I have news!

[rivka]

Michael 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.

Comments

[carbonel]

Oh, wow! Congratulations!

For the sake of your third trimester, I hope it's a mild summer.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Hee! Yeah, no kidding. Obviously we thought it would take a little longer to get pregnant than it actually did - no one plans to be 9mos pregnant in the middle of a Baltimore summer.

[naomikritzer]

Both of my children were born in September. My grandmother sent me a letter when I was pregnant with my first, sympathizing with the "summer pregnancy" issue and noting that my uncle was also born in September. I noted, though she did not, that my grandmother was pregnant in Virginia (I was pregnant in Minnesota) and living in a house with no electricity or running water (needless to say, I had both -- in fact, we got central air that summer because I was pregnant).