WK18: Day 1 - It’s Been to Long

Where has the last week gone! It’s been a whole 8 days since I was able to sit down and write a diary entry... I’ve become so fond of this precious quiet time when I can shut the door and put down my thoughts and feelings on paper. It’s something that I’ve not done before and I can now see why people enjoy it so much, I’ve definitely missed it!

Work consumed all of my time last week and completely knackered me out. I was in London on Wed for an all day client debrief meeting and in hindsight I probably should have taken the suggestion from most people in my office to dial in rather than travel. I’m still in the mindset that I can do as much as I could a month ago, but the reality is sadly far from that. A 5:30 start and 8pm arrival home saw me completely finished off for the rest of the week. The worst bit of it was having to pretty much sit in the exact same position for 8 hours of the day, I just can’t do that any more. I find getting comfortable in most positions pretty much impossible. I have about a 10 min threshold and then I need to move about. I can’t work out why I am feeling so much more uncomfortable than I was at a similar size when I was pregnant with Luke. Maybe having more placentas means more weight on the pelvis or something. That’s definitely a question for my specialist when I see her tomorrow. I was looking at some of my pregnant pictures at 9 months with Luke earlier, which I’ll share at some point. It’s quite amazing how different I feel in comparison. At 8 ½ months I was as fit as a anything, doing all the household chores and even mowing the lawn, hehe! I couldn't image doing that now at 4 ½ months, I just don't have the physical strength or energy, even though I was in exactly the same condition to start off with.
 

I had a midwife appointment last Friday which went well. I think both my midwife and I are feeling a lot more comfortable with each other so I’m not expecting to much and she seems to have gained the confidence to listen in to the heart beats and discuss things with me in more detail. We heard all their little hearts loud and clear which was great. I also weighed myself and I’m now weighing 70kg which is good. I started at 57kg and should aim to put on about 24kg in total so we’re heading in the right direction. The little guys have also been moving quite a lot. They started about two weeks ago but last week I could really feel them squirming around, and at some points had a hard bit stick quite prominently into the side of my belly. This is another crazy feeling in comparison to Luke, as with him just a few movements in the centre of my belly have now turned into movements from all sides. I can only imagine how this is going to increase in the weeks to come. 

I think all my tiredness came out in a ball of hormonal tears on Fri and Sat! It really wasn’t pretty! I wish these damn hormones would give you some kind of warning, but oh no... one minute you’re fine and the next your having it out with a loved one about something so trivial or you see something which triggers a memory or a feeling that your life is over and you’re never going to have any enjoyment out of it ever again! Thank goodness for supportive friends and loving husbands. I ended up sleeping pretty much the whole of Sunday which was probably a side tactic to make sure that I didn’t break down into one of my hormonal messes again. Joking aside though, the strength of my hormones at the moment is quite incredible and it’s hard to know when they are going to hit.

On the positive side my morning sickness is well and truly on the way out. I still get minor pangs of it but they never last to long or are to strong.

So as I didn’t post yesterday, you'll now have a WK:18 - Day 1 Monday pic instead of a WK:17 - Day 7 Sunday pic. Not really much change, although it doesn't feel like that. 

18 weeks pregnant