Edward Andrew Goldstiver

About two days old...

He's here!

As I'm sure you will all know, baby arrived on Andrew's birthday the 13th at 11:38pm. Mum and baby did a great job!

NBY

This has become Andrew's shorthand for "No Baby Yet!". It still applies.

OK, maybe some small signs

OK, my feet have suddenly gone all swollen. An evening with the feet up in front of the Wii sounds like a good idea. :)

Still no sign!

Well, it's now 2 days past his due date. There is still no sign of him moving out. Feeling bigger than ever and are having the odd cramping sensation - perhaps this is a sign after all?

Gut competitions

After a few more drinks, Bernie and Pat were comparing guts, as you do, and we decided to have a spot the pregnant person competition. So I'm 40 weeks, how many weeks do you think Bernie and Pat are? (Compare to my weekly pics.)

GameOn!

To celebrate Andrew's birthday (prematurely) we went to the Plough at Southbank for lunch with Bernie, Patty, Matty, Sarah, Jason and a few other friends of Matty's. We followed this with a hands on tour of Game On. Was really cool to play some of the computer games of our childhood: bubble bobble, sim city, populus, prince of persia among many others. This was followed by drinks at the Fox and curry (it's rumoured this helps bring labour on but as it's my 3rd curry this week I'm not convinced) back at BPMs place.

Bump Journal

Here's a series of photos taken over the last few months.

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   40 weeks

2. 

   39 weeks

3. 

   38 weeks

4. 

   37 weeks

5. 

   36 weeks

6. 

   35 weeks

7. 

   34 weeks

8. 

   32 weeks

9. 

   31 weeks

10. 

    29 weeks

11. 

    28 weeks

12. 

    27 weeks

13. 

    26 weeks

14. 

    24 weeks

15. 

    22 weeks

16. 

    21 weeks

17. 

    20 weeks

18. 

    19 weeks

Apparent Size is all about Posture

People have commented that my bump looks quite small altho it certainly doesn't feel it!! I've decided that it's all down to posture and abs - yay for the transverse abdominal muscle! :) Thanks to Nic, our chiro, for keeping my spine in check throughout the pregnancy. Thanks also to Briony, my pregnancy exercise physio, for helping me keep muscle tone and a relative level of fitness. You're such a bright spark in my week!
Over the last few weeks I've taken two sets of bump photos - good posture and letting it all hang out. Here is the difference it makes.

1. 

   40 weeks - hanging out

2. 

   40 weeks - good posture

3. 

   39 weeks - hanging out

4. 

   39 weeks - good posture

5. 

   38 weeks - hanging out

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   38 weeks - good posture

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   37 weeks - hanging out

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   37 weeks - good posture

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   36 weeks - hanging out

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    36 weeks - good posture

D-Day

Well D-day is here but there are no signs of him moving out yet! Will keep you all posted when things change.

Firestorm Training

Andrew's started up frisbee again with Firestorm training. He's feeling a bit out of form having had quite a long break since Mixed Nationals. Hopefully he'll keep trekking in for it each week altho it's quite a trip now we're out at Dayboro.

Bernie, Matty, Pete's

Over the last week we helped the boys move into their new place. Andrew helped with all the heavy lifting stuff while I packed small things into boxes. We spent a couple of nights camping out on their floor. The new place is much nicer than the old one at Leander Street. Nice upgrade guys! They've been going a bit nuts with the new appliances too - new fridge, washer, tv! It's looking good.

These shots are of the old place.

Filling in Time

Had Grill'd burgers for lunch again today. Soooo tasty! We followed this up with three different flavours of Cold Rock Icecream which we ate at Erin's place. Erin is back in Brisbane from Alice for at least a year - woohooo! Saw the new bond movie which I struggled to understand since I napped through roughly the middle third of it.

Aerobics starts up again & fines

Pregnancy aerobics started up again tonight after the xmas break. Was great to see everyone. Unfortunately I was running rather late. Decided to txt Briony to let her know so that everyone wouldn't be thinking I'd gone into labour. Unfortunately I was spotted by the cops and fined $300!!!!! Can you believe it? :( The pregnancy lines didn't get me out of it although they did offer to call me an ambulance. Never touching my phone in the car again. So if I don't answer, I'm driving. :)

Obs Appoint #10

Everything looks good. The obstetrician wasn't prepared to estimate when he thought the baby would come. He says it's impossible to know. If he's not out by next Tuesday he suggests we book in for an induction on Wed 14th or Monday 19th. I suppose it's fair enough that he plans to have a weekend, altho I'm sure he doesn't get many.

Trip to Toowoomba

Went out to visit Bernie's parents at Toowoomba. Charlotte cooked us an awesome dinner of roulard and knodel and Dave came around to help eat it. Robert works with leather and gave us a gorgeous little leather box to collect Reg's teeth in! He's also got an impressive garden and gave me a number of seeds to start of some plants of my own. The trip was initially ment to be a camping trip but with 38 deg temperatures we eagerly took up the offer of staying in the air-con. Thanks for a great weekend Charlotte and Robert! On the way home we loaded a whole load of stuff onto the uterus to take back to the boys new place.

NYE

Matty took six of us out on his boat on the Brisbane River. Matty, Bernie, Katrina, Gibbo and us. Took our time cruising down the river from Fig Tree Pocket to Southbank drinking beers (soda for me) and eating cheese and dips. BBQ chicken sandwiches for dinner. Watched both sets of fireworks from the boat at Southbank. Was a very pleasant evening.