Oh, so close!

Well..... can still hardly believe I've got less than 5 weeks to go now!

Things have settled down a fair bit the past two weeks which has been a welcome relief!! Blood pressure stabilised mostly now at around 90/50 or 90/60 which is much better than what it was. Have only had one fainting "episode" since last at the docs so that's great too! Been wearing those gorgeous compression stockings (got skin coloured ones but they're pretty much as ugly as the white ones!) and I think they're helping a fair bit. Thankfully the weather down here has mostly been cool still so able to wear them to work.

As of today (when today ends) I have three days of work left. Blows me away to think that's it for all that time!!! I kinda hope bub goes a week early or so, so that I'm not home for weeks. I've done all the washing of baby clothes, blankets etc, made up the cot, and got pretty much everything in order. Still can't put the rest of the nursery furnishings up cause no one knows still what I'm having. Wonder if I could put a lock on the door...... heh heh..... not likely!

Getting MUCH tighter in the tummy now. The past three days I've had a stitch-like pain on my right hand side. Feels like my abs are gunna tear in two. Noticably heavier when I walk too, and still quite breathless.
Been walking on the treadmill most nights which has been great, and funnily enough I'm not as tight or sore when I'm finished my walk. It's now just gettting harder and harder to get motivated to get on there in the first place!

Still eating VERY small meals cause I'm full all the time. Mostly I just crave ice cubes.... apparently it's the most common non-food craving during pregnancy! There is some contention over that term non-food from what I read on the net. Apparently according to most websites it sits in the category of "pica" (literal translation is magpie) but lots of people say because it's water, that's it's technically a food item and pica refers to craving things like chalk, dirt, clay etc..... oh well, it's better than the greasy sausage roll "cravings" I had at the start of the pregnancy!! The only bad thing is it can be potentially bad for your teeth, all that crunching! And I'm easily able to indulge this craving all day, every day at this place where I work as we have a training restaurant here which has an ice making machine in the cellar, and I have a key!! At least I'm keeping up plenty of fluids!

Oh, and one other pregnancy side effect I've developed in the past week...... STOP READING HERE IF YOU DON'T WANT TMI!!!!!!!!

I'm awfully embarrassed to admit it but I've now developed small but still very painful "bout" (?) of haemorrhoids ..... god, why must women go through this kind of crap to get to such a wonderful prize at the end?!?!?! Hobbled to the chemist yesterday and had a chat to the pharmacist there. She was lovely and we had a bit of a laugh about it! I asked her if they will continue after pregnancy and she said whilst there will now always be a bit of a weakspot there and potential for it to flare up again, that they are easily managed and should only reoccur on rare occasions! Anyway, as embarrassed as I was to be going through this, she said it was extremely common in later pregnancy and gave me stuff called proctosedyl and today it's all but gone and I feel normal again!!! I guess it pays to swallow ones pride and ask the question!!! Oh, but she did warn me that it will probably flare up again during labour but to keep that cream handy! Yeah, can't wait for that one!!! Nice to know it'll all be on show for the world to see too!!! Can't believe I've even put this in a blog, but figured that the women reading this will firstly have a bit of a horrified giggle and then hopefully feel some form of compassion!!!! hahahaha!!!!!!

Well, on that note I've got to head off to do some work which is a bit of a PAIN IN THE ARSE....... hee hee!!! But will be back shortly to update some more! Trying not to leave it so long between updates!

Oh, before I go......

* A huge congrats to Lambchops on her wedding on the weekend!! Well done!!! Am so happy for you and DH!!!! (no more DP)
* Big hugs and get well wishes to GS..... you poor bugger. You've had an awful run since getting your BFP.... I hope you feel better very, very soon xx


More updates for the other girls shortly!!!!!

xxx