29 weeks and 3 days pregnant – oh and a fire!

I know, I know, so much at being better at keeping the blog up to date! That really hasn’t panned out well at all has it? We’ve been really busy though, with work and trying to organise for baby’s impending arrival!

 

So, I’m now 29 weeks and 3 days pregnant. I’ve got quite a sizeable bump now I think, bigger than I was when I was this stage and carrying Abigail, although, they do say you tend to show more with your second and subsequent children. Things haven’t been all smooth running (of course) I ended up back in hospital a few weeks ago, and had to spend a few days in because the Dr’s thought I was going into labour. Fortunately everything settled down, and on the plus side, they did scan me again so we got to have another look at him! He’s really grown, it was when I was 26 weeks at that point, and they calculated his weight from the scan and he was 2 lb 7! How tiny is that? But it’s a good average weight apparently and they were really happy with his progress! But, since then, things haven’t been too bad, I’ve been very tired and quite achy but that’s to be expected. I had my Glucose Tolerance Test last week and thankfully I’ve not got pregnancy diabetes this time. So I think my consultant was right when he said the reason my blood sugars were high when I was having Abigail was due to the fact that they were giving me steroids to boost her lungs, because of the risk of her arriving early. However, I saw my midwife last week, she took some routine bloods and I’m rather anaemic now (which would explain some of the tiredness anyway). I’ve got to go for another blood test on Wednesday and I’m now taking 3 iron tablets a day! I can live with that though, if I had a choice between the anaemia and the diabetes I think I’d chose the anaemia to be honest!

 

We’ve actually started doing the nursery now too, I think both me & Ste realised that we hadn’t got as much time as we thought (with Christmas and everything coming up too) so we’re cracking on as much as we can now. It’s difficult trying to fit things in between me being at work and Ste’s shifts. But we’ve done the under coat of paint in the nursery and the other coat will be done by the end of this week. The new carpet is coming next Thursday and we went up to Babies r us the other week and bought all the curtains, light fittings, rug, bedding etc so as soon as the carpet is down we’ll get all that done. Then we just need to order the cot, which we’re doing at the end of the month. So, we are sort of getting somewhere now!

 

I’ve only got 3 weeks left at work now too, which is really great because it’s really tiring me out! Lol! I don’t know what I would have done if I was still working full time! I actually finish on 25^th November because I’ve had quite a bit of leave to take, so as well as finishing in 3 weeks, I’m also only doing 2 days a week for the remaining weeks! Lol!

 

Just want to say a huge Congratulations to my friend Jodie and her hubby on the birth of their daughter at the end of October – Baby Brooke May, she was only 5 lb 7 – how tiny is that! Seeing her and watching Jodie with her has made me want to meet my little man even more!

 

I think that’s enough about pregnancy and baby for now, I know I’ve rambled on a bit, but it’s such a big part of our lives it’s hard not to talk about it. Having said that, I’ve not really got much else to say! Lol! It was Halloween last week, which Abigail loved, I took her trick or treating with Ste’s sister, she dressed up as a Princess (she didn’t want to be anything too scary!) and we took them around friends and family’s house, they did quite well, got about £8 cash and LOADS of sweeties! Oh, guess what… our oven set on fire a fortnight ago… and I mean literally on fire! We had to have the fire brigade out and everything! Very scary! Apparently it just over heated but there were flames and the lot! Me and Abigail were upstairs, I’d just got out of the bath and Abigail was just getting in, so neither of us had many clothes on and I shouted to Ste is something burning (bearing in mind we’d got a pizza in the oven, but the oven had only been on 10 minutes and it wasn’t on very high or anything) and Ste checked and there were flames in the oven! Me and Abigail made a quick escape to Sue’s (where Abigail had to borrow some of Max’s pj’s cos she’d only got her dressing gown on) and we rung the fire brigade. Andy went up to help Ste and fortunately, between them they managed to get it under control after turning the gas and electric off. But still quite scary! So that was a bit of excitement for the whole street when there were 2 fire engines on the street. Abigail was quite excited too, she kept saying Andy and Ste were superheroes! Bless… it’s a good job she didn’t realise how bad it actually was, cos I think she’d had been scared every time we turned the oven on! Luckily, other than the obvious damage to the oven, there was nothing else affected in the kitchen, which I was really surprised about after how much smoke there was! So we’ve got a new oven and everything is back to normal – touch wood!

 

I’ll leave it at that for now, I’ll hopefully do another post from home soon and upload some pictures, but I’m changing my internet supplier at the minute and just waiting for that to be done. But as soon as it is, I’ll be back – Famous last words ay? XxXxX

I’ve picked my pram!

Me again folks…. Thought I’d treat you to a little update! I’m determined to be better at updating this blog! With that in mind, I have already updated my ‘About me’ page and intend to do a ’50 new things about me’ as well… So check those out!

