Getting tired of this

2 more weeks at work. I am quite lucky that I don't get overly tired yet. It's less than 8 weeks until little one is due and less than 5 weeks until she is full term. I always thought that she'd be like her Mummy and come as late as possible. But I get more and more tha feeling that she might be late Daddy instead and is too impatient to wait all that long. So she might come early. But maybe that's just wishful thinking...

Anyway, at work there still hasn't been anyone recruited as maternity cover. We had one interview which could be described as a flop. So many things are meant to be sorted out before I go anyway and that is just getting ridiculous.

I do notice increasingly that my attention span is going down. I wake up once or twice a night which doesn't help, sleeping on weekends is not so easy (prenatal care course, first aid course, central heating breaking down just when we have the first snow and constant power cuts). Don't ask. And driving 45 minutes each way to work or back is doing my poor back no favours.

It seems a little bit as if everybody expects that I get the work of the next 3-4 months crammed into those 2 weeks because nobody has been recruited yet. I can't do that. I am trying my best, honest, but I could do with a little support here. I know everyone is extremely busy and I don't want to play the 'But I am pregnant' card. But that doesn't mean I can suddenly work double as hard - I always am an extremely hard and quick worker anyway. But being pregnant does slow you down a little bit, rather than turning into super woman. But me being me I start feeling guilty of not achieving more.

I can't wait for the next 2 weeks to be over. I thought I'd dread it. But right now I can't wait for it. There is still so much to do at home as well. I need more baby clothes, haven't bought any creams, baby medication and cotton wools yet, I don't have baby bedding and want to look into a proper mattress for the travel cot. The cupboards in the nursery need wiping out, the adult bed disassembling and removing, we need shelves in the hanging wardrobe and I have a few baby books I haven't even opened yet. I want to try again how to change the buggy and how to use the car seat and - honestly? - I am looking forward to some good old fashioned sleep.

8 1/2 working days left. I'm sure they'll go by. Somehow.