A pregnancy journey - albeit a rather crazy ride.....hang on!
Well it’s time to say goodbye to this pregnancy, so I bid a fond farewell to the following:
…………………………….and it is HELLO Baby!!!!!
See you all on the flipside!!!!!!
Had enough of me whinging yet????
Seriously, I thought I had better write a more postive post so that I wasn’t in danger of losing the 3 (three, maybe four) readers I do actually have.
Yesterday was a good day, The Big Boy got up with the little ones and feed them breakfast whilst I had a little sleep in. My Dad ventured over in the morning and all 4boys headed out to do the grocery shopping whilst I stayed at home.
I got some (more) cooking done yesterday morning and then after the boys had their lunchtime naps we headed out to visit friends in their new house.
All in all a pretty relaxing day and I even found time to do some scrapbooking………………..happy days………………
Our freezer is now stocked with:
Lasagna – Cannelloni – Quiche & Risotto…………………..at least I know they won’t starve whilst I’m in hospital!!!!
I’m a little bit of a grump today………………..actually “little bit” may be an understatement. You know that feeling you get when you have PMS, that irrational, I’m angry with everyone, you’re all giving me the s*&t’s kinda feeling? Yup, you know it, been there recently?????
Well that is me today!
It probably doesn’t help that I still have this disgusting cold and my tooth (see “Ouch” post) is playing up again. Not sure if it is gum damage OR I have a wisdom tooth coming through, either way I’m in agony and 4days from away from having this baby there really is nothing I can do!
The LB’s seem to sense when I am not coping and go out of their way to be trying………………well that’s what this hormonal, slightly paranoid, dellusional woman thinks anyway. Take for example morning tea:
Both LB’s are a little grumpy today LB#1 has been up since 5.30am (yes that’s right) and LB#2 has been up since 6.15am – a wee bit early for both of them. So they are tired, they are not sharing well and their mother has a short fuse……fun eh?
Anyway, morning tea – LB#2 in his high chair eating a banana muffin (homemade thankyou, yes despite everything that is going on, I insist on cooking delicious, homemade snacks) and LB#1 is on the stool at the bench. I’m unloading the dishwasher -everyone is happy.
LB#2 likes his muffins crushed – when I say crushed I mean he attempts to put the ENTIRE muffin in his mouth all at once then proceeds to grind the excess up. This usually doesn’t bother me he eats 95% of it and besides little boys are by nature, messy little creatures. This morning is no different I have a high chair full of crumbs and floor looks pretty good too!
Not a problem, we have wooden floor boards and we have a vaccum, problem easily solved. He is also drinking his milk out of one of those “spill proof” mugs (please note the EMPHASIS on SPILL PROOF) and is starting to get restless. I get the vac out to clean up the mess before it is walked through the rest of my house. I should note here that LB#2 middle name should be Houdini, he has the uncanny knack of being able to get out of most restraints, including the high chair. This particular skill will probably serve him quite well later in life, in fact when he sends drives his mother to the NUT HOUSE he can show her how to get out of her straight jacket. Anyway I digress, I’m getting out the vac, LB#2 is trying hard to stand in his high chair, LB#1 is sitting at the bench eating his muffin and some rice cakes. Turn around to see LB#2 throw his cup of milk onto the floor, throw is probably not all that accurate – he pelts at me (see told you I was paranoid) with all the strength of an olympic shotputter and this is where my friends the “spill proof” cup – is no longer. I now have milk on the floor, walls and on me…………..do I lose my cool????
NOOOO, I calmly put the vac to one side, get out the paper towel and proceed to floor level to clean up the MESS! Now the action “proceed to floor level” sounds like a relatively simple task, doesn’t it??? Yes well, anyone who has been pregnant will tell you that grovelling around on the floor when you are 8.5months pregnant is certainly a feat, doing it whilst trying to keep a 14month old from climbing out of his high chair adds a whole new dimension of difficulty and add to this the banana muffin crumbs already on the floor – well you get my drift………..feeling a wee bit frustrated about now!
Clean up milk, start up vac and start on the floor, high chair and the little boy who has sitting/standing/getting ready to pounce in it. Decided that sometimes it is just easier to vaccum your children rather than change clothes – I’m serious quit laughing………
Vaccumming the crumbs off LB#2 makes LB#1 laugh hysterically, in fact he thinks its a game, BIG FUN, Mummy is vaccumming my little brother – oh the delight……….this was probably (in hindsight) my downfall……..LB#1 wants to join in the “game” and proceeds to flick all of his banana muffin crumbs onto the floor…………………….”Not Happy Jan”……I had (literally) just turned off the vac and put LB#2 down on the newly cleaned floor, so in the two nano-seconds it took to put down one little boy I turn to see the other little boy flick all of his morning tea onto the floor………………………………(starting to see red)…………then LB#2 walks through the hail of banana muffin and proceeds to walk it through the kitchen and into the lounge room…………………yup – I’m a wee bit mad about right now…………………
There comes a point in time in your “mothering journey” (don’t you just love that turn of phrase) that you wonder WHY IN HELL you actually had children in the first place. This my friends is one of those times………………
A long time after I had cleaned up both boys (again), vaccumed the floor (again), finally got the dishwasher unloaded and put the milky paper towels in the bin it occured to me that this was the stuff that comedy sitcoms are made of……….it’s just not that funny when you are in the middle of it and there is no director to yell “cut” or stage crew to clean up the mess……………………
Well still have this wretched cold………………….love a SPRING illness…..runny nose and my throat is very, very sore. I am just hoping it doesn’t develop into a cough because it is hard enough with a c-section without having an existing cough!!!
