"to the tune of BonJovi Living on a Prayer" WOOOOOOO were half way there..............

Half way baby!!!!!!!!!  I cant believe I am at this stage already.  I got my hospital admission paperwork the other day to fill out which suddenly gave me a reality check of "oh yeah,  i am going to deliver a baby at some point".

It really has been a fairly uneventful pregnancy...........so far!!!!!!!!!!  If I had have done this last time round it would have twice the posts it does now.  Mainly because i had no frikkin idea what the heck my body was doing.  After having gone through one child as a newborn I am used to coping on little sleep.  Thankfull my darling first born has been a great sleeper from a very young age.

I am feeling OK.  Tired but thats normal.  Hungry as a horse but again, those that know me know that is completely normal.  I have to resist the urge to eat my weight in mash for fear of gaining too much weight.  I have put on aroun 14 pounds which makes me cringe but I am still way under my 25 pound weight loss from Weight Watchers so we are all good!!!

It really is the down hill run from here now so I just want to try and stop being so stressed and try and enjoy this last stage as as much as I would love to be at 19 kids and counting, i think this will be my last pregnancy.

"cue the violins"

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!

Well we finally found out the flavor of the baby. 

I am not one of those people that can do surprises.  I like to have the drawers full of clothes I like to have the name picked out. I have to be organized!

So we went for our anatomy scan.  It was a nice long scan.  The poor baby was all scrunched up in a ball as my bladder was SO full.  I swear I could have cut concrete if I opened the flood gates.

They always start at the top of the head which is so frustrating as all I want to know is the sex.  Of course I also want to make sure there arent random arms and legs in the wrong place too but is it an INNIE or an OUTIE?  Just tell me already.

Baby was cooperating really well but with it being all scrunched up they had to push quite hard to get the right image.  Each time they did it I could picture that little bit of water that you see leaking out of Hoover Dam as there was a serious danger to shipping about to occur if the prodded any harder!!!!

They zoomed in on the face and thats when we realized we are giving birth to Darth Vader.  Everything looked good.  Just the 2 eye sockets so no third eye.  thats one recurring nightmare gone.
Legs and arms looked great.  We saw the little hands and feet.  It just makes my heart melt every time.

We then went down to the business end.  So between the legs she went and we wanted to try and guess.  It was so fuzzy this time round.  Not like with my first.  We strained and strained.  my hubby got right up to the screen.  We both thought possibly boy.  The Sono lady then zoomed further in and said "Nope"  just as she said it.  There it was the good old lady burger!  3 parallel lines.  Hello baby Girl!!!!

We all laughed in sympathy for my poor husband who will now be sharing a house with 3 women and a female dog.  I seriously think he will move out of the house for 4 days a month when they hit puberty.

I am thrilled as I do not need to buy a THING!  We have everything from last time.

Now just got to think of a name!!!!!!!  Actually Lady burger has a nice ring to it.........  JOKE!!!!

Extreme Makeover the Messy edition

I simply cannot watch extreme makeover or DIY SOS or anything involving animals at the vets. I am just an emotional mess. The hormones are crazy right now. I literally well up as soon as the programs start.

I dont know what it is but since I had my daughter I just get so wonky watching television. I stupidly watched an episode of cold case files the other day and I was just covered in tears. It was like bambis mum dying and sambas dad dyin from the lion king. It's just mental. Mind you watching a program about psychotic f@ckwits going on a stabbing rampage isn't the most recommended telly viewing for us preggos.

I then try a different tactic and watch programs about babies and then I get all caught up in the emotion of them being born and end up convulsing with tears like the grinch when his heart grew a size and a half.

I'm going to go upstairs now and watch desperate housewives to see who has killed who and who is secretly their own parent thru years of inbreeding and bed hopping.

Night all!!!!!

The dreaded pumpy bum

I spent the whole day on Wednesday farting! I swear!!! I don't know what I ate or what the heck the baby was doing but it was that sneaky fart where you have no idea when it is going to come. You then go to walk down the hall or up the stairs and end up sounding like a 1 man band as your bum hums a tune with each step. It is SO embarrassing!!!!

I would be walking to the copier and it sounded like I was stepping on frogs. You gotta be careful of those carpet frogs!! Some were so bad and loud I had to go check myself for fear I may have just soiled myself lol!!!

Now you see me, now you don't

My daughter has now gotten used to the swelling belly. I have put on 14 pounds and am 19 weeks in. It makes me cringe when I think of the 25 pounds I lost with weight watchers just prior to getting pregnant.

