For the last 17 or 18 weeks, since we've known about the baby, I've been
waiting for Gem to start having cravings. It's got to be said I don't know
much about pregnancy and babies but cravings was something I did know about.
Back in week 9 or so Gem seemed to be having some sort of weird cravings for
baths. Her record was 5 in an 18 hour time slot but I'm not sure baths
really count as cravings.
Now we're in to week 22, I think we've now both identified what Gems current
craving is. All week last week she kept saying she fancied coco pops but we
didn't have any. Now we're back home she seems to be having about 2 or 3
bowls a day. We're already on to half way down packet number 2.
The bumps getting quite big now, I think it's great, Gem says she looks fat
but she doesn't. I think it's only men that can really see how beautiful the
bump is, it doesn't look chubby. It's the wrong sort of shape for fat and is
quite solid.
One thing Gem isn't enjoying much is the fact that she has to sleep on her
side. We've been reading and it says that you shouldn't really sleep on your
back as it can restrict blood to the baby. But generally everything's going
great at the moment in terms of the baby front.
The house is still a bit of hard work as we've still got the fellows in
doing the bathroom. Tomorrow the tilers are in for the last time to finish
off the flooring and then it's just up for us to paint with the help of my
parent's in-law and for the electrician to come in and finish off running
the cable from the bathroom to the main electric box to run the spars for
the bath on. It'll be fantastic when it's all done it's just incredibly hard
to keep clean at the moment.
Anyway, enough for now.
Take care.
Nick.