 

First off… I’m now 23 weeks and 5 days pregnant, meaning I’m very close to being 24 weeks. This is an important milestone for me, mainly because, baby will then be considered ‘viable’, meaning that (god forbid) anything happens and I have to deliver early, every effort will be made to save him, as much as is possible! Obviously I don’t want this to happen, I want him to stay where he is as long as he needs to, so he is as healthy as possible when he arrives, but it’s nice to know, that should the worst happen, the Dr’s would feel it was as important as I feel it is, that he is given the best opportunity…. If that makes any sense? It’s hard to describe what I mean… I think anyone who’s had a baby will probably understand though!

 

Things seem to be going ok, pregnancy wise… I think I may have spoke too soon about the sleeping though (that’ll teach me for showing off that I was actually getting any sleep!) because, for the last week I’ve been very restless at night, and generally not sleeping, which is not great, but also not a complete surprise! I hope it doesn’t last for the duration of the pregnancy, but I’ve a feeling it might, I’m going to speak to my midwife when I see her next week, although I’m fairly sure there is little they can do to help. I’m wondering now though, whether I’m going to be able to work up to 36 weeks as I’d planned? I know I’m only doing 3 days a week, but even that can feel too much, when you’ve had no sleep. I guess I’ll have to see how I go and if it gets too much I might have to bring forward the start of my Maternity. We’ll see.

 

I had a very exciting day yesterday… I went and picked the pram! I’ve been flicking through catalogues and browsing the internet for the ‘perfect’ pram more or less since I found out I was pregnant and I’ve found it now! It’s the Silver Cross Sleepover Classic in Jet Sport and I LOVE IT!! I wanted something that had the traditional pram style but was also modern and would last. This fits the bill as it converts into a pushchair that can be used until baby is 3 or 4. Me and Ste are going back to the shop on Monday to order it and put the deposit down! Here’s a few pics….

 

       

 

I’m still really enjoying work. It’s nice to be back into the routine of going out to work and living in the ‘real world’ so to speak. Because I was off all summer holidays with Abigail we had nothing to get up for, so all the days kind of blurred into one a bit!

 

Speaking of Abigail, I’m having some trouble with school again. They’re going to town on the ‘Healthy Eating’ thing, which in theory is fine. But, in my opinion, they’re taking it a bit far! They’re now checking the children’s lunch boxes to see if the contents are deemed ‘suitable’ and keep chastising them if they take things which are not suitable. Now, firstly, I don’t want anyone checking Abigail’s lunch box, particularly to see what filling she’s got on her cob… I mean would you want to eat a cob if someone had had their hands round it checking what was on it? Secondly, I pack Abigail’s lunch, so I am more than aware of what she is eating, so why should Abigail be made to feel guilty or naughty for eating what her Mum has sent her? And thirdly, who are they to tell me what to feed my child? I send Abigail to school to learn and to be given an education, as far as I am aware I am still responsible for her health and well being. I mean,  it’s not like I send her with a lunch box full of crap! She takes 1 cob, a yoghurt, 1 packet of Walkers crisps, 1 small chocolate biscuit (like a Rocky or Penguin) and some squash in her pop bottle… What is wrong with that?? We’ve had letters home saying what we can and can’t send in their lunch which I think is just wrong! So I’m going to see the Headmaster tomorrow and have my piece with him! I’ve already had to go down once this term (and we’re only 3 weeks in remember) because the dinner ladies (who apparently think they’re some sort of mini-hitler) were giving the children on sandwiches 10 minutes to eat they’re lunch so those on dinners could get in the canteen, and I mean they were literally standing over Abigail shouting at her to hurry up, so Abigail was too scared to eat anything, for 3 days all she had at school was a few bites of cob and her yoghurt, they wouldn’t even let her have a drink!!! I know I’m not the only parent upset about all this… And I’m not prepared to let it lie!

 

Rant over for now I think… Better dash…. Ciao XxXxX

We’re having a boy!

Well hello again… Yes, contrary to how it may seem, I do still blog… Just rather occasionally! Lol!

 

What’s been happening since I last blogged then? I don’t know to be honest, it was too long ago! So I’ll just update you on what seems important for now!

