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Butterflies & pretty hearts. That’s what I decided we needed this week, to make us feel really at home in our new house.

As we are only renting, we don’t want to go overboard doing too much decorating (‘loud’ wallpaper & plastic chandeliers in the lounge aside – they must be obliterated soon) but I wanted to make the girls’ bedrooms feel really homely & personal for them.

So, with hubby’s permission to let myself loose on the Next website (this is not a sponsored post, more’s the pity, could do with some free Next stuff…), I spent a very enjoyable half hour picking some new curtains, bedding & other accessories for the transformation.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, Lilly & Isla’s room has gone from this:

To this:

Lilly was suitably thrilled & declared that is was “beautiful” and that her favourite thing was the “baby butterflies”. She immediately got into bed to try it out, then wanted to get in Isla’s cot to try hers out too!

And, down the corridor, Eve’s nursery is all ready for her, having gone from this:

To this:

I look forward to the days she sleeps all night & will be able to move in!

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It has been an exciting weekend for Lilly because yesterday we made arrangements to spend the afternoon with her absolute bestest friend in the whole world, Daniel.

Daniel is her friend from nursery. He is a month younger than her and they first met at baby massage classes when they were a few months old. They have been at the same nursery together since before they were a year old and have always been the best of friends. The staff always joked with us about Lilly and Daniel since they were in the baby room together, and as they moved up the rooms to the toddler room and now pre-school, they have always gone together.

These days, when you ask Lilly what she has been doing at nursery, she will tell you: “I’ve been playing Ben 10 with Daniel”. Neither of them really know what Ben 10 is, but in their game Daniel is always Ben 10, and Lilly is always ‘Princess’. (Apparently Princess’s role is “to follow Ben 10″, according to Lilly). Nursery also tell me that Lilly is very protective of Daniel and sticks up for him if any other child dares to snatch anything from him.

When we were on holiday in France recently, almost every day you’d hear Lilly say: “I really miss Daniel…” Meanwhile, Daniel’s mum tells me that when they have visitors Daniel shows them the group photo of nursery and tells them: “that’s Lillypops, she’s my girlfriend…”

For a while now, Lilly has been asking: “Can Daniel come to my house?” And then Daniel’s mum sent me a message on Facebook telling me that Daniel was the same. So we arranged to meet up at a local soft play this weekend and let the two of them spend some time together.

They had an absolutely fantastic time and burnt off so much energy running all over the place, bombing down the big slide and playing chase. Every so often they’d come running back to the table to guzzle down more orange squash and then they were off again! It was so lovely seeing how excited they were to play together – at times they were in absolute hysterics at each other doing silly things - and there were big hugs and kisses on arrival and when we left. By the time we did go Lilly was actually sweating with all the running and climbing they’d been doing!

At the end the pair of them looked fit to drop and Daniel even lay on the floor and said: “I need to go back to my house now, I’m sooo tired!”

All in all it was a great couple of hours and just lovely to see Lilly and her first ever best friend having such a wonderful time together.

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Isla is now 10 months old – it seems impossible that my littlest baby is coming up to her first birthday so fast!

She is now much more mobile, she’s crawling and practicing doing a “bridge” with her feet and hands on the floor and her bottom sticking up in the air! She isn’t fully able to pull herself up on the furniture, although she is starting to try, and I am trying to encourage her to put more weight on her feet at the moment in preparation for walking. We have just got out the trusty old VTech walker for her, which she loves pressing buttons on (when she gets a chance because it is also Lilly’s new favourite toy too!)

Her personality is lovely. She remains largely chilled out but, since becoming more mobile she has become a little bit more demanding, and can be grizzly if she is hungry, tired or frustrated! Her face when Lilly has a tantrum is a picture – at first there will be a flicker of concern, then usually just amusement, or bemusement! In the last couple of months she has become much more of a smiler and laugher – her first few months she was very serious, as though she was taking everything in before deciding how to react. Now she will smile and wave at strangers in shops and she giggles more. I also love the fact that now, when she hears music of any kind, she will start jigging away!

Isla’s favourite things are baths – she loves splashing her hands and especially when Lilly joins in – she doesn’t even seem to mind being splashed in the face in the process! She also loves the sensation of being dropped downwards – even walking down the stairs with her in your arms makes her smile. She really loves her big sister. When Lilly comes into our bedroom in the morning and Isla is awake already, Isla will get really excited and start bouncing about on the bed when she sees her, which usually gets Lilly excited too – so generally a lovely start to the day. And Isla has started giving out lots of sloppy, open mouth kisses to people – usually me, daddy, Lilly or Nanna. She is a much cuddlier baby than Lilly was at this age (Lilly was always fiercly independent and didn’t “do” cuddles until she was probably about 18 months! - although she makes up for it now) and will still sit happily on your lap for quite a while. She loves to be carried around the house with one speculative arm out ready to grab anything that it comes across!

