Our unborn child, it's similarity to the Roswell alien is NOT freakin' me out - HONEST!As I am now 14/15 weeks into my second pregnancy (no kids yet) and am finally past that nauseous/exhausted/paranoid phase for the first time, and I suddenly have the energy and wherewithal to do anything more than the bare minimum, I wanted to create a place where my thoughts could be caught for posterity and shared with those people I cared about. As those who know me already understand, I am generally not so good at sharing my thoughts and feelings out loud, and felt this would be an ideal 'new world' forum for doing such a thing. That said, perhaps this blog should come with a warning - "Hormones on Board"!?
At the top of this page, you can see the image of our unborn child, and although this one looks a tad alien-esk...the actual experience itself of seeing our child moving around for the first time was like nothing I ever thought it would or could be, I was more nervous leading up to the week 12 scan than I was before speaking at a conference of 200 people or singing a song that I had not rehearsed and did not even know the lyrics to, in a school concert when I was 14! I was almost crying with the fright of it all. I could not even look at the monitor until I saw the look of utter joy in Matty's (husband/light of my life/best friend) face, and even then my initial thought was, is that from the woman before me? Surely that's not mine? BUT IT WAS, it was out little baby Yelland, wiggling about and kicking its legs as if it was trying to say 'hiya!' - Oh what relief, what joy, what insurmountable happiness, that has not so much ebbed away in the following weeks, but become a normality, and that, after weeks/months of verging on the petrified-worrying, is what it means to be in the blissful throws of pregnancy. I am so glad we made it, as I know are all our friends and family.
I will not dwell on the continued hormonal imbalances that plague (well Matt more than me) our lives...nor will I bang on about my continued smelling issues and inability to eat a full meal, as these are insignificant and I must remember that! What matters is that there is a little life growing inside of me, and in six months time we are going to be parents, and we are equally looking forward to and dreading this change in our lives, and Matt swings from saying things like “I am never going to be able to put our baby to bed” to “this was your idea!!”…
2 comments:
We are all so pleased and happy for you both. I'm sure that this stage in your life will be full of ups and downs, but it is all leading to something, and that something will be awsome.
Keep it up.
Naturally we are more than delighted about the reason for this blog, the smallest member of our family (as of now). We want you to know that we remember how we felt when we were in this position and YOU were the object of our amazement, and are overjoyed to share your feelings that so closely resemble ours then
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