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It has indeed taken me almost TWO months between posts this time – and I thought it was going to get better! Let’s see now, where do I start…

Kyah is just adorable, of course, but not only because she is my baby   She is 5 1/2 months old now, and has her two bottom teeth already. Her first came through at 4 1/2 months, and the next one 2 weeks later. So that was a bit of a grizzly old time, but wasn’t as bad as I thought it might be. She did have a little cold as well, and for two days was pretty miserable. She still has a bit of a cough which has gone to her chest now. I’m hoping that clears up soon or I will have to take her to the doctor. She has just started on solids and is having a ‘bite to eat’ 3 x day now. We have pushed her feed times and bed times back a half hour and this so far, along with the introduction of solids, has had a good result for sleeping longer between feeds and lasting until close to 7am instead of bloody 5.30am!

Me, well I am struggling along a little bit. I’ve had some gastro problems for the past 4 months and as a result, I’m now feeling very washed out and fatigued, even when I get enough sleep. And when I don’t, well, that’s not real pleasant at all! I have been to my GP a couple of times, but now am off to see a gastroenterologist on Monday. I’ve considered that perhaps childbirth/surgery has triggered celiac disease and that I am now gluten intolerant. I’m just guessing, but it can do that. I don’t have an appetite, and I am losing weight without exercising, something I have never done before in my life. I’m weighing about 51kg at the moment, less than when I conceived. Of course I have lost some muscle mass too though.

Right, so now it’s Saturday…last night she slept beautifully and has continued that this morning – if only it were this easy all the time! I feel like a million bucks today, compared to yesterday!

Mum is coming around to help me get her room organized, it has clothes and stuff everywhere, just one of those things that has gotten on top of me and I haven’t gotten around to fixing it up. Had a little bit of a meltdown yesterday as things were getting on top of me a bit, but amazing what a good sleep does for you.

We are going away for Easter, to Goolwa (SA) for 3 nights. That will be a 4.5 hour drive for us – I wonder how Kyah will go.

Ideal Bodies Online is going strong, we have 2 more Body Blitz winners this month! 25 in total, and 3 grand champions! Pretty proud of our team, and of course our wonderful clients who have made it happen!

Anyway this is really quick and I am going to press ‘post’ because if I don’t I will never finish it!

 How can people ‘not know they are pregnant’ for like 12 weeks?

I had the best sleep ever since being pregnant the night before last.  8 hours, straight through.  I felt awesome all day.  I did have another nap as well though!   However, the elation wore off very quickly when last night I had the WORST night so far.  3 hours sleep – I was awake at 1am and up at 1.30am.  I worked for a couple of hours, had a bite to eat, and then tried to go back to sleep – nothing doing.  Got up again, worked some more, although by now I’m really feeling it and struggling big time.  Went back to bed about 6am.  Up again at 8am.  Had to drop Damo off out at my mum’s and do some jobs in town, and was just a zombie.  I made a sandwich when I got home, had half of that and went back to bed around 11am, getting up again at 1pm.  Nausea starting to kick in with the sleep deprivation now. 

I ate the other half of my sanga and waited for it to digest and then made myself go to the gym.  I felt quite ill the whole time, I’m sure people thought I was about to faint or something, I was laying on the machines with my eyes closed in between sets

So I’ve barely done any work, so if you are waiting for an email reply, I will get to it over Easter don’t worry.  I’ve no plans, looking forward to being a vegetable.  After taking the bins out and cleaning Big Pud’s dunny (Damo’s job but he forgot to do it before he left) I ran a spa and relaxed for awhile.  Now its 6pm and I’m in my nighty flaked on the couch.  I just had a small home made pasta, ham, tomato, pesto, cheese and avocado salad.

Now, as for this pregnancy weight gain business, Jo, I reckon you are one of a kind though, training like you did right through your pregnancy.  I guess being able to sleep well and not having the nausea to go with the vomiting would have helped you to stick to your usual training and nutrition regime.  Not that I’m any expert (haha, by a long shot) but from what I’ve read it doesn’t sound like you put on enough weight especially if you were having twins.  But, obviously you had a healthy pregnancy so it’s all good.  I’m going to disagree with you about the weight gain thing though because I can really understand now how you just cannot control what you need to eat sometimes.  I’m not condoning eating junk food all the time, no way, but as far as the baby only needing an extra 100 calories in the first trimester – hmph!  So why do you get so frigging hungry every 2 hours then?  And why can you not stomach some healthy foods but can eat things like toast and cheese?  (I’m not directing these questions to you Jo, just asking them to myself really!).   I’ve put on nearly 4lb so far, and I attribute that to a number of factors – I am a lightweight to start with and apparently we put on the most weight, I was dieting and training for a comp before I got pregnant, I then stopped training because I physically was unable to for (so far) 7 weeks, I started eating a lot more than my diet consisted of because I was hungry and sick and I had to eat to stop the nausea, I am eating a lot more carbs and some foods I would not normally eat because that is what my body is telling me to do.  Buggered if I’m gonna fight it just to save a few pounds of weight gain hey.  Anyway, I’m still not weighing as much as I was at the start of my last comp prep. 

I don’t know, what are everyone else’s thoughts? 

I suppose I do feel a bit of pressure to stay trim while pregnant but you know what, I don’t really care – my body is not my own at the moment, it’s doing it’s thing and so be it.  My focus is on eating mostly (I’d say >85% of the time) healthy food, eating when I need to and resting when I can.  If I can’t train, I can’t train.  Having said that, I’m definitely aiming to get there 3 x week to lift, and on the other days I’m walking.  Doing what I can without pushing the limits.

I was thinking of getting some milo to try and help me relax again after I wake in the middle of the night.

Well I’ve watched the Biggest Loser and now I’m ready to crash in bed at 8.30pm.

Yesterday we had our spa treatment which was heavenly. Though afterwards I really felt quite ill – I think all that massaging and stuff really stirred things up and made me feel very off. Oh I got sucked in big time too, after my treatment they applied a light make up using Jane Iredale mineral makeup. I decided to buy the pressed powder and a brush to go with it as I’ve never used mineral make up and it looked nice and natural. I just said yep I will have one of those and a brush thanks. Ah hem – $168 thank you very much! The damn brush was $83! WTF?? I know I could have gotten it for at least half that on the net. Next time.

Anyway today I felt good, really good. I swear the morning sickness pills are working. However, now Damien appears to be getting the flu! We can’t win! And the weather is still shit. I only had one sleep today, about half hour.

I never realised how good fruit really tastes. I found some big juicy white peaches in the IGA here and I have been eating 3 a day! And today at Eumundi I bought a pineapple, which happens to be the best pineapple I have ever tasted. And 3 mangoes. I figure surely it can’t hurt if I eat lots of fruit. However, I am also eating lots of cheese. I have a thing for sandwiches at the moment. Ham, cheese, tomato and lettuce on wholemeal multigrain. I also bought some home made butter at the market, oops, and some big muffins – ginger and banana, and feta and pumpkin. Oh and some coffee and walnut greek yoghurt, yum. Tomorrow we are going to the Farmer’s Market – probably much of the same stuff but I will get some more muffins and perhaps another pineapple!

Pic is from the photo shoot I did a week and a half ago.  7 1/2 weeks and I thought I should wear a bit of a loose fitting top   We are sitting here deciding what to have for dinner.  Neither of us are particularly hungry, me because I eat all day long and only have room for little bits at a time, and Damo coz he’s sick.  I feel like a couple of steamed dimmies hehe.