26 April 2011

Nearly There!


This is me at 38 weeks and 5 days :) Emily bump is big!

21 April 2011

1 week, 1 day.

The midwife came today. It was a good visit. Head is a bit more engaged and blood pressure is all good, she did spill wee on the carpet, but at least it was my wee.... And yep, that tested okay too :-)

Feeling pretty tired now and generally I hurt every where.  Had a discussion with the midwife as when we last saw the consultant, he did tell me that we are to head to the hospital as soon as we think I'm in labour. I said to midwife how I am a little afraid of being sent home if not in established labour and such, but she said I'm just to go when I want, to explain the situation and a decision can only be made when I am there. Which makes sense and I just hope that the labour and birth will be as smooth as possible!

Only 1 week and 1 day and we will be at the due date!  Where has all the time gone?

We've been having some lovely weather lately so have been making the most of it and spending time in the garden planting some stuff, mainly sunflowers!  Also has been nice to spend time with the dogs, we're going to miss them a lot when we are away I think, but they'll be here waiting for us to come home :)

So it's just a waiting game!  I hope I don't have to wait too much longer :-)

13 April 2011

NICU Visit

We went to have a look around the local Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at our local hospital this week as this is where Emily will be transferred to when she is born.  All looked okay,  the staff all seemed lovely and friendly too.

So there's now 2 weeks and 2 days til Emily\s due date....  I've been getting a few signals that my body is preparing!  Can't believe we are at this point now, feels quite surreal that quite soon I will have a baby, but that the birth is only the beginning of the difficult scary journey ahead.

Sometimes I wish everything was normal, but I guess this will just be our version of normal, having no other pregnancy/birth/children to compare this to.

Well! Lets just see what happens hey?!

xx