Wordless Wednesday

When Amanda needs a volunteer to pick up Krispy Kreme for the office

...and the "Hot Now" sign is on when I get there

How I felt finishing my 3rd plate of Thanksgiving dinner

When someone asks if I want to go Black Friday shopping

When my 13th friend due within a month from me finds out the gender!

CONGRATS to all my friends recently engaged/married/pregnant! (FOUR baby announcements on Thanksgiving alone..wow) Always exciting to have these fill up my news feed every Holiday season :-)

29 weeks + bumpdate

Grow baby grow!

Before I begin this post, I want to take a second to recognize all of the strong children who were born prematurely and the parents and medical teams who cared for them! Last week, I learned about World Prematurity Day and saw just how many of my friends had their babies early. This came on the same day I watched that new show on TLC about the quintuplets for the first time. I was 28 weeks + 2 days that day and these quints were born at 28 + 2! 

At 24 weeks, a pregnancy is considered viable. The baby may survive the 50/50 chance, but it comes with significant health risks. By week 28, however, the chances of baby's survival increase to 90-95% although organs are not completely formed yet. These quints were sooo tiny and each born with a heart murmur, one with a collapsed lung, and one with Nystagmus. Needless to say, I got very emotional watching it and couldn't imagine giving birth that day...knowing how little and helpless my baby would be! But they did survive, and after 3 more months in the hospital, they each got to go home!

It's a Buzz World

As I said in the last post, now that I'm in my 3rd trimester, I'm seeing the doctor now every 2 weeks. We won't have another US unless she sees a slow in baby bump growth, decreased baby kicking, or I have (knock on wood) a medical concern or complication between now and January. So hang on there baby, you're not done bakin' yet!

Baby's size: The size of an eggplant and pushing 3 lb!

Total weight gain: 14 lb...I am feeling so round these days! I stepped onto a high bench to move a curtain yesterday and felt a new sense of gravitational pull weighing me down haha

How do you feel? It's getting harder to get up quickly, and I'm starting to feel a general body discomfort which makes me irritable more easily. Laying flat on my back is impossibly painful after just a few minutes and I miss laying on my stomach! Sleeping is still comfortable as long as I'm on my side, although I don't always sleep through the whole night without waking up. I find myself short of breath after doing minimal tasks, and feel like my heart is racing for no reason sometimes. Ugh. 

Nursery progress: It's in a bit of disarray and is looking worse before it's going to look better! I pulled the dresser out of the room and spent the weekend repainting it white. I really love the way it turned out, and plan on hanging some floating shelves above it. Nesting phase has arrived in full force and I'm feeling compelled to pay for someone to come in and just do a deep clean. Still need to find (or make) a slipcover for the glider, and dad and I are planning out the closet update. 

Moment of the week: Mathias got to feel baby hiccups last night!! I've only felt them once a week for the past 3 weeks, and it was so awesome to have Mathias catch one of these miracle moments!

I have the next few days off and boy do I need it! We are travelling back to WV for Thanksgiving and his parents are hosting our first baby shower this weekend! I am super excited :-D

27 weeks = Hello 3rd trimester!

We're hitting another milestone this week and getting into the home stretch! I want to say this pregnancy has been a breeze but I want to knock on wood at the same time because I feel like I'm entering what will probably be the more difficult 3 months. I had my gestational diabetes test last week which wasn't a bad process at all. Passed, but barely! I even declined the Halloween candy the night before. I was not a happy camper when I couldn't have my nightly bowl of ice cream either...but thank goodness I don't have to take the 3hr test! Now that I'm in 3rd trimester, my doctor visits increase from monthly to every 2 weeks.

Baby's size: 15in. long and a little over 2lb

Total weight gain: 12lb. With each new week my little innie is slowly becoming an outtie!

How do you feel? I've noticed my balance has been a little worse standing on one leg especially when trying to put pants or shoes on. I did a slow motion fall in the bedroom once trying to lean over to grab something. I had acid reflux a few nights after dinner. I've never experienced this before in my life and Tums didn't seem to help but drinking milk with dinner did. I think I may need to see a chiropractor at some point in the next month or two. I feel so out of alignment and I can no longer pop my back on my own.

What else? It has officially become uncomfortable to bend over and tie my shoes! I also have to be quick about it when I'm putting socks on or I run out of breath. I can also no longer see the underside of my belly! I made a joke about it last week telling Mathias I'd need a mirror to know what's going on down there and he spit his drink out he started laughing so hard! 

Moment of the week: Last weekend, I felt baby hiccups for the first time! At least I'm pretty sure that's what they were. It was too consistent and rhythmic to just be kicks. It only lasted a few minutes and hasn't happened since then, but it felt really neat against my hand!