tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39400751601927803202024-02-01T21:34:40.106-08:00Loving Life with Emilia and LucasEmiliasmummyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09445046415813981045noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940075160192780320.post-35685850933625977632018-05-19T14:19:00.001-07:002018-05-19T14:20:14.961-07:00Lucas' 6 months update<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I know I didn't do many of these with Emilia but really wish I had, as it would have been nice to compare Lucas' early days and months with hers and see if all the screaming, crying and eating was normal.<br />In our memory, Emilia was a happy easygoing baby, but I know that we also had trouble with over eating and terrible napping. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><strong>Weight: </strong></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">21lbs(she was 19lbs15oz)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Health:</strong> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a tricky one...we've been suspecting since the early days that he could be having a mild intolerance to dairy as he's been congested since birth and has mild eczema that just won't clear. I think if things don't improve soon, I will be pushing to try dairy free formula with our doctor. (buying it out of pocket isn't possible)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Nicknames:</strong> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">we don't seem to be nickname people, but he gets called grumpy pants quite a bit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Eating:</strong> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">currently attempting to get him used to solids, we started at 5.5 months as we have a big trip planned for when he's 6.5 months old and I thought it could be handy if he was used to eating.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's going ok but he still wants just as much milk as before, which is 5-6 6oz bottles of formula in a 24 hour period. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He's been exclusively formula fed since 3 months old and I stopped beating myself up about it. It was all a bit of a struggle in the early days, I got mastitis 2 weeks after giving birth so that didn't help with our breastfeeding journey and I exclusively pumped for 2 months after that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Sleeping:</strong> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We started putting him to bed at a normal bedtime when he was 7 weeks old and he goes to sleep between 7-8pm. He usually wakes up once at night for a feed and then sleeps until 7am. <br />He has his first nap at 9/10am, then another one at 1pm and a final one at 5/5:30. He's currently transitioning from 3 to 2 naps so trying to stretch his awake time a bit. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At 3 months we were doing 3 baby classes per week, but it was all a little bit too much to fit in with Emilia's preschool pick ups, so now we are only doing one 'sensory' class per week, which we both enjoy. <br />One of the mums I met in my classes has a 4 year old boy who will attend the same same school as Emilia in September, which will be nice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Likes:</strong> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana";"></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His sister, he absolutely loves her. Nobody gets the big smiles that she gets. <br />Looking in the mirror<br />MILK!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We joke that he hates life sometimes ;-) </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's hard to please him most of the time.<br />The worst thing you can do is to cut his nails. Because he scratches himself a lot I have to try and keep his nails short, but he screams like I'm cutting his fingers off when I only even get close to cutting his nails. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He rolled over a few times at 4 months, then stopped until last week, but still not doing it often and still gets his arm stuck. <br />Not close at all to sitting up. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Mama:</strong><br />I put on 20lbs in pregnancy and lost 28lbs by the time he was 2 weeks old, so I was happy with that. But just like with Emilia, weight slowly crept back up and I am now back to pre-pregnancy weight. Not happy with my shape now after 2 babies and really should do some toning up. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I lost a lot of blood during the birth and it took me a bit to feel normal again, though I thought it was a great idea to attend a third birthday party 6 days post partum. <br />I lost less hair after I stopped breastfeeding this time, but maybe that had to do with the fact that my hair didn't get as 'thick' in pregnancy like it did the first time around. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last month I travelled to Germany with the children, on my own. Not sure that would be considered fun, maybe more challenging but it was nice for my mum and friends to see Lucas. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We're leaving for Florida in 2 days!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><strong>What we are not looking forward to:</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a 10 hour flight with a baby on my lap</span>Emiliasmummyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09445046415813981045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940075160192780320.post-81302264187799024712018-04-29T15:45:00.000-07:002018-04-29T15:45:57.518-07:00Quick life update Hello, is anybody still reading this over 2 years after my last post?<br />
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Not sure what happened.<br />
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I think it started with me feeling unsure whether or not I was comfortable sharing Emilia’s pictures online, so I resisted posting. Then more and more time passed by and here we are...3 weeks shy of Emilia’s 4th birthday and she’s starting school this September<br />
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So what has happened since?<br />
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We went on another holiday to Florida in May 2016<br />
Emilia started preschool twice a week in September 2016<br />
We had our first unsuccessful IUI in September 2016<br />
We had our second unsuccessful IUI in October 2016<br />
We had no more money to try again<br />
I was so down and depressed about the possibility of never being pregnant again that we decided to try one more time.<br />
I took Clomid in January 2017 and overstimulated so we cancelled that month<br />
We had our third IUI in February 2017<br />
On February 17th 2017 I got a positive pregnancy test<br />
Pregnancy was a tough journey<br />
Lucas was born 12 days overdue on November 5th 2017<br />
So he is now almost 6 months old!!!!Emiliasmummyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09445046415813981045noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940075160192780320.post-18069849782792535742016-02-28T07:19:00.000-08:002016-02-28T07:22:29.819-08:0021 months update<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><strong>Weight: </strong></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">31lbs(99.5th percentile)</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">36inches/91.5cm(99.5th percentile)</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, the last update was 6 months ago and since then she had a really high 5 day fever, her first ear infection at 18 months and plenty of runny noses and coughs. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'd say her eating is pretty good, but she can be a little picky.<br />On a normal day she wakes up and has 5oz of milk in a cup(though we skip this sometimes when she wakes too late), porridge for breakfast, a little snack around 10, a sandwich or houmous and pitta for lunch, followed by a yoghurt; a little snack after her nap and a cooked meal for dinner, then 5oz of milk before bed. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We successfully transitioned from bottle to cup last September/October and it couldn't have gone better. <br />Dinners are a rotation of spaghetti Bolognese, pasta pesto, chicken nuggets, fish fingers, sausages, meatballs or couscous fingers with the occasional toddler ready meal(she has pretty much started to refuse them)<br />Our issue are the veggies, I can get her to eat peas, sweetcorn, cucumber, peppers, tomatoes, sometimes steamed carrots, but that's it!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Her absolute favourite food is houmous and she has this most days at lunch, either on toast, with pitta or with homemade spinach cheese waffles, it's a good way to get her to eat a lot of vegetables as she really enjoys dipping("dippedy")</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1.5-2.5 hours at lunchtime and 10-12 hours at night, mostly from 7:30pm-7am</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She tends to roll around the cot for a little while chatting to herself, but is happy and doesn't need me to come back. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Teething:</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She's almost done, all 20 have broken through but the last molars must hurt as they keep moving their way down because every few days she goes crazy, which is typical for her when teething. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We attend 3 toddler groups a week. Tuesday classes are run by our local children's centre and aimed at families on a lower income in the area. They do messy play, rhyme time or 'active play' sessions. Thursdays we go to a 45 minute singing session at the church opposite our apartment and Fridays we attend a toddler group in a church hall a 10 minute walk away, so all very local and FREE to attend. <br />We still haven't made more actual friends, but Emilia has got one 'best friend'. P. also has two mummies and the girls should attend the same class in nursery and school. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">*When I sing to her<br />*Taking a bath<br />*Reading books<br />*Using the lift or escalator. She really has an eye for finding them whenever we're out. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">*Pressing the button on the traffic lights to cross the road<br />*to close the microwave, oven, cupboards</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">*Sitting in her pushchair/stroller for long periods of time<br />*When we switch her tv shows off</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well the biggest one being that she finally started walking early November, at almost 18 months!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She can request the following nursery rhymes:<br />*The wheels on the bus (by saying "round round")<br />*Incy Wincy Spider ("spidey")</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">*Wind the bobbin up ("wind")</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">*Row your boat ("row row")<br /><br />She recognizes places we regularly go to and requests to go there when we just walk past for example the churches we attend toddler groups at or the road her grandma lives on. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She can finish the pages in a few of her favourite books for example we say </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"poor old fox has lost his..." and she'll say "socks"<br />"he was too big, I sent him..." and she'll say "back"<br /><br />I'd say her speech is pretty much on target for a 21 months old, especially given that I speak some German to her.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We flew to Germany at Christmas and again in January. My secret weapon is just letting her watch the tablet and give her snacks, makes it so much easier. In January I booked her her own seat as she's just getting too big and heavy to be on my lap. <br />The return flight wasn't that good because my tablet refused to work and she had a bit of a meltdown. Must have a technology backup plan next time!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">currently recovering from 4 days of fever but other than that she has been in excellent health so far. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Nicknames:</strong> Cheeky Chops</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Eating:</strong> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She's a good eater, but still wanting 'babyish' foods in sauce like the toddler meal trays or home cooked spaghetti Bolognese so I can't just put pieces of chicken and veg on her plate as she won't touch it. <br />For breakfast she has porridge, lunch either a sandwich or couscous fingers, fruit pieces or a fruit pouch for snack and then a warm dinner. 4oz milk on waking and before bed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Sleeping:</strong> Emilia has successfully transitioned to one nap per day, which is lovely but slightly restrictive when wanting to go out.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She usually sleeps for 2-2.5 hours at 12:30pm</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nighttime sleep is 7:15pm-6:30am, generally not needing any 'attention' in the night but now that she's poorly, I have had to go in a couple of times to hold her.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">size 4 or 4+ </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Clothing:</strong> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">18-24 months</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Social:</strong> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She no longer has stranger anxiety as far as we can tell. <br />Soon school starts again, meaning the baby classes are starting up again. <br />We </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">don't have the money(or a car) to get to most of them, but we're going to make more of an effort to enjoy the free classes in the local library and children's centre. <br />Another Mum and I have been going to our soft play centre, which the girls enjoyed</span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Words: </span></strong><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All gone, 'yeah', Mama and she can say my partner's name, but doesn't call her mummy(or me Mama)<br />She definitely understands a lot more though, we can give her some basic instructions during playtime like 'bring me the ball' or 'go get the cups' and she will. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*She LOVES dogs, whenever we see one on our walks she get's very excited and the entire stroller shakes<br />*she loves traffic lights and gets almost as excited seeing them as she does when seeing dogs</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*She likes to sing nursery rhymes and says 'row row' for 'row your boat' and once I finish the first verse, she requests the second one by roaring like a lion :)</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">*She LOVES to 'eat' fruit or yogurt in pouches</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*being told no</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*cuddling(much to Mama's dismay)</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*having her nappy changed</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*she has been cruising since April, but is not in any hurry to actually walk. <br />*She started climbing on the sofa</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*She's a pro at stacking cups and getting a lot better with her shape sorter. <br />*She's been playing ball for months and likes to read books by herself.<br />*She can point to her tummy, nose, hair and head when asked in English and German<br />*she will grab our phones and have 'conversations'</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*she's still mainly being spoonfed by me and uses her fingers to feed herself but has started to show an interest in feeding herself with pre-loaded spoons</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm sad about my 'baby' growing up so quickly. She's a big girl and people always think she's older than she is expecting her to be able to do things she is too young for.<br />She's outgrowing 18-24 months clothing meaning I have been shopping in the 'big girl' section, which feels just wrong considering she's only 15 months!<br />I'm sorting out all of her outgrown clothes and toys she no longer plays with and since we don't know if we can afford another baby, we are getting rid of them, which is super sad.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We flew to Germany when she was 14 months old and boy was it hard to keep her happy on the flight. It's the 4th time that Emilia and I flew on our own and it definitely made me think that for our flight at Christmas she will be having her own seat on the airplane!</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But it was nice to catch up with some family members I haven't seen in 10 years as well as visiting my grandmother again, she might not live much longer and I want to make sure that Emilia has some memories of/with her. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Money struggles as I am still not working</span>Emiliasmummyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09445046415813981045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940075160192780320.post-70788365940098685062015-08-01T01:51:00.003-07:002015-08-01T01:51:24.758-07:00Naples, Florida May/June 2015A couple of months ago we spontaneously decided to join my partner's parent's, sister, brother in law and nephews for their upcoming holiday to Florida. We managed to get really cheap flights and cheap accommodation due to having a family friend in Florida who rents out holiday apartments. <br />
My partner was nervous about travelling such a long distance with a 12 months old but I assured her, everything would be fine, when on the inside, I was dreading the journey just as much, if not more...<br />
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I did some research about how to survive the long 9/10 hour flight with a squirmy toddler travelling as a lap infant as we didn't have the funds to book her her own seat.<br />
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The long anticipated day finally arrived May 31st and we were on the way to the airport with two massive suitcases, a stroller, a car seat and 2 pieces of hand luggage.<br />
Emilia and I have flown to Germany 4 times already, so we know the drill at security and I pack my bag sensibly and also buy most of her milk/food at the airport as we have well stocked drugstores after security!<br />
We settled into our seats on the plane when we noticed a lot of empty seats in the back of the plane. The pilot made his welcome announcement and asked us to remain in our seats for now and then, once seatbelt signs went off we were free to take any of the empty seats. <br />
I kindly asked the flight attendant if there was any chance we could have a row of three seats as it would be lovely for us to have that extra space with a baby and she came back a minute later telling us to move seats before take off as otherwise all seats would be gone. <br />
We really appreciated having the spare seat. <br />
Take off went smoothly and I was smug when Emilia fell asleep quickly after her bottle and slept for two hours...but that would be all the sleep she was having for the remainder of the day. But to be honest it really wasn't bad. She sat in the middle seat just enjoying life, snacks, our attention and the flight map on the screen in front of her. <br />
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That 9 hour flight flight really went quickly and soon we landed in Miami. <br />
The crew and other passengers complimented her on her excellent behaviour and her mummies were proud!<br />
By the time we cleared immigrations and customs, got our cases and the shuttle to the hotel it was 5:30pm so I decided to just try and keep her up until as close to 7pm, which is her bedtime at home, though obviously this would be almost midnight at home.<br />
She had been awake for 10 hours by the time she went to sleep and only napped for 2 hours all day.<br />
The first night went ok but Emilia and I got up pretty early trying not to wake up my partner. <br />
We took a walk around the hotel and then went to have breakfast. <br />