 

We had my 20 week scan last week… And… We’re having a baby boy!!!!! I’m chuffed to bits, it’s nice cos now I’ll have ‘one of each’ so to speak. Don’t get me wrong, of course I would have been thrilled to have another daughter too. Anyway, everything was fine on the scan, baby is growing as he should be, which is fantastic, he had his hands over his face at one point, and when the sonographer was measuring his spine he was wiggling his bum, too cute! And the placenta is definitely where it should be, so it’s looking good for me not having to spend months in hospital and hopefully I should be able to deliver naturally, which I really, really want to do. I should find that out for definite in 2 weeks though, when I’m back at hospital to see my consultant! Had a couple of little set backs though, I was quite poorly last week and ended up being admitted to the hospital twice. The first time they couldn’t find anything, and put the pain I was in down to ‘growing pains’ which I think is just what they tell you when they don’t know what’s causing it, I was a bit annoyed at this, cos I wouldn’t consider myself to be a particularly mardy person, and I’ve been experiencing quite a lot of ‘growing pains’ more or less from the beginning, because of my scar from having Abigail by Caesarian and I knew full well that the pain I was in last week wasn’t that. So I went home and tried to rest etc as they advise, but it got worse, to the point where I was in agony most of the time. So last Saturday I rang the labour ward again, and they said to go in. When I got there, they realised I had, in fact, got a really bad water/kidney infection which explains the pain I was in! So I’ve now been on antibiotics for over a week (I needed a fortnights dose, because of how severe the infection was, and because there’s only certain types of antibiotic they like you to take when you’re pregnant) and I am feeling a bit better, slowly but surely. It did knock me off my feet, I was so tired last week, I felt like I did when I was about 10 weeks pregnant!

 

In other pregnancy related updates, baby is now moving more and more all the time! He’s got into quite a routine of when I know he’s going to be active and when he rests. Unfortunately, at the moment, he likes to start being active at around 10 pm so I’m struggling to get comfortable in bed. This doesn’t surprise me as I was exactly the same when I was having Abigail. I feel quite lucky to still be managing to sleep as much as I am, and believe me, I’m making the most of it! Because I suffered really badly with not being able to sleep at all when I was pregnant before. I think I am starting to look properly pregnant now, I was beginning to worry that I was never going to get a ‘proper bump’ and I was just looking like I’d put weight on around my tummy, but it’s definitely defining itself day by day! It seems to have come all at once though, one day a couple of weeks ago, I just woke up and there he was, poking out!! Lol! Ste came downstairs when he’d got up from nights and sort of did a double take of me and said ‘Where’s that come from like!’. Lol! I’ve been giving quite a bit of thought to the birth, as I think at my next midwife appt in a fortnight, we’re going to start going through my birthing plan. I’m very excited to do it naturally, but at the same time apprehensive cos although I’ve got Abigail, this will be the first time I go through labour. I’m quite worried about not knowing when I should be ringing the hospital etc, cos I don’t want to be the sort of person that rings at the first sign of any twinge or anything, if you know what I mean? I suppose I can raise all this with my midwife and she’ll be able to help with a lot of it. With regard to pain relief, I think I’m going to go for the gas & air and pethidine, but I really don’t like the thought of an epidural. I had the spinal block when I had Abigail and it really upset me that I couldn’t get up to her when she cried on that first night cos my legs were still numb, I don’t want that this time if I can help it at all! Again I can discuss it all with the midwife though can’t I?

 

I’ve started my new job now too, which could’ve been better timing cos I was still feeling really poorly and tired last week. But, I soldiered on, like the brave little girl I am! Lol! I started last Tuesday and I am really enjoying it! It’s so tiring though, getting used to being back in the routine of going to work! It didn’t help that Ste was on days last week so I was having to get up at 5 am to take him to work, so that I could have the car to get me to work! Fortunately, it was only for 3 days, I’m don’t think I could manage full time at the minute! Lol! I worked Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday last week, but my normal days will be Monday, Tuesday and Friday. I think I’m really going to enjoy the job. It’s a really friendly team and there seems to be plenty to do, once I learned how to do it all! They’ve been really good about me being pregnant too, I’ve sorted out a date to finish for my maternity, I wanted to work as close to my due date as I could, so I could have more time off with baby afterwards. So they’ve provisionally put my last day of work as the 19 December, which is only 13 weeks on Friday!

 

Abigail started back to school last week as well. She’s now in Year 2! I can’t believe it. She looks and seems all grown up. She’s 6 now too, it was her birthday at the end of August. I can’t believe she is 6, it only seems two minutes since she was a tiny baby and now I’m expecting another one! She came with us for the scan and she was soooo excited bless her. All along she’s been saying she wanted a little sister, so I was worried she’d be disappointed when we found out it was a boy, but she was thrilled! She came skipping out of the hospital singing “I’m going to have a baby brother”!! Which was lovely to see, I’m so glad she’s ok with it all!

 

Anyway, I better leave it there! Rambled for quite some time now haven’t I? I’ll try not to leave it so long next time!!

