New Mama to be is feeling free...

Hi blog. I realise the purpose or intent in writing this was for sharing but I've only told a few people I have a blog. Maybe I'll jazz it up a bit more and send it out to a small circle of friends. I'm sure mind you that people have better things to be doing than reading my blog. Anyway that aside, now that the creative and academic parts of my brain have been freed up from study (YES I FINISHED Tuesday and YES I'm feeling quite confident I did what I needed to do to pass - just touched wood), I'm getting excited about writing again. I've a serious case of nesting starting. There is so much I want to do in the next 8 weeks before baby gets here. I have great plans in my head for this fabulous house of ours.

On a baby related note, I am happy to report that my stay in hospital was a success. My blood sugar levels are really good and I do not need to go on insulin. I'm being monitored again the week after next so an incentive for me to stay good. the diet is paying off. Plus I have not gained any weight which is good. It means that even though the baby will have grown in the last 3 weeks I've actually lost weight myself. Delighted as it means there'll be less of a mountain to climb down from when bambino gets here.

I'm LOVING my swims. I went up tonight at 9 to my local pool and it was lovely and quiet. I just blitzed through the water. I want to keep it up when baby gets here. It might not be that easy at the beginning but my swims are rapidly becoming my salvation. It's my time out time.

Right I'm off to bed with a book and a magazine. The novelty - no more plays to read - hooray!

So I kidded myself...

Those potted lilies and roses are bought were not really a gift for Chris. I used the excuse of his birthday to buy them but really I think they were for me. Good job I also brought him out for dinner to our favourite restaurant and also got him some gardening books he wanted. I'm a semi-good wifey.

THIRTY ONE WEEKS TODAY! I've been working towards a few key milestones. The 1st one is Tuesday = exams over. The 2nd one is August 2nd = I FINISH WORK! I'm so excited about both. But once the exams are out of the way it's going to be time to start working our way through the shopping list for baba. We picked out paint for his/her room today. It's a lovely yellow whose name I can't remember right now.

I've an overnight, possibly 2 night trip to the hospital coming up this week straight after my exams to get my blood sugar levels monitored and hopefully not have to go on insulin. Fingers crossed on that one. It's getting easier to be honest, even for a sweet-toothed little minx like myself. Hopefully this diet will stop anymore excessive weight gain and I sure will be glad of that once baby is born and I'm trying to lose weight again.

Right its time to stop procrastinating getting back into the study. Speech theory and revision of written questions done during the year coming right up!!!

Well well well

Here I am 29 weeks today. I'm WILLING the weeks to go by. 5 weeks since I last posted. So what has New Mama been up to. Hmm. Watching my belly GROW. I might even post a picture to illustrate it. That's a job for later. Right now I'm meant to be studying and do you think I'm doing a tap?! Nada. So I honestly have grown quite a bit. Since my pregnancy started I've put on 2 stone. That's quite a bit above the average incidentally. I keep telling myself it's water retention (well my feet, ankles and hands ARE all quite swollen). I saw the dietician in the Rotunda on Thursday as I'm at risk of gestational diabetes. I'm on quite a restricted diet for the remainder of my pregnancy. I'm looking forward to that 6 week window between giving birth and being allowed go back to WeightWatchers when I can indulge in SOME sweet treats (right now they are ALL OUT), like carrot cake and Mam's apple tart. Imagine telling a pregnant lady who is studying to be boot that chocolate, cake and sweets are all OUT! Tragedy. I tell you. Anyway, call it nesting or whatever but you know the way I'm meant to be studying...well Lidl opens in 9 minutes and guess who has decided she can't possibly study until she has gone there to see if they have any of their special offer roses and potted lilies left from their Specials they were advertising last week. It's Chris's birthday today - wouldn't it be nice to surprise him with them when he wakes up? Wish me luck - I think I'm going to be disappointed if they are not there. THEN I'll start studying. I promise!