Chris, Justine, Luke and Jim in town

I had booked today off work to spend with Chris, Justine and Luke, who are up here at Starship, but instead I am home sick. I have been feeling lousy for a few days now, but today must have been the worst.. with no relief from the usual drugs, my cold is just drawing out for days.

Anyway the bump seems OK and I am looking forward to going back to Gisborne for a few days on Friday, and catching up with family. Ed saw Jim on Monday, who came up to Auckland for the day...they caught up for lunch and had a good catch up.

I went to Sarah and Simon Tallon's wedding on Saturday with friends, Mike and Micheel, and had a lovely time. Sarah was gorgeous and Simon was beaming, we had a fabulous night. Michelle's baby is due in June, so I was in good company.

I am seeing a new midwife next week..looking forward to meeting her. We have been trading furiously on TradeMe, and my heart rate has been taking some serious highs. So far, we have won a cot and lost out on several mountain buggies.. just as well we have plenty of time.

The bump

The bump is beginning to show.

Baking

I don't know what has come over me... I have developed a desire to bake! I made some banana bread and some peanut brownies. It must be a maternal instinct. Cripes! Where will it lead?

End of the long weekend

Monday afternoon, and the end of the long weekend. We have had a lovely time sharing our news and spending time together. I am feeling well. Have fitted in a bit of exercise; pump classes Friday and Sunday and swimming at the Parnell pools today. The pool was beautiful and it is a shame that this is the last weekend it is open for the rest of the summer, the weather is so nice.
Went to see Pan's Labyrinth at the cinema yesterday. I was quite dark and although filled with faries and magic and mystery, for some reason it was rated an R16 and had some unnecessary gratuitous violence running through it. It could have been a great film for children, but the back drop of post-Spanish Civil War in the mid 1940s, made for quite a different film,and excluded the entire audience group under the age of 16. I would recommend it, but cover your eyes in the scary parts.
Back to work tomorrow for a short week and sharing the news with all our friends from work- looking forward to it.

Good Friday-Telling family

Today we shared our news with the family. Everyone is thrilled, Darbie cooed and Margie cried and Ed's Mum was extremely happy. We know it has taken a long time for us to share the news, but we wanted to be certain that things were OK and thought Good Friday was a perfect day to let you know. Thanks for keeping the secret Chris and Justine... I know it can't have been easy. It is great to be able to share our news, we have been hanging out to tell you all, and it makes it more real and a lot more fun to be able to talk about it with you.

First scan

Ed and I had our first scan today, and saw our baby for the first time. This is it, head down burrowing into the inside of me, we think it had its wee head stuck and was trying to back its way out. Ed is going to upload a few seconds of video later on so you can see it in motion. We listened to the heart beat, which was racing at 159bpm and apparently right on track.
The expected arrival date has moved by a week, now 15 October. The radiologist took a few measurements and confirmed that we are at about 12 weeks and 4 days, which is about a week further on than we thought.
I am hoping that the tiredness will start to fade a bit from now on.

Home during the day

Felt a bit queasy today and came home early, after a quick nap (well an hour and a half) felt much better and had a good evening.
Phoned my midwife because I had a feeling that I was expecting to have a scan on Thursday, but that might not have been her understanding. I was right. So now I am going to see the midwife at 10am, and then after picking Ed up from work, we will both go to the scan appointment at 12 noon in Mt Eden.
Went to the gym again this morning and felt good. Exercise has been a bit of a challenge for these first few months. Having been a good runner, it has been hard to balance the need and desire to exercise, with the concern for our developing baby and how much exercise is too much. I do feel that I have struck a compromise and although I haven't run for over a month now, I have been cycling on the stationary bike and also have a specific weight training programme. This should get me through the next few months at least.

Not long to go

It is so hard not to tell Mum about our pregnancy particularly when she asks if we have any news. It is hard to hold my tongue and not share everything with her but come this Friday we will be ready to tell our families.
I have been feeling OK this past week but still really tired and not feeling like eating at night or exercising in the morning. I am hoping this will improve at the end of the first trimester.
Went to Sylvia Park today, the newest biggest shopping mall in Auckland, to do our supermarket shopping. The supermarket was good but were told off by a security guard for trying to take a photo. Apparently photos are not allowed.
Ed got two blisters on his thumbs on Friday night from trying to replace the tyres on his bike. It took him over an hour and he still didn't get both tyres back on. He spent most of Saturday away videoing the Auckland Half Ironman. He got 60 seconds of footage shown on Sky TV at the not very glamourous time of one minute to midnight.