Tales from Falsidehill

No worries

I went for a checkup with my GP today. I got back all the results from my blood tests and everything is fine! It’s funny; I wasn’t worried about any of the results but getting normal results back brought me such relief!

I also finally got closure on my breast lump. I didn’t write about it here as it was too stressful but I did go to see a specialist at hospital a few weeks ago, and he arranged for me to get an ultrasound. The lump is completely normal and nothing to worry about. Phew! I was beginning to calm down about the whole thing anyway - it seemed too much of a coincidence to find the lump and then find out I’m pregnant - but it was still always lurking in the back of my mind.

I have been feeling a bit down for the last couple of days because, on top of the sickness and painful hunger, I managed to catch a cold and haven’t been able to sleep. Last night I was coughing so much, and was so snotty that I ended up only being able to sleep whilst sitting upright in bed. What a state! But now I’m feeling really happy after seeing the GP, and everything being fine. He said ‘the next time I see you, you’ll have a baby in your arms’ and that nearly had me blubbing!!

Heartbeat

I’m afraid this blog is going to turn into a baby mad zone!! Today we used the ultrasound Doppler machine to find the baby’s heartbeat again. It took us ages but when we eventually found it, we breathed sighs of relief and then grinned a lot at each other! Clever James recorded the heartbeat, and here it is:

That’s our baby!!! How amazing!

2009 is going to be special!

I have some big news! We’re having a baby! I am so happy to now be able to shout it to the world (i.e. blog about it). I still have trouble believing it’s true. For the first few weeks I felt fine but morning sickness kicked in a few weeks ago and I’ve been feeling pretty icky. It’s a good, healthy sign though so I shouldn’t complain. I just feel so lucky and grateful to be pregnant!!

I am due sometime in July but we don’t have an exact due date yet. We have a dating scan in a couple of weeks though and I cannot wait for that! We have already heard the baby’s heartbeat, thanks to James’ sister who has one one of those ultrasound Doppler machines. That was such a special moment! She has let us borrow the machine which is very cool!

Remember when I had my ordeal? Well, at my first doctors appointment my doctor kept asking me ‘are you sure you’re not pregnant’ but at that point it was just too early to tell. On my second visit two weeks later she wanted me to take a pregnancy test but I kept saying ‘I really don’t think I’m pregnant; I don’t feel any different’. She convinced me to take a test there and then, and it gave a very, very faint positive line. I had read that you hardly ever get a false positive so my hopes went sky high. The next day I did a test at home and it was well and truly positive! Wow! (And I did another test the day after that and it was still positive. And then I did another test a week later just to make sure!)

On the day we found out, my mum and sister were coming to visit me but because my dad wasn’t coming, I kept the news to myself as I wanted to tell my parents together. It was sooo hard not saying anything! That day my mum actually said to me ‘so am I never going to be a granny then?’ and I managed to shrug off the conversation somehow. She left feeling completely depressed about it all; convinced that I wasn’t interested in having kids anymore! Then that weekend, we went to my folks house and told them. They were over the moon! After thinking she wasn’t getting any grandchildren, my mum was totally dumbstruck – it was so funny! Then we phoned James’ family. James’ mum was ecstatic and wanted to tell everyone but we told her not to until 12 weeks. She has been on the verge of exploding ever since but she’s relieved now as she has finally been allowed to tell people!! It’s so nice when other people are happy about your news.

We spent the last few days visiting James’ mum and sister, and we left with a car completely full of hand-me-down baby clothes, blankets, books, a basket, a bath, and a million other baby things. It’s absolutely overwhelming!!!! We are so lucky to have such amazingly kind relatives! So hopefully the morning sickness (which can last all day!!!) will end soon so that I can start looking through everything, and get on with decorating the baby’s room!

Jodie in the snow

Here’s a wee video of Jodie playing in the snow. It’s from early last year but I only just got round to editing it recently and decided to try out Vimeo.

Jodie in the Snow from Lynsey Pearson on Vimeo.

Hibernation

It’s been a winter wonderland here for the past week so I’ve been hibernating, apart from a couple of walks in the freezing cold to take pictures.

We took Jodie out to play in the frosty fields on Sunday and, much to her dismay, the local farm’s dog decided to join us. She tried her best to get rid of him but had to give up in the end and let him play too.

I was so excited when the weatherman said a big snow storm was coming but it wasn’t as major as I imagined. It was still a lot of snow for an Edinburgh girl like me though (I even had to brush snow off the Sky dish so I could watch Gilmore Girls). Even through snow, Jodie still manages to find sheep poo to roll herself in but I had the last laugh when I snapped her falling over mid roll.