Bad start to the week!

Today, I had a lecture to give at 9am. It's something I've done before, and thought, easy-peasy nothing to it. I ended up almost losing my temper at these lazy first year sods!!

I started to lose it when people started drifting in after lecture was due to start. Given that class was supposed to start at 9am, and I usually give them till 9.05am to settle down, it's incredibly annoying that even at 9.15, people were sitll floating in. I made it a point to stop the lecture everytime they were late, and waited till they sat down before I continued.

The rest of the lecture thought this was rather funny and some started to giggle. Everytime one more person/group walked in, there would be a collective 'gasp' (in retrospect, it was quite amusing), but mostly it was very very annoying. It's not difficult to have to turn up for 9am class, I don't think, especially when so many of them live on campus!

Anyway, after lecture was over, I was packing up the stuff when a mature student came up to me and basically thought she was comforting me by telling me that I shouldn't really take offense in how they were acting (ie, being late, strolling in etc), because apparently it had to do with my predecessors and how they behaved! She gave me examples of how one of them brought her baby to lecture to start it off and then 'bugger' off?!, and another example of how tow others couldn't start the computer! And so even though it was ok for me to have expectations of the students, because my colleagues don't, the students therefore don't know what to expect. She also suggested that it was because nowadays students pay for their tuition, and so feel that they have the right to come and go as they like!!

Again, in hindsight, the student was probably quite right in saying some of the things, but on the other hand, it's incredible how students seem to expect things the way they want it to be, but don't want to work for it.

I don't get this generation of people - makes me sound so old now, but I really don't get them.

On a more positive note, little blue pea is moving quite a bit now and that's very reassuring. I've not put on alot of weight since 6-8 weeks ago, but apparently this isn't such a problem as long as baby's measurements are all right for the period.

We have our next midwife's appointment tomorrow, so will try and update then. Hopefully I can get my MatB1 form and then get the maternity leave confirmed in writing.

ok - talk later...have work to do now...

love
P and the blue pea
23 weeks!

It's a .... it's a......

Boy!!! :) (See bottom right picture for confirmation...)

yup, we had our 20 week scan on wednesday (had no time till this evening to update the blog, and only because D is doing some OT on some drawings due at a planner's meeting tomorrow morning!)... and all is well. (well... I'll go into that a little later).

It's a boy...it's a boy!! funny - since week 12 (about 2 months ago), I started referring to the baby as 'he' and I guess we weren't too surprised when it turned out to be a boy. Afterall, the gender of a baby is determined by the father, and since D is the 2nd son of the 2nd son and his older brother has 2 sons, and their dad's had 2 sons too, the odds are stacked against us for a girl. Interestingly enough, M and D are also having a son (they are due practically on the same day as us) so there'll be a gang of 3 little boys ready to hang out together when they are a little bigger, with V being the little boss mafioso!! :)

Slightly not-so-good news is that at this scan, the sonographer found that my placenta is very low-lying and is covering my cervix..http://www.babycentre.co.uk/pregnancy/complications/placentapraevia/

Apparently, there's nothing to worry about for now. Chances are the placenta will move and all will be ok - but if worst comes to worst, we'll have a c-section. Not worried much about the c-section - more worried about the possible complications like bleeding and all. But not going to panic at the moment!

ok - gotta go now. C and N are around with lots of brochures on buggies and toys!

Love

P and the boy pea...

nasty colleagues...

I blogged about having gossippy nasty colleagues about 2 months ago (people who were 'upset' with me because I didn't tell them that I was pregnant at 7 weeks and basically reacted as if I was offending them and upsetting them by being pregnant?).... well, I've just found out that one of the 3 of them is pregnant!!! yes!!!!!! I wonder how the others are reacting to it. They've not told me about it - oh no, they wouldn't have that.... I think there's a word to describe such characters... mostly animal names... one could go with the female version of a pet-animal... or one could go with a typical farm animal. ARGH!!! **Edited to add that I have since found out that she's not only pregnant, she's actually 4/5 weeks ahead of us... which means that when she asked those questions, she was in a 'much safer' position than we were. When I asked her (when I bumped into her recently, first time since that encounter) whether she knew that she was pregnant then, she knew immediately which date we were talking about and said "yes, I was 11 weeks but I didn't want to say anything till after the scan."...Duh... if she felt that way, then why couldn't she think that perhaps I might feel the same way...?!?!?

We are 19 weeks now. I've not put on any weight since about 4-5 weeks ago. I'm still hovering around the 60kg barrier...which is probably good since I put on too much in the first trimester, I think. See this link for more information http://www.babycentre.co.uk/tools/weightgain/

The 2nd trimester is indeed the best period so far. Everyone says I look like I'm glowing (maybe it's another word for 'fat'?)... and that I look really well. I do feel well most days. I do have a bit of a backache but that's normal apparently!

We have our 20 week scan next Wednesday and I can't wait... will it be a boy? a girl?? I just want it to be a healthy little one. :)

ok... signing off now. gotta go home.

Love
P and the pea