Week 23 - Packing up

We finally start the renovation! Wooohoooo!! Spent the whole week packing and although most of our stuff are still in the box from the last time we moved from Newtown (geeez..) we’ve collected quite a descent amount of junks in the last 8 months. Took a while to find a place that would also take Zoe and after resigning to the fate that we might have to just rent someone’s garage, we found this place far faaaar away in Sutherland.

So now we’re settling in this nice 2-storey place with a garden big enough for Zoe to have her daily adventure. The elderly couple who own the place, David and Estelle, live in the front part of the house and it looks like they’re gonna spoil little miss Zoe a bit.

FACT: According to Kaz, bub is growing like gangbusters and the brain is maturing. Some researchers believe the foetus has started to think. Others, to be safer, say we can’t really tell when this happens, and it may be much later (and anyway, it’s probably just stuff like ‘Gee, I like to suck things’ and ‘La, la, la, whatever’ or ‘It’s a bit wet in here, innit?’). The skin is growing very quickly but there’s not much fat yet developed for plumping up underneath it so the skin looks a bit pruney. Klumpen is now about 20cm long and 540 grams.

How mommy’s life is changing:

• Waking up every couple of hours to wee at night has been accepted as a new way of life and seen as a good practice for when the bub comes.
• Braxton Hicks (that’s the womb practicing labour contraction) might be felt but I ain’t feel nuthin’ sista!

Week 20 - The First Flutter…

Klumpen starts”fluttering” inside. Happened in the morning when I’m on the bus and at first I suspected it to be bowel movement (oh s**t what do I do what do I do) then I realized it wasn’t Miss Bowel moving but Miss Klumpen! How exciting!

FACT: Klumpen puts on more muscle and tests it out by moving around. The skin’s sebaceous glands (needed, of course, to make pimples later) become active and make the oily stuff called vernix caseosa that covers the skin. It’s the foetus’ do-it-yourself wetsuit made, disgustingly enough, of fatty material and dead skin cells (if that doesn’t make you feel sick, how’s this: doctors say the coating looks like cheese). Vernix caseosa waterproofs the skin against the amniotic fluid, and protects the foetus from scrapes when it bangs into the wall of the uterus. Height: 16 cm, weight: 320 gr.

How mommy’s life is changing:

• Klumpen is about due to start putting pressure on me ribs and me digestive system.
• Me could get pains down the sides of me tummy from now on as the uterus stretches (yuck!)