Just feel like writing about my thoughts today. I have been doing a lot of research about pregnancy symptoms today and about being induced and I am on info overload. I will find out for sure and for certain next Thursday (17th) if I am to be induced. As they are supposed to book me a date for it at that particular appointment. After a bit of research I am a lot better informed as to what kind of inducement can occur and the situations that can arise from being induced.

I don’t have very long to go now until baby comes and I am getting a bit scared about giving birth…as I am sure 99% of the pregnant population do! All I can do is be as well prepared as possible. Thankfully my Husband and my Auntie are very supportive and positive. And I am very grateful that I have them both. I am hoping that if I am induced that my mother will be able to make it, esp if I have a date booked in before hand as there is no reason why she can’t clear her schedule for that time. I really want her there for me too.

I am going to get stuck into having everything ready to go in the next week or so. So then the last 2 weeks I have to myself I can be utterly lazy and selfish and relax to the max, I probably won’t ever get much time to myself again for ages, so I want to enjoy it whilst it lasts *if that’s entirely possible?*

I have discovered that most inducements produce very very strong contractions quite quickly and many women end up not being able to have pain relief for some reason. But one positive is that labour is shorter if you are induced in most cases. The shorter the better I say!!

I am going to pop a picture in todays blog that my mother took of me yesterday. It’s one of the better ones.

I want my baby out as I am tired of all the probs that I have endured throughout the pregnancy.  But I know I will miss being pregnant too.  I feel really special,  as I get a lot of attention the bigger my belly gets and I know how special it is to be able to have this baby as I know women who cannot.  And it is such a special time.  But it is how it is and I will never be able to have my cake and eat it.  She has to come out and I would rather a bit sooner than later

Drove up to my mum n dads early this morning.  But by the time we arrived it was after 10am already.  We went to the markets down the main street and to a few shops and then headed to a pub with a gorgeous view for lunch.  It was my parent’s shout for lunch.  And I ended up having a grilled chicken & cheese salad sandwich with chunky fries and a pint of lemon and lime bitters.  I shouldn’t have.  But there really wasn’t much of a muchness to choose from anyway.  It was a nice lunch,  left there feeling content.

Then we headed back to the folks place and chatted and had a coffee and my mum tried to do some pregnancy photo’s of me,  but the day was such a gloomy one so it didn’t really work out.  Now it looks like she is going to come and stay for a night next weekend or sometime,  to try and do some better shots before I have the baby.

I ended up driving us there and back,  which wasn’t too bad.  But it’s a long drive both ways and now I am totally bushed again!  But this week will be a quiet one.  Will do a bit of selfish/spoil myself shopping at the end of the week maybe and will start getting my Hospital/Labour bag packed too.  Ewww…. going to have to leave it here.  I am getting damned acid reflux/indigestion again