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.