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Im now reaching week 34 according to the doctors due date, and im doing fine. I can still climb those stairs, slow, but I get up. We are starting to get things ready, aka we been spending loads of money on babythings, and other stuff we need. We went to Ikea last week and came home with a bed for the baby, and a biiiiiiiiig bed for us. I allmost felt like crying when Matthew put up the bed, it steals ALOT of space in our bedroom. Now a we have been sleeping in it in a bit more then a week, and i have to admit that i sleep very well in it, and I even think it’s been helping me a bit with my pains. As well as you can sleep when it takes you 10 mins to turn from one side to the other.

We also went down to one of the oldest babyshops in Denmark and ordered pretty much all the “hardware” we could imagen the baby would need. So now everything is waiting for us down there until we desides to go pick it up a cupple of days before im due. So except for some smaller things we are actually done with getting stuff for the kid.

The last mayor thing we been getting has been a washing mashine, it arrived today. All we need now is for someone to come and teach it to do landry, aka make water and power actually connect to the mashine. Going to be great when Matthew dont have to walk 5 floors down to get the washing done.

These days my weeks go by with going to water gymnastic and gymnastik 2 times a week, then there is the odd examine and some massage and physiotherapy. So weeks just drive by. Im planning my birthday the 7th of June where im getting 28 people to come and celebrate that I been here for 30 years. My belly is growing bigger and bigger, and im starting to wonder how big it can actually become. This picture is a week and a half old.

Both midwife and doctor agree that everything is going as planned, they dont agree totally on the date im due. The Doctor says 7th of july and the midwife says 15th. I choose to belive in the 7th and hope to give birth a day or tree before. Baby dont kick so much more, it have found new fun games, like slideing feet along the ribs, or push lungs/stumach with feet so head get pushed down on the bladder, oh the joy. Its a very active kid theres in there, sometimes i wonder if its a kid or a kangaroo. 

Well to end I went to a fantastic babyclothes shop yesterday. One of the girls from watergyms showed it to me. Im not sure im happy to have found it, but I am happy i don’t know the gender yet, cus that would have made me gone nuts in some of the more gender specific things they had. I ended up with only one set. The first I bought at all. Im a bit proud that I been able to hold back for so long. But this one had cowfeet and is just horrobly cute and not gender specific, and it was hanging there in the right size and all. So here it is.

Now I need to get the kid some underwear, towels and bedcovers, and then we are ready for arrival. Well that and to get some tidying done so there is space for it as well.

Now I will make some food, and hope that I get to eat without haveing my stomach pushed by small feet.

Lots of things have happened lately, I just been a bit lasy on the posting.

First of all we had the scan of the baby done. Everything looks normal and go after plan, excapt for the fact that they moved my due date from the 7th of July to the 15th. The baby did not want to show it’s gender, and if you look on the picture you can see it hideing it’s bits with the knees.

I have stopped working now. My pelvis sadly hurt to much to do cope with beeing a nurse. It worries me a bit that the time might be passing alot slower, becourse i dont really feel like its rushing allready. At least my famely and friends have been a great help in that way. The last week and a half we been to 5 birthdays. If i see one more lagkage the next month im not sure I will take it well tho.

I stopped loosing weight for now, its been steady for a cubble of weeks now. I can see the belly growing now, and its starting to look like im pregnant, and even better I can feel the baby kick allmost everyday now. It is a great feeling to feel how the kicks get stronger and stronger. Today I rested a book on my tummy while reading, and suddenly its started bounsing. Aparently my inner alien was not to happy with a book resting on it’s head.

Else my time been spend going to physiotherapist and zone therapist. It’s been helping me a bit. I feel alot more mobile after I had massage and zonetherapy, that is after I slept a hour or two, becourse it makes me very tired. When easter is over im planning to go try out how swimming will be like now. Everyone say it should be very good exersice even with a bad pelvis.

It is a bit annoying to be limited to think of how far can handle to walk and move around now, instead of just leaving the house. I need to remember not to do to much shopping as well unless i have Matthew with me to carrie it.

To spend some of the extra hometime, i took up crochet. Im learning partly from the internet and partly from famely. The plan is to make squares for now. Knowing my self im not to sure of how persistent I am. Im figureing that squares can be made into a blanket for a baby bed, or a bib.  The colour choise is of course not easy with the little bugger hideing like that, so instead Im just makeing it multicoulered.

I also had a the 24 week doctors checkup, and allso here everything was normal. I got to hear the heartbeat for the first time. It’s allways nice to get varified that there is actually someone in there. It’s still a bit surreal to me that this whole thing end up with us beeing parents. Luckyly i have about 4 more months to get used to that.

The last weeks time or so I been wanting to update my blog, but everytime I thought of it the bed have seemed awfully tempting.  I suddenly have a need for a midday nap, my theory is that I have to sleep so much now to get ahead of the sleep deprivation that awaits.

This morning I woke up in a perfect mood. Sun is shineing, home is clean, and we had a good evening yesterday with my parents. I had invited them for dinner and they just wanted to make sure that i would let em watch X-factor. Even tho they had a very nice dinner, the chokolate and coffea vanished from the plate as well while the singing bursted out of the telly.

