Just waiting...............
And waiting...............
And waiting...............
I have done everything I need to do before waiting to meet Ruby.
I was so certain early on that Ruby would come early as I did (3 weeks early) and my siblings did (each 2 weeks early). But Ruby has already surpassed this and my OB and acupuncturist both seem fairly confident she is in there for the long haul! At my last OB visit she was not engaged at all and although she is head down she is running up my left side with all her limbs reaching out to the right. She is also leaning a little towards being spine to spine which is not ideal we need her spine to my front.
Since last post I have discovered that the right side chest pain just under my breast is actually rib cartilage tenderness from my uterus and Ruby pushing up on my ribs. So now I know that at least it is normal - I'm not concerned.
Nights still have not gotten any better with the side pain, but I am now also experiencing what feels like muscular aches and pains or sometimes light stitches in my groin/lower abdomen area when shifting positions in bed also. How many more sleeps til she will come?
Days are going fine. I'm a bit bored and constantly disappointed that my energy levels are not as high as normal and that I can't do all the things I normally could - ie. go shopping for a decent period, move my bowels like a normal person etc. I'm finding it strange that I look at the week ahead and the highlight of my to do list (well truthfully the only thing on my to do list) is my next OB appointment on Friday. At this one he is going to do an internal to check my pelvis size -then determining whether or not he thinks Rubes is going to fit.
I have been drinking raspberry leaf tea since 35 weeks and have this week increased it to two cups per day. I have also taken up snacking on soft eating liquorice as I've been told it can help induce labour - who knows? But surely it can't hurt?
I have only had one episode that I am confident was Braxton Hicks which was at about 37 and a half weeks. I experienced lower light period type cramps and lower back pain which would both come and go in waves (the back pain felt worse than the period type pain). It lasted for about two hours and lying down in bed made it go away.
I'm sure I'll be doing another post titled how far along I am before she comes........although I tell her everyday if she's getting a lil cramped in there she is welcome to come on out!
Can't wait to meet her :)
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
35 weeks, 4 days...
Cannot believe it has been 10 weeks since my last post!
Everything is going so well........still cannot believe how lucky I am!
We have had another scan with our OB at 30 weeks, and a 4D scan at 31 weeks both of which reveal a healthily growing baby girl. The OB measured Ruby to way 1670g which is about 1.5 weeks ahead of schedule weight wise - he said she has been in good pastures!
The 4D scan was so amazing and I am so glad we had it done. Ruby is a gorgeous lil thing with her mummy's nose, cute lil full lips and a habit of having her left hand up in front of her face.
I could watch the DVD once a day and still be amazed by it!
For the OB scan at 30 weeks she was head up, but within less than a week she was head down for the 4D one and at every appointment so far she has stayed that way! She is such a good girl!
We have done our parenting classes weekend and learnt all we need to know about labour, how to wrap, bath and change a baby etc.
We had maternity photos done at 34 weeks - haven't got the photos yet but saw a few straight after she shot them and they look great.
I want to have as much as we can to remember this pregnancy as we have waited and worked so long and hard for this to happen and if it only happens once, I want to look back on it without any regrets of 'i wish we'd done this' etc.
The last couple of weeks my weight gaining has slowed. It was averaging about half a kilo a week for a fair while. Last week I did not gain any weight at all and when I questioned my OB about it he said that around 12kgs from 16 weeks to FT is a good range for me - I was at 10.5kgs so that doesn't seem to be a worry.
My platelets on the other hand do seem to be a bit of a worry. Over about a two month period they were 130 - 140 - 127 so OB ordered a full blood screen of all things plateletty and we get the results on Tuesday. All he has really said is that if they get too low which i think might be under 100 there is risk of bleeding during pregnancy and delivery as it makes the clotting of blood harder.
I finished work last Wednesday and since then have said goodbye to the back pain, and aching pelvis (unless I have a big morning shopping with my mum like i did yesterday.) If i can keep the activity fairly low and have my feet up a lot the pelvis pain is irrelevant (except for when I'm rolling around in bed at night.)
I have developed a hate of going to bed at night as although i love my sleep, I get aching hips and legs from sleeping on each side all night and by morning I'm in so much pain i cannot sleep on either side any more and have to sleep semi upright. My OB has confirmed that I cannot sleep on my back as it can cut off blood supply to the baby. I'd say at least once a night I wake up on my back and have a mini freak out for a minute.
