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    Wednesday 15 December 2010

    Our Babysitter

    After a seriously bad case of "morning" sickness yesterday, I did my best to suck it up and we went out to see the massive tourist bonanza, the Outback Spectacular.

    This, of course, required us to organise a babysitter, always a fun challenge. We only know one person we trust; the 18 year old ex-neighbour who used to babysit for us before we moved. Thankfully during the time we've known her she has learned to drive and was happy to take the journey to babysit Jude.

    It's interesting how both Jude and the babysitter keep getting older, so we trust her more and have less worries about him. Even knowing he probably wouldn't go to sleep easily wasn't too much of a concern because he often stays awake until 9.30pm just because he's stubborn.

    When she babysat Jude when he was a baby, her mum was always downstairs and we knew she would get some help if she needed it, so that wasn't a problem either.

    It's very nice how it's all worked out. It is very underrated to have a good babysitter.

    Sunday 5 December 2010

    10 Weeks Today

    Today hits the 10-week mark along this pregnancy journey. I'm very pleased to reach double digits. I'm just hoping the ill-effects start to abate soon.

    Last night I had my first fretful pregnancy dream. In this dream, every pregnant woman I know all suddenly miscarried and they were all hateful and angry at me for still being pregnant. I was filled with deep sadness for my friends and was sobbing, trying to console them, but they were pushing me away. I woke up when I let out an audible whimper in my sleep. It was a very strong dream. Very disturbing.

    Christmas is rapidly approaching and I've been really too ill to put up any decorations or buy any gifts. We've been watching Christmas movies with Jude to try and help him understand what it's all about (apparently christmas will be cancelled every year because Santa can't deliver the presents, and he needs a lot of help from strangers to keep christmas afloat).

    We did visit santa for a photo and have a ride on the choo choo train. Jude enjoyed the train. He could care less about santa.