33 weeks {the last}

Pose isn't exactly the same, but the belly is obviously bigger!!

Baby's size: According to Babycenter, baby should be 17.2" from head to heel and weigh 4.2#. Amazing that from here on out, most of the growth is in weight. The girls were born around 19.5" and 7#, so I can only imagine that this one will be similar.

How far along: 33w2d

Total weight gain: About 30#, going to the Y today to workout so I will check there.  Pretty much right on track with Emmy and Nora's weight gain.  Yay, looks like another 40+ lb pregnancy!!!
*Just got back from the Y and it has me up 28#...I think the battery on our home scale may be going out, I'm totally sticking with the 28# for this week's gain!

Sleep:  Sleep is going fairly well.  Try to empty my bladder plenty in the evenings so that I don't wake up in the middle of the night.  The biggest sleep issue right now is Nora, who is waking up between 515 and 530 most mornings.

Maternity Clothes: I'd say I'm in 90% maternity clothes.  I can still swing non maternity shorts/pants for working out and my medium T-shirts still fit (but they are living on borrowed time).  I have also fallen in love with maxi skirts, which will be nice to wear post-partum as well.

Food cravings: None. Zero. Zip Zilch. 

Food aversions: Water, carbs, sweets, anything with too much flavor

Symptoms: Still nauseous in the evenings and lower back pain (left sacrum area) and moody and mean.

Stretchmarks: None that I can see, but I feel like my belly is sticking out much further than it did for the other pregnancies- so there's still time!

Doctor’s Appointment: I have an appointment this Thursday.  Most appointments have been pretty uneventful, which is awesome.  I will ask to see how much longer I have to stay on the procardia.  It does it's job, but makes me so hot and flushed, which has been fine until recently with the warmer weather.
Movement: Tons of movement, mostly when I'm trying to go to sleep :)  I feel like I have an octopus in there!

Belly Button: The left side has completely popped.

Best moment of the week: Hmm, pregnancy brain is making it impossible to remember anything beyond 5 minutes ago.

What I’m looking forward to: Eating like a cow while nursing.  

What I miss: Carbs and sweets.  I wonder what my tastebuds will do after delivery

Preparations:  Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

iPhone Friday 05/23/14

This past week included:

1. A trip to mimi & papa's where Nora decided to be adorable long enough for a picture
2. Visiting Emmy's new school (Mayo Demonstration Academy, a Tulsa Public School)
3. Watching our plants grow, that hosta is so vain and such a show off.
4. Emmy's pre-k graduation and a field trip to the Tulsa Air and Space Museum
5. Accompanying Mimi at church while the congregation sang "Happy Birthday"

iPhone Friday 05/16/2014

This past week included:

• a weekend trip to OKC to watch the Redhawk's baseball game
• parent observation night at gymnastics
• first strawberry of the year
• mayfest (which definitely included corn dog and funnel cake eating!)
• pretty chalk art at school
• and the girls' takeover of our bed in the mornings.  No place is safe or private anymore.

31 weeks {the last}

baby surprise

Baby's size: According to Babycenter, baby should be 16" from head to heel and weigh 3.3#.

How far along: 31 weeks

Total weight gain: My home scale has me up at 26.5# or so, which is very similar to where I was with Emmy and Nora.   Yay, looks like another 40+ lb pregnancy!!!

Sleep:  Sleep is ok.  I go to bed around 1030-11 and wake a few times in the night for a bathroom trip, or Nora crying, or Chris snoring.  I have been amazed this time around how much more comfortable I am while sleeping.  We got a new mattress after Nora was born and it has made a world of difference.

Maternity Clothes: I'd say I'm in 80% maternity clothes.  I can still swing non maternity shorts/pants for working out and my medium T-shirts still fit (but they are living on borrowed time).  I have also fallen in love with maxi skirts, which will be nice to wear post-partum as well.

Food cravings: None. Zero. Zip Zilch. 

Food aversions: Water, carbs, sweets, anything with too much flavor

Symptoms: My belly button is sensitive to the touch (about 1/2 of it is poking out now).  

Stretchmarks: None that I can see, but I feel like my belly is sticking out much further than it did for the other pregnancies- so there's still time!

Doctor’s Appointment: Appt coming up this Friday.  It's a morning appointment so I might take the girls to school then sit at Starbucks for awhile until appointment time.  We had our 4d redo last week and it turned out great (Pictures here and Video here)

Movement: Tons of movement, mostly when I'm trying to go to sleep :)

Belly Button: The left side has completely popped.

Best moment of the week: Not having to do dishes last night after dinner.  It was the 3rd of my 3 Mother's Day requests and the one that turned out to be most successful.

What I’m looking forward to: Being able to move at human speed instead of tortoise speed.

What I miss: Being able to point my toes while I stretch my legs.  It's a guaranteed charlie horse if I try to point them....

Preparations:  Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

SO, the girls wanted to participate in the belly photo shoot this mornings...here's how their bellies are coming along.

Emmy's fears

I had the pleasure of having this little chat with Emmy last night...

E: why do only mommies have babies in their tummies
Me: that's just something special God lets us do
E: I don't want to be a mommy, I just want to be married without any kids
Me: that's fine, you don't have to have babies
E: well I do want to have babies, I just don't want to go to the hospital. I just want to have them at the doctor. I don't like the hospital, you know why? It's scary
Me: yes, it's big and is full of a lot of people we don't know- but it exists to help people

The dialogue then switched over to her being afraid of shadows but not my shadow. Then it switched to Eskimo kisses. This girl is a mastermind at stalling. She also might really be interested in home births some day... =)

Love,
Jordan