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Jan. 25th, 2008 11:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkaMichael and I are absolutely delighted to announce that I am twelve weeks pregnant! I'm due August 3rd.
I was supposed to be waiting until we heard a heartbeat before I made a public announcement, but we've pretty much run out of patience with waiting for my uterus to clear the pelvic bone so they can reach it with a Doppler. (My midwife practice doesn't do routine early ultrasounds.) I went in to the midwife for a quick check this morning, and although she wasn't able to find the heartbeat she said that there's been definite growth since my first midwife appointment two weeks ago. So yay! A baby!
How I'm feeling: the first trimester has been a lot harder this time around. Much more nausea. In the last week or two it's eased up during the daytime, but I still get pretty nauseated every evening (because I'm tired, I guess?) and I often don't have much appetite for dinner. And I'm tired, but not sleeping well.
I'd say I'm about three-quarters excited and one-quarter nervous. When Alex is being difficult, it's hard to imagine going through all of this with a newborn, too. But, you know, families have been having second children for millions of years. So it must all work out somehow.
I was supposed to be waiting until we heard a heartbeat before I made a public announcement, but we've pretty much run out of patience with waiting for my uterus to clear the pelvic bone so they can reach it with a Doppler. (My midwife practice doesn't do routine early ultrasounds.) I went in to the midwife for a quick check this morning, and although she wasn't able to find the heartbeat she said that there's been definite growth since my first midwife appointment two weeks ago. So yay! A baby!
How I'm feeling: the first trimester has been a lot harder this time around. Much more nausea. In the last week or two it's eased up during the daytime, but I still get pretty nauseated every evening (because I'm tired, I guess?) and I often don't have much appetite for dinner. And I'm tired, but not sleeping well.
I'd say I'm about three-quarters excited and one-quarter nervous. When Alex is being difficult, it's hard to imagine going through all of this with a newborn, too. But, you know, families have been having second children for millions of years. So it must all work out somehow.
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Date: 2008-01-25 06:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-25 06:32 pm (UTC)Yay! Baby!
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Date: 2008-01-25 06:36 pm (UTC)Best wishes for an easy pregnancy and healthy baby.
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Date: 2008-01-25 07:24 pm (UTC)...and I don't know how they do it with two, either. No idea.
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Date: 2008-01-25 08:18 pm (UTC)Imagine a concentrated beam of love and support coming your way from way out west- that would be me. Share it among yourselves.
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Date: 2008-01-25 08:31 pm (UTC)No wonder all the moving stress was extra stressy.
It does, in fact, work out. Though there will continue to be moments when you can't imagine going through it all again. Even after the second one is born. :-)
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Date: 2008-01-25 11:22 pm (UTC)In my experiece, second babies are easier than first. You have already made the huge mental adjustment to parenthood. (YSBMV).
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Date: 2008-01-25 11:41 pm (UTC)*beams*