Revolution

So a much more positive week this week beginning with a visit from my brother and his wife and my lovely niece who is 3. She's so precocious and cute and manages to charm the birds from the trees I think! She wants to come back and visit as "gwanny and gwandad" bought her a Dowa the Explowah bed Auntie Sharewah!

Also we got a message saying the our house valuation was satisfactory to meet our remortgage requirements so in the next few days we should have the offer in and that should be off my shoulders for another year or so. That will be a good thing as it's been stressing me out something chronic and I dread to think of the effect that has on Bean or my blood pressure which seems to be slightly raised all the time!

This week in my womb...
You may not know it when it happens, but your tiny tenant frequently gets the hiccups, which babies master before breathing. Babies don't make any sound because their trachea is filled with fluid rather than air.

Although you've probably gained between 5 and 10 pounds / 2.2 - 4.5 kilograms, the fetus weighs in at around only 2.5 ounces / 70 grams. It measures nearly 4 inches / 11 centimetres long, crown to rump. Legs are growing longer than the arms now, fingernails are fully formed and all the joints and limbs can move. You may be able to find out the sex of your baby by ultrasound now, since the external genitals may be developed enough that the ultrasound technician can tell you if you're going to have a boy or a girl.

If the idea of having a baby seems so remote, nothing makes it feel more real than feeling your baby move for the first time. Most mums-to-be discern movement (called quickening) between 16 and 20 weeks. If you've been pregnant before, you'll feel things earlier rather than later. What you may first think is a rumbling stomach may be your baby doing some back flips. Make note of when you first start feeling the baby and tell your midwife at your next visit. This middle stage of pregnancy is a good time to start exercising.

Good news is I've been able to eat more this week and without the knock me out feeling of nausea so I'm feeling a little happier about that and my bro and his mrs are on a mission to find me baby things so it's a productive week.

Tonight I'm off to a residents meeting about the "resource recovery park" which is a posh name for rubbish recycling dump that they plan to build on my doorstep. Not on my watch without a fight so I have my pitchfork and my placard ready!

Vive la Resistance!