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Date: 13 February 2008 21:07:42
I feel like I have maybe turned a corner over the last few days, in a couple of different ways.
I think I am starting to feel less sick, and less tired. And frankly, I should flaming well think so, at 16 and a bit weeks. So far this pregnancy has been a real struggle, I've been tired, and feeling dreadful, and that's also led to me not dealing so well with Groover, which is not fair on him really. He's been a right little tyrant over the last few weeks and I haven't had the energy to deal well (or, in fact, at all) with that. So I'm hoping that will start to get better. It doesn't help of course that feeling like this and not being able to cope with him very well also leads to "what am I doing?!? having another one when I can't cope with this one" type wailing...
As well as not dealing as well with Groover as I would like, several friends have been going through really tough times at the moment and I just haven't been able to be as supportive as I would like to be. I've been horribly forgetful - about three and a half weeks ago my niece left for Zambia where she will be teaching for six months. I forgot to ring her before she went to say all the best. Worse still, I only realised yesterday that I'd forgotten. That's really bad, isn't it?!
So generally I think and hope that I am starting to emerge from the fog. Apologies to you if you are one of the people I've forgotten about, been disorganised about or babbled incoherently at. Heaven only knows what state I'll be in once this baby actually arrives!
Also, I had a midwife appointment today and heard the heartbeat, which was great. I had a scan really early because I was referred to the foetal medicine unit, and then didn't have a 12 week scan (because I'd had the early one) and it felt like a really long time since I'd seen or heard any evidence of this baby other than nausea and fatness. So hearing the heartbeat was really reassuring.
On a lighter note, Groover has named the baby 'ginger'. We think he may think it is a cat.