I have a strange pain kind of in my chest underneath my right breast and on the top of my belly. It is kind of like a burning pain, and I can't pinpoint why/when exactly it is happening. I'm fairly confident it is not heartburn or indigestion. It seems less frequent when I'm not wearing a bra - so I've tried not to when I'm at home. It feels a lot better when I can stretch it out....I'm going to ask my acupuncturist and OB about it at the next visits.
Ruby is very active each day. As her head is down her body is running up the left side of my belly and her limbs stick out across to the right side. She will often have a big stretch and it feels like she is trying to evacuate out the right side - stretching it as far as it will go!
She is super clever with her kicks and rolls and moves - I still get a smile and giggle out of them every day.
Although I love being pregnant and know when I was dying for this day to come I said that 'when I fall pregnant I will never complain' I have done my fair share of whinging and am calling this the whinging end of the pregnancy.
Can't wait to meet my baby girl - anytime after 37 weeks! :)
Everything is going so well........still cannot believe how lucky I am!
We have had another scan with our OB at 30 weeks, and a 4D scan at 31 weeks both of which reveal a healthily growing baby girl. The OB measured Ruby to way 1670g which is about 1.5 weeks ahead of schedule weight wise - he said she has been in good pastures!
The 4D scan was so amazing and I am so glad we had it done. Ruby is a gorgeous lil thing with her mummy's nose, cute lil full lips and a habit of having her left hand up in front of her face.
I could watch the DVD once a day and still be amazed by it!
For the OB scan at 30 weeks she was head up, but within less than a week she was head down for the 4D one and at every appointment so far she has stayed that way! She is such a good girl!
We have done our parenting classes weekend and learnt all we need to know about labour, how to wrap, bath and change a baby etc.
We had maternity photos done at 34 weeks - haven't got the photos yet but saw a few straight after she shot them and they look great.
I want to have as much as we can to remember this pregnancy as we have waited and worked so long and hard for this to happen and if it only happens once, I want to look back on it without any regrets of 'i wish we'd done this' etc.
The last couple of weeks my weight gaining has slowed. It was averaging about half a kilo a week for a fair while. Last week I did not gain any weight at all and when I questioned my OB about it he said that around 12kgs from 16 weeks to FT is a good range for me - I was at 10.5kgs so that doesn't seem to be a worry.
My platelets on the other hand do seem to be a bit of a worry. Over about a two month period they were 130 - 140 - 127 so OB ordered a full blood screen of all things plateletty and we get the results on Tuesday. All he has really said is that if they get too low which i think might be under 100 there is risk of bleeding during pregnancy and delivery as it makes the clotting of blood harder.
I finished work last Wednesday and since then have said goodbye to the back pain, and aching pelvis (unless I have a big morning shopping with my mum like i did yesterday.) If i can keep the activity fairly low and have my feet up a lot the pelvis pain is irrelevant (except for when I'm rolling around in bed at night.)
I have developed a hate of going to bed at night as although i love my sleep, I get aching hips and legs from sleeping on each side all night and by morning I'm in so much pain i cannot sleep on either side any more and have to sleep semi upright. My OB has confirmed that I cannot sleep on my back as it can cut off blood supply to the baby. I'd say at least once a night I wake up on my back and have a mini freak out for a minute.
I have a strange pain kind of in my chest underneath my right breast and on the top of my belly. It is kind of like a burning pain, and I can't pinpoint why/when exactly it is happening. I'm fairly confident it is not heartburn or indigestion. It seems less frequent when I'm not wearing a bra - so I've tried not to when I'm at home. It feels a lot better when I can stretch it out....I'm going to ask my acupuncturist and OB about it at the next visits.
Ruby is very active each day. As her head is down her body is running up the left side of my belly and her limbs stick out across to the right side. She will often have a big stretch and it feels like she is trying to evacuate out the right side - stretching it as far as it will go!
She is super clever with her kicks and rolls and moves - I still get a smile and giggle out of them every day.
Although I love being pregnant and know when I was dying for this day to come I said that 'when I fall pregnant I will never complain' I have done my fair share of whinging and am calling this the whinging end of the pregnancy.
Can't wait to meet my baby girl - anytime after 37 weeks! :)
Friday, February 18, 2011
25 weeks, 4 days
So pregnancy is = slack blog........
