The Wondrous Wandering Tornado

  Gender reveal! Yes, we are having a boy and we are just thrilled to be having a healthy baby regardless of gender. It has been a long journey and we are almost there!  I just hit the 6-month mark and entered the Third Trimester so it was time to update you on my Second Trimester experience. The second trimester of pregnancy is called the Honeymoon Period for a very stupid reason. It is assumed that you have extra energy during this time and no morning sickness. Your energy levels indeed start to increase noticeably because you find yourself NOT passing out constantly but that doesn't mean you are suddenly so full of energy that you can whizz around getting so much done without repercussions! The second trimester brought with it a host of extra symptoms, each week I added one or two to the list.  I had to have a noninvasive prenatal test (NIPT) done, sometimes called noninvasive prenatal screening (NIPS). It is quite a thorough and amazing test used to check for any abno...

  As I write this, I am in my second trimester at just over 6 weeks, which has made me realise how slow yet incredibly fast the first trimester went. It's most likely due to having other experiences and life events in between because this is me and I can't just do one thing at a time this year it seems. All those experiences and events will have their own blog posts in between because I don't want to bore you with pre-baby stuff all the time. Besides each trimester last about three months so there is plenty of time..right?! Only time will tell. Even though The Husband and I went through the IVF procedure, it was vital that we also make me pee on a stick and take a picture of the results because it's all part of the journey. We were also fresh off a wedding done and dusted so we were still on a high from that celebration. We felt such relief after the second hCG blood test confirmed that my body was making the pregnancy hormone at the rate expected of a confirmed pregnan...

So the last blog post I did was on 31st May...3 months ago and man that's long. But I had good reason for the long break - I had a Big Fat Indian Wedding going on, I was busy with several book orders and I was heavily in the IVF process, I had to go back to my folks for 2 weeks, I turned 40 and last but not least IVF was successful - I am pregnant! So you see it was a tad too much to sit down and write a blog post with so much going on. I didn't even realise how much time had passed and when I did I had a weird feeling of failure engulfing me. Because I had made a promise to myself to write one at least once a month. I even have several drafts set up but alas I don't own any Time Infinity Stones and so unless I forwent sleep, this task was an impossible one. Back then anyway, I am home, almost four months pregnant, loving being in my 40s and in a better place mentally. Granted there is a lot of baby planning stuff to do but for now, I am going to focus on myself and take th...