Midwifeyness and shopping,

Had a midwife appointment today. Everything was fine... Apart from the fact that it was all different and I hate things being different to how I expect them to be. First I had to use a different door to get in... Then it was in a different room... And then there was a student midwife there too... but meep... here's all the info about shizz today:

Blood pressure: 110/60
Fundal height: 37cm
Presentation: Ceph 3/5 ... So a little bit further down than last time.
Baby's heart thing: 135-145
Urine: Trace of blood... but that's apparently pretty normal at this stage. Midwife suggested drinking cranberry juice-hell no! Not unless it has vodka in it! XD Water will do!

Midwife is coming to the house on Monday to do birth plannage... Then I have another midwife appointment on October 8th.

Anyhow... Yesterday I went shopping and it was immensely productive!

I finally ordered my pram! It should apparently arrive by Tuesday! I got the Quinny Buzz (the 3 wheeler one) in iron. I haven't seen it in iron in real life, but it looks nice in pictures. I've seen the dreami thing in iron though and it's the only dreami I actually like. I ordered the actual pushchair and the dreami yesterday. I couldn't order the car seat (which is the PERFECT car seat) in mothercare for another 4-8 weeks or something, but the dude in halfords is gonna try and order it. It's so perfect it's unavailable in most places at the moment. It doesn't really matter though because I have the crappy car seat my mum gave me, so I can use that until I get the prettyful one. =]

I also bought one of those chair thingys that babies sit in that bounce and vibrate and have dangly bits and stuff. It's hoobacious. It's all froggy and turtleyyyfied! =D

Aaannndddd... I got some blue moses basket sheets... So now I think I have all the things I actually need for when the baby is born... Apart from like nappies and dummies and stuff! I just hope I don't go into labour before tuesday! XD

Update.

Wow... Less than a month left... 27 days actually as it's now September 22nd! I think I need to update this as I've been neglecting it once again lol!

I was slightly unnerved because a few hours ago I described a pain-type-thing I had to my grandmother. She said it sounded like a contraction and to tell her if I had another one. I was all like 'ohmyfuckinggod'. Luckily I haven't had another one. It's now a few hours later, so I'm probably not in labour or anything! If I was, I'd be totally screwed as I still don't have the stuff I need! XD

I was in Mothercare earlier. An overly talkative person that worked there decided to come and talk to me. She asked me how long there was until the baby was due and some shizz about pushchairs and stuff. The look on her face when I told her I only had 4 weeks left and still hadn't even decided on a pushchair was hilarious! I really do need to make decisions though lol! I went shopping with the intention of buying something big for the baby (either a bouncer thing or pram) and ended up coming back with some scratch mittens I spent £2.50 on and a few cds and dvds from HMV... So I ended up spending £30 on me instead... oops. =/

Last week in Manchester, my mother had been explaining to my two year old half-brother that I had a baby in my tummy. We thought he finally vaguely understood until he asked me to take it out so he could see it. If only my belly had a zip or a window!

I had a pretty huge freak out about having a baby a few days ago. I was all like 'ohmygodidon'twannahaveababy... blablablaahhh' and felt superly-megaly evil for thinking that stuff. I spoke to both my grandmother and mother about it and apparently it's normal to think shizz like that and my mother even thought that shizz once or twice when she was pregnant with H (who was actually planned)! Made me feel a lot better about the freak out. I'm pretty much over thinking that shizz now though. I think it was only because all of a sudden there's only a few weeks left, I've had a visit from the health visitor and I actually have to start frantically buying things rather than just flicking through catalogues and looking at stuff! I've also started thinking about the actual baby and stuff (yeah, it hadn't really dawned on me until recently that I was actually going to have to look after a baby)... There are constant reminders everywhere that I'm pregnant and it seemed like I couldn't escape from it or anything. I was pretty overwhelmed with everything and stuff... I found it scary how having a few shameful thoughts and being overwhelmed can affect other areas of my life so much. I'm getting used to everything now though and as I'm no longer freaking out, I just want to get everything sorted quickly and for him to be born soon! I'm so fed up of being pregnant and I just want to meet the squigglytiddlypeep! =D

I thought I'd settled on a name yesterday... Turns out I haven't. My list is very narrowed down though. Not gonna say what the possible names are though, as I'm still doing the whole not telling people names I'm pondering thing.

