Jamie and Ruwani's Birthday

Say hello to our daughter Jamie, the newest member of our family. Born on 14 April 2008 at 17H43, weighing in at a hefty 3290grams! Daddy is overwhelmed and mommy is quite tired. Labor started at 3am and its been a long day, our stubborn little girl was finally delivered by c-section. Mother and baby are doing well, isn't she just adddddddooooorable .... wow! Thank you to everyone who sent SMS messages and called us during that day. To everyone who is Sri-Lankan - HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Week 40

Final week...we hope. Tomorrow is B-Day. Hoping that baby will come by the end of the week cos otherwise it will have to be induced, which is not nice!
Some pics from yesterday at Kerryn's birthday lunch.

Week 35

And it keeps growing!

Week 34

So my tummy is even bigger! I will have to take a photo this weekend again.
The baby has finally turned so is now sitting upside down! This is good cos otherwise I would have been looking at having a c-section in about 4 weeks time! I've noticed that I definitely get tired much easier than 2 weeks ago. I seem to have to catch my breath every 5 minutes! But I'm still doing the exercises which is good.
nothing else new happening. Really difficult to get comfortable either sitting or sleeping these days. We did spend part of the weekend in Stellenbosch which was nice. It was very hot so go to go into the pool. CT isn't so hot at the moment so it's not as uncomfortable as I thought it would be.
Have to finish some work now and finding it hard to concentrate for most part of it. Keep doing all sorts of other stuff. But hoping to finish up with the work by the end of the weekend.
Also have the baby shower to look forward to. Kerryn has kindly organised everything for tomorrow so will be nice. Hopefully the weather will hold as well. I'll add those pics over the weekend as well.
About 5 more weeks to go!!!

Week 32

So it's month 8 and I look huge! Everyone else keeps saying how small I am but that only makes me think as to how huge people actually want me to get!! I guess I will get bigger since I still have 8 more weeks to go and this is the time the baby grows the most! Last thought...were does the skin go after the birth??! This stretching is unbelievable.
All else with baby is fine though and he/she seems to be growing happily. There's not as much kicks as before but you can definitely feel and see him/her moving around in my tummy! Plus I think he/she loves kicking me in the bladder!! Not nice! I only see the doctor in 2 weeks time and will know if he/she has turned. I guess that will make the decision as to whether we are having a natural or C-section....although if baby gets any bigger than 3.5kg I think that decision will be made rather quickly!!
The antenatal classes have been kind of disappointing. There's a lot of info but most of it we already know. Half the time they also seem to be advertising services of people like pilates and acquatherapy instructors and stem cell blood banking (I know this sounds bizarre). There's only a little bit that I have actually 'learnt' from them but I guess listening to the professionals also help a little bit.
Well time for lunch I think!!

3D Scan

We're now onto week 28 and had our 3D scan done. It was at Chris Barnard hospital which is where we will be having out little pumpkin.
The scan was amazing as you can see the baby's features! As usual it was sleeping!! I even ate chocolate before hand to give him/her a sugar rush but that didn't seem to work. It was determined to get the rest it wanted!!! not a morning person at all - a bit like Manny then!!!

Some of the pics from the scan below. The cord is sitting on top of his nose which is why the nose looks squashed!

Week 27

No new scan pics although we did see the doc this week. Baby was fine and growing very big...weighs 1.27Kg!!! It was lying there having hiccups when she scanned!!! Also couldn't see it's face cos it had arms and leg in front of him/her. But still has rather huge feet!!!
Nursery is now ready...waiting for the cot to be delivered at the end of this month hopefully. Otherwise everything else in there is done.
Some pics here...