Food wise we are making progress. (I must confess that my work in the kitchen making homemade baby meals went through a bit of a slow patch recently – finding the time while working and also trying to make all mine and Tony’s meals from scratch for our weightwatchers diet left me with little time to batch cook. But we’re back on track now with a freezer full of food…) Anyway, after a slow start with lumps Isla is now eating sandwiches and toast, and managing slightly lumpier food. She is  down to just two milks a day – one at bedtime, one on waking. Yesterday, she ate one of Lilly’s chicken and apple balls which was great. I always have a mind on the fact that we’ll be going away to France in 3 months and I want her to be able to eat as “normally” as possible by then. And so far, she hasn’t been fussy in terms of flavour, she’s enjoyed all the jars and homemade things we have made for her. She even reattempted a strawberry the other day!   

Touch wood the last few weeks have been relatively illness free (she finally shook of her bad chest and cough with the help of antibiotics) and teething seems to have slowed for now – she still just has the six teeth and the dribbling is nowhere near as bad as it was a few months ago. Isla seems to be finally settling in nursery – we had a few weeks during which she wasn’t sleeping in nursery at all and was coming home in a dreadful state – red faced, overtired, really grumpy. One day I stayed in nursery and tried to settle her down for her post-breakfast nap but couldn’t – in the end she became completely hysterical everytime I tried to leave – in the end I just had to leave with her crying, it was awful. And then she started crying when I dropped her off. But for the last couple of weeks we have been taking her sleeping bag into nursery with her and they have tried her sleeping on a beanbag instead of in their cot and we seem to have had a breakthrough – she will now have 30 mins after breakfast (compared to an hour at home) and an hour after lunch (compared to 1-2 hours at home), and she comes home a much happier baby. I try to leave while she’s eating her weetabix in the morning, so that she doesn’t cry seeing me go and when Tony picks her up in the afternoons he says she is generally happy and playing when he gets there, which is a weight off both our minds.

At the moment she is going through a bit of a clingy stage though. It’s just little things like her reaction when I come home from work. She is really excited to see me, but then if I walk into the kitchen to take off my coat and shoes and I go out of site, she’ll cry. I have to come in and give her a cuddle first! And the other day I came back from the supermarket and was making a few trips to the car bringing in the bags. Everytime I appeared at the door she would be exicted and laugh, but then everytime I went back to the car she would cry!!

Isla has also started to take notice of animals, and she loves them! First it was Nanna and Grandad’s cat, Alex. Whenever he walks into the room she’s clench her fists, stretch out her hands and say “Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!” as if she can’t contain her excitement! On our trips to the local pet shop and garden centre, rabbits and guinea pigs have got the same reception, and she remains totally fascinated and hypnotised by fish. Lilly was the same with Alex at that age but she never wanted to actually touch him, she was always a bit too wary about how he would feel, I think! But Isla is much braver, she just goes for it and tries to grab him! She was even brave enough to try and touch Grannie’s tortoise the other day, something Lilly still needs a lot of encouragement to do!

Isla’s favourite game is opening and shutting doors – now that she is mobile she loves to sit in the doorway playing with the door – obviously not a very good idea as she is always getting stuck behind it, and in constant danger of trapping her fingers so mean mummy is always taking her away from the door and saying “We need to buy a doorstop”, but hey. Isla also likes opening and shutting the oven door on Lilly’s play kitchen, and her favourite toys are probably plastic bottles or empty (or full) packs of baby wipes! She also enjoys eating books when she can. Her biggest ambition in life is to chew my iphone. She also has a new toy where you press buttons and things pop up and has just started to work out how the cause and effect element of that works, which is fascinating to watch.

Language wise she now says a lot of “mamamamamama”, especially in the mornings when she wakes up and wants attention! I would like to count it as a first word, but then again I wouldn’t let Tony count “dadadada” as her first word a few weeks ago because we couldn’t be sure it was in context and not just a sound, so I think I have to wait for more definite verification!

