Bump photos :-)

Thought I would add some more bump photos. I'm trying to keep it as up to date as possible so that I can look back on it and share it with my belly baby one day. Can't wait to meet you belly babe!!!

16 weeks

17 weeks

2 more weeks until we find out if we're expecting a little prince or a little princess. These next 2 weeks are going to go so slow. I bet we'll get the day and bubby will be modest and not show us LOL. 



A busy couple of weeks

Well Tic Tac has not yet been born yet but he/she has already crashed 2 weddings. He/she is gonna come out partying. My brother's wedding was last weekend and thankfully everything went well for them. This weekend, we went to a wedding in Hunter Valley for a uni friend of mine. Unfortunately it rained so they had to move their garden ceremony into the chapel but it was still really beautiful. I wish I could relive our wedding day. Weddings are so beautiful and romantic <3

I was hopping around doing the nut bush dance at the wedding and I started getting pains towards the end of the night. Josh was in no condition to come to the hospital with me as he was suffering from the 'too many beers' syndrome and I was terrified something was wrong.

We got back to the hotel room and I went to the toilet. I think the pains were gas pains *insert embarrassed face here* because I felt fine after my toilet visit. We got home this afternoon and I checked Tic Tac with the fetal Doppler and he/she's little heart was beating like a drum so I definitely felt reassured.

Anyway we're getting to that time of the year when the busy weekends don't end so as much as I love Christmas time, I can't wait for it to be over. Next Christmas is going to be so exciting because it will be Tic Tac's first Christmas. Can't wait to hold my precious bub in my arms. Bring on next May!!!

A message from above?

We were having lunch with my father in law today and we started talking about when we could find out Tic Tac's sex. My father in law immediately said "I already know. It's a boy." I asked him how he knew and he said that he had gone to dinner with my mother in law's friend and she immediately asked him "Is Amanda pregnant?" When he replied "Yes. Why?" She said "Because Louise came to me in a dream and told me that her grandson is on the way."

DH is sceptical but I truly believe in an after life. I can't say it's heaven but I believe there is something after this. I think that my mother in law is watching over us and actually knew about our precious Tic Tac before we did. I am now dying to know if the dream was right and there's a little boy in there.

Can't wait to find out!!!

Baby bump :-p

Just thought I would add a few bump pics so that I can keep track. The first one was taken the day after I found out and the second one was taken at 10 weeks. I'm now 12 weeks and I think it's a little bigger but to everyone else, it probably just looks like I'm getting fatter LOL.

12 week scan :-)

I finally think this is actually happening!!! I was so excited to see bubba today. He or she isn't much of an exhibitionist though. When the scan started bub was sound asleep and in the wrong position. I had to jiggle around to get he/she to wake up and then bub rolled in the wrong direction! Cheeky little Tic Tac!

There is actually a baby growing inside me :-)

10 weeks...

I'm starting to relax a little more now as I heard that the rate of successful pregnancies from 10 weeks is 95% I know that I'm always thinking of the worst but I've waited so long for this that I worry so much that something is going to rip it away from me.

Last weekend we went to put flowers on my MIL's grave. I still really wish that she was here both for DH and me. She would have been so excited about this and I know how much she wanted to meet her grand kids. At one point when she was in hospital, they told her that she would have to be admitted into a nursing home (before everything went from bad to worse) and that devastated her because she would never get to baby sit our children.

Our NT scan is in 2 weeks and I just can't wait to see Tic Tac again. I asked for the early shift at work for that day well before the roster was written but I wasn't rostered on the early shift so I had to ask my boss to swap it. She must have complained about it to her boss because at the staff meeting, the director said that I must do the middle shift and that I should just feel lucky if I get an early shift at all. I said that I was fine with that but if I have an appointment then I will need the early shift. I refused to budge. I hate when you do everything right and still get in trouble for it :-/

Not really showing at all yet and all my clothes still fit. Can't wait to get a belly :-)

Stress over lacking symptom :-/

I woke up this morning and my bbs didn't hurt any more. I know symptoms come and go and I shouldn't stress myself over it but I can't help myself. I haven't had any bleeding at all so that should be all I need for reassurance.

I'm not sure what I would even do if I started to bleed. I thought that I would go to emergency but I'm worried I would sit there for hours before even getting to see a doctor. Maybe I should go straight to Dr G and see if he can squeeze me in or I could go to the medical centre and hopefully get a scan quicker through them?

I really need to stop stressing myself. Only a few weeks until my 12 week scan so I just need to relax.