Time is whizzing by!

Where has the year gone????
I can't believe we are in October, I don't know where the year has gone. This long awaited pregnancy will be over before I know it!

Everything is going really well. All my tests have been good with the best news being - no diabetes! With the family history of gestational and 'regular' diabetes I would have put money on developing that but all is clear.

It seems Blobby is going to be a tall one, just like his dad! Currently measuring at the high end of the scale - I hope that doesn't translate into painful delivery!

We've started to pull together odds and ends. Going shopping for prams has been quite funny. Our first visit to a department store and I thought there had been a tear in the time space continuum and we'd ended up on some alien planet or distant land. Did not understand a single word the sales assistant was saying - we were really underprepared! We've managed to master the jargon and concepts now so the big purchases will be happening soon. Every time we go looking at prams etc, HB is like a kid in a candy store with the toys and has bought something 'really cool' each time we've been there.

I was away at a conference this week. It's amazing how being obviously pregnant enables people who you've never met before to suddenly have something in common with you and something to talk about. I've got to say though, some comments were a bit disconcerting, especially the women who, in response to asking about my due date, responded 'so it can happen anytime then!' Terrifying - so much to do at work, so much to get ready for Christmas and for Blobby. We've finally started to realise perhaps I should be carrying the Labour Ward telephone number with me, and maybe it's not too early to get the hospital bag ready!