The UK Non-Biological Mother

  39 weeks pregnant. Wow. This pregnancy is lasting forever. The baby is classed as a mini watermelon, so I’ve been telling the wife ‘she carried a watermelon’ like that there Dirty Dancing film 🤣 We’ve got the boys photo ready in the hope the baby is coming, I’ll pop in some before and after photos, and also if the wife could of she’d have bounced her way to the moon on her maternity ball. This is the wife’s last week at work - she’s so excited as she’s starting to struggle a bit. We had our 3rd wedding anniversary also and went for a banging meal at the harvester. Because who doesn’t love a harvester!  Still no sign of the baby. 🙄

  We’ve met up with a lot of the wives ex colleagues recently as she hadn’t seen them since she left the ambulance service. The wife is deffo the size of a volley ball. I’m having to help with her putting her socks and shoes on atm. It’s quite funny 🤣 I can just hear loads of grunting from the other room. And she won’t ask for help. She’s stubborn.  She’s spent most of this week bouncing on her maternity ball, finding it more comfortable. I’ve been trying my best to help her feel a bit more comfortable but there’s only so much I can do. She’s really been struggling with heart burn too. Who knows. Actual week 38 + could be the time.

  The week leading up to our week 37 picture, has been a bit busy. I'll explain why the bump looks a little smaller a bit further on in the blog. My parents came back with a gift for ladybug to go in her bedroom, so here mum is modelling it. My cousin Joe and his gf Megan are expecting a baby also, like 2 weeks after us and we went to her baby shower which was beautiful! They haven't found out what they are having so its all going to be a complete surprise for them! I'm so happy for them and they are going to be great parents. On the same day, we also went to my brother Joes baseball race night/presentation. We haven't had a picture with him through out the pregnancy so we knew we needed to get one! even if he is drunk. TBF I think he's going to be that drunk gay uncle everyone always warns you about. Because he is drunk like 99.9percent of the time. Its not diabetes he tests for, its to see if there's enough blood to alcohol content in his body h...

Not much has happened this week. Well, week 35 leading up to week 36 anyway. Lady Bug has really started making herself known now. The wife is still suffering from lightning crotch, but is a bit more used to the pain. I still laugh though. The wife is spending a bit more time on the maternity ball, from what the antenatal classes taught us, is this is to help aid the baby into position. And the wife finds it a bit more comfortable to sit on at the mo than the sofa anyway. Unless she's laying down on the sofa of course haha. And of course, the boys in their beds, because dogs make blogs. This week was literally spent being like, c'mon little one, we want to meet you know. We are just so ready for it!  

The baby really started to come out and play this week. The movements started to get more wavey as opposed to the usual kicking. Just probably because she's becoming a little unit and not much room to boot everyone. The wife favourite thing to do has been to cuddle up to my back at night so I get kicked too lmao.  Anyway lightning crotch -  Just when you thought you knew all the pregnancy aches and ouches, here comes a  shocking  surprise:  lightning crotch ! What is lightning crotch? With a name that sounds a little like a playground insult, lightning crotch may not seem like an official diagnosis, but it is the common term for a sudden sharp or shooting pain in the vagina, rectum, or pelvis, mostly commonly during the third trimester. While not dangerous, it can be very surprising and uncomfortable. Some women have compared the feeling to an electric shock! For others, it is more of a tingle that radiates down the legs. Luckily, the jo...

  The weekend before we turned 34 weeks we had our baby shower, what a faff, since we had literally just moved further away from the venue. We were in such a rush, we had both forgotten to grab the decorations on the way out, only remembering to grab the food. ( I mean important parts) So I had to bomb it back home to get those and then still forgot the selfie frame we had specially made. But it doesn't matter, we had a great time.  We were utterly spoilt, we literally can't thank everyone enough for everything we got. Me and the wife <3 Me and the wife with my parents <3 My beautiful momma had a wonderful cake made for us, but because we had forgotten everything, we also forgot a knife to cut it with. My friend from work made some amazing sugar cookies which went down really well with everyone (as I knew they would). So with the baby shower over with, we could focus on finally getting the nursery completely finished. obviously we broug...