1 Month to Go August 3, 2011
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Woo hoo, after what seems like an eternity we’re in the final stretch of this pregnancy. Our due date by LMP is 3rd Sept so we have exactly 1 month to go now. Anytime from 13th August and our little man is considered not-premature. Wow it seems a bit strange to think this time next month he will probably be here. Evie came at 39+1 and this time round I have too much fluid, he’s bigger and the midwifes reckon he may come early due to the extra pressure. He’s already started to engage head down (thank goodness). My hospital bag is packed and I’m just about getting my head round that pain experience coming. It sounds strange but you really do block out the pain of contractions. I can’t even describe it anymore. Thank goodness I wrote down Evie’s birth story from last time or I wouldn’t even remember anything at all!!
34 Week Scan (and library again) July 27, 2011
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Had my 34 week scan today to check on growth and whether my Amniotic Fluid Index (AFI) has gone down. Last time at 30 weeks it was 24.6cm and before that at 26 weeks it was 26cm. This time all the growth and structures are again looking fine, but still have 24.5cm AFI. This is on the hospital’s borderline for polyhydramnios. It’s a little bit worrying as the fluid levels haven’t gone down, but thankfully at the same time they’ve not gone up either. With Evie pregnancy I had 21cm at 28 weeks, then it had gone down to 16cm at 32 weeks and no longer an issue. I hope at my next scan in 3 weeks time that the fluid will start to tail off – apparently 34 weeks is the peak of fluid.
Went to the library on the way back too. We got 5 books this time…
1. Too Busy Marco by Roz Chast
2. I Do Not Eat the Colour Green by Lynne Rickards
3. The Mummy Book by Todd Parr
4. Tell Me One Thin, Dad by Tom Pow
5. Except If by Jim Averbeck
Pregnancy Insomnia Again June 8, 2011
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It’s 4am and I can’t sleep AGAIN! It’s most irritating as I am knackered. The problem is if I’m not in deep sleep then I have to get out of bed for a pit stop! Then I lie there trying to go back to sleep but it’s too late – the squatter has awoken and is acting like a sack of angry cats strapped to my belly! Toss and turn and worry about trivial stuff then give in and play on iPod! Now sleepy again but can feel another imminent pit stop coming on again. Thus propagates the insomnia cycle till I pass out 10 mins b4 hubby gets up for work and wakes me up again. Ah well, guess it’s just readying me for when Joey arrives.
Sorting Baby Clothes June 4, 2011
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Decided to sort thru Evie’s baby clothes today. I can’t believe one little girl could have so many pretty outfits. Even more so considering I didn’t buy many for her. I sorted them all into size first. That was a chore in itself as some clothes are from Oz, UK and Singapore which all have different sizing systems. In the end I lumped anything under 6 month into 00 pile, any 9m and under size 0, and all 18m and under size 1! The Singaporean ones were just confusing as some were height based, some had a random number between 4 and 8 and some were S, M, or L (now how can u tell what that is meant to be?). After that I picked out the not-too-girly items for Joey bump and then set about folding and putting the rest away in vac bags. So many memories of dressing Evie and feeling a little sad as my baby is no longer a baby! We’re not planning on anymore bubs after this one so we won’t use these again ( not unless God has other plans ha ha). But I thought I might save them as have a few pregnant friends who I could pass them onto if they have a girl!
I actually found I had a fair pile of boy suitable clothes in my collection. Mainly I guess because Evie inherited a lot of handmedowns from her cousins (who are all boys). All I really need to get are a couple of packs of simple 0-3m babygros as all Evie’s newborn items went to one of her cousins who is 9m younger than her. Am looking fwd to visiting the new Mothercare that opened in Taren Point recently – I really miss UK baby clothes as the Oz ones just don’t seem on par with quality!
26 Week Scan June 2, 2011
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We had another ultrasound scan today. By LMP it’s 26+5, by 6 week scan it’s 25+6. At my midwife appointment 2 weeks ago the fundal height was measuring rather large so they sent me for an extra scan to see what’s going on. In conclusion… there is nothing wrong!!! The bub is measuring 1/2 way between LMP and scan dates (so now EDD 06/09). He’s still a little boy! His head circumference is about 1 week ahead (ouchy for a VBAC) but his femur length is 2 weeks behind. My poor little stumpy, oversized headed baby!! Though I do suspect the sonographer’s femur measurement was a bit dodgy as the thing she measured didn’t look complete, so can’t have been orientated quite right for measuring accurately.
