223 days left - Saturday 2nd of October 2010

Here we are again after another 4 loooooong days. Eva feels bad most of the time and horribly bad the rest of the time. She doesn´t throw up that much but the feeling of illness won´t loosen its grip... Sometimes she only feels "slightly bad" in the morning but the evenings and nights are a nightmare: feeling of sickness, heartburn and Eva hardly get some sleep at night. Since Wednesday 29th of September I´m putting the alarm clock at 03:00 AM and I prepare food for Eva. This seems to work a little better and now Eva can get some more sleep at night. Sniffing fresh ginger is also something that soothens the sickness a bit.

Yesterday we tried to go the "Oktoberfest" in Tomares but we had to go back after 10 minutes, Eva could hardly stand up. Today we went down to Seville to "La Feria de las Naciones" and lasted a little longer, about 1 hour. Moving or simply standing up seems to be a bad idea... We will go back to moving between the bed and the sofa....

You would think we would delighted to finally be pregnant and that we should be planning for becoming fathers, etc but at the moment 110% of the focus is on the HORRIBLE FEELING OF SICKNESS. This is how women felt during thousands of years?! It seems impossible! And then they say that men and women are equal, my ass... If men would have to give birth, mankind would have become extinct thousands of years ago, we wouldn´t even have had time to climb down from the trees... Women are extremely long-suffering.