27 Weeks Belly Update

We're there...Entering the third trimester.

This week has been a little difficult. I cought a nasty cold, we kept on looking for apartments with no luck (visited 14 already), I was offered a job then denied because of my pregnancy, I had multiple contractions, I don't know, I'm glad this week is over.

Claude deserves another shout-out. He is being a super papa-to-be, coming here every weekend, taking care of me, visiting appartments nonstop, and before leaving, he takes my clothes to laundromette, fills up the fridge (with organic stuff) so that I don't have to carry anything by myself.

Other than that, my belly is getting bigger. I get "oh you must be due very soon" far too often. I just laugh. I feel heavier. It takes me 10 minutes to walk a distance that I would normally walk in 5. It's funny that just a month ago I was able to run. Now it seems impossible to me.

24 Weeks Belly Update

Hi all,
It's been crazy these past weeks. CRAZY!!

I temporarily moved to a 1-bedroom (for a month), started my work, got lost multiple times, spent many, many hours on public transportation, the day I started work I found out I missed a very important deadline and was about to miss another one....Ugh!! The academic madness has begun!

On pregnancy level: I didn't have much time to think about it,my belly is growing, I'm trying to do my best so that it doesn't slow me down, I try to eat healthy but most often don't have the time to cook properly. But I'm sure it's temporary. Once I know my way around, it's going to get better. Plus, I found out that since I'm pregnant I can travel first class in the train with a second-class ticket (score!!)
  
And I also want to say that I love my Claude. He has been so helpful and sweet... He carried my heavy luggage everywhere, he has been cooking, cleaning, looking for apartments, doing everything for me. It was so nice to have him here for a week. I don't know what I will do next week and I don't know what I would do without him.

Connecting to unborn baby

I think my beginning of feeling his kicks was an important point. I find it magical that I can feel him inside me before anybody else in the world. Sometimes he does little movements like a butterfly and sometimes big ones like a fish. When I get worried that he hasn't moved for a while, I ask him to please move for me so that I know he's OK. And he does. And it's beautiful.

I have been trying to think what Claude and I could do to connect better to our blueberry while he's there. I try talk to him whenever I can, I tell him what we have done during the day. Claude often kisses him good night and tells him he loves him. Sometimes we sing for him. I listen to Armenian lullabies. I want him to feel that he is loved and expected with impatience. I hope he already knows it.

Happy New Year!!

Happy, healthy, beautiful new year everyone. I'm excited about 2012, too many beautiful changes are going to happen: our blueberry, Brussels, hopefully a new job, new friends :)

Below is a picture from our new year's celebration. I found this picture too funny. We really look like we're waiting for our third one. We are naturals :)

After playing parenting, we partied like rock stars. I am no rock star mama but we went to bed at 5AM. I have to say I was proud of my performance.

So on the right, you see my fake rock star mama pose. Of course, I'm not smoking and what I'm drinking is the french champagne for kids. Yes, that's right, here, they have a champagne for kids called champomy that has bubbles and opens like a real champagne bottle but is  made of apple juice. Our friends were nice enough to buy me a bottle but on days like that it's hard not to drink.

Sorry for being a lousy blogger and belly updater lately. But in a nutshell, the belly is big and getting bigger...I already got the "are you expecting twins?"question. More pictures and entries to come soon.