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!

31 weeks

Your baby's arms, legs and body continue to fill out -- and they are finally proportional in size to her head. She weighs about 1.5 kilograms and looks more like a newborn. She measures about 41 centimetres from crown to toe.

You may notice your baby isn't moving around as much. Don't worry; she's just running out of space in your uterus. As long as you can feel her squirming, you'll know she's just fine. Believe it or not, she still has plenty of growing to do. You can expect her to gain at least 900 grams more before delivery.

I hope that this does not jinx us, but with everything signed and fiance unconditionally approved I feel semi-confident in saying that we did it. We bought a house! And with 3 weeks to spare (from moving day to possible birth date).

I am so excited. Just insanely pleased with myself and my husband for finding our perfect first home. Buying a home was something we really wanted to do this year, and its been such a journey without a baby in tow. I was beginning to think it would never happen and that mum was stuck with us.
This time last year buying a house was the last thing I cared about, it was only after finding out we were pregnant that I started thinking that we NEEDED a house NOW and in my mind it is our gift to our little girl.

It would not have been possible without the support from my mum. I get so overwhelmed by what mum has done for us that it is intimidating! How am I suppose to match that super-mum performance? The sacrifice and generosity?

I have no idea! First step is to get that mortgage paid off, I guess.

I'll be about 33-34 weeks when we move.

The second thing that happened this week was the baby shower! And it really was everything that I imagined. My beautiful friend flew up from Adelaide just for the day and that alone made it an amazing day.

It had everything I wanted, flowers, punch, cupcakes and tea.

The only thing I wish I had done differently was I wish I opened the gifts as people arrived and not at the end. By the end I was physically and mentally exhausted and I feel that I was not as enthusiastic about all the fantastic little gifts as I would have been a couple of hours earlier.