31 Weeks: Super Late Again, Baby Hiccups, Braxton Hicks, & Pending Life Events...

Yeah, I know I’m practically 32 weeks already… almost… and was even considering combining these 2 weeks but decided to make them shorter and separate posts. Frankly, it is because there has been a lot going on, and it would be better to split them up!

I didn’t really weigh myself until today, so this week may not be as accurate :/ But from my appointment on Wednesday I was 163.5 on the scale I was weighed on at the doctor’s, so that is what we will go with. I am super lazy to look up my weight gain chart and copy and paste it but will do it with next week’s post. But if I remember correctly, I barely gained anything at all last week, and I was about 159 and something… so I must have gained about 4 pounds. Not to get into my 32 week, but the doctor did say I should be gaining about a pound a week now… which seems to be more, lol! Even considering the fact I didn’t gain anything last week, 4 pounds divided by 2 is still doubled the weight I should be gaining! Oh well, at this point I am not going to stress about this, I will gain how much I will gain… everything else I will deal with after birth.

Physical changes pertaining to me have been pretty much the same. I feel heavier than ever and people still tell me I am small. Man, I would like to see you guys carry around an extra 25 pounds on your belly- it aint easy!!! Super heavy, super uncomfortable. Although I have to say the body pillow my hubby’s cousin got us has been working wonderfully for me! At first I couldn’t seem to find a good position with it, but now boppy and I are very good friends :)

My boobs continue to leak, they still have stretch marks…. None on my belly yet. I am  not bragging! A friend of mine told me she didn’t have ANY stretch marks on her belly until her last 3 weeks. Great! I could totally see that happening to me. I kind just accepted my tiger-like stripes on my boobs. I mean, on the bright side when I will wear a bikini, that part of the body is never really exposed to the public other than at home to hubby and what not. So it’s no big deal. I’ve seen some pictures of women’s bellies with a ton of stretch marks. I guess I should be thankful that aint me. Although, I still have 9 weeks for that to change!

I still tend to sweat a lot between my boobs, specifically at night, causing my heat rash between my boobs to not go away. Airing them out and just keeping them super clean and dry seem to work the best. I even stopped moisturizing the stretch mark cream on my boobs because that seemed to warm them up even more, causing me to sweat more and increase the rash. It still itches every now and then, but it is manageable. That or I just got used to it. It is actually very dry right now and it’s kind of scabby. As if I had a sunburn or something and I have some dry, burnt skin coming off… it’s weird.

As far as baby, he is as active as can be! Jumping and kicking and moving like crazy! I have been taping him like crazy the past 2 weeks and started to get lucky! I posted some videos on my YOUTUBE CHANNEL if you haven’t seen them yet. Check them out if you haven’t! Especially the one video where you can legit see his footsie running across my belly! It’s insane.

I’ve also been feeling him hiccup. I think I have felt him do that for a while but never paid attention enough to realize they were hiccups. I just thought they were one of his weird movements. But it basically feels like rhythm- like kicks/twitches. And it isn’t him kicking me in one place, it legit feels like is jumping or twitching. I thought it was his heartbeat at first, but his heartbeat isn’t that slow, so hiccups it is. I have been feeling them more and more often. Silly, baby!

Braxton Hicks… don’t get too excited… I am not sure about this one :) I posted a status on my facebook recently sharing that I thought I felt them. I know it probably sounds silly to say “I think”… contractions seem to be one of those things you should be totally aware of right? Haha, nope! Not for me! I have felt my belly get really tight and hard a couple times. It wouldn’t hurt though. It would just get super rock hard and feel funny to touch, and then it would release and get all wobbly and normal again. I’ve also read and heard that different women experience different kinds of symptoms or pain with them. It can sometimes just be pressure, it can be super painful and dreadful, it can just be lower back pain… it’s different! When I heard all this it got me thinking and looking back at some symptoms I have felt before and would think they are just normal – typical pregnancy symptoms. Like the pressure… I’ve mentioned it before, and now I feel it more often. It just feels like baby crawls on the very bottom of my uterus and is just chilling there. Not painful, but not very comfortable and unpleasant. It is just this very heavy pressure and pushing down weight feeling down there- that apparently can be BH.  Also the lower back pain, I have felt that too, but just figured that was the belly weight straining on my back and just me being on my feet or walking around too much, but that also could be BH. So, who the heck knows anymore! Someone told me they thought BH were worse than actual labor pains! The conclusion I come up with is every woman is different, and it is what it is! :)

Update on some life events going on. The next 2 months are going to be crazy. We found an apartment! I don’t think I mentioned that here yet, one of the things I was antsy about sharing! We gave our deposit last week I believe? I don’t even remember… the sucky thing about being late with my posts I get so confused what happened what freakin week! Ugh!

