23 weeks 3 days

I think i might be entering a nesting phase. I know that i have wanted to get my teeth stuck into the house for a while now, but with me working full time still, i haven't had the energy. Today i have been on a mission and i've done a ton of sorting out, cleaning and tidying. It's been very therapeutic!! Still a long way to go though!

It's amazing how many catalogues a person can collect. I haven't cleared them out for a while because they are just in the back of the coffee table. I mean, we never use them now anyway. That's what the Internet is for!! I pulled out the coffee table today though to have a look and i've thrown out eight, yes eight catalogues. Where do they come from? Why do we need them? I have just kept the latest IKEA and the latest Argos. Everything else is in the recycler.

The guinea pigs are grazing outside now, but they aren't playing like i thought they would. They just seem to be eating the grass and hopping back inside their house. Not so much frolicking.

Now i've sat down for a break the baby is kicking like mad! I must have woken him/her up with all the activity this morning. Bless! It was a routine midwife appointment yesterday and everything was fine. Blood pressure was low at 100/60, but that's normal for me. My urine was clear and the baby's heartbeat came up fine on the doppler. I'm also measuring fine for my dates. I did get myself worked up before the appointment though, but i'm putting it down to it being the same appointment that we found out we'd lost our daughter. In the car on the way home from work i was fretting because i couldnt remember the last time the baby had kicked me. It didnt kick all the way home in the car and i had to call in at our house before the appointment to listen to the heartbeat on the doppler. Thankfully it was there right away. It's just far too easy to convince yourself that the baby has died. After all, if it's happened like that once before, why wouldn't it do it again?

We have an appointment to see a fetal specialist a week on Tuesday and i'm going to ask about delivery and management etc. Hopefully they will be able to give me a better idea of what my placenta is doing and perhaps it might have moved upwards even.