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January 21, 2004
I was pregnant, for a few days, but once again, it was not meant to be. I got my period four days after the positive test.
Maybe it's the mysterious working of nature. I've never heard of anyone else getting pregnant every time she has unprotected sex. So I guess that's the trade-off. Some people try for months, years to get pregnant. I get knocked up just by laying down next to a pair of men's pants (Russian saying), but I don't stay pregnant. Natural selection just happens a bit later for me, I suppose.
The doctor recommended I try progesterone supplements next time I get a positive pregnancy test. She says that's really all I can do, and she didn't take my question (why is this the 3rd time I've had positive only to get my period days later) very seriously, saying that if I already have two children, it is not an issue, I CAN carry and deliver a healthy baby.
I want to write down something that happened with Andrei today, before I forget.
This morning, Andrei came into our room and told us he'd wet the bed during the night (this has happened about 4 times since he began sleeping in underwear). He was wearing his pyjamas, so I couldn't really understand how he'd wet the bed, since I felt his pjs and they were dry. Then I realized that he was wearing DIFFERENT pjs from the ones he'd put on last night.
It turned out Andrei really had wet the bed last night and that he'd gotten up without waking anyone, taken off his sheet and wet pyjamas (two pairs: regular pjs and thick fleece pjs), brought them into the bathroom, put them in a bucket, filled the bucket with water, gone back to his room, gotten dressed in two layers of clean pyjamas and gone back to sleep. I was astounded. Is he an incredible 3 year 8 month old or what?!
Nyus is in a big-girl bed now. Her crib collapsed (yes it really did, it was an expensive Swiss-made crib and thank G-D it happened when I was in the room and if I were living in the US I would sue!) so for two nights she slept on a mattress on the floor and on Saturday we went to IKEA and bought her a very nice toddler/big girl bed. AND she's got a blanket, which she never had when she was in the crib.
It's very cold here, below zero Fahrenheit. Usually I go to the gym in the morning before work and Nyusik and Vika (the nanny) pick up Andrei from preschool at noon, but even for us hardened northerners it's too cold for Anna to make the 1/2 hour walk there and 1/2 hour back to pick up Andrei. We usually go outside two times a day for 1 to 1.5 hours, once before lunch and once after their nap, but we only do that until 0 degrees. Any colder and we only go for errands or if necessary.
We have a problem with Andrei and the preschool. Right now, he's in the age 3-4 group and goes 5 times a week from 8:30 - 5:00. But now it has been suggested to us we try him in the age 4-5 group, since his physical and mental development is quite higher than those children in his present group. Andrei is the "leader" right now, and because he feels very confident (and understimulated), he's begun clowning around and basically being a public disturbance. The age 4-5 group is from 8:30 - 5:30, and already quite serious about lessons (they have to have notebooks). They study Russian, mathematics, English, art, music, physical fitness, have special hydromassage and other health procedures, eat breakfast, lunch, sleep and have afternoon snack there. This is very typical for Russian preschool, and in any case, Andrei will be in this group in September, but now they are encouraging me to transfer him there earlier. I am rather hesitant. I could read at the age of 3, in kindergarten was made a "show" of, by being asked to read aloud to the other kids and "teach" them things like how to make a paper doll with movable limbs, I skipped a grade in elementary school, was put in a special "advanced" program, was exempted from many classes in high school and HATED HATED HATED school and everything associated with it.
I don't want Andrei to have the negative experience I did.
Any advice?
Warm regards from a very cold north,
Lisa
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