BIG BUMP May 19, 2011
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Had my 24 (ish) week antenatal appointment with the midwife today. Not really a surprise to me, but my bump is measuring rather large. I was looking at photos when I was on holiday at 23 weeks pregnant with Evie and my bump wasn’t that big. This “Joey” bump seems much bigger and also his kicking is much harder! She measured and measured again before deciding my fundal height is 28cm (fundal height is measured from the pubic bone to the top of the uterus and should be approx. the # of weeks gestation). She seemed rather surprised as by 6w scan I should be 23+6 (though by LMP I’m 24+5). Anyway I get to have another scan in 2 weeks to see. It could be that bump is just having a little growth spurt, also Joey is hanging out on one side of my body so it’s a bit lopsided anyway, or like Evie was at 28 w I had too much fluid (which turned out fine). I have this inkling though that he is just a big baby boy. Hubby was 9lb+ when he was born so maybe he’s just inherited hubby’s male genes.
Like an Angry Cat in a Sack May 7, 2011
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We’re 23 weeks today and bub is growing so fast. My stomach was already getting really big and swollen but it’s noticeably more so lately. Also I have this intuitive feeling that he is a big strong, strapping lad. I was looking back at some of my photos from my Evie pregnancy and noticed one at 23 weeks last time I had a small bump (in fact even at 8 months pregnant, with borderline polyhydramnios, people were asking me how my first trimester was going – I didn’t really get massive till post 35 weeks). This time my bump is mehusive and not only that “Joey” (Evie’s nickname for the bub) is producing much harder, violent kicks (he’s def a boy). He kicks an awful lot in the night just as I am trying to go to sleep. Last night I was lying in bed trying to drift off and my stomach is jumping all over the place. Joey’s arms and legs are flailing all over the place and it feels like an angry cat trapped in a sack!
Hello Baby K2! April 18, 2011
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Yay, we had our 20 week scan this morning. Am pleased to report that all is well and Baby “Joey” is looking great in there. The 20 week scan here in Oz is the morphology scan so they were very thorough taking all sorts of measurements from different angles. It took 1hr of scanning, then 30 mins walking about, then another 15 mins to get all the photos that were needed.
Baby "Joey" @ 20 weeks
I like this scan pic best as it looks like Joey is smiling… prob laughing away because he refused to move off his back. I hope that is a good thing for the future, and that he enjoys sleeping 
Yes it’s a BOY!! So we’ll have a pigeon pair, which is just what I was hoping for. Thank you Lord for this blessing.
Hello Baby K2! April 18, 2011
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Yay, we had our 20 week scan this morning. Am pleased to report that all is well and Baby “Joey” is looking great in there. The 20 week scan here in Oz is the morphology scan so they were very thorough taking all sorts of measurements from different angles. It took 1hr of scanning, then 30 mins walking about, then another 15 mins to get all the photos that were needed.
I like this scan pic best as it looks like Joey is smiling… prob laughing away because he refused to move off his back. I hope that is a good thing for the future, and that he enjoys sleeping Yes it’s a BOY!! So we’ll have a pigeon pair, which is just what I was hoping for. Thank you Lord for this blessing.
Whoooaa, We’re Halfway There April 12, 2011
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Today we’re 19w 3 days so I guess that we are 1/2 way through brewing our baby (I figure as I’ll go C section at 39 weeks, it must be 1/2 way at 19 1/2 weeks). Bubs is definitely growing well in there. I can feel the fundus right at my belly button height now and plenty of kicking. We have our 20 week scan on Monday morning and so very excited about seeing “Joey” again (praying that everything will be fine in there). We put together the nursery again (we took the cot down etc in Jan so we could put a single bed in there for my gran whilst she visited). Evie was very excited about getting Joey’s room ready and she delighted in picking out a blanket and some toys to put in the cot before she had a bit of a regression and pulled out her old baby gym. Gosh is was so strange seeing her lying on the mat, she’s like 2x as long and she was happily batting away at the little toys hanging down. Hubby and I were reminiscing about how she couldn’t even reach them when she first lay on the mat and how she eventually grabbed the toys off to chew and she first rolled over. The reality suddenly overwhelmed me and I realised that wow, we’re actually going to have another little human being soon. I miss my lil Evie baby that was quiet, slept well and stayed where you left her. Now she’s a shouting, sleep-allergic, non-stop perpetual motion creature!!