Since I last posted I guess there has not been too much going on really:
-Had a UTI which took two lots of antibiotics to clear it up;
-Have received advice that our nursery furniture order is ready to pick up and hopefully we can go and get it this weekend!
- We have had a Doppler check a couple of times;
-I had my first emotional/sooky morning
-Ruby is doing all sorts of cool tricks and moves in my belly and i can see poke from under my shirt - which makes me giggle!
-One of my besties sent out my BB shower invites for early April!!!
-My belly measures at approx 103cm circumference (at its widest point) in the mornings;
-I can't seem to get through the day without a flavoured milk or hot chocolate and an orange;
-Ruby's quilt top that i made has been sent off to get quilted and should be finished very shortly!
-I got up enough courage to post my baby bump on facebook;
-I've really slowed down with the purchasing off baby items, realising that I will get so much at my baby shower and can leave whats left on my list until after then;
- After today I have 8.5 weeks left at work!!!!
- After my next OB appointment @ 28 weeks we are down to ftnly appointments!!!
Will try and post more regularly and put a newish pic up next post :)
Since I last posted I guess there has not been too much going on really:
-Had a UTI which took two lots of antibiotics to clear it up;
-Have received advice that our nursery furniture order is ready to pick up and hopefully we can go and get it this weekend!
- We have had a Doppler check a couple of times;
-I had my first emotional/sooky morning
-Ruby is doing all sorts of cool tricks and moves in my belly and i can see poke from under my shirt - which makes me giggle!
-One of my besties sent out my BB shower invites for early April!!!
-My belly measures at approx 103cm circumference (at its widest point) in the mornings;
-I can't seem to get through the day without a flavoured milk or hot chocolate and an orange;
-Ruby's quilt top that i made has been sent off to get quilted and should be finished very shortly!
-I got up enough courage to post my baby bump on facebook;
-I've really slowed down with the purchasing off baby items, realising that I will get so much at my baby shower and can leave whats left on my list until after then;
- After today I have 8.5 weeks left at work!!!!
- After my next OB appointment @ 28 weeks we are down to ftnly appointments!!!
Will try and post more regularly and put a newish pic up next post :)
Saturday, January 15, 2011
20 weeks 6 days
Since my last post we have had our morphology scan and another quick scan with our ob. Both concur that embie is doing well, and is within whats considered normal for this stage of pregnancy. They also both concur that it is a girl!
We have been calling her Ruby ever since!!!
With the morphology scan we got a cute lil 5min dvd that shows her moving around and all her lil body parts like still shots of both legs, feet, arms, hands etc.
I'm so excited to be having a little girl, although would have been just as excited to be told it was a boy! I love that it makes it seem more real, knowing the sex and I also think it is helping with the bonding of all three of us!
I've been feeling really healthy over the last few weeks. My belly feels like its grown heaps, but when I measure once a week, its not growing that quickly really. I have still only gained a total of 1.4 kgs so far, and I lost a lot more than that in the first trimester as well.
I expect to be gaining around 1/2kg a week for the rest of the 2nd trimester????
Ruby should be about 17 cm from head to rump right about now, and if she's anything like her parents, she'll probably have some long legs to boot!
I've bought lots of pink stuff to even out the blue clothing I already had from previous pregnancies and am now happy that she will be pretty in pink.
Within the last 2 weeks I am now confident of the movement she is making and some of her kicks are unmistakeably strong! My husband felt his first kick at 19 weeks 6 days. We seem to feel them the most in the late afternoons/evenings and the position I sit in on the couch seems to be ideal (that is where we have both felt the most and the strongest!).
Loving being pregnant and can see me wanting to be in this situation a lot more in my future, which is a big change to the first 12 weeks when I was so scared shitless that I didn't think I'd want to be pregnant ever again!
We have been calling her Ruby ever since!!!
With the morphology scan we got a cute lil 5min dvd that shows her moving around and all her lil body parts like still shots of both legs, feet, arms, hands etc.
I'm so excited to be having a little girl, although would have been just as excited to be told it was a boy! I love that it makes it seem more real, knowing the sex and I also think it is helping with the bonding of all three of us!
