Week 31

Week 31, 3rd Trimester, some say end of month 7 others beginning of month 8. I like to think of it as two more full months (Feb & March) then this baby is welcome anytime in April (although early April would be preferable). But if your listening little girl March will mess up my maternity leave plans so try not to come that early. Your dad and I were shooting for after April on purpose.

An average sized baby is about 18 inches and 3 pounds this week. And is expected to gain at least 3-5lbs more before birth. I can tell she's getting bigger and bigger each week. Her kicks and rolls these past two weeks have been totally different than before. With less room to move around it went from feeling like quick forceful movements, to long slow powerful and painful rolls and jabs (how's that for a descriptive run-on sentence)!

New Crib

Good news, the baby's new crib has arrived, I guess she wont have to sleep in a drawer after all.

When I went to pick up the box last Thursday evening, the lady said it took her about 3 hours to put together their floor model and to give ourselves plenty of time.

So when I got home and suggested to Ben he wait until the weekend because it could be a timely project, my comment was taken as a challenge.

Instead of going to sleep after our baby class last Thursday night we (Ben) put the crib together. 

Overall it was a success and only took 1 hour. 

Week 30

Nothing new to report, I just keep getting bigger and bigger...

Week 28

Lauren from blog With Two Cats used our baby room rug in an office design board today With Two Cats: design board. She had a baby girl, named Violet last year. This post is inspired by her weekly pregnancy update question and answer. I thought it would be fun to answer the same questions she posed at 28 weeks….

Weekly Pregnancy Update:

How far along? 28 Weeks

Stretch marks? Not yet...

Sleep: There are bad nights and not so bad nights. The body pillow has really helped. The Charlie horses are less frequent and not as scary now that I’ve learned not to panic and just work on stretching them out. I usually wake up around 3:30am to use the bathroom and try not to wake the rest of the house up in the process. Ziggy has finally learned that it’s not time to go outside and run around, and if I’m quiet enough the cats will stay asleep in the office and not meow to get let out.

Best moment of the week: Starting our Birthing Class last Thursday. I really like the midwife ‘instructor’ and think it’ll be a great recap after reading the birthing/baby books.

Movement: All over almost all the time. She’s usually still/sleeping from 8am-12pm and then the kicking and punching resumes.

Food cravings: Usually a fruit smoothie or anything with crushed ice.

Gender: Still a girl… I’m assuming.

Labor Signs: Nope

Belly Button in or out? I’ll call it flush, not poking out yet

What I miss: Going running, it would be great to be able to move quickly without pain.

What I'm looking forward to: Our new rocker/glider/recliner chair should be delivered on Friday.

Weekly Wisdom: Going two weeks without doing yoga is not a good thing. I feel stiff all over, tonight is the night from some serious stretching

Milestones: We’re officially in the 3rd trimester, 2/3 of the way done. YAY!!

30 B4 30 revisited

With the start of the new year I thought it would be fun to revisit my 30 before 30 list. Since starting this list in September I/we (let’s be honest I couldn’t have done most of them without Ben’s help) have crossed off quite a few items.

#3 New rug for front living room

Our front living room is finally looking ‘put together’ with the addition of a new rug, chairs and bookshelf.

#7 Curtains for bedroom window

Also our bedroom got some much needed curtains and a new matching rug. Unfortunately we didn’t realize until it was all rolled out how uncomfortable it is to stand on barefooted, and Ziggy won’t even sleep on it. So at night we pull his bed out from under ours over the rug, otherwise he just paces around all night looking for a place to sleep close by. The things we do for these animals!

#29 Buy a new car

And we bought a new car! 2010 Jeep Liberty just before Christmas. I dont have photo handy of the new car so here's one of Ziggy instead.

Week 27

New belly photos...

It's getting harder and harder to move around, sometimes I cant believe we still have three months-ish to go.

Baby girl is still kicking and rolling around like crazy, she really likes to kick between 2 and 4am. Just enough to wake me up then I cant get back to sleep. Everyone says it's just practice for when the baby comes, but really it would be nice sleep through the night while I still can.

Finally broke down and bought a body pillow. Didn't think I would need one but it's so nice to have. And much easier than strategically placing loose pillows everywhere.





Baby room details

On Saturday Ben and I attempted to put up the wall decal in the baby room. We got the tree and some of the large leaves/flowers up before it all started falling down. I took this photo to share before it turned into one sticky mess. So sad, our best guess is that our walls are too textured for the decal to stick.

1/3 of wall decal



Flower/Leaves remaining

But I did successfully put some pretty shelving paper in all the drawers. Although it did take a while since it's getting harder and harder to move around.