14 weeks
Dear friends: This blog has been created to announce the happy news that Jamba and I are 14 weeks pregnant. We are very excited and overwhelmed with the idea that in a few short months we will be parents. We are not sure we are totally ready, but we are as ready as we will ever be, and it seems like the right time.
The dirty facts: Seems that we conceived down in Mexico during our Christmas Break in San Miguel de Allende. We returned home, to our cozy little house on the outskirts of Boulder, and I found out about 5 weeks later. We decided to keep the news under wraps for awhile, as we wanted to make sure that this pregnancy was viable (having had a miscarriage at 6 weeks in November). Now it seems pretty certain, two weeks into my second trimester, that we are going to have this baby, so it is time to spread the news officially! We are due in mid to late September. We have a great midwife, named Elizabeth, whom I love and who serves me herbal tea from her garden when I visit her home for my prenatal exams. We are going to have a home birth. (please-we prefer not to be inundated with people trying to talk us out of this. We promise we will be safe and will go to the hospital at the first sign of any complication.)
A lot of people have asked and so I will address this here: No, Jamba and I weren't officially trying to get knocked up- but we weren't exactly not trying either. The eerie thing is that after four or five years of not getting pregnant- we bought a house in August, and got pregnant two weeks later. Lost that pregnancy, got pregnant the month after. I had always heard the myth- buy a house, start setting up the crib- but I didn't really believe it until now.
One of the most amazing things about this pregnancy has been to observe how the internal changes in my body have been mirroring the cycles of the outside world. Getting pregnant during winter solstice, time of most darkness and stillness, and every day a gradual turning towards the light. I just started to show last week, which means that my uterus has expanded to the point that it is starting to peek up over the top of my pubic bone (see photo below), just as the first crocuses of spring have started to poke their heads out of the ground. (Yes, all you smug California folk- it is mid-march and we are just starting to see the first dang flowers. You see, in Colorado, seasons are experienced fully and discretely, and sometimes extremely completely (as in, after a full weekend of working outside in the garden, about to plant all my little seeds in my new raised garden beds, I woke up this morning to a three inch blanket of snow draped over all the leaves, filling my wheelbarrow. I know. It seems impossible.)
Anyway, to wrap up the analogy, we will be giving birth in mid-to late September (get it: harvest time?) Which is pretty cool. I have always enjoyed symmetry.
Love to you all, and we will try to keep in touch via this blog and send pictures of the burgeoning belly monster!
Love
Erin and Jamba
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