I've been feeling really healthy over the last few weeks. My belly feels like its grown heaps, but when I measure once a week, its not growing that quickly really. I have still only gained a total of 1.4 kgs so far, and I lost a lot more than that in the first trimester as well.
I expect to be gaining around 1/2kg a week for the rest of the 2nd trimester????
Ruby should be about 17 cm from head to rump right about now, and if she's anything like her parents, she'll probably have some long legs to boot!
I've bought lots of pink stuff to even out the blue clothing I already had from previous pregnancies and am now happy that she will be pretty in pink.
Within the last 2 weeks I am now confident of the movement she is making and some of her kicks are unmistakeably strong! My husband felt his first kick at 19 weeks 6 days. We seem to feel them the most in the late afternoons/evenings and the position I sit in on the couch seems to be ideal (that is where we have both felt the most and the strongest!).
Loving being pregnant and can see me wanting to be in this situation a lot more in my future, which is a big change to the first 12 weeks when I was so scared shitless that I didn't think I'd want to be pregnant ever again!
Sunday, January 2, 2011
18 weeks, 6 days
Just two more sleeps until our morphology scan which will a) let us know that embie is still doing ok, b) let us know about any deformities c) determine the sex of our little one!
I am getting super scared about the scan day, as I know that if anything is wrong with embie, like its heart has stopped beating, that's when we will find out.
Since I last posted I have noticed that I have been snappier than usual (especially at my poor husband). I can relate to it feeling like PMS. I have put on 1kg which I am very proud of, and my tummy has gained another centimetre.
I still haven't felt anything that I'm confident about being embie moving around inside, and cannot wait until that happens.
I have notice a change in my bowel movements in that they have gone a little more towards the constipation end of the scale than in my first trimester. I'm not concerned really as I know this is very common, but I am wondering what has caused the change? Is it just my digestive system slowing down? Is the fibre I'm consuming in a different form due to change of seasons and change of fruit and veges etc?
My only real cravings so far have been boost juice (in the first trimester), twisties and then and now cheezels, and I feel one forming for fresh bun loaf! Notice no healthy ones!
Our collection of baby items is coming along nicely, with embie's nursery starting to fill slowly with bits and pieces. I have formed a list of outstanding items which I am going to try and stick to now, rather than just buying all the cute things I see. After the scan on Tuesday, when we know the sex and safety of the baby, we are going to decide on and order the nursery furniture. As well as buying some more sex specific clothing/blankets/towels etc.
We have decided on a sherbet/pastel orange colour for a feature wall in the nursery, as it goes well with two large toys and the main cot set we have bought for the room. We also wanted to go a unisex colour so that the nursery would be appropriate for all of our future children (fingers crossed) and not just whatever sex the first one was.
After Tuesday (all going well) I might post some pics of the little one, and an update on my tummy if it has grown any further.
I am getting super scared about the scan day, as I know that if anything is wrong with embie, like its heart has stopped beating, that's when we will find out.
Since I last posted I have noticed that I have been snappier than usual (especially at my poor husband). I can relate to it feeling like PMS. I have put on 1kg which I am very proud of, and my tummy has gained another centimetre.
I still haven't felt anything that I'm confident about being embie moving around inside, and cannot wait until that happens.
I have notice a change in my bowel movements in that they have gone a little more towards the constipation end of the scale than in my first trimester. I'm not concerned really as I know this is very common, but I am wondering what has caused the change? Is it just my digestive system slowing down? Is the fibre I'm consuming in a different form due to change of seasons and change of fruit and veges etc?
My only real cravings so far have been boost juice (in the first trimester), twisties and then and now cheezels, and I feel one forming for fresh bun loaf! Notice no healthy ones!
Our collection of baby items is coming along nicely, with embie's nursery starting to fill slowly with bits and pieces. I have formed a list of outstanding items which I am going to try and stick to now, rather than just buying all the cute things I see. After the scan on Tuesday, when we know the sex and safety of the baby, we are going to decide on and order the nursery furniture. As well as buying some more sex specific clothing/blankets/towels etc.
We have decided on a sherbet/pastel orange colour for a feature wall in the nursery, as it goes well with two large toys and the main cot set we have bought for the room. We also wanted to go a unisex colour so that the nursery would be appropriate for all of our future children (fingers crossed) and not just whatever sex the first one was.
After Tuesday (all going well) I might post some pics of the little one, and an update on my tummy if it has grown any further.
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