… and one more week until the third trimester and the end result, haven’t really made it a mys­tery that I haven’t enjoyed being preg­nant, I haven’t glowed, I just feel like mcfatty and felt unwell for most of it but I am so so excited about the end result, I can’t wait to have the baby here.  Hus­band is so excited and he gets to feel the baby kick all the time (we call it a her and by her name, but know­ing us the baby will come out with a penis!  But we still think it’s a girl). The other night he was try­ing to lis­ten to the baby by putting his ear to my tummy and she kicked him in the face, my lit­tle angel there!

Also seems like there is not only a baby boom off line but there is one on line can’t wait to see the babies   Now only if I could get my best friends to get preg­nant again (ha ha!), not long until my mater­nity leave which will be a god send (can’t really go into details of work unfor­tu­nately) 8 weeks to go! I am off on mater­nity leave on the 9th July! For a year and maybe longer who knows at this moment in time it is all up in the air, and won’t have a set plan until Octo­ber time.

I have been on hol­i­day this week which has been lovely, it was my hus­band and mine 5 year anniver­sary last Sat­ur­day and his 33rd birth­day on Mon­day.  Other than that we have been mov­ing the house around wait­ing for loft man to come and yes­ter­day we went to the zoo (hus­band is HUGE ani­mal lover!).

Can’t believe we are already 21 weeks along, baby is very active keeps kick­ing me now and then, nor­mally when I really need to pee.  Hus­band has felt baby kick twice in the last cou­ple of weeks, most of the time the kicks are too light to be felt on the out­side, we started feel­ing the baby mov­ing about 19 weeks.  It is a weird feel­ing like an alien mov­ing, ha ha!

We had our 20 week scan and baby is per­fect, every­thing is in the right place and every­thing is work­ing the way it should be work­ing.  We are still keep­ing it a sur­prise so we didn’t find out the sex, but we will be hav­ing a 4D scan at 30 weeks (just to see what it will look like not to find out if it has a penis or not).

And I have been buy­ing like a mad woman, here’s our to buy/brought list:

Update baby list

Brought

* 4 x HOODED BABY TOWELS
* Eas­idream Ewan the Dream Sheep
* Grobag Egg Room Ther­mome­ter
* Per­fectly Happy Peo­ple Widgey Nurs­ing Pil­low — Ani­mal
* Pam­pers Micro New Baby Carry pack — 24 Nap­pies
* Pam­pers New Baby Size 1 Carry pack — 27 Nap­pies
* Boots Essen­tials Change Mat blue
* Pam­pers Sen­si­tive + Aloe & Chamomile Baby Wipes 56
* Boots Baby Cot­ton Wool Pleats 200g
* Bepan­then Nappy Care Oint­ment — 50g
* Tom­mee Tippee Dis­pos­able Breast Pads 50Pack
* Tom­mee Tippee Closer To Nature Com­plete Starter Kit
* 6 dum­mies — Tom­mee Tippee
* dis­pos­able briefs for me
* More baby wipes
* Mid­dle Box Pop-In Nappy Kit
* Acces­sory Pack
* Cheeky Wipes Kit
* Breast Pump
* Tom­mee Tippee Closer to Nature Bot­tles 3 x 260ml with 0m+ teats
* boy baby clothes bun­dle 0–3 months dun­ga­rees vests sleep­suit 7 items
* New­born Baby­grows / Sleep­suits x3 (prob­a­bly more my mum and MIL have gone crazy­with buy­ing!)
* Tiny Baby Vests Bun­dle
* NEXT Uni­sex Bun­dle Of Baby Clothes
* Baby clothes 120 items
* Chang­ing bag
* Blan­kets
* Muslin squares
* cel­lu­lar blan­kets x2
* nappy bags
* mater­inty pads with wings
* Nip­ple pads
* lansi­noh nip­ple cream
* Baby bath
* pump and save bags
* Baby Groom­ing Set
* Sponge — 2pk Yel­low
* Baby Bath Ther­mome­ter
* Cat nets for cot & pushchair
* baby mon­i­tor
* bibs
* Scatch mitts
* nip­ple shields
* Pushchair/car seat
* Swing
* Baby play mat
* Mobile
* Bumbo
* Sun cream

To buy

* dark knick­ers
* nurs­ing bras
* Cot — http://www.bednest.com/index.php
* stair gate
* baby sling
* sun hats

For later
* BabySteps Healthy Snack Feeder Kit
* High chair

I feel like we are prepar­ing for an inva­sion, I guess we are in some way. Ha ha!

Okay I’ve got to go have a bath before I go round to my mother’s for din­ner, hope every­one is hav­ing a lovely Easter!

