Congratulations! Your pregnancy is now considered full-term: Your baby is developmentally ready to handle life outside the womb. He probably weighs a little over 6 pounds and measures between 19 and 20 inches.
Yay. About right too. Had an OB checkup on Friday and I haven't gained any weight - infact have lost 2lb since last week - hurrah. Discomfort levels are at new dizzy heights though. After all the bending and stooping down cleaning up poo and wee and vomit all week my back and pelvis are so bad that I can barely walk.
Since cutting in half the beta blockers, my heart rate is up and my BP is slightly up. I feel more agitated and I'm not sleeping so well. Nearly back to how I was before I started taking them. I have to cut out the other half this week and I imagine these symptoms will worsen more. The joys.
Dylan seems better. His rash has gone. He managed to go to a birthday party today and his fever hasn't spiked again. His only thing today has been to be convinced that someone is going to break into the house and strangle him. I have no idea why or where he's got this from but we've had a big chat about the likelihood of this being zero to none, the fact that people who break into houses tend normally to be opportunist thieves, and the fact that we do also have an alarm system which will scare off any of those if they did come anyway, which of course they won't because there are far bigger and better areas to burgle than where we live, plus there is hardly any crime rate here anyway. He seems reassured, although he then started on about monsters that come out when his lights are off. I suspect this is all his mind acting out a little with the forthcoming change of having a new baby.
Harry also seems a little better, touch wood he hasn't exploded today. Last night was interesting - he woke up at midnight screaming blue murder. G ran in to him and he sobbed ' I WEED MY TROUSERS'. He had a nappy on so he hadn't wet the trousers, but we realised that he hasn't had a night time accident pretty much since we started potty training him.... he is bone dry every morning. He has woken and asked to pee a few times, but the nappy is dry every morning and has been for weeks.
Last night I'd given him some medicine to get him off to sleep and relieve any discomfort he was feeling in the nether regions, and it'd obviously had him sleeping a little more soundly than usual so he had wet the nappy , but then woken extremely distressed about it. Anyway, the point being that aside from last night he has 100% night time trained himself and we hadn't even noticed. I hadn't wanted to bother with it really, the thought of changing bed linen at 3am while heavily pregnant or having to wake up any extra times with a newborn here waking me enough wasn't attractive so we've just been putting him in the nappy....but I guess wasting money seeing as he's never wet them once!
If you're surprised I hadn't realised this and am a neglectful mother - the reason is that G is nearly always the one who gets up and gets Harry onto the potty in the morning. He hadn't bothered to tell me that every morning nappy is dry.
Anyway - we have another weekend of getting this house more prepared for visitors and babies. Today we did a couple of chores but for some reason spent most of it building a train table track for Harry that can be permanently glued down (otherwise the second you build it he trashes it). We (G) did however also manage to put 2 blinds up, clean the stairs carpet, change some light bulbs and tidy up the playroom again. Tomorrow will be more of the same - what fun. Got to tidy up outside too, it looks a fright. Not sure why babies need all this doing to a house as it goes - they do though. G has drawn the line at emptying kitchen cupboards for some reason - he thinks the baby won't mind. I am stressed about this and think that they do infact need emptying!
Fathers Day tomorrow. I hope this doesn't mean that I have to get up early with the kids and leave him in bed all morning.
Posted by katie at June 17, 2007 12:18 AM