Her announcement reminded me we should share our news, I'm expecting a
3rd baby.This is a bit of a shock to us, we've been taking precautions and this definitely wasn't part of our plans this year, we always wanted more kids, but after a very difficult delivery 2nd time around resulting in hip surgery a year ago (thanks for all the support I got then, btw), it was certainly something to be delayed.
Funnily enough, this baby is due June 14, both my other children were also due this date - though they were born May 28 and June 10, this has resulted in many jokes about how we will avoid any further unexpected babies. DS will be 6 and DD 4 around the time this baby arrives.
So that's my news, I'm just past the 12 week mark and though I've not noticed any lifting of symptoms I feel better than I expected in my body, I was still having a frustrating amount of hip pain until a few weeks ago when it suddenly lifted to an almost minimal level, meaning I cut down on painkillers and am now noticing other bits of my body that hurt!
I'm expecting to feel pretty bad towards the end, my pelvis really doesn't like pregnancy and I don't expect to be very mobile in the 3rd trimester, I have been putting in a lot of work on fitness and though it doesn't feel like it I may well be stronger than going into either of those pregnancies, so maybe things will be a little better, though personally I found an almost 2 year old to be much less physically demanding than the children are now, lifting isn't an issue, I rarely do it, but there is a lot more places to be that can't be changed, like school! I hate having to plan for things to be crappy and we do have to plan as we have no baby stuff - we moved when our youngest was 15 months old, so we donated most of our stuff. Thank goodness for the internet, I'm focusing more on stuff in the house that the internet can't do for me, then if we have to buy car seat, bassinet etc online, then so be it.
Quilting wise I'm trying to focus on UFOs, which has been moderately successful, I'm being very disciplined in not planning any new projects, though I think in the New Year, I'll relax a bit and let myself plan some other projects, though I'm thinking I should be sensible and write down clear instructions, as I likely will still quilt, but only in small chunks - I took up quilting just after DD was born, my first quilt was an entirely hand done crib size christmas quilt (which reminds me I must fish it out and drap it somewhere!).
My quilt room is my bedroom, so if I'm very immobile I'm hoping that I might still manage some pottering around, but I want to have things really organised as I tend to end up with loads on the floor and previous experience has told me this is not good with a troublesome pelvis.
The hardest thing will be is if as last time my pelvic problems don't go away after the birth, they were made worse by the birth (DD came out the wrong way round and was stuck for a while), I'm still shooting for a normal birth as I don't tend to heal well from surgery, though we'll go for that option if things don't look good, but unfortunately there isn't always time to make that decision.
Cheers Anne