Pregnacy Update

How far along?  37 weeks! Which makes baby FULL TERM!

 

Total weight gain/measurements: I'm not 100 percent sure how much I have put on but I started at 65kg.. I don't think I am anywhere near that number now though!

 

Maternity clothes: I bought a few maternity bits but I have mainly managed in my normal clothes with a little bit of adjusting! I bought an amazing pair of Zara low cut ripped jeans when I got to about 6 months that I have lived in! Well either those or leggings and tracksuit bottoms!

 

Stretch marks: Unfortunately yes! but not on my belly.. I noticed a few on my hips either side the other week! Not to pretty but worth it!

 

Sleep: I'm not to sure what that is anymore?

 

Best moment this week: Hitting 37 weeks, what a milestone! It means our little one is no longer classed as a premature baby if she was to come now! It also means I am able to have the water birth I so badly want.

Miss anything? Sleep, walking up the stairs without getting out of breath and seeing my feet. 

Movement: Lots and lots! Sometimes to the point where it actually hurts me a little. Also I have noticed a lot more hiccups this week.

 

Food cravings: ICE, I cant stop crunching on ice!

 

Anything making you queasy or sick? I haven't been able to eat chicken since week 20 of my pregnancy, the stuff just makes me so so ill! I cant wait to have a Nandos again.

 

Gender: A little girl.

 

Labour signs: Braxton Hicks contractions and the occasional period like cramp.

 

Symptoms: Heartburn has to be the worst alongside backache.

Belly button in or out? in (ish)

 

Happy or moody most of the time: Happy :)

 

Looking forward to: The first cuddles with our little girl!

 

The Big Blue Tick



Pregnant. I am pregnant. P R E G N A N T. No matter how many times I said this to myself on the 5th June 2014 it didn't feel real. Even now,  37 weeks on, it doesn't always seem real. One minute I'm a 20 year old girl with a  care free and pretty easy life to the next minute where I am going to become a mother. Its fair to say for any woman, at any age, whether the pregnancy was planned or not, it takes you by surprise! My body was now home to a tiny little human life, a life that I was now going to grow inside me for 9 months. Everything I did, everything I ate, everything I felt, this little life was now going to be influenced by. HOLY SHIT.

I was at work when I found out, I did a test in the work toilets.. Not glamorous but I wasn't expecting to see the big blue cross. I had been feeling a little sick, well a lot sick and my special time of the month hadn't arrived when it was supposed to, so like any reasonable woman who tracks every single period down to the very minute it started, I thought id do the test for peace of mind and there it was, the big blue cross. Everything from that moment of that day is a bit of a blur, but here I am 9 months on and coming to the end of the most life changing experience I have ever gone through. In the last 37 weeks I believe I must of felt every single emotion, been sick more times than I thought humanly possible (heads up ladies, morning sickness doesn't just mean the morning), watched a body I was relatively happy with be stretched to the point I'm not sure there is much more it can stretch without exploding, but most of all in the 37 weeks I have seen myself change from a girl to a woman. I have learnt things about myself, about my body, about my partner and about life, things that I didn't think I would learn for a very long time. I am 100 percent, truly, madly and deeply in love with a little person that I haven't even met yet. I would and will do whatever I can for this little life that I have grown inside me. I'm not even sure where I am going with this post, sometimes its just nice to write things down, because before I know it the little kicks and hiccups I feel in my belly are going to become tiny hands and cuddles in my arms.