Anyway the story with the apartment and moving, in case I haven’t explained the situation yet, although I feel like I have and am repeating myself, but just in case I will explain again. When we moved from the city last year we didn't really have the opportunity to look at different apartments. We looked at a few, and picked one. It's $675 a month for a 2 bedroom with a balcony and dishwasher, but we figured out we could probably find cheaper. Although after living in a studio for $875 this was amazing for us! We also encountered some neighbor issues. The walls are thin as is, I could hear the neighbors on the left farting all the time, the others one pee, and the ones below us enjoy playing their TV super loud until 1:30 in the morning. We would ring their doorbell and tell them to turn it down. At first they did, but after the 5th time they just stopped opening the door. Even though they were clearly home and the TV was obnoxiously loud. The last time we rang their bell they just gave us attitude saying " What? It's a TV it makes noise!" We spoke to the landlord about it and he said " I'll talk to them but that is all I can really do!" So we decided we are going to move once our lease is up to not lose our security deposit and use it towards our next apartment. We found a really nice one about 10 mins from where we are now. It's much larger than what we have now. It's half a house so the only neighbors we would have would be downstairs and right now no one lives there. And it's through a real estate company they do background and credit checks on you. A porch, backyard, parking, a dishwasher, and a WASHER AND DRYER in the actual apartment! For $75 less than what we pay now!! With a baby having your own laundry is perfect!! So, we are super excited! We are signing the lease once I read through it and we are moving May 27.

Aside from the obvious, what I meant when I said the next two months are going to be crazy for us… well let me just put it this way… in countdown form. There is one week before our Easter- Pascha!!! 2 Weeks after that is our baby shower, and a week after that is when we move! Then we have about 3-4 weeks before my duedate. Craziness and stress that I don’t want to think about right now. Especially the moving part… we have collected some boxes and will have to start packing stuff together slowly in our spare time now. Sad part is I can’t even help hubby much :/ Luckily, our friend arseniy is helping us, still a lot of work but at least something.

I was planning on posting this last night, on Friday but it got too late and I was too exhausted. Sad since I only had a little bit to add on. Oh well. I’m almost a week late with this post. Hopefully I won’t be as late with my 32 week post. We are tentatively thinking of possibly doing some outside maternity shots tomorrow since it will be nice out and I got my hair done ;) If that does happen, that will be shared as well!

Until next week then….! ;)

Videos!

I've mentioned me starting my youtube channel. For now there isn't anything too extravagant on there, but it is getting somewhere!

I've been putting up some old videos from our wedding and honeymoon, if you've never seen them on my facebook and such.

I've also been working on slideshows with my photos... but most importantly I have been making videos of baby kicking!!! I've finally caught some baby action on video!!!!


Here are the links to the videos, check them out if you like :)


Honeymoon/ Wedding Videos:

BABY MOVEMENT VIDEOS!

Pregnancy VideoVideos

Belly Shot: 31 Weeks!

 31 weeks..... bam bam bam..... one week from 32 weeks which means 8 MONTHS!!! The end is slowly coming!!!

I'm obviously getting bigger and fatter and my butt has taken some weird shape where it has an indent. Bleh, I don't like it at all. But figured out a pose to hide it ;)


Lots has happened for me to share with you guys this week, which will be up soon enough, but for now here is this week's belly shot!

Just to mix things up here are some silly shots :)

Belly is getting BIG! 

Baby Blanket : Is it done yet?

 

No, it's not.... I am awful, I know. Just wanted to write a quick post explaining that I haven't forgotten about the blanket and I actually think of finishing it every day, especially since there isn't much left to do.

I think the reason I am procrastinating is because I am not really happy with how the border is coming out. I actually attempted 3 different kinds already and finally decided to make this one. Remember, I don't read patterns so I made this up as I went.

Anyway, I posted a youtube video earlier today showing all the fun crochet things I have made, kinda  like the pictures I have been sharing with you guys on here periodically. There is a shot of the updated version of the blanket in the video below if you'd like to see... and get an idea of what the border looks like so far. I have 2 months left... I will get the blanket done before then... I better at least! Man, I am a lazy bum.

