Phrases I have heard lately:
“When are you due?”
“Is this your first?”
“Let me guess your due date!”
“Good luck…!”
It’s hard to deny it. Strangers comment almost daily over my expanding baby bump.
I’ll be honest, it’s not all baby – my appetite has expanded just as quickly as my waistline! What you can’t tell from this picture is that I am suffering from a nasty cold. I woke up on Thursday morning with a very sore throat and now have the classic stuffed up nose, sneezing, watery eyes, headache, exhaustion…I feel like a commercial for a cold remedy. Except that I can’t take most cold remedys – instead, I am taking regular Tylenol and drinking hot tea. It’s hard to keep from popping a cold pill when we have them at the ready – Denis, the source of my cold, was taking them last week. Darn my weakened immune system!
Unfortunately, I didn’t get as much rest as I wanted to today! Denis and I made a trip to pick up some baby stuff – in particular, my birthday gift of a diaper bag. I had picked out a timi & leslie bag online in the summer but was unable to find it here in London. While on vacation in Colorado, I was able to see it in person, which helped me decide that this was the bag I really wanted! Finally, after a couple of months of emailing back and forth with the owner of Stork (Do you have this bag in stock? Will you soon? Is it in yet? I think I really annoyed her!), I was thrilled to finally be able to pick it up today. It says ‘purse’ just as much as it says ‘diaper bag’, which is important to me as it will be serving both purposes for some time.
What really tickled my Dutch bone was the discount – they were having a “50% off almost everything” sale! I was fully expecting to pay over $150 for it but instead got it for $90. Sadly the ‘almost everything’ didn’t include strollers – otherwise we may have spent a little more.
We also went to Ikea to make our first major baby purchase, a dresser. I’m following Katelyn’s lead on her nursery dresser purchase of the 8-drawer Hemnes in white. It’s a good size (as is our nursery!) and can easily fit a changing pad on top. Right now the nursery is still a bit of a construction zone but our plans this week are to purchase paint (colours have been chosen for a while) and clean it up in general. I can’t wait until I’m feeling better to do some more nursery planning. As in, more than the practically zero planning I have done so far! We’re hoping to find a deal on a used crib, a nice rug, and a glider with ottoman or a comfy side chair (likely also used). I see lots of Kijiji in my future…
I was about 14 weeks along and didn’t think I was showing that much at all yet. I was wearing a black tank top (picture taken on the same day) and out for a long bike ride. It could have easily been a little pot belly, if you will. But this guy knew. “Congratulations, ma’am” he said, after asking us for money for food.
This is not to say that everything has gone perfectly throughout the past 19 weeks (zomg, almost 5 months already??). I experienced some intense back pain for about 2 weeks that has now subsided to a dull and infrequent ache. However, the scariest event was definitely mid-August when I woke up in the middle of the night to my husband telling me that I had just had a seizure. I tried to convince myself the next morning that I was perfectly OK, so I hopped out of bed, had breakfast, and went to work. I felt miserable. Denis tells me that he would rate the seizure a “3 out of 10″. Imagine if it were a 5. Or an 8. Imagine if I was caring for an infant and had a seizure. Needless to say I am now extra diligent about medicating every day. No more seizures for me, pleaseandthankyou! Rest assured that I was careful to ensure that my medication is safe to take during pregnancy. I met with my neurologist this week – he was thrilled to hear that I was pregnant and is very involved in looking at ultrasound reports, making sure my blood is tested for the necessary…stuff…and ensuring that I am properly medicated in general!
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