39 weeks pregnant and a slight change of plan

Today I am 39 weeks and 1 day pregnant – baby is due to make her appearance on Monday!

We have had a lot of messing about with the rental house since my last post and the upshot is that we have decided to let that particular house go for now, and revisit our house hunt once the baby has arrived and we are a little less under pressure too quickly. In a nutshell, the landlords of the new place were proving very difficult to get information from, and impossible to get a moving date from. It seems like there are still some issues between them and the outgoing tenants, and all in all it made us a bit nervous about he prospect of moving in there and being at their mercy should there be any maintenance issues etc. Plus with the looming deadline of the baby coming we just couldn’t afford to wait for them to get their act together.

So we have cooled off our house plans for the time being and have decided to concentrate first and foremost on this baby’s arrival, keeping half an eye on the local rental market to see what might come up over the coming months.

I am feeling ok, not too tired (in fact, we stayed up til midnight last night after going out for a curry – the latest I’ve been awake in a while!). I am still feeling very large and slow, bump still feels like I’ve swallowed a boulder! Baby is still making lots of big movements, especially at night once I sit down. She still feels like she’s head down, but she moves her bum around a fair bit! I see the midwife again on Thursday, then that is it… my next appointment will be at eight days overdue back at the hospital.

Heartburn seems to have made an unwelcome return – I even had it during the day today, whereas it has usually been at night that it has bothered me.

And now that I no longer have to cross my legs and hope the baby doesn’t come until after we move house, I am back on the raspberry leaf tea and can start feeling hopeful with every twinge rather than anxious!