- Oh my gosh, that is huge.
Hi guys, welcome back to my pregnancy update.
I am now forty weeks pregnant.
I have made it to the end,
so I thought I would do a little vlog today
and I thought I would do a different location,
so I'm in my bedroom.
Which is now finished.
I am gonna do a room tour soon
when it's kind of got a bit more like decor in it,
it's quite plain at the moment.
But yeah, I thought I'd sit on the bed
so that you could see my gigantic bump.
Yeah, I'm just feeling quite massive now
and really low.
You can even see through the dress like,
my belly button has properly popped out.
So yeah really I'm just waiting around for the baby.
I'm really really pleased that we have made it this far,
because as I mentioned in my last vlog,
I would love to have a September baby if I can.
It's the 30th of August today, which is his due date
and yeah, I was kind of hoping he'd just hang on
for two more days to get into September
for the next school year.
But if he came tonight or tomorrow like, that's fine.
Babies come when they're gonna come don't they?
But my two previous boys were both exactly six days late.
So I am fully expecting this baby to happen
on the fifth of September,
cause that's six days late from his due date.
If I make it past the 5th or 6th of September,
I think I will be a little bit depressed
because I've never gone any further than that,
and I think from forty one weeks
I will have probably like a sweep or something like that,
it's what they've recommended.
You probably know like, the baby is totally formed.
He is really low now, I am feeling pressure down there.
I've had a few little like, braxton hicks.
The other night we were sat on the couch
and I felt a few little tightenings,
and I got my contraction app and I started to like,
time when I had like the tightenings,
but there was no pattern.
There was no like, it wasn't like every fifteen minutes.
It wasn't for a certain amount of time
so I think it was just my body practicing,
which I guess is a good thing.
Symptoms this week have been pretty similar to most weeks
to be honest, again, achy pelvis and hips.
Just feeling a bit out of breath.
A little bit tired.
Been really lucky that it's been the bank holiday weekend
and my husband has been around to help with the boys,
and he's actually taken them out for like a day trip today.
So that I could like, just chill for a little bit
and try and keep this baby in for another couple of days.
Our baby cot is now up and ready to be filled.
We have a Snooze Pod which is gonna go right next to the bed
so it's kind of like a co-sleeping cot,
and also the baby nursery is nearly done as well.
I'll give you a little show around of it now.
Okay so I'll just give you a really quick over view
cause I am gonna do a full nursery tour
when it's completely finished,
but this is how you walk in.
Yep, so you just walk in this doorway,
and this is our changing table which is literally
just an Ikea unit that we've painted,
and we put Zara Home handles on.
This is his changing area so we've got,
changing mat and a muslin on there already,
and then some of his like, medicines, nappy creams,
cotton wool all that stuff.
Then, this is my breastfeeding chair.
I don't know if that's the best place for it
cause this room's a bit of an odd shape,
so I didn't know if I should have it like
right next to the crib or there, but um, we'll see.
This mirror is still to go up,
cause I'd really like to have a mirror in the room
so I can check if he's asleep on my shoulder,
if he is actually asleep.
This is the cot that all of our boys have had,
it's an Ikea cot,
and put a few of the soft toys that we've got,
they're all new that we've bought for the baby.
Mostly the boys have chosen them.
Um, and this is his little mobile from Mamas and Papas.
And then we've got, thank heaven for little boys,
and we've got two sets of black out blinds for him.
We did the paint like, a gray and white theme
and this kind of like, light from Ikea which is pretty cool.
And then we have our nappy bin,
that's our Angel Care nappy bin and a normal bin for like,
you know like cotton wool and stuff like that.
And this is his extremely empty storage.
I've hung a few little outfits that need hanging,
and then I've just got like, some books and spare wipes,
baby monitor all stuff like that.
It's just hidden away in there.
There are some prints and things like that,
that I'd like to put up,
but that is the last room that we wanted to finish
cause we knew he'd be in our room for like,
six months or so.
So we thought we'd do his room last,
but we are pretty much there.
So there is nothing like having a baby
as your deadline to get stuff done.
We have got all of our building work done.
