Andrea Moreno

Waiting for Grandma

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:26:47 -0500

This is the cutest story of Greta Luna so far. My mom came to visit during Sept - Oct knowing that she will have to return by the end of the year for the birth of Greta. So since Greta’s due day was Jan 6th, grandma booked a flight ticket for Jan 2nd.

The last day of her vacation of Oct. when we were waiting for the taxi to pick her up, she put her face really close to my belly and whispered to Greta a secret. She said: “Greta Luna, wait for me, I will be back Jan. 2nd… Wait for me”

Jan 2nd came my mom arrived. Immediately my mom went to my belly to whispered again and said: “Greta Luna, I am here, thank you for waiting, you can come out anytime now”

That was at 5pm Jan. 2nd. We had dinner and then went to sleep and at 3am Jan 3rd I broke waters.

“SHE WAITED FOR GRANDMA”

Chilling State

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:09:24 -0500

Chilling State

Yummm

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:06:57 -0500

Yummm

Christmas & New Year

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:05:45 -0500

Basically this two holiday days were very quiet. Me and my partner had a good meal and stay at home, exchange presents, and watch movies. It was intimate and cozy.

I got so many present… And so good!!! I might have been doing something good this year. My partner always get me the best of the best and I love to receive it. I also got her great stuff and she was really happy.

By New Year same thing with a sip of champaign (so good). This time we made one wish…. To have a healthy baby!!!

Happy 2012

Towards the End

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:58:16 -0500

Well after my 32nd week things didn’t change that much. The pregnancy kept going nice and smooth. I started working from home, which was the idea in order to avoid the crazy subway commute and to set the terrain for after birth. So I can continue doing the most important things from home.

I started no wanting to go out. I found pleasure in my living room, laying on the sofa and watching movies. I kept going to my Pilates private sessions and even though I felt about to pop I still feel good and strong.

Being pregnant wasn’t that bad after all!!!

Motherhood Love

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:51:11 -0500

At 32 weeks pregnant, I finally got to see my baby Greta Luna again through a sonogram. The last one before this one was at the 17th weeks during the amnio. So 15 weeks later I was really desperate to see her. She was fine and shy. She was putting her hand over her face like saying… No paparazzis, no pictures please!

But we got a pretty good look of her. She is fine… a little bit low in weight but fine and within the normal range. So I was told to drink a high protein shake every day. And I have to say that I like those and Greta seems to like them too.

I am feeling her way more now, maybe because she is gaining weight and maybe because the womb is becoming a little too small for her.

Still the pregnancy has been amazing and not too uncomfortable like a have heard here and there. Now the hardest part is to sleep but it’s ok… I have never slept on my belly, and its true, one of the things that I want to do the most is to sleep on my belly… funny eh!

I feel love for my baby, even though I still haven’t really seen her, I don’t even know how she will be like or who she will look like. Its like pure love I guess. I am 7 weeks away from my due day and I seriously can’t wait to see her, to have her, to kiss her and to cuddle with her.

I am so happy as well as her other mom Joan who is as in love with Greta as I am.

Greta Luna at 32 weeks

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:05:00 -0500

Greta Luna at 32 weeks

New Creations Keep Coming To Life

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 01:29:55 -0400

As its been said for years, EVERYTHING COMES AT THE RIGHT TIME…So true.

Remember my post of Oliver Sol and Greta Luna many posts ago… Well one of them is here now.

The process of the desire to have one of them… started three years ago, and never vanished even though I took a break.

Well… after recovering my emotional and physical strength due to the horrible episodes of the 2 ectopic pregnancies, about 7 months ago me and my life partner decided to try one more time.

This time we decided to go for a more aggressive and promising method, IVF (In-Vitro Fertilization). The main difference between this method and the one previously tried (IUI)… many times before, is that it raises the chances of pregnancy on a 60% of success.

Well this time I was 39 which it has a mild weight in the percentage of success of the procedure. The stimulation is about the same, done with the injectable hormones to produce as many eggs as possible.

At the beginning I didn’t know if I was producing enough eggs, since at each doctor’s visit they say: ok I see 5 eggs, 9 eggs, 10 eggs, who knows what quality…. of course one its enough but this method required the fertilization of at least 5 great quality eggs. However I kept asking around to other women, about how many eggs have they produced during the process, to heard numbers like a total of 16, 17 and I just seem to have 10.

