Week 28

These weeks are just flying by!! In less than 9 weeks Baby T is considered 'full term' and can make her entrance anytime after that without needing any help to breathe once she is here! I have been so busy with work and uni that the days just fly past. One more week of uni left until exams and holidays!! I can't wait to have my first year of Vet School out of the way and can focus on getting setup for our baby girl. I feel like I am getting humongous but weighed myself at our midwife appointment and have gained just over 4kg which is amazing considering how much food I eat constantly. Our midwife appointment was a routine checkup and also my gestational diabetes test which I passed.... Yay!! I had to drink a VERY sugary drink VERY fast and then wait an hour for a blood test. The midwife took my blood pressure- all good! Checked my belly- all good! And then attempted to find Baby T's heartbeat while she wriggled around in there playing cheeky buggers with the midwife's Doppler machine. It was hilarious and the midwife kept laughing at my belly rolling around! Eventually she found a heartbeat- all good!

I have been trying to stay active as much as possible this pregnancy so I didn't lose my fitness- but the first 12 weeks of sickness followed by extreme tiredness combined with 8 hour days on my feet at work has meant I have been mainly resting/walking with the dogs! Today we went for a long walk with the dogs on the beach and it felt so nice to get my blood pumping.

My bump feels a lot bigger than it looks. I can't see my knees anymore so it's definately a big bump! Also just realised there is painted squares of sample paint on the wall behind me- our room is the last to get painted unfortunately so we have multi coloured squares until then!

What is the baby up to this week? Baby T is over 1 kilo now!!! That is just amazing to me! She opens and closes her eyes all the time and will move her head towards a light source (which I can feel when we shine a torch on my belly). She is about 38cm long.... Hard to believe she can fit in there!!!

Maternity clothes? I think I will delete this question... The answer is always the same! No new ones!

Stretch marks? Nope!

Sleep: Not the best unfortunately- I struggle to get comfortable and when I finally do baby girl kicks so hard it jolts me awake again.

Best moment this week: our midwife appointment to hear her heartbeat and our antenatal class. We learned about getting her to sleep and what to expect from her sleep wise. Also learned about breastfeeding and how the midwives will help me out at the start! I know they work as they have been making and leaking (gross!) colostrum (pre-milk) for a couple of months now!

Miss Anything? Iced coffee and Oreo mcflurries

Movement: LOTS!

Food cravings: Still apples!!

Anything making you queasy or sick: Nothing! It feels like so long ago that I was spending all day and night feeling sick with morning sickness.. I have been told it may come back so I am hoping it doesn't!! 

Have you started to show yet: YES!!!!! 

Gender prediction: no longer a prediction.... Sweet baby GIRL!!!!

Symptoms: This one said labour signs but the answer will be No for atleast 10 or so week so I changed it to symptoms. I have very sore wrists and hands. They ache and my wrists have become so weak I always seem to drop things! My nose seems to be blocked/runny all the time and I get so busting to go to toilet that I run to the toilet only to have a tiny wee happen.... I truly can't wait to be able to fully empty my bladder ha ha!

Belly Button in or out? Innie!

Happy or Moody most of the time: So so happy!!!

Looking forward to: our next antenatal class about labour!

Well that is all for this week! 

Love from us (all 3 of us) xxoo 

Week 27

We have nursery furniture!!!!!! After a hectic weekend of painting and scrubbing and vacuuming we finally got to put our Baby Girls furniture together and her room is coming together!  Now I can get stuck into washing all of her clothes and nappies and picking out a cot sheet set.... Aah so many options! 

I think this week I finally 'feel' pregnant! It is a lot harder to bend down and I can feel her head or feet hitting me in the lungs and wedging herself under my ribs so I can't breathe properly! Hard to believe I have 13 more weeks to go and she is going to get bigger and more cramped! I feel like she must be running out of room! My feet and ankles are starting to swell up of a night after a whole day on my feet and my wrists and hands are getting very sore at the end of the day. My bump just gets bigger and bigger! I can still wear a few pre pregnancy shorts and jeans for now so it's not too big just yet!

What is the baby up to this week? She weighs nearly a kilo now!! She sleeps and wakes at exhilarating intervals and has opened her eyes now. Her lungs are still not developed but are on their way just like her brain which has billions of brain cells now (more than adults!!! That's crazy!!)

Maternity clothes? No new ones and I doubt I will get any- baggy shirts work wonders!

Stretch marks? Nope!

Sleep: getting more uncomfortable of a night and baby girl seems to wake up just as I lay down to sleep and kicks my sides over and over! 

Best moment this week: her furniture!!!! She has her own room now! It is definately my favourite room of the house! 

Miss Anything? Iced coffee!! And having enough energy to exercise properly. I feel so unfit and can't wait to get fit again.

Movement: all the time! She mainly wakes up when I have got home from work and lay down and then about 8am every morning she wakes up and rolls around.

Food cravings: Apples!

Anything making you queasy or sick: Nothing this week

Have you started to show yet: YES!!!!! 

Gender prediction: no longer a prediction.... Sweet baby GIRL!!!!

