Surely not an update?

Dear Sink,



Yes! I am still alive! Finally feel motivated again to start posting again... In the second trimester and the tiredness has finally past me (For now!)



What has been happening? Well Phoenix started 3 sessions at nursery; but I have decided today to pull him of nursery but have to give a month's notice. It just seems ridiculous to pay £150/month for someone to watch my child when I am a stay-at-home-mum. So I will increase his playgroup two sessions a week; giving Phoenix the social interaction I wanted from nursery and saving us nearly £120/month! £160/month actually if I count the bus fares to nursery. So Phoenix will go to the nursery 10 minutes walk from here in January when he gets his state funding. Probably means I won't be able to do my volunteering at the antenatal clinics but I think I will go to the hospital instead. I'm a bit upset about it but it's for the best. The extra money will be handy for Christmas and the baby landing in February. Just have to mean that I make an extra drive to do activities with Phoenix during the week until January; unofficial home-schooling.



I had my scan 4 weeks ago, and all is well with the baby and thankfully there was only one! I have started to feel the flutter movements, which I am totally surprised at, as I think I was about 20 weeks with Phoenix. Signed off from the consultant and I have midwifery care from now on, and spot on to have a home birth. I'm really looking forward to my home birth; I had a natural labour last time, in a midwife-led unit so this seems the obvious progression. I will have a birth pool for pain management and then deliver on dry land. I have shown Phoenix pics of a ladies giving birth from a book I had in my last pregnancy. Can't wait to deliver our new baby and then just had some family time the four of us. My plan is not to tell anyone that I have gone into to labour, but to tell them a few hours after the birth. As, I know some people won't be resist coming to see us as if I'm home, and as there will not be any visiting time restrictions... Well, there is now! If Phoenix finds the labour too much I will however phone my dad and June to come pick him up but have read a few sources on the Internet that say that nature has a way of making women labouring at night, thus ruling out the childcare need. Here's hoping. I'm wanting Phoenix to be there, as it will help with the bonding for him and his brother/sister; just like the labour/birth helps with both mine and Keith's bonding.

Think it's time for a new paragraph!

Apart from that, nothing much else to report. I am having a big drive to declutter the house (and raise some extra cash for Christmas!) So far got a few things on eBay, and I've made £9 on Green Metropolis.

On the recycling issue; it's very much in the media at the minute which is great and there are a good few programmes on the T.V.
BBC Three have 'Outrageous Wasters' which I have only watched once, but it was really enjoyable. The family on it had 15 T.V.s and they were only a family of 5!
Channel 4 have 'Dumped' about 11 people who will be dumped on a british landfill and have to survive, think it one to shock people about how avarice we all are.
I also got rid of my first thing on Freeshare (Glasgow's own freecycle which is owned by it's members). It was Phoenix's baby walker that was brand new in the box. I don't personally agree with them, so never used it. Gave it to a family with six (Yes six!) kids, and they were kind enough to give me a box of chocolates. So onwards and upwards, and quite literally as our loft is full of junk!

Signing off now,
Luv
Nat
xxx