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What Is Happening To Me?!

So just a quick update because nothing that exciting has been happening since I last updated. Firstly, I would like to know how the hell I managed to get stretch marks on my calves?! I mean, everywhere else, I understand. But the back of my legs seems a bit strange... I've been drinking plenty of water and doing more walking and stuff but there they are, staring at me (well sort of). I still don't have any on my tummy though which is good, but I'm only half way... Fingers crossed.

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I signed up to Cow & Gate's online club and received a cuddly toy cow. It's so cute!! Me and Lee decided we are going to give it to the baby when it is born because it's the right size and it's really soft. Everytime I look at it I just coo because somehow it reminds me even more that I'm having a baby. Haha. You can sign up here and you'll get a free cow, pregnancy diary, coupons and e-mails. It's really good in other ways too, because they have a help service where you can send them questions whenever you like and they reply within 3 days. I'm looking forward to seeing what things I will be sent over the next 19 weeks (scary!).

Image taken from Google Images

That's not the only freebe I've been sent :)! A few weeks ago I went to the doctors and asked him to sign my Healthy Start form which I downloaded from the internet. If you qualify you get a weekly £3.10 voucher to spend on cows milk, fresh fruit, vegetables and formula milk. After the baby is born you get £3.60 per week. It's going to be really helpful because me and Lee drink a lot of milk and I think I'm going to formula feed. You can have a look at the site here: http://www.healthystart.nhs.uk/

Me and Lee start house hunting in about 4 weeks! I'm hoping we find the perfect home :) Preferably 3 bedrooms because Lee wants his own little games room to play his xbox in. I don't mind though, hahah. We also have to go to the housing place in Preston to see if we are entitled to anywhere to live but I'm sure there will be a long waiting list. I CAN'T WAIT TO MOVE!

Anomaly Scan (20 Weeks)

Last night was a rough nights sleep for me. I kept waking up because I was so nervous about the scan, although it was morning time and we were ready to leave. Two bottles of water later and I was desperate for a wee (you're meant to have a full bladder for the scan) but I had to wait longer yet. We arrived at the hospital and got asked to go in for the scan and phew there was still a strong heart beat and it still had all it's limbs. Only problem was, the baby was facing the wrong way. It was facing my spine in the breech position, so it had literally been head butting my bladder. This was an issue because the sonographer couldn't reach around to see another part of the heart and the face. The bed I was lying on was tipped backwards to try and get it to move, I was also asked to move on my right side, then my left but we had no luck! It was being stubborn >:| She eventually asked us to go away for an hour so I could drink 4 more cups of water (literally dying now) and to see if maybe the baby would move. Soooo.... an hour later we were back in the ultrasound department and back on the bed covered in goo. The baby still hadn't moved properly around but the sonographer was able to see the things she needed to and assured us everything was good :) . Me and Lee were made up.

This is the best photo we could get. Although we didn't find out the sex, when she was showing us the legs I was sure I saw some little boy parts. Hahah. Who knows though?! On the notes from the can I found out the baby's PVD is 6.3. I'm not sure what PVD means? Could anyone let me know? I also found out that my placenta is anterior (meaning at the front of my womb) which I read is a completely normal place for it to be although there could be a chance of more bleeding if I needed a cesarean. Now it's just hoping it all moves up fine and that the little baby isn't early! I'm not going to worry too much. With that note, I think I just got a head in the bladder...

Guilty Pleasures

So I thought with today being Sunday I would engorge myself in some guilty pleasures. This being my mums home made biscuits, doughnuts and Twilight: Eclipse. You can't go wrong with an afternoon in with Robert Pattinson. Since the weather is so miserable I don't really want to go outside.

Last night I had a really good nights sleep, although for some reason when I was drifting off all I could think about was cross trainers. I've been wanting to do more physical activities recently and for some reason this stuck out to me. I don't have a gym membership or anything so the best I can do for now is swimming! I've been asking Lee to come with me again for ages but we just haven't got round to it. ALTHOUGH I do have a maternity swimming costume. It is from Boots and it was about £24.99. It will last the whole pregnancy, but I will probably wear it afterwards as I wore it when I didn't have a bump and there was no sagging...

Week 20 (& 1 Day!)

I've updated the Tummy Pic's page :)

So I'm over half way now, I can't believe it. I've only got to do the first half again, but I know it's going to be tougher. I'm believing that my motherly feelings are taking a very strong effect after how upset I got the other night. It was around half 4 in the morning and I heard my hamsters having a horrible fight! :( There was loads of squeeling and crying coming from the cage and I was absolutely distraught. My hormones are on overload and I just burst into tears. Thankfully Lee was there to help me seperate them and now they are in different cages. But,  I can't stop thinking about them, and if they're okay. I'm really hoping they're not lonely :(. It's crazy to compare them to the love I have for Lee and our baby but it's just shown me that I can care this much for rodents so I can't even think to how strong the love will be once the baby is born. I'm hating how emotional I am!

I know this is a random photo to upload but I'm so happy to have put a nice fresh duvet on my bed. I've had a really bad lack of sleep these past few days so I'm hoping the nice smelling bed and fluffed up pillows will help me to clear my head and sleep better. Then maybe my sad feelings for my hamsters and the over-emotional feelings will die down a bit. It's exhausting being pregnant!