33 Weeks

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You know what's depressing... I just bought this white shirt about a month or two ago and I had AMPLE room! Now I've got to wear my belly band so that my gut isn't sticking out :P

Your baby now weighs about 4.2
pounds / 2 kilograms and measures approximately 17 inches/ 44 centimetres from
head to toe. Your baby should already be getting ready for delivery by turning
upside-down -- his head should be pointing down.

Your doctor or midwife will be
paying careful attention to your baby's position in the coming weeks -- some
babies do decide to turn back round again. Your baby's skull is still quite
pliable and not completely joined, in part so he can ease out of the relatively
narrow birth canal. But the bones in the rest of his body are hardening. Your
baby's skin is also gradually becoming less red and wrinkled.

If you're a first-time mother, your
child's head may move into the pelvis this week and press firmly against your
cervix. (This happens for about half of all first-time mothers.) If you're a
second-time mum, you can expect this to happen a week before labour -- and for
some this won't happen until the start of labour.

You may notice that your feet and
ankles are quite swollen by the end of the day. Water retention, also known as
oedema, is often worse in warm weather and late in the day. Surprisingly,
keeping hydrated helps reduce water retention. Your body -- particularly your
kidneys -- and your baby need plenty of fluids, so drink up. If you suddenly
feel swollen or puffy in your hands or face, however, call your doctor -- it may
be a sign of pre-eclampsia.

50 Days Left!

Oh goodness, this due date is creeping up on me.

I'm starting to feel the regular aches and pains associated with the third trimester. I find I have to pace myself in my regular house hold duties and I've got to sit down a lot more than usual, my stamina isn't like it use to be.

My hips are a major ouchies right now. I can't lie on my side anymore, I find that if I'm playing with Robbie on the floor and go to get up I'm in some serious pain. I had the same kind of pains when I was lying in bed with Robbie while I read a bed time story to him, so now I sit on the floor right on the edge of his bed :( It's not the same as crawling into bed with him and cuddling.

This little girl loves to boot the *beep* out of me... especially around 8-9pm, that's her peak time. I forgot why pregnant women put their hands on their bellies, to keep the baby from bursting out of the skin! It seriously feels that way, especially on my right side. She pushes so hard and so fast that I'm quickly pushing her back because it feels like she's going to rip through my flesh!

For the past couple of mornings I've been wide awake right around the time that Colin gets up to go to work (6am) it's kind of nice to see him off to work and then I get to watch the news before Robbie wakes up.

A little side note, I'm part of an online pregnancy message board and three (yes, 3) of our December moms have already had their babies. Two of them weighed 3lbs and a bit and the other one weighed 7lbs (and he was just 33 weeks old). Crazy, hey?!?!

Ultrasound Day

Well it was quite a good visit. The tech was asking me why I was coming back for another u/s and I told her that I was told I had a low lying placenta, as soon as she started looking at my placenta she said that it's not even close to the cervix.... hooray! I asked her to confirm the sex, it is a girl. Her head is down and she is weighing.... get this.... 4lbs 7oz!! eeeek! I'm not going to lie, I left the building and had a little bit of a break down. I remember reading that the baby usually gains a pound a week (give or take), so that would make for one massive baby, but after doing some research she's just under a pound over the average weight for her age... so I'm happy that I probably won't be having a 10lbs baby! Her heartbeat was a surprising 136, very low compared to the ones recorded in the past.

It's pretty depressing when your maternity shirts don't cover you any more. I have a handful of shirts that still fit me and they're my cheap shirts boughten from Old Navy, all my Thyme and Motherhood (maternity store) brands don't fit me! I think it's a conspiracy for me to have to buy more clothes from them (which I refuse to do when I've got less than 2 months to go!) I'm hoping I can find a good sale at Old Navy or H&M so that I can get at least one more pair of pants (my jeans are the only pants that fit me now, aside from my PJ pants)

My belly button resembles....

It's official, I have an outie now. It's not prominent as it just popped out, but give it a couple of weeks and I'm sure you'll be able to see it through my shirts.

32 Week Development

Your baby now weighs approximately 3.75
pounds/ 1.7 kilograms and is about 17 inches / 42 centimetres long from head to
toe. Although his lungs won't be fully developed until just before birth, your
little one is inhaling amniotic fluid to exercise his lungs and practise
breathing.

Some babies have a head of hair already,
others have only a few wisps. Thick hair at birth doesn't necessarily mean thick
hair later on but children with fine hair in childhood usually have thinner hair
in adulthood.

If your baby is a boy, his testicles
should be descending from his abdomen into his scrotum. Sometimes however, one
or both testicles won't move into position until after birth. In two-thirds of
all baby boys who have undescended testicles at birth, the condition corrects
itself by the boy's first birthday.

You're probably gaining a pound/ 450 grams
a week, largely because your baby is likely to gain more than half his
birthweight during the seven weeks before delivery. Make sure you are eating
well in these last few weeks.

I'm sick.... again

I think I'm going to live off of soda crackers, ginger ale and water for the remainder of my pregnancy.