The day of the retrieval came, I needed to go under the anesthesia since the way the eggs are retrieved is through the vagina’s walls straight to each of the ovarie’s follicles with a needle and a high high quality ultrasound system… If I would’ve been awake I would have probably run away after the first pinch. So when I woke up… surprise, surprise I produced 21 eggs, 18 of those were of an excellent quality. They fertilized the 18 eggs that same day and 5 days later they put 3 in the best spot of my uterus.

Week one passed by and I’m feeling a little funny… kind of feeling that yes I was pregnant, but my fear was not “to be or not to be” pregnant, it was actually that the levels of beta were high enough. Week 2 went through and I had to go for the blood test. OMG, I was so scared… remember I have been going to that same doctor’s office before to get anything but bad, terrible news… Well not this time. The beta level was excellent and yes I WAS PREGNANT.

Next week we saw the sac, the following one the heartbeat, the following one everything in order. At the 10th week I was allow to go to my regular ob/gyn who was so happy to see me with such a great news.

The sonogram was perfect, the baby looks great and the tests were all giving awesome results. I got my NT Scan at 11 weeks with great results, the amnion at 17 weeks with completely normal results and the great news that yes:

IT’S A GIRL

Greta Luna reached her 3 months to stay and we are still hanging together. I am currently 7 months and a half and I can’t explain the love I feel for my baby girl… every-time she moves its like a kiss I receive from her. I am so in love with her. Its hard to explain all the abstract knowledge and resolutions that being pregnant brings to the mother-to-be. In my case, and just to show a little bit of the tip of the iceberg, I can say that yes… Greta Luna came to put in words the explanation of my existence. I see some many things now from another perspective and I like it.

The pregnancy has been fantastic, I have been feeling all this time like a rock star, and yes, there are some little difficult part of it, but not that difficult.

I will now star putting some pictures of the different sonograms during the most crucial and important months of the most beautiful gift I have received: My Baby Girl Greta Luna. I will also put some picture of my roundness.

Both me and my beloved partner Joan can’t wait to meet her.

I will leave it up to here now, but I will continue with more more more.

Growing Phases of Greta Luna

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:43:17 -0400

Below you will be able to see all the growing phases I have captured of the evolution of my baby Greta Luna from the very, very beginning to the actual moment 30 weeks.

Photo

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:35:00 -0400

5 Days

5 Weeks

6 Weeks "Heart Beat"

9 Weeks

11 Weeks

12 Weeks

14 Weeks

16 Weeks

17 Weeks

18 Weeks

Photo

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:20:00 -0400

20 Weeks

23 Weeks

25 Weeks

28 Weeks "Apple Picking"

32 Weeks

Greta Luna

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:05:00 -0400

Greta Luna

Here is a little appetizer of what Chuun Ka’an Summer Camp...

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:58:00 -0400

Here is a little appetizer of what Chuun Ka’an Summer Camp will be about!

GREAT NEWS - Updates

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:00:00 -0400

Last time I wrote was about a Year ago, and it was about the excitement of having one of my sisters back. Well that still keep giving beautiful things to the relationship. Everyday I love her more than ever. Her capacity to love goes beyond her believes and standards, and that says a lot about essence. Thanks Ale… you will always have on this side a sister that will be here for whatever you need. As far as my other sister… not much progress there… she still doesn’t talk to me, I still don’t know her second child, and I still feel a big distance in between. I haven’t move… but the distance gets bigger… there is nothing I can do but keep hoping that she will shorten that gap sometime.

In the other hand things has gone great in my personal relationship, My adored Joan and I are stronger every-time more. I see more love, more support, more tolerance, more harmony, more LOVE… We have grown as a couple and as individuals. Its such a harmonic relationship. I think I fall for her everyday a little bit more… Love is not about that magical instant thing that many people think… Its a process in progress, its discovering things in that person that is next to you that make you think… OMG she/he is so nice, so sweet, so great, such a great support so good etc, etc and that doesn’t happen in one instant.

In my professional life I also have been doing amazing. I still work in The Real Deal, but I have been thinking in developing my personal/professional vocation on the side. So I have spent about 1 years developing what I will hopefully will be launching on the Summer of 2012.

I will talk about CHUUN KA’AN SUMMER CAMP in my next posting.

Good to be back…

Sisters Forever

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:05:00 -0400

Annabell

Andrea

Alejandra

Sisters Forever

Sisters

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:01:00 -0400

I am not sure if I ever mentioned that I have two sisters. The three of us are very very close in age.

Alejandra is 2 and a half years older than me. She was the most beautiful baby girl ever born… at least that is what my mom says all the time. And I have to admit that I agree with mom, I honestly haven’t seen a baby so beautiful and girly.

