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What a Difference

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a good nights sleep followed by a 2 hour nap after being awake for a few hours can make.  I am think of taking a second nap in a bit.

And this is why I am counting the seconds until maternity leave.  Having a newborn is tiring enough without going into it with weeks and weeks (or in my case, months that go back to before I was pregnant) of bad sleep behind you.

4 more days of work and I am off.  And then I planning on taking my mornings to get things done and my afternoons to rest.

Or vice versa. 🙂

Baby is being very active.  And kicked really hard when its daddy sang silly songs to it yesterday! Simon liked that.

Also having some Braxton-Hicks contractions.  Which don’t hurt, but are kind of distracting and annoying.  Nothing like your entire stomach going rock hard to break your concentration!

And speaking of concentration…somehow managed to send the Board last September’s report rather than the one for May. Um…ooops?  And no one will let me forget it, of course.

Letter to My Baby – Gestational Age 33 Weeks

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Dear Baby

Mummy’s a day late this week because she was very very busy yesterday.

You see mummy starts her maternity leave in about 7 working days, so she’s been training her replacement.  She’s trying to dump 4.5 years of knowledge into someone’s head in about 2 weeks.  Just not possible, but she’s doing her best!

Also last night mummy and daddy went to their first antenatal class.  It was very informative about normal labour and birth.  Hopefully we’ll have one of those!

Mummy also saw her OB yesterday.  You are a bit big, coming in at the top of the charts and weighing 5lbs already, but no one is concerned yet.  The doctors will keep good track of you for the next 7 weeks and make sure you don’t get too big.  And you seem to have moved head down already, which is very helpful of you! Of course, you could move back and forth a few times in the next month and a half!

Mummy’s job is to keep track of your movements and let them know if you start moving less.  So far? Not a problem!!

7 more weeks my little love.  And then you’ll be in my arms.

Love

Mummy

Final Ikea Trip Today

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Bought some organization type stuff, including a box for toys for the front room.  Now we just need to put it together.

Work is really kicking my ass.  My replacement started Friday, so its non-stop training for the next two weeks.  Have you ever tried to dump 4.5 years of knowlege into someone’s head in two weeks?  Yeah, not going to be fun.

Baby is kicking and squirming constantly.  Its nice!

Tuesday is our first antenatal class.  I hope its useful.

And that’s  your Saturday afternoon brain dump.

Letter to My Baby – Gestational Age 32 Weeks

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Dear Baby

I’m afraid Mummy is still not enjoying the third trimester.  She exhausted, achy, bloated, nauseaus and cries at everything.

But she loves feeling you move about and, your newest trick, hiccuping!

She has less than 3 weeks until she’s on leave and then she can start giving into this nesting urge she’s having!

Daddy and I put the cot up this weekend, so you have some where to sleep.

Mummy’s friend gave her your car seat today, so you can be safe in the car.

Now she just needs to set up your changing table…oh and fold the mountain of laundry that is currently residing in your room!

This week your lungs are getting stronger and you might be upside down already, but I don’t think so!  You are about 28 cms long.  And making mummy’s tummy huge!!

8 weeks to go.  Still can.not.wait.

Love

Mummy

I Am Rather Frustrated

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I want to put the baby into baby sleeping bags, as opposed to sheets and blankets.  Its suppose to be more comfy for him/her and more peace of mind for me, in terms of SID and such.

Only the differences in price between them is mind boggling!

TK Maxx – £9.99.  But they only have 2.5 tog, which will be too warm, even in Belfast, in June.

Mamas and Papas – £30. YIKES!

Ikea – £20.  But so.very.ugly!

I have bought a few already, but would like some more!!

So if anyone knows somewhere I can get some nice looking, not too pricey baby sleeping bags, tell me, k?

Three More Weeks of Work

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and then I’m on leave.  I can.not.wait.

Not because I don’t like my job.  I do like my job.

But because I am just exhausted.

I know I will be even more exhausted once Little One arrives.  But I won’t have to be at work, interacting on some intelligent level with other people.  I can be at home, interacting at the lowest possible level with baby and Simon. 🙂

Being 40 and pregnant is not easy.  I have asked some women I know, who have had babies in their 20s and then in their 40s, if it was harder in their 40s.  Unanimously yes for during the pregnancy.  Unanimously no for after baby is here.  They all said that they were so much more relaxed about their babies at 40, it made the whole thing easier.

So, still tired, of course, newborns are exhausting, but not quite so anxious laden.

So the end is in site.

And then the fun begins!!

I Remember

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my brother telling me, when he saw the movie Monsters, Inc, that he had a hard time watching it because the little girl in the movie was too close in age with his daughter, and when she was scared in the movie, he felt so worried for her.  And I didn’t get it.

Now I do.

Opening sequence on Fringe tonight had a woman and her baby.  The woman winds up under a subway.  And the whole time, as it was building up, I kept thinking, no, not the baby.  I can’t watch a baby get hurt.

I also had a real problem with the scene in Watchmen where the pregnant lady got shot and killed.

And my baby isn’t even here yet.

They aren’t kidding when they say your whole life will change.

It already has.