23 weeks today!

Firstly want to congratulate Pauline who was going in to have her baby yesterday, I was thinking of you and looking forwad to the news!!.. So 23 weeks with 17 to go 'Oh My God'!! How quickly this pregnancy has gone is blowing me away!!!! I have been feeling fine but the fluid retention gets me when it heats up and by the end of the night my glamourus feet turn from unflattering to unnoticable!! I don't like feet at the best of times so to see them in this state definately keeps me indoors!!!!!!! Oh my poor feet!!!! Thankfully now the weather has cooled down for a couple of days they seem to be much better, until Tuesday I suppose when is it due to heat up again!! On Saturday night my sister helped me out online to get a new header sorted for the blog. She is right into digital scrapbooking so hepled me in photoshop. I was wrapped with the end result this is the first as you can see on Kai's blog and here is the one I completed for this blog... both I am wrapped with for a first go!!!! I started back at work on Monday which was a bit of a drag but got into it as I knew I had wuite a big job to return to and get done pretty much in a day. After hounding the customer for the last bits to complete the job they came in at 3.30pm (I finish at 4pm) and dropped them off. So I had to save all the work and prepare to finish it at home. Only trouble was my software was up the putt so took till 10pm that night till I even had that worked out and started the changes to the job... By the time I got it finished it was 3am and my eyes were hanging out my head!!! Thankfully Kai and Blake stayed with Mass so I was able to get a sleep in till about 9.30am.!! I was still tired and my feet were still a bit swollen even after a sleep!! Thankfully that was all done for another year. I went to see the midwife on Wednesday and was showing her my very swollen feet, she suggested Magnesium as I am getting leg cramps also... so I am back on the pregnancy tablets again which I had to stop for a while as they stopped my insides from working !!!! My they seem to be keeping the fluid at bay as much as they are still binding me up terribly!! The joys of pregnancy!! Overall the midwife was happy and gave my feet a massage to try and stimulate the fluid to move!!!! I go back on the 7th of Feb when I will get my pathology form to have my gloucose test (yukkk) and then again for a 28 week checkup on the 20th of Feb. From then I will be seeing them fortnightly and then the OB at 34 weeks... Bubs is still extreamly active in the afternoon/evening!!! I am getting the odd afternoon sleep in when I can, thankfully Kai still has an afternoon sleep so I am able to get one too!!! He is enjoying his cousin still being here .. tonight Blake has gone to see some other relos up the city way so didn't take Kai long to realise that he wasn't around this morning!!! I am sure Kai will be wrapped to have him back tomorrow!!! As you can read on Kai's blog yesterday we went to the Fort at Point Nepean, that was quite tireing but I am glad I went and got some fresh air!!! It was a lovely trip out on the tractor and then we walked around quite a bit so got some good exercise in!! FACTS Your baby has grown to be about 28 cm long from head to toe (or 11.2 inches) and approximately 600 grams in weight (1 lb 5 oz). Many women notice that their baby tends to be noticeably more active when they are resting, perhaps because when a pregnant woman is active, her body naturally 'rocks' her baby to sleep. Your baby now has definite sleep and wake patterns (although they may sleep up to 95% of the time) and now have REM (or rapid eye movement), which indicates they may be dreaming! Although the lungs will stay scrunched up until the moment of birth, your baby is now practising breathing movements. That first breath of air will expand the lungs and push the heart over to the left side of the chest.