Chronic Ama

Today I'm 35 weeks, 5 days as my doctor has me down, or 37 weeks as I'm measuring. My doctor is still convinced that I'm going to make it to September 15th. OK, fine, but what about having to go to L&D last week again for the 5345132156th time thus far? Oh, what happened? Yup, that's what my doctor asked. I let her know that I was having contractions every 2-3 minutes lasting from 30 seconds to 1 minute and the shot of Terbutaline didn't really help much. It stopped them for 20 minutes and then they started again. Plus, I was 1cm dilated. Not much, I know, but still. So, another shot, this time of Toridol. (I may be spelling these wrong, but at least you can still Google the names) It just made me not feel the contractions. The doc on call decided to give me a sleeping pill and send me home, but not until they checked my cervix again. Yup, still 1cm with no change. The nurse there seemed really concerned. She kept telling me that I needed to come back in the mor

So, a lot of people always ask me what I do with all the stuff I buy when I coupon shop. Well, I plan out meals and make them with what's in my pantry. I try to plan out a week's worth of meals at a time just by using what's in the freezer and pantry. Also, since baby is due soon, I've been making a lot of simple meals and freezing them for when I don't feel like cooking. Here's some meal examples from yesterday and today... Yesterday: Porkchops (B1G1 free Fry's sale... so about $3.5 a pack or less) Stuffing to coat porkchops ($.50 clearance sale at Fry's. I bought 4 boxes) Lima beans ($.72 Fry's - regular price less Fry's coupon) Rice-A- Roni ($.50 at Fry's... sale plus coupon) Pillsbury French loaf ($.50 at Fry's... sale combined with coupon) Dinner for the 3 of us cost a total of $5.72 and there were leftovers for my husband's lunch! Today: Hamburger Meat ($1.66 price cut at Target) Taco shells ($.50 at Fry's... sale price p