Wednesday, August 29, 2007 At 34 weeks, Jodi is feeling the strain....

I can't believe I am 34 weeks pregnant! The time is flying by so fast that I'm worried I might blink and then find myself in labour! However I'm sure that if I get to 40 weeks I will find the opposite to be true.

I am just beginning my penultimate week at work and next Friday just cannot come quickly enough. I am finding sitting at my desk for 8 hours a day really uncomfortable and I'm also really tired. The lack of sleep is really becoming an issue now and I got quite upset when it dawned on me that I probably wont get another good night's sleep now until sometime in 2008.....if I'm lucky! I am only getting up go to the loo once a night so that doesn't bother me too much; it's the fact that I can't roll over without waking up and then taking at least ten movements, coupled with a serious amount of huffing and puffing, to get over to the other side!

Having said all that, I am really going to miss being pregnant. It's such a magical time. I feel very clever indeed that I have managed to grow a real life baby inside me for the past 34 weeks! Every antenatal appointment I have had so far has been very short and sweet as I am having a text book pregnancy. The only concern being that baby has been breech so far and has shown no interest in going head down. I have my next appointment on Wednesday so hopefully baby will have decided to behave by then. I’ll keep you posted!

I must admit my other concern at this stage is how big I am going to end up! Whilst my bump is still pretty neat and tidy and all out front, the same cannot be said for my thighs and derriere! With six weeks still to go I do sometimes worry how much more I will put on! I successfully lost a lot of weight before falling pregnant so I know I can do it again when the time is right; I'm certainly not going to push myself to lose my baby weight in X number of weeks as the celebrities do!

That's all I have time for now. Speak to you next week!

Ria is on a rollercoaster of emotion!

Having only discovered that I was pregnant two and a half weeks ago, things are still a little surreal! We had not been trying for very long (2 months) and were trying to take things casually and see what happened, rather than watching the calendar and taking temperatures etc! I began to have suspicions that I might be pregnant, and the morning I mentioned it to Jon he had had a dream that night that I was!

Since then we have been on a rollercoaster of emotion- tears (happy tears!), excitement, anticipation, wanting to tell everybody (but knowing we shouldn’t), and giggling when we try to hide it! Strangely enough, since becoming pregnant all our friends seem to be dropping hints and all assuming that we are trying, they are obviously more intuitive than we give them credit for!

At present I am feeling quite scared, about being pregnant and everything that is going to happen to my body, I’m guessing this is because it’s the first time and I don’t really have any idea what it’s going to be like!

I have been feeling pretty sicky, and it’s a big con calling it “morning sickness”, with me it seems to be “mid morning – all day sickness”. It has meant that I have really lost my appetite, and even though I normally feel better for eating, that still doesn’t make me want to eat! I have also been feeling really tired, and being someone who doesn’t normally like to be sat down, this is proving difficult! At the moment we are on school holidays, so the odd afternoon nap is OK, not sure how that’s going to work out back at school!

We haven’t had very much to do yet, so other than my body behaving strangely, and not being able to clean out the cat litter tray, it doesn’t really feel like we are having a baby yet. Today however we have our first appointment with the midwife. I’ve been excited about this, I think because it will make things seem more real. We have been referring to our little one as “mung bean” as that’s how big we thought she / he was, but we have found that in week 9-10 it’s more like a raspberry! That’s all fine; it’s the “marrow” phase that’s worrying me!

At 24 weeks, Kelly is blooming!

I am feeling great at the moment and definitely in the blooming stage. Not as tired as my first trimester, I have so much energy to do things especially lots of walking. Now that I no longer feel nauseous I can eat anything and am definitely stocking up on the fruit and veg and have not yet experienced any cravings. I am really missing not eating the foods that we have to avoid: prawns, blue cheese and goat cheese. These are the only cravings I have experienced but nothing wacky yet, but guess only time will tell.

My skin is glowing and not a sign of a spot, I love this trimester. My partner, Tim also loves it as I have not really had any mood swings, unlike in the first trimester when my hormones were going crazy. It’s amazing how each pregnancy is so different for each woman. My sister did not experience any nausea but then she did not have a particular blooming stage either as she was pretty well throughout.

We moved house not long after we found out we were expecting so my partner has been busy decorating our bedroom before starting on the spare bedroom and nursery. The pressure is on! We had a week off work and this was a great time to sort things out at home and start some baby shopping. Ordered the nursery furniture and bought the bedding and a few bits and we are starting to get really excited about meeting our new arrival! I am sure that it will soon come around as the last 24 weeks have flown by.

My bump is starting to get bigger, looking pregnant and no longer look like I’ve piled on a few pounds. Our baby has been kicking since about 16 weeks but they have got a lot stronger in the last few weeks, junior often makes me jump out of the blue, it’s really amusing, especially when I am sat at my desk. I did have a day the other week where the baby did not kick and I started to get a bit worried but the next day junior was kicking like crazy. I guess that our baby must have had a sleepy day or been in a different position but you can’t help but worry and it’s been nice to get reassurance from other mums who have experienced the same things.