I am 16 weeks (ish) pregnant, people keep asking me how far gone I am, and I just draw a blank, but I remember on my first two kids knowing exactly how many days I was! My last baby wasn’t like that, and this one barely gets a look in. I am trying to be a good mother to be, remembering that I am pregnant takes a bit of work sometimes, cos I might be feeling tired and crap but is that pregnancy or just cos my life is tiring and bit crap?
I am attempting to eat well, one of the only signs that I am pregnant is my aversion to sweet things, like milk chocolate (that totally turns my tummy, then I get a headache) I am craving spicy things, curry, noodles, puttenesca! Also craving meat, this always happens when I am pregnant, my desire for protein goes off the chart, I need at least three portions a day, and currently that is in a big warming homely dinner, yesterday my partner cooked lamb and it was good, today I’ve a huge pot of homemade ragu bubbling away (I do amazing ragu, cook it for 5 hours!) But the current pregnancy essential is the sandwich, wholegrain bread, butter, avocado, ripe tomato and either bacon or a fried egg (optional cheddar cheese)! Oh so so so good!
Anyway back to baby!
Baby is 16 weeks ish, Ruttiger (as I have named it) is around 17 cm long, and a few ounces in weight, he is fully formed, although he needs time to grow and ripen up! All the basic things are in place, and hopefully everything is working well.I have my first visit to Holles street on Thursday, I am terrified, I am worried about my age 35, the fact that this is my fourth pregnancy, I am worried cos I got pregnant right off the pill, I am worried cos there is less that 18 months since my last baby. I am worried.
The age thing is an issue, 35 is the age they throw around as the danger zone, from 35 the risks of Down Syndrome goes up a lot, the eggs have disimprovd and therefore there is more chances things will go wrong, I do worry, trying to accept “what will be, will be”, and that no matter what hand I am dealt I will love my child with no limits. But still I worry.
I bought my first pair of maternity jeans last night! Oh why do they have to be so horrid? The huge elastic fabric thing to cover up the huge belly!! I am thinking of just going for a MU MU, huge kaftans and maybe something from the Army Surples shop on Capel street, a nice orange tent with a balaclava so no one recognises me!
Oh, I loved the maternity jeans, all that wlastic support cradling your bump so snugly. They make low rise ones, but they just fell down on me.
Shit, I’d still be wearing them round by bulging tum if I could get away with it!
It’s gonna be a girl!
Although I’ve been wrong about this before…
i love my preggers jeans, before i tried one on i thought the elastic fabric bit would be awful but i actually love it! it keeps the kidneys warm, you can wear trendy low rise jeans without exposing bum cleavage and they won’t fall down, oh, and so quick for the loo! love them! have already been wondering if i could just keep wearing them after, if i alter the elastic as my belly (hopefully) gets smaller after the birth, and why they don’t make them for non preggers girls…
i only have one jeans and two linen trousers so far, they are in and out of the washing machine constantly! i might treat myself to another pair of jeans if i see nice ones. although i also want to get a nice stretchy winter dress! if only mothercare’s didn’t look so damn dowdy!
Ok girls, I know when I am 6 or 7 months pregnant I’ll be loving the strechy jeans, but right now when my normal size 16 jeans stopped fitting after about two months and now my size 18 (fat days) jeans won’t fit it just seems a bit yucky having to have acres of elastic! I did get a nice pair of linen trousers in Dorothy perkins which I like! The under bump ones don’t work for me either……how do you keep them up?
I got lovely dresses in H&M maternity on my last pregnancy, black and purple wrap around, you could give them a try? Next online have some lovely tea dresses? with a nice cardi they would be cute!
I really hope it is a girl, I feel outnumbered here now!
What makes you say that, RP? For that is my vibe too. Though I think MW does habve the inside scoop really.
I just have a girly feeling… having said that, the last two i predicted as girls, only one was an actual girl… still that’s what i’m thinking
I think MW def has the inside track
I do not know the sex of the baby yet, as soon as I do you will be the first to know! I will also furnish the blog with my ultrasound photos too!
You both know I am outnumbered so I’d love a girl but I’ll seriously be happy with a healthy baby! I know everyone says it, but I mean it!
It’ll be a lovely little girly… she’ll be great