 

XxXxX

Back so soon…

Well it’s not been quite so long this time at least! I’ve got some good news on the job front. I went for an interview on Wednesday for a 20 hour secretary job in Chesterfield and they rung me Wednesday afternoon and offered it to me! I was slightly apprehensive at first because I hadn’t told them I was pregnant but I spoke to them today and explained my situation and the woman I spoke to said she didn’t think it would be a problem! So I feel very happy now! She did say she was going to check with HR and we’ll discuss it more when I take my health and CRB forms in on Monday, so I’ll know more then! It’s ideal though, with it just being 20 hours and it’s flexible. So as long as I work Monday and Friday (which is when they need me in the office) I can pick the rest of my hours. And it’ll be perfect for after baby is born too! It’s exactly what I wanted, so for me to actually get it, is quite amazing for me! Lol!

On the pregnancy side of things; I’m 16 weeks today and I’ve now started to feel baby moving, which is amazing! I’d forgot how good it feels, and how reassuring it is when you feel them fidgeting about, like just saying… I’m here mummy! I went to the midwife this morning to have the blood taken for the Downs Test, we should have the result next week. The midwife will get a letter on Friday and if it’s a high risk, she’ll come round to see me and arrange the amniocentesis (which obviously, I don’t want it to come to that) and if it’s a low risk, she’ll just send me a letter, so if I don’t see her on Friday, I think it’s safe to assume things are fine! She checked me out and everything while I was there, and we got to listen to the baby’s heart beat for the first time, which was amazing. Ste and Abigail were there too and it was a very special moment. We’d seen the heart beating on the scans obviously, but not heard it!!

 

Think that’s about all I’ve got to update you with, I’ll let you know about the job stuff next week… Still not found my dongle so can’t upload any pics yet!!!

 

See ya Soon XxXxX

Where Do I Start?

Where do I start? It’s been AGES hasn’t it? And let me tell you… Quite a lot has happened….

 

I’m not working any more for one… It’s a really long and convoluted story and I can’t really be arsed to go into it all to be honest. Basically there was some trouble with some of the other girls that I work with, it all got rather out of hand… So I left. Which, may seem a bit drastic, but it was all for the best. Me & Ste are financially stable enough on his wages to survive and we’d talked about me getting something part time anyway. I’ll still get a maternity allowance which works out at £117 per week for a maximum of 39 weeks which is better than nothing!! It’s a bit weird adjusting to being at home all day, but it’s nice cos I’m getting to spend loads of time with Abigail (especially now she’s broke up for 6 weeks) and I’ve been spending loads of time with Carly and her two boys two which has also been ace!! On the plus side, I’ve got an interview next week for a part time secretary post, 20 hours a week and someone’s rung me today about an admin job with Derby Police which sounds really good so fingers cross summat will come along soon!

 

On the baby front… I’m now 14 weeks and 5 days pregnant. I had my dating scan last week. That was really lovely, Abigail and Ste both came and it was amazing. We could see the baby jumping about and putting its hands on its knees! They’ve booked my detailed scan for 8^th September, when we’ll hopefully be able to find out what it is. I went to see the Consultant for the first time on Monday and I came away really reassured. He explained that when I had Abigail, they checked my blood sugar levels at 28 weeks as routine and everything was fine so he couldn’t understand why I’d suffered with the gestational diabetes. So he checked through all the notes from when I was actually admitted to hospital and it turns out that the diabetes starting coincided with when they started giving me steroid injections to boost Abigail’s lungs (in case she was born early) and that would be what caused my blood sugar to spike! So he’s confident that I shouldn’t suffer with the diabetes again. I’m booked in for a Glucose Tolerance Test at 28 weeks though, cos it’s better to be safe than sorry. The Dr also said it’s very, very unlikely that I’d have the low lying placenta problem that I had with Abigail, and I’d be very unlucky to get it again! So I’ve got to go back and see him again at 24 weeks after my detailed scan to make sure that everything is where it should be, and if itg is, which fingers crossed it will be, then I’ll be ok to have a natural birth, I’d just have to go and see the Dr again at 36 weeks to discuss the birth and the complications associated with having a natural birth after having a caesarean! So… I’m very optimistic that things will run a lot smoother this time… Or at least, more smoothly than when I had Abigail. I’m feeling much more relaxed now I’m past the 12 week mark, but I’ll feel even better when I’ve had my blood tests done for the Downs screening next week!!! I’m a lot less tired now (well, some days anyway) and after 4 weeks where I was sick, all day, every day and lost over a stone in weight, I’ve now got a little bit of my appetite back and I seem to have stopped being sick (touch wood)!  I’m starting to notice the physical changes now too… It’s not overly obvious that I’m pregnant yet to the outside world, sometimes, depending on what I’m wearing you can see a little bit of a bump though! Which, is quite exciting, and my stomach is hard now too.

