Introducing edamame-chan…

The three of us are heading to Australia on Friday. That`s right, I said three of us, and nope, I don`t mean Shun.

Noah, me and edamame-chan (almost 10 weeks) are heading to Australia for 2.5 weeks for a bit of a break (we are still going in November for 2 months also!)

There seems to be no way I can turn the image around even though it is saved the right way.

So yeah, we are expecting baby #2 late February or early March next year (First due date was February 27th but has since been changed to March 6th). It was a surprise/shock to ALL concerned and I only discovered I was pregnant when I was almost 8 weeks along after almost a week of feeling crappy- nauseous and tired.I guess I should of guessed huh? Two pregnancy tests later, a visit to a local clinic (and then to the clinic where I gave birth to Noah) to have it confirmed and now we are here getting ready to welcome edamame-chan into the family.

Morning sickness is a bitch and some days I throw up upwards of 4 times. Some days only once (but you know the morning sickness is bad when you wake up at 2am to be sick!). Noah is still breastfeeding 7-8 times a day and the doctors keep telling me I have to quit and I am trying but he refuses a bottle even though we try everyday- he just screams and screams until he falls asleep from exhaustion from fighting the bottle. I have tried it in a sippy cup, in different bottles, different people feeding him (in-laws took him for 5 hours last week and he didn`t want the bottle then either. Just did without milk),

It is not the flavour as I have started mixing formula into his breakfast with his fruit and he scoffs that down. I know that you can continue to breasfteed while pregnant although the doctors here keep advising me against it due to the pre-term labor issues I had when I was pregnant with Noah.

So thanks to my brother who forfeited his ticket to Japan so that Noah and I could travel back to Australia to get a bit of a break and hopefully with the extra hands (ie, mum!) I will be able to get Noah drinking from a bottle and have a bit of a rest and hopefully some extra sleep. And some extra hands to hold Noah while I run to vomit. Sorry for TMI.

There will be 14.5 months between Noah and edamame-chan and they will be just one school year apart (based on the Japanese school system). We always wanted a second child but I had planned to breastfeed Noah til he was about 1, then wean him and perhaps start trying- we were thinking a 2 year age gap or so but oh well, while the next couple of years will be tough with two babies in 3-4 years time I will probably be glad it worked out this way. Right?

Hopefully they will be good friends.