recap
oh god, it's almost 2 months later, and we just had another baby shower. you may think from reading these that all we do is have baby showers, but we really only had 2! this one was thrown by susan and erika at our new apartment in noe valley and it was a lot smaller than the ginormous one at my parents' house in michigan. but still very fun and nice. we had two hilarious games, compliments of PJ: "who can drink alcohol (or watermelon agua fresca for me) out of a sippy cup the fastest?" and "blindfolded banana bris" yes, the second one was as funny and dangerous as it sounds. i later made banana bread with all the circumcized bananas.
there were about 10 people over and we had a good time and got some really nice presents and ate a lot of party food! including cupcakes from sugar beat sweets from paul, a marble cake and tomatillo salsa from erika and mike's favorite sausage balls from susan.
so our new place is set up and the baby room is put together and almost everything is ready for this boy to arrive into our life. i have approximately 5 weeks left to go but i am really hoping he decides to come a bit earlier than his due date of november 15.
patty had her little girl stella victoria on september 30. she went 9 days overdue and ended up getting induced and then having to use the forceps since stella decided to enter this world "sunny side up." i finally talked to her for more than a minute yesterday and she seems happy but exhausted and also a bit bewildered, but i suspect all new mothers feel the same way at first. i know i sure will.
it's just becoming so very real! the little squid keeps moving around and kicking me all the time, he has the hiccups at least 2 or 3 times a day, which feels like a throbbing alien is inside my abdomen. i have heartburn pretty much constantly and i can't even see my ankles most days, they are so swollen. half the time he's up in my ribs and i can barely breathe and have to keep my arms over my head just to be able to fill my lungs. and of course i've missed a whole summer of camping and hiking because i am just so incredibly weak. plus the doctor says i've gained about 40 pounds. supposedly most of it is fluid, but that is still about 10 pounds more than you're supposed to gain for any healthy pregnancy, and it sure doesn't make me feel great about myself. all the shower photos from saturday show me with a double chin.
but overall i feel so much better than i did in the beginning. the way i keep explaining it to people is that it felt like a fog had descended over my life. things looked gray and i couldn't open my eyes all the way. food didn't taste very great, and i felt naseous 24 hours a day. it seemed to go away after about 18 weeks, and now things are almost back to normal. like a dingy film has been lifted off the world and i can see clearly now. food still isn't the way it used to be for me, and i really hope that comes back because food of course has always been my main obsession! but i feel a thousand times better, with more energy even though i am incredibly large and much slower than i was before.
and hopefully, this will all be worth it someday very soon!
there were about 10 people over and we had a good time and got some really nice presents and ate a lot of party food! including cupcakes from sugar beat sweets from paul, a marble cake and tomatillo salsa from erika and mike's favorite sausage balls from susan.
so our new place is set up and the baby room is put together and almost everything is ready for this boy to arrive into our life. i have approximately 5 weeks left to go but i am really hoping he decides to come a bit earlier than his due date of november 15.
patty had her little girl stella victoria on september 30. she went 9 days overdue and ended up getting induced and then having to use the forceps since stella decided to enter this world "sunny side up." i finally talked to her for more than a minute yesterday and she seems happy but exhausted and also a bit bewildered, but i suspect all new mothers feel the same way at first. i know i sure will.
it's just becoming so very real! the little squid keeps moving around and kicking me all the time, he has the hiccups at least 2 or 3 times a day, which feels like a throbbing alien is inside my abdomen. i have heartburn pretty much constantly and i can't even see my ankles most days, they are so swollen. half the time he's up in my ribs and i can barely breathe and have to keep my arms over my head just to be able to fill my lungs. and of course i've missed a whole summer of camping and hiking because i am just so incredibly weak. plus the doctor says i've gained about 40 pounds. supposedly most of it is fluid, but that is still about 10 pounds more than you're supposed to gain for any healthy pregnancy, and it sure doesn't make me feel great about myself. all the shower photos from saturday show me with a double chin.
but overall i feel so much better than i did in the beginning. the way i keep explaining it to people is that it felt like a fog had descended over my life. things looked gray and i couldn't open my eyes all the way. food didn't taste very great, and i felt naseous 24 hours a day. it seemed to go away after about 18 weeks, and now things are almost back to normal. like a dingy film has been lifted off the world and i can see clearly now. food still isn't the way it used to be for me, and i really hope that comes back because food of course has always been my main obsession! but i feel a thousand times better, with more energy even though i am incredibly large and much slower than i was before.
and hopefully, this will all be worth it someday very soon!