Here I am this morning:
Babycentre says this about week 25... "Your fetus weighs more than 1.25 pounds/ 500 grams. Though she still has little body fat and her skin is thin and fragile, she's now well-proportioned. Her brain is growing rapidly, and she is starting to fill the space in your uterus. From crown to rump she could measure 8.75"/ 22 centimetres now. If you went into labour at this time, however, many obstetricians and midwives would make every effort to halt the progress of premature labour to enable your baby to continue maturing.
You may be noticing faint, red or brown streaks known as striae or stretch marks on your abdomen, hips and breasts. While creams won't erase them, wearing a supportive bra may help prevent or minimise them on your breasts. They are very common at this stage of the pregnancy — about 90 per cent of women get them. After you've given birth, the reddish or brown pigmentation in the stretch marks gradually fades, and the streaks become lighter than the surrounding skin.
Also, your eyes may be light-sensitive and may feel gritty and dry. This is a perfectly normal pregnancy symptom known as 'dry-eye'. To ease your discomfort, use an "artificial tears" solution to add moisture."
I've just got back from my 25 week check up with the midwife. All is ok!I've been off work for the past couple of days with thrush and I'm going to spend the rest of the day at home today. We found my real blood test results, she measured the baby and said all was fine. We heard the heartbeat, and as she put the doppler on, baby kicked it away, she saw my belly move and was laughing!I have to go back in 3 weeks time, where she will do a blood test to see if I am anemic. From then on I will have to go in once a week for them to measure the baby.
...Woopsie, I'm loosing my brain!We were in Tesco's on Saturday, at the deli counter, and as I had just got my ham, the lady behind the counter asked if I had long to go. I thought she was talking about with the ham, and couldn't work out why she was asking me that... and then I realised she was talking about the baby! She must have thought I was a nutter, it took me a good 10 seconds to register what she meant!The estate agent called - the seller of "our house" has found a house over the weekend! Excellent news, we've just got to hope her offer gets accepted and that it's not in a chain. I never knew all this house stuff was so complicated!I also got my Parenting Club stuff through from Boots this morning. I registered to be part of their Mother & Baby club back in October when I found out I was pregnant, and I still hadn't received anything about 6 weeks ago, so called them up, and they said that they didn't have my application. Anyway, it was worth the wait! I got a book of vouchers this morning - triple points every time I buy Huggies, 1500 points every time I spend £75 or more on baby things, any No7 item up to the value of £16 for free, any Boots Medeterranian Item up to the value of £5 for free, Boots Botanics deep conditioning hair mask for free and loads of money off coupons! Yipppeee! Guess who's going shopping for free?!Jack has managed to start properly communicating with the baby... he's been tapping certain parts of my belly, and the baby has been hitting him back in the same place! Jack says he's doing high-fives with him!
On Saturday morning we woke up about 8am, couldn't believe it - I was sooo tired all week and really looking forward to a lie in. Anyway, we took advantage of having the whole day to do things, and went to VolksWagen. At the moment we have a Smart Car, which is only a 2-seater, so we desperately need to get something a bit more family orientated. Unfortunately all the Golf's at VW were a bit new and a bit expensive. I think we need to go to a massive car lot where they sell all kinds of second hand cars - I still want it to be fairly new... like 2002... but with a nice price! We also need to find out how much we'd get for our car part exchanging it - we bought it brand new and only had it for a year, but it's going to be so much extra hassle to sell it privately. If we can get enough on a part exchange I think I'd rather do that.We went on to Babies R Us - we thought we'd buy the cotbed that we'd decided on, and the travel system. Yes, we have a Smart, so we thought maybe they would deliver, seeing as when you order over the net they can deliver... and we would be spending about £350 there. We were looking at the travel system (I swear its changed patterns since last time we saw it!), when the store manager came over to us and asked us if we were ok. We just asked about the delivery, which they don't do, but they can hold items for a day.... and he proceeded to show us absolutely everything! We had another demonstration of the travel system in full-working order, he made me try it against some others... the Brittax I am too tall for, and is heavier when lifting up (as in going up curbs)... and it's just made it clearer to us that we definitely want to get the Graco. He then said that it might not fit in a Golf's boot because the boots are wide at the bottom and thinner at the top. He said we should buy the car, and then come with it to the store, they'll bring the pram to the car to check it fits in the boot, and will check the car seat fits in too. What if it doesn't fit? I'd rather get another car than another travel system!!!He then showed us the different changing bags, and he recommended the same one we'd just been looking at (the Bruin Large Flap Messenger Bag), which we bought - it has an insulated bottle compartment, section for mobile, dummy, a changing mat, loads of pockets all over the place!He then showed us the different clothes - said don't buy lots of outfits because people will buy them for you, but you will need sleepsuits, hats and scratch mitts... which we already have.We told him we were thinking of the Positiano Cotbed, and he said that personally he prefers cots to cotbeds. He said as it's our first, after a few years we might want another, by that time we'll need the cot again and would buy a single bed and just a new mattress for the cot - which I think does make sense. It's definitely something to think about.He then showed us basically round the rest of the store - the sterilers, muslin squares, bottles etc etc - he was really helpful, and we will definitely be going back to that store once we've made our minds up on what we're going to buy!Yesterday made me realise why people don't tell other people their choices of names. We have decided, if baby is a girl, she will be called Macy. We went to my Grandad's house as it was his birthday in the week... and he said... "so what does everyone think of the baby being called MARCY?" Grrrr... I already told him its not MaRcy, it's Macy and that that WILL be her name so I don't want to know an opinion if it's a bad one! Anyway, I had to cut him off again because I didn't want to hear anything bad if he did have anything bad to say!
As promised, here is my bump at 24 weeks...
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