21 Weeks today. I think there comes a point in pregnancy where you go from being excited to be in the pregnant state and excited to see your body change and develop, to being a bit fed up by the discomfort of it all and wishing it were July already. I'm not there yet, but I can see it happening sometime in the next few weeks. It's amazing how much we forget. I swear there's some kind of insta-forget hormone circulated through a womans body shortly after giving birth which wipes all memory of the discomfort and pain associated with pregnancy. Being pregnant again with child #2 it is slowly coming back to me!
The furniture shopping expedition yesterday was successful. We went into Rona to enquire about fitting a closet into the nursery. The 'expert' was a little condescending and implied this was not a worthy question, but we managed to ascertain that which we already knew, which was that it would be hard to do (for G) and would probably require getting a man in if we wanted it done a) properly and b) this century. We then checked out a local store which yielded perfect results. We bought a gorgeous large pine wardrobe for the nursery which will look fabulous in there, and a beautiful chest of drawers for D's room.
I've also started to wash the piles of baby clothes (0-6mths) and after putting 3 billion babygrows into the washer remembered that you can't tumble dry them as even a small amount of shrinkage in clothes that tiny will render them useless. So now the house is strewn with clothes horses drying lots of teeny tiny clothes and it smells of baby too due to the non-bio / gentle detergent I used which instantly makes you think of small people.
Posted by katie at March 22, 2004 09:25 AMAll my kids stuff got tumbled - I never had any problems with them....
Mind you, I also had a gazzillion babygrows, vests, pj's (what IS that point!!?!) and outfits.
You WILL need them all 'cause of all that puke - I remember changing the kids, like 3/4 times a day, but I never got changed myself, not even if we went out. I was quite happy to wander around covered with baby vomit, sweat and breast milk! Nice.
But if someones elces kid puked on me then it was straight into the shower and fresh clothes!
Aaahhhhhhhh the joys!
Saying that, I would love to be pregnant again, to have that wee little bundle to snuggle with and to breast feed again, to have that real bond that is just the two of you - but then I remember all the shitty things too! HUGE belly that is never still, not being able to sleep on my tummy pregnant or not (it is either belly or boobs!)leaking from *everywhere* and then they learn to move and talk. Gah!
I think I will stick with what I have got!
Posted by: Boo at March 22, 2004 11:00 AMHey! This is my first pregnancy, but does anybody know how many weeks after giving birth you can start trying to conceive?
Posted by: Erin Martin at September 6, 2004 11:16 PM