At times, especially since the last 1/4 hit it feels like the time is dragging but that's probably because I'm having to drag myself around with this big chubba bubba resting on my bladder all day long and it's definitely feeling like an extreme effort, especially in this heat...ok I know I keep mentioning how much I'm suffering in this heat but it's true, I'm beginning to think that prison's who have repeat escapee convicts should ditch the handcuff's and 4x6 cells and just strap a pregnancy suit on them and stick them under a couple of heat lamps and they'll soon see that they won't be running anywhere, they'll be beaching themselves on the floor begging for their baby to be taken off them and swearing good behaviour for all eternity!
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| 33 weeks along. |
One thing I've noticed over the past week is how much more clingy my boy is becoming towards me, he was already a mama's boy to begin with so the extra effort I'm sticking in is sucking my fuel tanks dry...but no-one said motherhood was easy, it's all about self sacrifice and even though I'm heavily pregnant it's still no excuse to be selfish and put my own wants and needs before his, and this won't be lasting forever....less than 6 weeks to go and my body will be all mine again! I will miss being pregnant but I also look forward to handing the reins over with Squirt's upbringing and once I'm fully healed from my c-section I'll be running around searching out polka dotted elephants to kiss in my backyard with Hunter!
Miss Holly is especially looking forward to meeting her baby brother and loves telling everyone all the things she will be doing to help mummy out, she is particularly determined to fold the washing (which I know neat freak mummy will end up refolding anyway lol) and is fascinated with mummy's efforts to bring milk in for breast feeding, I ended up in a very in depth and factual conversation with her last week (all the facts coming from her of course). I was told about the differences between cow's milk and mummy's milk among other things and it was very entertaining listening to a 3 year old's perspective on it all, they really are a lot more observant than what we think, they take in everything!
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| Miss Holly giving her baby brother a tummy cuddle |
So speaking of milk, Sara has now begun pumping, last week in fact, and was doing it 3 hourly even through the night, this week she has been ordered to increase it to every 2 hours, she pumps (using a hospital grade electronic pump) to hopefully bring in her milk supply after all the drugs she's been on to create it and so far it's working, it's tiring time consuming work and at times she get's discouraged but I just keep reminding her that it won't be forever, even though it feels like it will be at 4am while you watch your husband snore away blissfully while you have a mini milking machine tugging on your boobs! It's great practice for a newborn and all this pumping will give her a head start with adjusting to the sleep deprivation, you always have to look on the bright side and this is definitely a bonus to all the effort and time put into it. So if you find yourself talking to Sara make sure you offer her lots of encouragement to keep up the hard work, she needs lots of cheerleaders in her corner at the moment!
So the countdown is on...39 days to go, or less, depending if this little dude decides to make an early appearance! That's not very long at all, soon these belly shots will be replaced with newborn photo's!
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