Pregnancy
Wednesday, 16 May 2007 by Joscelynn TomawI am ordering today’s posts in terms of chronology and not importance, so number two today is my now public pregnancy.
As Jacob has mentioned, I am due shortly after Thanksgiving, which makes me three months pregnant this week. In two weeks I will proudly be able to say I am in my second trimester. I can already tell that the second trimester is much better than the first. I have recently outgrown most of my pants, but on the upside my nausea has subsided and I can now have a good workout at the gym without having to nap for three hours later in the afternoon.
We have seen pictures of the baby and we have heard its heart beat. I have always thought that women are overly sentimental about their babies’ vitals in early pregnancy, but now I realize how shockingly real the whole thing becomes. This is a person in my body that will, God willing, grow up and have a job and a family of its own.
As I consider the life I desire for my children, I find that my concerns run counter to those that I am told I should have. My biggest fears are not that my child will die in a car accident because his or her car seat is turned the wrong way, not that he or she will ingest hormone laced beef, not that TV and computers will tarnish his innocence or reduce her attention span. I am sincerely most worried that my child will face an homogenized, dumbed-down world that is uninteresting and unchallenging. I hope my fears are irrational.
May 17th, 2007 at 8:49
Jossy- you’re such a good little, consistant blogger!
May 17th, 2007 at 19:51
Love the post. In a world that is uninteresting and unchallenging, it is great that Baby T will have parents that are quite the opposite. Keep up the posts!