Happy new years!

week 26, day 2

Happy new years everyone!
I had a fairly quiet new years, went out with Coyote to a bar and had some food with some friends...I have to admit though, not drinking is occasionally very annoying. New years was one of the few times I've missed having a drink, not because I want the alcohol, but because it can be so hard socializing without booze. Sitting in a bar and drinking alcohol  the time flies, and you have deep and meaningful and funny conversations with people and it's great!...sitting in a bar and drinking fruit juice and listening to other people have "interesting" and "funny" conversations is...not so great. In fact it's really quite dull. And then I get bored and get tired easily and just want to leave, and then Coyote feels he needs to leave with me, and I feel like a buzz kill, or I insist and leave him in the bar, and then feel lonely and left out... all in all, it's a pain. I just hope it gets better when me and Coyote can take responsibility for baby so I can have the occasional night out, but then it will have to be a night out without him being there, which just isn't the same.

The midwife will be starting to measure my ever expanding bump from the appointment tomorrow to see if baby is growing as she should do, so here's keeping my fingers crossed that things continue to be nice and normal. I also need to start thinking about getting my whooping cough vaccination done, though they recommend it for women who are 28-38 weeks pregnant, I'll ask my midwife about it tomorrow.

Right now I'm getting full very very quickly, and then feeling stuffed for ages afterwards, I think it's baby taking up all the room in my body! It's very weird to think how big she's getting now, I don't feel that big, until I look in the mirror and realize that I now look like one of those fertility statues, or when I try to get into tops that used to fit me and they now won't even fit over my boobs. I'm actually quite sad I didn't start taking pictures of my bump when I started to show, so I could actually keep track of how I'm looking, as it is it's sort of snuck up on me. If I ever have another baby, I'm going to keep a photographic record of my expansion.