spent a LONG day out yesterday – almost didn’t make it through, but i did and i’m stoked. seems like the morning sickness is being kind to me (i’m reluctant to say it’s gone because i don’t want to jinx it).
saturday started out with a 6am wake up call so i could meet my parents out in the Hills area for a good old fashioned househunting. (Regan was working, so i went on my own with them). we ended up seeing about 6 houses and townhouses, but it took up most of the day when we finished at 5pm after viewing what seems to be ‘the one’. funny how that works, spend the whole day schlepping your pregnant ass around the town and it’s the last one you find, which also happens to be one that you stumbled across by accident! nothing’s promised yet though – we still have to sell our apartment and hopefully we can do that quickly and without hassles. cross your fingers for us, i also gotta do that on my own as Regan’s leaving for the States soon 🙁 (he’s coming back, don’t you worry haha)
anyway, when i got back at 7pm Regan was home and we headed out to see Wilco at the Enmore. they’re amazing live – it was so good to see them finally and i know Regan had a great time. 🙂 we ended up leaving during the second encore so we could catch a cab and head back to the city without too much waiting. by the end of it, i was almost in a coma so i was thankful we did that. god, i’m sad. 😛
so sunday is my day of rest. we have an early appointment tommorrow with the obstetrician and/or midwife (not sure yet) which is cool! but if i don’t sit down, the universe will implode.
UPDATE – 10 mins later
oh god i’m headed out again. my parents found an even better place so i agreed to drive back out to check it out. pray for my feet. i’m so glad i slept in this morning. i video called them so i had a look through it briefly – and it does look like a great place, so i’m excited to see it. my parents have done all the hard work, i shouldn’t complain!
UPDATE – 3PM
just signed some papers. we bought a new 4 bedroom house!! too bad Regan hasn’t seen it yet 😛
we had our first ultrasound earlier this afternoon and it was every bit as amazing as i knew it would be 🙂
right up until today, i was so so anxious that i was a professional hypocondriac, and that i was dreaming everything so far. but there was absolutely nothing to worry about, nothing to be anxious about.
we were there for about 2 hours (their computers had gone down so there was alot of waiting) but we saw our beautiful baby on this HUGE flat screen they have set up. it was like a movie theatre!! (i want it!) briefly, she turned the sound on/up and we heard a loud thumping heartbeat (168bpm) which stunned us completely as we weren’t expecting it.
we saw it’s little heartbeat flicker on the screen, it’s arms and legs flail about for brief moments and, true to Tracey form, it’s stubborness to move from a head down position. you’ll often find me like that on the couch. with a bag of corn chips. niiiice.
Regan and I were told our chances of any genetic defects were very low – 1 in 18,359 chances of down syndrome; 1 in 33,467 chances of edward’s syndrome or patau’s syndrome. if it were 1 in 300 or below, then they’d consider us high risk. we could very well be high risk still (tests are about 90% accurate) but we’re at least confident the baby is in there and doing ok.
another thing they mentioned was that they thought i was a few days further along, 12 weeks 5 days, but because the bloods matched my original calculations, they said to stay on track.
tomorrow i’m 12 weeks with a permanent smile on my face 😀 🙁
today i hit 11 weeks and i managed to drag my ass out of the house, for the first time in months, for more than 1 hour. it’s a miracle!!! i still have some pretty bad morning sickness, but i knew this was coming up so i psyched myself up for it.
it was also the first time i’ve taken photos in a long while. nice to get back into it, frustrating that i couldn’t take in a dSLR to get the job done right. oh well, didn’t ruin my night – baby bump and i had a good time 🙂
Once in awhile, when it’s good
It’ll feel like it should
– john mayer
how right is he?
🙂
