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!!

 

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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