food

I'm 27 weeks and 4 days.



I've felt like a bit of an eating machine the past few weeks. All I think about is food. Mostly bad food. But I've been eating my 5 a day (which isn't hard as I'm veggie so pretty much everything I eat is either a fruit or a vegetable), and have been careful to eat all the different food groups...brown rice for fibre, spinach and watercress and broccoli for iron, eggs and milk and lots of tofu for protein (I didn't eat a lot of dairy before being pregnant) etc etc. I'm a keen cook so it's not been difficult to think and care about what I'm eating, it's an essential mum worry after all. I don't think I've had any cravings as such, unless chocolate counts. I have been drawn to pineapples though. Mmmm pineapple. But the food machine days seem to be over, at least temporarily, because I'm struggling to eat much at all without feeling stuffed. I think baby's taking up all the room. Advice is to eat little and often rather than big meals, which suits me fine as then I get to snack more!

I've been stuck at home as I'm signed off work with back-ache, so I've taken the opportunity to up my mum skills and do more baking. I need to move from sweet baking to savoury, as baking bread is on my list of mum skills I have to master before baby comes. Other skills on the list include learn to crochet and mastering the art of quilting.

In other news the back-ache is continuing to make life hell, and now at night my hips hurt so much I have to turn over every half hour and wake up wanting to cry. I've tried a special big pillow that goes under bump and between my knees, but it doesn't help. This next 3 months had better fly by.

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summer baby

Some more etsy baby finds I love...

Bouncy Ball

I went to physio for my back about a week ago, and one of the things they recommended was getting a birthing ball to sit on. I dutifully popped to Argos and got myself a gym ball (I'm hoping they are pretty much the same thing), and have been sitting on it most of the day every day since. I quite enjoy rocking around on it while sewing at the table. It seems to help relieve some of the tension in my lower back and makes me sit up straight, but it hasn't had much/any effect on my upper back-ache. Still, every little helps. Plus now I've got it for the early stages of labour too (eek!)

Pink for a girl

I am really keen on not opting into the whole pink for a girl thing, I'm all about the primary colours and pretty white tiny baby clothes. But it's extremely hard to resist. And if she grows up expressing a liking for pink tutus I certainly wont hold her back! I don't know how well known this project is, it's quite old so you might have seen it already, but I've only just stumbled upon it...JeongMee Yoon has a project looking at girls obsessed with pink and boys obsessed with blue, here are some of the amazing photos from it...















So cute! The whole project is here

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Inspiration

I'm 26 weeks and 4 days.

My belly button hasn't popped out yet. In fact it seems to have sucked back in! I'll keep you updated on the belly button situation. We've chosen a pram (I think) after a LOT of consideration. I had no idea how big and difficult a decision it would be...there are so many to choose from and so many different things to consider. But I think we're getting an Uppababy Vista(yeah I know that doesn't mean anything to most people), after hours and hours of trawling through reviews and driving around to shops selling buggies (Leeds seems to have a real lack of baby shops). I know that's all very boring, so here are some pretty pictures of rooms I've been drooling over for "inspiration".


Susanna and Jussi Vento's house as seen in a sneak peak here


the country house of Elizabeth Dunker aka fine little day


from thebooandtheboy.com


from thebooandtheboy.com


from apartmenttherapy.com


from varpunen

And I've been collecting more on my pinterest board here


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bump diary

This one covers 3 weeks: 23 weeks up to almost 26 weeks (I'm 26 weeks in two days), and I think I've seen the most change yet...I look pregnant whatever I'm wearing now which is nice.











Look how much of a fashion victim I look today in my leggings and baggy shirt, a look which I abhor in the Leeds student population. I seem to have lost all shame. It's a slightly different look with a belly poking out though. Speaking of which I've ALMOST got an outie!! Any day now it's going to pop! The maternity dress my mum got me is the blue tunic I wore with a grey cardi on the third picture up, it'll serve me well as I swell especially in this unseasonably hot weather.

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nesting

I'm 25 weeks and 5 days.

The nesting instinct must have set in, as I've been doing some proper mum cleaning. I found myself stood on a chair in the kitchen giving the high-up surfaces a "deep clean", for about 3 hours the other day. And I'm also feeling a need to set out a nice space for the baby at home. We're really lucky to be living in a 3 bed house, and we loosely call the two spare rooms my "sewing room" and "Dan's room" for his work stuff and music stuff. Baby is going to have half of my sewing room...I realise that needles and choke-hazard buttons aren't exactly baby-friendly, but the long term plan is to move before she gets to a crawling stage so it's more a place just to put a cot and make nice. She's going to be in a moses basket in our room for the first 6 months, so it's possible that the top room will never even be used as a nursery, but it's nice to have the space to make a nest for her any way.

I've been moving my sewing stuff/general crap down to one end of the room, so that she can have some bookshelves for children's books and toys, and room for a cot. My sewing space is a bit of a dump, but I've long given up on being a person who can have a tidy work space...I'm far too much of a hoarder.








And baby's shelves so far (I will manage to make them less full of junk as we buy more actual baby stuff)...



Exciting times! x