Wait? What? I still have sinusi­tis — come on! I went to my doc­tors again on Wednes­day morn­ing because the headaches are just too hor­ri­ble to deal with even more so when I work at a call cen­tre so I am on the phones all the time, he said I have a high tem­per­a­ture and the infec­tion is now behind my eyes… I told him that this spray just isn’t work­ing for me and I am hav­ing no relief, so I have stronger antibi­otics and nasal drops (which are as gross as they sound, I have to lay on my back with my head hang­ing over the bed while hus­band has to drop them in my nose, it feels like I am drown­ing!). I man­aged to bat­tle my way into work on Wednes­day and Thurs­day but by Fri­day (today) it was too much so I have gone sick to recover, I slept for ages this morn­ing and now just catch­ing up on bits and pieces before I lay on the sofa for the rest of the day.

We have a week until our 20 week scan, which is pretty excit­ing, we won’t be find­ing out if it is a girl or boy so that will be one big sur­prise when it is born, I am quite tempted to find out because I am just so impa­tient and we have been call­ing it a girl for the last 8 weeks or since we found out about her even we have no idea if it is a girl we still call her she and by her name we have cho­sen, I have a feel­ing it is a girl, but if it comes out with a penis I will be just as happy.  I’ll feel a bit bad for call­ing him her the whole 9 months but I am sure he will for­give me.  But there will be no find­ing out as hus­band is dead set against it so he says it will ruin the biggest sur­prise we will ever have, fair enough he is being cute, so it will be 4 months until we find out.

I have brought a few more baby bits and have been banned by my mother as we are keep­ing at her house until our house has been done up (we are sort­ing out the loft so no room any­where at the moment), as her spare room is now too full and she wants to dec­o­rate it in a few weeks, so I will have to wait to order the nap­pies, swing, pushchair, car seat, cot and other bits that I keep for­get­ting… We are quite behind on this buy­ing bit so I really need to get a move on maybe store some stuff at my mother in laws house.

I am off to sleep again, have a great weekend.

I did recover from sinusi­tis but then got it again and now my doc­tor informs me I will have it the most of the preg­nancy, what fun times ahead. I have tried the antibi­otics but they are not work­ing and now I have nose spray, which got stuck down the back of my throat this morn­ing and nearly made me throw up!  It’s been a crazy for week — just up and downs, and most of it I can’t go into (as it is regard­ing my own fam­ily) so that makes for a very short blog post.

Other than that I have just been work­ing and sleep­ing fol­lowed by some more work­ing, hav­ing peo­ple shout at me on a daily basis doesn’t do much for my con­fi­dence but hey ho I need the cash, but I have hit 18 weeks which is pretty excit­ing, nearly half way through!  I have my 20 week scan in a few weeks and I look­ing for­ward to see­ing how much the baby has changed.

I still haven’t felt any­thing which is a lit­tle dis­ap­pointed, we check the heart­beat every week and it is strong and healthy.. maybe the baby isn’t a mover but on scans and when we are look­ing for the heart­beat it is mov­ing like crazy.  Fin­gers crossed that it is soon.

My mother in law was nice enough to give us some pen­nies to buy baby stuff so will start on that once the cheque clears — like a cot, nap­pies, pushchair and car seat.

Hope every­one has a good week

Well I have recov­ered from my sinusi­tis (in the end I went to my doc­tor and was like help me! Turned out I had sinusi­tis and ended up hav­ing four days of work to recover) so I am feel­ing a lot bet­ter — well kind of, I don’t know if this is a preg­nancy thing but I had the most hor­ri­ble headaches, I’ve had one now for four/five days and it is dri­ving me nuts! I am going to talk to my mid­wife about it tomor­row when I have my 16 week appoint­ment with her.

Other news — nearly fin­ished my train­ing at work and will be going into my team at the end of next week which just ter­rify me a bit because I won’t have the sup­port like I have done and I really don’t how I will cope with­out as I just crum­ble when some­one starts yelling at me, I am mak­ing some but min­i­mum progress in try­ing to sort out next years PGCE teach­ing train­ing course and have con­tacted my trainer about defer­ring for another year since I am preg­gers, he has been so help­ful and is going to get back to me with details.  Work­ing where I am work­ing makes me realise how much I want to be teach­ing and not just doing a job just for the money, I want to help peo­ple or at least try.

But I have man­aged to get a bump pic­ture which I will now show off at 15 weeks as I keep for­get­ting to take them and I know I should as I don’t know if this is the only child that we will be able to have.

It feels weird to have a bump, still look­ing for­ward to it get­ting bigger!