Baby Shower plus other things

Yesterday DH and i had such a wonderful day! Yesterday was our baby shower and oh my god we were soooo spoilt! We got so many clothes, toys, blankets, sheets and practical things as well which was really good. We had lunch at a really nice restaurant which had really good food!

We also got our chair which is so comfortable and we have set that up in the baby's room so that when we bring him home we have some where we can rock him to sleep and where i can breast feed him as well.

The room is coming together so well we put up the wall hangings and we only have to set up a little table where we will have the baby half of the monitor and a lamp as well and then that will be it, it will be finished and i am so anxious to do this, i think that must be the whole nesting thing.

I have also been having pain below my right breast just at the bottom of my ribs. It was quite painful and it even made me cry today, but apparently that is normal pain (well that is what the Doctor said).

It is getting really close now, i am 34 weeks and i am waiting impatiently to meet him.

Day 2 of Maternity Leave

Well i have an eventful first day of maternity leave, i went around the house and cleaned did 5 loads of washing (mostly washing baby clothes, cot sheets and baby towels) and also ironed all the washing that i washed. I felt pretty useless at first when DH went off to work, i sat on the lounge and ate breakfast and watched the morning show and thought if i did this every morning i think i am going to go crazy!!!! I know you are meant to relax when you go on maternity leave but i am not the type of person that can just lay around and do nothing. So i did all that cleaning, washing and ironing, and last night i had the best sleep ever and didn't even wake up during the night to pee as i was so tired.

Then came day two. At first when i work up i thought that it was raining as i heard something hitting the window...like rain drops...but DH said that it was a beautiful sunny day, so i thought i was imagining things. Went down stairs and made breakfast said goodbye to DH and sat on the lounge and watched the morning news, but once again i heard something hitting the window. I put the TV on mute and began to hear buzzing...and it was coming from the light fixture...and from inside the vent in the kitchen...and the ceiling in the lounge room. Felling a little freaked out and noticing that i wasn't going crazy as the cat was above the fridge looking at the vent in the kitchen, i called DH who said that he would be home after he was finished at work...which i thought that would be about 3pm so that isn't so bad. So i sat on the lounge surrounded by all the buzzing and i think the fact that my pregnancy hormones aren't liking me very much i burst into tears, started to over think things and proceeded to panic. So once again i got on the phone to my loving Husband and as i couldn't quite get my words out through all the crying i said that i couldn't handle this any more...and in under 10 minutes he left work and was by my side...mind you he thought that i had gone into labour (oops maybe i should have told him that it was the buzzing not contractions that i couldn't handle). So we rang a couple of people and it looks like the buzzing is coming from wasps. Apparently there is a nest outside our window and they are getting into some cracks in the wall and have taken up to living in our first floor ceiling. And we will have to see who needs to pay the bill as our block is run by strata. FUN!!!

first week of maternity leave

Well my maternity leave starts tomorrow and I am starring to think what the help am I going to do?! I know that I want to wash some of the baby clothes and start putting the sheets on thw cots mattress but I am not sure what else I should do. It is kind of weird going from having some thing to do for 8 hours of the day to having to think of something to do. I am sure I will get on the net and work out something do and talk to the swb girls as well as they soon will be on leave as well

Antenatal Class and Maternity Leave

Well on Thursday afternoon at 3pm i started Marernity Leave...and all i can say is THANK GOD!!!! I am so glad that i have started as i am now starting to notice that i am getting tired and needing a nap in the afternoon.

Also Today i finished my antenatal class, and i can now say that i am glad that i have done them. I have come out of them with a lot of knowledge and feel a lot more comfortable about the whole going into labour and delivering the baby. Today we talked about Breastfeeding/bottle feeding, Settling and sleeping, had a tour around the birthing and maternity unit we also watched a video called Being Dad which was really good and i think DH enjoyed seeing other dads talk about labour and breast feeding etc and hear what their experinces were.

Well at the moment other then the classes and my ultrasound that i had yesterday the next thing on my list is seeing Dr Davis on Wednesday and my baby shower next saturday.

32 week ultrasound

Today I had my 32 week ultrasound and they told me that everything is going perfectly! I am so happy to hear that awning was getting a bit worried as I am having all these extra ultrasounds, but when she told me that baby was saying baby was weighing a perfect 2.1kg and has a perfect heart rate and every organ was a perfect size I couldn't ask for anything more.

What made this ultrasound extra special is that I got to share it with my dad, unfortunately DH had to work and couldn't come so I asked my dad and he was over the moon that I asked him, it was really special and I loved that I could shade that with him.

Appointment with Dr Davis and Antenatal class

Well i haven't posted on here for a while so there is a little bit i need to catch you up on it.

Had an appointment with Dr Davis on the 8th September he did the usual things like checked my blood pressure, checked my urine, weight and fundal height. He also checked the postion of my baby his head was down towards my left leg and his feet were up under my left ribs...so he kind knows which way is down. All in all it was a good appointment, but i still wasn't ready to ask questions about the birth and what were my options with my blood conditions as i wanted to go to my first antenatal class to get some more information before i started asking questions which could be answered in those classes.

So on we went to our first Antenatal class not really knowing what to expect from it. There was a group of 16 of us including partners. The midwife that took the class was really good and made us feel comfortable as it looked like we weren't the only ones that were a bit nervious. There were a fair few topics covered in this first class (the antenatal classes are spread over two Saturday's) the topics are:

• Overview of labour stages
• How to recognise the onset of labour
• what if labour dose not start naturally?
• How to time a contraction
• when to come to the hospital
• Natural resources and strategies for labour
• Medical alternatives to pain relief
• Unexpected outcomes and obstetric procedures

There was a lot of info to take in over the 5 hour class and thank god they gave you an overview of all the topics covered as i was unable to take notes as i think i might have felt a bit over my head with about everything that was happening. They showed us a few videos as well about a natural labour with natural resources, a labour with Medical alternatives, a c-section, how the baby gets prepared for labour, an induction and how they put in an epidual.

Thankfully they provided morning tea and lunch as that gave you time to process the information inbetween. But i can say one thing it gives you a lot to think about and what choices you have when you go/don't go into labour.

Although one thing is that i have a lot of questions for Dr Davis now...probably more then i had before which i don't know if it is a good thing or not...i have another class next Saturday which i am really looking foward to as it will probably be the lighter side of the whole giving birth as we get a tour around the birthing/maternity suites, get to see a new born and also talk about setteling/sleeping and breast feeding/bottle feeding.


On another note 8 weeks to go!!! And 4 days of work to go!!!