35 Weeks

Getting and felling big, Big, BIG!!! Exactly 35 weeks in this picture. This week we have accomplished a few things, we toured the birthing centre and were very happy with what we saw. The rooms are well equipped for natural, "relaxing" birth, and don't have much of a hospital feel to them. The staff is very friendly, so I'm looking forward to having our baby there...with a caveat, as long as the little booger turns! We saw the midwife, who couldn't determine his position, so we are seeing the doctor next week for a scan. For now, I am visualizing and trying to turn him with hypnosis, and Rob keeps asking the baby to cooperate :)

We are also starting to get *LOTS* of deliveries of gifts and baby stuff. Here is the first glimpse of what that looks like! I'm so in love with our "Make a wish" Moses Basket, and we can't wait to use it!

33 Weeks

I'm 33 weeks and 5 days in this picture! Can't believe there are only around 6 weeks left until Lil Bobs is here!

Well, today we went for a private scan, as we wanted to make sure that the baby is growing well. We had future Grandmum Phyllis join us. The good news - the baby has average/textbook measurements, he is estimated to be around 5 pounds/2271 grams, and is healthy! Oh and once again, it IS a boy :) And he is already up to a bit of a mischief however and is in a breech position (bottom down), so he must have turned at some point last week. I'm not too worried because there is still some time for him to turn around and there are a few exercises that I can try - lots of "bum in the air on all fours". He is already causing some trouble :) And here is his alien looking face, which still looks super cute to me.

I also had a baby shower on May 11th, which happened to be Mother's day too. We had a wonderful time sipping tea from vintage cups, eating cucumber sandwiches and clotted cream scones and playing cheesy games on a Sunday afternoon and the baby got showered with lots of gifts, toys, cutest outfits etc. Special thank you to all of my friends who came and also to Liz for traveling from Birmingham for a few hours (and from Australia of course)

31 weeks

31 weeks and 5 days in this pictures, so almost 32 weeks!

This week we saw the midwife, because I was worried about lack of significant weight gain, they measured my belly and listened to the baby's heartbeat and told us there was nothing to be concerned about, so that's good. As long as everything is good, I can't complain about keeping the pounds off :)

I also celebrated my 31st birthday on my 31st week of pregnancy (that's a Happy Birthday card in my pocket)! We had a very low key pizza making party with our friends, I got lots of amazing and mostly "domestic" presents - apron, kitchen tools, potted flowers, baby stuff etc :) I guess we are entering a different phase of life! Compared to crazy limo/clubbing party last year - a big change!

We also had our first Hypnobirthing class session with Stina Richardson, and I am very interested in seeing how the techniques she teaches would make labor magically painless and wonderful :)
http://www.calmbirthcalmbaby.com/what-we-do-and-where/west-london/stina/