I'm still peeing a zillion times a night and still getting heartburn. I also never seem to be hungry anymore (I'm guessing that's pregnancy related). I keep getting lots of random twinges and pains and stuff too... and lots of backache and not being able to get comfortableness. Meep, I wish I had some interesting symptoms to report! XD

But yes, I am now 36 weeks pregnant and have nothing more to say so hoobletoodledoooo!

Shizzleyness...

Howdy... just a random update on all things pregnancy related! XD

I'm now 33 weeks pregnant, so there's officially only 7 weeks (or 49 days)to go. It's all getting scarily imminent now! My grandmother took great pleasure in telling me that she was 33 and a half weeks pregnant when she went into labour with my uncles... She was having twins though and twins are usually born early... Still unnerving though lol!

I'm getting lots of pregnancy related dreams at the moment. They're all very real and usually involve giving birth and are quite boring (well, in comparison to the dream I had a month or so ago where I gave birth to a rottweiler). In the last one I had, I was all upset because the baby had been born and I still didn't know what to call him. I have a feeling that I'm going to be worse than my cousin type thing (who gave birth about a month ago) who gave her baby 3 or 4 different names after she was born until she settled on one. I'm hoping I'll know what to call him as soon as he's born and wont regret my choice. =/

My mum said I need to decide on a pram very soon. I think that I've pretty much ruled out the Quinny buzz because I see them EVERYWHERE! It's a lovely pram, but it's way too common! I don't see why I should stress out about buying one. There's still 7 weeks left and I would like to explore all my options (and baby shops) to find the perfect one instead of rushing into it. If I did have to get a pram in a hurry, I'd just settle on the Graco one I liked... I've still got hardly any baby stuff lol!

I felt a weird sensation last night. It was like a repetative popping kind of thing. It was like movement, but definitely not like the kicks and stuff I'm used to feeling. It lasted for a few minutes... I think the squigglytiddlypeep might have had hiccups, but I can't be sure!

Anyhow... I dunno what else to write... So hoobletoodledoo!

Prams (warning: boring).

Wow... There's only 85 days left.

I've been pondering prams recently (especially since last weeks trip to mothercare world, mamas & papas and babies r us). There are so many things to consider with prams... Prettiness (pretty much my main priority), size, cost, what's included, blablablahhh. I have found that the prams in shops look totally different from the ones online and in cataloguey things. The silver cross 3d one looks quite nice in pictures, but in real life I think it looks absolutely fucking vile.

I quite like the Graco Mosaic travel system thing... Well, I think that's the one I like. I saw it in mothercare and thought it looked quite nice and didn't bother taking note of the name. Judging from the Graco website, the Graco Mosaic looks like it is the one I saw. I like it because it's quite pretty (I can't remember whether it was the Air one or the Chocolate Lime one that was in mothercare, but I know it had some nice circley things on it!), I wouldn't have to buy a car seat seperately and it is really cheap compared to the other one I like!

The other one I like is the Quinny buzz! In red. I don't know whether I like it better with four wheels or three, but I love it! In real life, it's the prettiest pram ever! I didn't like it when I first saw it online, but I saw it in babies r us and it was fantastic! However, I'd have to buy the car seat seperately and it's a lot more expensive than the Graco one! My mother said that her husband's sister has it, which kind of put me off it a little bit, but I never see her anyway, so that doesn't really matter!

I quite like the mamas & papas Skate one. Again, I didn't really like it in the pictures, but I loved in in mamas and papas. I only really liked it in some really girly colours though, which is a shame because I'm having a boy! Blahhh- it was dead expensive anyway!

There was also another one I liked in babies r us, but I can't remember he name or even the make!

So yeah, it's between that Graco one and the Quinny one. I have no idea which one I'll choose. I guess I'll just see how much money I end up spending on other things and go with the Quinny if I can afford it and the Graco if I can't. My great grandmother gave me £200 towards a pram though and money isn't a huge issue at the moment. =]

When I do decide which one to get, I'm going to have to keep it in the shop or someone elses house or something until the squigglytiddlypeep is actually born. My grandmother is superstitious and thinks bad things will happen if you put a pram in the house before the baby is there... It's a load of bullshit if you ask me, but as it's her house I have to respect her wishes! XD

But yeah, a super boring post about prams. I promise I'll write something interesting at some point!