 

I’ve got loads more to fill you in on, but I can’t really be bothered now! Lol! I’ll save that for another time… Here are some random pics though…. Including one of Baby Geraghty at 7 weeks… I’ve lost my dongle thing again so I can’t upload the scan pictures from last week but I’ll get them uploaded as soon as I find it!

 

See Ya XxXxX

 

 

 

Hello to Baby Brandon!

Just a quick update to let you all know… I’m an Auntie again! Carly had baby Brandon yesterday afternoon at about 15.45 pm and he weighed in at 7 lb 7! He’s absolutely gorgeous and they’re both doing really well… Should be home tomorrow. Here’s a pic, and a random one of me, Ste and Abigail all ready for the christening last Sunday!

 

See ya XxXxX

 

 

First Scan

I’ve had my first scan today!!! How exciting! My midwife rung me yesterday and said she’d contacted the Early Pregnancy Unit and they booked me in for a scan today! So Ste came up and met me at work and we went up. It was amazing, I was so nervous it was unreal! She said they’d do another pregnancy test to be sure and I really thought it was gonna be negative even though I’ve done four tests now that were positive!! But as soon as they started looking it came up and you could see the little heart beat straight away! It was amazing!!! It’s only a tiny blob at the minute… measuring about 10 mm!But its definitely there and everything is where it should be, and it’s all fine! I’m just over 7 weeks gone, about 7 weeks and 3 days they think, which would give me a rough due date of 19^th January next year. I’ve even got a couple of little pictures, even though there’s not much to see, it’s really nice! I’ve still got to go for my dating scan at around 12 weeks to give me a definite date, but my midwife will arrange all that when I go for my booking appointment. The EPU staff are also going to refer me to the Consultant because I suffered with Gestational Diabetes when I had Abigail (among other problems) so they’ve said it’d be best to be monitored so just got to wait for that appointment to come through. I’m quite pleased really because it means that I’ll be closely monitored throughout, which is really reassuring.

 

My sister is booked in to have her baby tomorrow, which is REALLY exciting!!! She’s having an elective caesarean because she had a lot of trouble when she delivered Alex so I’m definitely going to have another nephew tomorrow!!! Woo Hoo!! Me and Mum are going up to the hospital tomorrow evening to see them, but there’s only us and Drew’s mum going cos Carly will obviously be feeling a bit rough!!! I can’t wait to go though!!!

 

Other than that, life in general is pretty ok! Had a bit of a bumpy weekend with Ste (as Chelle knows) don’t really want to go into details… but he’s been in the bad books all weekend basically, but that’s sorted now and we’ve come to an agreement so no point dwelling on it! He’s all moved in now, he’s even on the Council Tax bill… so it must be official! And it’s going really well.

 

I’m not feeling too bad in myself, still fairly exhausted most of the time… I only walked round Meadowhall a couple of hours last week and had to sleep all afternoon to recover, and work is really tiring me out. I had last Thursday, Friday and Monday off so it’s my first day back today… It’s like 2.45 pm and I could literally fall asleep at my desk! But, on the plus side, still no real sickness! I’m still feeling sick some of the time, but not actually being sick!

 

I’ll try and get the scan pictures on here soon but got to get a new dongle thing first! Lol!

 

See ya soon…. XxXxX

I’m Pregnant!!!

Well, as the title suggests, I’m pregnant! Came as a bit of a shock at first, but we’re very happy now! Obviously it wasn’t exactly planned, seeing as me & Ste have only been together 3 months or so. We found out just over a fortnight ago and kept it to ourselves for the first week! I was more than happy to keep it a secret at least until we’d had the 12 week scan, but Ste wanted to tell his Mum, and once she knew, everyone did! So had to come out with it! Everyone’s been really supportive, they were all a little shocked at first, which is to be expected! I had sort of half suspected I was (don’t ask me how, I think sometimes women just know, particularly with me already having had one baby!) so when my period was late, I rang Ste at work and asked him to pick a test up. But he was on a 12 hour shift and I couldn’t wait that long! Lol! So off I nipped to Tesco! I picked up a two pack of clearblue, cos I wanted to be absolutely sure, and they can detect it even before you’ve missed your period apparently! I raced home and took one of the tests there and then, I sat on the toilet and watched as the little blue line appeared, and I was just speechless! I literally didn’t move for about 10 minutes! Lol! Then I rang Ste at work (again) and he said ‘Have you been and got the test’ and I said ‘yeah’ and he said ‘have you took it’ and I said ‘yeah’ again.. then he went ‘And….’ And I just said ‘yeah’ again! And he was on the other end of the phone going ‘what, yeah, yeah you are? You’re pregnant?’ and all I could say was ‘yeah’! Anyway, I took the second test the following morning, cos the first sample of the day is the strongest, and like I said I wanted to be absolutely sure. Neither me nor Ste had said much about it Sunday night, I think we were both in shock, and didn’t quite believe it, but the second one was positive too. I’d took it on my own in the bathroom, cos I was getting ready for work and Ste was still in bed cos he was on nights, and when it was positive I went and sat on the bed next to Ste and sort of nudged him to wake him up, I showed him the test, and he took it off me to have a proper look, then he started smiling, hugged me and started kissing my belly! It was a really lovely moment!! It’s nice, cos I didn’t have any of this when I found out I was pregnant with Abigail, I was happy eventually, don’t get me wrong, but initially I was terrified, didn’t know what to do and had to contemplate the fact that whatever I did, I would be doing it alone, cos her ‘Dad’ had left me! So it’s nice that we’re making plans together and we’re both excited and we’re allowed to be happy if you get me?

