34 weeks

Your baby now weighs more than 2.2 kilograms and is over 45 centimetres from top to toe. She's filling out and getting rounder -- she'll need her fat layers later to regulate her body temperature.

Oh how I feel all 2 point something kilos of little baby! My mum looked at me yesterday and said out of nowhere, 'poor bugger! I was never that big' and then later that same day I was dressed ready to go out for dinner and my younger brother asked 'are you wearing a moo-moo?'

So I'm guessing I must look as big as I feel. I've added a second picture today because the one from baby centre.com is always in the correct position, but my little maverick likes to sit sideways. I think I can imagine how she is sitting, the majority of her bulk is usually on the right side with her head a bit higher than everything else. (This is a mental image I have developed from hiccup locations and general poking).

A side-ways baby is delivered by c-section. I've already been booked in for a c-section due to my arthritis/bilateral hip replacements. Since the very beginning of the pregnancy I have thought that I would need a c-section and I have to say that it does not really bother me that much, I mean in my case it's the safest thing for me and baby so what can be wrong with that? I was googling c-sections the other day and I was surprised at some of the things out there! I read one persons opinion, which was that doctors are plotting and planning to make sure everyone needs a c-section because it's how they have the most control and then this site went on to say that no matter the size of bubs or the womans health that the baby can be delivered naturally.

Now I am all for natural birth, but that message feels dangerous to me!

This week my blood pressure has shot up, so I've had to be assessed for pre-eclampsia. Luckily it looks like I don't have it just yet, but all of the women in my mum's familiy got it so mum tells me just to expect it at some stage.

Also this week we are moving house! We got the keys on Monday and have been slowly moving our bits and pieces over after work. On Saturday we will be moving the bigger items (beds, couch, tables, fridge).

The photo is our house cake, made by my sister in law.

33 weeks

Your baby now weighs about 2 kilograms and measures approximately 44 centimetres from head to toe. Your baby should already be getting ready for delivery by turning upside-down -- his head should be pointing down.

Our little one very rarely sits in the correct position. She is usually sideways or breech. I use her hiccups as a way to figure out where her head is. I was expecting her to stay put from about 30 weeks, but she is past 33 weeks and still rearranging herself. At the scan I went to last week she started off in breech and then, as if she heard what we were saying about her, she flipped without me noticing or the radiographer (who did not lift her wand off my tummy!) the radiographer was surprized, to say the least!

She is pretty cute, no?
I did enjoy our non-medical scan in April, but I do have to say that the quality of the images are just so much better at the proper medical scans! They just have the equipment that really captures everything!
If we are lucky enough to have a second baby I'd probably just try and score a late medical scan instead of going to a place that only does scans for fun.


We get the keys for our house on Monday! This has not hit me yet, I don't think I have fully grasped that we are MOVING next week. We don't really have much packing to do, as most of our stuff is already packed! (It's been that way since we moved from our flat to mums place in early 09). And we haven't opened our wedding presents yet, so they are still all packed and waiting to be moved. So I guess without packing I don't have that preparing to move thing going on!

I had my first round of Braxton Hicks yesterday and boy did THAT have me a bit concerned! I had read that there was no pattern to Braxtons Hicks so when I started feeling my bump tense up every five minutes I was thinking that it must be preterm labour! (After an hour they stopped, so then I was like, oh wait! must be Braxton Hicks! I called the midwife who agreed it was Braxton Hicks).
I waited an hour because I reeeally did not want to rush to hospital to be told that it was Braxton Hicks. I was sitting in bed thinking *I have a masters degree! I will be able to figure out if this is labour* Mum was so cranky at me! She made me promise that I will go to the hospital if I ever get concerned again.
It all had me really bothered because in my mind me move FIRST, set up the nursery and then baby comes on the date the doctor tells us next week. I had in no way planned for her to arrive before we moved! My bag isn't even packed!

For a 'smart' person I am a big idiot sometimes!

So my goal for this week is to finish packing my hospital bag!