It's official, my belly is now too big for me to drive. I'm short and our car is an older model, I was noticing early on that my belly was getting closer and closer to the steering wheel. I got away with moving the seat back an extra notch but my belly started rubbing on the wheel and when I tried moving the seat back again I couldn't press the clutch in all the way. So no more driving for me.
It's been about two weeks since I've driven and I'm handling it ok. (I grew up in a small town, so strongly associate driving and having a car with independence. I hate having to rely on people.) I started doing our grocery shopping online and I also bought Tony's birthday gifts online. I love window shopping and I felt kinda bad because they weren't awesome gifts, they were practical and boring. I still haven't gotten the hang of online shopping for gifts.
There's a small shopping centre just a short walk away and I can get on a tram to go to a slightly larger one or try my luck with the bus system. But I haven't done that just yet, I need to find my travel card and put some money on it. I think there's only about $3 on it and that won't get me very far at all!
We've made progress on the nursery! Gone are the ugly shelves, blinds and the last of the random junk that we were storing in there. Tony has started patching the holes in the walls from the shelves and sanded back the door frame. He's got to patch a few more small holes and do one more light sand of the door frame before we can wash the walls and paint!
Pregnancy insomnia hit hard this week. Tuesday night I got about 5 hours of broken sleep. I tossed and turned and then napped in the glider for a while before going back to bed for an hour. Wednesday night was worse, I went to bed late but by 1am was wide awake. I went out to the glider and tried to sleep but it wasn't happening so I went online and ordered the invites for our baby shower and did some online shopping. I finally went back to bed and an hour later Tony's alarm went off and I was awake again. But luckily I got some decent sleep last night, I even slept for 5 hours in a row without having to get up to pee!
I've had a few days of morning sickness again too. Feeling queasy and needing to snack every 2 hours to starve it off. And the blood nose is back too.
It's Tony's birthday today, but before we can go out for dinner we have the annual owners meeting for our building. It's going to be interesting, no children or babies at all live in our building. There's no by-laws that say they can't live here, but I'm sure there'll be some comments once baby boy is here. We haven't told any of our neighbours that I'm pregnant, but that's because we're private people not because we're hiding my pregnancy. I'm a bit overweight, it's only now I'm looking more and more pregnancy and less fat.
Tomorrow my family is coming over for a barbecue. Last week my little cousin (well, he's 21 now! Not so little anymore I guess) flew up to work with mum and dad so it'll be great to see him and everyone else. I've been so disorganised though, ususally I have everything planned and lists made for when we host a lunch.
This time? Well, this time it wasn't until my brother emailed me and said "hey, what do I bring tomorrow?" that I had a panic and realised how unprepared I was. And then I couldn't just jump in the car to head to the supermarket to grab everything. I don't know if it's baby brain, or I just can't be bothered.
Next week I've got to do the glucose challenge. I'm not looking forward to it. I don't mind sugary drinks, but I can't stand artificial flavours at the moment. And I won't be surprised at all if I fail, I'm overweight, have pco, and over 30. (Plus, I have a sweet tooth, or did before I fell pregnant!) And I'm not looking forward to the blood test either. Hopefully they can find a vein easily enough and don't have to do too much digging around. Ouch!
