What is Happening This Week - Week 12

During Week 13

ME:
If you have had early morning sickness this will probably have gone completely by the end of this week <<PLEASE LET THIS BE TRUE FOR ME!!>>.
From now on your uterus will be enlarging at a regular and noticeable rate.

OUR BABY:
The baby is now completely formed. From now on its time in the uterus will be spent growing and maturing until it is able to survive independently of its mother.

Belly Photo - Week 11

Faye had the greatest idea and is bringing in her camera to work every Tuesday to take a few photo of my growing belly. The first photo is taken at week 11. Thanks Faye for doing this - it will be great to look back on.

Other Bits and Pieces!

A few other things going on at the moment - one of them is that we are having a new bedroom. Its going to be great having two beds!! Dan went to Ikea on Saturday to order the furniture and most of it was ordered yesterday. Some of the bed parts were missing so they will have to redelivered hopefully soon! So we have a new king size bed with new mattress, two bedside tables, a wardrobe and a chest of drawers. That will soon fill up our bedroom! Hopefully there will be room for the cot after all that lot! It also means that we get to use our new bedding that we were given as wedding presents so I am washing them through to make it all fresh and new. Am looking forward to having a new bedroom and using the space much more effectively.

Saying that the rest of the house seems to have got more messy before it gets sorted again. I am going through some of the boxes to be put up in the loft when it is boarded. Well I havent started the sorting yet but its there to be done!

I now know of four of my friends that are due around the same time as me. Two of them know each other and the other two know each other so I am hoping for good baby support groups to be started up! It will be nice to compare anyway and also nice to hear of other people being sick as well as me- arent I mean?!

Feeling Guilty and Fed Up

Over the past few days I have been feeling really fed up with feeling so sick all the time. I think it has got me down. I am pleased that I took a day off today to recharge my batteries a bit and to have more positive thoughts!

I have also been feeling guilty. I feel guilty about a few things. I feel guilty about leaving most things at home to Dan - incl. the vooking, washing, cleaning etc especially when he is busy at work and has other things going on. I feel like a burden.

I feel guilty about not giving my baby enough nutrition. I try and eat as much stuff as I possibly can (usually in the afternoons) but most of what I crave is not really healthy foods. I cant get enough of cheese and tomato sandwiches/ rolls but also love fizzy cans of pop and pick and mix sweets! I am trying to keep up intake of granny smith apples which again I cant get enough of. Last night Dan made us a vegetable stew type thing and it was great to eat most of it and more importantly to keep it all down.

I also feel guilty about work. I am only working afternoons at the moment but I feel guilty in the mornings when I am not there and for everything that Faye has to cover me for. I am really hoping to extend my working hours over the next week or so if the sickness will let me then I wont feel as guilty. So Faye if you are reading then thank you so much for everything you are doing to help me at the moment - I do really appreciate it.

Visiting the Midwife

Its been a while since I updated my blog so thought I had better!

So just over a week ago, Dan and I went to see the Midwife, Carole. We met her in a small office inside Wantage Hospital. It was a good oppertunity to see the hospital's maternity unit but my gut instinct was to remain anonymous in a large hospital such as the JR!

Carole was lovely - very friendly and told us lots of information. She also took some blood from me so they can test what type of blood group I am. She also picked up some protein in my wee so I had to take a sample to my drs to be sent off for analysis. I haven't heard the results from this so Im guessing its all okay!

We were with Carole for about half an hour and she said we could phone her at any time if we had any queries.

This was good to know, especially yesterday, when I found some blood when I had been for a wee. I phoned Carole, left a message and she got back to me within the hour. She told me that it was probably nothing to worry about but to keep an eye on it this week and to take it easy over the next couple of days. I have taken annual leave from work today to have a day at home and there has been no more blood.

Our 10 Week Scan Photo

Our Ten Week Scan

Today we went to the hospital for our dating scan. It was AMAZING.

I had to get up really early - 6.45 as we had to leave by 7.45. I had my usual brekkie but my body spewed it all up again straight away. Infact I only just made it to the loo in time. The journey to the hospital seemed to take ages - it took an hour and a quarter to get there and I felt really sick (as normal) but also cos of being nervous and excited too. I joked to Dan that hopefully I wont go into labour during rush hour!

