18th of May 2011 (23 weeks 5 days)
Hi Noah!!
How’s my baby doing? I think we’re doing fairly well. We are learning to know each other more every day. Some days I know you are more active because I drink more, other days you’re lazier because you have moved a lot the day before. I am able to feel you a lot every day. I can know when you wake up and when you are resting. It’s funny because when you were smaller, I couldn’t feel you kick but I could feel you when you would lie on the bottom of my stomach. You were smaller than my hand. You still lie down the same way, I am not sure why but I guess it feels comfortable to you. Now, you take up two of my hands though. It’s impressive to see how much you’ve grown in so little time. I’m so proud of you although I know you’ve done it all by yourself. I’m just here for, well you know, keep you alive. Actually, the truth is that right now you are viable by yourself. You technically could live outside of me. I don’t want that to happen just yet. I know your survival is the most important right now but so is the fact that you will be healthy. If you were born now, there could be a lot of damage done and we want to avoid that. There are still many cases where children born prematurely grow up just like normal children do. To make it short and sweet; even if you’ve reach viability- try to keep baking. We’re getting there!!
Other than that, our week was pretty relaxed…we did some homework, some walking, lots of computer, meeting people here and there and of course a midwife appointment! Our week was good and I guess a little boring. Mommy misses Daddy a lot while he’s at school and his schedule can be hard at times to follow. At least he gets some days off. When he gets home we still get to do activities together. We also had a bad surprise recently; remember nausea? It came back. After almost 5 perfect weeks, Mommy started to feel dizzy and nauseous again. Bus rides were terrifying and unpleasant. At that point, Mommy decided to get back on Diclectin. It’s really been helping us so far and it makes us sleep!! I feel so lazy sometimes, we sleep on average 12 hours a day. When Daddy is home though, we sleep less because Mommy wants to spend time with him despite the fact that he wants to sleep…Poor Daddy. Talking about Daddy, I think he is starting to get more into the pregnancy. He can feel my belly get harder and it’s starting to show, so he gets to see you grow at the same time. He likes to make you giggle and he talks to you. I’m sure you recognize his voice because you move when he talks or when he touches you. I’m also certain that you can hear us now because there was a very loud noise in the house and you kicked me really really hard. I know I was sleeping but don’t worry! If something was to happen I would get out…with you obviously. Anyways, guess what? Daddy gave us “me” something very very special yesterday. See when Mommy was a kid, around 8 years old, she went to Europe and she fell in love with…well ice cream. They were the creamiest and sweet type of ice cream she had ever tasted and she really fell for them. They were called White Magnums. Every time Mommy went to Europe, she would have a lot of those. As you may have imagined, it’s sort of expensive to go to Europe just for ice cream and I always had hope that Magnums would be sold here in Canada. It happened! There were Magnums in our grocery stores. When we went, we found the original Magnum, the caramel Magnum and the almond Mangum…Mommy couldn’t care less about those. She wanted her white Magnum!! Nothing to do, they weren’t here yet. Yesterday, as Daddy came home, he had a surprise for me! Yes!! White Magnums!! He found them in another grocery shop by total coincidence. Okay, well for you it might not be a big deal, but for me, that is pregnant with you, EUROPEANS ICE CREAM? My favourite kind!? Yes yes yes!!!! Daddy got them because he knew they would make me happy and I’m so happy he thought about me- well us. Gah! I love that kid- man I mean.
Our midwife appointment was also very good. We went with Titia. On our way there we got sooo sick. I was sure that I was going to pass out of throw up. When we finally got off the bus it was such a good feeling. Honestly, it felt really good to be out of there. Just fresh air seemed to cure it all. Obviously, it wasn’t the case and when we arrived at the midwife place we were still sick. I guess it would have helped if we had a place on the bus but we didn’t. I can’t wait to show a bit more just for that but I guess it will take a while because see, no one is noticing my bump yet!!! Once we got to the midwife, she told us everything was okay. My uterus is growing and is now at 22cm, which is great! It should be at 23 cm by now. The rest was just chit-chatting here and there about our possibilities for birth and other stuff. We are going to see her again in 4 weeks and we are no longer going to see our OB. Our glucose test is the 27th of this month. It’s going to be really annoying because we have to fast for 12 hours and we will only get to eat 4 hours later. So hmm, pregnant and 16 hours NOT eating? How fun!!! At least Daddy will be there with us. I wonder how that will go. I really do. If I throw up, we have to do it all over again. I’m confident it will go well though. We don’t have any major signs of diabetes but we do have a history of diabetes in the family and it’s honestly nothing to mess with. Especially not for you. So, we’ll do that test and see how it goes.
We also have a test on the 25th. It’s going to be so boring…it’s part of life though, right? So, we’ll do that and we’ll get over it.
I can’t wait to see you Baby Noah!!! I love you, take care of yourself until next time we get to see you!!!
Mommy and Daddy love you very much!
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