I'm feeling baby, inside and out. The kicks are too sporadic and usually only once or twice at a time, so no one but me has felt them yet, but when I start to feel baby get really wiggly in there, I put my hand over the spot and wait. Sometimes when I'm lucky, baby kicks my hand. It's still a small kick, but it's definite.
It definitely helps my peace of mind...which is really good, since my baby appointment had to be cancelled. We just realized, after all this time, that Bill has to work first shift every first week of July. So a 9 AM appointment is not happening. Even if I could be couragous enough to go to an appointment without him this pregnancy, everyone that day is busy and wouldn't be able to give me driving assistance. So, I rescheduled. The only other appointment they had for the whole week is the following day at 3:30. We may be able to make this one, but if we do, we'll probably be a bit late and they may just tell us to not bother coming in. If that happens, it'll be another week without an appointment. I held off getting a doppler for this appointment in mind. I'm desperate to have an appointment before my next ultrasound, because even with feeling kicks, I can't get nightmares out of my mind. I want this appointment, so hopefully if worse comes to worse and Bill doesn't get out of work on time, if there's any traffic along the way, they'll still take me as long as I call them and tell them I'm running late but will be there as soon as possible. It just sucks, knowing that I very may well not get an appointment at all this week, when I've been waiting so impatiently already.
I've gotten back into crocheting. It's become addicting. I'm making baby hats now, not just for this baby but for others due in my due date group. It's really helping me to fund the big item baby stuff I need yet, like the car seat ($160), the baby carrier ($120), a crib mattress ($40-80, depending if we want a good one or not), and that's if we don't bother decorating the nursery at all like I want to. We're really hoping to go to the beach as well this year, which is a $50 trip that I really want to fund, as well as the rest of Katie's party funding. Right now, if the people who have already ordered from me just buy their orders that they've given me, I'll have enough for the car seat and the baby carrier. The rest I can fund with my internet job payments. I'd love to be able to fund everything for this baby all by myself, it would really help!
I'm definitely less sick now. I haven't thrown up in about a week and a half. One every other day or so, I get really sick feeling, sometimes dry heave, but don't throw up and it passes. I don't need a nap every single day now, I'm starting to skip them and I have enough energy to get the house in order. For three days, Bill and I have been tackling the house, and it's looking SO much better. We're also preparing for Katie's party and trying to get the rest of the stuff together.
I love that baby can hear now. The fact that I can feel movement and know that baby can hear us makes it feel like this pregnancy is going great and that it's already come so far. This baby already feels so apart of the family, even though we don't know who they are yet. Only 13 more days though, then baby will have a name and I can start washing up all the clothes, filling the nursery dresser and getting everything ready. Oh, and buy a going home outfit! Oh, I can't wait to know the gender, it's killing me! I think I crochet so fast right now because I'm so anxious to get to this appointment! lol
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