Congratulations on the birth of your little boy Jacob! fantastic news Bee

Grub - sounds like a very productive and positive day for you yesterday hun - so glad all went well with your scan and you got to see the strong heartbeat. that was the turning point for us too - no more maybe/might/if - from the moment we saw that little heart pounding away, we just KNEW this was going to work (well, we decided to embrace it that way) and now i'm on the final countdown. we layby'd some stuff the same day - it was our way of welcoming the Gremlin into our lives. so many people had been saying to me to imagine welcoming the baby home, picture the room the way we wanted it etc, imagine the baby as part of our lives - so that's what we did - we layby'd the linen we loved (which i'm soooooooooo thankful for seeing we got the last of pretty much everything and haven't seen the quilt and stuff again!) and i started visualising the end "junk room" as the nursery. it really helped.

great news the ginger tabs are working for you - i found after a few weeks they actually started making me worse - but i think kthat's cos i get bad reflux and the ginger was triggering that. some people find ginger a blessing, others find peppermint things (heartburn tabs, minties) - really depends on you though! i was an odd one and swapped at about 15 weeks (peppermint was making me ill earlier than that lol)

AFM - am officially struggling this week. the pain in my back from this little girl jabbing her knees into my back the way she is laying. she is hurting me sooo badly. it's like i'm being stretched around the level of my lowest rib, which is bad most of the time, but when i hiccup (frequently at the moment the way she's laying!) it hurts like i've got a broken rib at the back! not a pleasant feeling at all!! DH has been fantastic at giving me back rubs and putting heat packs on my back, but the thought of another four (up to SIX) weeks of this is scaring the crap outta me! i think it's making birth worries worse cos i just don't know how much worse it's going to get before i pop, and i really don't want this kind of pain making my birth experience less enjoyable, or having it encourage me towards intervention/drugs that i really don't want at the time (anyone that has broken a rib is sure to understand how much this hurts and how THAT pain may have me looking for meds when labour itself isn't "bad enough" to warrant it kwim?) i talked to DH about it this morning, and he's really supportive of doing whatever is needed. i have OB appt Tuesday arvo so going to talk to Ob at length about this pain - it's just too much. the only real relief i get is laying on the bed on top of the heat pack - which eventually goes cold (how rude!) so it's not long term unless i take hefty meds!

DH is sharing the nesting urge with me, which is nice - he's been fantastic with making sure things are getting done! love him to bits! he's heading off early tomorrow for QLD (again) and will be back Thursday - it's not ideal, but the money is really helpful at the moment. it also means he'll be home for five days next weekend, which is fantastic. he's been talking to Gremlin (at 3am this morning when neither of us could sleep) about not being a norty girl and arriving when he's away! so cute!! he snuggled me this morning and let me vent about being scared of him not being home, or him getting home WHILE i'm in labour and me being deeply focussed and not wanting him there at that point - i kinda feel like i need him to be there for the whole thing - but it's something we'll deal with if and when it arises...

ahhhhhhh must away - he's sitting here looking at me saying "what do you want for brekki?" so i think i need to focus on what he's offering me! lol