BABY: Pregnancy update - March - weeks 23-27

So far, touch wood, I've had a relatively simple pregnancy - posting at 28 weeks + 2 days - which I have to admit is nice.
As anyone that knows me well, I'm hyper-organised, so we've been getting a few little things sorted with the nursery and planning my baby shower.

I had my 25 week midwife appointment which went as well as can be expected. Despite forgetting my notes and having a different midwife, anyway. Baby Bee's heartbeat is currently at 142bpm and very active, like I didn't know!!

We seem to be settling into a waking routine between us, which includes lots of kicks at 8am, 11am, 2pm 4pm and 7pm and sometimes between 9pm-11pm. It's a nice little routine and bodes well hopefully for when they come into the world!

We've also started sorting out all the baby clothes we've been collecting, including some new purchases (the above Badger jumper/cardigan from John Lewis was an obvious purchase for us, so thank you Dann - can we also appreciate the uber cuteness of John Lewis baby clothing). Plus I've had a little sort of the nursery, though we have a long way to go yet!

FOOD: Pork and Hungarian Pepper Sauce - Jamie's 15 minute dish

You guys know how much I am loving cooking at the moment right? And how much I love writing recipe posts and trying new foods, well today includes another new recipe from Jamie's 15 minute meals. 

This time around we have pork steaks with Hungarian pepper sauce and rice. It's a nice take on pork in a tomato-based sauce with rice. And as always it's a pretty simple to pull together.   

FOOD: Friday Night Greek Chicken

We're loving the easiness of coucous in our house at the moment. It basically cooks itself and is so easy, especially for those busy weekday evenings.
Today's foodie post is a yummy Friday night dinner, healthy but a little cheeky too and all ready in less than 30 minutes.
Be warned, this recipe uses a lot of couscous, so if you need to half the measures that's cool as we ended up with about three spare portions afterwards (which were handy for work lunches the next weeks). You can see the full recipe in this book.

BABY: Gender Neutral Wish List

As I'm now 24 weeks pregnant I'm starting to think more and more about clothing for Baby Bee. 

Because we're not finding out the gender we are going down the gender neutral route which can be a little tricky I'm not going to lie. 

Almost everywhere that sells children's and baby clothes section them out by gender, with huge collections of pink tutu's, and dinosaur onesies. Now we don't exactly need masses of clothes as we really only need gender neutral for the first couple of months until well we know what Baby Bee is, and then we'll be buying more gender specific clothing. 

FOOD: Simply Green Tea Salmon

A new foodie post and this one is a super healthy dinner option. This Green Tea Salmon with Coconut Rice and Wok Fried Greens is a great dinner for those wanting something easy, delicious and healthy with Chinese/Thai inspirations. This was really popular with Dann, especially before training in the evenings, and a great way to get in that all important fish into your diet.