Tag: pregnancy tw

Oh my goooshhhhhh, congratulations! The Dwarfling is probably going to be an awesome big sibling, even if it will definitely take some adjusting (when I was a kiddo, I started screaming bloody murder because my mom picked up my little cousin for like .5 seconds. To this day, “put it dooowwwwn, put it dooooooowwwwwwwn,” is a family in-joke) (I was an only child for a long time). Anyways, congrats again on making another small person! *high fives you*

Heheheheh, that’s hysterical! PUT IT DOOOOOWNNNN

Well, we can hope! According to my mum, I didn’t relinquish my role as the baby of the family very gracefully when my own little sister rolled in, apparently! XD

welp, I’m ¼ of the way through making a new person! 30 weeks to go, hoo boy. And thank you so much, Nonnie! 

Hey there. We haven’t heard from you in awhile. I hope everything is ok.

Hi Nonnie, thank you so much for thinking of me!

I’m home sick right now. For the past seven weeks, I’ve been doing 12 hour days at work… I mentioned work was going bonkers, yeah? IT GOT MORE SO. So I have finally crashed with a really bad flu. 

I’m not circling the depression drain at the moment, just the exhaustion one. And there’s another reason for that, too… though it is a nice one!

I’m gonna be expecting another Dwarfling in March next year. Currently 10 weeks along. We’re very happy, but it’s been a bit of a rough ride so far. My fatigue and nausea is out of control, honestly. So SO much worse than the first time around – and that time, I didn’t have an energetic lil toddler to cope with!

I’m ok, promise, I know it sounds like a lot, but I will be all right once I have recovered from this flu, and once I have made it to the second trimester and this fatigue lessens a bit. Right now, I am simply and constantly so tired.

I was coping p well before getting this stupid flu, actually! Worst part of being a teacher – YOU CATCH EVERYTHING. *grumbles*

again, thanks for thinking of me, Nonnie, you are a gem. I normally wouldn’t be able to answer messages (I’m literally collapsing the minute the Dwarfling is in bed each night, these days!), but being home sick from work has actually given me the opportunity! So there’s a shiny silver lining! I have missed all my online friends so very much. *hugs* 

School holidays are on their way in a month’s time, and I intend to get some writing done over those two weeks! 

Culturalrebel has Hobbit4Ham’d (NEVER STOP)

[DIS]

Look around, look around, at how lucky we are to be alive right now.

Look around, look around…

[THORIN]

How long have you known?

[DIS]

A month or so.

[THORIN]

Namadith, you should have told me.

[DIS]

That’s why I sent that raven a month ago.

[THORIN]

No!

[DIS]

And I told you to come home.

[THORIN]

You should have told me…

[DIS]

I’m not sorry.

…I knew you’d go until the search was done..

[THORIN]

Adad’s still gone…

[DIS]

But you must meet your brand new sister-son.

Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.

[THORIN]

Do you relish living in exile and strife?

No Mountain to provide for your life?

[DIS]

We relish being in your life.

Look around, look around…

Look at where you are, look at where you started.

The fact that you’re alive is a miracle.

Just stay alive, and that would be enough.

And if this child has a part of Vili’s smile

Or a fragment of my mind, then look out world!

That would be enough.

I don’t pretend to know, the challenges you’re facing

The memories replaying, unrelenting in your mind.

But I’m not afraid.

I know you, Nadadel.

So long as you come home by the end of the day,

That would be enough.

We don’t need this legacy

We don’t need money.

If we could grant you peace of mind…

If you could let me inside your heart!

Oh, let us be a part of the narrative

In the story they will write someday.

Let this moment be the first chapter

Where you decide to stay,

And they could be enough.

And we could be enough.

That would be enough.

*wibbles until I fall over in a heap, clutching heart and whimpering* @culturalrebel god i hope you’re satisfied

Now that it’s generally known that Bomfris is pregnant … Imagine all the baby stuff she and Thorin Stonehelm are getting. Some of it’s from family, some of it’s not. So we have some of Bomfris’s sibs with kids bringing hand-me-downs, various relatives/close friends on both sides bringing useful stuff, often handmade. Thorin is amazed at all the stuff that babies need. Bomfris is resigned. Jeri makes some cute crochet hats based on Thorin’s story of lack of head hair as a baby.

they do, they need So. Much. Stuff.

(all the lovely old second hand stuff from Dis brings a certain amount of sadness along with the gratitude.)

(Same anon as before srynotsry for the angst) In the midst of all the letter reading, Thorin 3 learns that his One has never ridden a pig before. He must correct this oversight and NO it doesn’t matter that she is still pregnant this is IMPORTANT.

(heh, I have no leg to stand on when it comes to angst, Nonnie!)

Stonehelm (very quickly): THIS IS CUPCAKE, SHE’S REALLY GENTLE AND SWEET AND IT’LL BE A REALLY EASY RIDE, WE’LL GO REALLY SLOWLY AND YOU’LL LIKE IT BOMFRIS, PLEASE, SHE’S SO CUTE AND REALLY GOOD-NATURED AND I PROMISE IT’LL BE FUN 

Tuac: You’re seriously not going up on that thing, are you? It’s obviously part-walrus.

Bomfris: Is that A CHALLENGE

Do you think dwarves or elves have the concept of surrogates? Like, say a dwarf decided to have relations with someone, but for whatever reason didn’t want to court anyone or marry. Then, perhaps said dwarf gets pregnant on accident. They don’t want to be a parent for whatever reason (since it’s not for everyone) but children are special to their race and so they wouldn’t take herbs or whatever to terminate the pregnancy. So, they decide to find a couple, or person, who wants children [1/2]

but for whatever reason is unable to have them. They’re still able to visit if they want to, like an open adoption type thing, but someone else raises the baby. Or what if elves or dwarves did figure out some way to do surrogacy similar to what’s done now, so that couples who want a baby that shares part of their genes are able to? [2/2]

Hey Nonnie!

God, I really don’t know. I think they would likely use surrogacy as well as adoption, but the particulars of this scenario are not something I know a lot about. I don’t think it would be very appropriate for me to speculate, either: I think this is something that people who have had life experience with surrogacy – either as a surrogate themselves, or as a child of a surrogate – would be in a better position to answer. 

If it’s not too creepy/stalkerish, can i just wish you a huge congratulations on your incoming niece or nephew? i hope everything goes well and easily with the dwarfling and his/her mama.

Ahhh thank you so much for your consideration – and thank you for the well wishes! We’re all hoping my sister has an uncomplicated time, she has other health issues that may or may not be affected by the delivery, erk. We just don’t know. So, all your good thoughts are very much appreciated! *hugs* Thank you again, Nonnie!

Still, she’s happy! She’s very happy and very apprehensive and very very hot. Being at full-term in an Australian summer is Not Much Fun! 

Silly headcanon: Fris got different weird food cravings for each of her pregnancies. During Thorin’s, Thrain was like, “why are you eating jam-covered creampuffs and eggs at 2 am, dear?”, but by the time she was expecting Dis, Thrain was all, “sure I’ll try some pickle-and-maple-syrup-with-raspberries.”

ppppffffffthahahaha poor Fris! 

personal blah ahoy: Golly, that is one bullet I am so glad to have dodged during my pregnancy. I didn’t crave weird stuff (apart from the occasional Bunnings sausage sizzle, but that’s EVERYONE tbh) – I had almost the opposite problem, where I ate barely anything bc it all smelled so BAD.