It’s a girl :)

We had our anomaly ultrasound last week, and we found out we’re having a baby girl.

I get to have another one tomorrow as our little baby wouldn’t show her spine, she was far too busy having a good snooze to do anything exciting like actually move and give us a good view!  So tomorrow I will double check it’s a little girl before annoucing her name and what have you.

Jake and I couldn’t resist nipping out and buying some lovely baby clothes from Mothercare, and once we got started it was really hard to stop, they are all so cute!  We have some cool pirate ones I found on a website in the UK too:

I’ve got some more realy gorgeous more sensible ones coming from the US too, which are definitely not your normal style babygrows but super cool in our minds, much better than the usual pink and pastel fare you get in “normal” shops.

We have started on the nursery now, and spent all of yesterday clearing out the rubbish from the spare room.  It’s amazing how much you can amass.  Although, I am reliably informed that babies are also super good at amassing bits and bobs too, so hopefully all our clutter will be replaced by shiny new and exciting baby clutter which sounds infinately more fun to play with.

Baby kicks all the time now – probably 30 mins each period, about 6 times a day and a couple at night.  Apparently they know their sleep patterns now, so this could be a good indicator for what to expect.  In which case, baby will want feeding at 8am, 10am, 3pm, 6pm, 8pm, 10pm, 2am, and 4am.  We’ll see!

First kicks felt!

It was my birthday this weekend, yesterday in fact. I am now a big fat 28, in every sense hehe! My baby decided to give me a birthday present, and kicked my hand through my tummy, at around 10pm last night. It was an amazing feeling – I’d felt the kicks in my tummy, but wasn’t really 100% sure if they were kicks or wind or something else. So feeling it unequivocally like that was just so lovely, and a real boost to knowing my baby is developing as it should. Feels like there’s more personality there now too. Almost as if baby knew I wanted something on that special day.

Baby dad was away (again!) this time in Edinburgh for a stag do. He’s back now but has been fast asleep since about 7pm after three heavy days away without much kip. So I’m sat here writing and baby is once again kicking, but it’ll be tomorrow before baby and I can show off to him with our new trick – it seems baby is a night owl and sleeps through most of the day right now, only to kick off as it were around 10pm. A sign for the future, I wonder?

Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun?

Goodness, it’s been a long time since I posted! The scan was absolutely fine, and I went off and told then world in a blog post you can read here, on my other blog. As you can see from the comments I have a lot of support in my community of online professionals, so that was a wonderful “outing”.

Since then there’s really relatively litte to report – I am in week 16 now, about to start week 17 tomorrow. All the nausea, food fun, sore boobs etc from the first trimester have vanished (horay!). The only new things I’ve noticed are a higher emotional state from the hormones, and a bigger belly! My tummy is really starting to show now. It’s in a weird place where if you know I’m pregnant, it looks very obvious, but if you don’t I look pretty fat, haha. I find myself touching and holding my belly a lot now too, a sort of maternal instinct is how that feels. It’s also like a self re-assurance mechanism. If I’m feeling anxious or tired or sad, I give my tummy a rub and it reminds me that there’s so much to look forward to, and gets me started on thinking what baby is up to right now.

Work has been super stressful, so I quit a lot of the projects that were becoming too involving. Baby first all the way for me. No amount of money or professional respect is worth my baby feeling stressed, so I feel much better now pottering about the garden and house, nesting away and making things clean and tidy for me and baby Dad

We have a holiday coming up, and around the same time our 22 week scan, where we will find out if it’s a boy or a girl. I can’t wait to know. It will be great. So lots to look forward to.

I will try and update more, but right now there’s not a whole bunch to say, I feel like I’m in the calm before the storm that is third trimester, labour, birth and babies! Eep and yay!