I have not been blogging for quite awhile now and have been receiving some complaints about it...

I wanted to post a picture of the reason of the delay here, but I have been unable to configure my printer anex copymachine anex scanner to scan. Printing and copying works but not scanning. In fact this is the worst piece of hardware I have ever laid my hands on, but I'll be fair and not mention any brandnames.

So I shall just write about it. As of today I am 17 weeks pregnant :o) The picture I was planning to post was the ultrasound taken at 12 weeks where you can actually see the baby in its entirety: legs, arms, body, head. Admitted, the head is very big compared to the body so he or she looked a bit like an alien at that stage, but we have been told that that is normal :o)

The reason why I haven't been blogging about it earlier is that I have felt sooooo miserable. Not psychologically, because the baby is of course very welcome, but physically. The first 14 weeks I was tired the whole day long and instead of morning sickness I was suffering from afternoon and evening sickness. To say it in a nice way, whatever I ate for dinner did not stay for a long time in my body and when it came out it was the wrong way :o). Even now I sometimes feel sick but at least I am able to eat a littlebit. Also strange, but less annoying is that I have developed strange tastes: I am eating up to 6 nectarines a day, lots of oranges, but have stopped drinking coffee altogether. I just can't stand the taste of it (whereas before I drank up to 5 cups a day). As an ex smoker I never really cared about other people smoking or sitting in smokey areas but right now I can't even stand the smell of it, it makes me physically ill. I have thus become an unpopular person amongst smokers who have to share my table. Oh well.

So that was it, stay tuned, I shall post some pictures if ever I find out how this scanning thing works. In 3 weeks I have a 3-D ultrasound which normally produces very nice pictures of the baby's face, I hope I can post them then.

PS As for the FAQ: No we do not know whether it is a boy or a girl. We have decided we'd like to be surprised at birth so we are not going to ask next time we have the ultrasound. FAQ2: Due date is 2nd of September.