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Happy 7 months to my lit­tle babe, can’t believe she is already 7 months — feels like I just blinked and now she’s a lit­tle madam — full of per­son­al­ity — loud I’ve never known for a baby to be so lou

Ive just been find­ing ways to enter­tain her and get her on a sched­ule for naps and bed­time, we have the bed­time rou­tine in but she is still wak­ing in the night nor­mally twice a night.

Lately she has learnt to sit unaided, copy­ing, eat­ing solid food with bits and is able to put her dummy back in. No fur­ther on crawl­ing she’s just not inter­ested being on her tummy.

Me on the other hand still on anti ds and still suf­fer­ing from anx­i­ety, it feels never end­ing I know it will do I just need to be kind to myself. Just this is hard as every­one always comes before me, I’m try­ing to rest and have decided to take the rest of the year of with Lilith, we can afford it by drop­ping our mort­gage and help of ben­e­fits plus savings.

I’m away be next week with lil to my dads in scot­ty­land, it’s a big thing for me as I will be alone with lil on the plane I’m really scared but excited to see my dad & family.

Well I have been on mater­nity leave for about 3 or 4 weeks now and we have reached 39 weeks, baby is still no fur­ther engaged then it was 4 weeks ago so it is just a wait­ing game.  Really enjoy­ing mater­nity leave been catch­ing up with friends and my fam­ily, organ­is­ing the house and mak­ing sure every­thing is ready to go!

I have now packed my bags ready to go to hos­pi­tal — one for labour, one for baby and one for me after­wards, I am hop­ing to stay at home as long as I can as hos­pi­tals freak me out! And I wasn’t overly impressed by my local hos­pi­tal when I was hav­ing hor­ri­ble dizzy spells and had to go in, my mid­wife has been really sup­port­ive and said if she is on shift she will come and check me at home.  I also have a scary meet­ing with my fer­til­ity spe­cial­ist Wednes­day as mine doesn’t like clo­mid preg­nancy to go past 40 weeks and likes to induce moth­ers but I don’t want to be induced and my mid­wife said there is no need for me to be induced and she will do a sweep this Fri­day so as I need to sup­port as I have no balls in stand­ing up to peo­ple I am tak­ing my mum with me as hus­band has to work.

My baby’s bednest is now up — for co sleep­ing it should last the first 6 months then we will buy a proper cot but I think it is really cute. Also been work­ing on my belly book of my bump pic­ture for each week — it was brought for me by a friend on a forum I post as I love it and man­aged to get it fin­ished last week. We also did a belly cast so we can remem­ber how big I was

So that has pretty much been the last few weeks — just going to appoint­ments — tak­ing hus­band to appoint­ments (he had his wis­dom tooth removed and then had an MRI for his back which came back clear) and spend­ing time with my broth­ers mostly as one has come back from uni­ver­sity and the other is on school holiday.

Happy 39 weeks to me and hope­fully the next post should be when the baby is here! Eeek!

I say this because I have spent the last hour look­ing at mops and food proces­sors on the inter­net, and not only that but drool­ing over them, like I would of done for shiny new shoes.  I just really want a steam mop, don’t know if this is down to nest­ing or what but I want to make every­thing really clean and my old mop is just rub­bish, I feel like it is just mov­ing dirt from one end of my kitchen/bathroom to the other! I will have to buy one on pay-day which is in about a week!  I will of course report back.  My hus­band thinks I am going a bit nuts but it keeps me entertained.

Excit­ing news this week is that loft man is com­ing (not a super hero but a man to do the loft) and I can’t wait for the loft to be boarded at the moment only half of it is done so yes­ter­day we took all the stuff down and now my bed­room looks like an episode of hoard­ers, I swear I didn’t realise how much junk I have! I am going to go through all the bin bags worth of clothes most of this stuff doesn’t fit me and will prob­a­bly never fit me again.  So loft man is going to do the loft, plus build some other bits and pieces in the house.

Other than that I have my baby shower this week and I am really excited, my best friends have been plan­ning it in secret so I know noth­ing of what is going on, will take my cam­era with me, it feels a bit unreal to be hav­ing a baby shower after try­ing for so long, bit like a dream.

I am also get­ting addicted to paint­ing my nails as I can’t do much else while preg­nant, and I am lov­ing model’s own nail pol­ish, these are my new ones from the last month.

Took me ages to find these last ones as they are spe­cial lim­ited edi­tion on the InStyle mag­a­zine, they are nor­mally £11 each so I man­aged to get all three for £10 and gave the other two copies of the mag­a­zine to my mum and mother in law.

I am back off to clean, hope you all have a super week.

Merry Christ­mas every­one! It’s been a busy cou­ple of weeks been in and out of hos­pi­tal with a cyst caus­ing me pain on my ovary so that is being mon­i­tored at the moment to make sure if it does get big­ger than it will have to be removed. So I am off the clo­mid for the time being, it’s nice to have some san­ity feel­ing back.

Other than that we have been dec­o­rat­ing the house and recov­er­ing from a cold which I caught from the hus­band. I am so excited for Christ­mas, can’t wait to see my fam­ily. My brother is home for the week from uni­ver­sity, my step-dad is home from Spain where he has been teach­ing and my uncle and aunt are over from Zurich. Big old fam­ily affair!

I did get a chance to do some bak­ing for my husband’s work, Christ­mas tree cupcakes.

These were fab! I made some much icing that I had to freeze it but will use it again on more cup­cakes as it was fab but­ter­cream icing even if I do say so myself.

Hope every­one has a great Christ­mas day!

Yay it is up! Nearly Christ­mas so excited!  Are your trees up?