usual, blame goes to Baby.

Cooking a baby has its joys: the flutter of tappy kicks and life inside me; the thick and lustrous locks of hair; the femininity that grows with every inch of my belly; the ability to wear horizontal stripes; the smiles and pleasant conversations with strangers; the dreams for the future. Yes, all of these things are wonderful and I gladly bask in this glow.

So as I whipped up dinner for the boys, I glanced over at my recipe books in the kitchen and spotted the canon of the kitchen, The Joy of Cooking. I snorted to myself, “Ha! There is no joy right now. The joy of cooking what? … a baby? I’m just a vessel of cliches and myths-come-true!”

These cliches are the reason for my newly discovered discomfort. First and foremost, I really do literally hobble now. After 5:00 p.m., my feet, which now resemble Fred Flintstone’s, become stiff and swollen, beginning with an attractive cankle that branches out to a tree-stump like block with sausagey appendages. Foot model, I am not. Well, I never had a chance anyway, but pregnancy does not look good on my tootsies.

Because this is a personal blog, I am about to get, well, personal. I have never been a pee-er. This is probably because I am not much of a drinker (I know, bad Alison, bad!), but I can’t help it! I’m never thirsty. So imagine my surprise when I feel the urge to pee 82789374913408 times a day. However, not one of these 82789374913408 times are ever satisfying. With a rush of “ohmygoshmoveoutofmywaybecausei’mgoingtoburst!” I run to the nearest ladies room, prepare for Niagara Falls, and instead, experience a flow like a cold pipe that’s frosting from condensation in a dark and lonely basement. Drip. Drop. Drip. All done. A whole lot of bladder build-up for nothing! Literally! Thanks, Baby. Hope you’re comfy and cozy, leaning on my pee sac!

Then there’s the grunting. This is not that dissimilar from the noises the Swedish Chef releases in the kitchen. Getting up from a chair? Grunt. Rolling out of bed? Grunt. Picking up an object off the floor? Grunt. Attempting to put on pants? A grunt for each leg. I am 872 years old. At this rate, I feel more like my fetus’s great, great grandmother than mother. And that doesn’t feel so great. Or grand. This is probably due to all of my back pain and lack of core strength. I am determined to get back into shape after the baby.

I should probably rephrase that sentence as “get back into shape” implies I was actually in shape prior to the baby. That would be a lie. So fine, I plan to get into shape. Although, I suppose I’m currently in shape — a round one — but feeling ancient at 28 is not my idea of being a hot mom.

All in all, I have had a very boring and uneventful pregnancy, which is just how the doctors like them. I’m extremely pleased with that, but I’m also just now finally experiencing the “joy” of cooking a baby, which means I’m right on track and par for the course. And even though I feel like the Swedish Chef in the pregnancy kitchen, I also know that “it’s a good thing” and I’m a Martha after all.

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by Alison Friedman in Mommy's Musings, Pregnancy

Today was my birthday. I turned 28 — hooray for an even number! As I write this, I feel like it’s the end of a Doogie Howser episode where I reflect on the day’s events and the lesson I learned. It’s actually just like that, except I’m not using DOS on a mammoth 1989 IBM computer to journal (omg Bryan just fell in love with me all over again) and Max Casella (Vinnie) is nowhere in sight. Oh, and I’m not a boy genius. Girl genius, however…

But still, I am having a Doogie moment so I’m just going to run with it.

As a kid (or up until my mid-20s), my birthday was the best day of the year. But then again, what young thing doesn’t like his or her birthday? It’s a time of nothing-can-go-wrong and everybody-loves-me. Today was similar once I remembered it actually was my birthday. The Facebook posts and messages that came in were endless and thoughtful, and calls from friends and family were so appreciated. Bryan took me out to a lovely dinner at my favorite restaurant where I enjoyed my perfect Ruth’s Chris steak and gave me a pair of mother-of-pearl earrings. Really, it was a wonderful day!

But it all felt different. And I realized it’s because I’m about to be a mom and I’m looking forward to a new kind of birthday — my daughter’s birthday. My birth day. While this was my last June 7th as a non-mom, I am excited to celebrate getting a year older with spit-up on my shirt and a diaper to change before blowing out candles. But more importantly, I am excited (and scared!) for the birth day sometime in August when our daughter enters the world. I’m anxious about the when, where, and how of it all and wish I could have a little glimpse of what to expect. But even with the childbirth classes we’re taking, the books I’m reading, and the mom-friends I’m talking to, I have a feeling there’s no way to really know since each experience is so unique. If you know me at all, you know this is killing me softly (controlfreakAHEMcontrolfreak). There is a part of me, though, that is welcoming the surprise of it all.

