Getting ever closer

[nonbiomum]

We saw our midwife this morning. According to the size of my bump and the personalised growth chart that the hospital worked out for me, this baby now weighs something in the region of 5lb 9 oz. When I was born at 36 weeks, I weighed 5lb 7 oz, so if the charts are accurate, this baby has now outgrown me, in a manner of speaking at least. Our

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[bi_dancer13]

I must admit i did the same thing with regards to thinking of P as the other bio parent towards the beginning bit of your pregnancy when you said something about how they don't automatically recommend you avoid eating peanuts unless you have asthma/excema/allergys running in the family and i had to stop myself from saying "but what about P's allergys would they not increase the risk" and was glad when i quickly realised what i had thought as i knew then it was so ingrained already in my head this baby really is a creation by the both of you, genetics don't really come into it.

Yay baby soon! *bounce*

[nonbiomum]

Yeah, most of the time it feels like that to me too, though I do get moments where it seems to dawn on me that the child I'm carrying is biologically half of someone that ultimately I don't know very well. I'm sure moments like that will crop up in the future too. For example, I'm sure this baby will have some physical characteristics of our donor's, possibly a lot, but we don't actually know what many of them they are. I've never seen his feet, or his knees, or anything other than his face and his hands, and I only have some knowledge of the way he moves/walks and other physical characteristics. I guess we'll be able to identify them as 'things that don't come from me' once the child is born, but I do find it sad that we won't be able to see things that 'come from P' in the early days. I'm sure her influence will mean the child will pick up characteristics from her as time goes on (I do wonder if s/he might end up with something of her accent) but I imagine they'll take time to establish

[redtoffee]

Yay thats amazing i cant believe how close it was getting? What accent does P have that this child might pick up? Im so excited for you guys!

Laura
~X~

[nonbiomum]

Heheheh, yeah it is getting close. P's accent is black country through and through. :)