This pregnancy is really ticking along. Our midwife has said that, depending on other health factors she'd probably be willing to consider me full term from 36 weeks. That's just over 4 weeks away. Although I have no expectation of having this baby early the thought that it could be so soon feels strange. Exciting and terrifiying. I was born at 36 ( Read more... )

All of a sudden, this pregnancy has become harder. It seems that the bump has expanded quite dramatically in the last week or so. It hasn't in any real sense, but its shape has changed - I'm guessing something significant has shifted internally with regards to where all my bits and pieces and this large melon of a uterus fit together. It feels a ( Read more... )

I am sitting here, soon to go to bed, with an extremely active baby in my belly. In the last few days s/he has been moving so much more than usual, and in new ways. I was getting used to having small feet pummel my ribs on my right side, as for the last few weeks this seems to have been the position the baby has been settling in. S/he still seems ( Read more... )

My, doesn't time fly when you're having fun? A whole month has passed and it feels as though we've barely blinked an eye. I'll have given birth before I know it at this rate.

And that time is beginning to feel a little closer. I am increasingly feeling huge, and just in the last week I've reached the point where I'm extremely aware that there's ( Read more... )

We had our scan, and it was amazing! We saw the brain, the chambers of the heart, the fingers and toes and arms and legs, the beautiful face... it was just lovely. We didn't ask the gender and as far as we can tell the sonographer didn't even look  - the baby was in an awkward position for pretty much everything apparently and the whole thing took ( Read more... )

Somehow, we seem to have made it to 20 week pregnant. We're half way through, according to the system that we're counting by anyway. Actually, we've only known for 16 weeks and we've another 20 to go so its not quite halfway in terms of our own experience, but hey, 20 is a nice round number and it seems to count for a lot as far as the medical ( Read more... )

Earlier this afternoon I had my 16 week antenatal appointment with the community midwife. It was surprisingly brief, but all the news was good. All my blood tests results have come back bouncily healthy and my blood pressure is as perfect as it can be (120/60). Just before I left, the midwife asked if we could have a listen to the baby's heart beat ( Read more... )

We are now almost fifteen weeks pregnant. I had a moment today when I thought ahead to a family gathering we're going to tomorrow and I realised I might find myself at the receiving end of a tiny bit of special attention and it felt completely and utterly wrong. It's that whole 'fake' thing coming in again. like I still don't quite believe what's ( Read more... )

Somehow we've made it to thirteen weeks pregnant. More in fact. We're half way to fourteen. This baby really does seem to be planning on sticking around, and all the signs are that it's a healthy little thing too. It's amazing how much the world can change in just a few weeks. I've got lots of half-formed philosophical thoughts about it all in my ( Read more... )

This morning we went to have our dating scan. These are usually done between 12 and 13 weeks but we were given a date at 11 weeks on the nose and in the end decided that changing it wasn't worth the hassle, so along we went.

It was in a local children and family centre that we'd never even heard of until we got our appointment through. It was built ( Read more... )