Week 16

Feeling very energetic this week!!! Finally! Now that we are home and settled after the wedding and honeymoon we have started to look for the BIG things we need for Baby T... Cot, change table, pram and car seat. Still not sure whether we will get a capsule or just one of the convertible car seats that go from birth to 4 years. The pram we like has an option for a detachable capsule so if we decide need one it will be easy to buy and connect in. A couple of the big baby stores on Adelaide are having big clearance and sales so we are going to lay buy our big things this week hopefully! And as of today a BIG exciting moment happened ... But you can read about that down further!

Now onto the belly bump photo... I'm getting there! It's like I'm too big for my normal pants but when I went to try on maternity pants they were too big! So I am wearing my baggier jeans until I if in stretchy pants!

What is the baby up to this week? Baby T is now about 12cm long and weighs about 100g and will have discovered the umbilical cord this week which he or she will grab on and pull. The lungs are fully working and he or she is inhaling and exhaling the fluid! Whatever the baby is doing in there I can feel my belly stretching on each side- especially when I twist or roll over in bed!

Maternity clothes? Not yet but I had to wear and elastic band around my skinny jeans the other day and when I sit down I have to unbutton or else it is waaaaay too tight!

Stretch marks? Nope! :-)

Sleep: This week I have really began to notice my belly bulge at the bottom and it feels like its falling to the side when I'm trying to sleep... And I get up about 5 times a night to wee!

Best moment this week: I FELT BABY T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And we had the maternity ward tour at the hospital this week. It was great to see where I will go when I'm in labour and then where I will give birth if I don't need an epidural or C-Section.. The big water birth baths are just what I had imagined! And then we looked through the main ward where I go if I want an epidural or have a high risk pregnancy (which so far I don't!). For some reason I expected to see heavily pregnant woman pacing the hallways moaning and groaning and hearing screams coming from the closed rooms... But it was so quiet and peaceful!

Miss Anything? Runny eggs this week!

Movement: YES!!!!!!!! It was at work today! And it was amazing! I was in the work freezer bending down to get scones when I felt a little tickle in my belly.... It made me stop what I was doing and then I thought maybe it was just my belly digesting... But it happened again about 3 minutes later. It felt like tickly bubbles and took my breath away! It was beautiful and so exciting!

Food cravings: Mexican food but mainly the guacamole with it!!

Anything making you queasy or sick: Nothing this week! Yay!

Have you started to show yet: Definately! Although most people still couldn't pick it!

Gender prediction: Girl... Boy.... Girl.... Only 3 weeks until we find out!

Labor Signs: No

Belly Button in or out? In

c Happy or Moody most of the time: Unbelievably happy!

Looking forward to: feeling Baby T again! And our big scan in August 28th!

Well that is all for this week!

Love from us (all 3 of us) xxoo