Friday, July 28, 2006

Bargin anyone?

Well after my disasterous run-in on Ebay, I seem to have had a little luck.

Firsty I found a lady on Ebay here in WA selling a maternity jacket(I have no jackets that currently fit and I'm freezing). I won it on Wednesday night for $25 and went to pick it up today and it's absolutely gorgeous. It is brand new and here is the picture she posted on Ebay. It looks identical to the picture and I just love it.


I have always wanted a long jacket and finally have one.

Another good thing about it is she looked at me and said I needed the size 14(made me feel good considering I am 24 weeks) and got me to try it on. It fit but I wanted a little more room around the bust so went for the size 16(she makes them in sizes 8-16).

My second bargin for the week came out of our local classified paper. I found a lady selling an 18 month old wooden change table for $50. I went to look at it and it was perfect and in great nick. I bought it straight away.



We went in to Target today and they were selling an identical one for $179 with no inlay and no security strap so was quite pleased with myself.

So now we have everything but a cot and we won't need that until about 3 months after the baby is born so we have plenty of time to scout around for another bargin. Now it's time to get the room set up and sorted. I just remembered I do need a chest of drawers for all the clothes, and a nice set of curtains but that's it. When I cleaned up the room yesterday to fit the table in, Bethany came in and said "Oh, now I think the baby will fit", she says the funniest things sometimes.

So that's been my last few days. Have started getting some serious pelvic pains over the last couple of days. It's like the baby has a hammer down there and is banging the centre of my pelvic bone, so am trying to take it as easy as possible. If it keeps up, I might have to mention it at my next appointment because coupled with my constant back pain, it is making life a bit difficult at the moment.

Well must log off now and get dinner sorted. Hope everyone has a great weekend.
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--------------------------------------- Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Back to the 90's

Well, its official, I'm back in the 90's. 90.8kg to be exact but I'm happy with that. At this stage with Bethany I was 99kg and between 24 weeks and birth I only put on a further 4kg. If I could do that this time, I would be extatic but think I may put on around 8kg if I keep following my trend, which I would still be happy with.

When I had my appointment this afternoon, the midwife called me out and I thought to myself, she looks familiar. I have just come home and pulled out my old records and she it the one I saw 5 times out of my 9 visits last time and she is so nice. I hope I get her again. The way my hospital does it is that one visit is with a midwife, the next a GP, then midwife, then GP and so on. When I left today she told me as I already had my next appointment for 4 weeks time booked with the GP, to book the next one for the midwife and I would be 32 weeks. OMG!!! 32 weeks!!!

She went to listen to the heartbeat today and found it straight away but she only had the thing on there a couple of seconds and bubs decided it didn't want it there so started hitting it, and hitting it so hard that my stomach kept jumping. In the end she had to move it to another part of my stomach to get a proper heart rate, but then bubs kept moving, as if to say, keep that thing away from me. She told me I had a nice, active bub and my insides were all the right size they should be and not to worry about what size people think my tummy should be.

I got to thinking about that and realised that each time I have been told I am not really big I have been wearing a maternity top so just now I have taken a photo of myself in a normal size 16 top.



I don't know about anyone else, but I think I am showing!

I thought I was pretty good on Saturday and managed to buy one of those Tommee Tippee nappy wrapper bins on Ebay for $20 and $10 postage. That's less than half price total. Then yesterday the person in NSW sent me an email saying he had the postage wrong and wanted to charge me $30 for postage. Yeah right! So after contacting Ebay and finding out he could change the postage charge (even though that much was idiotic) I contacted the person and said I could not afford $50 and they agreed to mutally withdraw the auction. After that I contacted 2 other people in NSW who were selling the same thing and asked how much their postage fee to me over here in WA was and was told $11.50 by one and $15 by another. Knew he was ripping me off. Then last night he had relisted the item with the same postage price of $10 but had made the starting price $25 ($5 more than what I won it for). He obviously didn't get as much as he wanted for it so thought he would get the money another way by ripping me off on postage. Some people are just rude.

And that's my little vent for the day. May not have interested everyone, but geez he pissed me off!

Hope everyone out there in Cyberland is well and will catch up again soon.

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--------------------------------------- Saturday, July 22, 2006

Tired

Well, its 9.18pm and I really feel like going to bed but thought now that I have at least a few minutes to myself, I really should update.

