Baby Billings at 34 weeks doing the splits in my belly!

This reminds me of a cheesy prego photoshoot but it had to be done!

 At 34 weeks I went to the mid-wife and apparently the baby has had one foot in my rib and one to the side doing the splits, representing gymnastics for London 2012, I see a medal winner in the future umkay :) 

Suddenly Feel huge!!!! Tank is coming through!!

That is a belly right dare!

Week 33 and baby mamma is HAPPY but TIRED :)

 I am officially on countdown mode at the moment. I just keep packing and unpacking the hospital bag and also may or may not be spending way too much time starting at the "Bedtime Hugs" Moses Basket we got for the munchkin hee hee. If I had to describe this week it would be sleep deprived, can't seem to find a comfy sleeping position and I wake up in the night ready to go, must be training for the big arrival. I had a 32 week scan on Monday and the baby is growing "perfectly" (Doctor's word not mine of course ;) and the baby is in prime birthing position head down feet kicking my ribs...I am also have been having the Braxton Hicks false contractions which are not as painful as I thought they would be, my belly goes rock hard and I just feel a tightening for about 15 secs and then it passes. The nurse said it was good as the uterus is getting ready for the BIG DAY EEK! So excited and slightly amazed at how quickly it has gone by :)

If my belly button could talk it would be saying!! AHHHHHH......UNCLE UNCLE I give I give I'll tell you anything just stop stretching me ha ha...

Baby Billings Baby Shower at 32 Weeks!!!

 On Saturday the 7th of July Baby Billings had officially been cooking for 32 Weeks!!!! And my gorgeous friends near and far helped me celebrate by throwing the Baby Shower that would impress the inventor of Baby Showers and all her friends near and far haha :)  I mean this baby shower was perfection and watch out America because English Women know how to shower a baby and baby mamma I tell ya!!!! My lovely friend Harriet held it at her "Church Farm Cottage" and along with lovely friend Catherine organizing, filled the day with dear friends, AMAZING CUPCAKES, CAKES, HOME MADE SCONES, BROWNIES, SANDWICHES, DIPS ,CHIPS, CHEESE AND IT GOES ON!!! hilarious and educational games (um did you know a women's uterus expands 500x it's normal size when prego SAY WHAT!!)  giggles, gifts for the munchkin, skype messages from home (which made me cry real bad) and ended with a scrapbook filled with photos of the day and notes from all the girls and my dear friends from home (which of course made me cry real bad...again). I was so very touched I was, for once, speechless and feel very lucky to have made so many amazing friends while here in London as well as the friends back home continuing to support and put up with me. This baby and baby mumma are truly blessed!

Lots of amazing nibbles yummy!

This cupcakes were made my the very creative and talented Harriet Matthews, yep that's right she made the cake, the icing, the butterflies (also did rocking horses, little booties, ect.) She is amazing and just to brag was in the local paper for her deliciousness!!! 

And have a look at that set-up! Well done ladies! Lemon Drizzle and Sponge Madness Cake by Leah Harris and Brownie by Holly Ducker! Holler!!

Um yes I will have some home-made scones with jam and creme made from Scratch by the lovely Anna Campbell

I thought this was a cool picture of the ladies enjoying the "Do you know" baby fact game, I was rubbish but they let me open pressie anyway!!!

Tias representing as the only boy at the shower and what a cutie! Ps I think Mel and I could be sistas from another mista in this photo!

Here are all the gorgeous Aunties with Baby Billings and Baby Momma! Boy this baby is lucky to be around such beauty!  Want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart to these ladies. From left Mel Holian, Rachel Hale, Laura Baldock, Laura Kratky, Hannah Warren, Anna Campbell, Leah Harris, Katerina Lapina, Holly Ducker, Sascha Wyness, Naomi Waring, Catherine Zammit, Harriet Matthews and Annika Haynes!!!!!!!!

Baby Billings is in hot demand!!!

Someone is very excited about her Cath Kidston Nappy Bag, thanks Auntie Harriet!

Team Billings, thanks Auntie Mel

Me looking at Skype Messages from Emily, Alle, Laura, Rose, and Kimi and my mum from the states, gotta love technology (this was two seconds before I was boohooing) Thanks ya'll so lucky to have you in my life!!

Catherine, master of games and pressies made this nappy cake with the help of You Tube ha ha!

Himer is all set for his/her debut with all this gear! We were given so much good stuff as you can see!  xx

Introducing "The Tank" at 31 weeks!!!

 Seems like the weeks are flying by, I can't believe we only have 9 weeks to go and we get to meet our greatest creation ahhhh! Have spent the weekend with James at Hypnobirthing, Active breathing and Partners Pregnancy Yoga Workshops getting ready for Operation Baby Billings. I have a birth plan that includes having the nugget at The Isis Birthing Center in a birth pool with no drugs expect alittle gas and air, so as natural as possible, You can never hold too strongly to any plan as you never know what may happen, but that's the plan right now.... so we shall see :) James nicknames me "The Tank" which I should take offense but thinks it's funny, I would like to think I am as strong as a tank and can handle the mission so to speak. oorah!!!

So James has kindly nicknamed me "The Tank" now ha ha!! 31 weeks now and the munchkin is growing like a champ..and so it my booty! Hee hee :)

Just a close up to show that the belly button is in full effect, the outtie is on it's way OUT!!

