Halfway there
As of yesterday I am officially half way through the pregnancy. Whew! So glad to get to this point. I still don't think it's really sunk in yet that I'm having another baby. Every once in a while I'll try to cross my arms and think 'what's that?!... oh yea, it's my belly'. Then yesterday I was stressing over Toby's school stuff and getting him registered for kindergarten in November this year rather than next. I kept thinking that something else was happening in November. Hmmm, let's see. What could that be? Oh yes, I'm having a baby. That's it.
Cupcake is making her presence felt more and more though. If I squat down to put Toby's shoes on she gives me a good kick and when I lay down at night that's her time to boogie. She's still more calm than Toby was at this stage but she's an active little thing.
I'm having more symptoms now too and I keep remembering ways that I learned to cope first time around. For instance, Cupcake is sitting right on my bladder so I have to wee more often but half the time I use the loo and then five minutes later she shifts her position and I need to go again. I suddenly remembered that someone (Annelouise?) had told me to rock back and forth while sitting on the loo so that I could move the baby around and totally empty my bladder. What a great tip! It totally works for me. Lovely image to send out into the world but defintely a tip worth sharing.
Today I was walking down the street and a lady stopped in front of me and lifted the tiniest baby out of a pram. She was the sweetest little thing, all dressed in pink with a head full of dark hair (the baby, not the lady). It really hit me that in a few months I'm going to have one of those! I'm so excited about having a baby again. Those first few weeks are one of my favourite times of babyhood. Those teeny, tiny toes and cries that sound like a little cat and that feeling of falling so helplessly in love. I can't wait.
My first little love has just come over to show me how he can throw his ball into the air. It's so hot that he's wearing nothing but a diaper. He was just eating pasta and he has tomato sauce all around his mouth and dripping down his chest onto his stomach. I guess all of childhood is pretty gorgeous. I think it's bath time.
Cupcake is making her presence felt more and more though. If I squat down to put Toby's shoes on she gives me a good kick and when I lay down at night that's her time to boogie. She's still more calm than Toby was at this stage but she's an active little thing.
I'm having more symptoms now too and I keep remembering ways that I learned to cope first time around. For instance, Cupcake is sitting right on my bladder so I have to wee more often but half the time I use the loo and then five minutes later she shifts her position and I need to go again. I suddenly remembered that someone (Annelouise?) had told me to rock back and forth while sitting on the loo so that I could move the baby around and totally empty my bladder. What a great tip! It totally works for me. Lovely image to send out into the world but defintely a tip worth sharing.
Today I was walking down the street and a lady stopped in front of me and lifted the tiniest baby out of a pram. She was the sweetest little thing, all dressed in pink with a head full of dark hair (the baby, not the lady). It really hit me that in a few months I'm going to have one of those! I'm so excited about having a baby again. Those first few weeks are one of my favourite times of babyhood. Those teeny, tiny toes and cries that sound like a little cat and that feeling of falling so helplessly in love. I can't wait.
My first little love has just come over to show me how he can throw his ball into the air. It's so hot that he's wearing nothing but a diaper. He was just eating pasta and he has tomato sauce all around his mouth and dripping down his chest onto his stomach. I guess all of childhood is pretty gorgeous. I think it's bath time.
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