Sleep

Sleep, when I get it, is so great. I was struggling for a few days to get enough rest. Temperature was the main challenge – the weather was really hot, and we don’t have a/c so I was up swabbing myself down, hosing off my feet or setting the fan for most of the night. …

Naming Baby

While we haven’t honed in on our top names for baby when he gets here, we have lots of names for cutie right now. The first favourite was Whump Whump or Little Whumper in honour of his tendency to “whump” me. New favourites are Tuk-Tuk (also Little Tuk-Tuk) and Munchkin. Baby is definitely growing! I …

Feeding Baby

Feeding a child is a big responsibility. And sometimes, a lot of work. With the warmer weather it’s felt like more work than usual, particularly coming up with healthy home-cooked meals with enough greens, iron, protein and calcium to keep baby growing (not that baby seems to mine – baby is getting bigger and bigger, …

Letting Go

= something I have had a hard time doing lately. I don’t know if it’s hormones or just a character flaw, but lately I’ve been getting 1) Really angry really quickly over things people do that I think are wrong or unjust (particularly if they affect ME!). Example: Bus driver pulls up today late at …

Underwear

What kind of underwear DO pregnant women wear? I’ve been getting by on my pre-pregnancy ones so far, but I can feel the elastic burrowing in for some of the higher-waisted numbers. I went looking for some this weekend but none of the size-larger regular underwear looked like it would fit me – same high …

Exhaustion

Not sure if this is the latest phase of pregnancy, but I’ve been hit with real tiredness and headaches lately. My head was achy most of Sunday, which was okay because I could sleep, and then most of today, which wasn’t okay because I was at work. Sore, hard to concentrate with bouts of mild …

Mat Leave

One of the great things about my job is that I get to leave it. Not permanently – but the agreement for my position includes 52 weeks of maternity leave. And since I just passed my one year probationary review (yay, what a relief! And how great to have a job that I can succeed …