I am also pretty excited that this time it worked for me to post the actual video on here as opposed to a link. Anyway, check it out! ;)

30 Week Update: 75 % Done Cooking, Miserably Sick, Return of Some Lovely Symptoms and Life Update in General.

Alrighty… finally got my butt down to write this update. I feel somewhat accomplished if this gets posted before Friday! 

The funniest thing is I thought I would be on time these two weeks since it was Spring Break and I didn’t work but life happened with me getting miserably sick and just running around getting stuff done.

But yeah, I think I’ve been complaining about me being sick for 3 weeks already… well because I’ve been sick for 3 weeeks. It started with a double ear infection and sinus infection. I took amoxicillin for that, that gave me a yeast infection- oh joy! I seemed to start feeling slightly better but the very next day after finishing my antibiotics I seemed to be getting sick all over again! My ears didn’t even have time to fully clear up and my sinuses were awful again. Then the chest congestion started in the middle of the week. By Friday I was so miserable, I couldn’t breathe, very heavy ad painful chest congestion that made me sound like a man.

On Saturday I didn’t seem to be getting better and made an arrangement with my boss to come into work a little earlier to do the money/bookkeeping stuff  (so I don’t screw him over because for some reason I always seem to get sick on the 1 or 2 days I work for him!) so then I can get done earlier and head to urgent care. Since this was Saturday, doctor’s offices were closed. Usually I wait it out til Monday but I had trouble breathing and was beyond miserable.

There was a little “issue” with whom I should be seen by. My primary care provider- Slocum Dickson was telling me to go to my OB, and Cooperstown was telling me to go to Slocum Dickson because it is not pregnancy related. We ended up going to Slocum Dickson and they said they usually don’t see pregnant women but will do an exception this time, some BS!!!! I just needed antibiotics!

Anyway, they gave me Azithromycin, and Guafenesin with Codeine. I double checked with Cooperstown if those meds were okay, and they said they were. The cough medicine which everyone warned would make me sleepy did nothing for me. I legit took it only 2 times before bed hoping it would help me breathe and stay asleep as opposed to the every 6 hour directions on the bottle.  I still sound like a man, but thankfully I think I am getting better and hope I won’t be sick anymore.

So, 30 weeks means there are only 10 more weeks to go!!! This is pretty amazing…! 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2…1… blast off! Or blast out for that matter!! :)

I am ¾ of the way done with this pregnancy so baby is 75% done cooking! ;)

I weighed myself in the beginning of the week and I was 159.6 pounds. Which means I basically gained .2 of a pound?? Maybe it’s me being sick? Or my body balancing out with me gaining 6 pounds that one week. Regardless, surprisingly no change really in that department that week. Although my belly is GROWING… as you all saw in my 30 WEEK BELLY SHOT. Which I was able to shoot outside due to the nice weather. A maternity shoot with my hubby is still in order… I am thinking sometime soon, since weather is warm now and we can just go take some pics together  of my belly. That would be fun!

As far as symptoms, I had 3 leg cramp episodes this week again! :( I had one really bad one on the way home from NJ ( we visited my grandfather there since he is staying with my aunt currently.) We stopped for a bathroom break and as I tried to get out of the car it hit me. And this leg cramp was super long!! Usually they don’t last long, but this was lasting a minute long! And I couldn’t walk on it for a while too! Ugh, they are the worst. Some friends told me bananas and magnesium should do the trick. I have been eating bananas, how I can at least… I should try the magnesium… But let me tell you… those are not fun!

Heartburn has really been getting to me too. It’s been here and there, but this week it’s been bad. I don’t know if this has anything to do with it, but baby has been chilling a lot right under my boobs. Kicking me in the pit of my stomach, sometimes it feels like he hits my boobs, my ribs… he has been  all up in there! And hence maybe more heartburn? Who knows… but not fun… especially the way I eat… and everything I eat gives me heartburn but I can’t NOT eat either. Trying to drink fizzy things like ginger ale helps. Also tums when it gets REALLY bad…

And now a quick life update! I have mentioned several times that we were planning on moving due to the neighbors downstairs. We have been apartment hunting and even considering buying a house, and finally found something. It’s not a house unfortunately, we decided not to rush into it and figure how the heck it even works when  the end of the pregnancy is nearing… so we decided to look for something to rent. We looked at a few places and were debating between 2.

