20 week scan update and the gender!

 allenfamily  26 Responses »
Apr 252013
 

Well I was worried this morning but I didn’t need to be. The baby is well and the amniotic fluid amount is OK. The person who scanned me said that I could of lost some fluid but she said it replenishes and at the moment the amount is normal.

The baby is doing really well and everything seems normal. They couldn’t check the heart at first but after me going for a 10 minute walk, the baby moved and everything could be seen and the heart looks normal. I am very happy and relieved. I don’t regret worrying so much as if I didn’t and if there was something wrong then I would feel devastated.

To celebrate we went to Sainsbury’s cafe and had something to eat (we shall celebrate more on Sunday, my fiancé has to work on Saturday…boo!)

Now, I have had a few people ask me what gender the baby is. I am pleased to say that yes we did find out and Miss A is quite happy with the outcome it seems!

So what is it? Well Miss A bought the baby it’s first top. It’s first piece of clothing. She picked it and I think she wants to wear it herself.

Here is the top:

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Baby’s first top!

Yes, it’s a boy!

We are so pleased, over the moon, to have one of each is amazing! My mum knew it was a boy. I had similar pregnancy symptoms as she did when pregnant with my brother.

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Our baby boy!

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Today is my 20 week scan day.

 allenfamily  3 Responses »
Apr 252013
 

I am the first one up, but I had a good sleep. Last night I started to worry. Started to think about what happened at the weekend. I remembered the nurse and the doctor not knowing how to do the amniotic fluid test. I Googled the procedures as I watched them do it. I think they did it OK but I think the timings were a little bit quicker than they should be. I found this in the process…http://community.babycenter.com/post/a23670225/is_the_amniotic_fluid_test_reliable

Now I am really starting to worry. I have had at least three experiences of feeling wet. One was yesterday. I know a few people that have leaked and have been OK but I have read that you may have to have complete bed rest. This can’t happen! I have a three year old to look after. She starts preschool next week. I have so many plans. I have two blogging events that I am going to in London in June. I know that I am worrying before things are being confirmed but after reading the above I can’t help it. I have my scan in a few hours and all will be found out then.

It is a shame that my fiancé can’t be there throughout the scan, only at the end.

All this put aside, I will be finding out what sex it is. That’s if it isn’t like Miss A and have it’s legs crossed the entire scan time!

 

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A great weekend, shame about Sunday though!

 allenfamily  No Responses »
Apr 222013
 

The weekend started off really lovely, apart from my hip suddenly giving up while in town, hope I am not getting SPD. On Saturday we went out and had lunch and done a bit of shopping and then in the late afternoon we went for a walk (my hip was better by then) through Avenham Park and went to Frankie and Benny’s. Was lovely! We all enjoyed ourselves, Miss A especially!

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Daddy and Miss A, My shadow on the Tram Bridge

 

I had so many plans for Sunday but none of them happened. I spent over 6 hours in hospital. Sunday morning was going OK until I sat down. Without going into too much detail, I suspected I was leaking amniotic fluid. So I called NHS Direct who told me to get myself to A&E asap, preferably within an hour. I had no phone charged and I had only just got up so no chances of that happening so it was more like two hours. I went on my own, by taxi,  as Miss A would of been bored and I was feeling OK in myself just that particular issue.

I saw the air ambulance take off, first time I have seen the helicopter be there. Was impressive.  However I felt sad seeing it as it was obviously going to somewhere where there is a person in very urgent medical attention. Hope that person is OK.

So I booked myself in with A&E and waited about an hour and they told me to go to primary care. I waited about two hours there and they told me that they suspect it is my amniotic fluid and I am best going to the gynaecology ward to get checked out. So off I went and spent a short time in there before getting checked out and after they ran some tests and fortunately it isn’t amniotic fluid. Thank goodness for that! I was so worried, to say the least! They think it could be an infection and they have taken samples to test and should get the results on Wednesday.

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Royal Preston Hospital sign fail!

I came home and ate cake!

 

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What’s that burning smell? Oh you can’t smell it?

 allenfamily  9 Responses »
Apr 192013
 

Well some of you know that in 2011 I had a benign tumour in my parotid gland. This post was made  was before my diagnosis http://www.prestonprecious.com/2011/07/hospital-next-week-a-little-bit-worried.html and this was made after my diagnosis http://www.prestonprecious.com/2011/09/not-so-happy-days.html.

