Prepared Mamma to Be

I loooooove my new living room! Our apartment is starting to look less like a college party place and more like a lovely little home, just the way it should be.

I had a doctors appointment on Thursday and everything was perfect. The baby's heartbeat was 147 this time (below 150 means a boy) I've gained 7lbs so far, my sugar test came back normal and my blood pressure is right where it should be. I am really surprised my weight hasn't skyrocketed yet... its not that I don't eat healthy, but I do eat a lot of junk (the baby wants it!) I am so lucky to be healthy and happy!
 I have EVERYTHING ready for my newborn baby to come into the world now. All the clothes, diaper bag, bathroom stuff, a swing, a crib... everything. I even placed a $500.00 order on www.well.ca for baby lotions, bath stuff, diapers, cream, wipes and a whole lot more. I feel so prepared and being prepared makes me feel less worried about everything.

So Frazer showed me some items he's been ordering on eBay and I think he is just as addicted as I am. He ordered a jolly-jumper, a pilot hat with goggles on it, a dinosaur hat thing, a cute blanket with a whale on it haha. We are both so excited about our baby and I am happy time seems to be going pretty fast. 
Skidoo races start this weekend and Frazer has been getting ready for them for the past month. I can tell he is pretty excited about it all and I'm just excited for the non-stop Eskimo donuts and good food. Also spring break starts this week for me so I will finally get to go out to our family's cabin. It will be kind of boring not being able to skidoo and just having to watch everyone else... I usually skidoo out to the camp and I love it so this year I'll just have to gaze out the truck window and wish. I told Frazer next time I get pregnant I don't want to be pregnant during skidoo season! This is the only time I've felt like I'm missing out.

The baby must be starting to run out of room in my tummy because I feel him or her squirm and turn around a lot more than kicking these days. He had hiccups last night, Frazer was just laughing at him as he was feeling my tummy.
 Before I got pregnant I thought pregnancy would be so awful -the getting fat and hormonal, all the weird things that happen to you/your body. I thought I'd just want to get it over and done with, but I actually enjoy being pregnant. Its so neat to be growing a baby and going through all the different stages of growth together and I really do cherish everyday that I am pregnant, it isn't all that bad. My first trimester though.. that was rough and boring, my second trimester was quite exciting because we got to start feeling the baby move, I got my cute bump, and I wasn't dead tired all the time. Now that I am starting my third trimester I can feel myself starting to get really tired again which kind of sucks because I want to do so much all the time. 

*** 79 days / 11 weeks and 5 days left (or less, I hope). I will be 29 weeks on Wednesday!! ***



 

Ruffled Feathers

One the most irritating things to me is when women complain about being pregnant or being a mom. I'm pretty sure the symptoms of pregnancy is a world wide known thing, so when you find out you are pregnant you should already kind of have an idea of what you are getting yourself into. 
I always see moms write about how "no one helps them" or "their friends don't hang out with them anymore" and I am always tempted to tell them "Why should everyone else have to feel like they had your kid too?" Your child is your responsibility, why should anyone else have to help you with taking care of your child? Your friends didn't get pregnant, you did. Of course it is always nice to have the company of your friends or have extra help, but at the end of the day you shouldn't expect it. It should be something you are thankful for, if someone is willing to put time aside for you.  

Moving on....

The baby swing I ordered already came in! I'm so happy about it. Also my dad and Alyssa went to Ikea and got my new living room furniture and they were able to load it all on his truck and he will be here this weekend, hopefully. Our little apartment is going to look so much better once we have nice new furniture. 

I just finished housing sitting for my aunt and uncle yesterday and it is so nice to be back home. Frazer was claiming to be "home sick" so he is probably more happier about being home than me. I really enjoyed taking care of my aunt and uncles dog though. She is so cute and just makes me want a dog all the more, but I know I can't. I don't have the time and the proper home for one. Also it will be too much with a new born baby and a puppy. One of these days though, I will finally get the perfect dog for me and I will love it up everyday. In the mean time, I have Lola and Zoe, my dog sisters. They are also really cute AND they snuggle with me.  

Enough about dogs and back to pregnancy. I would just like to say how exciting pregnancy is. Every kick and movement, the long wait to meet my very own baby, shopping for all sorts if things. I love it all. I know I am going to miss being pregnant, but as every week goes by I look more and more forward to being a mom.

Clothing, Playpen, Swing, Money, Appointments. I Got This.

Levi's newborn clothes came in!! Well some of them... and his/her's coming home outfit came in also. I'm so happy about them and of course I had to order a Ed Hardy onesie for the baby too. It's all so cute, I can not wait for Levi to wear them. 

Frazer and I ordered a playpen that is a bassinet for when the baby is small, has a change table and a bouncy chair with it too. I also ordered a swing for the baby yesterday. Toys R Us was having a big sale and it was also free shipping. On top of that I bought a exer-saucer from one of Chauna's friends for $40.00 and it comes with a play mat too. I love the feeling of being prepared and being able to afford the things I want and need.


My tax money should be in within a month, than after that I get my Inuvialuit cheque, plus my two jobs I work so I get 4 pay cheques a month AND Frazer's income too. I am going to apply for housing this month and hopefully we can get a place around August when Tamara leaves for school. It would make a big difference to not have to spend one of my cheques just on rent. We should be living pretty comfortably when the baby gets here because I don't want to work the first year the baby is here. I feel confident that everything will go just smoothly.

Had my monthly doctors appointment yesterday. Everything is going very well, the baby's heart beat was of course above 150 as always - "sounds like a girl to me" is what the doctor said. We will have to wait and see. I have only gained 5 lbs during my whole pregnancy so far, but the doctor said that is was okay and that the baby is healthy so he/she isn't being deprived of anything. I hit my 26 week mark so now I have to go to check-ups every two weeks now until I am 36 weeks then I start going every Monday until the baby is born. Today I had to take a "sugar test". It's a test they do to pregnant women to make sure that you haven't become diabetic during their pregnancy. The doctor said it pretty unlikely that I have but they have to do the test anyways. I went to get my blood work done for it this morning and they made me drink this orange liquid that was like drinking straight sugar. It was so gross, I thought I was going to puke, but I didn't. And after an hour of sitting and waiting for it to go through my body they took their sugar test through my blood and off to my regular schedule I went.