Just turn!

One significant difference between this pregnancy and the one with Daisy, is the painful kicking. For some reason, the Minibean manages to make it feel like it's poking my cervix with needles, lodging its little toes right down the bottom of my uterus and occasionally jabbing a nerve in my lower back that makes my right leg give way. Seriously, just turn head down and stay that way! I am tall enough that toes against ribs is a much lesser problem.

I wonder what's changed in my body for this unpleasantness to occur? The mysteries of pregnancy...

Birthday girl

Today is Daisy's birthday, hip hip hooray! Three years old, and her last birthday as a single child. To celebrate we had cake and friends over to play!

Vaccine day

Went and had shots for flu and whooping cough today. It feels weird to inject something, anything, when you're pregnant. But it would be weirder to risk a newborn with whooping cough, so there you go.

Getting ready

Last time I was pregnant I don't recall being too fussed with getting things ready. We had a pile of baby stuff (cot, pram, hand-me-down clothes, etc.) under the stairs, but I didn't start sorting through until the last few weeks before due date. Washing baby clothes, assembling furniture and such.

This time I can't wait. I just want to drag all my stored and newly bought baby stuff out and start sorting and arranging. I even have to stop myself from starting to pack the nappy bag for the hospital. I have allowed myself to make a list, but that's it.

I want to get the cot ready, get the change table up and stocked with varieties of nappies, wipes and onesies, fold down the pram bassinet ready with blankets and all... But it seems a bit premature to do all that now. I'll leave it until August. If I can.

Week 29

Shoes, bags and...

Cloth nappies! Somehow cloth nappies have the same MUST HAVE effect on me as cool shoes ans pretty handbags. I have two entire birth to potty sets, one a hybrid system and the other a prefold system. However, I still feel I need more. So many funky covers, so many new varieties of inserts to try.

There are always ways to justify more nappies. Always.