It's all now very real!

It's now all very real for us - we've seen the pictures to prove it. Up to now, it's all just been C feeling fat, tired, sick etc, along with the (faint) blue line, but now we've seen the pictures at the first scan, we've seen Bubble's head, body and limbs. He was wriggling about a bit this morning, and we now know everything appears to be OK.

The date we were given tallies exactly with what we thought (it's now 12 wks & 2 days), making the due date in early to mid March next year.

I now have to get on with securing a job to take the pressure from C to earn lots - and that is not proving an easy task! I am working on it, and praying that I'll get to know of suitable opportunities, and that someone will see my potential from the application!

Feeling fat!

What am I? About 10 weeks and already I'm feeling fat. Someone told me
the other day that I'm beginning to show - and we haven't even told
family and friends yet. We've got a few weddings coming up and I
needed something to wear - I've had to buy a maternity dress to make
sure it'll fit me by the last one at the end of October! I just feel
fat and fed up.
We weren't going to tell family and friends until after the scan next
Tuesday, but it's Dad's 60th birthday next Monday and the whole family
is going away for the weekend to Scarborough. It's going to be
impossible to hide it all from them - the feeling sick, the tiredness
and the big tum - so we've decided to tell them when we see them on
Friday. At least that way we can tell before they guess or ask.
Everyone else can wait until after the scan - telling my family is a
case of needs must!

Morning? sickness

Hmm! I don't know about morning - it seems to get worse through the
day. I've only actually been sick once, which I suppose I can be
grateful for. But bananas are off the menu, and I'm eating constantly
throughout the day in an effort to keep the worst of the feeling at
bay. How long does this go on for?

Midwife appointment

Been for the midwife appointment today. Not too exciting really. Just
a load of questions to check on how things are and I guess to
highlight any potential problems, and a load of booklets and leaflets
to bring home to read - it'll take until the baby's born to get
through them all!

Just a slight debate about the dates at the moment. I know when my
last period was, and I also know that they aren't 28-day cycles and
the earliest possible date for conception was. It doesn't exactly fit
with the date they work out from my period - she reckons 10 weeks, but
I reckon it's more like 8-9. It's made all the more confusing by the
fact that the "weeks" aren't counted from conception, but from the
last period, even if your cycle aren't the "perfect" 28 days!

Scan in 2 weeks, so they'll probably try and tel me something different then!