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Two weeks ago, we took a tour of the labor and delivery floor at the hospital. It was nice to be able to have some imagery to go along with the expectations. First, a nurse spoke for about 45 minutes and gave a play-by-play of how it all happens on the big day. Blame the hormones, but I choked up like 897892734987 times. I also apparently wore a look of OMG ARE YOU $%&!*@# KIDDING ME on my face when the nurse detailed some other events of the experience. So yes, excited and scared are definitely appropriate descriptions of my feelings!

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After her Vin Scully approach to the sport of labor and delivery, we walked the halls of the actual floor and saw a delivery room like the one in which our daughter will enter. It was a lovely and cozy room with all the necessary equipment, providing a likable-enough vibe where our baby will take her first breaths.

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We saw the nursery where the doctor and nurses will take the baby for her first bath and other minor tests. Daddy will get to go in there and watch. He’s already been instructed to soak everything up so he can return with details of what he experienced in there!

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I know the birth day will be a whirlwind of emotions, events, and well wishes, and on this personal birthday, I can’t help but think about all the fun that lies ahead. I’m grateful to have had such a lovely day with some of my favorite people, eating my favorite things, and enjoying my favorite activity (shopping!), but I know that the day our daughter is born will be the best birth day ever.

Especially if Doogie Howser does his rounds in my room!

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  7. katrina
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    Hope you have a wonderful birthday. The hospital is hard to take in when doing the tour. I think the worst is when you are in labor and you think was it to the left or right at this corner lol.You guys will do great. Dont worry you are great parents i belive you are a parent the minute you concive because you have to do so much to take care of the baby. My hospital advice is get someone to bring you food hospital food is just nasty you pushed a baby out of you only get the best. lol

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    workout routines you select from the dropdown menus.
    Nevertheless, arm measurement and strength are extra than simply an issue of aesthetics; they’re important functionally too.
    After all, your arms join the the rest of your
    body to no matter you’re holding, lifting, or carrying, be that your youngsters, pets, groceries, or an opponent during
    sports activities. “The goal was to lose approx 1.5lb per week, and lbs of physique fat over the first three months, with out sacrificing any muscle tissue,”
    Thurston explains. Cardio improves health, mind function, functional actions, and quality
    of life.
    Basically, the #1 objective when bulking the “wrong” way is
    to realize weight fast. However, he follows the precept
    the place eighty p.c of calories come from a clean and whole meals food regimen whereas 20 % comes from cheat meals.

    Whereas bulking to play Jack Reacher, Alan Ritchson ate seven small meals throughout the day.

    This helped him regulate blood sugar ranges and keep energy.
    It is almost impossible for a busy particular person to stick to a stringent food plan like this on his personal for eight full months without falling off
    the wagon. For some awesome muscle-building protein powder
    options, take a glance at these 7 Best Whey
    Isolate Protein Powders.
    It leaves room for plenty of dietary protein and carbs and is
    enough to optimize your hormones for muscle achieve. Consuming sufficient calories to help muscle development is the foundation of your bulking diet technique.
    The more calories you eat, the sooner you’ll
    acquire weight. However, increasingly of that weight gain will
    be pure fat.
    Weight gainers might help you achieve a calorie surplus by providing you with a many calories in a
    single serving. Nonetheless, they do nothing that eating the same variety of calories
    from regular foods won’t do. Lunges are a superb bulking train as a outcome of they assist to add mass to a few of the largest muscle
    tissue in your body, together with your glutes, quadriceps,
    and hamstrings. Some of the carbs you eat are used instantly for power.
    The rest is stored in your liver and muscles as glycogen. Glycogen is a
    readily available supply of vitality that can be utilized during bodily exercise like
    weight lifting. There is not any one-size-fits-all fat intake for bodybuilders or for somebody bulking, but a moderate consumption is greatest for most people.

