Before I say anything else, I want to say that I am feeling SO MUCH BETTER! Puking is no longer an every day occurrence. My energy levels are pretty high. My spirits are SOARING (with every kick they go higher and higher.) Really. I feel good. Not as good, physically at least, as I felt before I got pregnant, but definitely the best I’ve felt SINCE I got pregnant. Which, really, is such a relief I can’t tell you.
Halloween was EXHAUSTING. Three parades, numerous costume changes, a veritable trick or treat mob scene and I’m spent. Yesterday I was not feeling well (and I didn’t even eat that much candy) and I ended up puking before I left my sister’s. It was all I could do to get on the train and climb into my own bed. The kids were as cute as ever loving on my belly and talking about the baby and all the Halloween stuff – I didn’t take one picture and we didn’t get a chance to paint my belly – but it’s all good. I miss and missed them terribly, but I can’t tell you how happy I am to come home to G. I miss him beyond belief when he’s not with me – I’ve said it before, but this pregnancy is so much more fun when he’s around than when he’s not. Last night I gave the baby a stern talking to – NO KICKING UNTIL DADDY COMES HOME! While most of the time I’m still feeling those flip flops, I’m also getting TRUE kicks. And last night I thought I might have felt a body part – a really hard part of my belly – when it wasn’t hard anywhere else. Anyway, so already the baby doesn’t listen. I told it not to kick and all it did was kick until G got home. Then nothing. They say kids will make a liar out of you all the time and mine’s starting young. It’s just so much fun though! I thought I’d be freaked out and I’m just loving it. I love my baby!!!
And I’m loving my knitting! Although barely any progress was made. I knit a couple of rows on the train down to my sister’s and a couple of rows on the train home, but I realized I made a mistake on one of the decreases and I have to rip out a couple of rows. No biggie – and I’m not feeling the pressure at all – just loving the knitting.
In not so good news, we found out today that they are going to start drilling outside our apartment in the next month or so. We’ve known the “exterior project” was in the works for awhile – they’ve started on other parts of the building – but now we’ve been given notice that our apartment line will be soon. Basically, for the very end of my pregnancy and the beginning of my poor baby’s life, there will be men in scaffolding outside our windows with jackhammers. We will have no window access at all (they all have to be sealed against the dust) and they’re removing our balcony so the sliding glass door will have to be locked off. The window seals aren’t that big a deal – we seal our windows every winter. But the noise is unbelievable. I’ve heard how horrible it is near the apartments they’ve been working on since the summer and I’m not sure I’ll be able to take it. Can you imagine? Nine months pregnant and men with jackhammers everywhere outside your windows? Can the noise hurt my baby? Estimated completion is May. Yeah. Right. The whole thing is really making me nuts.
Needless to say, we’re ratcheting up the house hunt. We’ve lived in this building for sixteen years. Long enough, don’t you think. I’m dreaming of a yarn room!
I’ll end with some good news! My brother’s engaged! YAY JEDD AND JEN! The best news – she’s a knitter!
Back to work. Hopefully some knitting will be accomplished this weekend.
L, C
sorry to hear about the jackhammering. but look on the bright side – at least you got some notice that it’ll be happening. that was thoughtful of your landlords. when they tore the stucco off the back wall of our place (the wall is about 18 inches from where my head is when i’m sleeping….), we had no warning AT ALL! and worse, they kept telling us, “today is the last day,” but it went on for weeks…..
good luck in the house hunt!
I’m glad you’re feeling better and you have you knitting mojo is back!
My still-insider is completely obnoxious with the whole “I’m going crazy until someone tries to feel me!” thing. She absolutely completely will not budge if anybody but me is laying hands on my belly. It’s the funniest thing. i think she’s shy.
What are they doing to your building? Masonry?
So glad you’re feeling so much better. Best of luck with the house hunting! And congratulations to your brother!
Hi Cara, I’m happy for you that you’re feeling better, and enjoying interacting with your little one. That’s very cool. Thank you again for sharing with us. We had our first ultrasound this week – wow! Good luck with the househunting!!
Oh dear! You’ve got to get out of that place! Good luck!
What a happy post!! Minus the jackhammers!! So glad you are feeling better and that baby is kicking up a storm!
Well, it could be worse… they could be blocking off your windows when it’s bloody hot and you have no AC…
Mazel tov on your brother’s engagement! I’m glad the baby is already breaking you in by not listening. Isn’t the kicking so crazy, and so fun?
Good luck on finding a new place. I’d surely want some peace with a new baby… because as wonderful as they are, they deprive you of some sleep! Doesn’t it feel sometimes like you have an octopus in you?
