With just fifteen days to go 'til our due date, I'm really starting to feel it! I'm feeling really restless, and sleeping is the only thing I want to do because it takes my mind off it! My mum said she was like this in the week leading up to the birth of all three of us - so watch this space...I am astonished at the amount of serious movement going on still, especially when I go to bed at night. Arms and hands are sticking out all over the place, it's such a precious feeling. It's especially brilliant when John is able to see a whole arm sticking up and out, zipping across my tummy which he saw for the first time today. It has only started doing that in the last few weeks, but it's the weirdest thing and definately looks like something out of Alien. It sometimes looks pretty gross when pregnant ladies hold their bump all the time but I've found myself doing it a fair bit but I can't help it - I will miss the feeling but having the baby in real life will be a trillion times better.
In baby world, about 1/2oz of fat is laid down each day from now on. The baby probably now has a bowel full of meconium (a rather disgusting looking tar-like first nappy!) ready for daddy to tackle. They are also now weighing nearly 7lbs - although this does depend on the sex of the baby as boys are heavier than girls, generally. Saying that, baby Ella weighed 1oz heavier than Nathaniel when she was born so it could well just be a myth or some serious generalising. The placenta is now dying off and not as nutritious but does enough to keep the baby going until D-Day.
Hospital bag packed, nursery is complete...now all we need is baby!
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