What I've Learned

Five weeks. FIVE WEEKS. That's how long we've got until I'm due. Yes I know, the baby will probably be late, but still. Five weeks.
So I thought I'd take this time to reflect on pregnancy. Here are a few of the things I've learned during pregnancy, in no particular order of importance or occurrence:

1. Pregnancy in the later stage can cause cankles. They tell me these will go away once the swelling goes down. All I can say is: they'd better.
2. Bladder control is completely lost when standing while baby decides to direct a well thought out kick right to it. Haven't peed my pants yet, but I've come darn close.
3. Hugging is not easy anymore when there's a basketball between the two of you.
4. Heartburn can strike at any time for any reason.
5. Emotional rampages tendencies can strike at any time for any reason.
6. Grunting every time I move is perfectly acceptable, but my husband needs to be reminded of this every now and then. If he comments too many times...well...see #5.
7. Rolling over at night requires much thought and contemplation. Unless I have to pee.
8. I didn't know it was possible to pee that many times during the night.
9. Men generally don't know how to respond to a pregnant woman, so expect phrases like "you're HUGE!" or "wow, you got big fast, hey?" or, my favorite thus far "hey can you stand up? I wanna get a better look at you...I bet I can guess the gender!"
10. Feeling the baby move around all day is the most wonderful feeling
11. No chair is comfortable for more than five minutes
12. From seeing how he's been through the pregnancy, Mitch is going to be a fantastic dad
13. Every shirt will get stains on it the first time I wear it. No more of this whole 'wearing more than once between washes' jazz

And that's all I can think of right now...I've learned lots of practical medical stuff too, but that's boring. Come on, 5 weeks...

Of work, macchiatos, and the joy of children

So it turns out that when you start your day off by having your husband bring you Starbucks, it just means that you have a much loftier height from which to fall when your day goes south than on a typical day. (**side note - every wednesday is now caramel macchiato day until mat leave...I have declared it thus)

No, I don't want to go into details about my day...I just wanted to tell you what I learned while surviving it.

On another topic, I am so excited. I love anticipation. I actually don't like surprises because I feel that it deprives me the joy of anticipating the coming event. Something that has really been bugging me lately is the amount of times I hear, after expressing my excitement, "oh don't worry...it won't be nearly as fun as you think once the baby arrives", or something to that extent. I realize that I haven't had the sleepless nights, or had to rock a screaming baby, or had my hair pulled out, or had to clean up puke 3 times in one night yet, but I know that it's all coming and I'm still excited. Becoming parent is such a blessing, and I can't wait to jump in with Mitch.