The staff were awesome and paid Emilia so much attention, she loved it!<br />
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After breakfast Emilia had a quick nap and then we drove from Miami to Naples, where we would stay for the next 12 nights.<br />
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We had the most amazing time, Emilia did so well considering we were pushing her to her limits every day and she was still getting over the 5 hour time difference and temperature change. <br />
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Afterwards we quickly stopped by the shops to pick up supplies and Emilia was never in bed before 8:30pm.<br />
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Wherever we went, people were asking us if Emilia was always this happy, she just smiled so much. People said she had made their day by smiling and waving at them.<br />
Oftentimes she'd wave at people who weren't even looking at her(for example people at the table across the room in the restaurant) but once they caught sight of her, they waved and smiled back, then Emilia would engage them in a game of peek-a-boo. She really was a lot of fun!<br />
In supermarkets she was offered free cookies and bananas and one afternoon at a bakery, she was given a yogurt tube for free :)<br />
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We had a bit of an issue with food, she wasn't a fan of the baby food available in the shops and we weren't prepared to buy her the kids meals in restaurants, so we reverted back to feeding puree pouches or 7 months jars(instead of the toddler meals she would eat at home) and lots of bread and bananas...<br />
Then in the second week she seemed to have got a tummy bug, so we tried to give her a simple diet of bread, bananas and apple sauce but by that point she was fed up of bread and bananas...<br />
If we are travelling again while she's still on some baby jars, I would definitely bring more of the ones she is used to. <br />
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<br />We spent our final night in Miami and once again decided the city just isn't 'us', so we will remember this and fly into Orlando next time!<br />
<br />The return flight didn't go quite as well as the outbound flight. Emilia had napped only 45 minutes all day and to top it all off, our flight left 2.5 hours late, 9:30pm instead of 7pm. Emilia was really starting to lose it at that point. I had tried my best to get her to sleep in the airport, carried her in the sling and sang endless nursery rhymes to her, but she just couldn't settle. <br />
The crew was slow to get the drinks and meal services out and by the time the cabin light was finally dimmed, it was well past midnight. <br />Emilia slept 3 hours, in my arms, waking up crying every 15 minutes. <br />The crew was lovely though, giving up their own seats(in the last rows) to give us a third seat again plus always offering extra meals for Emilia. <br />
Then to top the 'not so good'(but definitely not terrible) flight off, Emilia decided to throw up her yogurt all over ME just after the 'fasten seatbelt' sign had come on in time for landing. Perfect :)<br />
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We are so, so glad we decided to go on this holiday, it was an amazing time as a family of 3!!<br />
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Emiliasmummyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09445046415813981045noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940075160192780320.post-63390757776564349082015-05-21T07:46:00.002-07:002015-05-21T07:46:26.684-07:00Emilia's Birthday Cake Smash<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I just knew that I wanted to do a cake smash for Emilia's birthday, my partner wasn't a big fan of it and rolled her eyes when the pink fluffy tutu arrived in the post, but in the end she helped me and we got some lovely pictures</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I have been a stay at home mum for the past year, the budget didn't allow for a professional photographer, but I think our little DIY session worked out well and was perfect for what we wanted and didn't break the bank. The tutu was £8, the cake £3(plus whatever ingredients we already had at home) and the bunting cost me £3 for tissue paper. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Emilia wasn't too sure what to think of the whole thing and didn't get as dirty as I expected considering she normally gets super messy when feeding herself pasta bolognaise</span><br />
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Emiliasmummyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09445046415813981045noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940075160192780320.post-17151375072082784332015-04-12T03:37:00.001-07:002015-04-13T14:05:41.290-07:0010 months update<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Weight: </strong></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">22lbs11oz or 10.3kg(98%) at 9.5 months</span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Length:</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">30 inches/76cm! She's between the 98th and 99.9th percentile on the UK chart. (measured at 9.5 months)</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OMG Emilia loves to eat, it's her favourite thing! </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She still has a bottle first thing, which can be anytime between 4am and 7am, followed by some porridge with fruit for breakfast, a fairly big lunch(200g/7oz of vegetable puree) plus some fingerfoods and fruit, a small 4oz in the afternoon(this should be phased out in the next few weeks), another big portion of dinner, this time including fish or meat and another 4oz of formula before bed. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So far she's eating anything I put in front of her, but she loves grapes, banana, bread, mandarin oranges</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She is a bit lazy when it comes to feeding herself and the only fingerfoods she will have are fruit and carbs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Sleeping:</strong> <br />Bedtime is at 7 and she's asleep within just a few minutes, I even stopped putting the classical music on for her to make sure she's not too dependant on it. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some nights she wakes up at 4am or 5am, I give her a bottle and she goes back to sleep. If she has her bottle after 5:30, she's unlikely to go back to sleep :(</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2 naps a day, 60-120minutes in the morning and another 45-60 minutes around 2/3pm. I think we need to work on transitioning her to a shorter morning nap and a slightly earlier afternoon sleep with the idea of her having only one nap around her birthday. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We've been attending a few classes at our local Children's centre, luckily for me these are free to attend and Emilia really enjoys spending time with the other babies. <br />We still haven't made 'friends', so sadly she will not be having a birthday party this year :(</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Likes:</strong> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*playing with Mama's and Mummy's hair</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*when you blow your nose</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*brushing her teeth, one night she even left 1oz of milk in her bedtime bottle because she spotted the toothbrush next to the bed</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*reading books before bed</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*Watching Baby Einstein(Mama feels guilty about that one)</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*Looking at pictures or videos of herself on our phones</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Dislikes:</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*having to lie down to have her nappy changed</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*being strapped into her pushchair or highchair, she arches her back, something I have never experienced this young with any of the children I have looked after</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*being told 'no' when repeatedly switching the tv receiver box off</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She's mobile! She's not crawling but she is definitely getting around simply by pulling herself along.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also, whenever I ask her a question(in a question tone) she will reply with ja/yeah...grandma asked the other day if she wanted a Gin&Tonic with her dinner and Emilia said 'yeah' :)</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Still super broody, to the point where just like 2 years ago I cannot stop thinking about it. I had always said that (especially if I had a girl) I would be happy with just the one. But now I want a little playmate for Emilia, I want to be pregnant again and have another good labour. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We went to London, as a family, and I had not one, but two nights out!</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first evening Mummy C. looked after Emilia while I went to a gig of our favourite band, I stayed out until after midnight! It was very strange leaving Emilia, even if it was with someone who knows her just as much as me, but Emilia was totally fine of course!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">22lbs 3oz or 10.1kg between 91st and 98th percentile</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">29inches or 74cm, 98th percentile </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Health:</strong> <br />She was very congested for almost 3 weeks, luckily she wasn't too bad during the day, but she needed a bit more love during the night when she couldn't breathe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She now has 8 teeth(the last one broke through on the 27th of January), when she's teething, she gets a bit crazy, shouting and screeching. Not actually crying. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next up are the molars :(</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cheeky monkey, cheeky chops</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Eating:</strong> <br />She hasn't refused anything yet. