Happy New year to everyone who reads my blog. 2008 is certainly going to be a very special and full year for Matt and I. I’m really excited. This will be the year that we get to meet our little baby for the first time. Amazing.
We’re currently 30+3 now. Every passing day just makes me more anxious about everything. I think it is finally hitting home that I, me, Debbie, am going to be a Mummy. It seems entirely surreal. I’m excited, more excited than I ever have been about anything, but, I’m also very nervous and scared too. I’m scared about actually having to give birth; terrified in fact. But I am also terrified about bringing home this tiny, fragile, new born baby and having to look after it. What if I am a useless mother? I don’t even know where to start. I can change a nappy. That’s not hard, but I have no idea about putting a baby to bed safely and bathing it and all of those things.
Fear has now set in! But I honestly can’t wait. 10-12 more (12 maximum) weeks to go and we will finally be holding our bundle of joy. I’m still glad we didn’t find out if we are on Team Blue or Team Pink as I think the suspension will keep me going in the final few weeks.
Things are getting difficult now. I can’t sleep at night so I am constantly tired. Acid reflux is back with a vengeance. Bending over hurts and sometimes Flump is so active that I actually feel nauseus. One of my main issues is actually finding somewhere to get comfy. Sitting at my desk gives me awful backache. Sitting on the bed gives me terrible pain in my hip and sitting down in the lounge on the sofa doesn’t support my back so I end up sitting on the floor now! It’s all fun!!
On the good side, my bump is growing nicely. In fact, we were both amazed at just how much it grew in a week over Xmas (and no, it wasn’t down to too eating too much rubbish, thanks!) This is the main growth time and boy, am I feeling it! The stretching pains are back, not as bad as they were in the first tri and second tri, but they’re there. At least with those pains it means that Flump is growing as he should so I don’t mind. They don’t last as long as they used to either.
We have more or less everything we need now. All the big stuff is either here or on order, awaiting delivery (such as the nursery furniture). We are going to get our Xmas decorations down this weekend and get them packed away so that we can get the loft sorted out for more bits and pieces from the old office to go in there so we can start decorating. We are going to paint and my Dad has kindly agreed to come and wallpaper for us (he is good at it!). The carpet comes on 14th January so it all needs to be done by then.
At the weekend, we made a list of everything we have bought and when we got it all out we just couldn’t believe it. Half the stuff we have bought over the last 10 weeks, we’d actually forgotten about. We have so much but it’ll all be used, I’m sure. We somehow ended up with 36 baby vests. I think we got a little bit carried away!
We’ve agreed not to buy any more clothing or blankets etc until we know whether it should be blue or pink. I don’t want the baby having to live in cream and yellow for the first 3 months because we overdid it on outfits and HAVE to use them!
I shall keep you updated on our progress as always 🙂
A Mummy-To-Be... 