 

Speaking of Abigail, once we’d told all our immediate family, we decided it would be a good idea to tell her, in case anyone said anything in front of her. I had already had a little conversation with her about how she’d feel IF mummy had a baby, and she was quite excited and listing all the things she could do to help. So I told her, I explained that there was a baby growing in Mummy’s tummy and she just looked at me and said ‘I don’t think there is’ so I said, no there is, there’s a baby growing in Mummy’s tummy now and she said ‘no I really don’t think there is!’ It took me quite a while to convince her, I had to tell her that the Dr had said Mummy was pregnant, but it wasn’t until she’d rung my mum and she’d confirmed it to her that she actually believed us! She makes me laugh sometimes, cos she talks like someone far older than she actually is!! But she’s very excited now! And she even said that if it’s a little girl they’ll be sisters, but if it’s a boy, they will be siblings! What 5 years old comes out with that? Lol!

 

I’ve been to the Dr’s and had my pregnancy confirmed and everything, and they estimate that I’m about 6 ½ weeks gone, which isn’t far at all, I know! It’s going to seem like such a long pregnancy cos I was quite a bit further gone when I found out with Abigail, but it means they can look after us well in early pregnancy, and I can take all the necessary vitamins etc. I’m under the care of the Community Midwife now, and she’s arranging for me to be assessed at Early Pregnancy Unit next Monday when I’ll be 7 + weeks, as we’re not totally sure of my dates (I’ve been having some Gynae troubles anyway) and cos of all the complications I had with Abigail, she’s said it’s better to be on the safe side and have an early scan, which is fine by me!! Once I’ve had that and we know better how far gone I am, I’ll have my booking in appointment with the midwife, where we’ll go through all my history and everything (should be fun!).

 

I’ve been feeling quite well in myself to be honest, I can definitely tell I’m pregnant though, just by the fact of the sheer exhaustion I’ve be feeling! I’d forgot how tiring it is!! I could sleep for England, and have been at every available opportunity!! I’ve felt sick quite a bit, but not actually been sick that much, which is a bonus! And other than that it’s the usual, sore boobs, very frequent trips to the loo etc. Oh the joys of pregnancy!! Lol!!

 

So, in light of all this Ste has moved in! We had already discussed us moving in together, because Ste was living with his mum and needed somewhere to live and it made more sense for us to live together and split everything, than him run a separate house when he spends most of his time at my house anyway! Obviously now, it’s sort of forced our hand a little and he officially moved into my house this weekend. Not that it actually makes much difference, cos he’s practically lived with us for the last two months anyway!! Lol!! We had considered the possibility of us moving into a new house together, cos Ste was worried that he’d feel like he was living in my house, rather than OUR house, but he’s been spending more and more time with us, and staying there while I’m at work etc so he feels loads more comfortable, and like he said it’s pointless moving and doing a whole new house up, when we have better things to spend our money on (baby)! So the decision was made… I would have been happy either way, cos obviously it’s important that we’re both happy, but I have to say I’m glad we’re staying, cos I love my house!! Lol! And we’ve been looking at new furniture, and we’re going to decorate it to make it ours anyway!

 

Only other bit of news is… Chelle’s asked me to be Oliver’s God Mummy, when he is christened in August! I’m so proud and honoured and excited, so of course I said yes! It’s nice, cos Chelle is Abigail’s God Mother too….! So thanks again for the privilege mate… it really means the world to me!!! Mwah XxXxX

 

Anyway, rambled enough now, and I ought to get some work done really! See ya!

 

 

 

Hmm… Relationships are more difficult than they look!!

Hi Guys… It’s been a while again hasn’t it… It’s all this having a life malarkey, I’m too busy to blog! What’s that all about!

 

Life in general is still… wait for it… good! I’m not saying I’ve been persistently happy since I last blogged cos there’s been a couple of ‘blips’ but overall I feel great!

