5w 6d

Feeling very well at the moment! I could get used to this :-) Very sleepy, but having a boy who usually does two naps helps with that. Snoooze.

I did go back to the optician, and he said my prescription was completely wrong. I thought as much, and probably should have trusted my judgement when I first put them on and they felt bonkers! I am soooo looking forward to getting the remodelled edition back and being able to see again. It is pretty wretched having wrong specs. I did mention that I was pregnant to the optician chap, Jemma, but he said that at this stage it wouldn't have had any impact. I assumed that was the case, and to be fair if everyone's eyes changed this much in pregnancy then pregnant women would bang into things a LOT! ;-)

Otherwise there is not much to report. I still think the baby is a girl, and it makes it easier to refer to her as such anyway, given that the existing baby is a boy. I haven't been to the doctor or anything yet, I don't really see the point at this stage as either the baby will survive or not, and I don't really need a doctor for that! I am on a comittee that is pushing the county on getting every woman booked with the midwife before 12 weeks so I suppose I ought to see a doctor in time to make sure I am helping my own cause! As I'm not having scans it doesn't feel like there's any rush really though.

Oooh, they're selling wigs on the shopping channel. I love the wig programme!

In summary, few symptoms except for being grumpy, tired and a tiny bit crampy. Kind of enough symptoms to keep me happy, but not too many. Long  may it last I say!

5w 2d

Nothing to say, but blogging anyway. Still pregnant as far as I know...this stage of having nothing to show for it except for dry pants and a faded line on a stick is a bit odd. I do trust there is a baby in there.

I have bought some fabby fabby fabric to make the baby a patchwork quilt, I am rather excited about it. I've also been feeling quite rough the past day or two, but urgent poo and achy joints style rough so think it might be a bug. Otherwise I'm doing OK. Oh, except for the specs debacle. Otto pulled apart my old specs, so I had a week in prescription sunnies waiting for my new ones to arrive, and now I've had the new ones for several days but I swear they aren't right at all. I can't focus on anything more than 10m away. Going for a re-test tomorrow, hoping this can all be sorted before I have first trimester blurrrgh to cope with along with fuzzy vision and attendant headaches.

I still thik the baby is a girl, we now have one girls name and a fabuolous trio of boy's names. I do like name hunting, except for those stressy preggy moments when you know you'll never find the right one and the baby will be nameless forevvverrrr.....


Not much more to say, and I ought to go to bed.

Oh, I did wonder if this baby can possibly be as nice as Otto? I fear not :-s

Thanks!

Wow, I have people who commented! Thanks guys! This is the only place I'm talking about it at the moment as Michael won't let me post on forums yet, and it is waaay too early for facebook.

Tonight I am feeling impatient. Can I have my baby now please? I hate the miscarriage risk of early pregnancy, and I want a bump! And to tell people. Gfft.

I'm enjoying this "sweet spot" of early pregnancy at the moment - I remember this bit from Otto! Morning sickness started with him dead on six weeks, so I'm expecting that kind of thing again. Maybe I shouldn't though, and employ the power of positive thought and prayer. This bit of pregnancy seems to mostly involve wanting to eat more, drink more and sleep more. I can handle that, although operation not-gaining-three-stone is hoping to have some influence on the eating part. I don't want to eat less food, just fewer cream cakes than last time!

I bought the baby a very nice bunny toy today, I wanted to get something to recognise she exists and to belong to her. Otto has a bunny I bought for him before I was pregnant (not that he gives the toy the time of day, but I like it!) so maybe this will become a little family tradition. At the moment, as you may be able to tell, I am totally thinking this baby is a girl. We're planning to decline scans this pregnancy, so we won't find out til I push the baby out. I'm excited about that, finding out was totally the right thing with Otto but this time we would be perfectly happy with either a boy or a girl so waiting sounds like the right thing to do. We'd be hard pushed to find out without having a scan too, though I imagine we might do some wedding ring wafting at some point!

I also realllllly want to get making for this baby, but I have a couple of WIPs to crack on with first. Impatient, impatient impatient.

We've gone off all our girl names too. Suggestions welcome!

Second Pea on the Way!

Ha, well that happened sooner than planned! Seems loose interpretation of fertile times combined with feeling a pregnancy wouldn't be a disaster = pregnancy! I'm very excited and happy, though a little daunted too!

Unfortunately my charting was all over the place this month (as has been life, really!) so I'm not quite sure when I ovulated or how many DPO I am. I would say about 12 as tests have been showing lines only the past day or two and I think my first positive with Otts was at 9 dpo? I've been testing for a week though and I'm sure one of the really early ones had a line on it.

Just thought I'd note a few symptoms here, they're all tangled with a tummy bug that hit me hard just after ovulation so I'm not excatly sure what's what, but I thought I'd note them for reference:

- Going off tea (I love tea, this one hurts! Michael says tea is a more effective indicator of pregnancy than internet cheapies!)

- Bruised-feeling boobs and a sort of dragging pain in them while feeding.

- More thirsty than usual and prone to feeling a bit weak and wobbly

- Nausea - though I'm not nauseaous now, so this might have been the bug? It did go off if I ate, but it was not fun at all.

- Blue lady bits! There's random for you!

- Hyper sensitive nose

That's all I can think of for now. Be back soon, or maybe in many weeks? Who knows with my sporadic blogging.

Oh, I meant to record my weight as well, 10st 5oz. I am totally not planning to put 3st on this pregnancy as I did last time!