Scans and Blood

Last week we had our 20 week anomaly scan, although I was in fact 23 weeks and 3 days. Wow have those things come on since Callum was just a little bump in my belly. Daz and I were totally amazed at the first sighting we got of Bumpy's spine, so much clear detail, you could see all the bones! Thankfully everything checked out ok and we got a good few scan shots to take home with us. We decided not to find out if Bumpy is a girl or boy, we want a surprise. All that mattered was that Bumpy was coming along as they should. They can even tell you a weight nowadays, although obviously it's a bit of a guess but still how amazing is that? We were told Bumpy weighed 1.5lbs which is just what they should for this stage.

For a breakdown of what is what you can go here and see the notes.

Baby Bumpy

Today it has all been about blood tests. Because of my age and my weight, so basically they are saying I am old and fat, they think I have a high risk of pregnancy diabetes. So off I headed to the hospital with my Mum to have blood taken. Now for some people this isn't a problem but for me I hate having my blood taken, I have what I've been told are spider veins (small veins) but also today I got told that added to that I have veins that are deep down so it's harder to find a suitable vein and then harder still to get a needle in and then you have to try and get blood out. So yeah not a very fun thing for me and to have it twice and on an empty stomach because you have to fast from 9pm the night before. Yep not a thing high on wish list of things I want to do. But it's done now and I just have to wait to hear back if I have diabetes or not. Apparently they phone you only if you do.

So all in all I'm feeling a bit sore today, tired but at least no longer hungry. *blush* I had two chocolate bars and two lots of sandwiches after leaving the hospital. lol

Fat and Frumpy not Pregnant and Blooming

That's how I feel and I think my most recent photos prooves that. I keep reading that this part of pregnancy is meant to be the part where your aches and pains and tiredness are put aside and you start to enjoy the benefits of pregnancy, the blooming stage. But I don't feel like that, my back aches, I have what I think is carpal tunnel syndrome starting up again and I just feel fat and tired. Maybe next week I'll give myself a pampering day, do my hair and nails, maybe a facemask.

As for how the pregnancy is going, all well it seems. Daz thinks he felt Bumpy move at the weekend, just a little light fluttering but hey that's cool! I seem to feel lots of movement, a lot more than I ever remember getting with Callum. Next week we have our anomaly scan which while exciting (we get to see Bumpy again) is also a little nervous (get to check all the body parts are ok). Still I'm trying to concentrate on the positives this time. Then the following week I have to have a diabetes test, because of my age and my weight I'm at risk. Great!

We've been looking at baby clothes and last weekend got back from Daz' parents the old clothes of Callum's they had been storing for us. It's been fun to go through those clothes and hard to imagine that Callum was once that small. He actually tried on one of his baby shoes and announced that he could just about get it on his big toe. lol. How time flies. Luckily a good amount of the clothes are in good enough condition to reuse this time round and there wasn't as much blue boys stuff as I thought there would be but hey if Bumpy is a girl I'm sure she won't mind wearing a blue babygro. We've decided that after Christmas we'll get the cotbed put up on the nursery but will have the rest of the room ready by then. It was newly painted last year in what was called "Toffee" but it's a nice yellow, we just need to get a border to go up and new curtains. It's quite exciting this stage.

So that's that. Hopefully next week I'll have a new scan photo to post here.