Still here!!

Hi everyone! I'm still here, still pregnant, still getting larger by the minute! Sorry that I haven't posted in a while, we were up at the cottage all last week and since we got back to town I haven't had a free second to log on and write to you all. At work I'm training my replacement and since she's always at my desk with me, it wasn't really appropriate for me to say "And now I'm going to show you how to write a blog..."

I've got a few photos to post and maybe I'll get to it this weekend. I'm trying to decide whether to ask Mark to take a picture of my stomach with its "new look". Yes, that's right folks, I have stretchmarks! Actually, I have a big angry red patch below my bellybutton and then reddish squiggly stretchmarks around it. I always told myself that I wouldn't mind having stretchmarks, that its a sign of the whole pregnancy experience, but as soon as they appeared I realised that I am vain and that I DO mind! Actually, I think I mind because the whole area is so itchy its driving me crazy. Its almost painful because its so itchy, I can't stand having anything touching my stomach in that area. Unfortunately I can't walk around the office with my stomach on display, so I'm gritting my teeth and bearing it.

And for all of you out there who are yet to have babies, when you do find yourselves pregnant, don't fall for all the BS about special moisturisers that stop strechmarks. My doctor and all the parenting magazines I have ever read say that they don't work. Moisturising does help reduce the itchiness, but they don't prevent stretchmarks. So don't go out and spend a fortune on creams at maternity shops (which they push on you at the check-out).

Okay, I better get back to work. My poor replacement Dao is sitting at the next desk twiddling her thumbs.

Ciao for now!