Half way there! x

Just a short little post to share that I am officially HALF WAY whoooo! 20 weeks today and only 20 weeks until we meet our little girl! Time is going fast and I am feeling bigger and it's all feeling that little bit more real.

 At 20 weeks, baby is now starting to develop its senses and becoming more responsive to changes including activity from the mother (sure she can hear my stomach gurgling after a Maccy D's) and sounds outside. Baby is also starting to grow actual HAIR as well as the nose and ears taking their proper shape. How exciting.

Here is my 20 week bumpage.

xoxo

Baby Clothes Haul

This weekend has been rather rubbish in pregnancy land! My hormones have been everywhere and combined with my already existing depression/anxiety, I have been feeling pretty low. However my mum and Michael have been amazing at keeping my spirits up and also little baby girl has been moving LOTS the past few days (including what feels like a few somersaults!) which is such a wonderful feeling. On the plus side also, I AM HALF WAY tomorrow-20 weeks whoooo!

I have been suffering really badly with my hip, leg and back pain which I have now discovered is something called Pelvic Girdle Pain. It has been so bad today I had to call in sick to work as I got no sleep last night and it hurts so much to move. It really has been getting me down. I have decided to invest in a pregnancy pillow it's supposed to help with this type of pain. 

Today I have spent most of my time in bed not doing anything (except feeling girlie constantly moving) and it's been rather depressing which is why I thought I'd do a little blog post about all the lovely clothes I have got recently.

Michael and I discovered a lovely website called Vertbaudet last week and Michael purchased a few things he really liked. They haven't come through the post yet but here are a few pics from the website. They had an amazing offer on where, as a new customer, you get £15 off when you spend £20! Incredible! We also bought a cute little pink toy box to put all her bits in.

Cute Polar Bear Baby Grows

Little Pink Parka Coat

I also bought a few bits from Ebay and charity shops...

Gorgeous nautical dress (would so wear this in a big version myself!)-£2.60

Pretty pink ladybird dress-£2.19

Little pink baby shoes-99p

Next Cat Dress-50p from Charity Shop

Miffy booties (thanks Mum) and Hello Kitty booties-£1

Babygrow from charity shop-£1 (thanks again Mum)

Lovely snuggly onesie (£1) and snowsuit (50p) from charity shop.

I do love bargains! 
Will be back with a 20 week post tomorrow and a video next week after our scan!
xoxo

Bumps, kicks and heartbeats! x

I am officially 19 weeks today, can't believe I am nearly half way and I'm counting down the days until our next scan in 2 weeks time. Baby is growing very quickly now (just over 14cm from crown to rump), she can possibly hear and recognise my voice now so every now and then, I sing and have a little chat to her. Very sad I know.

I had a wonderful moment on Sunday when our baby girlie kicked me for the first time! I haven't really felt anything since but it was definitely a kick, whilst I was lying and resting on the bed and was actually a little painful! It was so special though and every night since Michael has been hoping to feel another kick but baby isn't ready quite yet. I have an anterior placenta which means I may not feel too much until I am about 22 weeks or so. 

However my bump is growing nicely and I am very lucky that I am only really putting weight on my stomach and nowhere else, for now! My bump still hasn't popped nicely but it is getting much rounder and harder and now the weather is improving, I am going to get out the summer dresses (the ones that fit!) to show my bump off and also treat myself to a few nice maternity dresses. There has to be something positive about being pregnant in the summer!

I am still suffering really badly from my hip and pain in my side but on the plus side, my hair is getting rather nice and thick and shiny which I believe is one of the only nice pregnancy symptoms! At 19 weeks, pains like I am having are to be expected and whilst the sickness is over I have to deal with (possibly to much info here) constipation, heartburn, leg cramps and needing to pee ALL the time. Baby thinks my bladder is a bouncy castle at the moment!  I have been using my doppler a little so we can hear her heartbeat and I managed to record this on my laptop-if you want to listen to a crazy loud baby heartbeat click the link below!

 

Babyheartbeatnew 

It sounds like a very fast train don't you think? I've tried to limit myself to using it once or twice a week now but it's lovely when I do find it and very comforting. I haven't bought much in the way of baby bits the past few days because I have been busy buying lots of pressies for my Mum's birthday this Saturday! We are going for yet another carvery but you can never have too much roast potatoes can you?!

xoxo

18 weeks!

I shouldn't have said I was feeling good! At 18 and a half weeks, I feel rather crappy! I had to come home from work today because my hip pain has just been awful and it's now travelled down my leg-it is horrible! I currently have my feet up on the sofa as that is the only thing I can do other than take paracetamol. I am lucky I don't really have any other symptoms at the moment other than being very tired but that could be just be the changing work hours taking its toll.

I can't believe soon we will be half way! I've had a lovely week with my doppler which I purchased from Amazon. It is called Angelsounds and picks up the baby's heartbeat-I decided to wait until now as I have been told by my midwife you generally can't hear baby's heartbeat before 16 weeks. Anyway it's wonderful to hear her beating away, I pick up my heartbeat a lot too but her hearbeat is very different to mine-it's MUCH faster and makes a completely different sound so I always know when I have found her. Michael and I have been listening lots and my mum has got to listen to.

