Besides that, Toby weighed in at a healthy 3.35 kg and was 50cm long. Charley is absolutely besotted with her baby brother and we are settling in well at home.

Will write a big post with all the gory details over the next couple of days, but in the meantime, here are some piccies!!

I’m in full cleaning mode - well, I’m not actually cleaning, more just ordering my husband around - and getting ready… and getting a bit nervous. I have been pregnant for so long now that it is weird to think that I won’t be pregnant anymore! And that I’ll finally be meeting my little man!

Will keep you all up to date…

I plead complete busyness though - life was quiet there for a moment, but now that I am in my last weeks of pregnancy, it seems the world has exploded and everything is happening at once. Our little design and branding agency is picking up clients here there and everywhere, and we haven’t even got our own website happening yet! Rich has resigned from work and finishes up in 3 weeks which should be just in time for the baby to come. There were a couple of issues around the baby, but I think they are going to be ok. And there are a hell of a lot of other things "going on" that I can’t really get into, but let me tell you, my head is spinning!

Great to see that people have still been mumspacing even though I haven’t been as active as I used to be and am not marketing it at all! Once Rich finishes up work we are hoping to put some time back into it and fix up a lot of the bugs that have crept in since I have been pregnant - have found some new software that as well that should make everything heaps better too, so hopefully we can get that going asap.

But as for right now, I have the flu. No infection or anything, just the bloody flu, which is sending me for a six cause I can’t take anything. Add that to the heartburn and the swelling and the headaches and the dance party that seems to be happening on my bladder, and sleep is near impossible.

Be back soon, promise.

I am feeling better now than any other time during this pregnancy, which is weird cause I am so big and bulky. My blood pressure is great and it looks like I am going to go full term. I am starting to get a little nervous must admit, but excited at the same time. I can’t wait to meet my little man!

Rich and I have also started on a little venture, developing our company, Not At All Strange, which was responsible for the start of mumspace.net. We are moving in a slightly different direction for a while, to build the company up, providing branding and multimedia services to small businesses, which is what we are qualified in, so we make a good team. Things are looking really good at the moment!

So when it comes to further developing mumspace, it is going to take a backseat to babies and business for a while, but once we are up and running, this kind of pro bono stuff is next on our to do list. And what’s more, we won’t have to stick ugly ads all over the site or start charging for anything to keep mumspace running!

I’ll keep you all updated…

I’m not worried - Charley was born so early due to severe pre-eclampsia, and there is no sign of that so far, so this bubby will get well past this point. But it’s just weird to have seen Charley at this stage on the outside, and know that he is like that on the inside….

Oh gosh, I think that I am in for a week of heavy reflection….

I’ll be 27 weeks this week, and while all is still going well pre-eclampsia wise and I’ll think I’ll get alot further than I did with Charley, I seem to be constantly hit with one illness or the other! Last week it was tonsilitis, and this week the whole family came down with a nice dose of gastro, which I am still getting over. Problem is, that these things take their toll on me for a couple of weeks before I really start to get over them!

So that’s where I am for the next couple of months - that and giving birth I guess!

Once all this is done, I am looking forward to sinking my teeth back into building mumspace again!

Have a great Easter everyone!

So I have decided that the best way to fix that is to document the rest of this pregnancy - this week is week 24!

Still feeling really sick - have had every possibility ruled out, so it is being put down to pregnancy. Not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing - not complications, which is great, but no real cure which is frustrating. I am learning to deal with it though and have tried to change my attitude to it, considering it’s not going anywhere soon!

I also think I have a little footballer inside of me - this baby never stops kicking! And they’re big kicks - you can see and feel them on the outside so clearly.

I’m starting to get everything sorted and have brought lots of the baby stuff up from the garage for washing, so we are starting to look like we’re in baby mode. It’s exciting.

Have also organised my baby shower for two weeks time - I’m not missing out this time!!!!!

Till Week 25…..

Just home from yet another stint in hospital, my first for this pregnancy. Explains where I have been!

Have to get some rest now, but shall explain more at a later date!

So I finally got it cut. Just to her shoulders, but it really is a dramatic change. She looks so much older! Sure, I had to hold her down kicking and screaming and beg the hairdresser to just cut it, but we got the job done!

So we still have a couple of knotty issues, but for the most part, hair brushing isn’t so much of a drama anymore - thank god!

But this afternoon I feel like i have turned a corner, managed to get some stuff around the house done, and even though I am a bit tired, I’m feeling pretty good. Charley even seems happy!

So fingers crossed this time it will last - and I can get some stuff done!!

First pic of my little man…

LOVING seeing my stuff published by someone other than me - has always given me a kick. Today’s post is one of mine, check it out.

So where am I? In bed, especially as today is Charley’s preschool day. Even though it is the first sunny day in a week and I am dying to get out into the garden and repot my jasmine climbers, which are going spastic which is great!

Be back soon. Promise.

Hopefully just pregnancy getting on top of me, but I have been getting some rest and will be back on deck soon - promise!

Typical male.

Find out tomorrow, so will have to post it then. So excited!

We had a lovely Australia Day. Mainly relaxing and a little shopping in the morning, watching the tennis final early afternoon, then had a visit from our friends with their (newish) little baby, and then off to the Menai Australia Day celebrations where Charley got to meet Dora, pat an alligator and a snake, go on some rides, and capped the day off with some fireworks with much-loved cousins. A good day all round.

It was lovely catching up with Daria and Marty and little baby Kaia, who was born at 27 weeks, spent a long time in hospital and has only recently been allowed to visit people. It was a little weird to be around a little baby, especially since I am expecting one myself, but it was good to expose Charley to a little one, and once I was holding him, she wasn’t shy of him at all. So I am thinking that she will be really good with the new bub.

Then later that night we headed out to the fair, mainly to see the advertised Dora. It was all a little overwhelming for a tired Charley, not so much the kids, but the parents all pushing for a photo of their kids with Dora! I nearly decked one father who practically pushed Charley out of the way to get his kids in there!

There was also a great little reptile show, where Charley got to pat the alligator and the snake. It was really funny when it came to the alligator - she just picked up its tail and went "check out this tail!" No fear at all!

We were about to head home when we ran into Channie and Grant and Charley’s favourite cousins Jackson, Lachie and Tristan. So we decided to stay, and the kids enjoyed the rides and fairy floss and we stayed for the fireworks, which scared Charley a little, but the fact that it turned pitch black when her and Lachie had gone for a little run might have a bit to do with it!

A great Australia Day - hope everyone else had a good one too.

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My problems began during my morning sickness period where I would treat every stir with a bottle to get her to go back to sleep cause I really needed to get some sleep! But it was starting to get ridiculous, with sometimes 3 or 4 bottles a night - I was starting to think about buying myself a cow!

So a couple of weeks ago I decided - no more bottles, and minimal attention when she calls out. And now she sleeps through no problem.

Only problem now is getting her to get up in the morning!