Magical times!

I now go swimming with mum twice a week, Mondays and Wednesdays. I'm loving it. We always sit and have a drink and a good girly chat afterwards. Last night, Adam text me and asked if we wanted to come home for a cuppa before mum went home. As we walked into the living room Adam had a funny smile on his face. I turned around, and my dream pram with all its accessories was carefully displayed! I literally couldn't believe it for a second. He bought it from a friend from work, she's only had it about 3 months, and now has a new car which it doesn't fit in. Its in such beautiful condition it seems brand new! It isn't the colour i originally wanted, but i love it anyway. It literally has everything! It is a proper pram, with a carry cot, but it turns into a pushchair (which can face either way), highchair, moses basket and car seat. Its amazing! Mum loved it too. We spent about 90 minutes playing about with it. Its come with a parasol, rain cover, fly cover and cosy toes (which was still packaged and should have cost £85).
So we have ended up having my dream pram, which should have cost over £700, for £300! The Chassis is a slightly different one too, its got big wheels and a big old fashioned metal basket, but we're going to buy the swivel wheels chassis from eBay, so we can use both whenever convenient.
I'm besotted with it. I keep looking at it, getting all excited that our baby will be in there soon!

The second really exciting thing is.. i have definitely felt Button move today!!!! It is only a 'flutter' like the midwife described, but its really clear. I thought id felt it a couple of times at work today, but since iv been sat still at home, and able to concentrate on it, I'm 100% certain it was little movements. Adam pressed his hand hard against the area i could feel it, which made it feel even clearer to me. Hopefully Adam will be able to feel it too within the next couple of weeks :)
Its the most exciting thing ever knowing that my tiny person is wriggling around in there!
They are developing taste buds now too :D
Love my clever little Button :)
Think they're asleep now, so I'm going to follow suit!

Love love love xx

Place your Bets,,,

We've had a lovely afternoon, visiting Mamas and Papas at both McArthur Glen and the Ikea retail park, and i think Adam may have fallen for our pram almost as much as me. He seems to really like it and is really keen..Yay!!

Iv recently seen something rather brilliant on my friend Lizz's blog, a survey for all readers to make estimations about the baby. So iv done one myself. I think its been decided that we are definately not going to find out Buttons sex, so i am very interested to see what people thing. There are a number of things for you to guess on the survey, im looking forward to seeing who is the most accurate. Our due date at the moment is 1st September :) Have fun...

Click here to guess

A sigh of relief!

I have finally got my assessments over and done with (mainly). I really surprised myself with how well i did. There were so many things i thought i would fail on, and it all went really smoothly really. I actually ended up having a pretty enjoyable couple of days. We ended up running out of time, so i have got a couple of other bits to complete in a couple of weeks, and theres a few pages of my book iv got to finish off, but as soon as thats done i should be well on the way to my next certificate.

That really is a huge load off my mind. Months of worrying over, i don't know what i was so bothered about.

We had our first midwife appointment on Tuesday morning. Our midwife is called Heather, and she's lovely. We got given loads of books and leaflets to read and she gave us tons of information. She measured and weighed me, took my blood pressure, went through our family medical history and asked lots of questions. We have come to the decision that the baby will be born at Bassetlaw hospital in Worksop, as its slightly closer to our house, but its also on the same road that Adam works on. Heather told us that because of some difficulties i have, and some medical history, i will have to attend more than the average number of appointments. Usually we would have all of our appointments at the doctors surgery, and only scans at the hospital. We will have to have additional consultations at the hospital to keep a good check on everything, which is pretty reassuring. At the end of the appointment, i had my blood tests. Which i have such a phobia of. I get myself in such a state for ages before hand and often end up close to fainting before iv even been called in. I really am proud of how calm i stayed. As usual, i was a little bit worked up before hand. But once it came to actually doing it, id been so distracted by baby talk and gotten so excited by it all, i literally stuck my arm out and chatted my way through it. Still, i far from enjoyed it, but thats the bravest i have ever been. Heather was really pleased with me, however she said i did go totally white while she was doing it. She fetched me a glass of water, and gave me a sympathy plaster and called Adam back in.

I feel like iv really made a big step with that phobia, and was really excited when Heather told me i would only have to have one more throughout the whole pregnancy!

An abrupt end to my relief came this afternoon... Heather phoned. My bloods have got stuck in a shoot at Kings Mill hospital, so iv got to go and have them done again. I cant believe it. Iv got to try and just remember that i found it a piece of cake last time, and that the thought is worse than actually having it. I'm sure i'll be fine.

Had a nice day today. Came to mums on the bus, and we've spent all afternoon going round looking at pushchairs. I am now absolutely besotted with my Ultima 9 in 1. I had wondered, whilst looking at it online, whether it might be quite heavy. Having pushed it round the shop today (with a teddy in!) it really isn't at all. Its very lightweight, and easy to put up and down. It does everything, and looks beautiful, and so comfy. I really do love it. The dark denim (city scape) colour looks fantastic too!

I plan to try and get Adam to Mamas and Papas on Sunday to show him, i think he'll really love it.

I have suddenly started weeing twice as often! I was going quite a lot anyway, but over the past week it seems to have become so much more frequent! I have now started to average 6 toilet trips a night, which is quite inconvenient! Its now literally every hour during the day too!

In fact, i'm going to finish here for tonight, because im desperate right now!!

Love to all xxxxx

"Pregnant Princess"

Sorry i haven't blogged for a while, I'm up to my neck, drowning in revision for my assessments, which by the way, i still wish i could fast forward through. I am not looking forward to them one little bit. The idea of them is keeping me awake at night.It'll be heavenly when they are over and done with!!

There isn't really a great deal more to say at the moment, the sickness is still only just bareable, I'm still exhausted but I'm loving it all. Apparently if u stretched button out, from head to toe is about 4cm!! But its much comfier to curl up at the moment :)

I went to Asda with mum and Adam last night, mums bought me some black maternity jeans, and black work trousers, a little denim maternity skirt and tights which I'm going to give her money for. I can literally only fit in maternity stuff now! I got a nice black maternity dress too for Shawna's 21st Birthday Bash which is in a couple of weeks, so now i can stop worrying about what I'm going to wear for that :)

Its the 'baby event' at Asda too, and there were some amazing deals, such as a car seat for £25!! So we bought a set of bottles and sterilizer, which was reduced to a fantastic £10!!

Iv had a rather lovely day today. Went to a car boot sale with mum and Chris, which was hardly worth the 75p entry fee as there was literally nothing there! Then we had a drive to Sutton and had a look round Matalan. We bought a few bits from here too, some little white socks (pack of 5) 3 Neutral feeding cloths and a fluffy reindeer hat and gloves which is adorable!! We also found the most amazing maternity top, its white with 'Pregnant Princess' written on in swirly letters!! :D

There's some really nice baby stuff in there, changing mats, outfits, bedding etc so I'm definitely planning a trip with Adam once we've been paid!

Once we got back to mums, we spent a couple of hours looking online at different prams. We saw an amazing one, which i have since shown Adam, and he loves it as much as i do! Its a 9 way pram, which means it would last Button a long time, and we needn't buy a car seat, a moses basket or maybe even a highchair! It does everything!! It is a little out of our budget though £635, reduced from £835!! But there are some on EBay in fantastic condition for a lot less!

If you cant see the pictures at the top very clearly, you can see a larger image of them if you go on www.mamasandpapas.com and type in 'Ultima 9 in 1' .

Right, time for me to get back to exciting old revision :( Lucky me!

Love to all xxxxxx