And her sleeping remains good, she is usually exhausted by just after 6pm and will go down without fuss and sleep until about 5.50am (yes, it usually is that precise!) Lilly and Isla are still in seperate rooms – ie Isla is still in with us – but hopefully we can think about moving them back in together in a little while as they are both – touch wood – sleeping well these days.

Oh, and Isla has had her first pair of shoes. However, all she wants to do is eat them, and if they stay on her feet more than five seconds I am lucky! I’ve pretty much given up on them now, to be honest… seem to spend most of the time carrying them around in the changing bag!

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… things have been very busy lately!

I’ve been rather neglecting this blog, and i’ve even not had the time to be on twitter as much as usual!

Yep, life is rather getting in the way at the moment :) I’m back completely in the swing of things at work, and on the two afternoons I have off a week I am trying to make sure that the girls and I are doing something nice – Storytime at the library, Messy Monsters, Soft Play, the park, or just some at home painting or cake making.

Tony and I have settled into our routine and it is working ok, despite it being quite exhausing with me trying to get out of the door before 7am and him having the children by himself in the mornings before nursery or before I come home to take over while he goes out to work.

Isla seems to be starting to get used to nursery and even enjoy herself a little bit – the last two days the staff have remarked on how happy and excitable she’s been, which is encouraging.

We have also hit teething hard – Isla has had her bottom middle two teeth for a few weeks now, but at the moment her top middle ones are on their way out. They seem to be bothering her quite a bit, mainly at night. But she is still her usual gorgeous little self, she only cries when things are really bad and when she does she gets extra special treatment!

Lilly is doing well at pre-school, she absolutely loves it and I have real trouble getting her away at the end of the day. Ideally I think it’d be nice for her to do one extra day, but the stumbling block is the expense.

And I have started Weight Watchers – online, that is, I can’t face going to an actual class. I really want to lose some weight this year, expecially thinking of our holiday in France in July but also my sister in law’s wedding next year (she’s asked me to be bridesmaid!) I’ve tried just cutting out things I know are bad for me but I have hardly any willpower and, even when I think i’ve been good, I never lose any weight. So I’ve signed up and I have the iphone app and I have been quite preoccupied with planning meals etc which is another thing eating up what little free time I have!

Ooh, but on a more exciting note Tony and I had our first proper night out since Isla was born! We treated ourselves to a night in a fancy hotel in Liverpool, a nice meal and a great big lie in! It was bliss. It was really wonderful to spend time as a couple and the girls were fine at Nana and Grandad’s. In fact, since then, Lilly has been asking Nana all the time if she can have another “sleep over” (result!) It was just the tonic we needed, especially as we’ve been so tired lately trying to juggle our new arrangements and getting some broken nights with the girls with one thing and another.

So, that’s us really, we’re still here, I just haven’t had as much time to sit at the computer and type lately. I hope that will get better as time goes on because I love writing my blog and chattting to my twitter friends… and I feel bad for neglecting them!

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This week was my first week back at work after maternity leave. It was been a much planned for and anxiously anticipated week.

It was also the week when Isla would start nursery properly, and Tony would take charge of the children in the mornings, having to get them to nursery by himself on two of those days.

It has gone pretty well, all in all.

Work have been very gentle with me and eased me in slowly, but at the same time, I know there is plenty of interesting work ahead to keep me challenged and interested in the coming months, so no complaints there.

Isla has reacted well so far to nursery. I wouldn’t say she has “settled” as I would imagine feeling truly settled at nursery will take quite a few weeks yet for such a little person. The first day Tony took her, she cried at first because of somebody’s loud voice (she can be quite a sensitive soul at times) but the tears weren’t to do with being left at nursery and she was comforted and happy before he left. She has even settled herself to sleep easily both days – twice on the first day, and although she isn’t yet sleeping the two hour stretches she manages in the afternoon at home, she is doing pretty well I think in a totally new environment with new people.

The mornings have been the thing we have dreaded most, I think. Me trying to leave the house early in order to achieve my hours for the week, and Tony having to handle breakfast and the nursery run on his own for the first time. This has gone pretty well, apart from the fact that Isla has chosen this week to become a super-early riser. It has ranged from 4.50am to 4am to 4.30am to 5am. And she will not go back to sleep until an hour or so later. And by that time she has woken Lilly. So Tony and I have been very tired going to work this week – not great as he has to drive more than 300 miles a day. So we’re both keeping our fingers tightly crossed that Isla sorts herself out a bit and sleeps in a little later very soon.

