Midwife checkup

I just got home from another checkup at the midwife. Everything continues to go very well. My BP was still great 120/75 and the baby's heartbeat still strong. The midwife was able to feel how Junior was positioned this time. Head down and with his/her back to the right side. This makes sense, b/c I already had the feeling that Jr likes to hang out on the right side, sometimes I see a big bulge on that side. But at this point in the pregnancy Jr can still move around in every direction, so not until 30 weeks (I think) the final positioning is important.

So far I have gained 7 kilo's (+/- 15 pounds) and I gained most of it in the last 3 weeks. The midwife would have guessed me 1-2 weeks more advanced if she didn't know my charts. But she told me not to worry that we will have a monster big baby. They tend to grow in spurts and probably just went through one, now it might be a little more steady for couple of weeks.

So mother and baby are still doing great!

Speaking off....

a rocking baby. Sean got Junior this Queens of the Stone Age t-shirt a couple of weeks ago at a concert.
Am I going to have to deal with 2 drum sets and 2 guitars in the house? Help!

Rocking baby

Last night Sean performed with his band - 3rd time in Vega - in their first gig. They got approached via their MySpace page to participate in this talent show and so they have been practicing a lot in the last couple of weeks. To continue to the next round they had to get as many votes as possible in the form of selling tickets. So last night me, a lot of friends from Haarlem and also colleagues went to Amsterdam for support.
They did great and even won the show by beating 5 other bands.

During the show I felt Junior chearing for his/her daddy a couple of times, so this baby is definitely going to be a rocking baby.
The band that performed after Sean's played this noise, punk, metal stuff.... they had the appropriate name of Monster. That was too much and after 5 minutes I was afraid Junior would have permanent hearing damage before even born. Poor baby I felt really guilty! So me and another friend who didn't really like the Monster music waited in the hotel lobby next door for about 15 minutes untill we all left back to Haarlem.

Once in bed Junior recovered from the Monster scare and decided to practice some of daddy's drumming moves, it kept me awake for an hour!

Babyroom update

Yesterday Sean and I did some work to the babyroom. I had recently bought fabric with my mom to make curtains and to cover some pillows. See here the result. It is a little tricky to see, but the color is greenish, very camouflage safari. Also we put up paw prints and bought a nice rug for in the room. Sean convinced me to get a nice woolly one, so it will be nice on our feet when we have to go out in the middle of the night to feed Junior.

Belly picutures at 24 weeks

Over the last week or so I have had big cramps in my lower abdomen. It seems like Junior is growing by the day now and my stomach muscles can't keep up. My belly circumference is gone up by 3 cm since last time, although it seems like a lot more to me!



Week 24 versus week 20.

Pregnant, fit and flexible

After an email I just received I realised I completely forgot to post about my pregnancy aerobics experience (thanx Sabine for reminding me). Last Friday I went to my first class, I will have 10 in total. It was a nice group of 15 women all very similar in pregnancy stage (between 19-28 weeks). The first hour was exercising and the instructor wasn't kidding. She started jumping during the warm-up, but after about 10 minutes we moved into the stretching and muscle toning. The whole idea is to keep the muscles around your waist in shape so it is easier on your pelvis, femur etc and to get back into shape quicker after delivery. The last 15 minutes we did some floor exercises to learn all about breathing and relaxation for during the delivery.

After one hour of aerobics we had tea and a cookie and were socializing. The women were all talking about their experience so far, little problems etc. That gives a nice extra touch.

One girl is pregnant with twins and already had a pretty hard time. I wonder how I will feel about the jumping during the warming up in a couple of weeks when I get bigger. But so far it was really nice!

Boy or girl dreams (23 weeks)

It is 1-1 in counts on boy versus girl now. I have been having these very real dreams about it. Besides dreaming about it I still don't have some sort of gut feeling about the gender.

For some reason I did think right from the start that we are having a girl. But maybe that is only due to the fact that the pregnancy test gave a pink stripe?