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Sorry its taken me so long to write this blog... things have been either pretty crazy my end or Ive been sleeping ;)
So we are now in our last trimester alhamdulillah :) Baby is due in February insha'Allah and me and chilliT (maybe I need to think up a new nickname for him) are very anxiously awaiting the arrival of the little one. We have our reusable nappy stash sorted, I hope :) insha'Allah and clothes and pieces.. we're going to a nearly new sale with the NCT on Saturday so I will be on the look out for a maternity coat (Im sick of not being able to fasten my coats) blackout blinds and anything buggy related to go with the pram we will be getting next year insha'Allah.
I have just today met up with a girl from a facebook birth board.. we are all expecting in the same month, but this lady has more than one in her ;) shes such an inspiration and really makes you grateful for what you have alhamdulillah. It was so nice to get out and meet someone in the same boat as me, currently Im still working (finish January 18th) 12 hour shifts starting at 2am :( with no pregnant ladies around me

We went to the baby show a few weeks ago... it was amazing!!! I was worried that hubby wouldnt enjoy it, but he bought the camera with him and was quite happy there :) he left me to my own devices collecting the freebies when we first got there and was very much as interested in all the stalls as I was masha'Allah. I think it would be useful to go once baby is here too, and then we know what we do need rather than what we might need but I dont think I could cope with going again next year and hubby looked worried at the prospect ;)

So I have finally had my braces taken off too.. it feels soo weird but I love it :) Ive certainly been taking things for granted all these years.. I havent stopped eating into crunchy fruits since I had them off, like apples, plums and pears.. cant wait to get into work on thursday purely to pick at the nuts Ive had on my desk for the last few months :D yummy!!! Just got to get into a routine with them now.. I couldnt really floss properly when I had them on, but have to make more of an effort now :)

Anyways, thats an update of whats going on in our world at the moment... baby is constantly moving around and poking out here there and everywhere, which can be painful at times, but I love feeling the movement :D Hubby just found out hes not entitled to any paternity leave as he started too late :( which is annoying as his work give really good paternity benefit so we have to re think our finances from that perspective, but insha'Allah it will be ok.

Our patter

Ive saved these as drafts to be posted in the future when the news is out to everyone. We got our positive test the end of May and have had trouble keeping it secret ever since :)

Anyways, it all started one Saturday morning, for the past week I had had a bloated stomach and after freaking myself out at the Doctors reading an ovarian cancer leaflet my GP proceeded to tell me my symptoms sounded more like IBS. I already had a feeling I might be pregnant, apart from the bloated stomach I was constantly hungry, constantly eating and constantly listening to the growls from my stomach. I got up and sneaked out the pregnancy test while the husband was busy with something, after obviously reading the best times to do it all. I proceeded :) Im not going into details as Im sure you all know what goes on there! I brushed my teeth while waiting but couldnt help taking peeks :) there was mostly some lines already there... I just needed to figure out from the paperwork what they meant. Apparently I was looking for a vertical line in one window which meant the test was working, check! and in the other window I was looking for a cross of some sort, what did I have? a cross... no hang on, wait there.. these things dont just happen so easily!! Was it correct? 3 months?? Surely that cant be right. 

I calmly walk into the living room where the husband is wandering around looking for something. I ask him, have you seen this? does that look like a cross to you? pointing at the second window. His answer, what is it? 'but does it look like a cross' he frowns, pulls his usual Im confused face and again asks the same question. I want to shout it out to him, but I want to make sure Im not seeing things first. Just tell me, is that a cross?? Yeah I guess so, definitely 2 lines... 'well, this means that we might be pregnant' a huge grin bursts across his face, the same grin I saw the first day we laid eyes on each other, the same grin when I first saw him just before we were to be married.. I know that smile, hes happy :) and he hugs me strongly to tell me he so (a man of few words but many actions my husband!) my heart bursts with emotion and love.

So we decide there and then to take one step at a time and not tell anyone until we see 'it'