although I haven’t been on it for a few days, but the trousers that were sliding down last week are now almost too tight.  Time to move some of the interior buttons, me thinks!

Lots and lots of movement, which is great.  Just not at 3am!

Just under a week until the ‘big scan’.  And, no.  We are not going to find out gender.  We’ve decided to be surprised.

Not much else going on.  Board paper week, so I’m a bit busy at work.  Looking forward to the weekend.

And next Thursday week I hit the big 4 0.  I thought that number would bother me.  But it really doesn’t.  Maybe because of the baby? I certainly don’t feel, or apparently look, 40.

You can decided that for yourself next week, when I’ll post 20 week belly pics!  Almost 1/2 way there! YAYAYAY!

in terms of the pregnancy, is my age.

You see, in case you didn’t know, I’ll be 40 in, oh, about 12 days.  And as a 40 year old women having a baby? A lot of genetic risk factors increase.  Down Syndrome, for example, because I am 40, is an automatic risk of 1:100.  So for 100 babies born 1 will have Downs.

Now, some say, and I think they are right, that the numbers are a bit skewed.  That it really isn’t that more Downs babies are born to Moms who are 40, but that less babies in general are born to moms who are 40, so it looks like a higher risk factor.  So for every 5 babies who are born (for example) to women who are 20, 2 babies are born to women who are 40.  And for the 40 group, 1 of those babies will be Downs, but also 1 of those 20 year old babies will be Downs, but one of 2 is 50%.  1 of 5 is 20%.  (NOTE: those numbers are completely made up!!)

But, whether it is truly the age of the mother, or the fact that less of us have babies at my age, it was a worry.  A big worry.  A ‘OMG What do we do if the baby has Downs Syndrome’ panicky worry.

So I had a test.  Its called a Triple Test.  I had it 5th January.  I got the results yesterday.

Remember that automatic 1:100?  Well, my results were 1:1002.  My baby is fine.

I cried at the news.  And then had to go back into a meeting. 🙂

Oh, it also tests for Spina Bifida.  Apparently my odds for that are even lower than for Downs Syndrome.

Now if it would just be June already!

That’s what the baby moving feels like right now. Its so cool.

Successfully purchsed new underthings yesterday.  Not entirely attractive, but at least they fit!

Still having massive fatigue.  I’m waiting, impatiently, for the 2nd trimester burts of energy everyone talks about.  I don’t think I am going to get it.

Simon: I am going to empty the dishwasher, unless you want to do it.
Robyn: No, I am going to sit here on this sofa and relax and continue to make a baby.
Simon: You know, that excuse is going to get old in about 5 months or so.
Robyn: I’ll stop using it in around 5 months then, okay?
Simon: Deal.

I can feel the baby move quite often now.  And it sorta tickles!  And sorta feels like butterfly wings.  It is SO.COOL!!!

I think it is doing cartwheels.  Or maybe jumping jacks.  Perhaps I have a gymnast in the interior?

Slept badly last night but still need to sort the baby’s room so that they can get the bed out of there tomorrow.  So lots of books to haul around today.  And laundry to fold.  And need to figure out where the stuffed animal collection that lives on that bed is going to go.  I guess on the bed in the other spare room for now.  Some of the animals will decorate the baby’s room.

I have a rather extensive collection, actually.  The ones I know for sure that the baby is getting are: –

Charlie the dog, whom Simon calls Mr Snuggles

The moose whose name I keep forgetting, it might be Wilbur.

The two lambs the baby got for Christmas. I’ll let the baby name those!

I may use Francesca Isabella, my dragon, to decorate, but its not a good little baby lovey as it isn’t all that cuddely.  And I like having her sit on my nightstand!

And yes, I am going to be 40 in less than a month.  Does this mean I can’t have stuffed animals?

is that you forget things you knew or forget steps to things you’ve done a hundred times.  Or you’re just stupid at times!

Example.  Making meatloaf for dinner.  Almost forgot to put the mustard/ketchup sauce on the top.  I’ve made meatloaf 100000 times.

Example.  Talking at work.  R said ‘do you have blah’s email.’

I said, ‘my computer just crashed, I’ll look when it reboots.’

Computer reboots.

I say ‘ R needs blah’s phone number.’

R says ‘no email.’

I say ‘right, phone number.’

R says ‘NO EMAIL!!’

I knew she needed his email.  I just kept saying phone number for some odd reason.

So I hope the baby is enjoying my brain, since its eating it.

Oh and to answer Jodi’s question from yesterday’s comments, we don’t know yet if we’re going to find out the gender.  I really want to, Simon really doesn’t.  And maybe I’m coming around to his way of thinking.  Just don’t tell him, okay?