24 and a half weeks

I just realised this morning (when I woke up at 5.30 am and couldn’t get back to sleep) that I only have about 11 more weeks at work. I’m currently going through the process of coming to terms with the change I’ll be making by choosing to stop working – not just take maternity leave but 100% stop my current career and start something new. Not to say that I’ll never do paid work again, but at this point I’ll be free to decide what and when that is.

Anyway, this morning I went online to buy my cousin a gift for her baby shower from the site she’s registered at and realised after looking at their handy checklist that OMG!I don’t have anything for the baby and he’ll be here in just over 15 weeks..

ok, so we do have a pram, a car seat and a change table as well as some miscellaneous clothing items and towels that have started to appear from family and friends but not ALL the essentials.

I’m going to have to get busy…

 

ETA: I feel as big as a house already on my tummy and still have 3 months to go, but I have started going to Preggi Bellies exercise classes.

what week are we again?

I think I’m 18 weeks, but I’ve lost count in the last few hectic weeks. Suffice to say though that we’re having the 19/20 week scan next week – squee!

So all’s going well aside from a very nasty cold that hit both myself and thehusband.  The morning sickness has pretty much gone, only slightly queasy now and I can last 5 minutes after getting up without eating breakfast immediately. I’m starting to get rounder too, though I haven’t put on much weight, I’m still only about what I was when I got pregnant, so I guess the baby is eating all the condition I had on before then But I am feeling better – I was given antibiotics for my cold and they have kicked in, and this morning I even went for a walk!

I can feel the baby moving now – at first I wasn’t sure if it was the bub or if it was me but I’m pretty sure it’s the little tiger doing somersaults.

Mum has been asking if we’ve bought anything yet and finally on the weekend we started looking at baby stuff. We bought a change table from Ikea and also a baby name book. We had a look at cots and also prams.

What else…we’ve booked the hospital, saw the obstetrician a week ago again and all was fine…. will post after next week’s scan.