December 2011 Archives

Wow, motherhood. I never thought it would happen to me - though somehow I've always known that if it were to happen, it would happen this way: a huge surprise, a mild shock, a pleasant warmth, and two extremely excited parents to be.

 

I've known for almost 2 months but I've still not had much time to absorb it all. Instead, I've been madly trying to survive a full time job, the election, and a 24 hour hangover.... morning sickness is an all day, all night affair - one that I have been dealing with for 8 weeks and counting, causing me to actually lose weight instead of gain it even with a little peach inside of me now.

 

Amidst the re-named by me 24-7 sickness sits proudly the pregnancy hormones causing it - moreover causing me to be so extremely calm and cool about it all that even I am beginning to think I might be going crazy. Of course I have a lot of fears and a zillion things to worry about - namely, where I am going to live and what I am going to do. But somehow these great hormones just make it all seem like no big thing.

 

Now, you, like many others, probably have a hundred questions.

Well, let me go through some of the typical Q and A's for you and if you still have little things nagging by all means email me!

 

Who is this Keith guy?

"The Italian", as he was formerly known as and is still referred to is actually from Victoria (his parents are from Italy, and god does his mum make a great pesto). He works in real estate/financing and dabbles in his own side projects. He is a pretty good soccer player and drummer and cook. When we first started seeing each other I could run circles around him, which served to motivate him to a point where I can't even keep up with him anymore. I took him on his first bike tour ever (through the Okanagan in June) and I guess it won't be our last!

 

When are you due?

In the first week of June, 2012. Fingers crossed for June 9^th so that the baby's birthday is 06/09/12- a good mathematical birthday!

 

Is it a boy or a girl?

Recently the rules changed in B.C. so that parents can only find out the gender of their baby if they go have a special 3D ultrasound in a private clinic. That is a bit WASPey to me so I am voting to hold out until the baby is born. I think it's going to be a girl though.

 

Why are you doing a home birth?

Ideally, yes, my baby will be born at home. My midwife will coach Keith and I through the birth and we can be in the warmth and cleanliness of our own place. Complications can and do happen and if they do then I will go to the hospital (pouty face here) but I won't like it. Hospitals are dirty, smelly, factories and more people leave them sick than well. Not to mention the fact that child bearing and birth are parts of a HEALTHY normal life, not a sick one, and so should be treated that way.

 

How did this happen?

You know, I always thought that if I did settle down and have a family, it would have to be forced on me - not in a bad way, but in a surprise way like this. So yeah.... it happened like all other surprise pregnancies happen. But I am pretty sure you'd be hard pressed to find two people more ecstatic about a surprise like this than Keith and I.

 

What do your parents think?

My parents have been pretty cool with it. In fact, pretty much everyone has. It's funny, the people who I thought would freak out the most are some of the ones who have had the most logical and loving responses. The award to best reaction still goes to Bonnie, for sure though. I called her mid November, right after the election, and like most other people she assumed the election was the big news in my life. Well, not long into the conversation I changed topics and spilled the beans. She immediately broke down crying and I couldn't understand a single thing she said for what felt like hours, until I finally heard her say, "this is the best day, ever!"