Have I come this far already??

It's hard to believe but I am nearly at the end of the second trimester!! :O How did that happen?? Where did the time go?? Crazy. I'm now 25 weeks pregnant and going strong. :)

I've had a pretty uneventful journey so far which is obviously a good thing. No one wants complications during pregnancy. When I say uneventful, I just mean in the "things going wrong" sense of course. Of course there is a very good reason things have been cruisy and uneventful.... I haven't invited any negativity and crap into my pregnancy/birthing space. I haven't done lots of tests which could potentially stress me out for no reason (ie genetic testing that wouldnt impact on my decision to keep a pregnancy so why bother having the test). I haven't had to listen to a dr tell me my pelvis isnt big enough or my baby is too small or my baby is breech and it will die if I try to birth it that why or I will kill my baby if I go "overdue" or my blood pressure is too high or too low or Im too fat to birth a baby naturally or my hair is too brown or or or....I could go on but I'm sure you get the gist. You really can't underestimate the benefits of not having that stressful shit thrown at you at every turn during pregnancy. We pregnant women have enough to think about without all that useless crap being dished out as well. Every appointment I've had has been stress free, relaxing, fun and supportive. I couldn't ask for more :) It really is a stark contrast to the appointments we had when my partner S was pregnant with our little munchie J. Whilst those appointments weren't filled with as much crap as many others have experienced they still weren't even remotely as nurturing and supportive as the ones we have had this time. There really is no comparison. Oh and our appointments are on average about an hour and a half as opposed to the 10-15 minutes we were "lucky" to get with the obstetrician when S was pregnant. Homebirth rocks :P


Oh speaking of appointments, my last one was a hoot. I got felt up by a few people which was new and umm different lol When I say "felt up" what I really mean is that a couple of "ring ins" (read: midwives in training lol) got to palp my pregnant belly. I was a test dummy. A real life test dummy. lol It was actually pretty fun and trippy to be used as a teaching tool. :P I did get a bit of performance anxiety when it came time to have my blood pressure taken though lol Even though I had taken my blood pressure the day before (and took it the day after) and it was fine, it went up slightly when I had it taken in front of about 6 or 7 people. Aaah well, the joys of being a performing pregnant monkey eh lol


So even though my pregnancy has been uneventful in terms of negative stuff it really is a truly amazing experience. Really truly mindblowing. For so many years I have dreamt about what it actually feels like to have your baby kick you from the inside. I have always wanted to know what that was like. Right now I get to experience it on a daily, no hourly, basis! It still all seems a little surreal at times. It's so hard to describe exactly how amazing it is to feel your belly babe kick you. I'm not sure I would do it justice if I tried to explain it. Suffice to say I am loving every second of it. I'm cherishing every moment (at least until the end of pregnancy when everyone keeps telling me I will get sick of it lol). But right now I love it. I love having that knowledge that my bub is growing, getting stronger, stretching his/her little limbs. It is such a comforting feeling. I love it I love it I love it.

I'm sure there was more I was going to blog about but I cant remember anything else at the moment. Doh. If I think of anything more I will be back :)

Just a quickie....

I just had to write this down before I forget coz I thought it was so funny.


I had my second midwife appointment today and we decided to have it in a local playground. Our first appointment was at our house and J was a little, how shall I say this, pain in the arsey lol She covered the dog in milk, put milk and peanuts in her trolley thing which was already filled with water, yelled, threw grapes everywhere, yelled some more, tried to hit the dog etc etc you get the picture. This time it was great! She got to play for an hour in the playground and we got to chat without interruption lol


So anyway after we chatted away for nearly an hour Lisa went to take my blood pressure. There was another man there with a young child who had been playing with J for a while. When Lisa pulled out her bits and started to take my blood pressure the look on this guys face was just priceless LOL You could just about hear his brain ticking over - "what they fuck are they doing over there???" "who has their blood pressure taken in a playground??" It gave me a jolly good laugh anyway. Aah the joys of homebirth and not having to go to a yukky hospital for antenatal appointments!! Edumacating, one playground dad at a time lol


Oh another even quicker funny story....my mum suggested we call our baby Ned if its a boy *snort* Sooooo not going to happen lol Sorry mum :P





See I told you I would post again soon! :P

Slacker Slacker Slacker

I have no excuses this time. Just pure slackness. *blush* I really need to get better at this blogging gig. Sigh. So much for trying really hard to make it less than two months between blog posts. Oops.


Where to begin...When I last posted I had just completed insprogulation again. So for all those who dont know (which is probably not many) I am pregnant again. Woot! I'm 18 weeks pregnant at the moment. That just seems crazy to put down in words. I cant believe how quickly time has flown. Im nearly half way to having a baby for goodness sakes! Eeeeek!


