baybeasts

Last night I heard B1’s heart beating. I heard it with my naked ear pressed up against bean’s belly. First I found hers, slow and reassuring. Thump-thump, thump-thump, thump-thump. Then I moved my ear a bit and there it was - humming along like an overexcited tiny drummer. I tapped bean’s leg with my finger - tap-tap-tap-tap-tap - is that it? About the right speed, she said, and then b1 kicked me in the head. I think I’m in love.

We’ve been a bit slow to get the scan up this time, but here it is!

19 weeks and 3 days

after a hellish week at work, we’re off to brisbane. hooray! it’s a funny thing - when we first arranged this trip i was reluctant. i knew that this would be a really busy time at work (it’s turned out to be even worse than i feared), and i resented having to take leave. i also resented not being able to stop off in sydney and visit my family.

but over the last week or so i have really started to look forward to this trip. i love bean’s family - it will be amusing and (mostly) relaxing to hang out with them. and i can’t wait to show off bean’s bump to them all. hopefully b1 will behave and kick a few of them! also, brisbane is beginning to feel like a second home, and so i am finding myself looking forward to that sense of place - the smell of the air, the big green leaves on the plants, the wide lazy streets.

i’ve been slack with blogging because, well, there’s not much to say. i’m knitting madly (current projects: a very cute tiny vest and a funky striped jumpsuit); b1 is kicky and gorgeous and every day i smile at hir profile which i have put on my computer desktop as the background; bean is obsessed with nappies (they probably deserve a blog post of their own); the lawn is lovely when it’s mowed; bean has a new haircut and it is really funky and sexy (and is making me think again about cutting mine); i’ve had a small promotion at work but it’s only an acting position which is annoying, and i’m tired of applying for jobs but it’s really time to get paid more; i don’t think that starbuck is dead (it was too sudden and there was too much other mystical stuff around it - shell come back somehow for sure); um, i can’t really think of anything else.

what a boring blog post. but i thought maybe some newsiness would be appreciated by some of our readers. i’ll try to get back to my usual literary standard soon. (and i’m sorry for not talking about the elephant in the room. i just can’t bring myself to.)

oh, and it’s lovely being linked to - hello to those of you who found us via the twinkle, lesbian family.org, and babes in blogland. welcome!

and now for something less naked…

That’s as far as I can suck my tummy in.
The top of my uterus (fundus) is up to my belly button now, which has started to gape. It’s very white in there, and prone to collections of miscellany such as ultrasound gel.
I’m sure my breasts are large enough to scare small children, let alone a baby, but whaddya gonna do?