Let the Little Ones Come

Heartbeat!

Baby Georgie (Bill has taken to calling the baby that and it has stuck!) got his first picture today! He measured beautifully at 11 cm and his heart was beating, thanks be to God! He is 7 weeks, 2 days according to the sono which matches up perfectly with my memories! ;)

Our due date is January 6--not a bad day, huh?

Thanks for all the prayers, dear friends!

Now back to our regularly scheduled nausea....

Nausea: Then and Now

I remember when I was pregnant with my first son, Will. I was really blown away by the all day morning sickness I had. I mean, as a newly pregnant mother, I thought that you were only supposed to feel sick until noon and then you could go about your business, get a good night's sleep and deal with that pesky nausea until it was lunch time....I was devastated to find this was not the case! ;)

I remember when my nausea was at its worse with Will--I was working and had to make a run to the bank to make a deposit. I hadn't had time to eat breakfast yet and had no $ to hit the closet drive-thru...I deposited the money for the store and quickly u-turned the car to hit the ATM....My stomach didn't like the u-turn, it was all I could do to open the door and deposit my morning breakfast of water onto the pavement next to the ATM. Surprisingly refreshed, I withdrew my $ and then hit Jack in the Box for a Sausage Croissant! Ah the memories!

Flash forward to today, almost 15 years later exactly. (Bill and I seem to be pre-disposed to January babies, this will be our fourth out of eight: Will, Rose, baby Joseph and our little one in utero now).

Today I woke up, crawled out of bed so as not to disturb the FOUR sleeping kids in bed with me (we really do need to reconfigure our sleeping arrangements this summer!) and promptly went and vomited NOTHING into the toilet.

But all these years of babies have given me a bit of wisdom--I hobble into the kitchen, make a bland bagel right away and brew a cup of ginger tea. :) Now I feel slightly human...almost human enough to tackle Mt. St. Laundry which is staring at me from the Love Seat...almost!

And my biggest boy, Paul, just popped in to ask me how big the baby is. I found that information here. Our little baby is the size of a blueberry! I love blueberries, just ask all my friends who know how many Bright-Eyed and Blueberry smoothies I have been drinking lately! It calms my tummy and isn't too sweet--I know I am not myself because I have been avoiding sugar! :S

Thanks be to God for my nausea--I am so happy that I feel lousy! If I can just wait until Thursday to see the baby for the first time and hopefully his or her very strong heartbeat, I can't imagine a more happy time in our lives!

A Blessed Mother's Day!

The Most Important Person

The most important person… on earth is a Mother.
She cannot claim the honor of having built Notre Dame Cathedral.
She need not.
She has built something more magnificent than any cathedral –
A dwelling for an immortal soul, the tiny perfection of her baby’s body.
The angels have not been blessed with such a grace.
They cannot share in God’s creative miracle to bring new souls to Heaven.
Only a human mother can.
Mothers are closer to God the creator than any other creature.
God joins forces with mothers in performing this act of creation…
What on God’s good earth is more glorious than this:
To be a mother?

--Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty

And for our bit of exciting news this Mother' Day...We are blessed to be expecting another immortal soul due January 3, 2009. I was going to wait to share the news until my first sonogram (May 22) but once you tell the kids, well, they can't really be expected to keep such a wonderful bit of news to themselves, can they? :)

I am beginning to feel nauseated morning, noon and night and this has always been a very good sign for me! But, if you remember, please say a prayer for our family. At age 42, nothing is a given, and we would all surely love to meet this little one come January!