more babies

Just wanted to post a quick congratulations to my friends Carrie and Jackie who both just had their second sons...on the same day! Nicholas and Gabriel were born yesterday, January 7th.

Also wanted to officially announce that Eddie will have a cousin in the summer. My sister is pregnant! She told me back in early November, but just made it public this week as she announced it at work, so I felt that it was only appropriate to announce it on the blog as well. Her baby is due July 16th. I am so excited for her and a tad jealous that she is at the beginning stages of the miracle of life. I thoroughly enjoyed my pregnancy, despite the horrendous nausea, and sometimes miss the Bomba being inside of me. Of course it is so much fun to enjoy him in the real world, but there is something so magical about life growing inside of you. Another thing I miss about being pregnant, at least the latter half of my pregnancy, was feeling truly healthy and oh so alive. I was going to save this vent for another blog entry but, what the heck, I'll just cram it into this one. Postpartum hormones suck. No, I'm not referring to emotions...for some reason I have been a-ok in that department. I am referring to the fact that I feel as though I am falling apart: I am losing my hair - just check out recent photos and you will see that I look like a cancer patient; my skin is awful, akin to how it was first trimester or more like junior high; I had three cavities when I went to the dentist - probably from all the throwing up and middle of the night bananas; my feet grew, rendering it difficult to wear any of my shoes and causing painful ingrown toe nails; and, last but not least, my period has returned. I guess it's not that big of a deal and I can still breastfeed and all, but the return of the menses brought some sadness to me yesterday. It sort of marks the official end to pregnancy and postpartum life...now I am just...a normal woman again. And being a normal woman who bleeds every month is something that I did not miss. It has been such a long time since my last period, well over a year, that I had to search around my bathroom to try to find a tampon and came up rather empty handed. Thank god for those giant maxi pads that I bought for the month after the birth. Ok, I will stop sharing all the details...just know that despite the joy of my friends' births and my sister's pregnancy, I am sort of sad today.