    Planks are great for educating novices tips on how to maintain a neutral spine
    while lifting, and they’re pretty good at stimulating your abs
    and obliques. Problem your self, but you don’t must take your
    planks all the way to failure. You can consider them
    more like postural drills than bodybuilding workout routines.
    Push-ups are superb for bulking up your chest, shoulders,
    and triceps. They’re additionally nice for your abs and serratus
    muscles (under your armpits). If push-ups are too onerous, raise your arms on a bench.
    As Soon As you can do greater than 20, increase your toes
    up on a bench.
    You can keep your exercises shorter and depart the
    health club feeling fresher. This combination of presses, pull-ups, and dips is my favorite combo for constructing a a
    lot bigger shoulder girdle. I recommend bringing a heavy dumbbell
    over to the bench and doing 1-arm rows, but you can use any row variation that doesn’t tire out your spinal
    erectors. Bench Day is constructed across the bench press or whatever huge chest exercise you favor.
    I like to use the dumbbell bench press, barbell bench press, or weighted dip.

    However, you can’t go mistaken with together with them in your workouts and even basing your complete coaching
    routine on them. A lot of people call dips “the squat for the upper body,” and they aren’t wrong.
    Few workout routines are more practical for
    hitting your pecs, shoulders, and triceps in one movement.

    Bro Splits are body-part splits, meaning every single day focuses
    on a different body half. At first, that might sound like every
    day focuses on a different muscle group,
    but that’s not fairly right. Here are the massive movements, with a few variations for each.
    You should embrace most of these compound lifts in most of your exercises.

    You want to construct monsterous measurement, but don’t be
    a monsterous lug head—increasing weight by very small increments
    like 5-pounds can surprisingly go a great distance. While you’re training every
    muscle group 3x per week, you’ll nonetheless have sufficient recovery time between classes as you’ll only carry out a couple
    of exercises per muscle group per day. With a full physique
    workout plan, you understand exactly what you’re doing that day…everything!

    As the pair transitioned into the muscle growth-focussed “lean bulk” phase, Thurston gradually increased
    Graham’s day by day calories to around 3,000. While it’s essential to consume
    enough energy and protein in your diet, supplements can be helpful for bulking up and supporting muscle progress.
    You have to comply with a bulking workout plan that features compound workouts,
    isolation exercises, relaxation, and recovery. As a private trainer,
    I often get asked about one of the best exercises to construct muscle
    mass.
    The bent over row is a tremendous upper again exercise, guaranteed to build definition and dimension each.
    If you’ll find a way to keep a calorie surplus whereas still doing cardio, go right forward.
    Some supplements are helpful for building muscle, boosting your efficiency, or improving your overall
    health. These are all secure doses and ensure you’re not lacking out on any micronutrients that may aid your positive aspects
    in the course of the bulk. The advantage of weight gainers
    lies within the comfort and palatability of liquid
    nutrition. Some weight gainer shakes can also contain different ingredients, corresponding to creatine,
    glutamine, and BCAAs (most of that are ineffective fluff,
    by the way). You can also skip the loading section and go directly to upkeep should you
    favor.
    For compound lifts, you could be working for both power and hypertrophy.
    You can’t carry gentle weights and expect to get greater.

    On a bulk, you have to raise heavy, relative to your power degree.

    Preworkout is used merely to provide you a lift of power in your
    workouts. This can help you are taking your depth up a quantity of notches, which in flip will help with overloading your muscles.
    You can purchase it online or you possibly can even make your individual do-it-yourself pre-workout.

    A little bit of chest, back, shoulders, arms, and legs!
    Each muscle group must be fatigued if you’re accomplished with a full-body routine.
    I used major compound lifts which would possibly be greatest for bettering energy
    and building muscle. In addition, I’ve integrated no much less than one exercise from each main motion sample.
    For the the rest of us, full-body packages and 4-day exercise splits are sometimes better, as they are much less committing and provide extra time for rest and recovery.

    If you educated within the 1-5 rep range, specializing in compound lifts to be able to build
    your muscle, then you wish to proceed to do the identical
    to take care of your muscle. Sticking with related compound lifts
    can be nice, because of the metabolic stress they accrue.
    Larger metabolic stress makes it much simpler to take care of
    a caloric deficit. Cardio is important in addition to a tool to increase fats loss, nonetheless it
    must be carried out after your lifting sessions.
    You wish to ensure you aren’t in a very excessive calorie deficit,
    and that your are consuming a high protein food regimen. Muscle
    retention is just as essential as fat loss for having a successful cut.

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