32 weeks!

We had another appointment with our doctor today. She is still not worried about my weight gain and says that everything is going great. Lily is already in a head down position and shouldn't change in the next 8 weeks. I actually had a bunch of questions for my doctor this time instead of the usual none when she asks. I found out that she is the doctor that is working 12/24-26 so if Lily decides to come on Christmas I will still get to have my doctor there. If she comes much later than that though I will probably have to have someone else from the practice deliver her. I also found out that if I go past my due date she will induce as early as a couple days after, but will also let me go up to 2 weeks if I want. Right now I think I would like to wait as long as possible so that Lily has all the time she needs to "bake", but I'm sure that if my due date comes and goes I might be changing my mind slightly. The doctor also said that she wouldn't do anything to stop labor after 36.5 weeks. That is only 4 weeks and a couple days away! We have so much to do.

Sean and I got our Halloween costumes today. While we didn't end up getting what I had planned I'm very happy with what we got. I will definitely post pictures next week.

I am going to do my first attempt of freezer meals or "once a month cooking" in a couple weeks. I figure we will want to have some homemade dinners on hand after we get back from the hospital and I have a free weekend coming up soon. I have picked out all the recipes I want to do, now all I have left is to go shopping and actually prepare the food. I am hoping this will become something I like doing because it would be so much easier to just pull a meal out of the freezer than to come home from work and make a meal from scratch.

Maternity floor tour

Monday Sean and I went on a tour of the maternity floor at the hospital where we are going to deliver. It seems really nice there. All of the rooms are private rooms and the nurses that we met along the way were all really nice and helpful. Our tour guide kept making sure we were standing by the nursery if she had anything to talk about for a long time that didn't require us to be in a specific room (registration, visitation rules, etc.) so that we could look at all the tiny babies. I think many of the guys in the group were more excited to see the little ones than all us moms were. All the moms were listening intently while the guys were oohhing and ahhhing. The nurses in the nursery kept bringing little babies up to the windows for us to see. They were all so adorable and made me want to be able to hold Lily that much more.

Seeing all the little ones and being on the maternity floor made me realize just how soon we are going to have our little girl. I know I have the constant reminder of her with her little kicks, and all the baby stuff filling up our house, but this really made it seem real. In a couple months we will be going into the hospital just the two of us and coming out a family of 3. (Or 4 if you count Selene!). While our house is piling up with stuff, there is still so much to get.

Mom and I went to a consignment sale recently and I was able to get a lot of stuff. Many of the things off my registry for a fraction of the price. There was so much stuff there that it was slightly overwhelming. I'm sure I could have found more, but I was starting to get tired and didn't want to end up buying things that I would later regret just because I was not thinking clearly.

So evidently I look huge. Everyone keeps telling me how much weight I have gained (as if I didn't notice on my own) and that they think either I'm carrying twins and one was just hiding or that I am actually due sooner than what my doctor tells me. I figure that since my doctor isn't worried about any of these things than neither am I. I do have another appointment on Monday with her so hopefully she will still not be worried. I will post pictures probably after this weekend when we take more.

I know this post has gotten really long, but there is one last thing. I just wanted to say congrats to some friends of ours that had their twin boys on Monday. While they were born early they both seem to be doing great (and mom looks wonderful). I am very happy for their family of two becoming a family of four.

3/4 complete

Yesterday marked 30 weeks. That means I am 3/4 of the way done. Only 10 more weeks to go. That also means just over 10 weeks before Christmas. Even before I got pregnant I was planning on trying to shop for Christmas gifts throughout the year instead of doing the mad rush at the end. Then I found out I was due right before Christmas and decided that I HAD to shop early otherwise there would be no gifts from us. I did really well with this for a couple weeks, but still am not done. My goal is to have all the shopping done by Halloween. Now I just have to motivate myself to actually go to the store instead of sit on my couch all day on the weekends.

Lily is moving more and more everyday. There are times where I feel like I should go to the doctor to make sure she didn't break one of my ribs or injure one of my organs. (OK, not really, but sometimes she does kick so hard it hurts.) Along with moving more, I'm realizing that her wake and sleep schedule has changed a little bit with more time awake and less asleep. I hope this changes with she comes out so that I will be able to get some rest.

I am hungry all the time now, but never can eat that much. I feel like I am constantly munching on stuff throughout the day because when I sit down for a meal I can only eat about 5 bites before I'm full. About 30 minutes after the meal I am hungry again though. I was looking forward to all the stereotypical ideas of pregnancy and being able to eat a whole bag of chips in one sitting and still be wanting more. I'm sure it is better for me that I'm not eating that much, but this is supposed to be the one time that I can eat anything and everything.

