Can’t sleep in this heat
I can’t believe how hot it has been this week (Toronto). I haven’t been able to sleep and I feel pretty crappy today. We do have an air conditioner, but my husband is really into conserving energy and even when our air conditioner is running, it isn’t very efficient and only cools down the main room, not our bedroom. We have a series of fans running to move the air about, but then you have to deal with the noise at nighttime!
I know we should all be conserving energy, but right now I am more worried about sleeping properly. Of course, insomnia is a common symptom even when it isn’t this hot so I don’t know how well I would be sleeping anyway.
I am now in week 13 and I haven’t gained any weight yet and I actually went down a couple pounds in the last two weeks. I was over-weight to start with (by about 10-15 pounds), however I think I should start gaining soon.
Told my parents
Yesterday I felt great. I actually slept more than 8 hours and I was able to get up early and get some of my work done.
My parents came over for dinner and we told them. They were of course really happy for us, my Mum wanted to start looking at knitting patterns right away. She likes knitting, but only for babies.
I cooked a chicken/brocolli/cheese cassarole, which tasted great even though the top didn't brown like it was supposed to. It wasn't as fancy as I wanted to cook for them, but I was able to cook it ahead of time and then spend time chatting with them before dinner. Then we had some fruit salad for dessert.
So now I have someone I can email and ask questions all the time who has already gone through this. She had fairly easy pregnancies and I am hoping that I do too. We are not going to annouce it to the wider world yet, but I know I would need to talk to my Mum if anything happened.
Last night I didn't sleep well so I am feeling a bit dopey again today. Although I just had a cup of tea, so hopefully that will help.
I am starting to rethink the whole mid-wife idea. I think using a midwife would be better as long as I can be at/near a hospital when delivering just in case. I don't think I am a high-risk pregnancy. I am 33, which isn't young, but isn't old either. So we are probably going to start looking into what options we have here.
