Nothing much is really happening - my tummy is just getting bigger and bigger now. There is much less room inside for the baby to thrash around and play, so now I am getting less bashed, but more big stretches of arms and legs which results in a big protrusion on the surface. It's quite funny! I have been able to do little tiny foot massages when they poke out :)
My thighs have been hurting a bit, which turns out to be all my hormones getting ready for birth by starting to relax and dissolve away various ligaments and bits of cartilage (presumably so I can stretch enough to fit a whole person out of me! yikes!). If I've been sitting down for a while and then stand up quickly, it's a bit sore since the usual power isn't there.
I thought I'd managed to escape stretch marks, but yesterday I did a thorough check of my tummy - I had to use a mirror to see the underside of my big overhang, even! And I discovered a few minor ones at the base of my tummy which must normally covered by underwear when I rub in my stretchmark oil...oopsy! Oh well, I don't have any on visible parts of my tummy, so that's the main thing.
Last week I had to do a series of icky tests. I did a glucose test where I had to drink a 300ml bottle of carbonated sugar syrup in a few minutes - then they wait exactly an hour before suctioning off a whole lot of my precious blood. I can barely drink 300ml of anything in a short space of time, and supersweet carbonations are no easy task. And you're not allowed to eat anything, so I was sitting in the waiting room almost passing out from extreme sugaryness. Afterwards I compared the sugar content to Coke, and what I drank is about double the sugar content of a can of coke. It equated to about 18.5 spoonfuls of sugar (roughly). Anyway, the whole point of it was to check how I metabolise sugar so they can determine if I have developed gestational diabetes. Luckily all was perfect. But I'm not sure about the effects of extreme sugar exposure to the baby - I think it's a conspiracy from places like CocaCola who might realise that at 28 weeks the neurological development is such that extreme sugar exposure will prime the child for future taste preferences....... hehe, well who knows :)
We were meant to start our antenatal classes last week, but they got changed to next month since for some reason there is a giant overflow of pregnant people at the moment and it all booked out (we were on the waiting list, and got in due to a cancellation, then got kicked out after the overbooking error, doh). Oh well. Instead I have been entering competitions to win baby things and so far I have won a really cool Kapoochi baby bag (for carrying all the supplies you need on outings) - it is very nice and I have started to use it as my regular bag at the moment. I also won some toys and some Huggies stuff and some angora baby blankets. Not a bad haul considering we are yet to buy anything!
The Parent and Child Expo is coming up next month and we are saving all our purchases for that in the hope that all the exhibitors will be offering massive expo only specials and free things and discounts if we buy from there. Fingers crossed. We might need to take a trailer with us to bring it all back!
We nearly had a crisis last week when Britney Spears nearly used the name we are currently liking for her baby. Luckily she changed her mind, otherwise everyone would have thought we copied her! We are working through a list of names to try them out and see what we like, and will keep the name under wraps until the birth.
Yikes, the birth! It's so scary.
Oh well, I think that's it for now.
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