20-11-2009 - 27 weeks

My mood while writing this blog: Doing well

Hello ladies, sorry I've not been on much, but I am doing well.

I'm 27 weeks this week. I've been really, really busy at work but finally today has come! 4 weeks exactly til I finish up on mat leave. Feels like I'm running out of time to get things done there, but when people keep piling things on your desk it's hard to make any headway. So I promised myself that when I was left with 4 weeks to go I'd start to relax a bit. What doesn't get done, well it doesn't get done does it?

So what else has been happening? Baby moves lots now, and is getting stronger, kicks me often and rolls about in my belly. He/she appears to know daddy's voice too. When I come in from work and we start talking baby goes a bit loopy. I thought I was imagining it at first, but it happens all the time and it is funny. And boy is baby getting heavy. I feel like it could fall out of the bottom of my stomach some of the time. Don't know if this is normal or not, or if it's cause I had weak stomach muscles to begin with.

Saw the midwife a while back and she said the baby is big, but we don't have small babies in our family so I wasn't surprised.

I had the H1N1 jab this week. I know some of you probably will choose not to, but I felt I was being left with no choice. My doctor was incredulous when I said I wasn't sure about it. She then told me of all the people she had been treating, including pregnant women and she told me she had the jab too. She said it's definitely in my area and they are concerned about the Christmas holiday period and think that this is when the pandemic will start to pick up. I thought about it for a fortnight, indeed I thought about nothing else! It was hell. My sister in law is obviously pregnant too and we both talked at length about the worries we had. In the end I decided I had to take it. I have to think about baby being born in February, with no immunity, and the queue of visitors who will come to my door to meet him/her, and potentially the germs they may bring unknowingly to my baby. Baby cannot then be immunised until he/she is 6 months old and they are saying it's the children that appear to being affected now. So I decided I had thought about it long enough and I made the decision to take the jab. I then went down to the clinic and had a complete wobbler!! I couldn't stop crying and they wouldn't give me it. They sent me home again, and told me if I regretted going home I could come back within two hours and they would still give me it. Or I could re-book for the following week. I went and spoke to my mum and we talked at length, again! And I went back down and got it. Didn't hurt me, and I hope and pray it won't hurt my baby either. So I am now sporting an extremely sore arm, which keeps me awake at night when I turn over onto it by mistake, but I haven't got the flu, or any related symptoms to it. So anyone who prays please pray for my baby if you don't mind.

I have never in my life wanted to eat so many sweet things as I do now. I try to control it thought, cause these things are not good for me I know, but oh my goodness I just want to eat cheese and mince pies and puddings and jelly sweeties......

So that's about all at the moment. I hope everyone is keeping well and getting sorted for Christmas and the holidays.

:-) See you all soon........