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March 15th

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March 15, 2021

With a petite body and short torso, baby has nowhere to go but out.
Curious to see how big bumpie will be at the end🤪

Good Morning and happy Monday! Jim took Thor to the vet for a check-up this morning. Everything looks great and he is now allowed to play and go to the spa or whatever else he’d like:) We have to bring him back in a month or so and check for stones again cause they can come back but for now he is ok. The stitches has healed really well, we should probably done this surgery a year ago but oh well. We haven’t put the cone on him for several days now actually cause we noticed the first time we let it be off for a bit (to let his neck rest a little while supervised) that he didn’t seem to care or even know that he had stitches to lick so we just kept it off and he’s been fine. He does have a lot of energy though and he’s been grabbing his toys for playtime but we of course couldn’t before his check-up. We have been out for longer walks this weekend though which he enjoyed:)

Had a doctors appointment on Thursday. I’m 33 weeks now and the fundal height of the bump was 33, so measures just fine and heart beat is still around 155-160. In my last report it said “presentation: cephalic” so I of course double checked with this obgyn and yup, baby’s head is down. It must have been down for quite awhile too, cause the bump has been shaped like this since January. I have a terrible itch that burns and hurts (but no rash) on the very top of bumpie and lotions doesn’t help, so I did two blood tests to check on my liver (I had read about something called “itching liver” which it said is more common in Scandinavians, so I had to ask since it can be dangerous to the baby). Results came back normal so I guess it is just stretching skin and my anterior placenta that is being annoying, so I have to just suffer through this til the end. Other than that, everything is perfect with me and baby. I’m getting quite big and a bit clumsy but that’s expected:)

Tuesday-Friday we had really nice spring weather here in CT. I went for walks by myself and sat outside in the park. Premiere on our terrace as well. I’ve been waiting for this! My winter maternity coat is getting smaller and smaller so I need it to turn into spring soon haha. And from nice spring weather we went back to winter over night. Colder and super windy. And yesterday it was even snowing for a few minutes (while it was 9°c/48°f outside, weird), but then back to sunny and dry streets. Today the temperature are around freezing. I have so much to cross off my todo list today anyway so I guess I stay inside:)

We didn’t do much this weekend. I had plans to clean the apartment and organize the spaces for baby but I was more or less a couch potato. We did go for walks and I started to wash baby’s clothes but no cleaning, no cooking (take-out for every meal for three days) and no organizing. But that’s ok…or, kinda ok, it just means more to do today. Jim was nice to vacuum the apartment earlier, not very well but I appreciate that he did it:) I have been a busy bee all day and I am nowhere near done. So, bye!

Jimmy went to the police station on Tuesday and got the car seat installed. The car seat adapters for the stroller also arrived so we tested it out, here with Teddy in it:)Reading on the terrace19°c on March 12 Made Swedish chocolate balls this weekend, they didn’t last long 😛
9°c on March 13, but very nice in the sun still

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Babymoon Day 9

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March 9, 2021

Feels like forever ago that we were on our babymoon. But I have a few more days to add to the series:)

On the 9th day, February 3rd, we got up earlier and drove to the Sea Pines Park. On our last walk there (day 6) we drove into the park from a different entrance and that path was so beautiful that I decided that I wanted to take the maternity photos with the black lace robe (see my post from Monday) there but of course I didn’t want an audience so we got there early. I love how the photos turned out! And then we drove further in and took some more photos by the lake. We had to be quick though cause for some reason the park was full of workers and park rangers that morning and I wasn’t exactly wearing clothes.
After taking some photos, I got dressed in the car and we went for a walk on the path that I had fallen in love with. Such a peaceful path. We didn’t stay long cause we were hungry. We went to pick up food at that golf restaurant again (that’s when J told me it was $40 for two waffles and two coffees which is insane).
After breakfast, we drove to the beach for a walk. A bit warmer and lovely weather. On the walk back, the baby must have positioned itself somewhere that affected my walking. I struggled a bit and had to take my time. But once baby moved a tiny bit I was like myself again. Weird how that is.
Back at the house we decided to sit outside and enjoy the sun for awhile until it was time to cook pasta for dinner. Since the weather was so nice we decided to go for an evening walk. J had told me that the neighborhood that we stayed in was way bigger than you would think so we wanted to go check it out. There are like 75 of these cute bungalows there, all surrounded by palm trees and at the end of one dead end we found a pathway along a big pond. We saw a whole family of deer and had to be careful not to scare them. This path was so cute, I wish we had found it earlier on our trip (and that the weather would have allowed us to enjoy it).