Also our cot from Mothercare arrived this week and it is so lovely! Michael did an excellent job putting it up within about 30 mins and we have bought some pretty blankets and a sheet to put in, in the meantime I have put lots of cuddly toys in there. I wonder if you can notice a theme?! It may seem a little early but we saw a great deal and we had to get it! It's very good quality although it looks massive! We will be getting a Moses basket too for when she is a newborn and will see what she is most comfortable/happiest sleeping in. I will be looking for a cot mobile (although I can't seem to find any nice ones) and some decorations for the wall by her cot.

I haven't felt much in the way of movements I don't think but then it's pretty hard to tell?! I found out at an appointment I have an anterior placenta (placenta is at the front and cushioning baby I believe) so it may take longer for me to feel her. I am not worried because I'm only 18 weeks :) In just under 3 weeks on 8th May we have our next scan (at 21 weeks) so I am worrying of course that everything is ok and she is growing and is healthy and happy.

I have bought some more girlie clothes on Ebay as I haven't been shopping since last weekend (poor me) but I got some great bargains...wanna see? Do you like?

Minnie Mouse Outfit-£1

Red H&M Dress-£1

 Minnie Mouse Outfits-99p

xoxo

Welcome to team pink!

Hi all :) Back to work full time on Monday so I am making the most of my last few days off by doing a bit of baby shopping for our baby girl! I'm currently 17+3, I am feeling ok apart from my hips still aching like crazy and feeling very uncomfortable in bed. My bump is developing nicely and I am trying to keep a record of how my body shape changes as I thought it would be something lovely to look back on. I did a little photoshoot of my 17 week bump and despite my very poor photo taking skills, I got some nice pictures! My belly is getting nice and round but yet to 'pop'. I haven't felt any movements or kicks yet apart from those weird thuds I had a few weeks ago, it may not have been baby girlie but who knows! I will feel it soon and it will be wonderful :)

Michael and I took a little baby shopping trip out yesterday and after a lovely lunch at Frankie and Benny's, we headed to a massive 'Babies R Us' as well as Mothercare. We saw a few prams we liked in Babies R us but overall wasn't overly impressed with their range of goods. We bought some lovely soothers and a bath/room thermometer though. We headed to Mothercare and saw the cot of our dreams! It was beautiful and we were all ready to purchase when they told us out of stock. Michael called around all the local Mothercares but unfortunately we couldn't track it down. We were disappointed but we then found an almost identical one on the website at a similar price and we bought it! Mothercare were offering 20% off as well so it seemed silly not to buy it, early or not, it's fantastic to be prepared!

It is called the 'Darlington' cot and is so very pretty, we can't wait for it to arrive on Tuesday <3

Now we know we are having a girl, I have very much enjoyed buying some clothes (mostly Ebay!) and was also very generously given lots of cute baby clothes by a friend of mine. I have had some lovely offers to give us baby girl clothes and we are very grateful for everyones generosity! I have bought quite a lot myself but these are a few of my favourite little bits I have got this week:

Hello Kitty PJ's from Primark, £6

 

 Very cute pink baby snowsuit with the 'Little Tilly' design-got this for £3 on Ebay :)

Got these from Tesco's-both £2 each :)

 

And this beautiful Monsoon baby girl dress, got this for £2 from Ebay, what a bargain!

Baby shopping is very fun but think I need to hold off a bit now until payday lol :)

xoxo

New video+gender reveal!

Hi everyone, I made this little video earlier today! Excuse the hair/general roughness of my appearance! If you don't know already then we had our gender scan yesterday so I reveal all here-very exciting! xoxo

16 weeks!

I am now officially 4 months pregnant, whooo! Time has flown and soon enough I will be half way through! Now I am 16 weeks, the baby is starting to get bigger and bigger and is currently about about 12cm long I believe. I have been feeling a lot better in myself the past week (although obviously not working helps!) other than my bad hip pains, I have feeling pretty good. My bump has reached a bit of a standstill but to be fair it is still pretty big. Our early gender scan was originally scheduled for Friday afternoon but I got a call today asking whether I could do Saturday as the sonographer cannot make it to the clinic on Friday. It's a bit pants but I guess it's only one extra day to wait! ;)

Michael and I saw my midwife today for my 16 week check up, all is well with me and the baby and we also got the added bonus of being able to hear (we've only previously seen it on the screen) the baby's heartbeat through an instrument called a Doppler. It took the midwife a good few minutes (baby was shy apparently!) but she really tried and after a few minutes we heard that wonderful sound <3 it was lovely to hear and so clearly too, at 160 BPM it was a nice normal and strong heartbeat. 

Now I have a few weeks off work, I have been browsing lots of charity shops for potential bargains and I shared on Facebook that I got this lovely baby bouncer from a charity shop yesterday for £8-it's in very condition and after a good clean will be perfect! 

 I love the rainforest design and I really do believe that spending £50+ on things like this is just not worth it when you can get it second hand! There are a few things I would like to get new and I have already seen a lovely cot and bedding (boy or girlie style) on a website called Kiddicare. What do you think?

 This lovely cot is £59.99 and simple but very pretty!

 This is the boy's bedding I love called 'Teddy's Day Out'

And this is the girl's bedding called 'Tilly's Favourite Things' which is so adorable!

 I shall be back on my blog on Saturday to report the outcome of our gender scan...EXCITED!

xoxo