For the past week and a half I have been smelling burning again. Now I know it could be because of my pregnancy but it could be because of my parotid gland. Perhaps my tumour has come back, I don’t know but after some encouragement and a lot of thinking I decided to phone the doctor to make a telephone call appointment and she phoned back this afternoon and is going to refer me directly to the hospital and I am to have an ultrasound on my parotid gland(s). I am trying not to worry. I am not very worried but I really hope it isn’t my parotid gland again. The experience wasn’t very pleasant (as with most operations) and the fact that the tumour was right near the main blood supply to my brain and was quite risky, I am rather anxious!

The doctor said that the fact that they are going to refer me for the ultrasound directly, it shouldn’t be long before I get an appointment so hopefully I will get the answers soon, hopefully the all clear! If I don’t I am not too sure whether they are able to do anything before the baby is born or not. Part of me wants to wait but then it gives the tumour time to get bigger.

Anyway, here’s hoping it is just my senses being all messed up due to my pregnancy!

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Pregnancy diary – weeks 17, 18 and 19

 allenfamily  1 Response »
Apr 182013
 

Well I am in my 19th week. Miss A has been really poorly with a virus so my pregnancy has not been on my mind a lot recently, hence me being behind on my pregnancy diary. She is a lot better now and things are getting back to normal.

I have a busy few weeks ahead so again I may not be able to update, but we shall see. I am starting to feel the baby move properly now. Not just flutters. Last night my fiancé felt the baby move for the first time. It was lovely for me, I think it freaked him out a bit. Even though he felt Miss A moving around he felt the same about it. My food aversions have improved, a few things turn my stomach but not so much. I still have a craving for milk and yoghurts.

I have my 20 week scan next week. Can’t wait. After that is done, I need to start buying. I have so much to buy. We need a new cot (as Miss A is in her cotbed and to be honest, the cot is on the verge of breaking), pushchair and furniture. We also need to find some decent reusable nappies as the ones Miss A use are on their last legs. And if the baby is a boy…we need some new clothes!

I am getting rather excited! I hope these next 20 weeks go quickly. I really do!

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Teaching a three year old to say things properly – impossible!

 allenfamily  3 Responses »
Apr 052013
 

Miss A is getting really good at talking. After a bit of a slow start, you can have a proper conversation with her now. However there are two words in particular that you cannot stop her from saying wrong.

One of those words is Lego. She is convinced that it is called Mego! No matter how many times you tell her it is Lego, she doesn’t listen. The other word is piano. She calls a piano a piapo. Now she gets really upset if you tell her it is piano. So funny! She really really doesn’t want to accept that she is saying these two words wrong. I think that when she does say these words properly, I will get quite upset. It is another sign that she is getting older.

She says other words properly, as best as she can do anyway! She amazes me sometimes especially when she describes things that I never thought she would know about. Her memory for the stories I read her is amazing! She can finish so many sentences of The Selfish Crocodile and she can remember most of the food items in The Hungry Caterpillar.

Her humour is fantastic! When I am on the phone to my Mum, she tries to make us both laugh. It is so funny and both me and my Mum are in fits of laughter quite often! I think she is going to do well in pre-school. Wonder if they can teach her to say piano and Lego properly? She starts pre-school on the 30th April..not long now! I am happy that she is starting soon but sad as I will miss her!

 

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Pregnancy diary – weeks 15 and 16.

 allenfamily  1 Response »
Apr 042013
 

Well the past two weeks have flown by. So much so that I forgot to update my pregnancy diary! I am currently 17 weeks pregnant but I shall not talk about being 17 weeks until the end of the 17 weeks but what I will say is that I can feel the baby move! I have been feeling flutters for a while but put it down to trapped wind, which it could of been but the night before last I felt proper movement. It isn’t strong and it doesn’t happen all the time but it is certainly not trapped wind! I bought a doppler when I was pregnant with Miss A. I bled a lot when I was pregnant with her and it was a reassuring thing to have. A few days ago I found out that I can now use this now. So me, my fiancé and Miss A have all heard the baby’s heartbeat! Oh what a wonderful thing that is. I was paranoid when pregnant with Miss A, even more than I am with this one. I panicked every time I couldn’t feel her move.

