This year, spring officially came to Lund February 25. But then it got colder again (just like in the rest of Europe) and things slowed down a bit. Now it seems it's here to stay. Easter is coming up as well and some trees already decorated themselves in an appropriate yellow color...
My big belly is gone. I'm of course not back in shape yet, but the difference is huge. I haven't tried on my regular pants yet (and they probably won't be that comfortable yet anyway), but that time will come too. :-) I don't, however, need the support stockings or the heartburn medication anymore and that's really sweet after months of struggling with the stockings and having to take the medicine every evening. It feels like I'm getting myself back in some way even if some parts now belong to our new family member (and hence have increased a lot in size lately...).
I'll probably not be very active here for a while, since Matts and I now are parents of a beautiful baby girl, Inga, that was born on Monday, March 15 at 6.44pm. :-)
Yesterday was due date. So far no baby. But then, who knows exactly when we will actually become a family. This has, however, in many ways been a crappy weekend. It started out really nice on Friday with a Thai dinner and a movie at the theater (a nice Swedish one called Farsan) downtown, but from then on it's been terrible. My "old" back problem is back, worse than ever and yesterday I couldn't stand up or lie down, not to talk about sit up (eating was a struggle) without severe pain on my lower left side. Now, after two nights of hardly any sleep, we'll go go the hospital to see if there's anything they can do... Matts has been great though, taking care of me, so in that respect it's good this all happened during the weekend.
Today I made a "special" breakfast. Normally we eat yogurt or filmjölk (a kind of sour milk only found in Sweden) with cereals, fruit, bread, tea and juice. This morning, however, was a pancake morning. :-) So I made a batch of American pancakes as well as a nice strawberry-blackberry-banana smoothie for us. Yummy. We also had sliced apple and pear as well as some home made bread and coffee and tea. A good start on what hopefully becomes a good day.
Now we are only one week away from due date. It's crazy!!! I don't have the feeling that my belly is growing any more, but from time to time there's full activity in there.
The past week I have been doing some baby shopping online, both on a regular "buy and sell site" as well as on a bidding site. And here is the result. I bought a 5.5 m long piece of fabric designed for carrying babies. It's kind of tricky to wrap it since it is so long, but I'm sure I'll get the hang of it pretty quickly anyway. Here it is filled out with my belly as well as a toy rabbit... :-)
Really close to our place there is a gorge called Rinnebäcksravinen. It is a small nature reserve where they keep animals in the summer. Last years there were a bunch of cows, and apparently, they kept sheep there earlier. It is open for everyone to stroll through and last year we saw lots of people hanging out there, having picnics and relaxing by the water. Today however, the gorge was empty even though the sun is shining from a clear blue sky. But it's not that weird - the temperature is below freezing...
Yesterday I celebrated my own birthday by inviting my friends on a birthday fika. On the menu was Rimbo buns, Pitepågar, choclolate amaretto muffins, lemon cheesecake and chocolate chip flarns... It was a great afternoon and there was something for everyone on the fika-table. :-)