Labor Signs: No!

Belly Button in or out? Innie!

Happy or Moody most of the time: happy .. Luckily for Nick I haven't been too emotional!!!

Looking forward to: our antenatal class and our midwife appointment on Wednesday!

Well that is all for this week! 

Love from us (all 3 of us) xxoo 

Week 26

Where is time going????? This is my last week of my 2nd trimester which most books say is the 'honeymoon' phase and that now I have nausea, swelling and general uncomfortableness to look forward to! This week has been action packed- we had Nick's 23rd birthday, 2 dinners out with friends, painted the laundry, toilet AND our baby girls nursery!!!!  Here is the before and during shot and in a few weeks I will get the after shots up! And yes... He painted in his undies!!!!!

I love walking past her .. Yes HER room!! It is no longer just the treadmill room that gets closed off... It is the most important room in our home!! It is where our Baby Girl will spend her first night (and the next night.. and the next night.... ) we bring her home! Our 6 weekly sessions of antenatal classes started this week too. The first class was a basic intro where the Mums went to one room to talk about all the gory downstairs stuff before during and after birth and the Dads spent an hour and a half doing secret men's business (there was a lot of laughter from what we could hear).

My bump is officially getting noticed! The girl at Subway asked when I was due yesterday and I couldn't help but grin! I feel so proud of my bump although it now makes putting my shoes on and shaving my legs VERY difficult! I can tell I have been working too hard at work when I start to get Braxton Hicks regularly so I make sure I drink ALOT of water and sit down. 

What is the baby up to this week? All five of her senses are fully developed now and she is focusing on getting fatter and filling out her skin. She is about 2 pounds now!!! Woah!!! 

Maternity clothes? No new ones just trying to make the most of baggy shirts and stretchy pants!

Stretch marks? Nope!

Sleep: I am usually up about 3-4 times a night to pee or getting kicked in the lungs! 

Best moment this week: getting our Baby Girls room painted and picking up her cot and change table... I can't wait to wash all of her clothes and cloth diapers (will post the cloth diaper photos up next week) and get her room all prettified for her arrival!

Miss Anything? Iced coffee!! 

Movement: she is most active at night and rolls around in there kicking back at Nick when he pokes my belly. And we can so clearly make out her body shape... We can feel little feet pushing out and what we think may be an arm pushing out under my ribs!

Food cravings: Still apples!!

Anything making you queasy or sick: Nothing this week

Have you started to show yet: YES!!!!! 

Gender prediction: no longer a prediction.... Sweet baby GIRL!!!!

Labor Signs: No!

Belly Button in or out? Innie!

Happy or Moody most of the time: So so happy!!!

Looking forward to: our next antenatal classes and my gestational diabetes test next Wednesday

Well that is all for this week! 

Love from us (all 3 of us) xxoo 

Week 25

 

I can't believe I am PAST 6 months!!!  Time really has flown and in about 3 months we will be welcoming our precious baby girl into our world!!! I often lay awake while she is kicking and rolling around and imagine what I will feel when she is finally here and I can hold her close to me for the first time- my heart bursts with happiness and LOVE that I can only imagine will be amplified when she is actually in my arms and on my chest! I have so many vivid dreams lately that I feel like I get hardly any sleep- I dreamt I was giving birth this week and our baby girl had dark curly hair which is surprising snide both Nick and I were blonde/bald at birth!! We were at a Cafe this week and a group of friends were passing around a sweet baby girl and I couldn't help but smile at Nick- THAT will be us soon!! We both can't wait!!

This week I have a lot of comments at work about my bump finally growing- and I feel huge!!! I feel huge everywhere though- I think the lack of running (really the only exercise I enjoy) has made me squisher than usual so I am struggling to accept my not so tight body- but hopefully can start running 6 or so weeks after she is born. 

What is the baby up to this week? Her hands are fully formed now including her own individual fingerprints and this week her spine begins to take its permanent shape. She is roughly 1.5 pounds now!!

Maternity clothes? No new ones- just rocking my stretchy Thailand pants at home and my maternity jeans everywhere else!

Stretch marks? Nope!

Sleep: when I get enough it is perfect - but this rarely happens and I am usually exhausted after my 5am start at work and NEED a nap!! 

Best moment this week: we had antenatal appointment and heard her heartbeat again and had my fundal height measured- PERFECT!!! We have my gestational diabetes test at Week 28 when we will schedule our growth scan to check that my placenta is doing what it should.

Miss Anything? Iced coffee!! 

Movement: Her kicks and jabs have become so 'normal' that I am going to miss her being in there. 

Food cravings: Still apples.. The colder and crisper the better!!

Anything making you queasy or sick: Nothing this week

Have you started to show yet: YES!!!!! 

Gender prediction: no longer a prediction.... Sweet baby GIRL!!!!

Labor Signs: No!

Belly Button in or out? Innie!

Happy or Moody most of the time: So so happy!!!

Looking forward to: painting our baby girls room walls next weekend and getting it all cleaned for her furniture to come in the week after.

Well that is all for this week! 

Love from us (all 3 of us) xxoo