Vitamins and minerals deficiencies during pregnancy and every day life.

The passion in this article is obvious. And why shouldn't it be. People for hundreds of years trying to figure out what makes us healthy, mentally wealthy and strong - and yet there are still peeps out there, that are considered

...illiterates who, after hundreds of years of claiming medical superiority, still have not admitted that a single nutrient can treat a single disease.

One must look at everything objectively. According to some research Americans' nutrition today is probably why we only have successful 50-60 years before our bodies break down into something very painful, uncomfortable and depressing.
On the flip side - I'm not really sure if any doctors ever done an in-depth study of our nutrition along side with supplemental foods, vitamins and minerals that would fight deceases. Maybe to be more accurate proper nutrition can eliminate the fear of "acquiring" certain sicknesses and deceases on the way to that faithful 50-60 age bracket.

To quote Mr. Adams:

Yet modern (arrogant) medicine remains nutritionally illiterate, refusing to teach expectant mothers much at all about prenatal nutrition (beyond folic acid, anyway).

Which actually lights the fire under my tail too. Recalling my first official Doc appointment, I was told nothing substantial. Pregnant women are pretty much just poked and prodded until they pop the kid, and then it's out of the doc's hands, unless some terrible thing happened to the young one.
Certainly private research will open anyone's eyes to the simple facts, but women are unaware. And in my humble opinion it's the doc's job to enlighten us about the facts.

So Mr. Adams, kudos to you, keep writing.

link to the article: http://www.naturalnews.com/023580.html

Migraines, stress and overeating.

While I have the cute husband, puppy and the camera on hand - pictures will only come tomorrow. C'est la vie.

Update on cute husband:

Still suffering, but in progress of finding good insurance company to call his own. I've tried to get in contact with several over email, but apparently internet is not their strongest path of communication. So I'll have to get in contact with them directly over the phone.
He's currently listening to things on you-tube, and laughing over some vids.

Update on cute puppy:

Still cute and unable to go outside quite yet. The vets put the fear of death into us when they started talking about different things that non-vaccinated animals can get. So we crossed our heart and swore to die if Duke gets out any time before he's 8 weeks and dares to touch the ground.
This still puts a dumper or ten on our floor and carpets. (Dumper, get it? heheheh...)
Other than that - some books are coming in on how to train our furry friend and keep him happy.
He's being cute and sitting by my feet as I type this post out.

Update on me:

Got an interesting book on Magnesium and it's effects on the body today. I'll be more than happy to start reading it tonight. It's going to take a few takes I'm sure since I am just getting out of that crazy pregnancy scared phase where nothing made sense.
Taking my magnesium, calcium and DHE supplements like a good little girl however. So besides my baby making me cringe in pain when I'm worried (something along the lines: "mom, stop worrying or I'll punch you in the gut from the inside, you're taking my vitamins and making me jittery darn it!) everything is going alright.

I'm going to attempt some techniques of meditation and perhaps some basic self hypnosis. The fact that I worry should be good, since I should worry if I drive my car into someone else's and cause a horrible crash or not. But my obsessive worry about other things may possibly be driving my loved ones insane. And it leads to over eating. Which isn't good. As we all know - as long as I get all our necessary vitamins and minerals, plus my regular intake of calories - baby's growth will be supported with as much as 300 calories. Over eating is very unhealthy.

Stress and pain management.

Looking through available links that talk about managing stress and pain. "Gather" just like most of information out there suggests massage.

Although in case of my husband with his chronic pain and me with my migraines - massage provides only very temporary relief. It helps my honey only during the massage, relieves some pain and tension. With me - it helps only in terms of stress and possibly tension headaches.

Gary and I are considering trying acupuncture. I'm going to try and get some literature on it tomorrow and perhaps look up some more on the internet.
We're all for DIY approach :) And anything that helps with pain and stress is a plus.

We'll see how it goes and update when possible.

Picture of puppy is on the way.

Just have to borrow a camera from my siblings and then voila.

Duke is still on his pooping everywhere spree, my migraines are forgotten for the moment, and the kid seems to be pretty mellow and happy at this time.

Well besides the fact that both my honey and me are exhausted.

picture of cute kittens to make up for lack of post.. of any real sort.

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Migraine triggers: allergies and puppies.

While allergies themselves are a number one trigger for my migraines (get into dusty room, breath in, die with excruciating pain within an hour). Puppies on the other hand have a totally different approach to giving one a headache.

For instance last night after being put back into the kitchen, where my honey and I decided to keep him and housebreak him, Duke the pup decided to cry. For about thirty minutes. Little did I realize that the only reason he stopped was because he managed to push away a 30lbs wood panel and went on pooping and peeing spree in both living room and the game room.

Fantastic! This morning instead of good morning honey type kisses we got to clean the poop.

This sort of like previews of coming attractions. At least baby is going to have a diaper, but essentially the order of business is the same. Cry, poop, pee, drink, poop, pee, wake up, poop, pee.... you get the basic idea.

And the lack of sleep, compounded with new smells, and slightly elevated stress levels migraines keep coming back.

That and the energy level for both of us is near non-existent.

New dog!

We got a dog!

It's awesome!

It's a boy!

and it's smelly.

His name is Duke, and he's a full blown pit bull.

pics are coming

Next up is training him to poop on proper place.

Missing posts due to migraines

Apologies,

but migraines suck, on general principal. They definitely leave me immobilized for a little while and later as if nothing at all happened they wipe my memory clean with a sponge, so I can't recall being in major pain.

I would have gladly made a post yesterday - but my head felt like it was going to explode from inside, outside, and possibly third dimension.

It still feels like it, so I'm going back to my ice pack, and to sleep. Perhaps it won't be so bad in the morning.

Good night my peoples, tomorrow is get a puppy and look at a house day, migraines or not :D