August 20, 2007
Vibe Kill
So, despite last night's optimistic and gushing "ahhh...pregnancy" post, I woke up in the middle of the night with stomach cramps (bad Middle Eastern food?) and an aching back and Kapono had a wicked sleep schedule. He was wide awake and ready to play at 3am. Needless to say, the combination of these things was major vibe kill on my "ready-to-be-pregnant-again" mood ;)
August 19, 2007
But We Already Have a Baby!
Emiliano and I have been gifted with a special community of many young parents. Just tonight, we found out that another dearly loved friend of ours is pregnant (this makes the 5th friend who is expecting sometime this fall/winter). After I got married, I couldn't get enough of weddings -- gathering for the sole purpose of celebrating and honoring a lifetime commitment of love. Now, having recently experienced pregnancy, childbirth, and new parenthood, it's a similar feeling -- I feel almost giddy when I hear that someone is pregnant -- I just can't get enough of celebrating and honoring this new life. I know what a miraculous journey is in store for the new parents, particularly the mother, and I feel blessed to somehow be a part of it -- there is a magic surrounding babies and I want to be near enough to feel that magic.
Well, maybe I got too close tonight ;-) because for the first time since my own child's birth, I felt ready, really ready, to be pregnant again. And that is HUGE (no pun intended). And when I say ready, I mean ready...ready to endure 40 weeks (give or take) of morning-noon-&-night sickness, an overactive bladder, an aching back and swollen feet...and the list goes on. But then there's the flip side...40 weeks of nurturing my child, feeling him grow and move within me, hearing his heartbeat, tracking his progress, guessing his features (my eyes, his father's nose?), anxiously waiting to *meet* him.
I told Emiliano tonight, "I feel ready to be pregnant again" and I added, "Everybody else is pregnant", almost like, everyone else is getting pregnant, why not us?
His reply, "But we already have a baby!" :P
Well, maybe I got too close tonight ;-) because for the first time since my own child's birth, I felt ready, really ready, to be pregnant again. And that is HUGE (no pun intended). And when I say ready, I mean ready...ready to endure 40 weeks (give or take) of morning-noon-&-night sickness, an overactive bladder, an aching back and swollen feet...and the list goes on. But then there's the flip side...40 weeks of nurturing my child, feeling him grow and move within me, hearing his heartbeat, tracking his progress, guessing his features (my eyes, his father's nose?), anxiously waiting to *meet* him.
I told Emiliano tonight, "I feel ready to be pregnant again" and I added, "Everybody else is pregnant", almost like, everyone else is getting pregnant, why not us?
His reply, "But we already have a baby!" :P
August 16, 2007
Cousins
August 2, 2007
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