A funny take on pregnancy

While screwing around on the internet today, I came across this video. Please don't let me become a smug pregnant woman....

Another prediction

To cheer myself up a bit, I'm going to make another pregnancy prediction. Again, just for fun. I predict that I'm going to feel sick all day but will only puke a couple of times (if at all) while I'm pregnant. I guess I'm basing this on the fact that my mom didn't have morning sickness really. Plus, I think it's just wishful thinking - who wants to be sick? I think I'll feel king of icky, but I bet I won't throw up too many times.

We'll see if my prediction comes true!

An amazing coincidence

Here in Pleasantville, we have a relatively small circle of friends. Call it a dozen people that we hang out with regularly. In this group of friends, one couple is pregnant again - their first kid will be about 20 months old when the new baby comes. Last week, they found out they're having TWINS! She's about 20 weeks along and is due in September.

Then, today, another couple that lives down the street came by. They also announced that they're pregnant - also with twins! This couple is about 12 weeks along.

It's unbelievable to me that this, in this tiny group of friends, there will be 2 sets of twins born within 2 months of each other. That's such an amazing coincidence.

Last pre-baby medical step

When I went for my pre-conception appointment a few weeks ago, my doctor told me to check to see if I had gotten a TDAP vaccine recently. It's a tetanus shot with a vaccination for whooping cough. Apparently, in the last few years, the guidance for tetanus vaccines has changed. It used to only be that kids got vaccinated for whooping cough with tetanus. Now, it's recommended that everyone get vaccinated for it.

Well, I hadn't gotten the TDAP vaccination since 1986, so I needed to get one today.

It sucked.

Needles don't particularly bother me, but tetanus shots are always kind of sucky. It stung a bit, but I'm glad to have it over with.

Happy Birthday to Me!

I turned 29 today. This birthday was a part of the reason we decided to start a family now. We need to start considering our ages. As I mentioned before, I know that 29 isn't too old to have a baby, but I feel like I don't want to be 35 when I'm having my last kid. Just a personal preference.

This birthday has been pretty terrible, given the loss of our cat a few days ago. I miss him terribly - we both do. It's getting a little easier, though. I haven't been randomly crying today like I had been for the previous couple of days. I'm going back to work tomorrow, and I hope that proves to be a bit of a distraction.

In other news, I finished a baby blanket that I've been working on. I learned to crochet several years ago, and I mostly make baby blankets. So far, I've been giving them away, but I think I'm going to keep this one in case we have a girl someday. It took FOREVER (months). There were 99 little flower squares to be made, and then they all had to be sewn together. I think it's beautiful, but it has definitely been a pain. Here are a couple of pictures:




I love it, even if it did take forever.

Life getting in the way

I haven't posted for a few days due to things being really busy and a recent tragedy that hit our family: Our oldest cat was recently struck by a car and killed. He was only about 2 years old, so he was way too young to pass away. We're absolutely devastated, as you can imagine. This happened yesterday, so it's going to take us awhile to adjust to only have 2 cats, instead of the three that we've had for about a year now. It's very heartbreaking.

Pregnancy predictions

One of the things I wanted to do on this blog was make a bunch of predictions of what I think pregnancy will be like. Just for fun. I think everyone woman has some expectations of what she thinks pregnancy will be like, and I thought it would be fun to document them here and then look back later to see if I'm right. It's just for FUN, so, if I'm totally wrong, oh well. Also, if you feel yourself wanting to say something like, "just you wait," with the implication that things aren't going to be as rosy as I expect, please refer to this post.