15 Weeks

My bulging belly has blossomed this past week and a half. It's begun to expand past my boobs and into my view when I'm standing. Even laying down, there's a small dip where my sternum is and then my belly extends up again from there. No movement yet but it's probably still a week or so early.

First Visit With Dr. Raby

Yesterday Daddy and I went to see Dr. Raby for the first time. She's going to be (hopefully) the doctor who delivers you. She asked me a whole bunch of questions; they were the same ones Dr. Hawthorne asked. It turns out all of the blood work came back normal and my blood type is O+. That's good because a negative could mean a Rhesus problem. I got weighed and even in my bulky sweater I was only 151. Right where I was expecting to be. Pretty good considering what the last two weekends have been like. Dr. Raby tried to listen to your heartbeat but you're still hiding behind my pelvis so there was nothing. She scheduled my next appointment for 3 weeks from yesterday. Hopefully we can hear you by then and I might even be feeling you move too. She also said that the office would book an 18 week ultrasound so we'll finally get to see your picture! Everything is happening so quickly. The first trimester is over already!

Our Second Anniversary

Baby, you're as big as a jumbo shrimp this week and you weigh about an ouce. All of your organs are developed by now so all you have to do is grow. The umbilical cord is completely supporting you. Hopefully it's doing a good job.
Daddy and I are going away for our anniversary this weekend. We're staying at the Pantages Hotel in Toronto and on Saturday night we're going to see Medieval Times.
Thanks to the fabulous anniversary gift from Grandma and Grandpa Jambor, we're going to visit your great-grandma tomorrow and finish paying off the car. Some money has already gone into RRSPs and onto the mortgage too.
You're growing so fast. My belly is having a hard time keeping up. It was very achy today. Anyway... enough complaining.

12 weeks

Boy, what a difference a week makes when it comes to size. I think it's time to start taking belly pictures every week. And time to book those maternity photos too.

My senses are definitely heightened too. There is a student teacher at work who is seriously lacking in personal hygeine and on Tuesday this week I was in tears over it. I had to get the name tag maker from the bathroom cabinet but Stinky (that's what Craig has named her because I don't even care to know her real name) had been in there before me. The smell was so terrible (I even held my breath but it was the smell OUTSIDE the bathroom) it made me gag. No poopy or anything but body stink. I tried to escape it by going into the office but her smell was there too. I couldn't get away from it and through all the gags I seriously thought I was going to barf. Julie was in the office on her break and offered me Kleenex to dry my tears. I was crying; it was so hard to keep myself from getting sick. I had asked Bev on Monday if we're allowed to say anything to students about their personal hygeine and Bev said "no". But once Anne came into the office and saw my state she emailed Shelley and asked for clarification. Turns out it's okay so Bev's going to keep and eye on it and maybe talk to Stinky if necessary. My view (and Craig's too) is that if the smell is affecting staff, children, parents, or her interactions with any of these three it needs to be addressed.

And on the way to work today a city bus pulled out in front of me. The instant I smelled the exhaust I got a dizzy spell. Thankfully there was a Mac's/gas station close by that I pulled into. I had to recline the seat and take a few deep breaths to stop the spinning. That happened a few weeks ago, too. Bev had put on a firefighter movie for the kids and as soon as I saw the flashing lights on the trucks I got dizzy. I guess everything is sort of heightened; my senses I mean. Maybe to protect the baby?

So we go to Mum and Dad's tomorrow for a dual anniversary celebration. It's going to be nice to spend the whole weekend. And Wes is going to be there Saturday afternoon. I've only met him, never talked to him. And Craig hasn't even seen pictures. He's my future brother-in-law so I'm looking forward to getting to know him. That's about all from here. There'll be more news soon, I'm sure.