My daughter does the usual hiding her head between your legs.. She did it yesterday and I had to laugh as she looked up and then completely disappeared under my bump. She then looked back and laughed and hid under the bump again.

She knows how to make me feel good even when I feel like a whale!!

My hips are really painful swell. I'm noticing that as I get larger my hips flare up more.

Lead implants

So last night some plastic surgeon must have snuck into my bedroom and I stead of giving my boobs a bit of a lift they went and filled them with lead!!

I took off my bra tonight and WHOOMPH! They flopped down and good god did they hurt. To add insult to injury they look like spaniels ears. Every time I go to a fairground and see the arcades with the water balloons hung on a nail that you have to throw darts at I run like hell for fear that people may think I am part of the stall!

They are so heavy now and veiny. Really not a good look. As I am sitting in bed typing this they are slowly migrating to my armpits. GROSE!!!! Why doesn't pregnancy make them nice and full? I know I will NOT be saying that once the baby is here as they will be full of milk.

Well I am going to bed now and just hoping my boobs don't fall out the side of the bed as they will surely take me with them.

Night all! X

Baby brain.......it does exist!!!!

I am really having a hard time distinguishing new year from new York. I have had very little sleep this week and the baby brain effect is starting to show. I literally can't remember a thing!!! I struggle to recall what I did on the weekend, what I ate in a day, who I spoke to. I repeat stories ALL the time to the same accommodating people who just pat me on the head and say "ahhhh bless"! It's embarrassing.

I stare at my computer screen scared to do anything for fear of forgetting what I just did. I am amazed I get home in one piece really.

I sometimes catch myself just rubbing my belly and staring blankly into space. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a bit of drewl on the side of my mouth.

My sleep issues are no where near as bad as last time but still lingering like a bad fart!!!

Let's see if watching star wars on blu ray will help. Gotta love it!!!!!!!!

Where the heck did that go then?

Around the 4th month of my last pregnancy I started to see the linea nigra. That funny line you get down your belly. It became really dark and it even stayed after pregnancy. I still had it just before I got pregnant this time.

Now that I am pregnant again it has just vanished! I mean totally gone!!! What the heck is going on??? Did I scrub too hard with my exfoliating gloves? It is so weird.

It's funny I was kind of attached to it as it reminded me of carrying my daughter. Will it ever come back? Who knows.... But I will let you know if it does.

Buying alcohol. .......AWKWARD

I don't know what it is about buying alcohol when you are pregnant but I went to Wegmans to buy some Guinness for my daddy so it was clearly not for me! I got to the register and while the checkout girl was lovely I felt like the rest of the line was staring at me. It just felt so naughty.

Stage Fright

All you fello preggos will be with me on this one.  It is monstrous to go to the bathroom for a number 2 right now as we are taking that many iron supplements that I am practically excreting iron pokers right now.  Sorry I forgot to warn that this one is all about bowel movements lol!

I went to the loo just now and it was taking a little encouragement.  I felt like that scene from Austin Powers where Austin gets attacked in the toilet but a fellow loo visiter thinks he is just straining.  I was just waiting for someone to yell "show that turd who's boss"

I needed some quiet time to focus and breathe through it.  Well, in comes another person who selfishly doesnt choose to go to an empty cubicle further along, no, they plonk themselves right next to me.  2 seconds later another lady comes to my other side.  What the heck.  Can they not see I am trying to focus.  I felt my eyes boring into their shoes and burning their toes to make them get a move on.

I was frozen stuck whilst crowning waiting for one of them to just hurry up and flush so that I could give it my all. 

There goes the flush and "HURRAH!!!!!!" success!!!!

Needless to say.  That turd knew who was boss!

Wonderful weightlessness

Today we had a pool party at a neighbors house. Once I finally squeezed into my maternity bathing suit (with the assistance of some talc and a shoe horn) I got over there as quick as I could and whether my daughter was ready for it or not I went straight in the pool.

It was WONDERFUL! I felt so weightless. My bump just floated around like a drifting iceberg. My daughter had a whale of a time until she did a number 2 that went all up her back. Luckily our house was only over the road.

I then got back and straight back in the pool. The little one must have felt it quite soothing as the baby went to sleep and only woke up after my 4th cup of root beer. I am starting to get some little stretch marks so I am lubing myself up every night to try and minimize the chance of my belly looking like a map of the Nile Delta.

I am now in the bath again and am loving the heat on my back. The 100 degree heat that is. I can hear my midwife in my head. I have a pool thermometer to make sure I am a good girl!

Night all!!!!