the long weekend did more harm than good. spent most of it wide awake in pain, with ligaments and stomach muscles stretching and making me reconsider any kind of birth plan. (3am on sunday morning i decided i’m gonna give birth by the same laser beam they use on UFO’s to beam you up and down. by 6am i decided that was silly and that the baby would teleport out on it’s own, cause it must have some sort of magical power due the to hours of faith tv we watched that night). i woke up even more zombie-like this morning due to some all night sleep talking and sleep gymnastics. i can always tell that i’ve been busy in my sleep if i wake up and go to brush my teeth with a hairbrush and my moisturiser.
i did go in for my blood test this morning ahead of my first scan next week 🙂 very very excited to finally see the baby and check on things. i feel like i haven’t done anything in the past 3 months, so this is a first.
mum and dad get back from malaysia this weekend, my grandfather had surgery this past week and looks to be on the mend. Regan will be leaving to go to the States in a couple of weeks, so i’m not really looking forward to that. he won’t miss my birthday though, so we’ll try to do something cool for it.
a big HELLO to the new friends that have popped in and emailed me recently. it’s always nice to hear from you 🙂 i have to mention that i don’t have comments turned on, for any of my blogs, because i was getting too much spam and it was taking up too much resources on the server. y’all know where i am anyway (hopefully) so you can msg me, flickrmail me, sms me whenever you like.
i’m off to eat my third breakfast of the morning (or an early lunch) and then i’m sending Regan out to get me 10kgs of Jelly Belly A&W Root Beer jelly beans. got a craving. 😀
i will be 10 weeks along on thursday – double digits, can you believe that!? i still find it amazing that i’m actually pregnant, i guess it’s because i haven’t had an ultrasound yet (first one in about 2 weeks time) so i haven’t see what’s going on inside me.
i wanted to keep this blog updated as much as possible without going crazy with it. there are SO MANY things i could post every hour or every minute regarding what’s going on with me, but you really don’t need to know how much my boobs hurt, do you? (they hurt alot actually). i will post, however, about morning sickness and the first trimester so far.
there’s not much ‘yucky’ private lady stuff, so you don’t need to avert your eyes next time you see me. promise. i just think there should be a pamphlet given to all newly pregnant women that tells you what to expect apart from missing your period and feeling sick.
this is what i know so far –
* ‘morning’ sickness was probably named by a man who thinks a cup of tea and a cold compress will fix anything. for most women with it, it’s an all day sickness that can get worse/better at any time of the day without warning.
* you probably think that you’ll puke your guts out and that’ll be it – but it’s a vast range of things, and different for all women. all day nausea seems to be very common.
* you could start morning sickness from as early as 4 weeks along (like i did) or you can start a bit later. you might not even get it at all. all normal.
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just a quick update to say hi and, again, thank you to everyone who has contacted me over the past week. it surprised me to hear so many stories, i guess you never know what goes on in a persons life, sometimes? apologies to those i haven’t gotten back to…
as you may have guessed i’ve been missing in action. morning sickness has taken over my life, so i’m not as chipper as I once was. don’t get me wrong, i’m still incredibly excited, but just excited as you can get while trying to fight zombification. i know in the end it’s all worth it, so i’m trying not to complain. i’m also trying to not to post so much, as my hormones are taking over my brain and everything i write makes me want to cry. (boo hoo 😛 )
so until next time, i leave you with the latest thing that’s made me burst into tears…
enjoy.
