So we got back from the beautiful Islands of Cape Verde last Friday. I really enjoyed my week in the sun, it was lovely not working and having a big chill out. Kinda happy to come home though, although it really wasn't nice having the alarm go off Monday morning when outside was cold and dark and wet. Seriously depressing.
I quite like Autumn, just not when it's grey. If it was cold but sunny I could definitely be more on board. The heating is officially on and I also have the onset of my first cold arriving - a lovely tickly throat/headache which sucks as you can't really take anything to relieve it so I'm just soldiering on through. I've heard that being pregnant you pick up every illness going because your immune system is low which will not be fun. I'm going to have the flu jab on doctors orders so at least I shouldn't get properly ill. I'm a bit of a baby and slight exaggerator when I'm poorly. I have definitely googled Ebola symptoms a fair few times today... but unless I suddenly get a raging fever I think I should survive.
Baby is all good. Feeling more flutters I think. I am pretty much halfway at 19 weeks which seems unbelievable. I've been moaning all this time about how long it's taking and now it's almost crept up a bit... I have my 20 week scan on Monday which I am concentrating on so much. To make sure baby is OK firstly, and secondly to find out what we're having. I have managed to persuade Sam round to wanting to know and now I think he is as desperate as me to find out! He really wants a boy, like a lot. It's funny because at the moment it seems like most people we know or have heard about are all having boys, and every time he hears another boy announcement he's getting more pissed off at the probability of ours not being one. It's all irrelevant though, it's 50/50 chance of either and there's not a lot we can do about it now!
He's a grapefruit this week, which is getting quite sizeable and I have a real bump now, can still hide it with particularly baggy things but it's pretty much there. A couple of people mentioned it while we were away without me saying something first, but you could see in their eyes they weren't 100%. I've started using the nice expensive oil my friends brought me so I don't get stretch marks, my belly button feels a bit more shallow. I hope it doesn't pop out. Gross.
Other than that I'm generally feeling alright, started to get a bit of heartburn/acid after I eat a lot. It says to eat little and often and not to have greasy food or chocolate. Well that's easier said than done. What's one more symptom... I feel like it's just a big battle with worse to come, but will all be worth it in the end <3
Will be sharing gender news with my next post hopefully :) x
I quite like Autumn, just not when it's grey. If it was cold but sunny I could definitely be more on board. The heating is officially on and I also have the onset of my first cold arriving - a lovely tickly throat/headache which sucks as you can't really take anything to relieve it so I'm just soldiering on through. I've heard that being pregnant you pick up every illness going because your immune system is low which will not be fun. I'm going to have the flu jab on doctors orders so at least I shouldn't get properly ill. I'm a bit of a baby and slight exaggerator when I'm poorly. I have definitely googled Ebola symptoms a fair few times today... but unless I suddenly get a raging fever I think I should survive.
Baby is all good. Feeling more flutters I think. I am pretty much halfway at 19 weeks which seems unbelievable. I've been moaning all this time about how long it's taking and now it's almost crept up a bit... I have my 20 week scan on Monday which I am concentrating on so much. To make sure baby is OK firstly, and secondly to find out what we're having. I have managed to persuade Sam round to wanting to know and now I think he is as desperate as me to find out! He really wants a boy, like a lot. It's funny because at the moment it seems like most people we know or have heard about are all having boys, and every time he hears another boy announcement he's getting more pissed off at the probability of ours not being one. It's all irrelevant though, it's 50/50 chance of either and there's not a lot we can do about it now!
He's a grapefruit this week, which is getting quite sizeable and I have a real bump now, can still hide it with particularly baggy things but it's pretty much there. A couple of people mentioned it while we were away without me saying something first, but you could see in their eyes they weren't 100%. I've started using the nice expensive oil my friends brought me so I don't get stretch marks, my belly button feels a bit more shallow. I hope it doesn't pop out. Gross.
Other than that I'm generally feeling alright, started to get a bit of heartburn/acid after I eat a lot. It says to eat little and often and not to have greasy food or chocolate. Well that's easier said than done. What's one more symptom... I feel like it's just a big battle with worse to come, but will all be worth it in the end <3
Will be sharing gender news with my next post hopefully :) x