Hiccups and New Haircuts

I'm sitting here early on a Thursday morning wide awake because Lily has been active for the past 2 hours. Her moving, combined with horrible heartburn and Sean's snoring, prompted me to actually get out of bed. So now here I am on the computer. Selene seems very confused as to why I am up before the sun and has fallen asleep on my feet under the desk. Lily had the hiccups for a little bit a few minutes ago and shortly after she got them so did Selene. It was really weird to feel both of them having hiccups at the same time. There were moments where they were almost in time with each other. I'm not sure what caused both to have the hiccups, but I think they are gone.

I got my hair cut on Monday so we took our weekly picture a day late so my hair looked cute in it instead of my typical ponytail. I was kind of worried about how short it is because I can't put it in a ponytail, but I styled it myself yesterday for the first time and it was super easy to do and didn't take that much time. It will probably grow just enough by December that I will be able to put it up at least partially so that I won't have to spend a lot of time and energy to do it. Not that I will have time or energy, or any desire, to do anything besides take care of Lily come December.

29 weeks

Baby's now the size of a squash!

Baby's energy is surging, thanks to white fat depositing beneath his skin. And since he's growing so fast (weight will triple by birth), things are getting kind of cramped in the womb. What all this means for you: Get ready for some more kicks and jabs to the ribs.




So fall has officially begun here. The temperature has decrease, the colors of the leaves have increase, and I hearing about pumpkin stuff everywhere I go. I have never been much of a pumpkin baked goods fan (except for pumpkin pie), but this year I can't seem to get enough. I love Starbucks' pumpkin spice latte, but definitely can't afford one as much as I would like, so I have settled on putting some pumpkin spice in my decaf coffee in the mornings. It kinda works, but is definitely not the same. I have a really good pumpkin dessert recipe from a friend that I think I'm going to make next weekend.

Tomorrow is another doctor appointment. I doubt this one will be any different from the past few, but it is still really exciting to get to hear Lily's heartbeat. While I love every time I get to hear her heart beat, I'm glad that isn't the only way I know she is doing well anymore. Now I have the wondering kicks to the ribs and the fact that she thinks my bladder is a punching bag as constant reminders. Sometimes I can't wait till she gets a little bigger and runs out of room because I hear the really strong kicks and punches will die down a bit.

I have enjoyed a wonderful long weekend this weekend filled with fun evenings with friends and being completely unproductive during the day. I have enjoyed sitting around the house, snuggling with the dog, and taking a nice long bath today. I think I'm going to continue the unproductive-ness with pjs, a bowl of ice cream, and some tv.

Hormonal Pregnant Lady

I'm starting to realize how "fun" pregnancy hormones can be. While I haven't gotten overly snippy, at least I don't think I have, the littlest things will make me cry. Let me give you an example. Yesterday I was getting ready for work. Now let me say, getting dressed has become more difficult recently, especially putting on pants. I lose my balance if I try to stand up while putting them on, but if I sit down it is quite a struggle to reach to put my feet in. So after struggling with my pants and getting them on I realize they are backwards! I just sat there on the edge of the bathtub and started crying. Not just a little weepy, but tears streaming down my face crying. I finally calmed myself down and put them on the right way, but was still kinda upset about it all day. The worst part of this story is that this was the second time it has happened. About two weeks ago I had the exact same problem with my pants and started crying. I really need to learn to look at my pants a bit more carefully before I put them on in the future.


This is the weekly picture of me from this past Sunday. 28 weeks pregnant.

Other than being overly emotional things are going really well. We have bought a few more things for the nursery. I have a 3 day weekend this weekend so hopefully I will be able to get that room a bit more organized. The last couple nights I have slept better than I had been. I still wake up on average 5-6 times a night either to go to the restroom or just roll over, but I'm going back to sleep faster than I was before. Unfortunately I'm still tired all the time. It isn't just that I feel like I could sleep all day, but that my body feels like it just participated in some workout that I don't remember doing.

On Monday I have another doctors appointment and then I am getting my hair cut! I'm super excited about that because the lady that cuts my hair is pregnant too and due about 2 weeks before me. Also on Monday Sean and I are going to visit our old campus neighbors. She is also pregnant and is due on Christmas, but she is having twins. It will be fun to compare my belly with both of theirs and swap stories.