Several weeks ago I wrote the following in one of my weekly reviews:
It was also true! If all goes well, I will be a father again in May next year. And I totally love it! Here’s the first “picture” of the little one:
It was amazing again to see the little one, and if you can tell anything from the images we saw last Friday…this is going to be a lively one as well! He or she was moving around a lot and waving arms and legs. It wondrous to be able to “see inside” and witness your developing child inside the womb. Although Jesse (our son) couldn’t care less, he just wanted to open the door to the hallway again, that’s his newest trick: opening and closing doors.
That was a happy moment for us and we needed it. Pregnancy isn’t always fun you know. My wife is very sick from being pregnant. Imagine morning sickness, only all day long. Eating has lost all its fun, because she needs to eat when nauseous and right after puking her guts out. If she doesn’t it only gets worse. No fun at all.
She’s very thankful and happy to be pregnant again, but she feels awful. She had the same when she was pregnant with Jesse, so it wasn’t really a surprise (although we hoped to skip that part this time around). It stopped at 14 weeks pregnancy then, so if it’s the similar this time she should feel better in about a week from now. I surely hope so!
In the past few weeks, running the household has been my responsibility though. We used to have a 60-40 distribution (yeah, she did more), but now with a 15-85 distribution the weight is primarily on my shoulders. And then there’s some additional care for my wife, especially preparing food and bringing it to her. So I do whatever I can to get us through this part of the pregnancy. But it leaves little time or energy for other things (but that doesn’t stop me from trying…).
The frustrating part is that there’s not an awful lot I can do to make her feel better. All I can do is support her, and help her. When I bring her breakfast in bed for example (which is like every day now), she says “Thank you. Blegh…I’m nauseous. Yuck…I hate that food.” Which is pretty much a mixed message, don’t you think? Am I doing her a favor? Or am I tormenting her with food?
Anyway, I we will be very happy when this phase of the pregnancy is over. So we can enjoy it the rest of the time. And so the distribution in the household can normalize again. Like I said there’s little time and energy left. That doesn’t keep me from working on my ambitions, but it is keeping me from writing about it.
P.S. I have an article published in the current edition (vol 2 ed 2) of “Personal Branding Magazine“, about productivity pitfalls in personal branding. If you want to read it, you need to buy the magazine ($12.95 for 4 editions). And you’ll get interviews with David Allen, Gary Vaynerchuck and others as a bonus
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Quote from Review week 39-2008:
On another note, there are several developments in my life right now. Good developments and very exciting as well, but I can’t break the news just yet. Keep following these updates and you’ll know soon enough. I’ll be setting new goals by then as well.
The next day one of my co-workers enthusiastically asked whether I was going to be a father again… That was NOT what I was thinking about when I wrote it. I meant something entirely different, however…On another note, there are several developments in my life right now. Good developments and very exciting as well, but I can’t break the news just yet. Keep following these updates and you’ll know soon enough. I’ll be setting new goals by then as well.
It was also true! If all goes well, I will be a father again in May next year. And I totally love it! Here’s the first “picture” of the little one:
It was amazing again to see the little one, and if you can tell anything from the images we saw last Friday…this is going to be a lively one as well! He or she was moving around a lot and waving arms and legs. It wondrous to be able to “see inside” and witness your developing child inside the womb. Although Jesse (our son) couldn’t care less, he just wanted to open the door to the hallway again, that’s his newest trick: opening and closing doors.
That was a happy moment for us and we needed it. Pregnancy isn’t always fun you know. My wife is very sick from being pregnant. Imagine morning sickness, only all day long. Eating has lost all its fun, because she needs to eat when nauseous and right after puking her guts out. If she doesn’t it only gets worse. No fun at all.
She’s very thankful and happy to be pregnant again, but she feels awful. She had the same when she was pregnant with Jesse, so it wasn’t really a surprise (although we hoped to skip that part this time around). It stopped at 14 weeks pregnancy then, so if it’s the similar this time she should feel better in about a week from now. I surely hope so!
In the past few weeks, running the household has been my responsibility though. We used to have a 60-40 distribution (yeah, she did more), but now with a 15-85 distribution the weight is primarily on my shoulders. And then there’s some additional care for my wife, especially preparing food and bringing it to her. So I do whatever I can to get us through this part of the pregnancy. But it leaves little time or energy for other things (but that doesn’t stop me from trying…).
The frustrating part is that there’s not an awful lot I can do to make her feel better. All I can do is support her, and help her. When I bring her breakfast in bed for example (which is like every day now), she says “Thank you. Blegh…I’m nauseous. Yuck…I hate that food.” Which is pretty much a mixed message, don’t you think? Am I doing her a favor? Or am I tormenting her with food?
Anyway, I we will be very happy when this phase of the pregnancy is over. So we can enjoy it the rest of the time. And so the distribution in the household can normalize again. Like I said there’s little time and energy left. That doesn’t keep me from working on my ambitions, but it is keeping me from writing about it.
P.S. I have an article published in the current edition (vol 2 ed 2) of “Personal Branding Magazine“, about productivity pitfalls in personal branding. If you want to read it, you need to buy the magazine ($12.95 for 4 editions). And you’ll get interviews with David Allen, Gary Vaynerchuck and others as a bonus
Yet another original post from How to be an Original Personal Core Values are the foundation of your happiness. Do you know what your five most important values are? And how you can use them to change your life for the better? Buy Personal Core Values, the eBook.