May 22nd, 2007

Happy Long Weekend!

It was a really nice long weekend (well, not the weather, but I had fun!) We did some landscape planning and bought a tree and some shrubs. DH picked out a beautiful juniper tree for the front and it looks great! We also got a small cedar shrub and a burning bush, plus a dogwood tree to go in the backyard to use with Jack’s ashes. It’s really nice to feel our yard coming together – now it just needs to be warm enough to have a bbq!

This weekend I was officially 13 weeks and I think I already felt the baby move! It was a subtle movement but I’m about 95% sure it really was the baby. I never felt the first two move this early – but I guess the more babies you have the easier it is to recognize that amazing little fluttery feeling.

I went shopping on Sunday which was nice – had a nice lunch with my friend and then I bought some new maternity t-shirts and a great dress to wear to the three weddings I am attending this summer.

It would have been an ideal weekend if we hadn’t spent a pile of time and money on holiday monday at the emergency vet clinic. Symba’s neck was hurting and it was the degenerative disc disease flaring up. He’s on steroids and muscle relaxants for now and they mentioned surgery – but we really don’t want to go there if we can help it. Fingers crossed that meds are enough.

May 16th, 2007

We have a heartbeat!

Had my second prenatal appt yesterday – it was super fast and boring but Dr. B did find the heartbeat which was a huge relief! He didn’t even give me a heartrate or anything, but I did hear it beating away and I guess I can truly start believing that I’m having a baby in November!!!

Not too much else exciting here right now – the weather is pretty good and unfortunately the mosquitos are already out! It’s the long weekend in a couple of days but it is supposed to rain all weekend – YUCK! How are we supposed to start our garden if the weather is awful? Maybe it will be a movies and popcorn weekend instead!

May 14th, 2007

Coming out of Exhaustion Land

I tell you – the first trimester this time around was SOOOOO super tiring. I’m sure I wasn’t this exhausted with my previous pregnancies. Otherwise it wasn’t too bad – some nausea but no actually throwing up and I was pretty hungry most of the time so I gained like 7 lbs already – yuck! Still, I’m glad to be heading into the second tri now and I hope I have more energy so I can really enjoy my summer!

Work has been keeping me busy too, so it’s been hard to find time to blog – I’m going to have to do better though. I really want to have clearer memories of this pregnancy, especially if it turns out to be my last, as I suspect (although DH would still happily have a fourth baby in a year or two).

Yesterday was mother’s day and I have to say mother’s day feels so nice – my boys each did something special for me at daycare last week and then we went to a nice brunch with DH’s family yesterday. It was a good day for reflecting on how thankful I am for the boys and this baby who is growing ever so quickly inside of me. I’ve been more ambivalent about the pregnancy than I would have expected – some days I am just so fearful of how life will be with three children and if I’ll be able to succeed at a home business so I don’t have to go back to work (and so I can still feel self-sufficient, since I may stay home for a couple years regardless of if I work at home during that time or not). But now I know I need to start concentrating on enjoying this pregnancy and looking forward to another lovely baby. I’m sure it will all work out somehow!

Tomorrow is my second prenatal appt (hopefully without kiddos!) and I’m really looking foward to hearing the baby’s heartbeat. I feel pretty confident that the pregnancy is healthy but I will feel so much better when I hear a nice thumping reassurance on the doppler. Wish me luck!