Then it was my turn to take a part in the Moreno Rodriguez family. The story of my life started me being a boy. At least for the first 9 months of life inside the belly of my mom. The shape of my mom belly was so different of her first pregnancy that she was completely sure that I was a boy. My name was going to be Enrique like my grandfather. Everything was blue and with the little “E” of my name. Well surprise, surprise… It was not a boy after all… I was a girl, but nothing close to be called cute. The doctors somehow had to use forceps (that is not allow to be used during birth nowadays) and as an usual consequence, the shape of my head got a little deformed temporally… So my mom said that I had like two ball in the head, and she was so ashamed to show me to her friends, specially after the beauty of Alejandra, that she actually showed me when I was about 6 months. Since my name was supposed to be Enrique, my dad quickly decided to named me Andrea.

Then just 11 months after my birth my little sister Annabell was born. OMG… another cutie. Alejandra and I were a little alike, since we both had dark hair being Ale of a more fair skine tone. But Annabell was the blond.

The story of hour sisterhood is so full of experiences and joy… until around 5 years ago. I told my sister my sexual inclination and of course, none of them could take it very well. I guess that Venezuela is a little far away of realities like that. So both of them didn’t know how to handle it but by creating distance. I could write and write some much about how much I suffer by feeling the distance of my two adored sisters, but I am now here to celebrate the recovery of one of them.

Last year in December I went to Venezuela to spend the holidays with the Family and Alejandra surprised me with the most beautiful gifts of all times. She kind of put aside all her difficulties to understand my reality and gave me all her love. I felt the love of my big sister back again and I seriously didn’t have any word to explain how grateful I was. I am so grateful to have her as a sister. Annabell was not in town when I went so the situation with her is still the same, even though recently she requested my friendship in facebook… that is one step forwards the love we always shared.

THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A SISTER, and I have two…

LOVE YOUR SISTER IF YOU HAVE ONE!!! Is one of the best feelings ever.

After Fed went to Cat heaven, these two decided to fill the...

Mon, 24 May 2010 16:48:00 -0400

Alfy

Jojo

After Fed went to Cat heaven, these two decided to fill the emptiness of my heart. Alfred and Jerry are the cats of my partner, and started to do a lot of typical thing that Fede just to do.

Now Alfy sleeps in my side, as soon as I call him, he comes, when I come back from work he comes to show me how happy he is to see me.

Jojo is another story, but he has gotten closer to me. He is a very independent cat… I mean a cat cat. Not like Alfy that sometimes thinks he is a dog or a person. Jojo, love sinks, and can’t see me in the bathroom because he jump in the sink and curl up there until I take him out.

Alfred is 13 (a cranky old man), Jerry is 9… he love to be on top of everything!

I am Back

Mon, 24 May 2010 16:11:00 -0400

Wow, it’s been months since I last wrote something in my journal. I guess that after the death of my adored Fede, things changed.

Well after Fede’s death, and some more unsuccessful and traumatic pregnancies I, of course needed to give it a turn to my life. Since birth and death are process that we can’t control then I shifted my compass to something I could control.

My professional dream… Yeah, I can do that… I totally can have the power to build that dream, I said to myself then.

So I started giving a better shape to a project that has been transforming since about 10 years ago. Like any other thing in process, there were some periods of silence. However I felt the need to wake it up again to feed the new needs.

My project puts together my two biggest passions; ARTS & CHILDREN. Being an Early Childhood Education Teacher and a Theater Actress, I found in that merge a good picture of my dream.

A moment to review the need came up and even though it wasn’t completely needed it, I decided to enrolled myself in a teaching career again. After so many years (around 15) of my graduation in my country, I was disconnected from the education process and I thought it was good to go for an update, and with that validate my teacher title at the same time.

Instead of enrolling in Early Childhood Education again, I decided to learn a little bit more of the process of older children, so I selected my program in Elementary Education.

At the very beginning I was so afraid, I am the slowest reader in the world and I knew that I was going to be reading a lot and IN ENGLISH uffffff!…

Classes started, I didn’t find it that hard even though it was very demanding. After 9 weeks my first two classes were done and I got my very first A and A- ever.

After that, As’ became my only grade and now 8 months later, I am still stuck with the As.

The dream is in progress and It looks promising

"Those that know do, those that understand teach."

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:03:15 -0500

“Those that know do, those that understand teach.”

- Aristotle

"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once they grow up."

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:06:00 -0500

“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once they grow up.”

- Pablo Picasso