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Letter to My Baby – Gestational Age 31 Weeks

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Dear Baby

Well, Mummy is deep into the 3rd trimester now and is very very tired, very very achy and still feeling very sad. Thinking about you, and feeling you move, is making her feel better all the time, though.

I got to see you today at my Antenatal appointment.  Very blurry, but I could see you have a nose!  Which is good, noses are very important!

Mummy has also decided to really try to go off her meds now.  She has been weaning herself off of them and not sleeping too badly when she doesn’t take one.  Considering that I wake up several times a night anyway, when you roll over onto my bladder, the meds just don’t make enough of a difference to keep up the risk to you.  So I am going off of them.

According to the book, your brain is getting more and more active.  Don’t know what you have to think about, but you’re thinking about it!  You are about 27.5 cms, and according to the scan today, you weigh about 4 lbs.  I really want to know how they can tell that by a 2d scan!!

Mummy only has about 3.5 weeks of work left and then she’s off for a whole year.  She is very much looking forward to her year with you.  Just me and my baby! (that’s you. 🙂 )

Only 9 weeks to go.

Love

Mummy

Wow, I Did Lots Today!

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Haircut at 9.

Boots the Chemist, Waterstone’s Books, Marks and Spencer’s for food, Sawyers for other food, Smithfield Market for a poke around, Debenhem’s for frying pan and sheets, Tesco for yet more food.  And then home.

I was so tired, I took a 3 hour nap this afternoon and am nearly ready for bed now at 10 to 9.

In other news..

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEFF AND SARA!!

On Speaking The Language

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I was IMing with my mum the other night and she asked me if I used UK spellings by habit or because I knew I had to.  I told her that at this point? Its habit.

So its mum. And cheque. Not mom.  And check.

I also say tomahto, not tomayto.

And cheers rather than thanks.

And ‘what’s the craic’ rather than ‘what’s going on’?

And I think I upset my father when I called the tax form I was asking him about the 2555 E Zed.  🙂

I do live in the country, after all.  I should speak the language!

I Think The Hardest Part of Being So Big

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here in my 3rd Trimester is not the aches or the tiredness, those are normal for me.

Its losing my sense of balance.

I spent 20 years of my life, off and on, training for ballet.  Granted, that was about 20 years ago, but I never really lost my sense of my own balance.  Until now.  I have to think before I move to see if I am centred so I don’t fall over!! Its very disconcerting.

So how big am I?

30 weeks

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BIG!!!

Letter to My Baby – Gestational Age 30 Weeks

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Dear Baby

Well, look at that!  Truly the home stretch now, 10 weeks to go!!!

Mummy and Daddy went and bought your cot this week.  Now we just need to put it together!

This week has also seen Mummy struggling a bit with her blood sugar, which is totally to be expected at this point.  That placenta of yours is just sucking all her insulin right up, in order to keep your blood sugar under control.  Mummy has also had heartburn return worse than before.  She is not enjoying the third trimester at all right now.  But she knows it will all be worth it when she holds you in her arms.

As for you, little one, you weigh about 1.3 kilos and are about 27 cm long.  These next four weeks you will add lots of fat and fill out a lot, until you really look like a baby!  You are also being very very active.  All.the.time.  Although Mummy still appreciates that you seem to sleep when she sleeps!

Mummy and Daddy are still thinking about names.  Hopefully we’ll have one by the time you make your appearance!

Love

Mummy

It Has Become

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abundantly clear to me that women must forget the ‘joy’ of the 3rd trimester in order to have more kids. Because right now? I am leaning towards this is the only time I am doing this.

I ache in places I have never before, and hopefully never will again, ache.  I can’t reach my feet to put on my shoes or slippers 99% of the time.  Last weekend’s leg shaving and toe nail clipping extravaganza?  Not gonna happen again!

Getting off the sofa requires a team effort and a strong hand from Simon.  I can get out of straight backed chairs and my office chair.  But the sofa has nothing to push against!

And the best part?

I still have about 10 weeks to go.

Eye on the prize Robyn.  Eye on the prize…

5 Day Weekend – Day 1

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Plan – Lie on sofa and do nothing.

Mission accomplished. 🙂

Blood sugar has gone pear shaped right on schedule.  Not dangerously so by any stretch of the imagination, but out of the ranges they want to see.  So I’ve been on the phone a lot with the Diabetic Nursing staff.  They are really wonderful.  Always listening to my concerns and addressing them.

I know the baby is fine, since its latest trick is to stretch in all directions at once (doing jumping jacks perhaps?) which feels very weird.  But a nice weird!

I can’t believe I am nearly 30 weeks.  Not long now!!

So I Was Asked Today

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If I was ‘in the family way’!  By a woman who is very very high up in an organization I deal with.  It was so cute!

Tomorrow starts 5 days off in a row, due to Easter Monday and Tuesday.  My plans?  Well, tomorrow I plan to stay in my PJs all day and doze on the sofa while watching a movie.

Saturday I am sure will be the usual shopping trip to City Centre with Simon.

Sunday will pretty much be a repeat of Friday.

As will Monday.  With maybe some baby room organizing going on because…

Tuesday is buy baby furniture day!  Simon and I have a date to go to Ikea and actually purchase the furniture we picked out a few weeks ago.  And then, since he’s off all next week, it will Simon’s job to put it together. 🙂

Sounds like a blissful long weekend to me.