That's a good idea Mel, we went through a phase of having smoothies for breakfast but then stopped when we started SW as blending fruit has syns. I've never really understood that, I get their point but I think it's silly. We have a smoothie2go maker so it's nice and easy to get a smoothie made in the morning, not sure I could stomach one in the morning but I think he would.
Spud and I are doing fine
I'm 18 weeks tomorrow and really thought that things would be easier by now but they don't seem to be. I'm still waiting for that healthy glow that people say pregnant women have but it hasn't appeared yet. The nausea doesn't seem to be going anywhere just yet but I am lucky in that I don't get sick very often at all and it didn't start until about 9/10 weeks. The tiredness is the main thing that gets me but I think it's starting to ease up a little bit, I bought a fancy new maternity pillow which seems to be helping. My back and hip have started getting quite uncomfortable during the night and it was waking me up, I'm still waking up a bit but at least it's not in pain so I get to sleep more easily.
This is going to make me sound ridiculously soppy and over emotional but last night I was lying in bed and got this overwhelming sense of awe and amazement over what being pregnant actually means. Obviously I know what it means but just that thought that there's a baby growing inside of me, a real live person. I can't explain it but those of you with children will understand what I mean I'm sure. It's just strange, scary, exciting, nerve wrecking and amazing all at once. I wish every woman who wanted to got the chance to experience this and I feel so very blessed and lucky that I get to.
Anyway, soppyness over! We had a chat and we've decided that we want to find out whether we're having a boy or a girl, even though a few members of my family are adamant that we should keep it as a surprise. We want to be able to have a proper think about names instead of just thinking well we don't know if it's a boy or a girl yet, which seems to be our excuse every time we struggle! I want to be able to buy some nice clothes too instead of just neutral stuff, I think there's some lovely neutral stuff out there but I think I'd end up replacing half of it once we knew. We've also got some offers of clothes, depending on whether we're team pink or blue and my mum would like to know as she wants to knit us some bits so it's best to know really. Everyone seems convinced that we're having a girl, I don't really mind what we have although I know Aaron would prefer a boy but has come round to the chances of a girl and has said he won't mind either way.
We're going to get started on the baby's room soon. I'm not due until April but the plan is to do a phased attack!
Phase 1 - Declutter the office room and move my computer on to a small desk in the bedroom over the next few weeks allowing us to move all the baby stuff upstairs and get downstairs decluttered ready for Christmas tree etc.
Phase 2 - After the Christmas tree comes down, move my current desk downstairs and put Aaron's computer on it leaving the office room as a baby room
Phase 3 - Over the following couple of months start to get furniture and bits up in the now baby's room, start little bits of decorating having the majority of it done by February half term
That leaves us with an almost complete room with 2 months left to go, all we then have to do is put the little finishing touches up. It's getting a bit of a struggle with space now, we're being given things but don't really have anywhere to store them so the sooner we get things sorted upstairs the better. A friend is holding on to a cot bed for us until Christmas which does us a huge favour, saves us a fortune!
I know I love planning and organising but it's all a bit overwhelming at times.