Right now we pay $675 a month for a pretty nice sized 2 bedroom apartment with a dishwasher and balcony. When we moved out of the city after paying $875 for a studio, plus traveling so far we didn’t look at many apartments, so we saw this one and grabbed it! What we were trying to decide between were the following apartments. The first one was in Ilion as well $525 a month plus utilities ( which is basically what we pay now and super cheap.) A good investment to save money, but it is super small and crowded and dark and has a funky smell. And it doesn’t have a dishwasher.

Now, the thing about dishwashers… Call me picky an prissy and lazy or whatever you want to call me but I hate washing dishes. I can do laundry, I can vacuum, I can clean the bathroom but dishes are my weakness. I don’t know if I just did way too many of them in my life that I have a negative reaction to them now… but living in an apartment for almost a year with a  dishwasher you learn how necessary it is.  And being lazy how I am now, I can’t imagine being able to tackle the dishes on my own with a baby. Call me horrible, I know… not a very good wife/mom quality to have… but that is how I am. And the kitchen in the cheap apartment is so small we couldn’t even get a portable one if we wanted to, so that would suck.

Now the other apartments we looked at. This is through a real estate company, renting out a house with 2 apartments basically. Both are 2 bedroom, first floor one is $650, 2^nd is $600. This is in Herkimer, so not far. They both have dishwashers and washer and dryer machines IN the apartment!!! They are both beautiful and large and in wonderful condition. The one on the second floor is HUGE and roomy, larger than what we have now. So that is the one we decided to go with. We have a porch, 2 parking spots and a small backyard. In a nice, pretty, calm, family oriented neighborhood. The thing is utilities are separate. And it is through national grid which isn’t the cheap stuff we have been paying in Ilion. I think during the summer we should be fine, but when winter hits we may have some obstacles. We’ll see… we got Heap about a month ago for the small utility bill we had as is, so if it gets hard maybe we will get heap again to assist us. But it is beautiful!!!!!! We gave the lady the security deposit today and plan to move at the end of May when our lease is up to get our security deposit back. I spoke to our current landlord yesterday and asked him what our options are on moving now and getting our deposit back, and he said we would lose it if we did that. He said if we stay til the end of May, he will speak to the Owner and thinks that we can just not pay rent for the month of May, and they use our security deposit. That would be awesome! Because then the security deposit we just gave for our new apartment is basically our rent that we would pay in 2 weeks, so it’s like we are still staying in the same cycle. 

So the next few weeks are going to look like this…. This weekend my older siblings are coming up to visit me because they decided instead of coming up for the shower they rather spend some alone time with us, which is probably the best. Then 2 weeks from this weekend we have our Easter- PASCHA!! Woo!  And two weeks from Easter it’s our baby shower, and then in a week we plan to move. From there one I will have one month left – or sooner (I can hope right?) til baby is here! Crazy stuff going on!!

Honestly, once we move in… once June hits this mama plans to walk, drink raspberry tea, and do all sorts of things to get this baby coming out! I am terribly afraid of being overdue…

One more thing about what has been going on lately, which I briefly mentioned in one of my random posts this week and you probably have noticed with my other posts. YouTube. I started my YouTube channel. Like I mentioned in my other post, hubby has been doing this and if you truly get enough subscribers, and viewers and such this could be a good opportunity to get some money. Having a baby on the way, it is a perfect opportunity. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not just about the money. I think having a video blog is cool; I follow a mom on YouTube and think it is amazing. I’m just shy. That’s why right now I am kind of trying to get the feel of all this. Posting some old videos, making slideshows, things that don’t require me to talk or show my face… yet.  I have plans to make it a useful blog kind of how I express myself here but need to get the feel of it first. Post life events on there and maybe we will have some vlogs of labor and delivery who knows… we are trying it out and we could have lots of fun with it right now.

Like I also mentioned before, I still plan to write here, so that doesn’t change yet. I might incorporate both like I have been sharing links to videos on here for now. Regardless, we shall see how this works. So if you follow me here and read my blog here, stay tuned to see what my YouTube blog may turn into… it will get interesting, I promise :)

That pretty much sums it up for 30 weeks! Thank you for reading! ;) I wasn’t super late this week… you guys should be proud ;)

Ultrasound Videos!

I shared the ultrasound pictures way back when but wanted to share with you guys a slideshow I made of them as well.


Ultrasound Slideshow



Also, a couple old ones I never shared. This was from my first  GYN appointment.