30 weeks on Father's Day :)

10 more weeks to go in Operation Baby Billings! Celebrated Father's day and 30 weeks of growing a munchkin with a BBQ, a bouncy castle, fire engines, and icecream (fun day at the Golf Course with Grandad Billings) Preparing James for this time next year when he is full fledged papa!!! Baby is moving around like crazy and hiccups all the time so cute! We also got a Moses basket for the nugget to sleep and getting so excited to be a family. 

Baby Billings does Berlin and Commerical!!! 29 Weeks!!

Well you wouldn't believe it if I told you BUT I have pictures to prove it! I will try and condense it  SO got a call from Jennifer, my lovely PR manager at work, about a commercial being shot in Berlin (that's in Germany ya know;) that was in need of prego ladies that do yoga and it's all expenses paid and you get a lump sum of money if you get the commercial um where do I sign??

Went to the audition and GOT IT YIPEE! So off to Berlin I go but not really knowing what in the world I'm doing. Meet some gorgeous pregnant ladies at the airport who were chosen as well and off we go. Get to Berlin and greeted by our lovely guide Karlotta who tells us we are being driven to the hotel and she will explain everything when we get there. Get to the hotel and she says that she actually can't tell us what we are doing, but that we are testing a product and that it's not a commercial more of a market research thing...SAY WHAT!! Does that mean we came here and there is no commercial? Anyway it was all very vague but she said don't worry all will be revealed tomorrow and it's nothing dangerous go enjoy the city on us. So we did, oh by the way I was in good company with 6 other pregnant ladies, we were getting some looks on the street for srue ha ha!

We took a sightseeing bus all around Berlin, first time I had ever taken one and it was great for preggers so we weren't walking around everywhere just the hot spots, here's us at Checkpoint Charlie the old divide against West and East Germany, got to see the Berlin Wall and US Check point

 

 

 

 

 

I think this is the German Parliament but could be dead wrong, impressive building all the same!

Berlin Cathedral

 

 

 

 Okay so did a day of sightseeing, which was fab, and then we get a text that we need to be ready at 6:10pm to go to location and to wear yoga clothes..okay We get picked up and signed some release forms and again asked what we were doing and the answer we got was, "going to do some yoga poses and then talk about a product with the research marketing team" so no commerical BUT we get 6 months worth of pampers diapers/nappies for doing it. I was disappointed at first about not getting paid but I thought free trip to Berlin and 6 months of diapers, I'll take it!!

We are shown into a pleasant yoga studio and did 20 mins of yoga and then a women came in to talk to us about the smells of the room and how they made us feel, showed us an air freshener and had us do an interpretative dance to the smell, all in the name of market research!!!!! The shock came when we found out that a punk rock show had taken place the night before in our Zen Yoga Studio. We got shown a video of about 60 people rockin out to the punk band and eating loads of crap, pizza, booze, garlic everything. Then the band came in and we got sweaty hugs. Basically they had closed the windows and cleaned the place up and we had no idea, and pregger ladies are suppose to have a heightened sense of smell! We were fooled!

They asked us what we thought and we were all shocked of course but the real shocker came when the production crew came in to tell us that we had actually been filmed the whole time for a commercial and cameras had been put all over the room and mics were hiding in the cushions we were sitting on. So they had to trick us to make the commercial work and for us to have the most natural response such fun. I can't say the product until the commercial comes out for legal reasons  but it rhymes with Rebreze hee hee!

This was us after the shoot with our cheeky driver!

All the preggers and Karlotta in the middle! She took such good care of us and felt so bad to have to lie to a bunch of pregnant ladies, bless her!

 
What an adventure, it was so great. I got to meet some amazing ladies and visit a beautiful city where I was totally taken care of. Baby Billings had a great time as well I think, the baby was so active the whole time, kicking and rolling around. I think Himer knew there were other babies around and was being sociable, I can't wait to tell Himer how he/she was in show business before he/she ever officially arrived in the world. Huge thanks to Sonia, Ciara, Corrie, Keely, Hannah and Kirsty for making the trip so special and now I have 6 new pregger friends and playmates for Baby billings!!!

We stood according to due date, from right Keely, 32 weeks, Corrie 30 weeks, Hannah 29 weeks, Me 29 weeks, Ciara 28 weeks, Sonia 26 Weeks and Kirsty 23 weeks Great Group of ladies! We took this at a fun Italian Restaurant and the staff want us to send them a picture, guess they don't see this many preggers together!

Um did you say only 12 more weeks till Operation Baby Billings???!!!

Catching some Vitamin D!

 So I find it hard to believe but I am entering into my 3rd trimester of growing a baby from scratch. What a glorious adventure. I am 28 weeks and counting and only have another 12 weeks, that's 3 more months until I get to see the little munchkin. I can't wait definitely getting to the point that I am wondering What do you look like? Are you going to be a beautiful boy or precious angel girl? Will you have my chin (let's hope not) or James nose (hummm). Are you going to be a astronaut or live in my basement until your 40? Ha ha only kidding.
Well I am still feeling good the baby is growing and I can feel it in my ribs as well as my back. Himer likes to kick my right rib and after a meal rest right on my stomach it feels like. But I can't complain I am still overjoyed and bewildered that we are capable of making another person and enjoying the ride day by day.   

It has been an amazing week of sunshine so getting some needed rays and doing a little cooking ;)