Packing Cleaning Sorting = moving house

I'm surrounded by bits and pieces of my life, boxes, glasses, clothes and books, furniture being taken apart, cupboards being emptied and wiped out. All in preparation to move house over the next 5 days. This weekend we will move the vast majority of our belongings to the new house and then spend next week cleaning this place till we hand in the keys late Thursday afternoon. I have been feeling pretty relaxed about it all, I'm very ready to get it all over and done with and get sorted before we welcome a new person into our lives. I've been pretty preoccupied with house hunting and stress bought on by that over the last 6 months, It will be nice to be able to just focus my energies over the next 10 weeks or so on being pregnant and preparing myself for labour, birth and looking after a new little life.

Glucose Tests = human pincushion

A few weeks ago I went and had a Glucose challenge test which required me to drink a 50g glucose/ 300ml - very sweet drink and sit in the pathology waiting room for 1hr then get a blood test. It wasn't too bad I did start to feel a little flushed by the end of the hour though.

I hadn't heard anything so I was assuming everything was good but the other night I got home and paul told me my GP had rang and said my Blood sugar levels came back too high and I would need to go and do a more extensive test for gestational diabetes.. crap!! she left a referral at the desk for me so I figured that meant it was obviously pretty important for me to get it done asap, so I took today off work and booked in to have the test done. This time round was much more intensive - I had to fast for 12hrs (except water) and when I got to pathology at 9.30 this morning I had to give them a urine sample followed by a blood test, then drink an even sweeter glucose drink and wait 1hr before having another blood test and then another hour before a final blood test. I coped pretty well & the nurse was very quick and accurate with taking my bloods so not to much discomfort on my part. So next Wednesday when I have my routine prenatal with my GP I will get the results, hopefully all is good and It's just a false alarm, because gestational diabetes means the baby can be big and can lead to more intervention for labour & birth - not what I want.

30 weeks

Moving in October!

I am really both excited & happy that we finally got approved on a new rental property. Seems things are slowly beginning to fall into place, it is the perfect time & perfect spot. Wow... feels good.
So come October we will be moving to the beautiful sunny suburb of Glenbrook.
I will be able to set up the nursery for bubs arrival which I am looking forward to do. Now to start packing!

boy or girl

seems lots of people like to tell you their personal predication on the sex of the baby. We are not going to find out, well not for another 13 weeks at least. In the last week I have been told by a few people that they think I'm having a boy because I'm carrying it low. I don't have any preferences at all on boy or girl, just that bub arrives safe & healthy is all that I wish for. But from the very beginnings I have felt like I think it is a boy that is just my instinct but I could be wrong, for a short while there I thought girl but it was when I was looking at girls names. If it comes down to food like some of the Old wives tales say sweet for girl & savoury for boy well I've craved both sweet and savoury foods but I did the pendulum test on myself today with a ring of mine & a hair from my head and seems to go round & round which supposedly tells me I'm having a boy as side to side is a girl.

In the last week bubs kicks are noticeably stronger and I find I can now feel bub moving lots more often especially first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Found myself very restless last night kept getting up and down and couldn't settle till I put the hypnobirthing cd on & that always works a treat - I'm out to it & most times find I get a better nights sleep after listening to it.

27 weeks = third trimester