A Mummy-To-Be…

Monday saw us reach the long awaited 37 weeks. 37 weeks means that Flump is now classed as full term and him/her arriving now would be absolutely fine. His/her lungs and organs are all perfectly developed and if I were to go into labour, they would do nothing to stop it. Hooray!

So from here on in, I can safely start throwing myself around, eating hot foods and doing whatever else necessary to try and start labour off. However, 3 days in and I have done nothing because I’m still terrified and not quite feeling ready. There are a few things in the house that I want to have done before Flump arrives. Nothing that really makes any difference to his/her arrival but still things that would make me feel better just knowing that they are done. I feel like the house needs to be clean and ready and things need to be sorted out. Nesting? Yes, I think so!

I thought that from this week that excitement would just overtake any other feelings that I would have. I’m really excited, don’t get me wrong, but I’m also feeling quite yucky (to be polite). I feel constantly nauseus, hot to the point where it’s -4C outside and I’m asking Matt to open the back door to let some air in, I need to wee all the time and on a daily basis I go from being constipated to having the runs. Nice. I also really feel all of a sudden that I am carrying a bowling bowl strapped to the front of my abdomen and look like a waddling penguin!

As for the pains I keep experiencing in places you don’t need to know about.. OUCH! No-one ever said it could be quite as bad as it is. I feel like I am being stabbed and it’s not nice. I personally think this is your little “taster” for labour. It’s like it’s someone’s way of jokingly saying “haha, well if you can’t handle that, you’ll never handle labour pains”. I already think I am going to be a jibbering wreck anyway so bring it on. It can’t be worse than I’m imagining it is going to be!

My SPD/PGD is bad. Really bad. The acupuncture didn’t work so that has been stopped. I won’t see physio again now until after the birth if I feel I need it. At my appointment on Monday, she decided to go through labour positions with us instead which was helpful. We came home and ordered a TENS machine too which we will try out this week, just so we know what we are doing with it.

I’m still working and finding it harder now. I’m lucky that I work from home but being restricted to sitting with a laptop all day isn’t turning out to be much fun. I feel like I should be enjoying my final couple of weeks and having some “me” time but unfortunately, that can’t happen for me. Oh well.

Our Nursery is now complete. We love it. I want to live in there. It is so beautiful and everyone that has seen it (whether it be in real life or in pictures) has commented on how lovely it is and how well put together it looks. If we’re honest, it was a fluke. We never went around matching colours and textiles. It was pot luck that we liked a certain theme and then spotted some paint that we thought would look nice and when it all went up together, the result was just amazing. It matched with absolute perfection! I hope once Flump can appreciate it that he/she will love it as much as Mummy and Daddy do!

Pictures of the nursery can be seen at www.babymecham.com

Everything is now more or less ready. I still want to iron some stuff and feel like I need to unpack and repack the labour bags (don’t ask why – I just keep wanting to check them to ensure everything is in there and that I’ve not forgotten anything). We need to plug in the steriliser and make sure it works. That’s important and will be done tonight!

Perhaps my next blog will be different. Perhaps it will be introducing our baby! Fingers crossed!