I have started making a small amount of colostrum (the initial milk you make for baby) but at first I didn't realize, I thought that it would be milky or creamy yellow, but instead it was clear. But I hope that it's a good sign that I'll be able to breastfeed fairly easily? hopefully?
The weather has been very very snowy where we are, and I went out to play with Hermione (my ex's little girl), and I made a bit of a mistake, I forgot that I'm 7 months pregnant, and stayed out for 3 hours, doing lots of walking in the snow and bending down a lot to make a snow man...we had really really good fun, but by the time it came to walk home I realized that I'd pushed myself to the end of my strength. It took me over an hour to do a walk that normally only takes me 20 minutes, and by the time I was home I was frozen and in so much pain in my hips I could barely roll over in bed let alone walk. near the end I literally thought that I couldn't make it home without help. I need to remember that I do get tired and sore far easier than normal.
Hermione seemed very happy about the baby and very interested in what was happening and what it was like, though she did need some reassurance that I would still always love her and not stop seeing her, I promised her she could be baby's fairy god-sister. Though all this interest in baby did end up with the conversation straying into difficult area's, like abortion and miscarriage's and periods...I just tried to be as honest and factual as possible, while staying in the realms of what a clever 10 year old would understand...I just hope this is good practice for when my daughter starts asking me similar questions.
Time seems to be moving very quickly, I can't believe that it's only 10 (ish) weeks until my due date. I'm starting to get nervous, not because of the birth itself, but more the amount that needs to be done in the house. The room upstairs where I'm meant to be moving in still isn't anywhere near ready, we still don't have enough baby things, I still haven't filled in the forms for the grant for the baby things, partly because we need the midwife to fill in part of the form...it's just all feeling very stressful.
I'm feeling bigger and bigger and more and more clumsy, I'm finding it very hard to pick things up off the floor, or bend down to do up my shoe laces, Coyote needs to help me stand up if I'm sitting on a chair that's low to the floor...I feel like a hippo, and my nice baggy trousers that have kept fitting me really well are now getting too small.
Some of babies kicks have started to actually hurt! just occasionally when she seems to really put the boot in, especially now that some of the kicks are up under my rib cage!
We do have a name for our little one, but I'm still feeling a bit shy about sharing it, I worry about people's bad reactions to it, it's a name that me and Coyote really like and the people we have told have liked it too...but I still worry.
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