Where has the time gone? We’re officially 12 weeks today!! We are well into countdown to out scan (Wednesday) woohoo!! I can’t wait to see this little baby and know for sure he/she is growing well and active!!

I seemed to have a tummy growth spurt on Wed/Thurs this week, even Stewart said I looked bigger, bless him! He’s very protective of me and little baby!

My dentist has kindly agreed to let me drop back to NHS care so I can take advantage of my exemption for dental treatment (because I’m on a payment plan, he wasn’t obliged to let me use the exemption). So this saves us £17 per month until baby’s 1st birthday!! Excellent news!! He said it’s no problem for me to go back onto the plan after that!

Jellybean update!!:

Even though your little Einstein’s body is still growing quite rapidly 2 inches long right now, the overall super-speedy growth of their amazing brain continues to leave the head proportionately larger than the body— and is actually slightly more than one third of their total body mass! The head and neck are still straightening at this point as can be seen by their little chin lifting off of the chest. Your baby is also actively rehearsing “breathing” by using amniotic fluid to prepare the lungs for future air respiration.

The big news: your little pooper is now officially going to need diapers! Although a majority of the waste produced is transferred to the mother’s system for discharge (to avoid having it linger in the amniotic sac), some urine is released to the amniotic fluid and your baby will actually breathe it in before it passing it on to your for discharge. Not to worry, urine–in this particular form, is completely harmless to your baby.

Thanks to my trip to my dentist, I have barely eaten a decent meal since Thursday. I must say, my diet of slop, slop and more slop, is very…. appetising… to say the least If nothing else, I’m sure my waistline will benefit from this…

So tomorrow begins the search for a new dental practice, sounds like fun huh?! Failing that, I guess I’m gonna have to give in and go back to the butcher Not something I wish to do. I feel physically sick with nerves @ the very thought of this.

When I moved here in 2003, I had a lovely female dentist, she knew I had a fear of the numbing injection, and treated me very sensitively, and kindly. She left my practice approx a year and half ago and I was moved onto a new dentist. Now I have nicknamed my new dentist “The Butcher”… this started out as a joke. But if I tell you, the last time I went I had no work done except a clean and he flossed my teeth as well… he was so rough whilst flossing, the dental tape continually snapped, but he kept trying to force it between my teeth. Needless to say this put me off a little….Tonight, I had an appointment to have two fillings done, on the same side, one top tooth, one bottom tooth.

He drilled and drilled, but kept hitting my tooth nerve, I asked him to stop about 4 times, he MUST have seen the wincing in my face constantly… so what did he do?… plied me with more and more and more anesthetic Even one in the roof of my mouth I was so numbed up, I couldn’t swallow properly, couldn’t feel my throat, it was right up past my eye socket, couldn’t feel my right ear, and all the way down my jaw bone and neck. Now, that doesn’t really bother me so much…

He had to remove the nerve of my tooth, has packed it with antibiotic, and put a temporary dressing on. This is on the only side I can eat on, the dressing is virtually level with my gum, I can’t bare my top teeth touching it and he’s told me to “eat normally” on it…. He made me another app for MARCH!!!! to go back for root treatment, and to have a crown fitted (no idea what a crown is). I was so shocked, that by the time the I stepped foot out of the door, on my way back to the car, I was sobbing. Sobbed all the way home, couldn’t utter a word to hubby when I got in, and it took me a good 15 mins to calm down.

I don’t know that… 1. I can put up with this temp dressing for the next 4 months… 2. I could go back and allow him to do further work on my mouth… Ideally, I would like to request a new dentist… but I’m scared to incase he says something to the new one and I end up making things worse. I was a nervous wreck about going tonight, I can’t begin to imagine what I’ll be like in March. Anesthetic is wearing off now, and my jaw bone is AGONY.

What would you do…?