We have movement!!

I only wrote a post last week (or sometime around then) and mentioned that I hadn't started to feel our little bubs move yet, however this is no longer the case!!

Around the middle of the week, I started to notice this feeling when I was lying down that felt something like a little bubble of air pop (that doesn't very accurately describe the feeling but that's the only way I can think of). At first I thought it could possibly be the baby moving as it sounded similar to things I'd read about but thought I'd wait and see if it happened again before I got too excited.

Excitingly it happened about 3 times the next day and the next! Since then I've been able to feel it with my hand actually make a little push against my stomach! Even better Ethan was able to feel it too today!

It's amazing to be able to actually feel it move, even though it's really only very tiny movements at the moment but it's so exciting knowing they are going to get bigger and stronger and more often soon enough (and maybe slightly annoying when it decides to have a fidget session while I'm trying to sleep haha). It's so reassuring being able to feel the little movements and know that the little baby is still there and growing, particularly as I seem to have gotten over all of the usual pregnancy symptoms so it's easy to almost forget I'm pregnant at all at the moment!

However, in other news I have a little bump!! It really depends on what I'm wearing though as to whether it looks like an actual little baby bump or just podge haha. I'm looking forward to it getting a little bigger so it looks like a proper baby bump, but I love that I have a bump at all! :D

This is my favourite new jumper ever and it was on sale!

Final thing, Ethan and I went to go see The Great Gatsby on Friday and it was completely amazing!! It was so powerful and Leonardo Di Caprio and Toby Maguire were perfect for Gatsby and Nick Carraway! Ethan even loved it even though he has never read the book before! So I HIGHLY recommend everyone to go and see it! :D

Pregnancy joys...

I'll admit there may have been a hint of sarcasm in the post title today... There are many joys of pregnancy, but there are also some not so joyful occasions!

One of my favourite joys in pregnancy is food! I'm hoping that this will soon be replaced by feeling the baby move but for your first baby that's more around 20 weeks or so I've heard, but every now and then I do lay still and wait for something but nothing yet sadly.

Back to food, I've not really had any craving as such, where I feel like I need to have X so much! More I just particularly fancy things, such as mayo in the first few weeks, then baked beans and now buttery mash potato with gravy (SO GOOD!). I've also discovered I've reverted back a little to my early teen loves of chicken flavoured Super Noodles, Cheese and Broccoli Pasta 'n' Sauces and Golden Nuggets for breakfast! Those three things make me so happy! I know none of them are particularly nutritious so I just have them as my occasional treat for lunch (the cereal for breakfast obviously) and then we're back to the nice and healthy vegetables for dinner, ideally with mash potatoes and gravy! :D

 

                                                                 My three favourites!I feel that being pregnant has made me have a much greater appreciation of food because I get hungry quite a lot so it is just so satisfying enjoying good food! That makes me sound as though I'm over indulging, I'm not, I've actually only put a pound on (so far...) which did concern me at first but after reading on the internet a bit I decided that as I'm eating when I'm hungry and good healthy food then it's not a problem, a few people said the weight piled on like crazy in the third trimester so we shall see what happens, I guess each body is different :)

However today has not been as much of a joyful occasion! I decided after a few weeks of putting it off I really needed a new bra fitting. Hello maternity bras... They should really not be classified as lingerie! However I will admit that they are quite comfy and it's nice having a bra that fits my ever expanding body! (I've gone up 4 cup sizes! I'm hoping that's that area of my body's expanding done for the rest of the pregnancy now...)

Pregnancy brings such entertainment... Haha 

Potential murderer or a kind middle aged man? Such are the times we live in.

I went to visit Ethan in McDonald's whilst he was working today and claim my free Big Mac that Ethan had won (and then gave to me, he knows the way to my heart!) and as I was ordering from Ethan we had a little chat, mainly about my temptation to buy something else until Ethan informed me that it was actually sold out. However the man that was ordering next to me seemed amused at the 'friendliness' of our conversation, adding a comment or two which was fine. Ethan gave me my Big Mac and I went to sit down on a little table of my own to enjoy it. Then to my surprise the man that had ordered came and sat opposite me! The weird thing was there were plenty of other available tables and he didn't say anything when he sat down like 'Can I sit here?' or 'Is this seat taken?' he said nothing that acknowledged the fact that he had just sat down in what I felt was my personable bubble. After awkwardly trying to eat my burger without everything falling out whilst this mid 50 year old man was sat watching me (!) my coat fell on the floor so I went to pick it up which he commented on, but I didn't quite catch what he said so I just awkwardly laughed and to which he asks if I want to share his chips!

I'll admit I was slightly creeped out by him, probably because I'd been reading about the 3 kidnapped women in Ohio and we've been watching a lot of 24 where EVERYONE is suspicious. But it did make me think, in reality this man, other than being just a little bit weird didn't actually do or say anything that was threatening to me in anyway. He may have been a well intentioned man who had seen that I'd been chatty when I had ordered my food and then seen that I was sitting alone so thought he'd be friendly and come sit by me, and then offer to share his chips because I only had a burger and he had a large portion of chips.

Before I left to go home I went back over to Ethan as he wasn't serving anyone and said that the man was a little creepy, which Ethan agreed with as he was able to see where I was sitting and told me to be careful getting home and make sure he wasn't near me, which is exactly what I did, constantly looking over my shoulder to make sure I couldn't see him and that he wasn't following me.

It's sad that in our society we don't trust those around us, despite the fact that they may be kind well intentioned people because of the few awful people that do exist around us. Part of me hopes that the man was slightly 'dodgey' so I don't feel bad for having effectively rejected his kindness, but at the same time part of me feels you can never really be too careful. Such are the times we live in.