39 weeks pregnant

This week I honestly thought I was going to give birth as I had really bad pains and little contractions. We ended up going to hospital on Saturday night as the pains were unbearable. They took bloods ( which left me with a horrendous bruise on my left arm), smear test, blood pressure, temperature and baby monitoring for more than half an hour. The results were fine which was quite frustrating, I secretly hoped they would give me a reason for all these pains. We were there for over 5 hours and it was draining and depressing. Hopefully next time I'll end up in there I will come out with a baby as I am sure the nurses know me already and of course I know my way round the hospital.

Apart from pains, Braxton Hicks and other unknown symptoms I had not much has changed. Still loving watermelon and the other day I had a really big crave for cherries after seeing them in a green grocer. I wanted to buy some but didn't have any change so I didn't in the end but kept thinking about how delicious they looked so went back the next day and got some... they were devoured in less than a minute.

It was Fathers Day on Sunday so we spent the day doing bits and bobs in the morning, had lunch out in town followed by a visit from my dad and the rest of the afternoon spent in the pub with my dad and rest of the family and friends with babies. Got a lot of sympathy looks from other people with the question : ''Oooh still pregnant then??'' Everyone is texting me to ask if I'm still pregnant and almost feel guilty for saying yes! Even Liam has been Googling 'How to induce labour naturally' which sent me absolutely mental. I am not a bloody baby machine and I don't see how is such an inconvenience for everyone else that I am still pregnant, if anyone should feel stressed and impatient is bloody ME!

 

 We now have a moving date... a week today!!! Mental I know but if we get ourselves organized then I'm sure it will be fine with our without baby.  We need to hand the keys over on the 27th June so that day we are going to Liam's mum to stay and we allocated a week to decorate and get the furniture in our new house so we won't be homeless for more than 7 days. If the baby comes earlier then we'll just have to move out a bit earlier but we're now hoping that baby is a bit late :) At least in 4 weeks we can say we've moved house, had a baby and we're all settled!

37 weeks pregnant

This weeks post is 2 days late so I am now 37 and a half weeks pregnant and counting every second until this baby comes.

I am posting less and less as I find it hard to motivate myself to do anything else apart from clean,clean,clean. I have washed and ironed every piece of baby clothing, organised all his nappies, toiletries and other bits ready for any day arrival.My work colleague gave birth to her baby girl and she was due the same day as me so it just shows that it can literally happen any day now.She was gutted that she didn't have time to do more stuff and enjoy

her mat leave more but at least she gets more time with baby.

Cravings have been watermelon again,in excessive amounts. I could eat a watermelon in no time.

Braxton Hicks have been killing me and also got a lot of pain in my lower back and groin area. Is absolutely awful not being able to get of the sofa or doing basic things like turn from one side to another. I am not enjoying these last weeks especially after we thought we would have him by c-section, I did get my hopes up by Oh well!

I am going to the hospital tomorrow morning to check the baby's position so I hope he's still head down. If he has moved again they will probably keep me in again which I don't want.

I now need a bib when I eat as the plate is too far away from my face because of the bump so you can tell when I eat as I'm messier than my one year old niece.

Not sure what else to say apart from pain pain pain!!

We are very excited to meet him now,is such a baby boom at the moment with everyone either giving birth or getting pregnant! Sometimes I feel like I'm not ready yet and I don't want to give birth but most times I'm excited to meet him. I think once I get rid of the extra weight and the bump I will be able to enjoy things more like walking, swimming or just pottering about.

I am excited to wear normal clothes as well as all I can wear now is 2 pairs of leggings and a couple of maternity tops so nothing exciting.The only thing that I was excited about was my baby shower but now that I didn't get a proper one is not much to look forward to apart from the actual birth.

The weather outside is so hot at the moment that i feel like I don't even want to be outside. Luckily our house is quite cool but is such a waste to be stuck in all day in such beautiful weather :(

Hopefully this will be my last bump post!

Bump pictures week 16 to 31

Just been reading through past posts as I am still trying to figure this blogging thing out and noticed that my '32 weeks of pregnancy' has vanished into thin air!!! How is that possible? Even Google can't explain it so the best solution is to re-post it or better said re-write it which is not ideal as I had other posts I wanted to write.Anyway see below the progress of my "twins","must be a lot of water","you must be bloated a lot" or the best one "bloody hell you're massive":