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She has a 4oz nightfeed at 4/5am, porridge at 8am, lunch about 12pm, 4oz bottle around 3pm, dinner 5:30 and a 7oz bottle at 6:45pm. <br />She will eat 120g/roughly 4oz of solids each meal and sometimes she has a little yogurt or fruit puree for dessert. <br /><br />Next step is reducing the amount of milk she has in her bottles, with getting rid of the afternoon bottle completely. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Between wanting to practice rolling over in bed and being congested, she was waking up a little bit more earlier this months.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For a while she would wake up around 12/1am and I'd try to settle her back to sleep, but she would cry every time I put her down. In the end I let her sleep a bit on me(upright position helped her breathe) and then put her in her bed asleep. Luckily she has stopped that again now.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She still wakes up for a nightfeed as well around 3/4/5am, which I was really hoping to have stopped by now. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Daytime napping is great, she has two naps lasting about 1:45hrs-3hrs in total.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We don't have definite napping times yet as it all depends on what time she gets up in the morning, but she tends to have her longer sleep around 10am, then another shorter one early afternoon. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">9-12 months but I have started buying 12-18 and just roll her sleeves up. Her winter coat is a size 12-18 to make sure it fits until April/May</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She's loving life! She really is a happy baby.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She loves pulling on Mama's and Mummy's hair. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She thinks Mummy is hilarious(she gets more giggles than me) and loves to be sneaky and pull her glasses off. <br />She loves it when I sing the 'Say Hello' song from our class.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Going for a nap, though she does eventually sleep, but that initial moment of being put in her crib is greeted with grumpiness. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She can definitely sit up now, she will just sit between the sofas and play with her toys, which is lovely. <br />She's pushing herself up like a seal when she's on her tummy and sometimes she lifts her bum, but no crawling yet. But we're not in a hurry as we will need to babyproof once she's mobile. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She has started shuffling down to the bottom of her cot and rolls over like a champ. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She has just started waving, which is very sweet, but she seems to only wave at my partner. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Mama:</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am very broody. I was ready for the next baby a few days after I gave birth. Sadly we cannot afford another child. <br />I currently don't earn any money and have trouble finding another nanny job so won't be eligible for maternity pay again. <br />My partner is only receiving a stipend for finishing her PhD. <br />We are VERY good with money, don't drink, don't have a car and don't really go out anymore, otherwise we would probably struggle with the little we have left after paying rent, bills, food and baby essentials like nappies and formula. <br /><br />Other than that, let's not talk about my pre-pregnancy body ok? ;-)<br />My hair stopped falling out, but now I have crazy re-growth, which drives me bananas.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>What we are looking forward to:</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Going to London again, either 2 nights or possibly extending it to a 4 day stay. <br />If all goes well, one of my nanny friends will babysit Emilia while we attend a concert together, first time I'm leaving Emilia longer than 30 minutes.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">21lbs! She's getting heavy!<br />People often mistake her for being older and expect her to be able to wave/crawl or do things a 1 year old could do, they are shocked when I tell her she's only 7 months old!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Still doing well, she didn't let her cold bother her too much. <br />She got a bit whingey just before Christmas and we thought she was coming down with something, but turns out, she was teething again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Nicknames:</strong> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cheeky Chops, Cheeky monkey</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3 solid meals every day plus about 19oz of formula, 4oz in the night, 4oz when she wakes up, 4 oz in the afternoon and 7oz at bedtime. <br />She has porridge with fruit for breakfast, vegetables for lunch and veggies with meat for dinner. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have gone a bit crazy filling the freezer with baby food plus I bought a few baby jars for convenience, I think we're sorted for a while. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She LOVES eating and wants a try of everything we have!<br />I'm not quite brave enough for babyled weaning(and could not deal with the mess), but I do try and give her bits of fingerfood every now and then. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Still generally sleeping from 7pm until about 3am, quick feed and nappy change then back down until 7:30am. <br />BUT these past couple of days, she has been keeping me and herself up by constantly rolling over and getting stuck.<br />I put her to sleep on her back, then I leave her room and I can see (on the video monitor) how she's working hard to get onto her front, getting her arms stuck in between the bars, despite mesh bumpers. She's quite pleased with herself and will fall asleep for a bit but then wake ups very unhappy. <br />Let's hope this phase doesn't last long.<br /><br />Napping twice a day, first nap around 10am, then again around 2:30, totaling 2-3 hours per day. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We're back to having stranger 'anxiety', she's all smiles from the safety of my arms, but the minute we hand her over, she gives the pouty lip and then bursts into tears. <br />It's a shame, because we have many friends and family members wanting to love on her, but she's having none of it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">*eating!</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*taking a bath</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*anything that makes a noise or lights up</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*empty baby wipes packs<br />*Mama's singing</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*being strapped into her pushchair, though it's just the initial strapping in, she does love going for walks</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She's getting better at sitting up, but I wouldn't go as far as saying she can sit up on her on yet. <br />We prop her up inbetween the sofas and she loves being able to play with her toys. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We discovered tooth number 5 on Christmas day and number 6 a couple days later, soon she'll be eating steak!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's been a bit quiet in terms of baby groups we attend as they all went on Christmas break, but we're going back next week. <br />Our sensory class has 5 sessions left and unfortunately I don't think we will be able to renew after that as I won't be able to get there anymore. <br />I don't drive, so another lovely mum gives us a lift to the classes, but I think Emilia will outgrow her infant car seat soon, so we will no longer be able to go with her. <br /><br />Emilia and I flew to Germany for a few days just before Christmas and just like before, she did amazing on the flight. People always pull a face when they see they're seated next to me, but then they're pleasantly surprised when she just smiles at them or sleeps :)</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>What we are looking forward to:</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">A family trip to London in February and possibly a holiday in Florida at the end of May</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Having to find a job to fit around Emilia</span>Emiliasmummyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09445046415813981045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940075160192780320.post-4871784933521604222014-12-11T14:21:00.001-08:002014-12-11T14:22:46.129-08:00Long overdue 6 months update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">20lbs, she is now between the 91st and 98th percentile, same for height, so at least it's fairly proportionate. <br />She does have the cutest, chubbiest little thighs I have ever seen...</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She's a healthy girl, her cousins have been a bit poorly but so far she has been just fine other than a bit of wind as an infant and some teething. <br />Now at 6 months, she has her first cold, but she's not too whiney, which we are very grateful for though I do feel sorry for her when I can hear her snuffle at night. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I stopped breastfeeding shortly after our trip to Germany in September, so around the 4 months mark. We are both happy with that and she's doing well on formula. She will go about 4 hours between feeds during the day.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 26 weeks(5 days before she was 6 months) we started solids. She loved her porridge straight away and carrots went down a treat as well. We have tried porridge, mango, apple, banana, peach, carrots, butternut squash, parsnip and swedes(rutabaga). </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 29 weeks she is now on three meals a day, porridge with fruit when she first gets up and mixed vegetables for lunch and dinner. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We went through the dreaded 4 months sleep regression and her nighttime feeds were getting earlier and earlier, but luckily we seem to be out of that, so now she is back to sleeping from 7pm-3/4/5am at which point I feed her half a milk feed and change her nappy, then she goes back down until 7am. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her daytime sleep improved by 4 months when we moved her from her crib to her cot and she started having 2-3 lovely naps in her bed. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She tends to sleep 45-90 minutes each time, but she has had a couple of 3 hour naps too!<br />At 6 months she is currently dropping her 3rd nap around 5pm, so we're dealing with a bit of fussiness at that time of the day. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Putting her to bed is really easy, she settles on her own and goes to sleep quickly. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She was only in 6-9 months for a short amount of time, now she's mainly in 9-12 months clothing </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are doing a baby sensory class every week, which involves lots of singing, textures, lights, sounds. We really love it. <br />Also I was really looking forward to our baby massage class, we both enjoyed that. Now that Emilia is older we have graduated to Baby Yoga classes, which sadly is coming to an end this week. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She went though a little phase of stranger anxiety, but it seems we are past that for now, only one of our friends seems to still terrify her, we don't really know why, but Emilia cries the minute our friend gets near her. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">When we went to Germany at 3.5 months, Emilia wasn't too sure of my mum, her Oma, but then 2 months later when she came to see us, Emilia loved her. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*her Jumperoo<br />*Baby Einstein take along tunes, it's her favourite toy and one I will be giving as present from now on!<br />*anything that makes a noise or lights up</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*having her nappy changed</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">*getting dressed</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">2 days before her 6 months birthday, she finally rolled over and now she won't stop. But she only rolls to her right and once she's on her front she gets very frustrated and annoyed, so she whines. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Also that same week, 3 teeth came through! Then a couple of days another one started appearing. Poor little pixie :( No wonder she's been going through so many dribble bibs. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">When I stopped breastfeeding, I had already reduced the feeds slowly, replacing one feed with a bottle every couple of days, so luckily I had no problems when I fully stopped. I got one lump about 5 days after I finished expressing, so I had to pump one last time, then that was that...</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Regarding the weight, I have been a bit naughty and have put on a couple of pounds, being home all day means I have treats nearby, so I might have overindulged a little bit. <br />I feel a bit lazy, my sister-in-law looked fab 6 months after she had my nephew and everyone in my partner's family is tiny, so I'm the only overweight one.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Must go on a diet, after Christmas, at some point ;-)</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Going to Germany as a family when Emilia was 3.5 months old. She did really well again on the flight. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br /><span style="color: black;">Emilia and I have also taken 2 trips to London, which involved a 2 hour train journey followed by a 45 minute subway ride. We stayed in a hotel and visited my friends, so fun and I really do miss my friends a lot. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: black;">My maternity pay will finish at the beginning of January, then we will really need to watch our money. <br />We were thinking of joining the rest of the family on a trip to Florida, but not sure we can afford it. <br />I have been trying to find a family needing childcare, so I can help them out while still looking after Emilia, but since I don't drive, it hasn't been easy.</span> </span>Emiliasmummyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09445046415813981045noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940075160192780320.post-87479679378845341452014-09-01T13:22:00.003-07:002014-09-01T13:57:02.846-07:00Emilia 3 months update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">14lbs! She's around the 75th percentile</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She had her immunisations done at 10 and 14 weeks and didn't have much of a reaction afterwards other than a little bit of fussiness, so hopefully the next set at 18 weeks will be the same. [we are running 2 weeks behind, normally they're given at 8, 12 and 16 weeks]</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Emilia gave the nurses big smiles before they stabbed her legs, it was very hard for me to see her cry and the first time I almost burst into tears myself. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She has been dribbling lots so we're wondering if this could be early signs of teething</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cheeky Chops, Little Miss Fartie Pants</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are still doing a mixture of breastfeeding and formula, which works well for us. She eats about every 2.5-3 hours during the day. Her last bottle for the day is at 7:30 and she can last around 8 hours at night. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nighttime sleep has been good, she generally goes to sleep around 7:30/8 and sleeps until 3-5am, has a feed and then goes back until 7/8am. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When we travelled to Germany she started sleeping from 9pm until 7am and carried on doing 10-11 hours non stop for about 2 weeks, however now she's back to sleeping 7-8 hours which definitely is not bad, but we enjoyed the 11 hours of uninterrupted sleep very much :)</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are still sleeping in the same room and I'm nowhere near ready to let her sleep in her own room just yet.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Daytime sleep is not quite as successful, she is not a big fan of napping in her crib and prefers sleeping in her bouncer or the pushchair/stroller. She sleeps only about 90 minutes during the day. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pampers Baby Dry size 3(as I previously mentioned, they cover different weight ranges here in the UK)</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3-6 months, especially for bottoms as she's got a bit of a belly ;-)</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So far our social calendar has been a bit quiet due to school holidays, but we are now signed up for music class, a sensory class and baby massage. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We did a couple of one-off classes in the summer as well as free trials and we both really enjoyed that and I can't wait to start classes properly next week. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*her Skip Hop treetop play gym</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*Laying on my bed watching her owl mobile that's hanging from the light fixture</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*looking at herself in the mirror</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*Mummy's monkey pyjamas</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*her muslin squares, she plays and sucks on them</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*napping in her crib</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*having her nappy changed in the middle of the night</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*having to wait for food</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3 months on and I have lost all the baby weight, I think I actually did in the first 3 weeks thanks to exclusively breastfeeding in the beginning. <br />However my body has obviously changed during pregnancy and I need to lose some weight and tone up eventually. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other than that my body feels just like it did before the birth[which reminds me, I never put up my birth story]</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Being a Mama is amazing, I have previously worked as a nanny and definitely loved those kids, but the love I feel for Emilia is so much stronger, she's my everything!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Emilia and I flew to Germany to visit my mum and grandmother, everyone thought I was crazy travelling on my own with a 2 months old baby, but she did amazingly well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Flying to Germany again in a couple of days, this time as a family of three.</span> </span>Emiliasmummyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09445046415813981045noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940075160192780320.post-39427888143978483902014-08-12T14:43:00.002-07:002014-08-12T14:43:40.955-07:0012 weeks today<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These past 12 weeks sure went by faster than the first 12 weeks of my pregnancy.</span><br />
