on safer ground

Well, finally I'm in week 12 and the risk of miscarriage and serious damage to the baby is significantly smaller. Hooray!
Yesterday I went to see the nurse/midwife at the maternity health service for the first time. It was okay, I had a little too high blood pressure, probably because of my 20 kilos overweight, but it wasn't alarming, just a little higher than "normal, whatever that is.
I didn't tell her that I plan to have the baby at home. We didn't discuss delivery at all at this early stage so I didn't bring it up.
I will see her again in week 25, after the ultrasound so we can talk about it then. I'm a little obsessed by the possibility that it might be twins again. Not that it's likely, but I will feel relieved after the ultrasound when I know. if it's twins i can't have a home birth so I thought I didn't have to bring it up until after I know.
I love my twins and it was great fun having twin babies, but I would like to experience just having one baby too.

On the sewing front, nothing new. Well, I finished hemming my Greenland dress, but since I've noticed some small holes in the fabric I've put it in the freezer for a couple of weeks to ensure there are no bugs eating up my new dress.

Yesterday I went to a wonderful lecture on the "re-construction" of Canute the great's costume, which is at the National Museum in Copenhagen. It was Lise Bender Jorgensen, professor of textile archaeology in Trondheim (Norway) who gave it and it was very interesting. She also talked in general about re-constructions of iron age male dress.

I,m feeling a bit sick, but I think I should go to work now.

Eva

Feeling a bit down

I don't know what it is, I just feel like curling up in a ball and forget about the world outside.
The main reason is that I can't focus on my job. There's so many things I have to write and I have an idea about the general layout of this chapter, but I have zero inspiration.
First I though it was due to pregnancy, but I think I'm actually getting into a mild depression and I don't like it at all.

I got an email from a woman at the other unversity where I teach telling me that if I expected hotel rooms to be booked i really had to give them a list of which lecturers where going to need them. Well I did! A month ago! And now I feel unfairly treated and worried about the hotel room for next week's guest lecturer.
She also told med that they generally didn't do that kind of things, but the individual teacher did that. How could I know if nobody told me? I don't work there regularly.
It's the way it was written, assuming that I should know everything about how they work at that university, where they apparently have very different routines from "my" department at Gothenburg University.
And it's just grey outside and I just want to be at home.

Eva