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Pregnancy Stuff

I don't feel like I've written much about this pregnancy, details wise, compared to what I wrote when I was having Harry. It's not because I'm any less interested or focussed on it, but more because I have less time to sit and write. When I was pregnant with Harry, Dylan was at school most of the day so I had time to think and spend online!

The first 15 weeks of this pregnancy - which I didn't really write about because we didn't tell anyone until I was past 12 weeks and then because we had family visiting - they were quite tough in terms of feeling vile and nauseous. I never experienced morning sickness with the boys and I had several weeks with this one of feeling utterly wretched. Thankfully I didn't actually barf, but it wasn't pleasant feeling dizzy and pukey all day. Following from that in the New Year I had 2 or 3 weeks of being knocked for 6 unable to get off the couch with exhaustion. I think this was a backlash from Christmas stress and also possibly some kind of virus. I then managed a couple of weeks of feeling alright before all the stressful weeks started with various diagnoses of doom from the Perinatologist.

Today, at 28.5 wks, I feel OK. The last couple of weeks were tough with stress and exhaustion but now that I'm relaxing back into my own pace and worrying a bit less about these prophecies of problems I am feeling alot better. The bump is still quite sore and painful, the more I do, and I am trying not to overdo it for fear of abruption or similar, but I'm alright. I've got a bit more energy than I've had in the last few weeks from somewhere - and I'm using it to manically 'nest' and prepare the Nursery.

The bump itself is funny. I didn't really show much at all for the first 15 weeks or so. This was very different to the boy pregnancies who popped out almost the second I discovered that I was pregnant. I then grew slowly for a few weeks but more recently have overnight become enormous-like-I'm-ready-to-pop large. This of course due to the Polyhydramnios. I have put weight on elsewhere, my arse is definitely bigger worse luck, as are my legs and - well, everywhere. I didn't do this so much with the boys, at least not so generally overall..... my face puffed out with both of them as it has this time. Out front though, Im now carrying her high and very 'out front' in the way that the boys were. She feels like she's already under my ribcage and man she is active - far more active than either of the lads were. She is on the go constantly.. hopefully this does not mean she will be a hyperactive child! :-)

For Steve: My boobs are now holding steady at 40 E !