Dear friends,

Thank you so much for reading my little blog. Your support is the best present a future mother can get!

I wish you a very merry Christmas !

Claudia xox

Energy over time

I had to share with you this picture from Alice's flickr photostream. She is documenting her pregnancy and is now at 39 weeks. Her pictures always make me smile.

Maybe it is the fact the I eat like a pig (it takes some energy to digest that much food!) but as I get closer to my third trimester my energy level is slowly decreasing. Small power naps are now my best friends...at work, in the bus, at the food court, at the shopping center (I was so happy that nobody took my bag while I was sleeping), etc!

Small magazine

I must be old school. I don't know why but I have a difficult time adjusting to e-magazines. I just love to sit quietly on my sofa with a warm cup of tea and a traditional magazine...a magazine made of paper!!! And don't tell anybody but when I get a new magazine (or a new book), I like to smell it for a second or two. And honeslty, I don't see myself sniffing my laptop!

However, I have a big crush on Small Magazine. It is original, fun and full of inspiration. Oh, and Smaller, the magazine blog, is also lovely.

I don't know about you but so far I didn't find much parent/baby/kid magazines (paper version or e-magazine) that I like. I always find them a bit tacky. Do you have any suggestions?

Patience!

I wanted to order a custom name print for the nursery after our last echography. However, our little bunny was not in an exhibitionist mood that day! Oh well, it is just a question of time before I get my hands on an Alice or Arthur print from The English Muffin Shop.

Bess, a graphic designer/illustrator living in Montreal, creates a name print using the letters from her animal alphabet poster. The result is always delightful!

What a mom should be

This morning, I seriously doubted my ability to be a good mother. Being a parent is supposed to be the greatest job in the world. However, is it not also the most stressful? I'm not talking about the daily anxiety that raising a kid can bring. I'm talking about the fear of disease, accidents...the phone call that turns your parent life into a nightmare.

Last night, on our way to the ER (again), I must admit that I gave up. After I saw the blood between my legs I totally lost control. I became a scared little girl that wanted to crawl under the sheets after a bad dream. But a mother can't do that. She has to be strong, calm and ready to fight back. Instead, I holded Dan's hand and cried nervously while we walked in the snow to get a taxi cab.

And just like our last visit to the ER, everything went back to normal after a few hours: baby kicking, dog snoozing, cat eating the Christmas tree, husband painting the baby's room, wife writing about her pregnant life!

Dan told me that we are a team and as long as we are together everything will be fine. When one team member is in trouble the other is there to support him. This is exactly what he did for me yesterday.

But because life is still full of cuteness, look at that lovely baby hat that I got by the mail. Thank you Ingrid. I love it!

Week 24

WARNING...this is a post about boobs!

Yesterday, in the changing room at prenatal yoga class, the "belly club" had a discussion about how great it is to be pregnant on a breasts aspect. I must admit that it is pretty impressive to have a C cup when during your entire life you could have lived off training bras!

However, in my case, the fun kinda stops there. At 24 weeks, the blue veins on my breasts are slowly starting to look like a road map of Canada! Well, it could be worst, I could have a road map of New York.

And I never believed that I would talk about my nipples on Internet but this is a maternity blog after all. So I looked at the "belly club" and asked if their nipples also looked a bit strange? I told them that I needed to get pregnant in order to fully understand why they call the top of baby bottles a nipple. Yep, no confusion possible now!

But don't get me wrong. I'm super happy to be pregnant. You have to understand that I use my maternity blog to vent a bit so I don't annoy my lovely husband too much and I remain a radiant pregnant lady most of the time!

So thank you so much my dear Internet friends because without you I would be a bitter and freaked out knocked up woman.

Love,
Claudia xox

Right this second I want to get...

...well, right this second, I think that in a year or two we should get a Wheely Bug. Every time we visit a toy store, we take a second and day dream about our kid rolling around our condo on a...we just can't decide which model we like the most!

Really? At 24 weeks!

Looking at my maternity calendar, I realized that I will start my third trimester on Christmas day. Another reason to be festive! So I made two soft trees (the red one is from Ella), carefully decided which critters would be in my little forest and while I was taking a few pictures of the result...my morning sickness decided to pay me a visit! Are you joking??? At 24 weeks!!! Not nice :(