Living Simply… Parenting by Instinct

So I am almost 12 weeks, on Wednesday so yay! I don’t anticipate any problems with this pregnancy. I’ve had no spotting and with all five miscarriages I had spotting by this point or earlier. I haven’t had the heart issues I had in first trimester with Xander either so that’s nice. I did not enjoy those three days in hospital and neither did Austin. He was only 15 months old and Daddy had left us three months earlier to go to Hearst a month before we did, so I was his rock. Then I end up in hospital and was there for over 24 hours before my inlaws brought him to see me. That’s around the time he began to suck his thumb. Poor baby. But at least I’ll have this one at home so I won’t upset Xander’s normalcy like I did with Austin.

So Nic is trying to make me go see the midwife. Just once or twice but I’m putting it off. I want to do this one by myself. I’m debating about whether I even want Nic there when the baby’s born. He just gets so upset when I’m in labour, its distracting. Well, I will make up my mind by the time I get back from our little holiday down south. We’re visiting my parents for a week starting on May 1 and coming back on May 9th. It should be fun. I haven’t been that far south since Austin was 1. 

I’m 10 weeks pregnant now! No bleeding and lots of morning sickness. Yay!! Lots of hopefulness here. And some of my favourite people are expecting now too so yay!! All sorts of babies coming.

So far I’ve not seen a midwife. I’m planning a UC but I may see our midwife for some shadow care and to cover my a** in case of transfer. Also, it’ll be nice to call her to come to my house if I decide I want a newborn exam or need stitches or something. 

Wish me luck!!

I make all our bread every week. I make whole wheat bread 3 loaves. I like homemade bread. Well, today I made three whole wheat loaves then I made four white loaves because we are expecting company for Easter and they prefer white. Then my husband starts talking about how fluffy my white bread is and how I "screw" up the whole wheat and why can’t I make loaves like in the supermarket bakery. I tried to tell him about the weight difference in whole wheat and white flour and how the supermarket bakery uses many things most of which I couldn’t procure if I tried and that their ingredients list is as long as my hand. My recipe consists of 6 ingredients. But he keeps going on about the difference and now I’m too mad to eat dinner.