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!