So since the last lot of stress, everything seems to be going fine. The little one is kicking like a trooper (read: it hurts like a mo’fo at times) I am getting progressively fatter by the day (sort of maybe, I’m not sure) and things are happening the way they should (ie: I am not having my baby yet).
On the subject of getting progressively fatter, here’s the thing: I don’t really feel that much bigger than I was a fortnight ago. Actually, I don’t feel any bigger. I know from my last appointment that I was measuring small (nearly a month behind where my uterus should be).
I’m not that fussed about it considering I measured small with Amy during the entire pregnancy – I went and found my antenatal records for her pregnancy and I measured anywhere between 1 and 6 weeks behind at any given appointment – so I think that this pregnancy is probably going to follow in the same vein.
I can tell you that the baby is DEFINTELY getting bigger if his pokiness is anything to go by. Naughty poky baby.
He is grounded by the way. No ice cream, chocolate or lollies for him for a year after he arrives. Not to mention he won’t be allowed out to party with his friends or given access to the car keys either.
And anyway the less chocolate my children eat the more there is for me.
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It’s hot.
October is not meant to be a hot month. Warm, yes, but not hot. Not 30C hot (that is 86F for all you Americans. Seriously, when are you going to convert to the metric system like civilised people?)
I’m quite pleased though, for all the heat that we put up with yesterday, my ankles didn’t swell even a little. So proud. Who knew that one could be proud of her ankles? But I am. No water retention over here.
Now watch Murphy shoot me down in flames and make me swell like a balloon for the next 12 weeks.
Heh.
Amy has done quite well with the heat. Helps that she is only 2 and can run around naked without anyone looking at her oddly (although, I wonder would Nathan have a problem if I adopted Amy’s approach? Maybe the belly would mess with the aesthetics of it though…).
She has discovered the joys of icypoles. Unfortunately she is finicky as hell and hates being sticky. 2yo + icypoles + heat = lots of sticky water and an incredibly pissed toddler.
‘Wash HANDS mummy! Wash HANDS NOW please?’
‘Baff time? Yes? Now? Please baff time? Need baff Mummy!’ (Bath)
‘Need novver one? Can haff novver one please?’
Sigh.
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Signs I am not having enough sex:
I found a spider lurking in my cleavage. Thank god he was only small. Now I’m thinking though, it’s been much too long since Nat and I ‘got it together’ if I’m finding spiders in my boobs. What’s next, cobwebs in my underwear?
Seriously though, it’s been WEEKS, possibly even MONTHS. We made the executive decision to not have sex after the first scare with the baby (but hadn’t gotten around to it for weeks before that anyway). Recurrent issues have shown us that we did indeed make the right choice. The last thing my cervix needs is any kind of bumping.
However, I’m thinking that our decision might just kill us in the long run. Sure there are plenty of other things we could do, none of which involve my cervix, but seriously, creativity is not my strong point when I am pregnant.
And then there is the whole reciprocating thing. Sigh.
It’s all just too much work you know?
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Oh yes, I am working on a birth plan to share with everyone eventually and I will get Nathan to take a belly shot soonish to share too. Okay?
LOL at cobwebs in your underwear.
Good thinking about the less-chocolate-for-the-kids-the-more-for-you.
We Americans will NEVER switch to the Metric system. Why? Because we have to find as many ways as possible to be annoying.
I have vague memories of being in told in school that we were going to switch over so we needed to learn it.
I guess it never happened.
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OK. First. Mommies should always have first dibs on the chocolate. Sometimes the only dibs. Second. Have her eat the icypoles IN the baff. 😉 Third. Did you FREAK OUT about the spider? You’re rather calm about it. You’re making jokes. I’d still be making sure it was dead.
Looking forward to the plan and the pics!
Glad things seem to be going well !
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My kids loved popsicles in the bath. Saved the kids from being sticky, saved me from having to clean all those random surfaces they managed to stickify between wherever they were and the bathtub!
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I actually knew what the temp was when you used Celsius, I spent two weeks in Europe two years ago and am happy to still know that 30C was mid 80’sF.
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I found a bug in my bra and then days later a fly. While I was wearing them.
And I ain’t pregnant.
So what do you think that means?
Oh and you can buy icypole holders at Kmart I think. No sticky then!
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happy to hear everything is going well..
sex? whats that again?
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Good to know I’m not the only obsessively clean freak who put the kids in the bath tub to eat their icy poles. I’ve even put the grandchildren in the bath tub to eat their icy poles. Got photos to prove it. They were hosed of with the shampoo hose before being let out.
