Ohhhh Dear…

I can’t believe that I haven’t updated this blog since week 34!!!! Since maternity leave has hit I’ve just not seemed to have the motivation/energy to do much, I’ve been trying to keep up with the housework (sometimes failing) I was supposed to finish off the name canvas for our little ones room (FAIL! … but she wont be in her room for a good six months so I still have time) I was planning on starting to get all crafty and such (::sigh::)  and I’ve been determined to have the hubby’s dinner cooked and ready for when he gets home (the one and only epic success!) but I’ll admit that I’m finding it a struggle at times.

Not wanting to assign blame for my (sometimes) laziness and regular fail but WOW do I feel like I’m ready to pop?!?!?! My bump is just ever-expanding to the point where the hubby has to help me up off of the sofa as I just can’t wriggle free of it without moaning and groaning, I’m constantly sleepy, the pressure I feel in my bump is intense, I physically struggle to get out of bed in a morning, I seem to be perma-hungry, I hurt like crazy if/when I walk for too long and I feel like my pubic bone is being ripped apart a millimetre at a time!

My moaning does make it sound like I’m not enjoying this pregnancy but to be honest, this is still the best I have ever felt in my entire life! I love being pregnant, I adore my bump, I find it to be the cutest thing ever when the hubby rubs, pats and kisses my bump, I still smile at all of the kicks – even though they sometimes hurt like crazy! – and I’m going to miss this all so much when it’s over. The only downside to it is that I feel useless and lazy when things don’t get done.

Anyways, moving on and I am now at the 39 week mark, 39 weeks + 5 days in fact! Yesterday was our original EDD and our actual given EDD is in 2 days time!! TWO DAYS!! I thought at times that this pregnancy was dragging its heels but thinking about it now it has just flown by which makes me panic about how quickly time will seem to pass when our little girl is here, it scares me to think that if we blink that we will miss something!

So what has been happening in the weeks since my last post?

Not toooo much really, everything has been plodding on as planned with very little drama. At my last consultant appointment I was given the all clear for my thyroid and told that I no longer needed to come to clinic as my levels had stabilised (yay!) and at my last scan we were told that the baby had jumped from around the 10th percentile to the 54th (double yay!) so we were no longer needed in for monitoring as she was no longer considered to be small. At my last midwife appointment I was told that everything seemed fine across the board and our little girl was referred to as “one chilled out baby” as she was just chilling, head down but not engaged at the time. I rented a tens machine from the midwife as I still have this dream of the birth being as natural as possible, for as long as possible and I have been given the date of my first sweep if she doesn’t come on her own which is the 17th of January … my hubby’s 30th birthday! nice present right? 😛

I have been having some period like pains and I’m hoping that they mean something is happening as I’d much rather just go into labour myself rather than having a helping hand (pun intended!) from the midwife but we shall see.My mum was induced with me and I was two weeks late myself so that’s what I’m imagining for myself now but you never know I guess.

I was supposed to be updating with pictures at this point but I still need to get one taken for this week so I think I’ll do a whole bump progress post a little later on but for now it is time to hang some washing out and for breakfast!

More as and when I guess … if I can get motivated enough to post 😛