The Pram, Car Seat and Parenting Classes!

Here's our little girl's pram (thank you Mam and Gordon very much!) and car seat. The pram is cool, it folds away into a tiny space, can turn the seat bit round either way, the wheels can pop off so it folds even tighter, and Chatchi likes to sit in the undertray thing, so at least she knows where her place is!

And if I wasn't so excitable before Xmas I would have bought the correct adapters for the car seat to be able to fit onto the pram - so they'll need to be swapped for the right ones! Doh!

The car seat has already been out for a jaunt in Rowdy the Audi. We must look like nutters or like we've left the baby somewhere and forgot to put her back in the car!

Lucy and Paul (and Jackson) sent us some swaddle blankets from Thailand, which is very kind, thank you both (all three) so much!! They will be handy no doubt!

I'm getting to feel a lot of kicks and movement now. It's so awesome, I can talk to Louise's tummy and she kicks me....the baby not Louise :-)

We are going to a class tomorrow morning to learn about the ins and outs of labour, I'm sure there are more outs than ins, but we'll find out tomorrow. Parenting classes start early Feb, which is exciting too, and we're going to have a tour of the maternity ward at the start of Feb!....the weeks are starting to fly by.

Our baby girls nursery x

Thought we would share a few pics of the babys nursery so far. got lots more to do but its getting there and coming together nicely :) x

And our baby is a..........

Our little bundle of joy is now 23 weeks and 1 day old, and we have around 17 weeks left until my due date! We are very very excited, and since our 20 week scan lots has gone on.

The first big thing is we now know that baby martin is in fact a little girl!!!! We have known this since around 18.5 weeks. As you may know Dan was very excited, and really wanted to know what his baby was. I was suprisingly fine with waiting, however the more we talked about it the more it made sense. So we decided to book a quick gender scan and were told that even though we were both convinced it was a little boy, it was in fact a girl!!! We were both over the moon and have found that we have really started to bond more with our little princess!

We have had lots of movement now, and Daddy is now feeling her kick Mummy lots! Her kicks have got alot stronger, and at our checkup the other week, the midwife had a listen to her heartbeat which was fine and baby was full of beans and even gave the doppler a good kick a few times :)

What we didnt expect this week, is how hards he would be kicking, so hard in fact that we can now see my tummy moving everytime she does it. Dan speaks to her and she responds by giving him a boot hahah. I can see she will be a Daddys girl already :)

x

The 20 Week Scan

Here's our little baby at 20 weeks and 1 day old - the pic is a pic of a pic so it's not so clear. It was a thorough appointment today at the hospital, measuring different bits and bobs of baby's brain, heart, lungs, kidneys and bladder, checking for cleft lip etc. All was given the OK and no problems with anything, which was a relief.

We had Louise's mam there with us too, as Colin and Pam came down from Scotland for a few days over her birthday, and they kindly bought the nursery furniture which is coming on the 7th January, so DIY Dan has to be on form to get the painting done in there and make it look nice before the new furniture arrives.

It was really exciting seeing the baby again. We saw the baby putting his/her hand in his/her mouth and kicking legs, and its little button nose :)

10 Days and a Kick!

Although there's Chrimbo in the way, Jonny (uncle Jonny) is coming to see us on Boxing Day, there's something extra we're excited about as the year ends. We get our 20 week scan on the 30th December, at 2:30pm, so we get to see the baby's face again :)

We can't wait. It feels like ages ago that we had a scan.

The baby has been moving about a lot but I haven't been able to feel it from the outside. Louise can feel it, obviously, but as the baby is getting bigger and bigger, the kicks are getting stronger, and this morning I felt a kick!!! It was amazing!

Quite light like a flick or a prod with a finger, but I'm sure there will be some bigger ninja kicks soon. We are both so impatient and just want to see our baby NOW :)

Bed Time :)

It's starting to get REALLY real now. Very exciting times. Louise is getting bigger and bigger, which is hilarious, and I'm getting so impatient, just want to see baby's little face now. We're 17 weeks today. Sunday is when we click over to a new week, and the weeks are starting to go really fast.

We bought a Moses basket the other day, then yesterday we got the stand. Before that, we had the Moses basket in the living room and as our backs were turned for 2 minutes, Daisy Moo decided it looked a comfy place to go to sleep.....Hence why the stand is a good idea. Wish I'd taken a photo...

Last night I put the Moses basket stand together, so we have somewhere for the little one to sleep. Here's me organising the parts (excuse the beard and hair, it's been a long few weeks and am getting it cut on Tuesday):

Here's me getting annoyed that the pilot (pirate, arrhgh) holes were drilled too large so the screws wouldn't fit in, thankfully the "Garage from the 50s" has a myriad (ooh, fancy word) of things in there and some larger ones found.

Ta-dah! All done. Check out the wonky, bushy Christmas tree.

We feel quite prepared, we even practiced swaddling a teddy the other day, which was surprisingly easier than we thought.

Three more weeks until we see the little one's face again!! Can't wait!

Baby's Room

Not much going on at the moment as we are still unpacking etc, but though we would share a quick video of what will be the nursery. We chose this room for the little one as it's at the back of the house, so very quiet, as is the front but this just felt best for them. Also there is plenty of storage as the wardrobes are built in so we will just be adding a cot bed, set of drawers and maybe get Dan to show his diy skills??? and fit some shelves lol.  We will hopefully be decorating it in February once we have decided on colours/ theme etc :)

We have also started getting a few little things for baby, as has Gran :) so it's starting to pile up nicely, looking forward to the January sales, as we will hopefully be able to make use of any special offers, as well as start to work our way through the baby list x