It has been impossible for me to get to the computer this week with my very bored daughter home from school. So Tuesday, my mum and I took her to the zoo. She loved it, although I was thoroughly exhausted when I got home. Then Thursday was the Target Christmas toy sale so spent the day in shopping centres. Yesterday took my brave little girl to have her 4 year old immunisation needles, one in each arm. I thought it best to tell her before going to the doctors. I picked up my mum, just in case we needed her. On the way she said she was a little bit scared and I said that was fine. Once in there, she was so good. She did everything she was told to, sat perfectly still, never flinched or anything. The doctor said she was one of the best she had ever had and gave her an origami flower. The doctor said that sometimes it took 2 people to hold the kids down and that most tensed up when they felt the needle getting near the arm. But Bethany just sat there, in fact her arms were so floppy and relaxed that the doctor could put them anywhere she wanted. So Proud!

Then today we went to the markets and stocked up on fruit and then went to see Pete's parents. For the second time in less than a month, I was told that I wasn't showing very much, which has got the niggling worry started again but I have a checkup on Tuesday so will make sure everything is OK then. Watched with little amusement as Pete's dad argued with Bethany over the sex of the baby (haven't told them, although it would make things easier), then as we were going Pete's mum asked if I wanted all her WW points stuff (she joined the points program twice and had all the paperwork). I grabbed it for mum and me, although Pete's dad said "she won't need it Shirley. She'll give birth to my grandson (see what I mean) and she'll go back to the way she was. She won't need any help losing weight." Talk about pressure.

Am actually pretty happy with my weight currently (for now). Weighed myself on Monday and was 89.8kg, which is only 1.4kg up on where I was 3 weeks ago and 9.5kg total for the pregnancy. In most of my pregnancy mags they state at 24 weeks that you have probably gained around 5.5kg by now, so am only 4kg more at this stage so if I can keep a handle on this, should be OK, although it is daunting knowing that probably this week I will break back into the 90's, but was expecting that about 2 weeks ago.

I also pulled out my old records from when I was pregnant with Bethany. From between 16 and 24 weeks I gained 5.3kg but so far this time I have only gained 3.7kg (which also adds to that little worrying niggle). but trust me, I can feel this baby. I feel it kick, if feel that my insides are now a lot higher and uncomforable, I feel the pain in my back and the constant breathlessness from being totally out of sorts, and I am savouring every minute of it.

Well so much for a quick post. Really must go to bed, am dead on my feet, but will be back tomorrow, Monday at the latest for another update as I have heaps more to say.

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--------------------------------------- Tuesday, July 11, 2006

22 Weeks today

I'm back!

Yes the computer is finally up and running again and touching wood working well. Will just check to see how the photo uploading is going, excuse a sec.



Perfect. This is the photo I took of my big girl on her 4th birthday the other week. Ah, where has the time gone?

Well as the title suggests, I am 22 weeks along today. Things are plodding along well I hope, my next checkup in in 2 weeks time. Am feeling lots of movement now, although on the days it is quiet, it worries me. Have been trying to get Bethany to feel the big kicks but everytime she puts her hand on my tummy, it stops. She even said the other day "it's scared of me"

She is soooo excited now. On Saturday morning, when she woke up, she came into my bedroom (I was still in bed) and asked "is the baby coming today?". When she sees babys in the shop, she gets so excited and loves her new baby cousin heaps. Here is a photo she took on June 4, when her cousin was 6 weeks old.



Last weekend, Petes dad came down and painted the baby's room. We chose a neutural colour as the baby will only be in this room for about 6 months and then this room will become my sewing room and bubs will move into the bigger bedroom. My mum thinks the colour is really pretty and bright, although the photos don't show it so well.





Its like a camel, beige colour. I am at that stage now where I just want to get the room finished and ready. My mum thinks I am nesting. Not only am I trying to do that, I am trying to keep the house constantly clean, I am trying to finish all sewing, knitting, scrapbooking and cross stitching projects I have started(all at once), I am trying to redo rooms, have gone through all of Bethany's clothes to store ones that are too small and am constantly making jelly (must say that jelly must be my major craving for this pregnancy).

So all is well here. Will now be back to regular updates and a big thankyou to all of you who have stuck with me. Must go now, have a four year old on school holidays who is demanding my attention.

Catch you all later

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