Movie Night

A few nights ago my husband and I went to the movies – with no kids.

I distinctly remember the last time we had gone to the movies together – two and a half years ago. I was heavily pregnant with Katie and we were watching March of the Penguins. During that pregnancy I had suffered several episodes of fainting spells (I had low iron and lowish blood pressure).

At one point during the movie I could feel the heavy nauseous feeling descend and I handed my husband the M&Ms in my hand (can’t say I’ve done this before). Right after this I felt my husband shaking me and saying “are you ok, are you ok?” He told me later my eyes had glazed over and my head had rolled forward. I came to and slowly took myself out, breathed some fresh air and was fine.

Fortunately no incident this time around. Just a lovely feeling in noticing the simple things – like the freedom to hold my husband’s hand because of no pram to push, to be able to wear a dress as I wasn’t going to be breastfeeding and to hold a handbag instead of an oversized nappy bag.

Good movie, great company and a nice night – the only letdown was the lift we used. No one else was using it and we found out why – it reeked of urine. I almost started to feel nauseous again.