 

Me & Ste (new fella has a name you see) are still seeing each other. We are now officially a ‘couple’ apparently… We had this discussion the other week, cos we’d been seeing each other a month and I think we both felt it was time to sort of define what was happening. Cos we’ve spent so much time together, you can’t really say we’re just casually going out and that. So we both agreed that we were ‘together’ properly, in that we’re not seeing other people (which is great to be clear on after the twathoop saga)! It’s crazy how soon you get used to having someone in your life though, my whole way of thinking has changed really, I’ve now got to consider someone else when I’m making my decisions (obviously I’m used to this with Abigail, but it’s a different thing really). Also, normally I’m a fiercely independent person, and I love having my own space, but he’s been staying at my house over the weekends (when he’s not been working) and it’s really hard to get used to him not being there in the week!! So all in all things are good there… I’m not gonna sit here and say after 6 weeks that we’re in love and never gonna split up and all that, cos that’d just be crazy! But I think things are as good as they can be for this early on! The sheer fact that I’m not bored is a good sign!! As anyone that knows me will appreciate! Lol!!

 

We’ve had a couple of ‘moments’ though, we had our first ‘proper’ argument on Saturday! We’d made plans to spend the day together, but then I remembered that I was supposed to be taking Abigail to my little cousins birthday party 2 – 4 pm. So I said to him why don’t  you go to the Club (cos some of his mates were in watching the football) while I go to the party, then I’ll pick you up and we’ll go out for some tea, so we agreed on that. I rang him when I was leaving the party, he was fine, said he’d be ready. I got to the club and he got in the car, and I could tell he’d had more than a couple of pints straight away, and he’d got arse on cos he’d ‘had’ to come out the club! So we set off in the car, and he’s winding me up more and more with little comments about how he wished he could’ve stayed and all this, til I lost it and just said do ya wanna go back then? So he said yes! I couldn’t believe it, we’d made plans and he was changing them to go to the shocking club! I was driving his car, and I cos I was quite annoyed, I was driving like a crazy lady! So then he starts saying in the car ‘oh I tell ya what I’ll never see my friends again’! I really don’t think I’d said that, in fact I’m fairly sure it was me that suggested he go to the club in the first place! Anyway, he wanted me to drop him off at the club, but I was that angry at this point that as he went to get out the car at the club, I put foot down and parked up at my house so he had to walk (no big hardship as the club is literally a stones throw from my house but still)! And he stomped off to the club! It’s quite funny when I think about it now, but it wasn’t at the time! We did make friends later on, he came round to my house at 7 pm cos we’d got plans for my sister to come round for a takeaway! He was quite drunk though, so we couldn’t really talk about it properly that night, he went to work from my house Sunday Morning, and he rung me when he got there and apologised properly, he said he’s realised that I didn’t actually do anything wrong Saturday afternoon and that it was him that was out of order (which I knew anyway!)! It was only something little though, and I suppose it’s normal for people to argue, I think it’d probably be a bit strange if we didn’t really don’t ya think? 

 

The biggest thing at the minute though is his ex. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned what happened, but they’d been sort of split up since Christmas and she was staying in Liverpool (which is where she’s from), then they were gonna give it another go and she came back up for a bit but he found out that she’d been seeing someone else for about 4 months! The day after I met Ste, she came up to the village, loaded all the furniture from their house into a van and took it to Liverpool (I might just add that it was all Ste’s furniture that he bought and paid for!) Anyway, I think now she’s realised that she’s made a mistake and is now regretting it, cos she’s been sending him messages from her kids (their not his!) pulling on his heart strings, and then she sent him one last week saying can you tell your girlfriend to stop texting me…! I hadn’t text her, she was just making out! She told him I’d told her that me & Ste had been together 4 months.. why would I lie about that?? I didn’t even know him 7 weeks ago!!! Then she text him 10 times last Friday saying that I’d rung her! I haven’t even got her number!!! Fortunately it didn’t cause any trouble, but potentially it could’ve. Then last week she text him saying she still loved him!!! Ace or what? Anyway this has really bothered me over the last week or so, which I think it would any woman, or am I wrong in thinking that? You tell me ladies, if you was in a new relationship, and the fella’s ex was texting him anything up to 10 times a day, saying she still loved him and she was remembering the good times they had, oh and the other classic was when she text him and told him to listen to Leona Lewis new song Footprints in the Sand cos it made her think of them two together…Would that bother you? It’s made me feel quite insecure, and has caused a bit of bad feeling between me and Ste, cos I’ve been quite arsey about little things, cos I’ve got it into my head that she’s gonna get to him, and he’s gonna go back and I’ll be the one left on my own for a change!

 

We have sorted that out now, I spent a lot of time thinking yesterday, and I came to the conclusion, that me being all insecure and slightly crazy is not helping the situation at all! In fact it’s more likely to send him packing! It don’t help that I’m struggling with my other shit at the minute, I’ve not been sleeping and the ‘anniversary’ is coming up in 3 weeks again! And so called friends are getting involved and causing trouble!

