Doctor's appointment booked, some shopping done

Two weeks ago on Sunday, week ago Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, last Tuesday

I booked a doctor's appointment on Wednesday for next week. To my surprise, The Bear wanted to come too. Well, I don't suppose it's really a surprise, I just personally don't expect much of the event as I know I'm a high-risk first time mother and in all likelihood the doctor will just refer me to the closest hospital with a specialist on haematology. It's delightful that he's so interested. I'm mostly just terrified for now, and I suspect I will be until the first trimester is over, if we ever even get there.

This morning I got the first email update from Start4Life, a webservice ran by NHS, about how the baby is developing, and what to do. Found it very comforting.

An acquaintance posted a picture from a wall in a maternity ward in a hospital in Helsinki, on Facebook yesterday. It was so bizarre - apparently on the first few weeks of pregnancy the mother 'reverts to her own time in the womb and curls into herself and her emotions'. My personal reaction to that was 'What the flaming f**k?'. I certainly don't feel like a sesame seed sized dot, or coughing up amniotic fluid from my lungs. If anything, I'm doing very adult kind of worrying, like how are we going to cope with a baby when I sometimes can't cope with making myself a bowl of cereal, and how are we going to arrange the bedrooms, when the second biggest bedroom (aka Pink Room, also Guest room) in our house is taken over by a double bed and stuff moved from the third bedroom (aka Office, or Box room) as we're in process of clearing it to be a home office...

I've tried to learn how to drink more liquids (obviously both non-alcoholic and caffeine-free) and to that goal I've bought an app to remind me to drink more, and to keep a tally on how much I've drank. In a week I've gotten bored of all sugar free high juices we've got in our house, and I'm doing a good job in developing new dislikes, too. I've axed saccharin from my decaf coffee and moved over to sucralose. All the effect a morning cup of joe has had on me before has clearly been either placebo or the morning ritual, as I haven't noticed any kind of difference in my alertness what so ever to normal coffee. I can by the way recommend Taylor's of Harrogate's Decaf coffee - if I didn't know from the package it's decaf, I wouldn't know it from the taste either. I've also purchased some plain redbush tea and Yorkshire Decaf normal tea into our cupboard. I'm unsure if the normal decaf tastes much different because it's decaf, or because it's not a hard water blend which we normally drink.

Talking of teas, I've started a taste experiment with the redbush teas in desperation of expanding my drinks selection. I made an IKEA glass carafe of Tetley's Pure Redbush, some lemon essence and some sucralose tablets yesterday, and another with two bags of a Finnish teablender Nordqvist's Moomin Redbush tea, one flavoured to be 'strawberry milkshake', both to be drank as iced teas. I'll report later how that went.

And returning to the drink reminder app, The Bear and I finally ordered me a Moto 360 watch last night, and it has already shipped from China. The drink reminder app is Android Wear compatible, so I should be getting reminders to drink onto my wrist in a few weeks. I also spent a good amount of time looking at different pregnancy tracking apps yesterday, but I'm unsure if any of them are any good. None of them are compatible with Android Wear. At least I'll have a bit more precise watch than what I've got now.

Talking of shopping, Wednesdays's Amazon Lighting Deals had us buy the first thing for the baby, now that we know we're expecting. (I participated in Hello Ruby's Kickstarter project to get a geeky computer science book for our hypothetical children to read already last year, so it doesn't really count) They had a great deal on a 12-pack of white plain muslins, so we went and ordered it. I can always use muslins for draining my concoctions, if no other use is found for them.

I also ordered a fairly expensive maternity bra from Figleaves few days ago. My breasts are achy at times and almost all the other bras feel uncomfortable when that happens. Sadly the comfy bra I have is also the most expensive pair that I bought for the wedding, so I can't keep wearing them with with wilful abandon every day for the rest of the pregnancy. I'm hoping they'll arrive today. Of course now the same bra is on sale - good thing I used all the discount voucher codes I could find when I ordered, otherwise I would have been mightily disappointed.

That's all for today, thank you very much for reading!