Oh, and yesterday, Isla’s first tooth finally popped through! We’ve been able to feel it through her gums for a week now, and she’s been dribbling for England. But when I picked her up from nursery yesterday and she gave me a big, coy smile, I noticed the little white line on her bottom gum! She’s growing up so fast!

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Well, that’s it then. My maternity leave has finished. On Monday morning I will be rejoining the world of work. Yikes!

The last six months have flown. Actually, it’s been more than that, as I finished at 35 weeks and Isla was 12 days overdue.

Next week our new arrangements begin. I will be working five days a week, although two of those days will be mornings only. Tony’s mum will have the girls one day, they will be in nursery two days each week. And on the two days I’ll be working half days, Tony will have them in the morning and I’ll have them in the afternoon when he’s gone to work.

As far as we can practically afford, the arrangements are as good as they can be. It won’t be easy though. I’ll have to get to work for 8am to make my hours add up – that means leaving the house not too long after 7am each morning. Gulp.

And for Tony, it means coping with the morning routine alone, for the first time. I will try to help him by getting as many things as possible ready the night before, and doing as much as I have time for before I leave, but I know he’s still nervous about it – especially those days when he’s got to get them both out of the house to nursery!

Last week Isla had her taster sessions at nursery – an hour with me there on Wednesday, and hour on her own on Thursday. She wasn’t in the slightest bit phased – she is too young to really care, as long as she is fed and looked after as usual, she won’t mind in the slightest!

Leaving her at nursery was easy. Not like the first time I left Lilly, when I was an emotional wreck. But now, I know the nursery, I know the staff, I know Isla will be happy there and will develop well and will make friends, just like her big sister. I also know she’ll only be there two days a week. I do worry that the older babies will pull her hair, or fall on top of her, or that the staff will forget that she’s only been sitting up on her own a little while and she’s not too good at it yet. She needs lots of cushions behind her, because she’ll either fall over, or dramatically throw herself backwards.

And although it is easier this time, I still felt a little pang of pain when I was filling in the nursery forms for Isla and one of the boxes to fill in read: “When I am sad, please…” I don’t like to think of my little baby with the tears in her eyes and her mummy far away and not able to give her a cuddle…

BUT.

I know she will be fine. And our arrangement should work out great.

So I will concentrate on that.

And on HOW THE HECK I am going to leave the house by 7am on Monday morning…

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Ok, call us crazy, but when Isla was one week old we decided the time had come to potty train Lilly!

We had been putting it off because of the arrival of the new baby, and not wanting to do it at a time when she might be unsettled. But Lilly has coped so well with her new baby sister, and seems so ready to toilet train that we’ve decided not to put it off any longer. Besides, at two and a half she is really too big for even the biggest nappies!

I am hoping that, having left it so long, Lilly will take to potty training easily. We’ve encouraged her to use the potty before and she’s been quite good, we just haven’t persisted with it everyday – mainly just when she’s been in the garden where the accidents don’t matter so much.

Anyway, i’ve decided to keep a quick diary of how we get on. So here is the first installment…

Day 1

We decided to take the plunge and put Lilly in knickers. We do this as soon as she wakes up for the day. After 40 mins or so, she said she wanted a wee and I helped her sit on the potty. Almost instantly, she does indeed do a wee! Much praise is dished out and I give her a sticker and we make a potty chart together for the fridge, which Lilly decorates by colouring it in in red (very much her favourite colour). Half an hour later, another wee! I realise that Lilly has wet her knickers a little bit then stopped herself, that’s how she knows she needs to go. But great that she can hold onto it – that’s a good sign for when we take potty training outside the house!

That morning there are a couple more potty successes, and one accident upstairs.

Then we went out to the park for a few hours and put her in a pull-up (not brave enough yet!)

We get back from the park with a very full nappy and Lilly sits on the potty fully clothed. I offer to take off her nappy, which she is happy about, and she sits back down on the potty and does her wee! Clever girl!

Day 2

Lilly is in nursery – and before she goes she manages to use the potty a few times without incident and even does a poo – although she is unimpressed at having to have her bottom wiped afterwards!

It goes well at nursery too – only one accident and that was because she sat on the toilet without taking her knickers off and just weed through them. But pretty impressive! We pick her up in the car on the way home in just her knickers, and thankfully the car survives unscathed!

Day 3

We go to visit my mum, which is a 50 minute journey. We put Lilly in pull-ups for this, but when we arrive the pull-ups are completely dry. The potty is stationed in Grannie’s garden while Lilly plays in her huge inflatable swimming pool thingie. There is one accident when Lilly seems to forget herself a bit while playing, but luckily we are outside so no mess made.

