I can’t quite believe how quickly this pregnancy has gone! I was nervous that when we found out we were expecting that it was going to seriously drag! I can’t believe there are potentially only 10 weeks left!!!
From the minute I found out I was pregnant I started suffering with morning sickness but it wasn’t until I was about 8 or 9 weeks that I was actually sick.. it then became a daily occurrence most days up until about 17/18 weeks.
We went for our first scan on Friday 13th October, not an unlucky day for us at all! It was perfect and seeing that flickering heartbeat for the first time. It’s such a special moment when you have to wait weeks and weeks after seeing those 2 blue lines, or the word pregnant on a test.. you almost begin to down it may be true until you see that flicker and small little person on the screen! We loved our 12 week scan as it was SO clear!!!
We decided pretty quickly after finding out, that we wanted to find out what we were having, I really wasn’t bothered about finding out but Adam really wanted to know so we decided to book a private scan. There is a place on our street which does it that I’d heard fantastic reviews about so we booked a scan for there. We also loved the fact you could take as many people as you wanted with you and planned a lovely trip with my mum and dad, Nanna, Adams mum and dad and grandma however everything didn’t work to plan when the equipment broke a couple of days before meaning we couldn’t go on the Saturday we had planned, meaning we had to go on the Friday night instead. Thanks to technology we can were able to WhatsApp video Adams mum and dad meaning they could still be part of the experience and we all found out together that we were expecting a little girl.
We really didn’t mind what the gender was however I was pretty convinced that it was a girl right from the start!
We went for our 20 week scan (where they pretty much confirmed it was a girl) and we got to see our little princess in SO much detail! I spent a lot of the week before worrying about the scan, often named the abnormality scan, however it was absolutely fine and as I say.. we saw everything in such perfect detail, including the 4 chambers of her heart which was amazing!
The time from 20-30 weeks has gone pretty darn quickly (after hearing how slowly this bit can go). I think the advantage we had in between was we had Christmas and New Year in the middle of this so it provided something else to focus the time on.
As we have moved towards 30 weeks I’ve had the occasional bout of sickness again. I haven’t had any massively weird and wonderful cravings and I haven’t put a massive amount of weight on (I’ve continued to do slimming world and have put a grand total of around 5 pounds on in total over my pregnancy).
Sleeping hasn’t caused too many issues so far apart from occasional heart burn and a pain in my hip/top of my leg which I was having before pregnancy but has got worse since falling pregnant, it basically means my whole leg goes numb! Fun!!
Little lady is a huge wriggler and over the past few weeks has become SO active to the point where you can see my whole belly move! It’s honestly better than watching the TV sometimes!
The countdown is well and truly on now. I’ve dropped down to 4 days at work to use the rest of my annual leave up (meaning a cheeky mid week lie in) and I’ve got 7 weeks left to do before I finish for maternity leave! Not that I’m counting at all!
I can’t wait for the next 10 weeks to go and for her to be here now! It’s all so exciting especially as everything comes together!
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