Week 33

How far along: 33 weeks as of last Sunday!

Total Weight Gain: 16.8 lbs.

Maternity Clothes: Yeah…. I’m ready to get back into regular clothes.

Gender: BOY!

Movement: Tons! And of course he gets the hiccups daily!

Sleep: I’ve started waking up every night between 2-3 to use the restroom. (Sorry, TMI) I feel like sleep is about to start getting interesting.

What I Miss: Sleeping on my stomach! I know I’ve said this before, but I’ve been having trouble staying comfortable. I feel like I have so many pillows around me to keep me on my side but I still manage to sleep on my back.

Cravings: Water! (Does that count?!) I’ve been so thirsty this week. So much so that Billy has even noticed how much more I’m consuming.

Best Moment This Week: My work baby shower! Three of my closest coworkers planned it for me and we had a really good turn out. We received a lot of great gifts and TONS of gift cards! We were finally able to purchase a lot of the necessary items we were needing that we didn’t receive at our showers. I don’t have a lot of photos of the work shower but I’ll post it when I do the baby shower post.

Week 32

Not that great of a picture, but it’s the only one I ended up with this week. Also: new haircut!

How far along: 32 weeks as of last Sunday! We’ve been super busy so I’m posting this really late!

Total Weight Gain: 16 lbs.

Maternity Clothes: Yep! I love maternity pants haha. Why can’t all pants have a stretchy waist band?!

Gender: BOY!

Movement: It’s insane the difference from last week to this week. He’s so much bigger now that I can feel body parts right under my skin. It’s so strange and kind of freaky to watch.

Sleep: Still sleeping well, but it would be even better if I didn’t wake up 15 minutes before my alarm clock goes off everyday. Oh well. I’ll take all that I can’t get now, right?!

What I Miss: Being able to move freely and being light on my feet. If I’m sitting on the floor going through baby stuff or whatever I might be doing, the getting up process is much slower these days. I have to make sure I have my balance before I take off. Oh, and sometimes my roll out of bed is less than graceful. Our bed it really tall so I just roll and hope for the best. haha

Cravings: Back to old faithful… jalapenos! And salsa. Really anything with a kick to it.

Best Moment This Week: Going to the doctor on Tuesday, April 30th and checking up on my little man. My belly is 32 cm and his heartbeat was 140 bpm. Still growing good and everything is normal. Listening to the heartbeat never gets old. I ended up having that entire day off of work and it was so nice to just relax. I got my haircut which was really overdue and then I got some Baskin and Robbins ice cream and took a nap. Ha! It was an amazing day!

We have been incredibly busy this week. Monday we took an infant CPR class and then Saturday we took a breastfeeding class. The hospital we are delivering at offers free classes so we are taking advantage of those while we can. We have actually learned A LOT and received a lot of useful information that we had never even heard of before. Plus a lot of questions are getting answered in these classes and I have really enjoyed going to them. We are not going to be “by the book” parents because we have our own ideas on parenting and what child is really by the book anyway? We’ve had 10 years of being together and 6 years of being married to discuss our thoughts and ideas on parenting, but the things we are learning in the classes are actual tips that we can put to use if necessary. It helps us to feel a little more “prepared” I guess you could say.

We also dropped off our artwork to be framed on Saturday. Michael’s was finally having one of their 50% off framing sales so we took advantage of that and I’m so excited about getting them up on the wall. We are getting close to being done with the nursery so I’ll post pics of it once it’s complete.

Week 31

How far along: 31 weeks as of last Sunday!

Total Weight Gain: 15 lbs.

Maternity Clothes: I’ve really been so much more comfortable in my maternity pants. I still can wear a lot of my regular shirts but here pretty soon I’ll only be able to wear a few of them. I just really don’t want to buy anything just to use for 9 more weeks. I’m probably about to try out the dresses and skirts I was given to wear to work. Yay for Spring temps!

Gender: BOY!

Movement: It feels like he’s been rolling around. Not too many super hard kicks, but lots of slow gentle movements. He did completely change position one day. That was fun to watch at feel.

Sleep: Fantastic! I’ve been comfortable and don’t wake up very often. I think I’m finally adjusted to this side only sleeping.

What I Miss: Nothing, really. All the girls at work are picking up some really cute spring clothes and I just look at them. I guess I’m looking forward to being one size again instead of going through the one day this fits and the next day it doesn’t phase.

Cravings: Lemon and Lime anything! Lemonade, lime snow cone, rainbow sherbert…. it’s all been good this week!

Best Moment This Week:  Unpacking all of our baby shower gifts! We received so many great gifts and it was fun getting to actually see/touch/play with them! We’ve unpacked everything in the nursery and have started assembling the big gifts.

My brother, SIL, and nephew gave us this swing/bouncer. Billy had a fun time putting that one together! Haha… we love it though. I still have to buy batteries for it so we haven’t gotten to hear all 10 of the songs it plays and the nature sounds and all of of that just yet, but I imagine we will know all the songs by heart before long.

ONLY TWO MONTHS LEFT!!!!

whoa.

Week 30

How far along: 30 weeks as of last Sunday! (Posting a little late)

Total Weight Gain: 14 lbs.

Maternity Clothes: I bought some maternity shorts and a white shirt. Getting ready for summer!

Gender: BOY!

Movement: He’s still doing good with regular movements. There was one day that he just got in some kind of position that it felt like he was kickboxing my kidney or something out of nowhere. That startled me and hurt a little, but that was just a one time thing. It’s weird that I can feel exactly where he’s at and feel an arm or a leg moving around. I just hope he continues to be gentle with me.

Sleep: I had to add another pillow to my side of the bed for me to roll over on because I was continually waking up on my back. Now, I’m never flat and have been sleeping really good.

What I Miss: Not having random calf/foot cramps. It’s only happened maybe 3 times my whole pregnancy but I got one this week that hurt so bad. Billy was trying to get my foot to straighten out and it wouldn’t. Ouch!

Cravings: Laughing Cow Swiss Cheese

Best Moment This Week: MY BABY SHOWER! We had such a good turn out and the location couldn’t have been any better. Plenty of nice big fluffy couches and chairs to sit in so no one had to stand. I just want to say a BIG THANK YOU to my sister-in-law, cousin, and best friend who hosted it for me. We received so many great gifts that we had to send some of the boxes back in my SIL’s car because they wouldn’t fit in our SUV. We are so thankful for all the gifts for our little one and I know we will definitely use them all. I’m still receiving gifts on my doorstep from out of town friends and family members, too! Our nursery definitely doesn’t look empty anymore! I’ll make a post only about the baby shower to post more photos and gifts we received later.