Day 4

Back in nursery again. It does not go so well. We arrive to pick her up and she is wearing just a t-shirt and a pair of boy’s pants! She has wet all the changes of clothes we took for her and all the knickers. The staff say she has either not been getting to the toilet on time, or she has been sitting down without pulling down her knickers first and just weeing straight through them! We take her home and, with a bit of bribery (amazing what she’ll do for a strawberry or two!) we get her to practice pulling her knickers up and down. She can do it, but it is tricky, bless her heart. However, once we’re home she hasn’t got any issue with realising she needs to go and with getting to the potty on time. Maybe there was just too much distraction at nursery today.

Now there are a few things i’d like to know from other mummies out there who have survived this potty training business. What do you do when you’re taking them out somewhere and there isn’t neccessarily going to be a toilet handy? And when there is going to be one, did you take out one of those baby toilet seat things with you?! What was the hardest thing about potty training? And do you have any great tips??

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Well, I mentioned a few weeks ago that we had bought Lilly a ‘big girl’s bed’ and that she was sleeping in it for the first time.

I feel it my duty to report back that it didn’t really go very well!!

She went to sleep absolutely fine and seemed quite taken with the bed and happy to go in it. But she woke up crying and upset in the middle of the night and wanted to go into her cot. This was fine, we put her in the cot and she went straight back to sleep. But the next night, we put her to bed in the big girls bed and the same happened – woke up at some ungodly hour very upset, and this time would not resettle in her cot. Cue worst night’s sleep in ages for mummy, daddy and Lilly!

We decided to put the big bed on the back burner for a while, and that was probably about three weeks ago now. The bed is still in her room, all made up, but she’s sleeping in her cot still. There have been nights since then that I’ve been really thankful that she’s been in a bed, not a cot, because she’s been unsettled or refusing to go to bed. But we do need to bite the bullet soon as when her little sister arrives we’ll be needing that cot, and I don’t want her to feel pushed out!

And there’s another important milestone that we’re slightly burying our heads in the sand about – potty training!

I bought her a potty ages ago with very good intentions. And although she liked sitting on it while we read her a story – and even did a wee wee on it in the early days – it soon became apparent that she wasn’t really ready. Once her nappy was off she would run around and wee anywhere, without really noticing or minding. She doesn’t object to having a full nappy on, and never tells us that she’s weed or pooed (in fact, she usually denies the latter!), let alone that she wants to go.

Throughout all her development milestones, Lilly has always done things at her own pace. Only when she was ready to master something was she ready to even entertain doing it. With both crawling and walking, by the time she first tried those things, she was pretty confident she’d be able to do them. And by the second day of trying both those things she was able to do them pretty well. I think potty training may well follow the same pattern… but…. potty training is something we have to help her with much more!

Nursery have been encouraging her to sit on the toilet – which up to this week she has pretty much refused to do (she says she’s scared!).

But this week, on Thursday and Friday, she has been sitting on it, and has been proudly coming home with stickers to prove it! She hasn’t actually ‘done’ anything on the toilet, but it’s a step forward!

Trouble is, at home, we’ve pretty much forgotten all about the potty. We never offer it to her and never try her on it. Maybe we need to start picking it up again and trying to capitalise on what they’re trying to do in nursery. I’m still not convinced she’s really ready, but I suppose she never will be if we don’t get our act together?!?!?!?

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Well, here we are… 22 weeks pregnant… time is really rushing by!

We had our re-scan on Thursday after the first 20 week scan failed to pick up the baby’s stomach. I’m pleased to say, this time, everything was absolutely fine and baby had a nice full tummy which enabled the sonographer to measure everything she needed to. I also asked her to double check that it is a girl… she had a little look then said: “I’m pretty sure those are girlie bits…” well, they looked that way to me!

Afterwards, Tony and I went out for a bit of lunch and in the nightime we had a rare meal out at the local Indian while Tony’s mum babysat. We were back by 10 but came home and watched a programme on TV called One Born Every Minute, which is a fly on the wall documentary about a maternity hospital in Southampton. Obviously I ended up in tears at the story of one lady who had a c-section and her baby was whisked away to ICU straight away as his bowels had developed outside his body… poor little mite.

That same morning I had also had a midwife appointment at the local GPs. She listened to the heartbeat (and said: “I would’ve known that was a girl, from the heartbeat” – to be fair she said that last time, when she didn’t know, and was right!) She also did that farcical tape measure thing and pronounced that it was 23 cm which is “right”. Personally I just cannot believe measuring a persons belly tells you much about the size of the baby inside, so I take all that with many pinches of salt!