We didnt have to wait long once we there (just enough time to do some wretching in the toilet!!). I felt a bit of a fraud being in the maternity bit without a bump compared to the other women and their big bumps. They must have looked at me and thought "Thank God Im not still at the sicky stage!". Then it was straight in the room with the lovely lady that does the scan and up on the bed. Dan sat next to me and we could both see the TV screen which was a different screen to what the lady was using.

I pulled down my jeans a bit and she put some cream on my tummy - I was surprised at how low down she needed to have access to! And then straight on with the thing that shows the baby. At first she pointed out my womb. Then she multiplied that bit so the whole of the screen was my womb.

And there was our baby!!! It was such an amazing sight. I couldnt help but cry!

It was laying with its head to the right and then the lady pointed out its bum and Dan saw the legs kick. She measured the baby and it was 3cm long so all on target! (Also amazing how something so small can make someone so sick!!). Dan was really chuffed.

I told the lady that I could stay there all day and watch the screen. I asked if we could have a photo and she said that she had already done us one. She also said that she was changing the due date from 8th May to the 2nd May.

On the way out we made a donation for the photo and made our 20 week scan appointment - this time not in rush hour! So we next get to see our baby on Wednesday 14th December at 1pm. Great timing I think - just before Christmas.

On the way home from the hospital I phoned all my family to tell them about the scan. They were all waiting to hear from us. Their reactions were just so lovely that it made me cry again.

At lunchtime I phoned my Nan to tell her and she said Wonderful News and she was really pleased. Bless her.

I spent the rest of the day showing everyone the photo - I couldnt help it!

Hormones!

I think I am getting in touch with the hormones this week. Not only am I being a Clumsy Clutz - banged my leg against the corner of my desk and poured lots of water down me - I am also spotty and I cry easily too. So far this week I have cried at The X Factor, Richard & Judy and Holby City.


Poor Dan!!!

As I go into my eleventh week of pregnancy...

... (Week 10) this is what is happening to me and the baby:

You:
If you have been nauseous during the last weeks, the sickness should gradually lessen from now onward <<>>. The amount of blood circulating through your body has started to increase, and will go on increasing until about the 30th week. You should be thinking about arranging childbirth education classes, as they often tend to get booked up early.


Your Baby:
Your baby's testicles or ovaries have formed, as have all of its major organs. Since these organs will not develop much further, but will merely continue to grow during its time in the uterus. The baby is relatively safe from the risk of developing congenital abnormalities after the end of this week.

Food & Drink

As my whole world is centred around food, drink and being sick I thought I would note what I love and what I hate at the moment:

LOVE:
Cold Granny Smith Apples
Lemonade
Mini Cheddars
Mini Chocolate Animals
Vanilla ice cream
Jacket Potatoes, cheese and beans
Cold milk
Bread and butter
Peas
Mr Kipling Cake bars!
Soft mints

HATE:
Tea
Anything oily such as roast potatoes and yorkshire puds

Used to eat a lot of it but cannot stomach at the moment:
Pizza
Crisps
Salad
Cereals such as Rice Krispies
Proper dinners
Squash such as lime
Most sweets

Its probably also worth noting that I still cant go into the kitchen at home and although I dream about fresh cream cakes most nights there is no way that I could eat one!!

Im nearly ten weeks!!

Well I;ll be ten weeks on Wednesday...and Dan's family still don't know! Its a tricky situation as we really want to tell them face to face but I just dont think I am well enough to make the journey up to Sheffield. I think that Dan will probably end up going to Sheffield on his own which is a shame that I wont be there to see their faces but at least they will then know!


We are very much looking forward to the scan on Thursday. I just dont know how I am going to get up and dressed and all sick out by 8.15am! I think I'll be taking my sick bag with me! Really hope we get to see and keep a photo.


The sickness continued over the weekend. In fact I was sick quite a bit really but I managed to spend an hour with Imy and then yesterday I was able to read so that helped take my mind off it for a while. I'm still really tired too and I had 15 hours sleep on Saturday night/ Sunday morning. Oh and I managed to keep some veg down too so felt good about that.