30 weeks 3 days

Right - I have finally found a few free minutes to write my post for this week. It has been a whirlwind week or so. We had visitors from Tuesday evening till Monday afternoon, I was away for one night over the weekend, and then my sister has been staying with us while my parents have the floorboards in their house sanded and revarnished.

Everything with the pregnancy is going fine as far as I can tell. Bubba bump is moving heaps and really starting to stick out. I have been spending many evenings poking my belly, feeling for harder bits and trying to work out what it is. I can't believe I only have 10 weeks (or more or less) to go. I'm totally in denial.

I haven't really been looking after myself while we had visitors, and I'm still not. I haven't been eating very well, and I haven't been drinking all my teas. Way too much sugar, and almost no exercise, and staying up far too late (and then being dragged out of bed far too early by the kids). I had a few days where my pelvis was starting to ache a bit, but that has since stopped. I was going to go to a chiro, but now that it's not aching I'm not sure. It's more money that we don't really have. I've put on so much more weight than I ever wanted to this pregnancy. I know I'll lose it afterwards, but I'm still annoyed at myself. I had such good intentions...

I am slowly starting to think about getting things ready for bubba bump. I have a few more baby clothes (mostly gender neutral seeing as the scan wasn't very definite about bubba bump being a girl). I have now ordered a change mat for our change table, am in the process of trying to track down some drawers to put baby clothes in, and I have even bought newborn nappies! Most other things are just a matter of cleaning up what we have and setting them up, like the bassinet. I feel pretty relaxed about the whole thing I suppose - we have everything, I've done the baby thing twice now, so I don't feel too stressed about it. Mind you, every baby is different, and I have no idea how it's going to go juggling a newborn and two other kids. Hubby is having lots of time off (4 weeks) though, so that will be really good.
I'm still very excited to meet bubba bump. I can still picture my little wriggling baby on my chest, smelling her head, stroking her forehead and touching her little nose. I feel so in love with this baby already.

And if all the visitors, etc wasn't enough, hubby and I are also going away this weekend - all on our own! It's the first time we've done this since having kids, and I'm so excited. I think this is what is called a babymoon? Maybe? It's our last hurrah before bubba comes and we become absorbed in life with a baby again.
We are staying at a nice hotel, planning on going to Gold Class, going out for a few meals. I don't want to pack our weekend away full of things. I'd be quite happy to be holed up in the hotel watching TV and ordering room service too. It's just a chance to really relax and be together without kids interrupting every 5 minutes. We plan to leave early Saturday morning, and I'm quietly counting down the days/hours! My parents and sister will come here to look after the kids, and hopefully I can let myself relax and not worry about them.

30 weeks 1 day

Here is my belly pic for the week. Hard to believe I still have another 10 weeks of growing to do!

29 weeks 1 day

Just a quick post this week, as I seem to be quite busy!

29 weeks now, and not much to report. I feel pretty good mostly - just a bit tired sometimes, and my hips are starting to ache every now and then. I feel like my belly growth has slowed down a bit - I'm still very much sticking out the front, but I'm not noticing my belly getting bigger by the week. I'm quite liking my belly at the moment actually.

Bubba bump is moving heaps! I think she moves much more than my other two did. Last night, the little man was even able to feel a big kick. I think he was pretty impressed - he had a big grin on his face. The little miss won't keep her hand on my tummy long enough to feel anything.

I had my midwife check-up over the last week, and everything is all good. We talked a bit about my fears/potential fears surrounding the birth. I have had two friends go through very traumatic births, both while trying for a VBAC. I don't believe that kind of thing will happen to me, but I do wonder if it will pop up during labour. So, we talked about that. Bubba seems to be behaving so far, so hopefully she continues to do so for the next 11 weeks! I see Anna again at 32 weeks, then every two weeks after that.

Anyway, I have my lovely friend Mel coming to visit (I'll be picking her up from the airport in under an hour), so I will be enjoying having her here for the next week. I also have my weekend away with mum's group, and hubby's birthday. Busy busy here! Can't believe I'm 30 weeks on Monday!

And here is my belly pic for the week! Only eleven more of these to go (or more, or less...)

28 weeks - third trimester baby!

I'm here - third trimester!!!

Far out this pregnancy has been weird. Well, only weird in my mindset. I just can't get over how different this pregnancy has felt - how, for the most part, it has just been there in the background. It's amazing how having two energetic little ones can make a whole pregnancy pass without you even realising. I am enjoying being pregnant now, but there are only passing moments through the day when it is at the forefront of my mind.

I am so unprepared for bubba bump. Today, I finally pulled out some baby clothes I have stashed away from the two kidlets, and there is actually not much there. Heaps of singlets, but hardly any suits - especially newborn/winter suits. And because I don't feel confident that bubba bump is in fact a girl, some of the stuff I pulled out may not even be suitable. So... looks like I may have to at least a little bit of shopping for bubba bump over the next few months.
I feel like I have heaps of time left before bubba arrives... but in reality it is going to get here very soon. I really need to get into preparation mode and mindset.

We had a crazy-busy week this past week. I spent much of the week restoring my old dollhouse, to give to the little miss on her third birthday. It was a huge project in the end. All week I shipped the kids off to my sister for a couple of hours in the morning, and then would work on it for another couple of hours after the kids had gone to bed. It was just repainting it and cleaning it up mostly, but very fiddly and time consuming. We finally finished Thursday night, ready to give to the little miss on her birthday on Friday. She loved it though, and I'm so happy with how it turned out. That dollhouse was made by my Morfar (grandfather on mum's side) who was a carpenter. I'm not exactly sure how old it is, but around 20 years would be my guess. It has been passed around all the cousins on that side of the family, and now back to me for my children. Pretty special really. Then once the dollhouse project was completed, I had a massive party to plan for for the Saturday. It all went well, but it was exhausting, and the kids, hubby and I are still recovering. I wanted to do a big party for the little miss though, as she has never had a big one and the little man has had several! I also wanted to do it before bubba comes along.
I am very, very happy to have everything relatively back to normal now though. Big sigh of relief.

And while the hectic week was going on, I ate pretty terribly and didn't exercise at all... so, yeah.

But anyway, here we are - my 28 week belly pic. I think my belly growth has slowed down a bit maybe? It's hard to say. Mind you, at school drop off this morning I had the teacher and a school mum both comment on how much I had popped out over the holidays.

And just quietly, because I'm not saying anything to anyone in real life just yet - I'm hoping to have a professional maternity photo shoot soon. I have contacted a photographer, and hopefully I can convince hubby we have the money for it. This is my last pregnancy, and it something I always wanted to do! I hope I do, and I hope they turn out amazing.