Our 23 Week Scan

It was so amazing to see our baby at 23 weeks today.... A very exciting day for both Lee and I, although the baby didn't cooperate at first so I had to take a walk, jump up and down, eat a banana and go back for more scanning! Then we managed to see and hear that the baby was all there and looking healthy... Yeay, that was fantastic to hear and put lots of worries to rest... Apparently the baby is average size and weighs just over 1lb at the moment with lots of growing to do from here on in - eek!

22 Weeks

It's only when I look at photos of myself do I realise how much my belly is growing, but I still have a way to go which scares the life out of me.... I wonder just how big my belly will get???

Midwife Appointment - 10 April 2008

I had my formal check up with our midwife Jan this afternoon. So far, so fantastic! The baby has been kicking like crazy over the last few weeks and its getting stronger. It will either be a premiership footballer or a member of the Royal Ballet! It always reacts to Lee's dulcet tones or Kanye West.... Mmmmm, I haven't given it the pleasure of singing to it yet!
It's heartbeat was fast and strong which is a great sign.... Only 5 days until our 23 week scan - can't wait.

Our next midwife appointment will be on 20th May.

As for me, I am finally feeling normal and I would go as far to say I feel great. The sickness as really subsided and only catches up on me every other morning or so, but at least the whole day and night of feeling as sick as a dog has gone - YIPPEE!

Lee and I have a trial run at parenting....

I will leave it to the girls to decide how we did but it was fun for us (even though we waved goodbye to them in the afternoon and went straight to bed for a cat nap!!) It made us wonder what we are getting ourselves into. Still we had lots of fun and with the blanket of snow that fell on Sidcup we took the girls out for a snowball fight - Holly and I came off worse, we really must work on our throwing skills cause Lee and Gracie seemed to have the perfect shot...
Having walked them around the park it was time to head back home for a hot chocolate and more sing-a-long High School Musical 2.... Ahhhh the joy of pretend parenting :)

18.5 Weeks and my belly is this big!

It has started to grow quite a bit over the last couple of weeks. I no longer feel like a fraud when we go shopping in Mamas and Papas or Mothercare!

The decorating begins!

Lee has been a very busy man this weekend starting work on the babies room... I of course had to steer clear of the fumes so went shopping :) The room has been cleared and the hideous blue walls have gone, we have decided on a neutral colour scheme as we are still undecided on finding out our babies sex before the birth (well I say that, I want to and Lee doesn't - I think he may win!)

Meeting the midwife!

Today we met our super lovely midwife Jan who came round this morning for a cup of tea and to check out our love nest! We spent the hour going through medical history and just before she went she got out her little box and we listened to the babys heart beat! It was so amazing and a reassuring to hear our little ones heart beating so fast (149 beats).... So everything remains OK - yippee!

Will the sickness ever get better??

Oh my goodness I am so over this sickness!! IWho ever named it morning sickness was so wrong, it should be called morning, noon and night sickness. Just a whiff of toilet cleaner or pizza or garlic, in fact most food makes me want to barf. Especially Lee's "manfume" which normally makes me want to sniff and snuggle in to him actually makes me want to chunder... Ohhhh but guaranteed to make me dry wretch for 15 minutes happens every morning and night when I have to pluck up the courage to clean my teeth.... This is the only time I can eat for two and get away with it and I have gone off food & lost weight!!

13 Week Scan

We finally got to see our baby for the first time today.... I cried, Lee was brave and cuddled me! Everything is looking good and we have a low risk pregnancy. I didn't even pass out when my bloods were being taken (although I did feel dodgy!)

Phew, now on to the next step

The morning sickness is still horrible, lasting all day and night. I feel OK around lunch time but every other evening, Lee spends the night rubbing my back whilst I am bent over the loo (nice eh)

Roll on those next few weeks when hopefully, the sickness will ease up???

We have a date....

for our first scan, we are both very excited! Monday 11 February, 13:30 at Queen Marys Hospital, Sidcup... All of our fingers and toes are crossed. It is amazing to think that we will see and hear our baby for the first time. We wish it were today!