33 Weeks came a little late

It's been a crazy week-- we closed on our new house on Monday! It was a relief and a looong day. I'm getting more and more behind on these blogs, but I did manage to get a picture on Thursday, amidst all the work on the house. Mom came and helped me and boy, am I glad she did. I actually did get a good bit of work done on Thursday, surprisingly. This huge belly didn't hold me back as much, but my body felt it the next day, and is still feeling it. I could really use a ibuprofen right about now!

I feel like I've started the "pregnant waddle" as of late. I'm wondering if the baby has "dropped", as they say. Maybe the doctor will tell us on Wednesday. She's still moving quite a bit, and I can almost always feel a body part somewhere on my stomach. Hard to believe I might have a 5 lb. baby in my belly right now! She listens to our conversations and might remember music she's hearing right now. We painted her nursery Thursday and it's looking good! I can't wait to get things moved in!

Here are a couple of belly pics from Thursday, in front of the house:

32 Weeks: The Waiting Game

My post is a little late this week-- I guess I've been slacking here at the Blog. Mini is still super active and has definitely grown. We no longer have to press our hand to my belly to feel a good kick. I can very much feel a baby body rolling and kicking and punching around and, oftentimes, I can see it, too.

The doctor yesterday said I was measuring 1 or 2 weeks ahead, and Mini is still head down and would probably stay that way. Measuring 1 or 2 weeks ahead basically means she might be a little bigger than average. He said I wouldn't be having a six pound baby. I laughed and said "I know".

So, it's 32 weeks, and we wait. I could have anywhere from 6 to 9 weeks to go. I'm already feeling big and it's hard to do things like bend down and do any sort of thing that exerts myself for too long. We're still waiting to move into our house also, so I've been packing... slowly. I'm beyond ready to be in the house now. We had expected to be in there for at least over a week now, so I'm feeling a little homesick.

I've been having a lot of Braxton-Hicks contractions (practice contractions), which I've decided to shorten to "Bricks" for brevity's sake, since I have them so often and saying "Braxton-Hicks" ten times a day gets old. They're pretty rough and require me to stop and rest somewhere and catch my breath, at the least. I'm kind of hoping that since my body is practicing so early, that I will not go all the way to 40 weeks. But as a first time mother, I know I shouldn't hope too hard for that or I will feel very disappointed when I'm sitting around at 41 weeks and not in labor.

Tyler and I can't wait to meet our baby right now. It's fun interacting with her and everything is starting to become more real. We have even narrowed down our name choices, so I promise you we won't be calling her "Mini" after she's born! :)

here's some pics.

I included this one just because it shows the best how big I really am.

31 Weeks: Yawn

The past week has marked the seeming return of the first trimester. I've been a major sleepyhead. I've also had moments of nausea-- but not too bad. Mainly, I just start getting sleepy at like 8pm and easily fall asleep before midnight, which is unusual for me. And then I still want a nap throughout the day. I guess I should be happy about this, because most pregnant women at this stage are having problems getting any sleep. I'm still getting up to go to the bathroom a couple of times a night (sometimes just once!), but I'm half asleep and I fall right back to sleep when I do.

At our last doctor's appointment, we found out Mini is already head down, so that's good. I'll keep doing my exercises that promote a head-down position though. She's still wiggling and kicking and punching. Last night, we played a song in the car with a very pronounced beat, and she started punching! Ha, the girl likes 90's rock music already! :)  The night before the shower, I couldn't sleep already, and she got the hiccups, and I could really tell she was head down, because it felt like she was rhythmically tapping my bladder area! It was funny, except that I wanted to sleep and they went on for quite a while, haha.

I want to write all about the wonderful shower, but I want to have pictures to post when I do. So it will be another week or two before I do that. It was a fun day and everything was beautiful and the food was delicious. Can't wait to see the pics!


Here are the belly pics this week. It was hot. The hill was steep. And I had to pee.
.....I did my best.

30.5 weeks

I decided to wait and take a belly pic at the shower this past weekend. In about a week and a half, I should have official baby shower pictures to post. Yea!