In terms of how I’m feeling – not too bad, tired mainly. I do have the odd achey feelings down there, and was thinking yesterday that my boobs are feeling a bit tender again. Baby is kicking loads, which is lovely, at all times of the day and night. You can actually see my bump moving when she’s going for it!

We were also excited to find out this week that some of our close friends are also expecting a baby – Lilly’s godfather and his wife. They are due at the beginning of August, so there will only be a month or two between our children, which will be really lovely. We were the first of all our friends to have a baby, and still don’t have any friends living close by who do (except my NCT friends). So this will be really nice, and we’re really chuffed for them.

It does feel like time is marching on… it’s nearly March… then we’ve only got April and then we’re into May, which will be finishing work and almost time for our little girl to arrive!

I have just been looking back at my blog from when I was roughly at this stage with Lilly. We had just been working out our childcare / return to work options. This time we have made our decisions a little earlier. We know just how tight money was last time when on leave, and this will probably only be worse because of the expense of two children, and Lilly staying one day in nursery.

So, we’ve decided that I’ll be having another six months off, returning in January, full time. However, I’ll use leave to make the return to full time a little bit more gradually, probably spread over about three months. Lilly and the new baby will work their way from two to three to four days a week in nursery. However, if Tony stays doing the shifts he is doing now, these will only be short days, maybe even half days for the baby for a bit. Tony’s mum will have them both one day a week, as she does with Lilly now. She is talking about retiring perhaps next year (although I’ll believe it when I see it!) and maybe if she does she might take them for an extra day or half day. Luckily, Lilly will get 15 hours free nursery from Jan 1 2011, which is one day after her third birthday! And that will certainly ease the burden financially, although obviously what we’re paying out on childcare will go up quite a bit.

Luckily, we’re very happy with the nursery Lilly goes to, and as far as they go, it’s a reasonable price. So, number two is already all booked up and although that feels a little weird at such an early stage, it’s good to have a plan (even if we end up adapting it slightly, like last time).

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Well, we’ve reached double figures!

I am still feeling a bit “car sick” every day. It last all day and fades in the evening time. I think it might be slightly less than a week ago, so hopefully it’s starting to go away as all the books promise. My boobs are now very tender for the first time this pregnancy too.

Went out shopping for maternity jeans today – my belly is pretty big already and although I can still squeeze into my jeans I don’t really like to in case I’m putting pressure on my tum. I tried on three pairs in Next and then swapped the ones I wanted for a size smaller as they felt a bit loose. When I got them home, I realised I’d picked up a different style…. grrrrrrr…. these ones make me feel like Kris Kross cos they fall down when I walk!! So, back to square one on that front.

Aside from the pregnancy, we’ve had news on T’s job. He works as a courier driver for a fairly small local company. The run he currently does, a cheque clearance one for a big bank, is going as his company have lost the contract. He’s been lucky as they want to keep him on and he has been spared redundancy for the second time. But his new run involves working 3pm until midnight every day – which means we won’t be seeing much of each other during the week, and we’re having to totally rethink all our childcare arrangements. Currently, Tony goes to work at 5.30am (which admittedly wasn’t great either!), I get Lilly up and drop her off at nursery on my way to work. Tony finishes work at lunchtime and has a couple of hours to himself before picking her up at about 3pm. As of next week, he’ll be dropping her off at nursery late morning, I’ll be finishing work early everyday to pick her up from nursery around 5pm and doing the bedtime routine by myself.

Neither of us are looking forward to this, and I think it’s going to be pretty lonely in the evenings once Lilly’s gone to bed, but at least he still has a job. Which is something we can only be greatful for in the current climate. And we’re taking heart in the fact that it won’t be forever – all being well I’ll be on maternity leave in six months time, so even if he hasn’t found anything else by then, at least we’ll have all day together with our babies.

Now we’re looking forward to the 12 week scan – only a week and a half to go – although I feel so nervous about it, I think i’ll be a wreck! I just want to know everything’s all right.

Oh, and I had my first slightly sleepless night last night thinking about the birth. I’d been having a conversation with T’s mum yesterday about Lilly’s birth and how unhappy I was with the way the consultant handled things. When I woke up last night about 3am to go to the toilet, my mind started racing about what would happen this time and I couldn’t get back to sleep for about an hour. I hope this isn’t a sign of things to come…

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