Check it out…. clear as day…. Baby Ashihara is a boy!

Noby is going to have a little brother!!  We are so excited!  Here are a few more pictures of our little guy!

And to top it off my unbelievable husband came home from work with these…

I’m a lucky girl!!

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Neti Pot that is!!!  But let me digress.

So I broke down and went to the doctors yesterday.  I knew what she was going to say, "Because you’re pregnant, there’s really isn’t much we can do for you. blah blah blah."  I see my primary care doctor every couple of years and I feel like she never can really do anything for me.  However my throat hurt SOOO bad that I was afraid it was going to be something really bad like strep.  Well I was right, not about the strep but about the doctor saying there was nothing she could really do.  She gave me a list of home remedies she wanted me to try and sent me on the way.  Telling me to call her back if it’s not better in 7 to 10 days.  SEVEN TO TEN DAYS???  I couldn’t live like this for that long!  So last night Dr. Ichiro and I were on a mission.  One of her remedies was to “breathe warm, moist air from a steamy shower, a hot bath, or a sink filled with hot water.”  Well you know we like to do things to the extreme so Ichiro made me a steam “room.”  I didn’t think it was working last night because every time I stopped I seemed to be more stuffy but I have to say I feel so great this morning.  Not 100%, my throat still hurts and I’m a little stuffy but not nearly as bad as yesterday!

Yup, that’s me in there!!

So another item on my doctor’s home remedies list was “use an over-the-counter saline nasal spray to irrigate and drain the nasal cavity.”  She said the nasal decongestant spray that I was using was making everything worse by over drying.   Huh who would have thought!  Anyway of course we didn’t have a saline spray HOWEVER we did have the neti pot Ichiro got when he was sick.  I hadn’t tried it yet, something about pouring saline water into your nose just really turns me off.  But last night I was willing to try ANYTHING!  The neti pot didn’t really work like it was suppose to, I was so blocked that it couldn’t make its way out the other side but I could tell it was still working.  I know it’s a lot of gross info but it was clearly breaking things up and don’t worry I didn’t take a picture of me trying it out!  I plan to try it again tonight! I might be a new fan of the neti pot!!!  (Kerry you MIGHT have been right!)

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