My mum and stepdad have been very happy with me beeing pregnant, and I think my mum is just on the edge all the time to go get cute baby outfits. Only problem is that noone know if its a boy or a girl yet. On next tuesday we might know. Im haveing a scan and a doctors examine, but if its just as cooperative as last time i had a scan, it will lie with crossed legs and refuse to show off.

I have a need to get out in the world today, the weater look very friendly, and the man in the radio promise up to 10 degrees. Thats close enough to spring to me. Now I just want to see if I can make anyone join me. The view from my window is dragging me out there.

Today I went to my first visit at the midwife, it was a big disapointment. She was more a wall of information, then someone who was, or seemed to be, interested in me. The whole session was more about what I should and should not do, and nothing much of what she sayed was new to me. The examination was 2 pushes on my belly, and a comment that my uterus had the rigth size.

Then she ordered 2 glucose tests becourse of my weigh and gave some folders. That was it. Next time is in week 24, so sometime in april.

Im ”only” in week 16. I just realised that its actually 4 months pregnant, so time is passing faster then expected.

Im glad that i dont feel so unsecure about the whole pregnansy thing. Im pretty much at ease with it and like to take things as they come. I have a feeling that everything is fine and good. I feel great, im bit more tired then usual, but nothing bad.

Workwise I keep haveing my doubts. This weekend was the weekend from hell at work. Im suppose to leave after 6 hours, but the 3 days I been in after that deal it have not been possible. Everyone is running around, and nothing we can do is sufficient. this weekend have suffered from lag of staff compared to needs of our patients. I know everyone say I should be selfish and do as I need, but it’s REALLY hard to just leave 3 coworkers in caos.

I decided that i must be my job at work to spread positive feeling, and tell my coworkers how great they are. Mentally my work dont stress me, when I only work 18 hours, so i can try to spread some of my good mood and feeling. They really do need it sometimes.

My pelvis have been a bit worse today, but I think its becourse of the work this weekend. I do think it will be better soon. As it is now i just work one day a time and see how it goes.

Tomorrow I start on a gym team planned by the physiotherapists at work. Its designed for pregnant women. Im looking forward to see how that goes. I hope that the water gym team to start up soon, it would be a great thing for me to join.

I now lost 8.5 kilos and im loosing my pants. I can feel my belly getting more firm, underneath a bit of blubber. The baby is growing in there. I think I felt bubbles, im still in doubt, but it might be the first movements. Im in week 16 now so its very early, but sometimes i am allmost sure. It dont all feel like gas.

Its time to head for bed, I got a new pillow to cuddle. It feels unpleasent and painfull to sleep without something between my knees, so I look forward to useing this one. My poor sofa pillow could not stand the pressure and turned too flat.

Its so nice to have Matthew around. Hes been very good about haveing to carry everything, and is a good and careing support.

Today I been browsing on Netbaby’s homepage. And for fun i desided to start makeing a list of names i like. I started with the legally approved danish names. I started at A and then reading trough. When i made it to L this thing poped op and surprised me alot.

In Denmark there is actually 29 women called Lillemor as a name. I just wonder who call their child that ? Or how the official Denmark react. I can only just imagen how a bank worker would react when you call in and want to open a account and he aske for the name.

There are alot of odd names on that list, and i still oly made it to M. Looking at it till makes me think there is some serius cruel parents out the this country.

Yesterday I went to work in the normal way. And even tho I had a pretty easy day, i could feel that a 8 hour workday isnt good for the pain i have in my pelvis.

After talking about this with my GP last week i decided i would go down in hours at work. For now I will be working just 6 hours a time for 3 days a week. And that only in dayshifts. I prefor it this way with a hope that I can then keep on working untill may where im suppose to go on maternity leave.

Being pregnant seems to me as a fulltime job tho. Specially after the problems with pains in my pelvis started. I have to exercise once a day. I signed on to a pregnancy gym team, and in near future also a water gym team. On top of that i see a physiotherapist about once a week. Luckily its all free as long as i still work. Rigshospitalet offer to help their pregnant staff to stay at work as long as possible.

On top of all the things i go to I have to go to a Dietician and extra doctors apointments due to my weight. I dont think the dietician can help me much as it is, as a seem to be doing pretty well as it is. My start weight when I got pregnant was 105, and im now down to 97.2. I do wonder how long this will go on, and expect that at some point it will start to go the other way. Hopefully not to much tho.

The reason for my weightloss have not been hard work or evil diets. Its been very simple lack of lust to eat sweets and cakes. I dont feel like eating as much as i used to either. My portions have almost halfed, tho I need to eat a bit more offen.

I think it might be on time to go get some more vitamins, as i dont drink milk. I need to ask my GP for how long i should take folic acid as well, cus i heard its only needed for 3 first months. And in next week im entering the 4th.

Its a bit odd that so much time has passed. Getting a baby feels like something i will do in a far awey future, and not something that will happen soon. Well 5 months isnt that soon, and im not planning on shopping for at least 2 months more, i think.

What I think we need to start doing soon is to start to clear out some of all that clutter that have been gathering around in the house. Need to get rid of stuff that we never use. We live on about 50 square meters, so spacemakeing is needed. Its a annoying task, so I want to spread it over a loooong time before I get to tired and heavy to do it proberly.

For now i will just enjoy the rest of today, and go get some food. When i get hungry these days, it feels VERY urgent.