Wednesday, August 24, 2011

My baby is a Lemon

So here we are in the second trimester! at 14 weeks pregnant my baby is the size of a lemon and funnily enough I'm so into eating lemons! I'm just batty for lemons, I put them with everything and I don't just mean a squeeze here and there, oh no, I mean full on slices on lemon! Skin and all! Frozen fish cakes (cooked obviously), with lemon slices are just fab, weird huh!. I'm also feeling really good, after all the excitement of finding out the sex of the baby I have got very used to having a boy and am really into it. I feel like having a little boy is right and I'm so looking forward to meeting him.


So the news is as follows - we had our 14 week midwife appointment last night and we turned up all ready to discuss everything and our midwife had to dash, she needed to go and deliver a baby! so we quickly went in and got my blood pressure taken which was fine and lied down on the bed and the midwife used her Doppler to listen to the babies heartbeat. It was nice we got to hear the heartbeat again but that was it, she quickly booked us in for a proper appointment next Tuesday. I got a text from her this morning with our babies down syndrome results and he is at low risk of down syndrome so we are pleased with that.


In other news the constipation has eased off a bit and I seem to be almost back to normal on that front. As said above I'm loving lemons, still loving ice cream, am not feeling quite as tired, mind you I sat on the couch today with the two boys racing around me and could barely manage to get up, I felt so had it. Apparently I should start to get that weird hair line over my belly soon but so far its not there. My belly is getting bigger by the second and is feeling really hard, I'm actually starting to look pregnant and had a comment from one of the boys mums today that I was looking pregnant. Some clothes are getting damn uncomfortable, so in the next week or so it will be "here I come maternity clothes". I am not sleeping on my stomach at all anymore as it squashes my melon like boobs and makes me worry I'm hurting the baby!


I have been thinking about giving up on the blog as I don't really think anyone gives a shit about my updates anymore. When I was trying to conceive and was doing treatments there was always someone interested as they were doing the same and we all needed support and a place to air all our dirty laundry, but now all I'm doing is writing about how happy I am and silly pregnancy stuff, do I really need to keep blogging? I'm not sure. I know initially when I got pregnant I said I would continue but am not so sure now, or maybe I will just leave my blog open and do a post maybe once a week, even if it is just a small one, yes think that's what I will do at the moment. I still continue to read the blogs I have always been following and offering supporting words and will keep doing so.


Thanks for listening, me and my little lemon are off to lie down on the couch as reach for a bowl of ice cream and perhaps a few slices of lemon on top.  

11 comments:

  1. Please keep blogging. I love your new posts and hearing about your pregnancy lets me hold out hope that someday it will happen for me too. Don't leave us!

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  2. I have also struggled with whether or not to keep blogging. I am doing the weekly update with a couple others thrown in here and there if/when I feel the urge. I know that I don't have as many readers (or at least commenters) now that I am pregnant. Glad to hear you are your lemon are doing well!

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  3. Just letting you know that I still read, regardless of whether it's in the "trying" or "success" or "parenting" stage. But blog because YOU want to, not because someone else wants you to. I'd be sorry to see you leave, but if it's what makes you happiest, then I will wish you all the best in the journey ahead! Keep us posted!

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  4. Oh, I just found you, please don't stop blogging even if you only feel you have a blog a week in you, I want to read it! It is as important to me to be able to read the successes and hear about the journey of your pregnancy as it is to read about & support the struggles to getting there.
    ~SCS

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  5. Thanks very much for comments. Sounds like I still have interested readers. I will keep blogging, but probably just once a week, unless there is something amazing or crazy to report!

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  6. While I may not comment, I'm reading your blog to see how things are going. As someone else noted, reading it gives me hope that one day my IF blog will turn into a pregnancy and then family blog.

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  7. Yes please keep blogging as we are on the same journey and same pregnancy weeks its great to compare and help each other out....Even if its once a week I still read...your inspiration as well those trying to conceive via IVF that it can happen!!!!

    Lemons are great for you thats great....

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  8. I check in once every day or every other day and am like "man hurry up and write another blog" :) You should embrace the maternity clothes! I LOVED wearing them. Go you!!

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  9. I still give a shit! I would love to hear how you are progressing in your pregnancy. Love the lemon references - I find all the fruit/vegetable references hilarious!

    Maternity clothes rock, by the way. Most comfortable pants EVER!!!

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  10. YOU better not stop!! I would be really sad!! First..you give others inspiration! Seriously! You give great advice and detailed info into the world of when you went through IVF( you helped me) and now you can help others going through pregnant after IVF.
    yay too boys!

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