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April 7, 2021

Our little lion this morning

Thor is at the spa today. He is really fluffy and scruffy now. We gave him a bath once we could after his surgery to get rid of old blood stains and stuff, but the fluff behind his ears and around his neck has been quite tough to brush properly due to that the cone created huge knots. He’s not gonna be happy over there today. But this lady always makes him so soft and handsome which is good for the summer and for when baby comes and we might not have that much time to deal with a long coat. 

On Monday I saw my friend Daniela and her son. We haven’t seen each other in so long, George has grown so much, he’s 20 months old already. We met in the park by the church behind our apartment, wearing masks of course. She is vaccinated but we still want to be careful. I have to admit, I was quite overwhelmed in the park for bit cause there was a lot of kids and parents when we got there. One dad and his two kids were walking close to us the whole time, the son even walked between me and my friend a few times and I was afraid that he would start touching my belly cause he seemed very interested. Then a mother with a 10 month old came over and she stood pretty close, and there were other kids coming up to us as well, and not everybody was wearing a mask. One kid asked if I am going to have a baby haha, well, either that or I swallowed a bowling ball. I have not been around that many people in a long time. I get overwhelmed only to go to a store during slow hours, so this was tough to handle. And at the same time I tried to be social with strangers, have a conversation with my friend and look after her son. 
But it was lovely to see her. I’ve missed her. And now I am going to stay home for the rest of the time waiting for baby. Yes, I will go out for walks, maybe even go to a park with Thor, but I am gonna try to avoid any interactions with people, and I have told J to do the same. We really can’t risk getting sick now. Not only would it suck to be sick but I would also have to give birth alone and isolated at the hospital. So semi-quarantine it is, which will look pretty much the same as it has for the past year haha. 

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

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