The Psychic
Firstly, we are still here. I was hoping for that blissful second tri and I'm not getting any let up. Well, just a little in that I'm not as sick as I was, but the exhaustion is getting to me. Work and the baby are sucking the life out of me. Big picture, both M. and I are so excited that this has finally happened. Small picture, the day to day stuff, is brutal.
So, yes, we're here. If something bad happened, I promise that our readers would know right away. I've always intended to not withhold the bad on this blog. Nothing bad had happened, I just have formed a very intense relationship with the couch.
The Psychic
When M. and I first started trying, way back in those heady days when we were sure we would be pregnant in a matter of months, M. asked a psychic when we would get pregnant. She answered maybe summer.
SUMMER?!?!
At that time summer seemed at least one, if not two, eternities away. Surely we would pregnant before summer. Really, we expected to be hugely pregnant by summer. Summer was inconcievable.
The months started rolling by. The BFNs started coming, one after the other. We finally came to try number seven. We would start our try in the spring and test in the summer. That was it, M. and I thought. Summer, which had seemed so outrageous in January, had finally arrived, and so would our baby.
BFN. Again. Probably the worst of them all.
The funny thing? We did get pregnant in the summer. The very next cycle, the very first ALL SUMMER cycle, our little Cletus the Fetus graced us with its presense. And we LOVE the psychic.
Now we want to know the sex. We only have four weeks until we find out, but we're both starting to climb the walls just a little bit. I think it's a boy. M. doesn't feel either way. We asked the psychic again today...
She said she doesn't have a strong feeling, but maybe a girl. Hmmmmm. Considering that she was right about summer....
Hugs to all our readers. Me, the little monster in my abdomen, and M. are hanging in there.
posted by Sacha @ 12:29 PM
10 comments
10 Comments:
I love a good psychic encounter! I can't believe in only 4 weeks you can find out.
I'm sorry you're not experiencing the 2nd trimester "easies". You're doing what you need to do to get through it...resting and connecting with that couch.
I'm not sure if M. reads your blog comments, but please tell her that Rebekah (me...lol) has TWO WEEKS until my scheduled c-section on Halloween. Craziness. Utter craziness. February, seems like yesterday and here it is 37 weeks later!
So, have you felt any movement yet?
Rebekah, we'll be thinking of you on all hallowes eve!
Traci - no, we haven't felt any movement yet...at least I think. I felt some strange flutters about week ago and a week before that, but they could have been muscle twinges. I'm really looking forward to feeling the baby.
Glad to hear all is well :-)
How about a belly shot for your loyal fans?
Hugs,
Anne
Glad to hear all is well!!
I love visiting psychics but it's been a while. My family visits them and we kept hearing we would have 4 kids starting in 2007. So we were upset--2007??? We wanted to get pregnant right away and have our baby in 2006! Look at how that worked out--8 months of trying and on the 5th attempt, we got our baby due in February of 2007. And in actuality, the timing is great because my dad will be off the boats at that time (he lives and works on a big boat) so he will be there for our baby's birth. Things always work out, I guess. :)
Sorry you're feeling exhausted but hopefully you'll start feeling better soon. I started feeling better around 14 weeks and felt great a while after that. I feel so good except for some fatigue, but I don't exactly get enough sleep every night. :-P
well....I thought we were having a girl since Lois' morning sickness was so bad but I was wrong!
BTW - the morning sickness vanished around for Lois week 15 and Lois said things worse that 'that little monster inside' of her when she was feeling awful!
Strange flutters? That's what it feels like. It also feels like a gas bubble but in the wrong place. It also feels like the flick of a fish tail as it swims away. Strange flutters? Sounds like your baby!
Psychics!? Don't get me started. Okay I'll start. I spoke to a psychic, who was at the time a friend of a friend, when I was spotting heavily with my living daughter's pregnancy. She said if the baby survives to be born, she will have physical problems!!!!!!!!!! I was utterly and completely terrified for the rest of my pregnancy. I was scared enough already because of a giant blood clot that was causing the bleeding and was most likely going to end the pregnancy. After my perfectly healthy daughter was born, I swore I'd never meddle in the world of the extrasensory again. And i haven't.
But now I am pregnant, 6 1/2 weeks with my sixth pregnancy (I have two living children) and I am recalling, on a daily basis, what a different psychic told me 7 or 8 years ago. It's along story but in a nutshell: I told her that my husband and I weren't planning to have children and she gave this look of utter certainty and patted me and said, "Two boys and a girl honey." That has stuck with me for all those years.
I have long imagined that our third child would be a boy and I have had a sense of a baby boy around us. When I was pregnant with our third child, for the first time, I was shocked to find out that it was a girl. I was seriously deeply shocked. Turns out we lost her at 22 weeks. It was godawful and I had completely gotten attached to the idea of having another girl. But was I right that our third child will be a boy?
I got pregnant again with a boy who we lost in July at 11 weeks. Now I'm pregnant again and I feel sick like I did with my girl pregnancies. I didn't feel as sick with my boys.
I hate to admit that I really hope that it is boy. I want a boy and I feel like it's supposed to be a boy. But I feel like the biggest ahole alive that i have a preference. Argh. I don't really have a point here except to empathize with the utter confusion that psychic predictions can bring.
You're going to write me off as a right wing, religious zealot, but that's OK. Congrats on the baby (I believe all life is created by God). I also believe in absolute rights and wrongs as given to us in the Bible even though it is not always what we want or what is most comfortable to us. I am not intollerant or a homophobe (my sister used to live your lifestyle before she became a Christian - by the way she says her life is more complete now than it ever was before Jesus). You are no more or less a sinner than I am. God hates the sin not the sinner and he loves you just as much as he loves me. God intends babys to be born to a husband and wife, but he gave you free will so now we have two women having a child together. You've also chosen to bless this holy occasion by involving a psychic. Here are just a few things the Bible says about psychics:
Leviticus 20:6 says God will separate himself from those who go after mediums and familiar spirits.
Deuteronomy 18:10-12 says that practicing witchcraft, sorcery, soothsaying, interpreting omens, making spells, and being a medium or spiritist, are all terrible sins to God.
I know you want what you want and you want to live with a woman and have a baby and take advice from a psychic even though this is clearly not the plan God has laid out for your lives. I am not judging you, because I too am a sinner. We all are. I would just like you to consider what I have said even if it makes you angry. Be careful of the eternal consequences of the things you do for your own pleasure hear on earth. Our time hear is but a drop in the ocean of eternity. Whether or not you are believers, the bible clearly says that in the end every knee will bow and every tounge will confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and our saviour. I may be a religious freak and the Bible and I may be full of beans, but what if I'm right?????
I will pray for you both and your little boy or girl.
Hi ladies! I have followed your blog inconsistently for the last month or two and always enjoy it. Anyway, just happened to read what you were saying about the hospitals in the Seattle area. I, too, am in Seattle (Ballard, actually) and am choosing to have #2 at the same hospital as 1, Evergreen. Okay, I know it's a hike, but I really did love the staff there. If you haven't already looked into their programs I would recommend it. I admit that I did have a medicated birth... I valiantly THOUGHT about natural, and frankly, got scared, and then justified it all by making comments like, "What's all this hero crap?!? I still have to push 8 lbs out of my hoo-ha; when was the last time you did that?!?!" Anyway, my nurses were great, and although you will probably not need one, my anethesiologist was too. So, if you're willing to make the drive, I'd say check 'em out. Good luck, and keep up the posting. You girls just tickle me pink.
-Sarah
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