My wonderful husband

[rkold]

Hopefully LJ is no longer wonky today.

I wanted to share how amazingly wonderful my husband is. I don't always post that much about him but lately, I've been feeling even more in love with him than before and just being near him makes me incredibly happy. He tells me he thinks it is hormones, but in the end I don't care what it is, I just appreciate him so much more! Since the morning sickness started 5 long weeks ago, he's brought me breakfast in bed every morning to help me feel well enough to get out of bed. He doesn't mind I'm not cooking much anymore, and did most of the Passover cleaning as well as really helped me put together seder. He comes with me to every one of my doctor's appointments and holds my hand when I get nervous or excited. Every week he sends me reports on the baby's development based on the internet pregnancy sites and lets me babble about purchases I want to (and need to) make for the baby. He runs errands for me and picks me up whatever I am craving without complaint, even if I later develop an aversion to it after puking it up one time too many. He holds me and rubs my back, in bed and when I'm puking and never just sleeps through or ignores me when I am feeling ill and miserable. And yesterday, he gave me a card to let me know that he's thinking of me and sorry I've been so sick and unhappy.

I just feel so lucky!


This was our baby, "Ryuu-chan" back in early March at around 9 weeks. Yeah I know he/she looks like just a blob lol However not that you can tell form this picture, but there was a heartbeat! The second round blob by itself was/is the future placenta


This is our baby from Thursday, notice it actually looks more... like a baby!


Two tiny baby feet


And my favorite image, since Ryuu-chan really looks like a baby here. You can even see one of the ears and they're now in the right place!

Comments

[reynardine.livejournal.com]

Kennis really is a prince among men. I'm glad he's there for you!

[rkold.livejournal.com]

I'm glad he's here for me, I don't know what I would do without him. I do my best though not to make so many demands and not to ever ask for things in the middle of the night or odd times.

[winter]

A very perky ear indeed :) And sounds like you definitely picked the right guy to pool genes with!

[rkold.livejournal.com]

I think "Ryuu-chan" gets that from my side of the family lol I think I'm just really excited, because the ears are a fairly new development. It's really amazing how people grow.

I think I definitely picked the right guy to be my husband and baby's Dad. Though I also do spend a lot of time wondering what the baby will get from me and what from Kennis. I have perfect vision, still, while he has worn glasses since 8 months old. I'm hoping my next big sonogram at the end of May I can find out the gender! :D

[jusrecht.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy for you that he's so involved and caring *A* And the card daaaaaaaawwwww ♥ It's like a cherry on top of everything!

Also, the ear eeeeeeee ♥~

[rkold.livejournal.com]

It's really wonderful how amazing he's been, it just makes me feel so incredibly lucky and I'm sure he'll be just as involved once the baby is born, which is good because newborns are exhausting. I totally was not expecting the card but it was the pick me up I really needed yesterday.

♥ I just loved having the chance to see my baby, it just makes it all so much more immediate.

[twotone]

Awwww! Kudos for Kennis for being such a great husband, and yay for teeny tiny baby pictures!

[rkold.livejournal.com]

Eheheheh I probably need to resize them at some point since they're not quite as teeny tiny as I would like in regards to this post XD;; I was feeling pretty awful, so Kennis actually scanned them this time.

He's been so wonderful though, I feel so lucky.

[ad-exia.livejournal.com]

Babyyyyyyy! <3 I don't care if it's ultrasound, it's so terribly cute. And clearly Kennis is amazing. :D Major points to him!

[rkold.livejournal.com]

Kennis is amazing, though I am seriously biased on this having been married to him for nearly 15 years lol

I love that is now actually looks like a baby and not some sort of strange creature. It's really amazing how they develop.

[ad-exia.livejournal.com]

Biased, maybe, but understandably so! ;D

Hee, yes! They do develop really fast, and it's so awesome that you get to watch it happen!

[rkold.livejournal.com]

Hopefully :)

It's sort of amazing how fast it happens. I just wish I could make sure to eat better to give my baby better nutrition, but right now it is so hard to keep things down. ;;_;;

[ad-exia.livejournal.com]

Yes! It really is amazing~ Though yeah, I hope more food is able to stay down soon! As long as you eat healthy when you can eat, I'm sure you're doing fine! <3

[isachi.livejournal.com]

Having met the aforementioned husband in person I can say, it's not the hormones XD He's a doll!

Also this is sooo cute <3 <3

[rkold.livejournal.com]

Isn't he just wonderful?? And honestly, he has been so much nicer to me since he found out I was pregnant. Though I try super hard not to make outrageous demands on him. (I tend to ask for things on his way home from work, not like 3am trips to grocery.)

I know and it's a baby!! not a shinken! I found myself re-reading Kamui's baby shower since at some point I hope to have one myself

[dilettantka.livejournal.com]

Awwwwwww. I am so glad for you, sweetie. Kennis is a wonderful guy and will be such a great dad!!

[dilettantka.livejournal.com]

oh and I already said so on chat but

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABY EEEEEH 8D excited by these pics!!!

[rkold.livejournal.com]

YES, he is going to be an amazing Dad! He already has promised to get up in the middle of the night to help with feedings ;;_;; Now that I'm not puking today, I just feel so happy.

