Evening ladies!
I can't keep up with you lot! Work keeping me busy!
All tightenings now settled, yay! Feeling better now! Had another busy day at work, culminating in a panicked phone call from the labour ward shift leader which went something like this 'Brady, room 8, run now, I need someone, FAST'. Translated this means, there is an emergency situation, a babys heart rate has dropped and not recovered. Room 8 doubles as an emergency theatre when the main one is in use, which means they are prepping for a section. They basically needed a midwife to scrub at the table.
I'd literally just sat down, with some food, and taken my shoes off (swollen ankles again!) and had answered the phone sans shoes 
. I don't think I have ever run as fast in my life, I don't even think I had my shoes back on properly! Our labour ward is above the postnatal ward, so I had to run the length of the ward, the corridoor to the stairs, up the stairs, down another coridoor, and through the labour ward.
By the time I got there, I could not breathe. Seriously. I was a midwife with a brady... or more accurately, a tachy! Anyway, all was fine, and I got a bollocking for running! I was like, but you said run! And the shift leader sheepishly said, I didn't mean actually run, just get here now! I think she felt bad because she didn't realise it was me on the phone!
I'm still tired from the run! I am SO UNFIT! Jeez!
Re: kicks, I get most of mine low down, but this last week (from week 23) they have been all over, nothing higher than my belly button though! My belly wobbles and moves with the kicks, and they can be felt by everyone now. I'm loving my little bump now! I was a bit worried when I seemed to get a bump, but it was that inbetween 'fat' stage. Now I pretty much look pregnant in my clothes. And, even better, the, um, overhang flab from my previous section has lifted, and I look in better shape than I ever had. I don't even feel like a fat bird now!
Am still without weight gain. Getting worried at the fact that I'm bound to start putting it on soon, and it means it will go on rapidly, and my stretch marks will increase 10 fold. I had them really bad in the past. They flare up now and then as I do fluctuate with my weight - been size 12-20 in last 3 years!
I've returned half the stuff I bought in the sale today! Couldn't justify spending £183 on the DP's credit card! Got some lovely little bits though!
I was driving home earlier, and started to shed a few tears, just thinking about this baby, and how much it is loved already. How soft! I think my hormones are all over, as I've found myself enjoying the babies in work. Normally they don't make me broody or anything, I'm just more of an adult person. But I found myself giving lingering cuddles today! What has come over me ;)