Glad to hear your puking days are over. When I met you at the spin-out and told you that my nausea stopped at ~4 months, all I kept thinking of was that my SIL puked through her entire 9+ months pregnancy. Yeah, you would not have wanted to hear that!
While househunting in Houston, we’re shacking up at a hotel that’s under renovation. The jackhammers start at 8:30am on the first floor. We’re on the 3rd floor and it’s deafening. I cannot imagine having them outside your window. MOVE! It will be awful. I hope you find a fabulous place soon!
Babies are so variable in their sleep habits, there’s no telling what jackhammers will do. It is amazing, however, how many babies (particularly very young ones) will sleep through any noise, no matter how loud, waking only when they need to.
Of course, jackhammers will keep mom and dad awake!
Good luck, and I hope you find the perfect house for your family.
When I was eight months pregnant with my first daughter my husband and I decided to have vinyl siding put on the house. At that time we lived in a house with no AC and the vinyl siding was done in August. It was hot, I was hugely pregnant and very hot and there were about 5 men on scaffolding hammering loudly on my house from 8 o’clock in the morning until 7 o’clock in the evening for two weeks. I couldn’t close the windows because I felt like I was going to suffocate because it was so damn hot. I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown!!! Oh and did I mention that it was HOT!!! Not such great planning on mine and my husband’s part. I was very pleased when they were finished… Glad you are feeling better. My husband and I used to love to sit on the couch and watch my belly move. Toward the end we could see her feet pushing out against my belly. She was a big baby (9 lbs. at birth) so we got to see some great rolling and kicking. It was totally the greatest thing in the world. Enjoy it.
Aren’t you a Jersey girl? Move to Maplewood or South Orange, then you can join our knitting group. 🙂 We loves knittin’ for babies. (‘cuz babies is small and the projects done soon … 🙂
You totally ought to do one of those plaster casts of your belly, now that you’re feeling better….
Glad to hear that you’re feeling better. If you want the baby to kick when your husband is around, try drinking a glass of orange juice or ice cold water – that usually does the trick.
Yay on the lack of pukeage! Yay to being home with your hubby again! Yay to baby kicks (I miss them!)! Yay for Jedd and Jen! Boo to construction – boo boo boo!
A suggestion – move closer to Philly! Then you can be my local fiber buddy, too! You sound like much fun to be fibery with (oh, and you can be closer to your sister and her kids, too hee hee!)
Congrats to your bro!!! And also on the no puking. 🙂
How exciting that you’re getting another knitter in the family! Good luck with the house hunt, you don’t want to have construction going on when you’re trying to put a wee one to sleep.
So glad you’re feeling better! That really sucks about the jackhammers, but you need a house — maybe this is the universe’s way of telling you to just do it!
The hard spot on your belly was probably the baby’s backside. Sometimes it’s a head. When they’re still that small, that’s usually what it is. Just wait until the legs and arms are big and strong enough to be seen from the outside. Now THAT is freaky sh*t! 🙂
Oh, and the first time you lay down and your belly is lopsided because the kid is skooched over to one side. That’s pretty amusing too. 🙂
I hope you do find a place. But if you don’t, that noise will probably make the baby an excellent sleeper-anywhere-anytime. So it could be a benefit. I loved the kicking too! So cool.
Congratulations Jedd and Jen! Horray for the lack of puking too!
It is so good to hear that you are feeling better. It is such a weird sensation but just about the most wonderful thing ever to feel your baby move inside you. It is such a special connection. I am glad my children are grown but I smile fondly remembering being pregnant.
So glad to hear that you’re feeling better! Yuk=jackhammers? Sealed windows? You need a realtor!
i loved your rededication post (would leave this there if comments were open!) i have decided that, with my bf out of town for 10 days (booooo!) i am going to knit to make up for all the knitting i have not done since i graduated in may. so far so good; i have probably spent at least 12 hours knitting this weekend, whether at home in my pajamas or out at a coffee shop enjoying the weather and the millions of cute babies out and about in the neighborhood. i won’t get another weekend like this for a while, but it’s nice to make the decision that making things is important to me, and i want to put the time into doing it!
oh, and get a new place, stat!
Ugh! Sorry about the noise. I am sensitive to certain types of noise so I’m definitely sympathetic! I hope they actually get done when they say they will, but as these things usually go….
Yay for happy, kicking baby – even it’s a little contrarian already 😉 It sounds like despite the pregnancy induced illnesses, you’re definitely enjoying your pregnancy.
Another good thing about the jackhammering is that if your baby can sleep through that, he/she will be able to sleep through anything!