Well i’m kind of confused actually how many weeks I am. According to my official due date taken from the first scan, I am 29 weeks and 5 days. However at my appointment yesterday the doctor wrote 31 – 32 weeks in my notes. Baby is huge already so we’ll go with that.

So here is another bump pic – today with baby Made on the left and then with maya at 30, 31 and 32 weeks

hmm…. i don’t remember feeling so huge at this stage last time so i guess i just feel bigger than i am or something? Kind of horrified to realise how much bigger I’m still going to get. I think I look more like the 30 week picture so maybe I am actually closer to 30 weeks. I am definitely suffering more than i was last time. I can’t sit at my desk for very long because my stomach feels all crunched up and also i’m finding the heat and humidity pretty much unbearable so i spend most of the day lying on the bed with the fan on.

I started this pregnancy at a slightly lower weight than with maya and put on weight more slowly at the beginning. that all changed during my ‘3 breakfasts a day period’ and i went through a 3 month period of putting on 3 or 4 kilos every month – argh! luckily it seems to be slowing down, i haven’t put on any weight in the last 2 weeks and i’m the same weight that i was with maya at 30 weeks. Bubs is measuring 33 weeks and 5 days at 2.16kg and head is measuring 35 weeks – ha! i’m not too concerned as maya was measuring 33weeks 6 days (2.2kg) at 30 weeks and 35 weeks and 5 days at 32 weeks (2.269kg) and but it’s looking like we’re more likely to have a January baby than a February baby at the moment, but who knows! I’m going to have a wild guess and estimate birth date at 28th January so we’ll see how close i get!

In any case, this baby is probably arriving in another couple of months so I really need to get organised from today! I bought an exercise ball yesterday that i can hopefully use in labor (wanted one with maya but couldn’t find one that wasn’t stupidly expensive! got one in Ace hardware in the end) and i’m going to try sitting on at my desk to see if it helps. Raspberry leaf tea drinking also starts from today, as does yoga dvd (although it is hard with a toddler thinking you’re playing a game and crawling all over you when you’re trying to relax). Also going to start back with the hypnobirth recordings although i found it so boring last time and pretty much gave up towards the end. I’m going to buy some different ones this time and see if it makes any difference.

Things I need to do before 37 weeks:

  • Sort out and wash baby clothes and blankets
  • Move maya’s bed somewhere that she won’t get crushed if there’s a big earthquake and get her sleeping in it instead of taking up 3/4 of our bed (she slept through the night 7pm – 6am apart from waking up freaked out at about 10pm and needing a cuddle before she went back to sleep – bad dream?
  • Buy newborn nappies and cotton wool and anything else i need for new baby (will have to find a list cos i can’t remember)
  • Pack hospital bag and load mp3 player up with relaxing music and hypnobirth tracks
  • Clean house
  • Book hospital room
  • probably loads of other stuff

In other news, Maya’s birthday shout out finally appeared on ohdeeoh – if i’d known it would take a month to do i would have submitted it in advance but never mind! you can see it here