Disneyland Paris 24 weeks pregnant.

As i'm writing this blogpost, you are probably thinking why is she's not acting anymore on her blog, we'll it's probably because since as right now i'm 28 weeks pregnant. Yes, you read it, with my fiancé we are expecting a little baby in September. I wasn't ready to talk about it before because firstly it's my  first (and only!) pregnancy and mostly because i didn't really know what to expect. 

Indeed when i say it's my first pregnancy i have to correct that it's actually my first real one, as before i lived an absorption with my ex-boyfriend, i will be happy to talk about this topic if you are interested. 

Today i thought it was the right time to announce you this big news, it's also the time to say that now you will have a topic dedicated to pregnancy and parenting on my blog (yes you read it correctly) as i want to share this journey with you, this topic is not about giving advice but mostly to share what we choose, what we don't want etc.. because as we know parenting and pregnancy can be totally different to others and i think it's important to share our experience with you especially if you are living a pregnancy. 

You need to have a little bit of an explanation of my personal life before i will talk about my pregnancy and my first trimester. So my fiancé is already a daddy of two girls from his first marriage who are 11 and 8 when i'm writing this. So at home between the two of us i'm the one who didn't know anything about pregnancy and kids (which is quite helpful and diminue a lot of stress!), also he is a volunteer firefighter, so i'm not scared about what will happen when it will be the time of the birth as i have someone at home who knows how to handle that (it's diminues a lot of stress to be honest!) But even tho i hate hospital and i have a big phobia of any medical procedures who needs needles (even tho i have tattoos! yes! don't judge! it's a phobia i can't explain it!) 

Now let's begin with the First Trimester Throwback, as i said in the beginning i'm right now 28 weeks pregnant so i'm indeed at the beginning of my third trimester. The first one was pretty hard in terms of symptoms, nothing medically important at all but the fatigue was here, during the first three months i was probably two and half months totally out of energy, nausea was a thing too, especially at the beginning just after we had done the first scan i was 5 weeks. I can say that my symptoms came just right after the dating scan as it was pretty early i got symptoms pretty early tho (i do think right now that it's totally psychologic!). Boobs had got bigger during the first trimester as for reference i am between and 32C and 32D (depending of the brand and shape of my bra) i'm now between a 34C and a 34D. Even tho now it looks like i have breast implants on my petite frame for reference i'm 5"0 and 85,98 Lbs (before pregnancy lol) my boobs were not as hurting as some women can feel, they were tight and it was a little bit sensitive around the areola for maybe three weeks. i got my first back pain during my third month as my uterus was starting to move and bet bigger more and more, it's a symptom without being one also as i do have some back issue when i was a teenager, and i live with back pain since i'm 12, i'm just use to the back pain problem. The pregnancy glow wasn't here at all during the first trimester. Also i didn't gain a lot of weight indeed almost nothing during the first trimester.

Things that you need to know? If you are living your pregnancy in France you will probably hate to have a monthly check-up with your gynaecologist and also if you are not immune to toxoplasmosis you will have a blood test every month until the end of your pregnancy. But don't be scared about not being immune to toxoplasmosis it's nothing! most of us in the world are not! you just have to make sure that your vegetables are perfectly cleaned, and you have to eat your meat kind of burned (the bacteria can live between 4 to 65°C in ingredients) so if you want to eat beef without eating it burned you can put your meat in the freezer 24hrs before to get rid of the possible bacteria. Also don't be scared about it, Toxoplasmosis is quite rare, if you get it during pregnancy it can be medically IMPORTANT for your baby but the chances that you will have the toxoplasmosis are low especially if you clean your vegetables and if you don't play with your cat litter box either as it can be in your cat poop (even tho it can happen if you have is not an indoor cat because the bacteria is in the mud). Don't be scared for your little companion, you can give him a lot of cuddle without any problem especially if it's an indoor cat like my Harvey, because the bacteria can't be in his fur, but if your cat goes outside make sure that he doesn't have mud under his paws and also that he doesn't not scratch you. Also it's not recommended to eat sushi during pregnancy because of the Listeria. i don't know a lot of thing about Listeria because i don't eat enough sushi to be scared of it. For me it's not a problem to not have sushi for 9 months.

24 weeks pregnant.

The second Trimester, well quite interesting in terms of my body frame because nobody can figure that i was pregnant, because i didn't gain lot of weight and my belly was not showing until around 24 weeks. especially when i was wearing a shirt with a jeans. As for pregnancy clothing ? nothing was needed during the second trimester, symptoms? nausea was over, fatigue also, my hair are growing faster so i need to do my hair dye more frequently i will talk about hair dye in a future blogpost. Back pain? more and more present especially during the 22-25weeks now it's getting a little bit better. We have already almost finished the nursery in terms of big stuff. During the third trimester i will share with you the nursery but also the little details that we are adding during the last three month.

As for the gender of our baby, we are expecting a baby BOY! my fiancé is thrilled about this idea as he already had two daughters so it's something new for him things are a little bit different and I'm happy for him to live a different experience. for our gender reveal we choose to do something funny for the reveal to our family but not something big, so we thought that a gender reveal cake was totally enough. I  will share with you the recipe in a future blogpost. 

I think I am quite done with the big life update. 

see you soon. 

    The Tuileries Garden, is probably my favourite touristic place in Paris, this place has a high history resonance. In 1564 Catherine de medici' created the Tuileries palace. In 1559 the King Henri II died due to an accidental death, her Son François II was already married to Mary the queen of Scots so Catherine de Medici' moved to the Louvre Palace and it's in 1564 that she decided to create the Tuileries Palace in the Tuileries Garden. 

