Longies. :)

My friend came over last night to keep me company while DH worked super late. We're both knitters, and both expecting babies around the same time. (She is 4 weeks ahead of me). We've been knitting baby soakers. My friend cloth diapers her kid and intends to do so with the next one, and though I think cloth diapers are cute and everything, DH and I have decided it's not the way we want to go.... BUT... the soakers can be useful whether you are cloth diapering or not, and they're really cute, so I've been knitting a bunch of them. I will take pictures and post them on here at some point... I've been lazy.

In case you're wondering what a baby soaker (or longies) is/are (I had no idea what they were until my friend told me about them), they're basically just knit pants. They have to be knit out of 100% pure wool, because the wool serves as an absorbent layer. If baby pees or poops in the middle of the night, then the soaker kind of keeps it from getting on the bed, or anywhere else for that matter (like DH's shirt.. LOL).

They are often called soakers, baby longies or shorties. All the names just describe the styles. Soakers typically don't have legs, they just look like a diaper cover, longies have longer legs like pants, and shorties are basically the same as longies, just with shorter legs.

Okay... seriously, all this explaining now seems silly without pictures, so my next post will be the pics of the ones I've made so far. :)

Baby's still in there... :)

After a rather stressful morning (we had our standup meeting at work today, which ended up being inconclusive until October.... blah)... I was looking forward to hearing baby's heartbeat at my Dr.'s appointment today. :)

Dr. scared me a little when it took him FOREVER to find baby's heartbeat. He was even starting to get a strange look on his face, but he kept searching, and eventually found it. He said that the baby was being "sneaky". :) lol

I told that to DH, and DH's response was "greaaaaaat.... our baby's going to be a little troublemaker like me." haha

Oh probably. :)

Think happy thoughts

I will not worry about this, I will not worry about this....

The big guy where I work is calling a standup meeting on Monday for our entire branch. Last time we had a standup meeting, about 40 people got laid off.

I want to think that maybe they could tell us something positive on Monday, but we already know that our department has been told to cut another 5%. At this point, it won't happen through attrition, because most of the cut backs happened that way last time. They cut 80 positions, 40 of which were filled with people.

There's a good chance that I will not be affected by the cutbacks, but it's not impossible, which leaves me with a little doubt, and a lot of fear with a baby on the way!!

It really sucks. I got out of working in the private sector because they tell you that your job is secure in the government.... but since I've been here, all I've witness is insecurity, people losing their jobs, and I'm still on term after almost 2 1/2 years.

The best I can hope for is that I get to work out this term so that when I go on maternity leave I will get a top up on top of EI.

At least this way, they wouldn't be able to touch my position for a year.

Okay, now that this is out of my system, I will give no more thought to it until I actually find out what's happening!!!!

Growing. :)

Baby is the size of a navel orange this week, I'm apparently the size of half a watermelon, LOL Oh well, I adore my bump. :) I'm fully rocking out the maternity clothes now. I can't fit in to any of my normal pants, and all of my shirts have seemingly shrunk up my belly. The changes are exciting. :) Even DH seems to have more of a connection to the pregnancy, now that he can visibly see that there is a baby there.

I'm not sure what I'm feeling in there. Every once in a while, it feels like I'm having muscle spasms in my uterus. I'm assuming that it -could- be baby moving at this point, but I'm really not sure. I hope it is!! :)

I'm feeling a lot better now than before. I have more energy, I seemed to have nipped the overnight heartburn by propping my head up on pillows, and I generally feel pretty good! Only 5 more weeks until we find out the gender! I can't wait!!!! First stop when we figure out what it is is Carters! LOL I really just want to buy one little outfit just for fun. :)

14 weeks, 2 days

Belly looks a little less round this week, but that's probably just the maternity clothing. :) I find it makes me look a little thinner, and for that, I can't complain! ;)

13 weeks, 4 days!!!!!

I am officially out of 1rst tri, and I am undeniably pregnant. Just look at this freakin' belly!!!

Nursery colours :)

In two more days, I will officially be considered out of 1rst tri. To celebrate, I'm starting to think about how I want to decorate the nursery. We're not going to start decorating it until we find out what we're having, but I have at least a colour palette in mind.

I don't like the traditional all pink for girls, all blue for boys sort of thing, so I figured I would keep in pink or blue, but in a minimal way.

For a boy, this is what I'm thinking:

So there's still blue, but the main colours of the room would be the green and brown, and the accent colour would be the blue. The furniture would be white, the walls would be brown on the bottom, green on top, or brown/white... or just one brown accent wall or something... then any little accents would be blue. :)

For a girl, it's pretty much the same, but incorporating the pink as the accent colour:

I can't wait to find out what we're having, but in the meantime, since my colour palettes are so similar, we'll start to buy some of the furniture, and leave the painting/bedding and anything gender specific until we know the gender. :)

To give some idea of how I'd bring it all together, it would be something like this (then add in some blue or pink items - blankets, toys, picture frames - later when we find out the gender): (this is an image from google)