First Ultrasound- Heartbeat

First Ultrasound - 9 Weeks!

Baby Stuff: What We Already Have

I mentioned that people have been giving us bags of clothes and lots of other baby stuff including our stroller and cosleeper and lots of other fun stuff.


Here is a quick overview of what we have so far. Once we move into our new apartment there will be a more thorough update on that with everything actually in its place as opposed to on top of each other and compacted.


Check out the video here:

BABY STUFF

Quick Little Thought on Youtube and Vlogging...

No, this isn't my 30 week update, I'm sorry. But it is coming I promise.

I will mention one thing... one of the things I was going to discuss in my 30 week update.

I'm thinking of starting a youtube channel. Well, it was thoughts... now I am starting to slowly do so.

Why? For several reasons! I actually randomly found this one girl on youtube who is vlogger and her videos are pretty amazing. I found her when I was looking up a 14 week belly shot and found that she was vlogging about her pregnancy. She had her son back in September or October I believe... but she has so many interesting videos up, that I still watch her old weekly pregnancy videos with the same week I am as well as her current ones too.

Anyway, to be completely honest, she was probably the one who inspired me to do this blog.

I think having a video blog is amazing, but  I am too shy to do so. If I can go past the whole video/ camera thing I would totally do it! And for some reason I tend to express myself better in writing.

Anyway, I started thinking a lot lately... Hubby has a youtube channel where he posts  videos and such and has actually starting making a little extra on the side because of it, due to ads and commercials. We started spreading the news to friends and relatives to get into it themselves. We even told my little cousins to do it! And they just started posting random videos of them playing videos games and of their pets and already made $7  in just a matter of days.

I mean, I don't want to sound like money is the most important thing here, but got me thinking with baby on the way and me being limited to working as much and making money, if I get into the rhythm of things and get a few viewers it could be a nice stay at home extra very part time job, lol.

Now, the question is what the heck to post? Like I said I am kind of self conscious about filming myself talking... and figured once baby would be born I would have lots of video opportunities then.

Then today hit me... why wait til June? Why not start now?

I am not sure how the heck this will work, or what the heck I am going to post, but I still slowly start and give this a try. I in no way plan to forget about this blog though, I have come this far and still have lots to write about in the coming weeks :)


Anyway, so those are my thoughts... and to start off my " channel" I posted a video on it today about baby kicking me. You can't see THAT much movement, I actually posted this video on facebook today. Seriously, this video doesn't do our baby boy justice as to what he actually does in there.

But yes, if you read my blog here and follow me here, please follow my youtube channel. Right now there is of course only  one video but it is a growing process and there will be more to come. So subscribe, watch, like and support us! Also, any ads you see- click on them ;) For those who will, I thank you in advance!

I plan to do my 30 week update today or tomorrow ;)

The link to my video is below! :)

Baby Movement Video CLICK HERE

Belly Shot: 30 weeks!

30 weeks!!! 10 more to go!!!!! WOOOO!!!

This week has been very blahhhh, you guys will hear all about it in my update post if I actually get to it tonight.

I am sick, but starting to feel better, the warm weather is helping. And therefore this week's belly shot is outside on our balcony :) I am also wearing my maternity dress that I bought in Motherhood Maternity!

29 Week Update : The Linea Nigra, Baby Kicking My Ribs, and Still Feeling Miserable...

I know, this is the second week in a row where I am super late. I’ve just been all over the place. And I actually thought that this week I would be on time with spring break and all and me and hubby not working. Unfortunately, spring break doesn’t mean relaxing, it means getting stuff done that you usually don’t have a chance to do when you are working. It is Friday and I am asking myself where the heck has the week gone… seriously.

Last week I mentioned I was sick, or the week before that, that is since I am kind of at the end of the week already. Me being late is just screwing me up and I am confused, lol… bare with me. Let’s put it this way… I have been sick for two weeks already. I started with a cold, that didn’t seem to go away. Then it turned into a bad double ear infection and sinus infection. So I started taking antibiotics. This past Sunday I finished my antibiotics, and although I wasn’t feeling completely better, I felt like I was getting there. Then Monday came… and it was as if the sinus infection hit me all over again. Wonderful, huh? And ever since I  don’t seem to be getting any better. My ears aren’t in complete pain, but not in comfort, and are still partially plugged up. My sinuses, my goodness I am so congested, it is awful. And everyday seems to be getting worse. I don’t have a cough per say, but my chest started to get very congested too…maybe it is a cough developing… who the heck knows. I really don’t want to take antibiotics again, I JUST took them. Not to mention they gave me a yeast infection, on top of everything else was not the most pleasant thing. Luckily, I am treating that now and seemed to resolve that issue at least.