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<br />Emiliasmummyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09445046415813981045noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940075160192780320.post-65268237268744957392014-07-16T04:02:00.001-07:002014-07-16T04:02:36.405-07:0050 days of Emilia<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I failed doing weekly or even montly updates so far, but today(Wednesday 9th of July) Emilia is 50 days old and they have been the best 50 days of my life so far!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mummyhood is exhausting, it's just me getting up in the night due to my partner's medical issues, which means I don't get a break, but it's so rewarding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Emilia weighs almost 11lbs now, up from her birth weight of 7lbs 14oz 7 weeks ago.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She loves her milk and has no plans of going more than 2-3 hours between feeds during the day for now *ha*.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At night she can go 4-5 hours and the other night she went 8 hours between feeds, sadly that was a one-off. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She's the noisiest little girl at night, she grunts and farts in her sleep like crazy, but then during the day she is completely silent when napping. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She started giving real smiles in week 6 and likes to smile at herself in the mirror. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Still loving bathtime and I give her one almost every night as it has become a part of our bedtime routine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She's in 0-3 month clothing and size 2 nappies/diapers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She likes being held and cuddled, but sometimes when she's unhappy, she settles better being in her bouncer than being in my arm, I put this down to the smell of milk or something like that. </span><br />
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<br />Emiliasmummyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09445046415813981045noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940075160192780320.post-56808633899473098592014-06-21T14:51:00.001-07:002014-06-21T14:51:20.907-07:00Time flies when you're having funIt's been a while since I last posted, but Emilia has been keeping me busy.<br />
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She is now 4.5 weeks old and I'm absolutely in love with her and can't believe she truly is mine/ours to keep forever and ever. <br />
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She's been gaining weight steadily since birth and has outgrown her newborn clothes and size 1 nappies/diapers. Last time I had her weighed at 3.5 weeks, she was 4.2kg/9lbs 4oz, compared to her birth weight of 3.58kg/7lbs 14oz, she's a good eater ;-)<br />
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For one more week I am pretty much living as a single mum, my partner visits on weekends but during the week I'm on my own with Emilia, which can be tough as I don't get a break to have a shower or get things done around the house, but in just one more week we are finally moving in together, only took us 5.5 years :)<br />
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Sleep is so-so, she is starting to figure out the difference between day and night and has started going 3-4 hours between feeds at night.<br />
We are doing combination feeding, breast and bottles of formula and expressed milk, bottles help her going longer between feeds and it will give my partner a chance to be involved in feeding her.<br />The Medela Swing pump has been a god send, though I wish I had invested in the double pump!<br /><br />One of Emilia's favourite things is bathtime, she just floats and is totally relaxed, I cannot wait to start baby swimming with her. <br />
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All in all she's an amazing baby and totally worth every bit of sickness, backache, varicose vein and whatever else I experienced in my 42 week pregnancy!<br />
Birth story still to followEmiliasmummyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09445046415813981045noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940075160192780320.post-90468972699296463252014-06-02T08:58:00.002-07:002014-06-02T08:58:47.128-07:00Our daughter is here!Baby Emilia was born on May 20th at 10:14am weighing 3580g/7lbs14oz<br />
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We feel so blessed!<br /><br />Birth story and pictures to comeEmiliasmummyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09445046415813981045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940075160192780320.post-6993379043265206562014-05-18T08:47:00.000-07:002014-05-18T08:47:39.003-07:00STILL WAITING<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am 12 days overdue today!<br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had three attempts of having my cervix 'stretched and sweeped' this past week, which resulted in us going to the hospital to see the midwifes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every single time I had hope that it might start something...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We walked as much as my 41 week pregnant body could handle, but nothing happened.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I guess I have to accept that this baby is an awkward and stubborn little one like we have always joked when she wouldn't cooperate at scans ;-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tomorrow, Monday the 19th of May 2014, I am going to go to the hospital to be induced. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am going to finally hold our baby in my arms by tomorrow or Tuesday and I am freaking out. Is it too late to change my mind and get a kitten instead?<br /><br />My mum was here a couple of weeks ago and took some lovely bump pictures of me, my partner tried taking a few new ones this week, but they didn't turn out quite as nice ;-) </span><br />
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Emiliasmummyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09445046415813981045noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940075160192780320.post-7072361049983298892014-05-13T14:10:00.000-07:002014-05-13T14:10:09.449-07:0040 weeks and beyond<strong><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How far along:</span></span></strong><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as of today, 41 weeks </span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Baby is the size of a:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">small pumpkin</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">19.5 lbs</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maternity Clothes?</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a couple of small new ones that appeared around the 38 week mark</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sleep?</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">terrible, my hips are in agony when I get up in the morning. Also I have started snoring, much to my girlfriend's delight, ha!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">every time I get to hear the heartbeat at the doctor</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Movement:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">still quite a lot</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Food Cravings:</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gender:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">girl</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I seem to get sick in the evening, no matter how little I eat</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">haha, yes I'd expect so at 41 weeks ;-)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">What I miss:</span></b> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sleeping on my stomach</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What I'm looking forward to:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">finally getting to meet the little girl I've been carrying inside of me for the past 10 months</span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What I'm not looking forward to:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">labour, I had a 'stretch & sweep' at 40+6 and that wasn't pleasant, so we'll see how I'm going to cope in labour. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anything else?</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If I haven't gone into labour on my own, I have been booked for induction for Monday the 19th when I will be 13 days overdue. No 'non stress tests' or checking of fluid levels over here in the UK, just the midwife feeling your tummy and listening to baby's heartbeat to check all is fine in there.</span><br />
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Emiliasmummyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09445046415813981045noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940075160192780320.post-74908734834674808742014-05-03T05:25:00.000-07:002014-05-03T05:25:26.135-07:0039 week update<strong><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How far along:</span></span></strong><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">39 weeks</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Baby is the size of a:</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">18.6 lbs, will I manage to stay below 20?</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Maternity Clothes?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My maternity wardrobe is very, very limited as I didn't want to spend too much money. Now I'm going to have to start looking into nursing friendly tops.</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Stretch Marks?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Annoyingly, I have just developed 5 tiny bright red marks on my stomach despite oiling and creaming every day. Guess my skin has now stretched to capacity...</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sleep?</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's actually getting a little better again after a couple of weeks of terrible sleep</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best moment of the Week:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My mum came to visit from Germany to help me out and hopefully get a glimpse of baby, but baby stayed put, so she'll have to be a little more patient.</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Movement:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Still lots, especially just after midnight when I'm trying to sleep</span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Food Cravings:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">popsicles</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gender:</span></span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">girl</span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Symptoms:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">nothing in particular</span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anything Making you queasy or Sick?</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No and very thankful for that, have also managed to not get heartburn</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have you Started to Show yet?</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh yes, the other day one of the subway/underground workers approached me and wanted to give me another 'baby on board' badge. They are handed out for free to alert other travelers that you might need to sit down on the train. <br />I have had one of those badges since week 7 but am too shy to wear it as I don't like to draw attention to myself...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">What I miss:</span></b> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sleeping on my back and stomach</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What I'm looking forward to:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">baby cuddles</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What I'm not looking forward to:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The pain of labour</span></div>
Emiliasmummyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09445046415813981045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940075160192780320.post-2639792560103968472014-04-23T12:44:00.003-07:002014-04-23T12:44:09.588-07:0037 and 38 week update<strong><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How far along:</span></span></strong><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">38 weeks, earlier on in pregnancy I had myself convinced that I wouldn't make it this far, all my friends have had their babies very, very early and I just assumed so would I. <br />However, at my doctor's appointment today I was told baby's head is still not engaged, so knowing my luck, she will probably make us wait another 4 weeks. </span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Baby is the size of a:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">last week it was a leek, this week baby is the size of a bunch of celery. The whole vegetable comparison has been a bit weird, especially when I see mummies-to-be in the U.S. post pictures of the same vegetable, twice the size they are here. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">18lbs</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maternity Clothes?</span></span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">still a mixture</span></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stretch Marks?</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">who knows, I don't care really</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sleep?</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">good nights and bad nights. <br />I invested in a memory foam mattress topper, which has definitely improved things, but I still wake up with hip pain from sleeping on my side. </span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best moment of the Week:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hearing the heartbeat at my 38 week appointment</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Movement:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">not as much, but she's definitely still wriggling around</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ice lollies/popsicles</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gender:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sweet baby girl</span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Symptoms:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I feel that all in all, I cannot complain too much. <br />My back hurts a bit and I don't get as much sleep as I'd like but I guess that's to be expected.<br />Pretty symptom free lately. </span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anything Making you queasy or Sick?</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">no</span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have you Started to Show yet?</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">definitely. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">What I miss:</span></b> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Being able to get up off the sofa more easily </span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What I'm looking forward to:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cuddles with my baby</span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What I'm not looking forward to:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Labour</span> </div>
Emiliasmummyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09445046415813981045noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940075160192780320.post-63769280232129630992014-04-14T09:58:00.000-07:002014-04-14T09:58:05.168-07:0035 and 36 week update<strong><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How far along:</span></span></strong><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">35 and 36 weeks </span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Baby is the size of a:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Honeydew and now Coconut</span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Total weight gain:</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maternity Clothes?</span></span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I need a few more tops and desperately need to get measured for nursing bras.</span></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stretch Marks?</span></span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">no new ones I think, can't really tell</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sleep?</span></span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">not sleeping well at the moment, tossing and turning. My hips are hurting from sleeping on my side.</span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best moment of the Week:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">finishing work</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Movement:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">all the time. <br />I went to a Backstreet Boys gig at 35+3 and baby moved around to the music like mad!</span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Food Cravings:</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Belly Button in or out:</span></span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">In<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gender:</span></span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Baby Girl </span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Symptoms:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My varicose veins are improving now that I have finished work.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tiredness, needing to sit down and take breaks.</span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anything Making you queasy or Sick?</span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">nothing</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have you Started to Show yet?</span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">yes</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">What I miss:</span></b> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sleeping-in</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What I'm looking forward to:</span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the pushchair arriving and hopefully spending some time relaxing and catching up with friends before baby girl arrives</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What I'm not looking forward to:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">labour :(</span></div>
Emiliasmummyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09445046415813981045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940075160192780320.post-70116172580694549342014-04-06T02:18:00.000-07:002014-04-06T02:18:16.007-07:0033 and 34 week update<strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How far along:</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">33 and 34 weeks</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Baby is the size of a:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pineapple (33 weeks) and Canteloupe (34 weeks)</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">16lbs </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is really silly, but I wish my bump was more 'perfect', a proper round bump. Due to being overweight to start with, the top half of my bump is harder and the bottom part is still flabby, which is why the bump isn't very neat.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I should really get over feeling like that though!</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maternity Clothes?</span></span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">still managing with one pair of maternity jeans, maternity vests and oversized tops(and underwear)</span></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stretch Marks?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">just the ones I've had since puberty, they're the silver ones, not the red ones</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sleep?</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it's getting a bit difficult to get comfortable, the mattress really needs replacing(you can feel the springs sticking out)</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best moment of the Week:</span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hearing the heartbeat at my Dr.'s appointment</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Movement:</span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">all the time, I really love it. She's head down so mostly feel movement at the top right(where her bottom is)</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Food Cravings:</span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">nothing in particular, I thought by this time I would be eating smaller portions, but I can still eat the same amount as before</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Belly Button in or out:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in, and it won't become an outie in the next 6 weeks either</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gender:</span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sweet baby girl</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Symptoms:</span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">breathlessness, which was getting me a bit worried as it occurred even when I would sit at the table writing, but the doctor said it was all normal, due to the baby taking up all the space inside of my uterus, which pushes my organs to the top</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anything Making you queasy or Sick?