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Monday 6th March-Wednesday 8th March 2006

Monday:
Well Friday was fine. Lots of my colleagues turned up for lunch and I had a lovely cheese sarnie with chips. At 4pm everyone in the building gathered round to say goodbye, I was so embarrassed. Two of the managers I work for made a little speech and then I opened my pressies - a lovely posh bottle of shower gel (Lancome) and a gorgeous little picture frame for baby photos! I also got £50 worth of John Lewis vouchers - perfect, because we still need to buy some gro-bags and the like, and there will still be a little leftover to spend on something for me! So I did very well. The other PA that I work most closely with baked a chocolate cake that said "Bye Ali" on it and it was yummy. It was actually really sad to leave and I am going to miss the real world (but not the tube!)

On Saturday Hubby and I did a load of housework and Hubby emptied the nursery (again) so he could poly-filler the wall above the window and prep it for our second attempt at getting the curtain-pole up. My Dad and step-mum came down to take us to lunch, which was lovely. We relaxed on Saturday night and did very little, which I think we both needed.

On Sunday Hubby went off to play footie and I attacked the kitchen cupboards - they are now amazingly organised and I feel so much better for it. My next project, some time in the week, will be to declutter and organise our bedroom.

We went food shopping in the afternoon and stocked up on the ingredients we need to make freezer meals. We're going to make some lasagne, risotto, some fish pie, some chilli, some chicken soup and a cottage pie to freeze so that we have easy meals in the first few weeks when the baby is here. I am beginning to feel quite smug at how organised and prepared we are!

Today is my first day of maternity leave and it feels a bit strange and a bit of an anti-climax. I deliberately planned nothing so that I could kick-start my relaxation. I will be fairly busy (though nothing strenuous) with lunches, visits and hospital appointments over the next few weeks so hopefully it'll all be a bit less boring than today. I did a spot of tidying, ordered some birthday pressies for Hubby and baked some cookies - all whilst watching back-to-back baby programmes on Discovery Home and Health!

Hubby's off work tomorrow to finish off the nursery so hopefully by tomorrow night I'll have some good photos to put up.

Tuesday:
On Tuesday Hubby had the day off and we went to Argos very early to pick up a new curtain pole. We also stopped off in Boots to use my voucher for a free Mediterranean Pregnancy product - I got a lavender and bergamot massage lotion which smells divine. It's so lovely to get stuff for free!

When we got back Hubby attacked the nursery with the mammoth drill he borrowed from his boss and managed, thank goodness, to get the new curtain pole up. Whilst waiting for the paint to dry on the newly drilled wall we went off for my antenatal appointment at the hospital. As I live in a different borough to my hospital (even though my hospital is close to my home, closer than any other) I have a community midwife based in a different borough. Hence I see the midwives and my consultant at the hospital, and then see my community midwife separately. A lot of running around for a woman in her ninth month of pregnancy! Still, at least if I go into labour I'll be in the right place.

The appointment went quite well - wee, blood pressure, baby's heartbeat all normal etc. The consultant popped by and said that when I cam in to the hospital in labour I would need to have an injection of something I can't pronounce to help my body cope with the "stress" as I am on 20mg of steroids. I'm not sure what this meant really - hope it doesn't mean that steroids will make labour hurt more!! The baby is lying head down with her back to my left side and her bum nestled comfortably on my lungs.

We finally finished the nursery when we got back! At last! And it feels so good to have it done, we both feel so much more ready. I've included a before and after shot below but it has come out rather small I'm afraid! It was a messy yucky pink and filled with boxes, now it is a lovely cream colour with natural curtains (on a lovely pole!) and matching baskets etc. It looks so good.

Wednesday:
Today, another miserable wet day in East London, I am off into Leytonstone to pick up a few birthday pressies for Hubby (it's his 30th on 25th March) and then I'm off to the hospital (again) for my appointment with my gastro consultant. I am hoping to come down on the steroids - he'll probably put me down to 15mg, but I would love to go down to 10mg.

I've been feeling quite dizzy and nauseous recently so I am a little apprehensive about going out on my own but fingers crossed it'll all be ok.

So far maternity leave is quite boring really! But it is wonderful to have to opportunity to rest and prepare.

last five:
Five Months Old - Friday 1st September 2006
10 Weeks and 3 Days Old - 2006-06-12
Lillia Charlotte arrives - 31st March 2006
Week 39-Monday-Wednesday - Monday 20th March-Wednesday 22nd March 2006
Week 38 - Wednesday-Sunday - Wednesday 15th March-Sunday 19th March 2006

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