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 :)

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