Don’t worry about the no sex thing. It’s too hot anyway.
so let me see if I’ve got this. Amy doesn’t want to be sticky, you don’t want to be hot, but do want to be sticky and there are spiders involved.
Sounds kinky. 😉
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mmmm…reciprocation.
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Maybe the spider figured you were lonely. :]
Every post I read about the baby still being well and kicking you where it hurts is also encouraging. I’m so very glad to read them, as I’m sure you are to post them.
Many hugs.
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HA! I absolutely have cobwebs in my undies, although I’m much to pregnant to care at this point.
So glad you’re feeling better. Looking forward to the belly shot. With both pregnancies I’ve felt like I hit a growth plateau in my second tri – but I bet you’ll pop again in a couple of weeks.
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My boy was definitely pokier than the Princess was…and I’m sorry to say that it didn’t stop after he was born. DEFINITELY try to keep the chocolate for yourself, but don’t be surprised if you turn around one day and Amy has given a lolly to your 6-month old. That’s just how second children roll! All through my second pregnancy the doctors and nurses and technicians would ask, “how big was your first baby?”
“um, 7’7″…”
“Oh! Well this one is going to be MUCH bigger!”
It was all I could do not to ask them to just SHUT UP. (He was 8’12”, came out with 2 pushes after a measly 7 hours of labour, and not a stitch was needed.) MUCH better than the first time!
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You’re pregnant you don’t have to reciprocate if you don’t want to!!! Let Nat have the spider…
Aren’t girls just such princesses when it comes to having sticky fingers!!!
I once found a cookie in my cleavage but not a spider. At least I got to have a little snack.
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Spider in cleavage = must scrub flesh ’til it’s raw. ACK. I’m not a spider fan. No really.
I, too, remember being in school and told we had to learn metric because we’d be changing over… never happened. I think funding was cut for project “Switch to Metric”. Someday when I rule the world, I’ll rectify that.
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A spider in your cleavage? HAHAHA! He must have been one happy spider! 😉
So glad you are doing well and the little one is kicking up a storm. 🙂
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I am in so much trouble if we ever convert to the metric system. My grasp on the current, uh…non-metric? system is questionable as it is. I’d be happy to be rid of the pesky daylight savings hassle though. It’s cold here, so send me some heat and I’ll send you some snow. Actually had to put on the winter coat this morning, and am in total denial. I think if we’re very, very quiet…winter might not know we’re here and will just go away. No?
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With a husband in a cast and in pain, it’s been too long over here too. Sigh. And now I think I’m coming down with a cold. Sucks sweaty donkey balls.
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sounds like you’ve got a rugby player on your hands?
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Do you guys needs instructive videos? Some new and creative ideas, perhaps? It’s really rather simple .. but then .. creative is as creative does. And it CAN be fun .. being creative.
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Aww lol at the cobwebs honey! 😛
Glad to hear things are going a little more smoothly – or at least as much as they’re able to be with a toddler and summer just round the corner!
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Sorry about your spider sighting. I would have freaked! There is no sex happening here either. I just want to be left alone, no touche touche. Plus my ladies are killing me. I don’t need any jostling or bumping.
Can’t wait for the belly shots and the birth plan. I really need a birth plan right now since my birthing options are so limited.
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Yes it is finely me,,, I worked 6 days in a row. Look at you getting into trouble when I am not here what is up with that kid huh? No stressing I think would be the way to go and how do you do that I know… I think of you al Pray you are holding yoru knees together as hard as you can.. Don’t they have some kind of pills you can take to stop that from happening… My Amy was put on some before Ashlynn was born, to stop the contractions,, Man you worry me and I think you are a bit far away from me to be worried like I could really do anything huh,,, Hang in there… Yeah I think I am too old for one to elarn that metric system thingy sorry,,,, it is 86 plus here still by the way.
Oh my goodness! First off, you had me laughing about the spider bit! It’s been ages here too…for the same reasons you guys have decided not to do it. My entire medical team keeps reminding us “absolutely NO sex” unless we want our liitle one to arrive NOW! Ummm…no.
Glad to hear all is well where you are and that you and the baby are doing great 🙂
Just added you to my blogroll. Hope that’s okay 😉
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I couldn’t stand any kind of cervix bumping after around 6 months preg. And really…blow jobs when you can’t bend at the waist and you’re kind of nauseous? Far too much trouble.
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Okay. Whew. I’m so glad that you are doing well. I came through a link on Hyphen’s blog. I’ll still send many good vibes your way.
And the spider thing?
Good GOD. I would die. The end.
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