On my way to Mother Hood

I must say , I hate surprises obviously that’s why my Husband and I found out the sex of our baby so I could know what to expect.

I was visiting my cousin a few weeks ago and I happened to catch a glimpse of her calendar and it said Sunday April 5th Annie’s Baby Shower well unless she has another cousin named Annie that I don’t know about I am assuming that Annie is me. So hating surprises I confronted her about it and infact this is my baby shower day.

The next day I went out to the theater with my mom who I knew was most likely in on this. She said ” Oh we should go see South Pacific” I agreed and looking at the dates available in April noticed that April 5th was one of them. I nonchalantly said ” How about the Matinee on April 5th?” her face went a little white and she looked over at me and I broke into a huge smile ( I am a horrible liar!) she said ” How did you find out????” I laughed and said I had seen it on my cousin’s calendar. She then proceeded to say “well is that all you know” and I said yes.

About a week passed and again my mom and I were out in the car. I had mentioned that my friend hadn’t gotten her baby shower invite yet! and my mom proceeded to say ” I don’t understand Nanny sent her another one” and then she said a poop swear word and said ” Augh pretend you didn’t hear that!” I laughed and said I wouldn’t tell.

Since then I have been in on my baby shower and my mom finally told my Nanny that I know about it. But I am sure it will be wonderful all the same and I feel better knowing about it. I HATE SURPRISES and being bombarded by them although I know this is something I am going to have to learn to accept at least I can plan to wear something nice and get my hair done for the shower even though I have to play chauffer to my friend and her mom on that day that’s ok.

On another note, went to our  midwife appointment and everything looks great.

TTFN

Annie

We had our second prenatal class tonight and I found it both informative and a little scary. Watching all those pregnancy videos with the women in labor really gives you a scare of what labor is really going to be like.Somebody should have showed me that video before we got pregnant lol.

Our birth educator seems to be a bit biased to the whole midwife thing and since we are having a natural child birth with a midwife ( or planning one anyways this works for us!).  We have also decided to go with a homebirth ( after lots of reserach and a homebirth education night) and to be perfectly honest with you I am so happy with my choice, The more I hear about how horrific a hospital birth is the less I want one so I am going to do everything in my power to ensure my homebirth plan works for me, my Hubby and our little Ila Bee.

So we are getting down to the wire 30 weeks pregnant and feeling huge! and my last day of work is right around the corner ( 2 days left in fact!) I am so excited I know there will be times when I am bored but I have so much to do to prep for Ila that I am sure all the time will fly by.

I didn’t realize how much I missed blogging and putting my feelings on “paper”

Anyways off to bed it’s so late!

Annie

Well, its been a really long time since I wrote anything mostly because looking back at my early posts I couldn’t think of anything else to write about until I got pregnant.

So this is how the last 7 months since I wrote have looked like:

September:

10 days since my last post I became preggies.On September 18th my monthly friend didn’t come and I was curious and then I waited and waited and waited and finally 3 days and 2 pregnancy test later we were preggies. We went to the doctore and sure enough we are pregnant due May 29th.It turns out that we were 6 weeks preggies at that point and I was thrilled and so was Hubby.

October:

Went to the doctor again to get the blood test results and we told our family which were all very happy for us. Dr P gave us the IPS test requisitions and we decided not  to have it as whatever god gave us we will have to be happy with.

November:

At 10 weeks 4 days we had our first ultrasound although I went with my Mom to the ultrasound because my dear Hubby was in France I got to see my little beanie and I was thrilled to see a healthy baby. Our first baby pics immediatly went on the fridge and were e-mailed to all the relatives.

I bought my first baby item this weekend, a little green teddy bear bunting bag.

We met our midwife for the first time and tried to absord the massive amounts of information which they provide you with on your first visit.

December:

Our preggo christmas. We got lots of beautiful baby things and we enjoyed what would be our last christmas as two before our little one comes.Went to the midwife and heard our babies heartbeat for the first time, what a miracle.

January:

We found out our baby is a girl!!! ( which I am so thrilled , I would have been happy either way but a little girl is a dream come true). On Jan 9th the ultrasound tech gave me a smile and said she didn’t see any little boy parts.My mom immediatly went and bought every little pink item she could locate.I infact bought a beautiful little lady bug dress that day as well.

February:

We bought our crib and again to our midwife whereI have gained 11 pounds and my belly was measuring 26 cm and at 27 weeks this is perfectly normal.

March:

This is such a busy month, with prenatal classes and massage therapy and starting mat leave everything is so exciting I can’t wait! My anxiety disorder is forcing me to take my holidays and then go on sick leave but I am at peace with it and I think it will be good for me. Apprently it will disappate once my Ila is born so thats a blessing too.

Well thats just a short explanation of 7 months of my pregnancy.

My dream come true is almost here and I can’t wait.

Annie