Woke up at 4 with the EXACT same thing I got during Thanksgiving. Vomit and diarrhea. This may get too detailed (stop now if you've got a sensitive stomach) My food was partially digested so when throwing it up it stung my throat SO BAD and now my teeth feel... raw? Does that make sense? I don't know how bulimics do it, then again - they probably don't wait 8-9hrs before getting rid of it.

I was hoping to get a full nights sleep because I didn't get the best of sleep last night... I guess not. Hopefully I feel better by tonight. I got Colin to go out and pick me up some ginger ale to sip on, it hurts to sip. My throat is raw.

Sorry for the whining, I just hate vomiting.

Dr's Appt @ 31wks 5days

This is so depressing.... I weigh 161 lbs. I swear, I've got at least 10 lbs per boob.

Doctor's happy with the progress, I'm measuring bang on and her heart beat was 147. Colin asked him if her head was still down and he said yes, he mentioned that he'll do a quick ultrasound around the 36 week mark to determine where baby's positioned. This Monday I go for the big ultra sound to find out if the placenta's moved or not! (keep your fingers crossed that there's no issues)

I see the Dr again in 2 weeks time :)

I'm Exhausted!

Between this little peanut and Robbie, I haven't been getting as much sleep.

Robbie's started experiencing night terrors, thankfully he doesn't seem to traumatized and he's fairly easy to get back to sleep. But it seems like I can't get to bed before midnight because this little baby keeps on beating me up and when I get up to take care of Robbie she decides to wake up and start making herself known again!

I guess she's just preparing me for when she actually joins this family.

31 Weeks

Your baby's arms, legs and body
continue to fill out -- and they are finally proportional in size to her head.
She weighs about 3.3 pounds/1.5 kilograms and looks more like a newborn. She
measures about 16 inches/ 41 centimetres from crown to toe.

You may notice your baby isn't
moving around as much. Don't worry; she's just running out of space in your
uterus. As long as you can feel her squirming, you'll know she's just fine.
Believe it or not, she still has plenty of growing to do. You can expect her to
gain at least two more pounds/900 grams before delivery.

Your baby's organs are
continuing to mature and she is passing water from her bladder: good practice
for the urinating she'll do after she's born. Soon you can wonder what your baby
is wishing for -- brain scans have shown that fetuses have periods of dream
sleep around month eight. You've probably gained three to four pounds / 1.3 to
1.8 kilograms this month. Gaining a pound/450 grams a week is quite normal
during the last trimester as your baby has a final growth spurt before
birth.

Well this week has been pretty good. I still feel great compared to Robbie's pregnancy. This week she's started kicking me... to the point where I let out yelps. Seriously, I think she bruises me from the inside. Yeasterday we were visiting with some friends, I was in the middle of a conversation when all the sudden she booted me just bellow my right rib and I almost cried, everyone looked at me like I was crazy and then Colin pipes up and says "NOT YET! I'M NOT READY!" We moved the two beds downstairs so we're officially in nursery mode. Robbie's been currious about all the new bedding, bumper pads, pillows, etc. I've been letting him play with them as much as he wants, I don't want any resentment. He took her bumper pads and laid it out on the floor, he had a blast walking on it like a tight rope while calling it "a bridge".

I go for another Dr's appointment on Wednesday, hopefully it won't be an hour and a half wait again.

OH! I moved into another box! If you look at the ticker I have one more box left!!!!

On a Happier Note

The baby's crib bedding and her Christmas dress came in the mail today! Now that we've got the bedding we're going to start assembling the nursery!! Hooray!!

Mommy's Sick

We had a great Thanksgiving dinner with all of our family (Colin's side) after I had two MAJOR helpings my back starting acting up so we decided to head home so that I can take a Tylenol and relax my back. Once I got home I was feeling really off and stayed up a little later than Colin did. At 2 am I woke up and was constantly burping up turkey, at 2:30 I threw up everything in my tummy. Half an hour later I got the urge to vomit again, but all that came out was bial... my body was trying to expel something that wasn't there, I couldn't stop my stomach from contracting. I finally went to bed around 4am with the shakes, thankfully I was able to get a couple hours of sleep before Robbie woke up. When I got up I had some serious diarrhea and felt like I had just been hit by a train, I had some toast to try and get some nutrients back into my body - at first I wasn't sure if it was going to stay down but it thankfully did. After about an hour or two I started feeling a little better... just physically tired from what my body had put me through the night before. After I having a little nap when Robbie napped I felt a little better, my tummy seemed to be back to normal... boy was I wrong.

I was up 5 times throughout the night last night with diarrhea and still have it this morning. I called Grammie and she said to stick to a clear diet, I obviously have a bug and if I eat heavier foods it's just going to keep nourishing the bug. So I'm making Jello right now and for meals I'll have soup, ginger ale and Popsicles.

Through everything my body's been through it seems like baby's still doing well, she's still kicking up a storm and keeping me up at nights.

30 weeks 1 day *Belly Pictures*

Do you like the shirt?!

