I think I am out of touch
At least with most pregnant women. Or at least with the ones posting on pregnancy message boards. I am not sure if it is because I am older, more religious, more married or more inhibited, but I just don’t remember my thoughts being as out of sync. Back when I was expecting Christopher I don’t remember so many of the women posting racy “belly-shots”. I do remember all of us being very opinionated about what was the right way for everything from pain medication during birth to diapers to feeding to sleeping arrangements, opinions based totally for the most part on supposition and what was trendy, but I don’t remember the level of nastiness in the disagreements. I also don’t remember the moms being so down on their baby’s fathers and I don’t remember the other expectant mothers being so certain that they should be the center of the universe. It seems that a much greater percentage of the moms posting are unmarried and have no problem at all talking about the most intimate details of their lives to total strangers. Needless to say I haven’t joined in on a board this time round and really don’t feel worse for not.
This has been a very odd pregnancy healthwise
I actually haven’t gained any weight so far. I was overweight to start with and I have honestly been trying to be very good with my sugars especially, but it is still sort of alarming to me. The other odd thing is that I think we might have finally tracked down the source of my two year, off and on, mystery cough. I have a bacterial infection in my tonsils. One of those normal bacteria that everyone has that opportunistically sets up camp in a damaged place and starts causing trouble. So I am on antibiotics until baby is born then I need to get my tonsils taken out. Fortunately I have good friend promising me ice-cream for my recovery.
I am thinking this fall is going to be crazy
Usually I would lay out my homeschool plans and feel like I was starting with some modicum of control. This year I have no illusion of control. I know that I need very streamlined plans and very easy routines or I am going to drown in a sea of new baby – meets new school year – meets everything else that will likely hit me in September – like having my tonsils out.
Simply Catholic 