Something else funny about the scan on Friday is that despite everything else being quite average this baby has a femur length on the 87th centile. There was one scan early on where they were trying to get measurements and all we could see was this long spindly pair of legs, so I guess that makes sense now.

Apparently I have an anterior placenta again this time but I can definitely feel more movement than with R. Someone asked if it was ‘flutters’ but it feels more like thumps! I’m wondering if this baby has managed to get themselves into a better position than R so might grow better/be more active, I guess we will see…

Baby #2 is a boy! I wasn’t sure because this pregnancy has felt quite different (but I am literally 5 years older). Very excited to reuse R’s extensive wardrobe that he’s accumulated over the years. We took him to the scan and he kept waving at the baby 🥹 he was quite keen on the idea of a sister but he doesn’t seem too disappointed. Afterwards we had a very cute afternoon tea, they did a kids version and he asked when we could go back there as soon as he finished.

Today I met the obstetrician who was the nicest and most chilled obstetrician I have encountered (and I have met quite a lot through work). I had to have an unexpected cervical length scan 🥴 but that was all good and I got to see the baby who was as active as ever. If they grow well and are over the 10th centile I can have an elective section at our local hospital, otherwise VBAC or section would be the big maternity hospital 70 miles away (it’s complicated), so here’s hoping.

When we moved in my dad freaked out that the double bed we had wasn’t going to fit in the smallest bedroom, which we’d planned to use as the guest/spare room. He and Jamie had started building it and he got in a total flap so we pivoted (literally) and used the 2nd biggest bedroom instead (actually a similar size to R’s, but he wanted the room that looked out over the back garden). Then we found out about the baby and we felt a bit bad about cramming them into the smallest bedroom. WELL it turns out the double bed, bedside tables and desk all fit in there after all!!!

Well this bank holiday weekend has been utterly shit, started with R projectile vomiting all over our bed on Friday night and then it’s steadily worked its way through all of us. I even had a fever earlier 😭 and R now can’t go to nursery this week. There’s no way I can ask my mum and dad to take him given how contagious it seems to be. I think I’m just going to have to phone in sick but I feel like I’ve barely been at work recently because of appointments and study days etc. and I was really hoping to get on top of things this week.

They managed to get the measurements on the second go around and everything looked good - and baby is now due on Halloween! 🎃

Well there’s definitely a baby in there! Everything looked good but they were not co-operating with the measurements at all, so I have to go back next week for another go 🫣