</span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">nothing, I think I had my fair share of sickness in the first trimester up until week 16</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have you Started to Show yet?</span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">finally people are noticing, so now I don't just look fatter, I look pregnant</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What I miss:</span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a comfortable bed </span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What I'm looking forward to:</span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">finishing work soon</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What I'm not looking forward to:</span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">labour, just thinking about it terrifies me. Also it's fairly likely that I might be on my own when I go into labour, so that thought is a bit scary</span></div>
Emiliasmummyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09445046415813981045noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940075160192780320.post-19237239063740450572014-03-19T14:52:00.001-07:002014-03-19T14:52:28.383-07:0031 and 32 week update<strong><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How far along:</span></span></strong><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">31 and 32 weeks</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Baby is the size of a:</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bunch of Asparagus and Bok Choy, she's 42cm long and 4lbs heavy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12lbs by week 31 and then 15lbs(!!) by the next week</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What's that?? I'm sleeping so badly.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My girlfriend signing the contract to her first flat(apartment)! She's moving in in April and baby and I will follow a little later as I have a 2 month notice period on my flat.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All the time, though she definitely has quieter times. She seems to get especially active just when I'm going to bed :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not cravings, I just want to eat chocolate and bad foods all the time, I did that before I got pregnant though ;-)</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">nothing new: varicose veins, back ache, lack of sleep and terrible breathlessness, so far I seem to at least have been spared from heart burn and nose bleeds. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, people say I look *small* for how far along I am, amazing considering I feel like I'm the size of a whale!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At least booking with them I knew that I would get a free re-scan in case baby was in a funny position. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The appointment took place at 29+5 weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were called in and immediately the sonographer saw that baby was facing the wrong way, so after doing the necessary head and tummy measurements as well as confirming the gender(though somewhat vague "I'm thinking girl") they sent us out to go for a walk and advised to drink and eat something sugary. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We did and while baby had turned around, she now had both arms and one leg in front of her face. <br />I was asked to turn to the left, to the right, to the left...just to get her to move her arms, lots of jiggling of my tummy, yet still no change. <br />For a brief second she removed her arms and legs and we got this gorgeous picture. Clearly baby takes after me and got my family's big nose ;-)</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As we had paid for a 30 minute 'bonding scan' we were once again sent out of the room, this time to the waiting area and I was asked to drink lots and lots of water to fill up my bladder. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After another 20 minutes we were called back in, but despite lots of turning from side to side on my part and jiggling around there was no change, so the sonographer called it a day and told us to re-schedule. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I immediately called the next day and was able to book an appointment for 30+3, and while my girlfriend wouldn't be able to come along, my mum would as she was visiting from Germany that weekend. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">So the day of the second appointment came and my mum was very excited. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br /><span style="color: black;">Unfortunately baby seems to be a little bit camera shy, so while she was facing the camera, she was only showing us half her face. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The sonographer tried her best, again lots of turning and jiggling and then she even made me get up on all 4 on the bed and shake my tummy around to wake the little one and shake her into a different position. So glad nobody filmed this part as it was a bit embarrassed. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">But no luck. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">We managed to get a couple more pictures, but nothing amazing and I'm definitely glad I didn't pay extra for the dvd as it was non refundable and wouldn't have been worth it. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">We actually chose a picture from the first scan attempt to be printed as the colour picture as it was better than anything we got the second time.<br />I find the last picture a little scary...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br /><span style="color: black;">I'm still glad I did the 4D scan as we were able to confirm (twice) baby was a girl and we got a few glimpses of what she will look like once born. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">She seems to have rather full lips too, I remember saying after the 12 week scan that she had pouty lips so nothing has changed since then. <br />I can't wait to meet her and compare her features to these pictures we have. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />Emiliasmummyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09445046415813981045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940075160192780320.post-23134946502302885662014-03-02T14:49:00.000-08:002014-03-02T14:49:01.566-08:0029 and 30 week update<strong><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How far along:</span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Butternut Squash and now large cabbage<br />She's 1.4kg or 3lbs 3oz according to the latest scan.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">12lbs, I started slowly and now catching up quickly</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other than my maternity jeans and 'upsized' tops, I have started wearing underwear which was only intended to go in my hospital bag...big Bridget Jones</span> style underpants ;-) </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not doing great, the mattress supplied by my landlord is cheap and starting to get uncomfortable, but because I'm planning on moving this summer, there's no point buying a new one</span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best moment of the Week:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4D scan at 29+5, I'll be sharing pictures soon</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Movement:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">loads, no kicks, just lots of rolling around</span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Food Cravings:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sadly nothing healthy</span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Belly Button in or out:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in </span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gender:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">confirmed baby is a little girl</span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Symptoms:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*back ache</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*varicose veins</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*feeling heavy in my belly</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*breathlessness, even when just lying and sitting down</span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anything Making you queasy or Sick?</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*had nausea for a couple of mornings this week, no idea what caused that, but luckily it's gone now</span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have you Started to Show yet?</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">People who know that I'm pregnant have commented that I look more pregnant, but I'm still not being offered seats on the bus or the train</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">What I miss:</span></b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sleeping comfortably </span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What I'm looking forward to:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My mum coming to visit at the end of the week and going for a re-scan of my 4D scan as baby wasn't cooperating and we didn't get </span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What I'm not looking forward to:</span></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Getting bigger and more uncomfortable</span></div>
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