Another Visit From The Stork

It appears that I am not the only one who is pregnant in our house. According to the vet, Tigerlily is pregnant too! She is expecting two babies he thinks. She wasn't very happy about being examined so he had to give up but he could feel two kittens for sure. She is due next month - even my own cat has pipped me to the post!!

Mr. T was in shock. Now I have two pregnant ladies in the house?! Yeah but she won't be as demanding as me and will have no need to buy maternity bras for a start! The vet asked me if we wanted to get rid of the babies but I just couldn't - it's all too close to home and so we are just going to let her have the babies at home. I am actually quite jealous of her. She doesn't get morning sickness, she's only pregnant for 2 months before she gets to see her babies, she jumps and runs about with such agility AND she can sleep whenever she wants! No morning alarm clocks for her, no rushing out the door trying to get to work on time - so so jealous!! Especially since I was hanging over the loo-seat vomiting for 10 minutes this morning before I had to pull myself together and get to work!

She is curled up next to me as I write this, sleeping angelically, having just been attacking my feet. I hope she will make a good mama and not freak out about the birth when it happens - I was a bit worried about her having babies as she is so young. She is only 9 months old and still quite tiny. The vet assured me she was physically able to have the babies and I guess mother nature will take care of the rest. I will start posting belly pics of her soon since her belly will be showing really quickly.

The babies will stay with Tigerlily for 2 months after their birth and then we will be looking for homes for them. So if you live in Marrakech and would like to give a loving home in about 3 months time to a seriously cute kitten, who is clean, healthy and vaccinated - drop me a line!

Don't...

let a pregnant woman go supermarket shopping. Seriously. I am in the throws of nausea and weird cravings which resulted in some very bizarre items in our weekly shopping. Things I haven't bought since I was a child, like weetabix. And it also resulted in massive gaps in our shopping since I couldn't face the dairy, meat or fish counters in the supermarket. Oh well if Mr. T wants it he has to go gets it himself.

Don't tell a pregnant woman not to eat too much so she doesn't gain too much weight over the pregnancy. Seriously? Who are these people and what are they thinking? Five people have told me this already and they have no idea how close they came to that being the last stupid thing they would ever say before I knocked the life out of them.

Don't tell a pregnant woman suffering strong nausea and morning sickness, just to power through and that it's a question of mind over matter. Tell me that again while I throw up on you.

Don't cook meat with a pregnant woman in the next room. This point is specifically directed to Mr. T. I had to sit out on the balcony at night in March (i.e cold!!) to avoid vomiting on the carpet. Hmm maybe next time I will do just that and then that steak won't seem so appealing after all...

Do understand that I feel nauseous and hormonal and that while this is all very very wonderful and it's what I want more than anything else in the whole world - GIVE ME A BREAK, I FEEL LIKE CRAP! Thank you.

Swinging Free

My breasts are much bigger than before. And sore. I don't fit into any of my bras. And more to the point I can't even squeeze into my bras as they are all underwired. And apparently the underwire can damage milk ducts on the side of the breasts. So I think it is time to get some maternity bras. Of course getting these things in Morocco is another story. So I have to wait until my mum arrives from the UK with a consignment of maternity bras.

Until then what to do? Well I've tried my sport vests that have in-built support - they work. But I only have two of them. I've tried my bikini tops - they work too, though it looks very strange to have bikini strings tied behind your neck at the beginning of March. And when all that fails - yes I have been swinging free.

But hopefully not for too long. Just wanted to share with you the two beautiful purchases I've made. I decided to go for nursing bras as I thought these could be more useful for longer. I wanted to buy bravado bras but couldn't get any online stockists that had my size so I went for the very sexy Hot Milk brand. Feast your eyes....