What a twenty weeks it’s been. I can’t believe that we’re already halfway through this pregnancy. We have our NHS twenty week ‘anomaly’ scan booked for this Friday and we’re looking forward to it, nervously. We have no reason to believe that they will find anything wrong but it’s still a very significant scan.
We’re planning to go straight from the Maternity Unit to a baby store to make our first ‘Flump’ purchase. We made a pact that we would wait until after our twenty week scan before we started our purchases and we’ve stuck to it.
The floodgates are sure to open once we do start making purchases. The list of things we need is almost endless. Not to mention we need to clear out our ‘middle’ room (who knows where we’ll put the stuff) and sell my mini-gym so that we can get it decorated and some new carpet put down as the ‘middle’ room will become our office. Then, we can get started on the nursery.
It finally feels like we’re “properly” pregnant now.
Debbie is starting to show very nicely. I joke each night that the bump seems to be getting bigger day by day. I enjoy rubbing in her bio-oil each night and generally try to sneak a feel as much as possible. I love it.
She has been feeling little movements for a few weeks that have been gradually getting stronger and stronger but until this morning I wasn’t able to feel anything.
Fortuitously today was one of the mornings that I don’t get up early to fit in the treadmill. Debbie mentioned that her stomach felt hard as it often does in the morning so I placed my hand on her to feel for myself. I lay there for a moment and I felt a tiny movement and then a few beats later a much stronger movement; almost like she hiccuped or tensed up her abs and relaxed very quickly. I looked up and said “Was that you?” to which she replied: “No, did you feel that?” as she had felt the movement from inside. We were both very excited and it was a really memorable moment. I’m going to spend the rest of the week with my hand glued to her; or force feed her chocolate to get Flump jumping around.
Each day just gets better and better.
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It certainly does make it seem all the more real when you feel the movement for the first time.
Good luck shopping at the baby store – I can’t imagine what one you are talking about
As for time you think it is going quick now you wait until Flump is born – I can not believe that my little one is coming up for eleven weeks old.
We’re not sure which shop yet. It may be Tesco as they do some lovely clothes in there. I doubt it will be Kiddicare just yet