Here goes…

My first time ever blogging, and I don’t think anything else would have or could have prompted me into blogging. I mean there’s enough of you at it, but I thought, ‘hey I do have something to talk about ( as always my folks would vouch for) and it will be as much for me and my family as anyone else who wants to have a peruse.

So enter folks at your peril into a world where you will be introduced to stretch marks, emotional tantrums, breast pumps, immature outbursts, savoy cabbages and such likes……that’s just my other half.

So, I find myself 15 weeks pregnant.
Alhumdulillah (all praises to God).

Suffice to say I am over the moon, earth, sun, every star and planet out there…even the new one they just found………….
We just had our first scan, I know a little late, but maybe better because we got to see the li’l blob slightly more developed than we would have at 12 weeks. There he/she (‘Perrep’ we have named the foetus) was, floating around, heart beating, ribs showing, our blessing and miracle from the Almighty.

It all started a loooong time ago (15 weeks to be exact). The egg was invaded and conquered; and the sickness, fatigue and my jelly brainess immediately began. I however thought I had caught some school ground virus type thing from my 5 year old, and was a confused thayng for a while
Then whilst putting away the ironing and watching E.R, my back erupted with intense pain jolting my body upwards and forwards. I lay on the floor in paralytic pain.

It continued after the ‘took’ ( took pron: two k. derived from “Lord of the Rings”, a name I refer to my 5 year old, as he is the size of a hobbit and eats like one) and the hubby were home. I found out that often the pregnancy hormone can loosen ligaments, causing back problems. ‘Aha ! ‘ I thought in full miss Marple mood, hopeful suspicion barricaded my mind…

I put my suspicion away till morn. After ‘happy’ and ‘dozy’ had merrily whistled their ways to school and work, I conducted my maniac scientist home test.
I waited more than the minute on the box, deluding myself I was calm and collected. I looked at it chanting in my head that whatever Allah willed would be fine.


POSITIVE!!!


Full of shock I sat back wondering whether I was real, never mind the test.

A trip to the doctors an hour later, the doc grunted, gruffed and growled at me, and off I went home in the same daze I had left house in.
I went to sleep. Hey I am pregnant now, so I’m allowed to okay?

So, that’s how it started, and in between then and now I have felt (Alhumdulillah) sick, dizzy, tired to the point of just silliness, fed up, hormonal - a la di da word for just total loss of control over brain to mouth connection. Basically I have immense fatigue, I haven’t had energy to do anything, and probably to the delight of the old man, I’ve not even had the inclination to make conversation, not any that is coherent anyway.

I felt Perrep move on the last day of the 14th week. It was truly wonderful...it was a quick movement and too low down for it to be gas or my usual digestive moochings.
Pity I couldn’t fully explain to Hubby, I guess it’s something that has to be felt to be understood.

I’m sure I can feel Perrep sticking out of my tummy at night when I have my irritable bowels. The poor little blob gets shoved and pushed outwards so much I can feel this lump jutting out…and it aint harf uncomfy. I guess it’s probably worse for Perrep. Sowee baby, it’s those nasty refined flour, sugars, in those lovely biscuits and yummies…………