Things I've discovered this week

In no particular order:

• Baby boy has hair! We could see it on our ultrasound which is amazing to me :)  He also likes sucking his toes - lovely!
• I'm a bit anaemic - my haemoglobin levels came back a little low, so I'm on iron supplements for now. Maybe this explains why it takes me an age to walk up a flight of stairs!  
• I'm emotionally unstable when hungry and/or tired and have a tendency to take it out on my Bloke :(  To be fair, this is not really a new thing... my Bloke has always said that I'm like a baby when I need food or sleep - nothing else matters until I'm satisfied!  Pregnancy has just made it 100 times worse! Sunday was spent eating and napping interspersed with periods of pestering my long-suffering man to bring me more food/complete tasks I'd set/be quiet so I could nap! But once fed and a bit less sleepy, I was back to my usual (?!) cheery self!
• I seem to be looking bigger than my now 6 months (27 1/2 weeks)... yesterday my yoga teacher asked me how many WEEKS I had left! We both agreed that my bump has expanded significantly in the last week and I have felt it in the last couple of days - I have felt stretched and tight around the bottom of my bump and baby boy has been moving less which seems to correspond with growth spurts. This morning I feel more comfortable and baby boy is back to his usual breakfast acrobatics :)
• I have started nesting early... this weekend I was seized by an uncontrollable desire to order a lot of baby stuff online. Partly this was prompted by a great sale on the JC Penney website (one of the few sites that ship internationally as standard) and partly by hormone insanity... 'I have to have that rug and I have to have it NOW' :)

No more shots!

Yes, today was the day of my last progesterone shot! I do feel very glad to be done with them, particularly as I accidentally got the last 2 days' shots in the same hip, so am feeling rather sore!  I went to the ER to get it and am sincerely hoping that I never have to go back there :)

Thanks everyone for your lovely comments yesterday. However, it seems I spoke a little too soon about the lack of symptoms, as neglecting to have a nap in the afternoon meant I got really tired and headachy at about 5pm - the now usual consequence of trying to stay awake for a whole day like a normal person! I was asleep by 9.30pm after giving up the fight to stay awake and ignore my headache and slept for nearly 12 hours!  But that's fine with me :) It meant I missed a girl's evening out, but I don't have anything to wear that actually fits anyway!

Would it be wrong to measure my nipples?

Well, would it? This week has been a new low in symptom-spotting. Let's be clear now that I'm on CD7. And yet in the last couple of days I've actually been questioning whether I am actually pregnant and my last period wasn't actually a real period. And the symptoms that I've been spotting?

Well I've been quite tired (ignoring the fact that I have a cold which is no doubt making me feel a bit off-colour), my last period was fairly short and light (ignoring the fact that all my periods have been short and light since I came off the pill) and one day, my nipples were looking huge (ignoring the fact that they are generally pretty big - too big for my liking, but that's another post...).

So, in a scientific manner (did you know I used to be a research chemist?), I'm thinking I could measure my nipples and record the data to track changes. But I can't decide whether a straight ruler would suffice or whether I need to use a piece of string to follow the contours, then measure against a ruler... decisions, decisions...

Or I could just go and lie down in a darkened room and try to reconnect with reality...