According to my apps, baby is the size of a prune or a green olive. Someone somewhere must grow really big green olives!
How far along are you? Today I am 10 weeks and 2 days.
What’s happening with the baby? Baby is now termed a foetus!
Total weight gain? Weirdly I’ve lost more weight, down 0.7 kg – I’m not sure how that’s possible with having eaten at restaurants most of our week’s holiday.
Maternity clothes? Nothing new, although I’ve found a few new Durban websites for buying them.
Stretch marks? Nothing new
Sleep? Full of really intense dreams. I’m also waking up a lot to pee., but otherwise not too bad.
Best moment this week? Seeing the most adorable baby rhino on our holiday. The video is below.
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Miss anything? A big glass of red wine after a particularly irritating day on our return from holiday.
Movement? Nope
Food cravings? Still lots of fruit and fruit juice.
Anything make you queasy or sick? Being hungry seems to be the biggest trigger. Also when I smelled the fishy smells on holiday after we had eaten.
Gender? Not going to find out.
Symptoms? Aside from weird dreams and being nauseous when hungry, most other symptoms seemed to have dissipated.
Belly button in or out? No change.
Wedding/Engagement Rings on or off? All still on.
Looking forward to? Our appointment for our big scan on the 12th – only 9 days away.
B and I had the most amazing week away. We stayed in a self catering apartment in the town of St Lucia, South Africa. Our weather wasn’t the best, but we had two really beautiful days. We went to the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi game reserve on the day that was supposed to clear up and it rained the whole time we were there! We did see some elephants and more than 10 rhino which was really good. This is one of the oldest game reserves in South Africa, and also the place where the entire population of rhino left in South Africa were bred from. When the park was declared there were only about 20 left in the wild, and this park has since increased the numbers and exported rhino to most of the national parks in South Africa.
The next day we had the beautiful weather and we spent the day in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park which is a world heritage site. The video above was taken there. We saw other general game, as well as spotting whales far out at sea, which was pretty awesome. The weather turned in the afternoon as we got to the swimming beach, so we didn’t really get much time there. We did however dip our feet in the sea.
The rest of the week was spent relaxing, building Meccano that I got B for his birthday, eating out and just generally enjoying not being at work. It was a lovely relaxing week and exactly what we needed.
Here are some other pics from our trip:
This was home for a week.
He blocked the road for more than 25 minutes.
A pod of hippos