Things have been pretty cruisy so I dont have heaps to report. Im sure I can waffle for a while though. LOL I never really had any major morning sickness. I did have what I termed "afternoon queeziness" though. Basically by the afternoon I would start to feel a little icky and I was really fussy about what I could and couldn't eat. I never actually vomited or really came close. Yay!! Im so damn happy about that. I sooo wasn't looking forward to being sick. Thank goodness I never got there. The only other slightly uncomfortable pregnancy "thing" I have had to deal with is that the left side of my lower back has become a bit "dicky". It clicks out and then back in fairly regularly and causes me a little bit of pain. Thankfully it doesnt seem to last too long, its usually gone by the next morning after a good sleep. For now anyway ;) Apart from those two things I have had what could only be described as a really cruisy pregnancy so far. :)


One of the things that I find so trippy is how hard my tummy feels. I really had no idea it would feel this hard this early. Not that its really that early I guess. Its just such an amazing thing to experience. I cant stop feeling myself up all the time LOL I lay there every night running my hands over my increasing tummy and talking to the little one inside me. I have dreamt about this moment since I was a little girl and it seems so surreal sometimes to finally be experiencing the amazingness that is pregnancy. I swear if I was heterosexual I would have been up the duff by the time I was 20 LOL There would have been no stopping me. :P Having said that I am actually really glad that I have waited this long. I have done a lot of growing and learning between year 20 and year 31. I often joke that I can see what would have happened if I had had a child at 18 instead of getting my pussy cat. My first fur baby is a pain in the arse. I love him to death but he's a pain in the arse. Im sure I caused at least some of that because of my immaturity so thank god I practiced on a cat first LOL Sorry Kobie. I feel like I'm in a really good place emotionally to have a baby now and Im so thankful I waited. Or should I say I was forced to wait. ;)


In between my last post and this one I had my first midwife appointment. I was looking forward to it so much I could barely contain myself. Of course I acted very cool, calm and collected so I'm sure she never guessed hahaha. It wasnt like like there was really that much to do on our first appointment. For some silly reason it just made things seem even more real in my head. I knew the midwife I chose before I became pregnant. In fact I had her pencil me in as a client before I really officially knew I was pregnant lol. I could write a whole blog post on what a wonderful midwife I think Lisa is but if you dont already know her you can read about her yourself here. So our first appointment was just to take a very basic history and a chance for S to meet Lisa for the first time. Thankfully she really liked Lisa which was helpful because there is no way I would have ditched Lisa as a midwife if she didnt lol. I had that first appointment when I was 14 weeks pregnant and apparently I measured 16 weeks which really means nothing so woohoo lol. I will be having my next appointment in two days time and I'm really looking forward to that too. :) Even though there probably wont be anything that exciting happening at that one either lol. The whole journey is just so freakin exciting!


I did have a bit of a "moment" in that last week. I went to the dr two weeks ago (which I just hate doing) because I wanted a referral to get some blood taken so I could find out what my blood group was (coz Im curious), whether I was immune to Rubella (nosey) and what my iron levels were like (again just coz Im nosey). So the dr I saw was this doddery 60 odd year old guy (funnily enough he is my Nanna's favourite dr) who is apparently known for going a little overboard. So instead of the three things I wanted to know I walked out of that room with a referral to have about 20 bloody tests done :O Including a wee test because "how would I know if I have bladder cancer if I dont have this test" ummm okaaay. I skipped that one by the way lol. So anyway I had my blood sucked and went back just over a week later to get the results. Everything was absolutely perfect apart from one thing. Apparently my thyroid levels are slightly high. Of course the first thing the dr I saw to get the results said was "drugs". WhatEver. He also gave me a referral to an endocrinologist. The first thing I did when I got home from getting those test results was to make an appointment with my homeopath. She was great. We had a jolly good chat about how fucked and dumb dr's can be. She gave me a remedy after we chatted for a while. It was just how appointments should be :P I did decide to go ahead and make the appointment with the endocrinologist so I could quiz him about what this result really meant. I was pleasantly surprised to hear him say that he didnt think my thyroid level and lack of symptoms warranted drug management. I have a referral to go back in a months time and re-test to see that it hasnt gone up anymore. Im sure it will all be fine though. :)


Our 4 yr old DD (J) has been very cute lately. She has become the newest homebirth advocate on the block. She is always making comments about how its sooo much better to have your baby at home in a baby pool. She has even been doing some birth role plays lately. She gave birth to twins in the bath the other day. LOL It was very very cute hehe. She kisses my tummy a lot and talks to her new little brother or sister. I really cant wait to see the look on her face when she finally sees her new baby brother or sister for the first time. It makes my heart melt when I hear her talking about or to her new sibling.


Well I think that's all my important goss for the moment. I really really mean it when I say I will try to get back here and blog a bit more regularly than I have so far. No really, I mean it!!



ETA - oh the only other thing that happened in the last few months that I didnt mention was that we got a puppy. Am I crazy I hear you ask. The answer is YES!!!