Have made arrangement’s to catch up with some friends on both Saturday and Sunday, so we are now quite busy.
Yesterday the LB’s#1 & #2 went to daycare and I stayed home, wish I could say I rested but alas I am a nesting woman with things to do.
I now have a freezer full of meals for The Boy’s when I am in hospital and the babies cot also got made up yesterday.
Although I am still NO closer to packing my bag!
Yep, that just about sums it up……………..LB#2 has given me his cold, sharing, caring and loving soul that he is!!!! Still have Thrush and now my pubic bone is moving around and causing me grief – I am walking/waddling like a 100year old woman!!!!!!!
My last appointment with Dr Porsche today and he wasn’t even there, off gallivanting around delivering babies or something……who knew???
Saw the lovely Midwife and she pronounced baby to be head down but still “floating” and she concurred with Dr Porsche – yep it’s a BIG baby.
7 sleeps til baby arrives **STILL haven’t packed my bag**
You know it is quite funny………………….I e-mailed quite a few girlfriends last night just to update them all on the status of my pregnancy and to tell them about this blog and the response has been surprising – to say the least.
Two girlfriends have just e-mailed me to tell me they are pregnant and I had NO idea…….one is newly pregnant with her second child (first child some 19years older) and the other friend is pregnany with her first child, I haven’t seen this friend since she left for overseas some 4+years ago but none the less I am thrilled for her – in fact I am thrilled for both of them……………….
Another girlfriend whom I knew was pregnant but hadn’t spoken to her in awhile either e-mailed me too – she has 11weeks to go……………………..
I also know of at least three friends who are TRYING to get pregnant and thinking about being pregnant!!!! So I am sending some fertility karma thier way – they know who they are!
So that begs the question – does being pregnant mean you are going to (unknowingly) surround yourself with other pregnant woman??? Or do the fertility gods just work in mysterious ways???????
Or is it my age????? I am 32, so naturally quite a few of my friends are going to be either getting pregnant or thinking about getting pregnant and thankfully, some are NOT………
Don’t get me wrong I LOVE it that I know so many people going through the same thing as me, it’s just really nice to chat to my non-pregnant girlfriends about other things………like men, dating, going out, getting drunk and shopping – all the things I miss when I am covered in mashed up banana and wondering why in the HELL I am pregnant again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8 sleeps to baby day – **today I THOUGHT about packing my bag**
8 things I would to achieve before heading into hospital:
Achievable??? Not sure, some of it is almost finished it’s just the last pesky thing or two to complete these things! Will I be devastated if I don’t finish them? Probably not, almost everything on the list has been put off before it can be put off again.
I would like to get the lists done regarding the boys routine, it will make it easier on the Big Boy and my Mum who will be caring for them.
I am, not surprisingly really, very very tired. My legs ache when I stand for too long, I get the most awful cramps in bed at night and to top it all off I now have thrush!!! Fabulous!!!!
Sorry, having a wee bit of a whinge today with just over a week to go I am a bit fed up. Went shopping yesterday morning and this morning, I waddle along and the boys do stuff at their own pace. I am quite sure I have stopped looking like a lovely “blooming” (who in the hell made up that description anyway??) pregnant woman and now probably resemble a large, awkward, lumbering elephant.
On the upside the weather is just so beautiful at the moment and the two little boys are wanting to spend more and more time outside, I just wish I could be bothered chasing them.
9 sleeps til baby day **still haven’t packed my bag yet**
Well the baby is packed and ready to go – I have had the babies clothes, washed and folded and sitting on my dresser for about 2weeks now, I finally packed them during the week.
This gorgeous little picnic basket was given to me by my grandmother (paternal), when I was pregnant with LB#1 she gave this too me chock full of gorgeous baby clothes, I have used it to take both lots of baby stuff to hospital for both boys, and now baby #3 is also packed and ready to go!
These two tiny jackets are packed and they make my heart flutter with joy – the white one on the left was knitted by my grandmother (maternal) when I was pregnant with LB#1, both little boys have worn it and it is now baby #3 turn.
The creamier jacket was knitted by my great-grandmother for me when I was born, this is one of three that my mother kept and passed onto me. I cannot tell you how much it means to me, I wore these jackets and now all my children have/will wear these jackets – they are beautiful and priceless.
My mother kept them in her bottom drawer, carefully wrapped in tissue for 28years before passing them onto me, the wool is thick and the knitting is strong and careful – how I love them!
When this last child of mine grows out of them (which won’t take long, let me tell you) I too will carefully wash, fold and wrap in tissue ready for a third generation.
I cannot bring myself to pack my own bags, I don’t know why. With both boys now I left the packing to the last minute and it somehow feels like it gives me something to do whilst waiting……………….this time I am booked in for a planned c-section I will probably pack the day before, should I go early – well I guess I will pack then!!!! I feel too restless to pack my own bags!
Well my visit to Dr Porsche was boring and mundane, just the way we like them – with one tiny exception……..
This is the conversation:
DP – (feeling my tummy) – where are you mostly feeling kicks?
ME – (showing him high up) – here & here…
DP – Ummmmm (still feeling for babies head)
DP – How big were your other babies???
ME – 7lbs 14ounces & 8lbs 1ounce
DP – Well it’s pretty safe to say that we are DEFINITELY going to beat those weights!
ME – Well that explains why I feel so HUGE!!!!!
DP – Probably
So, looks like I’m having a BIG ONE – it is about now that I thank all my lucky stars I am NOT giving birth vaginally!!!!!