I'm so excited too, it makes me feel like it's really a baby and that this is all real. It's weird sometimes since my belly has gotten bigger but its not like obvious or anything yet.

and I'm so excited to really be your first friend to do this. I've had a few friends over the years, but we tended to lose contact around the time they became pregnant so I never really got to experience, and we were only so close so they never shared that many details. I've been bonding with my cousins, since 3 of them are due before me this year! O_O

[spazzygirl19.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear that you're feeling better today! And that Kennis is such a good hubby & doing so much for you!

And 'squeeeee' for the pic! ^_^

[rkold.livejournal.com]

Kennis has been wonderful, I feel so fortunate. ♥

Thank you again for the ginger tea! Did I tell you it came, I can't remember, the week of Passover was just so awful for me foodwise, I'm still recovering. Since Passover is now over, I decided to test it out and so far I am enjoying it. I use about a 1/3 a packet per cup but it is nice and soothing! Thank you for sending the packet :D *hugs*

[bramblyhedge.livejournal.com]

All that and good lookin' too! You have a wonderful husband, glad to hear he's taking such good care of you. :)

*waves to baby* Hello, baby! :D

[rkold.livejournal.com]

He's just the amazing most person and I spend a lot of time thinking how lucky I am. I'm so glad he wanted to marry me. :D

I'm sure the baby would be waving back and maybe it is, it was sooooo active!

wow! congrats!

[aboutallmydolls.livejournal.com]

Rachel!! - I've just read the news! So sweet - it is truly wonderful - I'd say you guys are ready for it. Wow! In the back of my mind I was wondering when your day would come. is this at all connected to selling the house? are you in another place now? I can't recall for sure. You will probably get the nesting feeling about the baby's room... a couple of my babies' room were in apartments but they were still memorable babies' rooms.

You will be a wonderful mother, Kennis will be a great dad - yeah I did the natural child birth thing twice in Japan - then for number 3 I had something called intrathecal - so natural was really better imo, but by the third time I did actually feel I didn't "need" to do it again! Plus in the USA there was some "guidance" to do what the doctors were used to doing.

So do what you want & what feels right to you guys. I hope you feel in snyc with your care providers. Maybe a nurse midwife?? #2 (Samantha) and #3 (Jackson) were fast! My mom said I was fast (and I was her 2nd baby) so based on what your mom says - that is good to focus on - you might be a "fast birther!" maybe - but still first baby - who can say? Nick (#1) was Not So Fast but it was the most world changing event for me - so it was ok it took some time. Sort of added to the monumental feeling of the occasion.

Maybe you can find the book The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth - it is from the 1960s but not a lot has really changed about birth of course. Overlook the dated bits - it has some good exercises and positions and massages for Kennis to do.

I went to two breastfeeding classes - one at about 16 weeks when I was visiting the USA and another at the Tokyo Childbirth Education Association - it's worth doing - I'll try to find the title of a helpful old book about nursing - I used a it lot back in the day - when Nick was a baby in Japan there was no real resource except this book and it was so real and so helpful - especially about different kinds of nursing depending on the age of the baby.

For me I didn't mind using disposable diapers (at all!) yet I was more the earth mother type about feeding - so it was baby lead weaning and that meant age 2 years 6 months, then 2 years 10 months, then 3 years almost 3 months - it's so hard to believe now - but at the time it felt so right and natural - it all depends - also the Baby Food Mill was the low tech "machine" for the baby food.

I expect breastfeeding will click for you and if it doesn't - it doesn't. There was a lot of support from doctors, nurses, other mothers and even the general public in Japan for nursing for the first year. People used to say the doctors told mothers to do it for 12 months and so they did - because it was Japan.

Congrats again and I hope you are feeling good at least some of the time - keep those dry crackers by the bed - I don't think that could hurt - and try the raspberry tea - might help?

take care,
Susan

Re: wow! congrats!

[rkold.livejournal.com]

No we're not somewhere new, yet. We're in the process of moving to a rental while I house hunt. It will prob be good to be in the rental while we do work in the new house since I know Hubby is going to want to do another insulation project, and living in the house during something like that is just awful. I'm also determined to have a kitchen I like and walls painted colors I love as well. And with the pregnancy it is just better I am not there for all that. So my baby is likely to end up with two rooms lol Right now I am obsessing on strollers and car seats.

I'd like to do natural in a birthing center if I can remain low risk. ^_^ I doubt I will ever have 3, so...

My provider is nice right now, but I know I am going to be changing when I move since I'm not willing to drive over an hour just to see an ob/gyn. My mom says we were all pretty fast. I think she was only in the hospital like 4 1/2 hours before I came. Though honestly, my brother was the perfect baby by all accounts lol

Another friend was recc'ing the Bradley Method. Probably once I move I will look into actual classes.

I'd love any advice on breastfeeding since I would very much like to. I am pretty sure the Birthing Center has Lactation classes and I was hoping to attend one. :)

I'm not sure when I will wean, but I'd like to nurse for at least 1 year even if some time during that I start to mix some other food in with. I am not sure what we are going to do for diapers yet. Kennis says there is some method where you encourage baby during the day to use the toilet when possible, and I think we are going to try to learn baby sign language.

Saltines don't agree with me ^^;;; I've puked them up one time too many and now I have an aversion to them. It's so hard to figure out what works, my Mom says I should consider acupuncture. At this point, I might.

It's very very exciting for me though and all a bit unreal lol Time is also just flying by. I think I've just completed 13 weeks.