I don’t like golf, but if I would ever try I’d like it to be at a place like this.
Fun fact; in 2010, I was a caddie at a celebrity golf thing that was broadcast on TV in Sweden
Thor’s pawprints in the sandThis giraffe crab was not much bigger than a guitar pick, so cute Thor made friends Jimmy enjoyed our vacation At night, we watched a movie on Netflix
(yes, I took this photo because it was a cute moment 🙂 )

In Dance, Pregnancy

Improvisation with my future dance partner ♡

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Woman

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March 8, 2021

I love being a woman, I love my body and the incredible things it has to go through in life, I love the women I have around me that supports me, I love the fantastic women who helped in making changes for us women now, I love myself and every woman on this planet.

To become a parent or to carry my own child has never been obvious to me. I could easily see a future of just me and my husband (and lots of fluffy Thor’s hahah). But here I am, 8 months of transformation waiting for a little one. And this pregnancy journey has been interesting. Nothing of surprise really, but I’ve always been fascinated by the what our bodies can do, that’s one reason for why I became a dance teacher. As women we have a lot of changes happening throughout our lives whether we like it or not. We are born with all the eggs we’ll ever have, we have to bleed year after year, suffer through pms, some women will carry babies and others can’t or don’t want to, we deal with hormones and unexplained emotions and eventually we go through a major change called menopause. And on top of that we have to deal with all the expectations put on us because of that we are women and then we add all the other stuff to the list that men deals with as well. Some women work, others don’t, some women takes care of babies others deals with employees. Women put in a lot of hard work and often don’t get what they deserve in return. But we keep going. Always.

I know nothing about this tiny human inside me (other than it likes to dance all day long just like its mommy), but I know that the more my husband and I can teach her/him about the world the better off she/he is to become someone who will respect others, support others and show love and compassion to others. And that’s all we want. I believe in a bright future for women and men and it starts with us and our little ones.

Happy International Women’s Day! Lets send a message to the women we care about today and pat ourselves on the shoulder and say “you’re awesome”. Cause women are pretty f*cking awesome!

I am proud of who I am and I love my body

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Thor is home

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March 4, 2021

Thor is home! Picture from this morning

I’m 32 weeks pregnant today. Yesterday when I got out of bed it looked like the baby had switched position and was making it’s way to head down. But then, five minutes later she/he was back to the same position she/he has been in for the past month or so. I have had two huge bumps sticking out most of the day on each side of the belly button. Baby seems to love my left side and pushes its whole body out which looks kinda freaky. And three weeks ago a smaller bump started to appear on the right side (and my lower right ribs became a fun thing to play with, I kept feeling and hearing little cracking noises).
But I definitely think the belly dropped a little bit yesterday. J doesn’t think so but I see a difference in the mirror plus my body feels different. I tried to do so many things yesterday before picking Thor up but I was completely out of breath. An hour before we went to pick him up I went for a walk. Not even two blocks away from out apartment I was so out of breath and dizzy that I had to stop. I squatted down on the sidewalk and messaged J just in case, and then slowly walked home. That was the shortest walk in the history.

We went to pick Thor up around 3pm yesterday. I stayed in the car and J went to talk to the vet. Took forever before they came out with T for J to carry to the car and put in my lap. Once he was on my lap I started to cry. The cone just makes him look so helpless and when he started shaking I just couldn’t hold my tears back. I think I cried three times in the first hour after picking him up, and then again a couple more times at night when he was next to me on the couch (I was watching the mini series “Unorthodox” on Netflix).
Surgery went well they said. He also had his teeth cleaned, so he really had a ruff day. Some say that dogs needs their teeth cleaned once a year but Thor’s teeth has been so good so we have waited, plus dogs have to be put under anesthesia and small dogs can’t always handle that. But since he is almost 7 years old we thought it was a good idea to do this now when he was put to sleep anyway. His teeth are great so we probably don’t have to do this for another few years which is good.
The stitch by his penis is a lot smaller than we expected it to be and it seems to be healing. He is peeing blood but that is expected. He has to get pain medication once a day and antibiotics twice a day and this is not an easy task. We are struggling. The pain medication supposedly tastes good and you can put it on his food (he has been eating and drinking which is great), but the antibiotics has to be given with a syringe directly into his mouth and he’s not a fan and he’s too smart so we can’t trick him. A challenge for sure.
He has been resting a lot which I’m happy about, that means he’s not in pain. He woke up a couple of times at night and J took him out (I’m busy taking care of and growing a tiny human after all so I appreciate that J was dealing with that). Today our building has been testing the sprinkler system (they do this 4 times a year) and the fire alarm went off five times. This alarm is the loudest ever made and it always scares the bazinga out of us, especially Thor which of course isn’t good since he needs to stay still and calm.
He’s hopefully back to his normal self in a week or two. It just breaks my heart to see him like this. And I wish I could have told him about it or be able to explain what happened. But it was for his own best, we didn’t want a trip to the ER. Now we are waiting for the results on what type of bladder stones it was and from there we can make decisions on his diet.

My little baby♥
We put him on the couch when we came home and he slept for a few hoursHe slept with his eyes half open and was snoring louder than I have ever heard before