 

    During the French Revolution, on october 6 of 1789 the french revolution began and the king louis XVI was brought against his will to the tuileries Palace (since Louis XIV the royal residency was Versailles and Louis XVI was born in Versailles Castle). in the 19th century Napoleon Bonaparte was about to became an emperor and moved into the Tuileries Palace on February 19, 1800 and making an improvement to suit an imperial residence.

In 1871 Jules Bergeret set the fire on the palace with petroleum, liquid tar and turpentine. The fire lasted 24hrs and thoroughly gutted the palace. The ruins of the Tuileries palace stood on the site for 11 years because in 1882 the French National Embassy voted the demolition of the palace. The Tuileries garden and the Louvre area resonate a lot historically. during the 19th century the garden was the place where ordinary parisians wants to relax, meet, stroll and enjoy the fresh air and the greenery. 

    The Louvre pyramid is a contemporary monument commissioned by the French President François Mitterand in 1984. It was design by the Chinese-American Architect I.M Pei (who is 101 years now!). The structure which was constructed entirely with glass segments and metal poles, reaches the height of 71 feet (21,6 meters).  The inverted pyramid that you can on this picture is at the Carrousel du Louvre it's a mall who refers to two places nearby. the Louvre Musuem but also the Place du Carrousel. The mall contains the beautiful inverted pyramid. this pyramid was created also by the architect I.M Pei in 1993. 

Alexander-III bridge

    Here is a view from the Alexander-III Bridge, this bridge connects the Champs-Elysées quarter with those of the Invalids and the Eiffel Tower. The bridge where this photo is from was built between 1895 and 1900 and it's named after the Tsar Alexander III who had concluded the French-Russian alliance in 1892.  here is one of the popular fames of the bridge. 

The Basilica of the sacred heart of paris commonly know as the sacré-coeur basilica is probably one of the most beautiful monument of paris. It's a Roman catholic church and minor basilica dedicated to the sacred heart of jesus. The monument is located on the famous area of the Butte de Montmartre. The view from there is probably the most magical landscape that you can capture in photo. We can't describe this view with words. 

    The sacré-coeur is the exact definition of a double-monument, it's political and cultural. The Basilica was designed by Paul Abadie the construction began in 1875 and was completed in 1914. The overall style of the structure shows a free interpretation of the Romano-Bysantine features and unusual architectural vocabulary at this time, which was a conscious reaction against the neo-Baroque excesses of the Garnier Palace cited in the competition. Many design elements symbolise nationalist theme.

 The Living room is probably my favorite room of the house, even if we don't have finish to furnish it yet, we still need a nice dining room cabinet and also a piano, we are still trying to find our piano we are in a big discussion about it also to paint a wall and to add an bigger table. But i thought it was a great idea to share with you where we are now and i will probably do a renovation blogpost about our recent changes later. 

    I decided today to share with you a little bit of our first Christmas in our house and our regular decoration of all year around. Our space is quite big, we enjoy the fact that we have a lot of luminosity it's a through living room and it's really pleasing to live in. As you can see our Christmas tree was really traditional this year, as always i'm a massive of fake Christmas tree, firstly because it's more ecological but also because i don't have to use my vacuum everyday for the leaves because that can happen especially with a floor heating like ours our bob is dry (the big plant) needs a pedestal because of that. The theme was red, green and gold and also with a lot of glass ornements, i already what i want for next year christmas decorations and i'm exited to share with you at the end of this year what it will be. As a massive fan of Christmas decorations i wanted to have a train under the tree, it's something that resonated a lot in me, it's feels so warm to have those lights for a months, with this little village and train. Also i use my big golden basket as a Christmas sack for the gifts.

    The couch area is probably my favorite part of the living room, we are big ikea fan so obviously you will a lot of ikea links at the end of this blogpost, we wanted to have a big converted sofa, as we have two bedrooms in the house and one office we thought it was a great idea to add a converted sofa if we have guest who wanted to stay after a nice dinner, we are in love with black, gold and leather so we choose a black leather couch, it's confortable, we have a lot of cosy evening behind netflix in this sofa. we enjoy dark blue tones and greens, unfortunately the photo doesn't show the real colour of our plaid and pillow

    Next to the right of the sofa we have a black metal side table, we use to have our small bonsaï here, but because we added a side table at the right of the sofa, we choose to have only a gold minimalist lamp. I love everything minimalistic as you can see, for the the go to decoration is all about minimalism, we also choose a warm vintage light to add a little bit more cosiness.



    As almost all of our furnitures are black, i love adding gold details in terms of decorations to add warmth to the room, i will later share with you in a new blogpost what i choose to add gold but not with a girly effect.

    

    

   

    Our plant still needs a pedestal but it will come in not a long time, i still need to find the perfect one, so our plant is a little bit dry because of the floor heating as i say before, but i like this green corner with the golden basket, we like to use it to store our sofa cushions and plaids when we want a little bit more space or when friends are staying at home and needs the converted sofa. This Basket is just at the left of our architecture inspired lamp, and i'm exited to add a piano to this blank space here. we are thinking of a Yamaha Clavinova 625 with the glossy black finish.  To the other part of the room we still need to paint the wall the TV stand and the guitars are placed and we will add a nice dining cabinet to store our occasional dishes and books. 

    Our curtains are dark blue, almost a night blue color which is in my opinion an amazing color for a living room. As everything is really modern in our living i now want to give a more rustique ancient look  with some details i'm thinking of my future dining room cabinet, i will share with you about this later. So i choose cream curtain loops who are italien renaissance style, this style was introduce during this era in Toscane. I really like the big pompom because their are heavy and works nicely with the fabric of our black curtains. 

    I hope you have enjoy the first part of my interior category and i hope you liked the small tour of my living room i'm exited to share more details about our home in the next blogpost.