Over the past two weeks I've started to feel baby fairly consistently. Lots of rolling over and wriggling around with the occasional kick but all fairly gentle movement. I had one big boot the other night that actually made me jump but most of the time it's pretty subtle. Scout is all excited and desperate to feel baby too but will no doubt have to be patient for a couple more weeks I think. We have our 20 week scan tomorrow morning (we will be 20wks 6 days!). Looking forward to seeing the little tacker again and finding out if we're having a boy or girl. Technically we don't want to find out in a dark room with a stranger so we're having a BBQ next weekend to find out with family. Will be interesting to say the least ;)
Pregnancy wise I think I've been pretty lucky with my run so far although my hayfever has been terrible and making me very tired. I've mastered sleeping on my side now but my nose and head have been blocked up continuously for about a month now so I'm still not sleeping very well. My mouth gets so dry at night, my tongue has stuck to the roof of my mouth a few times and I've woken up in a panic not being able to breath. I also seem to have reverted back to a bit of morning sickness for some weird reason but nothing worth complaining about. I've bought a few maternity shorts and tops and I've also started using what I refer to as my "boom box". It sounds a bit coo-kee but I bought a "baby plus" machine that I've been wearing for an hour morning and night that makes different sound patterns for baby to listen to and apparently learn from. It doesn't sound all that evidence based to me but it was second hand, had good reviews and 'apparently' helps baby be a little calmer once on the outside so I figure it's worth a try if there is any possibility of that! Scout thought I was crazy at first but she's come around to the idea and now reminds me if I've forgotten to do a session. At first I thought it was going to drive me nuts cos it's pretty loud and just like repetitive drumming at different speeds, but if I wear it under my clothes or while I'm still in bed under the covers, I hardly notice it. If nothing else, it does actually make baby very active which it kinda nice. Not sure if that's baby's way of saying "Not again! Turn that thing off!" but I like to think of it as a bit of bonding time lol.
The baby's room is virtually done. Crazy but true. We picked up the glider given to us by my brother's friend and it is awesome. Very flash. Too flash to be in our house! Jazz has been rocking out in it. I'm almost worried she might break it before I get a chance to use it. She swings so hard I seriously think she could launch herself off it if she wanted to. The same lady also gave us 3-4 big garbage bags of clothes, sheets, wraps, blankets and baby clothes. Honestly more than we will ever use. It was actually a bit overwhelming just sorting through it all. And another friend dropped of her old pram which I've pulled apart, washed and put back together again. Scout has rearranged our bedroom now so we can access the door between both rooms, which is kinda cool. She also spoilt me by getting me a new stereo for my car as my old one died ages ago and I hadn't gotten around to replacing it. This new one also has bluetooth etc which I've never had before so it's all a bit of a novelty.
So things have been going great guns for us, but while we've been moving on to new milestones, our friends who have also been TTC are continuing to have a rough ride and we still haven't been able to bring ourselves to tell them we are pregnant. We have been waiting in hope that they might also get lucky soon but they have just had more heartache and are actually mentally and emotionally in a really bad place at the moment. They need our support right now, not an announcement, so we are continuing to keep things to ourselves. They live in a different town and we only see them occasionally so we can get away with phone contact for now but a time will come when we will have to tell them and I am dreading it. I feel bad about holding out on them but they have been in such a bad way lately I don't want to add to or amplify their pain. It's difficult. We don't know what's the right thing to do ... And our heart is breaking for them.
Anyway ... we are extremely grateful to be where we are at right now and I plan on embracing every moment of this pregnancy because I know how lucky we are to have made it this far. So fingers crossed all goes well tomorrow and I'll post again soon, hopefully with some new pics of our little one :)
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