Wednesday, March 19, 2008 Ria starts ante-natal classes...
Week 29
We have had an exciting third trimester week this week! Ante-natal has begun! We’re back at school and experiencing what it’s like to have to drop baby off at childcare and still work full time, although our baby has fur and four paws! Noodle, our new puppy, has a puppy sitter whilst I’m still at school, which was a bit worrying at first, but we and she are in the routine and all seems to be going well, as is the practice potty training… we have puppy training pads which she is using really well.
I don’t think baby will be quite as advanced as being able to ask to go outside when she needs a wee at 14 weeks though, but there are lots of similarities, we definitely have been getting less sleep since pup arrived!
We went to our first ante-natal class on Tuesday, we were a bit nervous about it at first, but once everyone had gotten over the nervous silence of first day at school it was good fun and really useful. There are about 10 couples there, and we were definitely the youngest there and by far had the smallest bump despite being only a couple of weeks behind everyone else.
The focus of the session was to get to know everyone and to talk about our experiences of pregnancy so far, high points, low points and then begin to think about what we were expecting from the birth, together with our different options. The midwife leading the session was very pro-home birth or going to a midwife run unit as opposed to hospital. Jon is very keen for the hospital option, which is what we originally said we would do, just so that everything is on hand should we need it.
Exeter have just built a new women’s health centre which is where we’ve been going for scans and it is really nice and not too “hospitally” so I think if we can, we’ll stay at home for as long as possible and then go there. Next week our class is based at the hospital and gives us a tour of the unit so I guess we’ll have a better idea then.
My mum and sisters are coming to visit next weekend, and I’m expecting them to be amazed at the size of my bump, although I still seem quite small compared to other people, it has grown so much since Christmas, Jon goes away for one night to rugby and thinks I’ve grown already. Puppy has doubled in size too, so looks like we’re all expanding at a rapid rate!
We have had an exciting third trimester week this week! Ante-natal has begun! We’re back at school and experiencing what it’s like to have to drop baby off at childcare and still work full time, although our baby has fur and four paws! Noodle, our new puppy, has a puppy sitter whilst I’m still at school, which was a bit worrying at first, but we and she are in the routine and all seems to be going well, as is the practice potty training… we have puppy training pads which she is using really well.
I don’t think baby will be quite as advanced as being able to ask to go outside when she needs a wee at 14 weeks though, but there are lots of similarities, we definitely have been getting less sleep since pup arrived!
We went to our first ante-natal class on Tuesday, we were a bit nervous about it at first, but once everyone had gotten over the nervous silence of first day at school it was good fun and really useful. There are about 10 couples there, and we were definitely the youngest there and by far had the smallest bump despite being only a couple of weeks behind everyone else.
The focus of the session was to get to know everyone and to talk about our experiences of pregnancy so far, high points, low points and then begin to think about what we were expecting from the birth, together with our different options. The midwife leading the session was very pro-home birth or going to a midwife run unit as opposed to hospital. Jon is very keen for the hospital option, which is what we originally said we would do, just so that everything is on hand should we need it.
Exeter have just built a new women’s health centre which is where we’ve been going for scans and it is really nice and not too “hospitally” so I think if we can, we’ll stay at home for as long as possible and then go there. Next week our class is based at the hospital and gives us a tour of the unit so I guess we’ll have a better idea then.
My mum and sisters are coming to visit next weekend, and I’m expecting them to be amazed at the size of my bump, although I still seem quite small compared to other people, it has grown so much since Christmas, Jon goes away for one night to rugby and thinks I’ve grown already. Puppy has doubled in size too, so looks like we’re all expanding at a rapid rate!
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