It's taken a while to get here to update, for very good reasons. We have a son!


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We had the scan and it was absolutely fantabulous. We were scanned by a trainee obstetrician with a senior sonographer standing by to guide her so although we were only really there for a placenta site scan they did a full set of measurements, multiple times. We must have been in there for half an hour and it was just wonderful to see our baby up ( Read more... )

Time has flown. I suddenly seem to have found myself in that 'sick-of-this-can't-wait-to-give-birth' space, which given that I'm still three weeks away from being officially full term seems a little early. However, the SPD has taken a definite turn for the worse of late so moving around in any way is painful and there are suddenly all kinds of ( Read more... )

We're in the third trimester. How did that happen?

I have made a decision. Fortunately, P is with me on it, but it was one I made very definitely on my own. We are having an independent midwife ( Read more... )

Things are ticking along. Work has been mad recently which has left little time for baby thinking space, but things are progressing. I'm getting bigger by the day and for the last few days the baby has clearly settled in one position because whenever I sit down at the computer I get a flurry of kicks in the same place on the right side of my tummy ( Read more... )

Well, things are still ticking along here. I'm now twenty one and a half weeks and it feels as though I've gone through a sudden expansion in the last week. There is now no denying the babe within - s/he wriggles regularly and this week has kept me awake two evenings with a bout of furious activity just as I tried to go to sleep. My centre of ( Read more... )

We're coming up to 17 weeks now, and I'm finding myself beginning to think ahead to the day I give birth again. The last week has seen some big shifts in my thoughts and feelings, in good ways, helped along by a couple of very good birth professionals ( Read more... )

All continues to be well in our little family. Our daughter is very happy about the prospect of a new baby, although she keeps insisting that it must be a sister, and blue, so we may be in for a little, or a lot of disappointment down the track. I've started to feel some wriggling in there too. It's still very subtle, and I only tend to get it when ( Read more... )

Today we had our dating scan. I'd been getting a little nervous for a few days beforehand, even though we knew the chances of there being a problem were very slim. P was supremely confident and we were both quite pleased that E was coming with us. She was very excited about getting to see the baby in Mummy's tummy.

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