Yay!!! 10 more weeks to go!!!!

Baby's bedding should be her next week so once that gets here we're going to start setting up the nursery, the two beds will go downstairs and I'll start washing the clothes that I have for her. I'm quite impressed with how much mobility I still have, the Snoogle has healed all my hip pains! I do get heartburn once in a while but nothing that a tum or two can't handle! I'm still able to get up on my own (usually) and I'd like to think that my belly doesn't slow me down that much. I'm still getting a fair amount of Braxton Hicks', yesterday I got 3 back to back - one of which hurt. Colin gets worried every time I get one, it's pretty cute to see him get nervous. You can see the wheels in his head turning every time I get one "what else do we need to do before this little girl arrives?" He just sits there and makes a mental list.

Your baby's lungs and digestive
tract are almost fully developed. While your baby may soon slow up growing in
length, (he measures about 15.7 inches/ 40 centimetres from crown to toe by
now), he will continue to gain weight until he's born.

This week your baby continues to
open and shut his eyes. He can probably see what's going on in utero,
distinguish light from dark and even track a light source. If you shine a light
on your stomach, your baby may move his head to follow the light or even reach
out to touch the moving glow. Some researchers think baring your stomach to
light stimulates visual development. But don't expect 20/20 vision when your
baby is born -- newborns can see a distance of only about 8 to 12 inches/ 20 to
30 centimetres. (Children with normal vision don't reach 20/20 vision until
about age 7 to 9.) To complete the picture, your baby now has eyebrows and
eyelashes.

A pint and a half/around a litre of
amniotic fluid now surrounds your baby but that volume decreases as he gets
bigger and has less room in your uterus. As you and the baby continue to grow,
don't be alarmed if you feel breathless, as if you can't get enough air; it's
just your uterus pressing against your diaphragm. There is a light at the end of
the tunnel though. At about 34 weeks (or just before delivery, if this is your
second or third pregnancy), your baby's head will move down into your pelvis as
the baby gets into the right position for birth. That will make breathing and
eating a lot easier

Worst Night EVER!!

I can handle the sore hips, I can handle the heartburn... hell, I can even handle the insomnia.
What I'm having a really hard time with is my emotions. There are times when I just can't explain to Colin why I break down and cry all of the sudden. I feel so bad for him because I know he just wants to help but I just can't stop the tears.

Last night I started crying right after we put Robbie to bed (at 8:30) and I decided to go to bed too because I didn't sleep well the night before. Well I ended up sleeping from 9-6:30.... great, right?! NOPE. I don't think I should have gone to bed crying because I think that relayed into my dreams. I dreamt (damn it, here come the tears again) that Robbie and I were in a sky rise building that came crashing down. We lost each other in the mayhem of people pushing and shoving while trying to get out... I got out, my baby didn't. How could I produce such a horrible thought? Why is my body doing this to me?! I don't want to even think about something like that happening, let alone visualizing it.

Of course, I woke up in tears asking Colin for a hug. Poor Colin, I go to bed crying and wake up crying.

Dr's Appt

Well, after waiting AN HOUR AND FIFTEEN MINUTES! We were finally seen by the doctor.

Here's the stats:
Hearbeat - 162
Mommy's weight - 157lbs (I gained 5lbs in 2 weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Baby's measuring right on target and is still facing down. I passed my gestational diabetes test (the blood work I did on Wed) so I don't have to get poked any more!!

Funny story:
While we were waiting, there was a mom there with her 6 week old son - Colin got COMPLETELY spooked!! Reality hit him upside the head right then and there that we're going to have one of those. He seems to have forgotten how to handle a newborn, how to feed, etc. Then he started thinking about Robbie and adding a newborn into the mix... he was VERY overwhelmed, he didn't like it when I told him that we've got 10 weeks to go come Friday.. hahahaha!

My next appt will be in another 2 weeks and ultrasound is booked in the last week of October (to check placenta status).

29 weeks!

Hooray for us, we've made it so far already!! Baby's holding up really well, she's always moving on the right side of my belly... very rarely does she kick/jab on the left side which always catches me off guard because I've become so use to her movements.

Went for my blood work on Wednesday and this Monday I go for another Dr's appointment, It feels like I just saw him yesterday!! I've booked my follow up ultrasound for the end of this month, hopefully the placenta's on the move (upward!)

We're slowly starting to accumulate clothing for this peanut. Grammie's knitting itch is in full swing, she's already knitted two little hats for her! It's still hard for me to look at pink and come to terms that I'm having a girl, just yesterday I came across the sweetest little outfit but opted not to get it because.... I really don't know why, it's just unfamiliar territory. (I know, I'm crazy!)

Your baby's head is getting bigger and his brain is developing billions of
neurons (important for later learning) at an amazing rate. His nutritional needs
are growing too. To meet his body's demands, you'll need plenty of protein,
vitamin C, folic acid and iron. His bones in particular are soaking up lots of
calcium right now, so drink your milk (or if you don't like the taste, try
calcium-enriched orange juice).