Getting ready
This having a baby malarky certainly fills your time! The girl who will be replacing me during my maternity leave started this week and has been keeping me busy during working hours. She learns very quickly, but I'm very aware I have to pass on as much of my knowledge as I can. After 6 years in the same job, this is no mean feat.
The evenings are equally busy - prenatal yoga, breastfeeding information evenings, visiting friends while I can still do so easily, getting the nursery ready etc etc. Add to this the fact that we've been in negotiations for a new house the last couple of weeks and we're doing lots of DIY on this house to make it more attractive to potential buyers and there is very little time to put my feet up. It has been unseasonably hot the last few weeks, with temperatures above 20 degrees every day and this has a very unattractive effect on my ankles, making them swell so much they actually hang over my shoes. This makes putting my feet up a necessity and I've started sleeping with my end of the mattress raised as well.
I'm feeling increasingly enormous - the bump seems to grow visibly each day and it is becoming more cumbersome. I can still get around very well, but I can notice the extra weight I'm lugging around every day now. Still, the baby seems to have enough room to move around as it wriggles about merrily on a regular basis. A few days ago, R told the baby to turn so it would be head down (rather than the transverse position it had occupied for weeks). The next morning I was still in bed when the baby suddenly started to be very active and seemed to be all elbows and knees. When I got out of bed, walking felt very uncomfortable, as if there was a boulder in my lower abdomen. A visit to the midwife that morning confirmed that the baby had listened to dad and was now head down! I had been telling the baby to do this for weeks, but obviously R's voice bears more authority...
The nursery is as good as ready. The cradle has been put together and the mattress and bedding are ready and waiting. Putting it together was rather special as it's my cradle from when I was a baby and now I was putting it together for my baby. The changing table has also been put together and all the freshly washed baby clothes are in the drawers. There are nappies on the shelves, zinc cream, baby oil and wet wipes beside the changing mat and the baby monitor is ready for use. The feeding cushion has become my nightly bed companion as I can place it under my bump and between my knees for a comfortable sleeping position. My hospital bag is practically packed - every time I buy something I will need in the hospital, I put it in the bag. Now the baby just needs to stay head down and I need to get through these last 2 weeks at work, so we can enjoy my maternity leave and prepare ourselves for finally meeting each other.
The evenings are equally busy - prenatal yoga, breastfeeding information evenings, visiting friends while I can still do so easily, getting the nursery ready etc etc. Add to this the fact that we've been in negotiations for a new house the last couple of weeks and we're doing lots of DIY on this house to make it more attractive to potential buyers and there is very little time to put my feet up. It has been unseasonably hot the last few weeks, with temperatures above 20 degrees every day and this has a very unattractive effect on my ankles, making them swell so much they actually hang over my shoes. This makes putting my feet up a necessity and I've started sleeping with my end of the mattress raised as well.
I'm feeling increasingly enormous - the bump seems to grow visibly each day and it is becoming more cumbersome. I can still get around very well, but I can notice the extra weight I'm lugging around every day now. Still, the baby seems to have enough room to move around as it wriggles about merrily on a regular basis. A few days ago, R told the baby to turn so it would be head down (rather than the transverse position it had occupied for weeks). The next morning I was still in bed when the baby suddenly started to be very active and seemed to be all elbows and knees. When I got out of bed, walking felt very uncomfortable, as if there was a boulder in my lower abdomen. A visit to the midwife that morning confirmed that the baby had listened to dad and was now head down! I had been telling the baby to do this for weeks, but obviously R's voice bears more authority...The nursery is as good as ready. The cradle has been put together and the mattress and bedding are ready and waiting. Putting it together was rather special as it's my cradle from when I was a baby and now I was putting it together for my baby. The changing table has also been put together and all the freshly washed baby clothes are in the drawers. There are nappies on the shelves, zinc cream, baby oil and wet wipes beside the changing mat and the baby monitor is ready for use. The feeding cushion has become my nightly bed companion as I can place it under my bump and between my knees for a comfortable sleeping position. My hospital bag is practically packed - every time I buy something I will need in the hospital, I put it in the bag. Now the baby just needs to stay head down and I need to get through these last 2 weeks at work, so we can enjoy my maternity leave and prepare ourselves for finally meeting each other.
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