How far along: 37 weeks. Full term. I'm going to have a baby soon.
Baby Size:
Weight: Down again this week. Total gained is 33lbs. Maybe I won't hit the 40lb mark after all.
Symptoms:
Maternity Clothes: Yeah, 90% of what I wear is maternity. The only non-maternity tops I wear are shirts to sleep, and with the exception of a couple of skirts and sweatpants all my bottoms are maternity.
Sleep: I wish I could get comfortable at night. I toss and turn all night. I sleep with a ton of pillows. Pillows under my head, under my feet, between my knees, and I have my arms wrapped around one.
One plus to not working is that I can sleep in and do most days until 10am now. So I guess I'm getting sleep, just not good sleep.
Cravings/Food Aversions: Loving these two things.
Belly Button: It's out, but not like a turkey timer, or so I've been told
Rings on or off: Off almost all the time
Gender: Girl
Name: Eleanor Rose
Movement: She is still moving around, but the movements aren't as strong and are almost more wave like. My stomach rolls a lot.
Rob doesn't normally try to feel her move. Every time I tell him to and he puts his hand on my stomach she stops. Finally on Saturday he got to feel her for a while.
Stretch Marks: New ones all the time it seems like. And in odd spots. Like my legs? I have ones that Rob pointed out on my upper thighs. I can't see them over the belly, so I don't know how long they were there.
Best moment: The hospital tour was a good thing that we did. Although I think it made me more nervous seeing the delivery room and knowing that I will be in one of those soon.
I ordered the video monitor. I debated between 2, but went with the cheaper one, because it still had great reviews. I used earned/won amazon gift cards so it didn't even cost anything. I haven't got it, but I choose this one.
Looking forward to: Meeting her!
Nervous about: Only having a few weeks left before she get's here. Eeek!
What I miss: I miss Rob. I know I see him everyday, but we don't sleep in the same bed anymore, we don't really have sex anymore (sorry if that's to much information for some of you; we try, but it just doesn't work out so well with a belly in the way)
Labor signs: Still lot's of Braxton Hicks. Most of the day Saturday I was having them.
Appointments: I had one today. It went well. Measuring at 38 weeks, they couldn't get a heart rate number, but could hear it. Next one is next week Tuesday (which is also my birthday!)
Misc. I had all these great intentions of making freezer meals, but we don't have freezer space. All we have is a fridge/top freezer combo and that doesn't hold much. I've been telling Rob for a looooonnngggg time (well before getting pregnant) that I wanted a chest freezer. But we still don't have one. Looks like we are going to be eating lots of canned soup (which I will have to buy) since that will be an easy meal to make.
People touching my stomach has never really bugged me, although I do think it's odd when she's not moving to want to, but I don't really care. I kind of hate it when I say she's moving, someone tries to feel, and then she stops. I feel like it's my fault or something. Haha.
I moved a ton of stuff out of her room and closet down to the basement on Friday. I overdid it because I was sore the rest of the day and spent the night with the heating pad. I even moved all the one size cloth diapers since we have an abundance of size 1 diapers, probably close to 800, and we even have about 150 newborn sized disposables. We didn't buy any; we were given them. I have a few newborn cloth diapers that I bought and a few that I won, but I'm not I will use them.
Her room is pretty much done, just a few things to hang up. I bought a storage ottoman at Target today for books. It doesn't match anything, but I returned a toy that we got a duplicate of, plus got a discount because it had a blemish kind of stain on it, and used the cartwheel savings so the total cost was only around $1. And I used a gift card so really it was free. There was one that matched better, but it had a soft top and if she tried to sit or stand it would probably collapse so I didn't want that.
Baby Size:
Weight: Down again this week. Total gained is 33lbs. Maybe I won't hit the 40lb mark after all.
Symptoms:
- I'm sore, and get that way really easily.
- I also get out of breath quickly. Singing at church on Sunday made me out of breath
- Restless legs/arms every single night.
- I'm really hungry. I wake up in the middle of the night and just want to eat sometimes even if I eat something shortly before bed.
Maternity Clothes: Yeah, 90% of what I wear is maternity. The only non-maternity tops I wear are shirts to sleep, and with the exception of a couple of skirts and sweatpants all my bottoms are maternity.
Sleep: I wish I could get comfortable at night. I toss and turn all night. I sleep with a ton of pillows. Pillows under my head, under my feet, between my knees, and I have my arms wrapped around one.
One plus to not working is that I can sleep in and do most days until 10am now. So I guess I'm getting sleep, just not good sleep.
Cravings/Food Aversions: Loving these two things.
Oh and this too. Since I can't have wine yet, this is the next best thing (sort of anyway)
Belly Button: It's out, but not like a turkey timer, or so I've been told
Rings on or off: Off almost all the time
Gender: Girl
Name: Eleanor Rose
Movement: She is still moving around, but the movements aren't as strong and are almost more wave like. My stomach rolls a lot.
Rob doesn't normally try to feel her move. Every time I tell him to and he puts his hand on my stomach she stops. Finally on Saturday he got to feel her for a while.
Stretch Marks: New ones all the time it seems like. And in odd spots. Like my legs? I have ones that Rob pointed out on my upper thighs. I can't see them over the belly, so I don't know how long they were there.
Best moment: The hospital tour was a good thing that we did. Although I think it made me more nervous seeing the delivery room and knowing that I will be in one of those soon.
I ordered the video monitor. I debated between 2, but went with the cheaper one, because it still had great reviews. I used earned/won amazon gift cards so it didn't even cost anything. I haven't got it, but I choose this one.
Looking forward to: Meeting her!
Nervous about: Only having a few weeks left before she get's here. Eeek!
What I miss: I miss Rob. I know I see him everyday, but we don't sleep in the same bed anymore, we don't really have sex anymore (sorry if that's to much information for some of you; we try, but it just doesn't work out so well with a belly in the way)
Labor signs: Still lot's of Braxton Hicks. Most of the day Saturday I was having them.
Appointments: I had one today. It went well. Measuring at 38 weeks, they couldn't get a heart rate number, but could hear it. Next one is next week Tuesday (which is also my birthday!)
Misc. I had all these great intentions of making freezer meals, but we don't have freezer space. All we have is a fridge/top freezer combo and that doesn't hold much. I've been telling Rob for a looooonnngggg time (well before getting pregnant) that I wanted a chest freezer. But we still don't have one. Looks like we are going to be eating lots of canned soup (which I will have to buy) since that will be an easy meal to make.
People touching my stomach has never really bugged me, although I do think it's odd when she's not moving to want to, but I don't really care. I kind of hate it when I say she's moving, someone tries to feel, and then she stops. I feel like it's my fault or something. Haha.
I moved a ton of stuff out of her room and closet down to the basement on Friday. I overdid it because I was sore the rest of the day and spent the night with the heating pad. I even moved all the one size cloth diapers since we have an abundance of size 1 diapers, probably close to 800, and we even have about 150 newborn sized disposables. We didn't buy any; we were given them. I have a few newborn cloth diapers that I bought and a few that I won, but I'm not I will use them.
Her room is pretty much done, just a few things to hang up. I bought a storage ottoman at Target today for books. It doesn't match anything, but I returned a toy that we got a duplicate of, plus got a discount because it had a blemish kind of stain on it, and used the cartwheel savings so the total cost was only around $1. And I used a gift card so really it was free. There was one that matched better, but it had a soft top and if she tried to sit or stand it would probably collapse so I didn't want that.
