11 weeks

Tomorrow dawns the start of my eleventh week into pregnancy. I have not been vomiting as much but still nauseated and tired at times. I still need to get a wee nap in the afternoon if possible.

Before I lay down today my three darling girls wanted to see what our baby would be looking like now so I found an ultra sound picture on pregnancy.about.com. They were so interested and so we got out Daya's kids encyclopaedia and that had some pictures too. A huge sigh and "OH MAN" was let out when they realised they still had to wait another 30 weeks until baby arrives.

Things have been all go around home as David and his brother get stuck into making gates and getting ready to build a deck.
Yesterday they got all the wood so will be ready to start when both of them are not working.

I went today with all the kids to mitre-10 to choose and buy some paint. It was great as there was a sale on and I was able to get ceiling paint and wall paint for the price of one 10ltr pot. YAY!!!! The down side is that Caleb was not feeling like being in his push chair and decided that everyone in the store needed to know about it. It was one of those mothering moments when you wonder why you are doing what you are doing not to mention that the guy mixing the paint really didn't know what he was doing and was taking forever at which point I needed to sit down or pass out. Fortunately for me my girls were in a most compliant mood and were able to take care of Caleb for me. All in all we managed to complete our mission and get home for lunch and a well earned rest.

Visit to mid wife

I forgot to mention that I saw my mid wife a few days ago and she is lovely. A little softer and more approachable than my last mid wife. There is not too much to comment on as she really only took my blood pressure and had a chat. I also went and had my first blood test done. It will be good to see what my iron levels are like.

10 weeks

As I sit to write my stomach feels as it is preparing a mass that it is readying to projectile. ( Yummy). I really am not enjoying feeling nauseated and tired and have to keep reminding myself that it is worth it for the little life that is growing in my womb. David spoke to the baby today and that really made me feel special. As a woman it is hard to forget that you are pregnant and at times it can become all consuming if you are feeling sick. For the man, he doesn't get the constant reminder all day but I must admit that he must be aware of it when his wife is throwing up or when he has to take on extra chores as tiredness takes over his wife.

David has been great. He has really stepped up to the mark and has done more to help in this pregnancy than any other.
David has also had to contend with my family that constantly and not so subtly make reference to the fact that a small operation may be a good idea for him. The poor boy can't win. My family tend to worry and so he did not want to worry my Nan when she phoned to see how I was. He said I was O.K and that it would be over soon, she interpreted that as that he is not very sympathetic. I had to inform her about how good he is being to me. My family really are great and mean well but sometimes don't know when not to say something or if they do they say it to someone else rather that the person directly.

The baby is now 3.5cm approx. I see my midwife on Tuesday and I am hoping I will get to hear a little heart beat ticking away.
My belly is starting to get a little larger, not so much from the baby but from gut distension. My stomach always feels full.

9 weeks

Well here I am another week on and after having most of the week feeling really blah I suddenly perked up yesterday afternoon. It is so nice to feel a bit normal again. It was a good test today as we had to be down at the church by 7-am so that meant getting the other 4 kids up at fed and in the car and down ready to practice for the worship. I felt really good even with standing for so long. I pray that I continue to feel better from now on.

I have been trying to have more iron in my diet and am eating more red meat and am also taking an iron tablet that has Vit.C and B6 or B12. I just wonder if I have been really low in iron. I will have blood test some time next week so it will give me some idea.

The baby is now 17mm crown to rump and has little arms and legs. I saw an ultra sound of a 9 week baby and its amazing how mini human it was looking already.

Back to the pregnancy

Tomorrow I will be 8 weeks pregnant and am now feeling the joys of early pregnancy, Nausea, tiredness, vomiting and heart palpitations. Fortunately I know that from past history I should feel better in about 4 weeks time but am willing to feel better earlier if at all possible. The up side of it all is that the timing couldn't be better (thanks God) School holidays are here so I don't have to worry about teaching the kids and David is also home for another 3 weeks. This all means that I can have time to rest. I have found that eating small amounts of food regularly helps me feel better but sometimes it just hits me out of the blue.

I have found a mid wife now who will do a home birth. I will meet her on the 25th Jan for my first appointment.

Its been a while

We have recently returned from Blenheim where we spent Christmas and New Year with David's family. We had a great time even though the weather wasn't so crash hot. While we were there the biggest natural disaster in modern history occurred, a Tsunami that hit Indonesia, Thailand, India, Bangladesh, Shrilanka and even Africa. Over 150,000 people were killed and people are still being found. It has raised many interesting conversations as to where does God fit into all this, people who don't even acknowledge him blame him.
We sat one night and discussed some issues that made it hard for people to understand how a loving God could wipe out so many people.

I believe that there are basically two answers to this in relation to where God is during this time.

1: It boils down to your understanding of Genesis and the fall of man. God made us with free choice and we chose to disobey God and so came about death and destruction and occurrences in our Earth that would not have happened if we had been obedient. [ I say we because we are all as guilty of sin as Adam and Eve.] God did not intend in his original plan for our world to be how it is today. Some may say, "why didn't God just make us obey him" but think about this, how much better is it for a child to choose to love and obey a parent that being made to. It makes it very special when someone chooses to love you. God didn't want puppets, he wanted to be worshipped freely.

This brings me now to the events in Indonesia. God has the power to stop any major natural disaster but "allows" it due to our own choices and disobedience that was from the beginning of time. God did not intend this to happen but we chose to turn our world into a place of death and destruction.

2: The other answer could be that God had had enough of Idle worship and other abominations in these countries and decided that enough is enough. This is something that I cannot read Gods mind on but I believe could be another way to interpret what went on. Throughout the Bible God has destroyed cities and even wiped out all the Earth apart from Noah and his family as he could no longer tolerate their evil ways.