The pregnancy thus far ...

What can I say it has been amazing. The first three months in the life of baby van Rooijen were rather tough on me .. I was nauseous ALL the time .. I have a theory that they call it morning sickenss becaise it starts in the morning and lasts all day! And sleepy .. Lord help me was I ever tired!! Martijn loved it though cos I was too tired to argue, moan or talk hahaha. Downside of the pegnancy however are the temper tantrums - when I heard that hormones would be all over the place I thought 'come on how bad can it be...?' oooh did we ever find out - lets just say plates of spinach flew through the room - not my finest moment! Shame poor Mart, he is too good for me and boy does the man love me - even I wouldn't put up with some of my antics ;-)!

At about 16 weeks I suddenly started feeling great .. my energy levels were up, nausea was less and I just felt generally fantastic. Round about then little baby started making itself felt - wow what an exciting thing. I couldn't have imagined just how amazing this experience was going to be .. feeling the firs movements, hearing the heatbeat, seeing our baby move and knowing that each week brings something unique.


My belly took some time to emerge but now at 23 weeks its finally here - I am chuffed! Our little one has started kicking mightily and seems to be testing the boundry of his little world already! We've taken some photos of the developing belly and will post ASAP .. in the meanwhile have a look at the first images of our son :)