Thoughts on Pregnancy

Ben & I have been enjoying the long weekend in Edmonton staying with Ryan & Andrea (Ben's brother & his wife's house). Rachel, our 5 year cutie pie niece, is quite a unique character (I interviewed her 2 years ago in this blogpost). Ben & I have been asking her for the last year what she thinks about us having a baby... she is very against the idea. After having two young siblings and no longer being the only child/grandchild(on the Timmermans side) she understands that babies make adults not pay attention to you:) Well when we announced that we were pregnant she was none to pleased. But it seems that this attitude is slowly shifting... I think she has a plan. She is now very excited and keeps asking me "Is Baby T heavy??" and says "I think Baby T is a boy so he can be a boy friend to Levi!" (her 1 year old little brother). I believe her plan is now for us to have a boy... who Levi can play with and not take up all of our attention and keep the attention on her. Very cute:) Or maybe she is realizing that she loves her cousins on her mom's side and has NO cousins on the Timmermans side and it WILL be a lot of fun:) Needless to say, I am happy that she is finally happy to have a new cousin Timmermans next year.

Pregnancy is totally not what I thought it would be. In my head, I thought pregnant woman are always feeling something. It seems impossible that you don't feel something with such a big bump on the front! But that is not true... even last week I forgot I was pregnant! It slips from my mind then I feel my tummy is poking out pretty far and I am brought back to reality! I just thought is would be so different feeling!

I am now 16 weeks, and they(whoever they are!) say that you can start feeling the baby between 15-20 weeks... well I don't feel much at all!! They say small flutters... but I can't tell if these flutters are indigestion or stretching ligaments! So maybe I have felt Baby T move... but I have no clue!! I hope I can tell soon though!! As I enter this 16th week I am starting to feel more than before... and sleeping is getting harder... not impossible yet but harder!

The thing they are correct about is the tiredness! Oh boy!! And the forgetfulness! I am so bad... I have always had a great memory and now it is mush!! I even forgot to pack a couple of essentials for Edmonton this weekend!

Rachel today:)