Stuff update

Not been doing very much of late what with it being so flipping hot & sticky. So here is a picture of the chest in the nursery:

We finally decided to go with the original curtains. You can kind of see them in the picture.

Here is a picture of the Stokke!!

Isn't it amazing?! I keep playing with it. Can't wait for the Turner Prize (as Auntie Maj calls it) to make it's entrance so I can put him/her in it!

I have another midwife appointment on Thursday so I'll write more after that. Work is becoming incredibly tedious & I'd like nothing more than to have started my maternity leave. I shall persevere for as long as I can so that I get more time with The Wiggler post birth. I get "foot in diphragm/ribs" quite a lot and "bladder punch" too which is an unusual experience to say the least. I shall be glad when I have my body back to myself again! Then I can sit without the feeling that something is stuck in my ribs, which it sort of is I suppose.

I sent Simon a Father's Day card from The Wiggler - he found it highly amusing. I'm glad he did because it took long enough to learn how to do speech bubbles on Photoshop without asking him for help!

Cheese-o-rama

It's my ELBOW at the top. Anyhoo...I'm off to be hot & sweaty away from the computer now.

Rant

I really have to rant about this.

All the literature I've read tells me to enrol in a yoga class or aqua-natal class or something designed for pregnant women. Also that going to pregnancy groups helps you feel better by talking about stuff and generally being around other women who are going through the same/similar things.

WHEN AM I SUPPOSED TO DO THIS???

I work full time (8am-4pm Monday to Friday). All the yoga/aqua-natal classes and mother & baby groups are held WHEN I'M AT WORK! "Pop along at 10.30am on Wednesdays" - that's no bloody good is it? Where are the evening ones, or is the assumption that we'll be so tired by then that we won't want to go. Work aren't going to give me time off so I can go are they?? They already give me time off for antenatal appointments.

The really frustrating this is I know that this stuff really will help. There are things that Simon just doesn't understand - how can he? He doesn't have a womb, or leaky nipples, or freakish inside tickling, or swollen ankles, or irrational mood swings. I can't even go out and drown my sorrows :-(.

I have 2 weeks maternity leave before my due date and there's a possibility that Wiggler might make his/her grand entrance early so that's even better! Can't even cram some in then. Although, I'll be so huge I probably won't want to get off the sofa.

It takes the biscuit and makes me MAD!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGH!

Midwife appointment at 28 weeks

Saw the same midwife today! Wooh! She measured my bump and said that it was 2cm bigger than it usually is at the point. My reaction was "oh no big baby", but Simon's was "ooh, early baby". So we'll see. Have another appointment on 25th July - should have blood test results then and measure bump again. She also signed my Health In Pregnancy grant form today which I shall post tomorrow. The Government is giving us money! £190 to be exact. Or, as a work colleague pointed out, the Government is giving back some of our money lol. That'll come in very handy as money seems to disappear in our house.

Developments in pregnancy:

My lung space is now greatly reduced; makes sitting/breathing comfortably quite difficult. Our sofa is also rubbish for being pregnant on, apart from the lying down bit :-). For sitting it's awful and gives me back ache :-(. Have seen a maternity pillow on the Argos website which will be purchased when it comes back into stock so hopefully that'll help some. Have been using large quantities of cushions for the time being.

Sleeping is getting more uncomfortable too. Lying on my side isn't great because my hips hurt after a while. I've found that tucking the duvet in under the bump so it sort of cushions it & pulls me back a little bit at the same time helps. It's all very complicated! Perhaps the maternity pillow will be helpful for that too?

Wiggler is very wiggly, for most of the day now! It really tickles! When it kicks/pushes me in the side it's really very tickly and quite weird. It makes it more bizarre because it's an inside tickle, so there isn't anything I can do about it! It also likes to kick me in the diaphragm, which is kinda weird.

Still no specific cravings, just getting more hungry. That is normal though as Wiggler is now mainly getting bigger.