Pregnancy

Waiting

Yes. You guessed it. Still pregnant. ‘Overdue’ by about 5 days. And no, this isn’t some April Fools joke where I’m actually sitting in hospital with a newborn baby. Trust me, I’m not that good with secrets and I’m worse at practical jokes. On Monday I head in for the official testing to do with [...]

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Baby Goog Watch – The Eviction Notice

Somewhere along the line the jelly bean became baby goog. Because let’s face it, we are well past the jellybean stage now. I’m currently 2 days overdue. Although I’m beginning to suspect that I just have a naturally long gestation period. Clearly I’ve won some kind of genetic lottery. Awesome. But given that Riley was [...]

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A Nice Long Sleep

A nice long sleep. Almost anything seems a little bit better for at least being a little less sleep deprived. We all slept well last night – me, the husband, the toddler and even the cat. Even if the cat did decide that the most comfortable place to be was in a suitcase, almost empty [...]

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155/365 This is What Nesting Looks Like

  Toddler bed, gone. Toy vomit, removed. I think there’s an actual room in there. Thanks to a spurt of hormone-induced nesting the other day. The toddler now has an actual bedroom instead of a crash space in the middle of a dumping zone. Now if only I could do the same thing with the [...]

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Jelly Bean Watch – Week 39

Checkup Details Blood Pressure: 100/50 Engaged: 1/5th Fundal Height: 36cm Fetal Heartbeat: Found by toddler so I’m guessing pretty strong Pronouncements: Baby considered ‘leggy’ Last week I was 2/5ths engaged – this week 1/5th. So my main message to unborn child is to stay put until after the weekend. AFTER. Just. Stay. In. I was [...]

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Jellybean Watch – Final Countdown

4 weeks to go. In theory. That theory doesn’t take into account happy dwellers like Riley who opted to stay inside for an extra two weeks. But for the sake of argument and my sanity we’ll say I have four weeks to go. Four weeks until I can look accusingly at my belly and say [...]

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Chaos Rules

There it is. One of the many piles of clothes that I’ve sorted through of Riley’s old clothes. Note the pink dominance. At least if the jellybean is a girl, I have a huge array of pink clothes now all sorted by size. I’ve ignored the fact that baby sizes are far from uniform. And [...]

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Jellybean Watch – Week 36

The beginning of week 36 begins tomorrow and I’ve got 5 weeks to go. 5 weeks if you take the highly arbitrary 40 weeks as something solid. Which it’s not. We discussed my birth plan last week at my check up. Which is your average run of the mill – induction as an absolute last [...]

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Nesting Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be

Sometimes nesting is a good thing. When you are fast approaching the size of a whale it gives you the necessary get up and go to do that last little bit of organising/cleaning/shopping. But most of the time it’s ridiculous. Entirely ridiculous. Example: When I was pregnant with Riley I began ironing towels. Towels! Entire [...]

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The Easy Pregnancy

In case you haven’t guessed I’m being just a teensy bit sarcastic with the use of my word ‘easy’. But the truth is, it has been relatively easy. Apart from a few horrid weeks of morning sickness, I’ve basically been sailing along quite happily. And so it’s somewhat surprising, that I found myself sobbing on [...]

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