Thursday, November 24, 2005

Still no baby...

Nope, no baby yet, so I made it to my antenatal class tonight much to everyone's surprise! After last week's paranoia creation, everyone thought I would not be there......but it turns out one of the other ladies had her baby instead! (quite early though, so I hope everything is ok - we didn't know any details except that she was in the hospital instead of at our class). Tonight was our last class, and next week our official 'Coffee Group' starts, where we all meet up weekly and bring our babies and share all our issues. Should be fun! I am the next one due, and then the rest of the ladies are due mid-late dec, so I guess I get to be the guineapig for everything.

Today Dan and I went on a tour of Birthcare, which is the postnatal hospital where I get to stay for 3 days after having the baby. Basically, we have the baby at the hospital, and then after a couple of hours when we are ok to move around, we get transferred to Birthcare. So if anyone wants to come to visit me (once you know I've had the baby), I will be at Birthcare, 20 Titoki St, Parnell (it runs parallel to Parnell Rd, but is on the edge of the Domain near the museum). I get 3 days free accomodation there if I choose a twin room, or I can pay $250 a day and have a private room. However we discovered today that they have millions of rooms and there were heaps and heaps of empty ones so we figured I'd try my luck with a share room and hopefully get no room-mate, and then if I do and it's dumb, then I can get a private room.

This baby is very squirmy and is starting to really hurt me now that he is so big and is running out of room. Another REALLY annoying thing that has happened is that I have turned into a giant FRECKLE FACE!!!! NOOOO!!!! I had managed to fade away my stupid freckles (haven't been outside in forever), but silly hormonal changes interfere with the melanin production in your skin and can make freckles more prominent and darken random areas of skin. STUPID FRECKLES! Dan just laughs at me, so I get no sympathy. Oh well, I suppose its really about the worst symptom of my pregnancy, so that is actually doing very well indeed.

I have to make it through Gran's funeral tomorrow without having the baby (we are taking my hospital bags in the car just in case we need to make a hasty departure), and then I am meant to be working this weekend for the last time, so the baby can come anytime from Monday onwards.

I'll be waiting.

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