scone on a mission

I still have pain, especially yesterday when I was out ALL DAY. : However, yesterday I did feel the baby move! Not just a guess, or hmm, maybe... It moved!! Oh, and what it even better, I could feel it with my hand! Oh, through all the pain, there was a happy point at the end of the day  Yesterday, I dragged Jensen out in the rain to go to garage sales (and yes, I should have been resting), but I got heaps of baby singlets, a skirt that I'm going to try to make into a maternity one, 2 basinette cot sheets (one with a matching flat sheet), and a bassinette flat sheet with matching pillow case... ALL for $3. I'm bargain hunter! Last week I bought a cot for $30. A friend of the family is giving us a cot mattress. 

Can someone remind me that that brand new itti is on Jensen's cabbage patch doll? Yes, Jensen has a cabbage patch doll, but it's a hand-me-down and he got to choose from a selection of toys, and that's what he picked. It was good timing too, coz we'd only just found out we were pregnant! So 'baby' is good practice. Dolly gets a 'wash', goes in the bouncer, sling, bassinette, nappy'd.  Andrew and Jensen were just changing dolly's nappy and Andrew was faking gagging! lol I so can't wait. That said, the first few weeks will probably be disposables! For newborn poo reasons :)

My morphology scan is Friday coming! I can't wait

I'll be back at work this week on Wednesday & Thursday, have annual leave for the following week for Uni placement. I see the doctor tomorrow (and miss out on my Anatomy excursion to a cadaver lab - which I was so looking forward to in a non-creepy way), and hopefully I can get some good pain killers that I'll be able to use while I'm at work, and maybe those ones that they gave me at the hospital that made me sleepy. I hate using painkillers regardless of being pregnant or not, so it's a big deal for me to actually want them. I don't want reduced labour at work, I just want the pain to hold off or be dulled, as I want to work as long as possible. I was thinking today if they stick me on bedrest for the rest of the pregnancy, I'll only get 6wks paid maternity leave, but will I still be entitled to the paid parental leave thing that starts in Jan? Oh, so much to think about! 

Has anyone else had dreams about the gender of their baby (where they don't already know it)? We don't know the sex of the baby, and at the scan this coming Friday, we're not finding out. But so far, I've had 3 dreams where the baby is a girl! Apparently it's not good odds we'll have a girl (Andrew is one of 2 boys, his father is one of 2 boys, Andrew's dad's brother has 2 boys and their father was one of two boys... see my point? lol). I was so very tempted after the dream the other night to actually buy a pink wondersuit from a garage sale yesterday, but I don't want to tempt fate or get my hopes up.

Speaking of wondersuits, I have no idea what kind of clothes I need to be looking for! March is the end of summer.... so am I looking for sleeveless & legless bodysuits or something warmer?! It's driving me crazy!

GTG, Jensen and Andrew are arguing over whether dolly is awake or not. lol