This is me - International Women's Day

Seeings as it is International Women’s Day I thought I'd do a brief 'this is me' snippet.

So, this is me, today 8 March 2012, tomorrow is likely to be a different me, but this is me now in this moment:

• I'm 37 but regularly act like I'm 17, maturity can be a fleeting thing for me!
• I'm 32w5d pregnant - all my friends say the loved their pregnancy, glowed etc, I'm not loving it, actually apart from feeling junior's movements I'm not even liking it 
• I'm still getting a handle on my fears around the birth - movies, tv shows, friends horror stories have ruined what should be a beautiful and natural occasion
• I've had terrible nightmares about things going wrong with our pregnancy, but am too scared to put them into words and tell anyone
• I don't swear in front of people, but let rip in the car on my own, a secret between me & junior now!
• I don't eat as healthily as I should, but I'm getting there
• Once bub is born I won't to really give me all into getting into shape, I'm 38 this year, time is ticking, I need to feel hot, well at least luke-warm, sick of covering everything up!
• I hate doing the dishes, luckily Mr Mel is a sweetheart and covers me there
• I'm desperately counting down the days till I start maternity leave - 12 days incl today
• I have a name picked out for a charity I want to start, one day, I've stopped telling friends/family about it, they think I'm crackers
• I have our future farm planned out in our head, and can't wait till we can do it
• I have occasional, well let's say 'midweek' blindness to housework, weekends are attack time, but I'm easily distracted and often don't get round to it, I'm hoping once I'm off work I'll be more motivated!
• I often wonder how I go so lucky - 5 years ago I was single, not sure what to do with my life, not enjoying my work, and not travelling so well financially - now I'm married to an angel, about to have our first baby, financially stable, and loving life - how the hell did fortune smile on me? And why?
• I count out letters in sentences to see if they end in a 5/10/15 etc, and will add/remove letters to try and make them fit, ie don't becomes do not, do not becomes don't
• I count the numbers in dates to see if they add up to a 7, my fave number, ie our wedding date was 23/07/2011, so 2+3=5+7=12+2+1+1=16, then 6+1 = 7 - tada
• I think the last 2 might be admitting a tad too much!

It’s International Women’s Day - celebrate being you, a wonderful woman :)

Till next time,

Nursery on the way!

We're getting there with converting our 3rd bedroom/study/storeroom into a nursery for our bub due in April (we're at 30 weeks now!).

Luckily the room was already green, so no painting required, yay!

We've been very fortunate to have picked up alot of baby stuff free or cheap.

• We found the Boori Cot & change table on Ebay, $200 for the two of them
• Great 3 wheeler pram from Sister-in-Law
• Bassinette from Sister-in-Law
• Nursing rocking/sliding chair & footstool for $80 from a garage sale
• The wall unit we bought new from Ikea for $385
• Baskets in the unit cheap from $2 shops, and garage sales
• The small canvas art and the mobile were a $20 find in a garage sale
• The bunting (edited to take out surname :) )  was converted from the bunting I made for our wedding 
• Capsule for the car from Sister-in-Law
• Bagloads (I'm talking big rubbish bin bags) of clothes from Sister-in-Law
• Fisher Price bouncer from Ebay for 1/3rd of RRP

We just need to find a nice rug for the floor and we'll be just about set!  

Apart from the usual supply of creams/powders etc, which we're hoping to find organic versions of.

We bought a Safe N Sound Maxi Rider Booster Seat on sale at Bubs.com.au

Thanks to everyone for your lovely comments & emails about our news, we're very excited :)

 

Till next time,

Ummmm I'm back!

Ah yes well, to say it's been a while would be a tad of an understatement!

My last blogpost was back on August 30, when I was under the weather. Where do I start from there?

How's about some news?  Something along the lines of WE'RE PREGNANT!!!!

Yes, my under the weatherness from August was also morning sickness, altho I wasn't 100% sure at the time!

We returned from our Honeymoon on August 9, and on August 26 at 2am we got 2 lines on our home pregnancy test!

I had been feeling sick for a few days, and had an odd full/heavy feeling in my tummy, I thought oh wow what if.  So went and bought some preg tests, the first 3 came back negative, but I was sure something was up, so I kept buying & taking them!  Then at 2am on Aug 26, I got up to go to the loo, and thought bugger it I'll test again, and up came the 2 lines, I ran in and woke up hubby waving the stick in his sleepy eyes.

Test 1 - on day 35 of my cycle

Test 2 & 3 - on day 36 of my cycle

Test 4 - day 37 of my cycle

Our GP confirmed our home test by blood test on August 31!

From August until 2 days before Christmas I had dreadful 24x7 nausea and vomiting, I was vomiting up to 20-25 times a day, and about 5 times overnight, I just about nightly awoke with vomit on it's way and had to run to the toilet!  Life wasn't much fun for those 5 months!

At Christmas we drove 15 hours each way to my hometown to have Xmas with my family (we told my family via Skype on Fathers Day, saying that hubby would have a very different Fathers Day in 2012, they got the hint!

Since Christmas I haven't had much nausea and only a few vomits, more related to heat/tired than morning sickness, I think.

We're now at 29 weeks, and have met with the great midwives at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle, and have been to our first 2 ante-natal classes. I'm reading everything I can on natural childbirth, to try and overcome my birth fears, I want/hope/would like to go as natural as I can, but we shall see.

Everyone has been calling us old fashioned, with us conceiving a honeymoon baby, but we feel so lucky and blessed to have 'fallen' so quickly, old fashioned or not we'll take it :)

So in answer to one of my initial 'Can We Do It Questions'

Ah YEP WE SURE CAN!

Till next time, I promise it won't take so long!