We have had a big clear out.
We have got so organized all because this baby is coming,
so that has actually given us a real kick.
So now that all that is done,
I have been spending the last couple of days
and I think this week, if nothing happens,
doing some food prep and some meal prep.
I'm going to make a big chili today,
that feeds ten and I'm gonna put it into Ziplock bags,
so that my husband and I will have like,
chili for five nights in the freezer,
and then I've also found these really good ready meals
from a company called Cook.
I think there's a few different places all over the country,
and although they're ready meals,
it is like they've just been home made in your kitchen,
so like salt content and stuff like that is really good.
They're a bit more expensive,
but I bought them from our local farm shop,
and I've got like a few different choices of meals for four,
cause my mum is actually coming over to help with the baby.
So I've got a bunch of those and our freezers are full,
so I feel happy that if we do have a crazy day
with the three boys, we will have a healthy meal
in the freezer to like, make sure that my milk supply
and make sure that we're all eating correctly
and things like that.
So I'd like to hopefully make some more
home made meals this week, but we'll see how it goes.
As I mentioned my mum is coming over,
she is coming from Canada
which is where we are originally from.
So she's coming here on the third of September
for two weeks, and we just thought it'd be really good.
She's come for all the births of our baby,
I mean, if he's not here by then,
then hopefully he'll be here like imminently,
and we thought it would just be really good
to have some help in terms of like cooking, cleaning,
looking after the older children,
like taking my eldest to school.
Just all of those kinds of things,
we thought it would be great that um, she could help,
and also meet the new little man as well.
Yeah, so this baby will coincide with going back to school
really well, I feel like it's actually been
the perfect timing cause I've had a really lovely summer
with the two boys.
I've been able to have all these days out with them,
and hang out with them,
whereas that would have been quite hard to do
with a newborn.
So, you know my eldest will go back to school,
and then my youngest at the moment,
he just does one short nursery day a week.
Um, so I'm actually gonna up his nursery days
to two short nursery days a week,
so that he can have a bit more time with his peers,
and that I can have a little bit more time with the baby.
So that's sort of happening from October I think,
when he's going to be three.
Yeah in terms of the baby I've been feeling
so much movement, and someone said to me that apparently,
the baby should go quiet for like a day or two
before you go into labor,
like they're conserving their energy
or something like that.
I have no idea if that's true,
but I've still been feeling loads of movement,
and cause he's so big and squished up in there like,
you can see the movement so well.
I genuinely feel like an alien could like,
come out of my stomach.
One other thing that I have considered this week,
which I know is like really late in the day,
but I've heard some good things about it is um,
having either a placenta smoothie,
after you give birth,
or having your placenta encapsulated into like,
pills that you take for three months or something like that.
Apparently, from research that I've done,
there are loads of like health benefits to
drying the placenta and taking it in tablets,
apparently it's good for milk flow,
to stop bleeding and all kinds of stuff like that.
So if anybody has tried that or done that,
please comment down below.
I'd love to know what your experience was.
Just to really help with like um, the baby blues,
being an anxious mum and stuff like that.
So I think that's all that I wanted to update you on
this week, this last week of pregnancy.
We are completely ready.
I feel like he can come now,
you're allowed to come from September first,
and um yeah I'm just ready to go now,
and still looking forward to my home birth, and yes.
If you don't follow me on social media
I will obviously be announcing his birth
on like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter all of those things
so if you want to see that as it happens then
go ahead and follow me.
I just wanted to say thank you so much
for all of your support during this pregnancy.
All of your messages and comments and likes,
and everything has been so so nice
and I am a little bit sad that this is
my last ever pregnancy,
and this is the last time that I'm going to
have this experience, but I'm glad that I have documented
the whole thing.
I hope you've enjoyed it and I hope
that I won't be making a forty one week update,
pregnant.
I really hope that my next sort of baby related update is
me introducing you to him.
So um, yes it's all very exciting and,
yeah thank you so much for watching,
and I will see you very soon.
Bye.
This is the growth chart of how they measure the baby,
and he was here at thirty five weeks,
and then here..