Alien Invasion

It's been a while since I posted. To those that are not me, not much has changed. Many people comment that they often forget I am pregnant, which I see as a good thing - I hope that it means that a) I am not too huge; b) pregnancy has not taken over my life/conversations! I do feel very very lucky that I have had such a straightforward pregnancy - I have felt pretty good all the way through - full of energy, happy and well. I know that others are not so lucky!

So since the last post...

17 weeks - I started to feel movement. I described it at the time as feeling a fist in your tummy moving from side to side. I didn't like it at first, but eventually got used to it. As the movement got more and more frequent, it became reassuring. 

20 weeks - the 20 week scan. So I didn't make the same mistake as last time and made sure that I went with a half full bladder, rather than painfully busting for the toilet! The scan was all fine - exciting to see the baby wriggling around and we were very pleased that everything was 'normal. We got a couple of alien looking photos from the scan, including a very cute one of the bottom of the baby's foot!

28 weeks - today! I've been continuing to feel tip top and now feel movement all the time. In fact, I see it wriggling around and trying to punch and kick it's way out of my tummy all the ruddy time! I understand now what people mean when they compare being pregnant to the film 'Alien'!! 

We are starting to buy baby stuff - I'm absolutely overwhelmed by all of the choices and things that people say that we need... but will save that for another post!