Welcome back to the pregnancy diaries series. While I have no thoughts about a second pregnancy myself, I didn’t want this blog to simply move into toddler land as Pip grows up. It is about surviving motherhood and that includes pregnancy and the new baby days.Suzie (Pitter Patterfollow) and A (One Half Of Usfollow) will be sharing some posts about pregnancy and planning for a baby. Their guest posts will be a mixture of the philosophical and practical.
I can hardly believe that this is likely the last pregnancy post that A will be be writing. Very soon I am sure I will be heading to Wales to meet my new niece or nephew. It is so exciting! I am hoping A will be back after the birth to share some more posts, but in the meantime, good luck my darling with the last few days/weeks of your pregnancy. And thank you so much for being such an excellent guest poster.
Right now I would like this baby to make an appearance. I can’t wait to find out if it’s a boy or girl, and to see the very long legs it surely must have to be able to kick me the way it does. In recent days the baby has been doing a series of strange shuddering movements, and I have been in and out of hospital being monitored. So far so good, but no answers as to what is happening. All in all, baby making an appearance would reassure me that (s)he is doing ok.
But ask me in a few hours and I may have switched back to thinking that maybe I’d prefer the baby to stay in: among other things, it makes no noise, requires no feeding throughout the night, and can be taken anywhere with me.
Despite swinging mentally between wanting to meet the baby NOW, and being quite happy just to be ‘us’ for a little longer, I think we’re almost ready. Physically, the baby has a place to sleep, a way to travel (both on foot and in the car), and enough clothes and nappies to last a while! We have a nursery set up, although this is still a work-in-progress as our bathroom renovation has been forefront in our spare time usage. After weeks of begging bathroom usage from friends, we now a fully functioning shower again. I spent a crazy day of clearing up and cleaning, and the house is now almost back to normal. Minus painted nursery walls and a bathroom floor, we are as ready as I guess we’ll ever be.
It hasn’t quite sunk in yet that I’m going to be a mother, but as I’m now at 39+6, it will have to soon! Ready or not, our baby will be with us before we know it.
good luck! I remember those mixed feelings at the end of a pregnancy – desperate to meet the little person and apprehensive about the huge changes about to happen!
Aw, this all feels a long time ago for me. Good luck!
good luck! this brings back such memories! x