One small thing

[radegund]

I reckon it's time to let yiz all in on the other little story that's going to make life interesting this year: as some of you already know, niallm and I will be joined in late August, all going well, by ... [pregnant pause] ... a BABY.

Heee!!! We're so deliciously excited about this. It's wonderful. And terrifying. Our lives will change completely. Person who did not exist will exist. I can't wait to meet it.



This is a portrait of my inhabitant, taken at around 9.5 weeks (the blob at the bottom of the egg-shaped black bit). You can't make out much, but my obstetrician friend (who did us the scan as a nixer; this is Ireland) alleges that the bulbous bit on the right is a head and the sticky-out bit on the left is a leg.

What was really exciting was seeing the heart beating: about four pixels on the screen flashing black to white.* The whole thing was 27mm long at the time (20 January). It should be well over twice that now, although I'm still fitting into most of my clothes. I can feel there's something going on in there, all right, particularly when I do singing exercises or lie on my stomach. This is week 14, so there'll be speedy growth for the next few months.

So now you know why I've been whining so much about my health recently. Morning sickness sucks dead donkeys, and baby manufacture seems to take an enormous amount of energy. But oddly, despite the nausea and the extreme fatigue (twinned neatly with insomnia) and the forgetfulness and the achey hips - and the tendonitis, which is apparently likely to flare up at intervals for the duration - I'm in excellent spirits. Feel profoundly happy most of the time. Ah, hormones!

Besides! Big tits!

*I have two hearts! I'm a Time Lord! (Or a Centauri, I suppose. But Time Lords are cooler.)

Comments

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! What utterly fabulous news.

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[radegund.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's fabulous and, as I said, rather terrifying. This is one of very few things I've done where, once I'm committed, I really really can't change my mind later. Also, what's with the nine months thing? TV has taught us that pregnancy lasts at most four or five episodes - what's the deal? :-)