I am feeling much better now. I can eat a lot more. Still a bit iffy with the really savoury food but it is improving. I am still craving yoghurt and I can eat them by the bucket load if I had that amount. I think I was the same with Miss A but it was milk. I really do hope I do not produce a cows milk intolerant child again. I really want to breastfeed the next one but if it is, I can’t see myself being able to stop eating dairy.

I am a lot less tired. It gets better as the weeks go on. At the moment Miss A isn’t so well so I am up with her at least three times a night. I have got what she has had so I feel a bit yucky at the moment. I will be fine!

So only good things have happened these past two weeks which is exactly what I needed. Was getting fed up with the bleeding and the worry. Seeing that ultrasound done the world of good for my mentality.

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Just Googling!

 allenfamily  No Responses »
Mar 292013
 

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Miss A has a new hobby. Every morning she wants to sit at the computer in our bedroom and play with the mouse and keyboard, particularly the mouse. She loves it if we turn the computer on so she can make beeping noises and cause her Mummy and Daddy some concern as to whether she will delete something!

Then one day she said to us “Just Googling!”. Someone has been listening to her Daddy! It did make us laugh and that phrase has been said by her a few times now! Of course she is way too young to know what Google and Googling is let alone be able to use the computer to use Google!

We have a wireless keyboard and she has claimed that and she now has a mouse that she pretends is plugged in and she carries them about with her and loves clicking the mouse and ‘typing’! Her Daddy is a web programmer and I can imagine her being very keen to learn what he does. I am not very technically minded but knowing her she will be a blogging web programmer in a few years time!

I do think it is time that she gets a computer of her own, perhaps a tablet so she can use the apps to learn things. She learns a lot from the television and books but I think that if something is interactive like a tablet, she will learn a lot more.

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A trip to the dentist.

 allenfamily  No Responses »
Mar 282013
 

Today Miss A went to the dentist for the first time! The dentist that we go to do not like to see them before they are three so it was time for Miss A to experience one of the things I used to have a phobia about. I had to have a lot of dental work after my bicycle accident and it affected me a lot. However after going to the dentist today (after a change of dentist) I seem a lot calmer about the whole issue. I have to have part of a tooth pulled out (after a crown failed) and a filling. I also have to have a cosmetic touch up to one of the teeth they filled which broke in the accident. I had two crowns and a few teeth ‘built up’.

Miss A did rather well, he got to briefly look at her teeth but she was very reluctant and was squirming in the chair. I don’t think she really knew what to expect even though she has seen me go to the dentist three times now. The dentist told her to let me clean her teeth, which is often a bit of a struggle and he told me from what he can see her teeth seem to be rather good! Miss A goes back to the dentist in three months time and I have to go back in a couple of weeks.

Miss A got a Eeyore sticker for being a good girl. I got a bitten finger when trying to keep her mouth open. She didn’t do it on purpose, she was just so scared of what he was doing with the metal mirror! I think she done brilliantly, I thought she was just going to clamp her jaw shut and we were not going to get anywhere with her. Her daddy bought her a Orchard Toys The Game of Ladybirds which I will use as a reward for being such a good girl on her first trip to the dentist!

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Life is good!

 allenfamily  No Responses »
Mar 262013
 

Life has been put on hold for a few months due to various reasons. There are two main reasons, my troublesome pregnancy and the dog’s separation anxiety. More about Tilly’s separation anxiety can be found at Tilly – separation anxiety. I had some excellent advice on Twitter and message boards.

I have come to a decision that my pregnancy is either going to result in a healthy baby or not regardless of whether I do x y or z so that is not an issue for me any more and in terms of the dogs…well I have informed the neighbours about the situation and have told them that I can’t stay in and they agree. So that is sorted. We went out for the first time as a family at the weekend and it was amazing! I think I care too much about what the neighbours think so have been reluctant to go out at the weekends with my fiance and our daughter. We usually take it in turns to take Miss A out but that was not good for us as a family. I think the dogs are getting better, it helps with a run on the field instead of a walk. Must tire them out a bit!

We have a busy few months, we are going to see some shows, going to see family and also I have lots of exciting plans for Miss A when she isn’t at pre-school. Yes she starts pre-school after the Easter holidays! Scary!

I have a few blogging events to attend as well. Looking forward to these but I need to get some maternity clothes for them as the clothes I have are starting to get tight!

I have lots to catch up on as well. I have a few blog posts half finished and I am in the middle of a massive spring clean. I so need more storage!

So life is rather good at the moment!

 

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