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.
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 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?
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!!
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.
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
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
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!!
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.
Dear Baby
Less than 80 days to go!!
Mummy is firmly in the 3rd trimester now and, honestly, not really enjoying herself. She’s tired all the time, which is good practice for when you arrive, and her muscles ache. But she’s keeping her eye on the prize, which is you!
I haven’t said anything about how hard it was for Daddy and I to have you. You see, about 3 years ago now, he and I decided it was time to have a baby. Only Mummy was on some rather heavy duty medication for depression and anxiety at that time and in order to have you, she needed to get herself off of it. That took a year. And then, just as she was told ‘yes, go ahead’ she was told she had Type II diabetes. And she was told ‘no, wait!’
So Mummy worked very hard to bring her blood sugar under control by watching what she ate, and exercising some and losing weight. And then about 6 months after she was diagnosed she was told ‘Yes, go ahead!’ again. And then it took Daddy and I nearly 1.5 years to finally get you started.
So every day I say a little thank you. To God, or whomever, for letting us create you. I love you so much already.
This week you are about 26 cms long and weigh about 1.15 kilos. Your breathing is developing and everything!
29 weeks down. 11 weeks to go.
Love
Mummy