3 posts tagged “pregnancy”

Unfortunately I haven't the time to post pics but he's here! Pieter Sabin was born at 1 am GMT Saturday the 18th of April, 2009, weighing in at 8lbs and 9oz and measuring 20 inches in length. He's currently in the NICU though with an infection of undetermined origins but he's responding well to antibiotics. I'm doing fine, a lot less sore than I thought I would be. Everyone pray!

Sorry if my last entry ended rather abruptly but we are visiting the Hub's folks and we were quickly leaving to go somewhere.

But anyways...

I have to admit that I've been really blessed over this pregnancy. I've have virtually no bad symptoms throughout, I've thrown upa totalof 2 times when others are so sick they;re losing weight rather than gaining it, people complain of severe heartburn every night when IF I get it, it's minimal and I don't have to pee in the middle ofthe night nearly as much as I thought I would. Of course, this leads me to think that my next pregnancy (...) will be an absolute nightmare AND I'll be watching our son who could be a hyperactive little crazy man if the activity in my womb is any indication. I'm not yet at the point where I am tired of being pregnant and I must confess that I'm almost sad to see that I really only have roughly 4 weeks left. I am eager to have and hold our son but I'm also apprehensive about having another life completely and wholy dependent on me, which is completely normal. Plus the Hubs and I chose each other when we got married, knowing who each other was and this is bringing into that marriage a third person who we have no idea what he'll be like. He's a complete unknown right now.
I also wonder about post partum depression, I think it could be quite likely for me just bcz of other factors such as having just moved away from friends and into a completely new area, finding it more difficult to get around on top of a baby causing sleep deprivation. I am going to have to really work hard at not letting myself get isolated in my own little home.
We are living closer to Julie and the cousins now and she said to give her a call whenever I even just need a break but I know myself too well in that I would view calling her as admitting defeat somehow. I don't like admitting to others that I am incapable of handling something, I loathe it in fact. I enjoy and take pride in people finding me able and unflappable in situations that I don't want to shine a light on the fact that "hey, I'm only human too!"
Pride will be my downfall.

As I was saying before, there are still things we need to get for home and baby. We desperately need a chest of drawers for our bedroom bcz right now all that is in there is a bed and then luggage bags filled with clothes (we are such clothes horses!!!) We also need to get a cot/crib for the baby but that's not as desperate bcz for the first 1-3 months the baby will be sleeping in a moses basket/basinette. One thing I am worried about is that our home can get quite cold at night and I don't know how to warm it up without constantly keeping the heating on and running up the bill.
We need to get a sofa and a bookshelf (my God, we have SO many books!!! and that's after gutting the shelves before moving!) and all our floors are wood so a rug for the lounge and the hall would be great too but again, not as much a priority as other things. I think my nesting phase is kicking in lol. My parents will be coming at the beginning of April (baby's due the 8th so hopefully they'll be here a week before and then a week after the big day) and they'll be helping me get everything organized and situated which is good. I so want to be organized but I really lack the knack for it. I have such lovely ideas of how things should be but they never turn out right. Ah well...

So those are the major points for the next few weeks. I don't know when next I'll be online since we no longer have it at the house, I'm going to check on some deals to see if we can afford hooking it up but if not, I'll try the library's PC connections... Until then!

How is it that Friends reruns never get old? Even if they're dated? Chandler's jokes never get old, Pheobe's quirks are always fresh and Ross is always.... well, Ross.

Anyways... I've finally gotten the hang of knitting! Yay for me! While I was visiting my mother in law, I just got the urge to knit so I had her sit me down and show me and it clicked! But I am still way too new to try any sort of shaping or anything like that. Sigh. But I've made a few nice potholders! Hah!

Pieter and I went to visit my folks in September for a much needed vacation and it was great! The weather was hot and lovely (September can be one of the hottest months of the year in California) and it was so nice to just chill with friends and family. I got to see my pregnant cousin Davona (she's due in January but her doc thinks she'll deliver before Christmas bcz her first little boy was early as well) and it just made me realize how many pregnant women there are out there! There's cousin Davona, friend Simone (she actually just delivered a few days ago, a little girl named Annabelle), friend Marisa, friend Berna... it's like a mini baby boom. And this happened 2 years ago when Berna, Michelle, Marlin, Andonia and LeeAnn were all pregnant around the same time. It's like there's cycles. Weird o.O

In other news, Karen, the House Mate, is engaged! Yay for her! They've set the date for 21st of March in South Africa (so we, unfortunately, won't be going since I won't be able to fly then). It looks like they'll be living in London though, so that's cool! However all this means is that we'll all be moving out of our lovely little house and going our seperate ways, *sniff*. Pieter and I are talking about moving closer to his folks in Kent but what with the financial situation the way it is, we'll just have to see if any doors open up over there. We'd much prefer to move with a confirmed job offer for Pieter, naturally.

So it looks like 2009 is going to be a big year in this household.