kiddies update
Jan. 13th, 2006 11:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamajoanWell, Isaac coughed a few more times overnight but never woke up. Around 7am (when my alarm goes off, but an hour before he usually gets up), I heard him crying/whimpering a bit, and I got up, thinking he was awake, but apparently he went back to sleep. So I got all ready for the day and so forth, and by 8 he still wasn't up and I couldn't decide whether to wake him up. I didn't know whether to consider him sick (and thus let him sleep) or assume that all was well (and thus wake him, as I normally would at 8). I booted up the computer intending to post that same dithering here. ;) But as I was skimming my friends-page before posting, he woke up for real.
And he was his normal self. Which is to say, he was groggy and grumpy for the first few minutes but then perked up. He didn't feel feverish, and he only coughed a teeny bit once awake, and his nose only ran a little bit. So, whatever. I got us ready and he had some yogurt and we went off to daycare and work. I hope he's not getting sick, but OTOH, I'm not really sure what to do about the coughing overnight and all that. I already run the humidifier in his room all night and it gets pretty darn humid in there. Maybe I'll run it in the living room this evening while he's playing before bed.
I titled last night's post "kitties and kiddies" intending for it to include a little Cosmo update-age too, but then I got distracted by my worries over Isaac's coughing, so I forgot to put in the Cosmo stuff. Here's what I basically would have said: We have reached the point where I can pull up my shirt and watch the bumps and ripples move across my belly as Cosmo moves. This is endlessly fascinating and never ceases to entertain. Here is a post that I wrote on this topic during my pregnancy with Isaac. I've been going back and reading my LJ posts from that pregnancy (and marking a bunch of them with my "pregnancy" tag for easier finding). It's kind of fun to see what I had to say about the whole thing back then.
But getting back to Cosmo, s/he continues to be very active throughout the day and often at night too. Sometimes I wake up at night and feel him/her moving and think that my waking woke him/her (even though I didn't move or anything), although it seems more likely that actually it was his/her movement that woke me. Anyway, this is supposed to be the most active time -- the period when the baby is big enough to pack a wallop but not yet so big that s/he runs out of room to move around -- and Cosmo is certainly living up to that. Next week we'll be at 28 weeks (the beginning of the third trimester! OMG) which supposedly is when movements start to slow down, but we'll see.
I'm interested to note that I haven't had any dreams about Cosmo per se. Supposedly during pregnancy you have more vivid and intense dreams, although I'm not sure that's exactly true for me because I always tend to have pretty vivid dreams. And I have been having them this time, but not specifically about Cosmo. I feel like by this time with Isaac, I had already dreamt numerous times about what he (or she; I didn't know) would be like. I seem to recall that Chickpea (Isaac's nickname in utero) was male and female in pretty much equal proportions in my dreams. Cosmo, on the other hand, hasn't appeared at all that I can remember. Maybe it's because the having-a-newborn-baby aspect of things isn't as much a mystery to me as it was back then, although of course Cosmo's particular personality (and gender) is still a mystery. Anyway, I still have plenty of time to start dreaming about Cosmo, heh.
And he was his normal self. Which is to say, he was groggy and grumpy for the first few minutes but then perked up. He didn't feel feverish, and he only coughed a teeny bit once awake, and his nose only ran a little bit. So, whatever. I got us ready and he had some yogurt and we went off to daycare and work. I hope he's not getting sick, but OTOH, I'm not really sure what to do about the coughing overnight and all that. I already run the humidifier in his room all night and it gets pretty darn humid in there. Maybe I'll run it in the living room this evening while he's playing before bed.
I titled last night's post "kitties and kiddies" intending for it to include a little Cosmo update-age too, but then I got distracted by my worries over Isaac's coughing, so I forgot to put in the Cosmo stuff. Here's what I basically would have said: We have reached the point where I can pull up my shirt and watch the bumps and ripples move across my belly as Cosmo moves. This is endlessly fascinating and never ceases to entertain. Here is a post that I wrote on this topic during my pregnancy with Isaac. I've been going back and reading my LJ posts from that pregnancy (and marking a bunch of them with my "pregnancy" tag for easier finding). It's kind of fun to see what I had to say about the whole thing back then.
But getting back to Cosmo, s/he continues to be very active throughout the day and often at night too. Sometimes I wake up at night and feel him/her moving and think that my waking woke him/her (even though I didn't move or anything), although it seems more likely that actually it was his/her movement that woke me. Anyway, this is supposed to be the most active time -- the period when the baby is big enough to pack a wallop but not yet so big that s/he runs out of room to move around -- and Cosmo is certainly living up to that. Next week we'll be at 28 weeks (the beginning of the third trimester! OMG) which supposedly is when movements start to slow down, but we'll see.
I'm interested to note that I haven't had any dreams about Cosmo per se. Supposedly during pregnancy you have more vivid and intense dreams, although I'm not sure that's exactly true for me because I always tend to have pretty vivid dreams. And I have been having them this time, but not specifically about Cosmo. I feel like by this time with Isaac, I had already dreamt numerous times about what he (or she; I didn't know) would be like. I seem to recall that Chickpea (Isaac's nickname in utero) was male and female in pretty much equal proportions in my dreams. Cosmo, on the other hand, hasn't appeared at all that I can remember. Maybe it's because the having-a-newborn-baby aspect of things isn't as much a mystery to me as it was back then, although of course Cosmo's particular personality (and gender) is still a mystery. Anyway, I still have plenty of time to start dreaming about Cosmo, heh.
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Date: 2006-01-13 06:13 pm (UTC)