Friends! Family! The Heids are adding to the family! This time, one with two legs and not as much hair as Annie. We are super excited! And nervous. The nervous is mostly me though, I mean come on, who is actually going to have a big belly and eventually plop another human out of me? Baby Heid is due November 2015. I have a tiny bump. Doc says I’ll probably start showing soon because the rest of me is still quite a bit of bones. J
We are not sure what we are having yet, but we do intend to find out in July or so. So far, pregnancy has been ok. I was feeling nauseous until recently and that just did not feel good. It was definitely not as bad as some people who seriously have to throw up everything they eat and can’t even make it to work because they pretty much need a bucket or the bathroom at all times. Hopefully, I am now headed to the hungry stage and will be eating healthy for baby. Back, head and boobs hurt though. Pretty bad sometimes. Nurse says I can take Tylenol, but I am trying to go without any meds until delivery. So far so good.
We saw the heartbeat, just a little flicker of light, about a month ago. It was so cool! You can see the lighter part beating. It was at 150 bpm then which we were told was strong. Sure sounds strong. It’s beating double mine. We then heard it about a week and half ago. It sounded like a galloping horse! Still going strong. It is crazy to think that, right now, there are two hearts in me. So weird.
Annie is so excited about this. Well, I don’t know that she senses anything. She is still a puppy and everything is about her. She is in for a tough surprise when her new boss comes along. I doubt she would care though because I am sure she will be getting all kinds of scraps pretty soon. The new boss will likely replace Mitch and myself as her favourite human. I am really not sure if she feels anything – she does not play rough with me or jump on me, but I feel like that is because she has been trained to not do that with me. She has recently decided that when I sound displeased, she needs to go in the tub. I don’t think she has any idea if she did anything wrong, but she is so submissive, she just lays down and rolls over just because I said no to something.
Now that we are expecting a tiny human to join us soon, my parents are coming over from Sri Lanka to help out. It is their first grandchild and of course they are excited. They will pretty much be our nannies while Mitch and I work. It is so nice to know that we don’t have to have our kid with some stranger and pay them for a service that I am not sure about. It’s not like the baby can tell me what happened at day care. I am probably reading more horror stories and extrapolating from that. It will also be nice to come home to a clean house instead of coming home to wash dishes and vacuum. That being said, our space is super tight. I already feel like we might be on top of each other until we move to our own home. We do have some good space in the attic though and hope we can convert that into a livable space. If we can do that, I think our lives would be considerably better. We have one contractor coming today to give us an estimate and another tomorrow. Fingers crossed, they are numbers we can work with.