Belated christmas post

Christmas was spent at home this year, due to the scare a few weeks back. We had no intentions to give birth in some layby on the M1/M6 junction in the middle of winter!!

It was great - we got a fantastic looking tree, and had christmas meal cooked for us by C and N, which was a real treat. Thanks guys!

Got some fantastic pressies from D, including a back massager which has gone down a real treat - we use it practically every day! Don't need to book in no posh rub that cost 50 squids now! :) hehe.

Just got back from our 33 week appointment with the midwife, and she commented that even if baby was behaving himself (not transverse, no placenta praevia etc), we might still have to go for a c-section coz my pelvis is so small. Hm. plus the added combination of a 6ft 2 white british male and a 5ft 3 oriental female. hm. oh well.

We have our 33 week scan tomorrow too - which should confirm where exactly the low-lying placenta is and confirm the next steps of whether we're definitely having a c-section etc. The following week we meet the consultant who should be able to say more, so, suffice to say, lots of things to be decided over the next two weeks! Hopefully pea will be good and stay in there a while yet. It's still too early!

Had an NCT gathering yesterday with the first baby born to join us (at 8 days old!). I was so nervous holding her, it was obvious and perhaps that's why she cried. I felt so bad...sigh. I need to get my head round this whole baby thing - it's funny how I am mentally quite aware that we'll be having a baby in the house in the next 5 weeks or so, but well, the practice of having a baby... not so sure about that! What does one do when it cries, apart from picking it up, feeding it, changing it?!?!

P and the blue pea

33 weeks x