So I made a decision to not let my usual insecurities ruin something that could potentially be quite good! And last night when he came round last night, we had an ace night and it was dead relaxed and we had a laugh, and it was how it was last week, before I started letting everything get to me! Plus she’s not text him since the weekend, which has eased my mind a little!

 

Anyway… I’ve waffled on a bit now! Looking forward to the Liverpool v Chelsea match tonight, think it might be a bit of a nail biter though! I really hope we can beat them! We’re going out to watch it cos it’s on Sky, so it should be good, Abigail’s sleeping at mum’s so I get a night off!

 

See ya Soon XxXxX

Happiness

Shockingly, life’s still going fairly well for me! We’re pushing a fortnight now where I’ve been relatively happy!

 

Things still seem to be going well with the new man in my life! He came to my house after work on Friday and I was really excited to see him, how weird is it that I miss him when I don’t see him when we’ve only known each other 3 weeks?

 

We went to the zoo on Saturday and had an absolutely lovely day! Abigail properly LOVED it! She was so excited, she was running backwards and forwards round all the animals like a crazy lady! It was lovely to see her enjoying herself so much! I know I don’t tend to blog about her an awful lot, which is a little weird cos she’s the biggest and best thing in my life! She’s 5 now (going on 50 I think sometimes) and she’s a proper little character. She had me and the new fella marching around the zoo following the map and everything! All in all we had a lovely day, Abigail said her favourite bits were seeing the Giraffes, penguins and Meer cats (she even gave us an impression of a meer cat… so cute!) and because she’s been such a good girl he bought her a teddy giraffe from the gift shop (she’s called it Baby Giraffe) which she thinks is the best thing since sliced bread!

 

Saturday night, Abigail went to bed fairly early cos she was wiped out from running around all day so Jodie and Jez came round and had a drink with us (obviously Jodie didn’t cos she’s pregnant)! It was a right laugh, funny how you can have such a good night just sitting in the house and chatting! Jodie and Jez ended up stopping cos Jez wanted a drink so obviously couldn’t drive home, so the fun continued Sunday morning! Mum had arranged with me to take Abigail to see Bob’s grandkids and then go out for some dinner so we all decided we’d take the opportunity to go out for some dinner too! It was really nice again, and we continued to have a laugh! I’m really enjoying the fact that we’ve got lots of plans just lately and I’m seeing more of Jodie than I have for a while. I don’t know if it’s just the fact that I’ve got this new man in my life, or with it being lighter at nights and the weather (sometimes) being fairly decent, but I feel loads happier and have more energy than I’ve had for ages! Even Sue said she’s noticed a difference in me, she says I look really well and I’ve got a sparkle in my eye!

 

He came round again last night to watch the football, we got some drinks in and Abigail was all ready in her full Liverpool kit! She actually learned last night that a football match has two halves cos I normally send her to bed at half time cos of school, but she’s off this week so I let her stay up! We settled down to watch the match and what a match it was! Went on the full range of emotions, as I always do with Liverpool’s European games! I have to say Arsenal played us off the park for the most of the first half, but I think we started believing again after Sami Hyypia’s astounding header! Then Torres scored another blinder and I thought we were fairly safe at that, but no, in another twist Theo Walcott made an amazing run from one end of the pitch to another and Arsenal equalised, meaning they’d go through on the away goal. Until, Toure brought Babel down at the other end and Stevie G buried the penalty, then just to finish it of Rafa brought Babel on and he made a stunning run to score again. Meaning the score was 4-2 on the night and 5-3 on aggregate. That means we’ve set up yet another Champions League Semi Final with Chelsea for the third time in 4 years!! Not too worried about them like, we won both of the last two!! I’ve been reading the press today and I’m sick of hearing how ‘lucky’ Liverpool were, and how it wasn’t a penalty but the one Arsenal didn’t get last week should have been… blah blah blah, at the end of the day, the penalty was awarded this week, it wasn’t last, and Liverpool won on the night… no amount of moaning and complaining about the ‘injustice’ is going to change that! Keep hearing how ‘lucky’ Liverpool are in Europe… surely their European record for the past 4 years speaks for itself…? Here’s some pictures from another amazing night at Anfield….

 

 <— Babel after scoring 

 

 <— The amazing fans

 

 <—- Torres burying his goal

 

 <—- Sami Hyypia after his goal

 

I’m hoping for more progression with my Psychologist lady tomorrow… Then I’m off work Friday and Monday cos Abigail’s off school so looking forward to spending some time with her! I’m going to move all the furniture round in my bedroom tonight cos I’m in the mood for a good fettle and clean up!

 

See ya soon guys n gals XxXxX