I honestly don’t even know what to do. Seriously, I have been sick for over 2 weeks, and I am kind of hoping my body is just taking a long time to heal because I don’t want to take antibiotics again, but seem to be getting more symptoms. I think I will wait one more week and then maybe consult with a doctor and go from there. Let me just tell you- it sucks!

So, for 29 weeks…. Let’s see if I can remember :)

My weight, I was 159.4 in the beginning of the week.  So I have gained almost 20 pounds from my pre-pregnancy weight at this point already. Although if we count from the 131 pounds that I dropped, it is kind of like I gained 30 pounds. A big number… but doctors are counting it from 140, because they say that whatever I lost I was supposed to gain back, so that gives me some calming feeling that I am not a complete fat butt.

Here is my pregnancy weight change recording thingy updated thus far:

10/25/12: 5w 140 lbs

11/5/12: 7 w 135 lbs(5 lbs loss)

11/12/12: 8 w 133.8 lbs(6.2 lbs total loss, 1.2 weekly loss)

11/26/12: 10 w 133 lbs( 7 lbs total loss, .8 bi-weekly loss)

12/17/12: 13 w 131 lbs( 9 lbs total loss, 2 pounds tri-weekly loss)

01/14/13: 17 w 133.5 lbs(6.5 lbs total loss, 2.5 lbs four-week gain)

01/28/13: 19 w 135.8 lbs(4.2lbs loss, 2.3lbs bi-weekly gain, 4.8lbs total gain)

02/04/13: 20 w 136.5 lbs (3.5 lbs loss, 1.3 lbs weekly gain, 5.5 lbs total gain)

02/11/13 :21 w 137.2 lbs ( 2.8 lbs loss, .7lbs weekly gain, 6.2 lbs total gain)

02/18/13: 22 w 139.4 lbs ( .6 lbs loss, 2.2 lbs weekly gain, 8.4 lbs total gain)

02/25/13: 23 w 141.0 lbs ( 1 lbs gain pre-pregnancy weight gain, 1.6 weekly gain, 10 lbs total gain)

03/04/13 : 24 w 147 lbs ( 7 lbs gain pre-pregnancy weight gain 6 lbs weekly gain, 16 lbs total gain)

03/11/13: 25 w  147.8 lbs ( 7.8 pre-pregnancy weight gain, .8 lbs weekly gain, 16.8 lbs total gain)

03/18/13: 26 w 150 lbs (10 lbs pre-pregnancy weight gain, 2.2 lbs weekly gain, 19 lbs total gain)

03/25/13: 27 w 152.4 lbs (12.4 lbs pre-pregnancy weight gain, 2.4 lbs weekly gain, 21.4 lbs total gain)

04/01/13: 28 w 156.2 lbs (16.2 lbs pre-pregnancy weight gain, 3.8 lbs weekly gain, 25.2 lbs total gain)

04/08/13: 29 w 159.4 lbs (19.4 lbs pre-pregnancy weight gain, 3.2 weekly gain, 29.4 lbs total gain)

Crazy thing is, I still have 11 weeks to go to gain weight. Well, they say gaining 25-35 pounds is the ideal thing, right? I can’t possibly gain more than 15 pounds in the next 11 weeks… or can I?

Instead of meshing 29 and 30 weeks together I am going to mention a couple things I know for a fact are for 29 weeks and leave the rest of the stuff I wanted to talk about for  my 30 week update that I will try * me best* to get done on time and maybe even earlier to make up for the past two weeks.

This week I have a very noticeable line going down my belly. The Linea Nigra, as they call it. I have seen a very fade line but wasn’t sure if it was just the trail of my belly fuzz or not, but now you can definitely tell I have the line. It’s kind of funny actually :)

Baby. Kicking all the time, I know… what’s new, right? He has been reaching my ribs! This is a totally new and strange feeling. Sometimes when I am lying on my side he is so high up and kicks with something very sharp and literally surprises me because it is SO strong. I’m literally being beat in the ribs by our little man, haha! He has just been all over the place and using every part of my uterus for experimentation lately. Stretching it beyond limits, making it different shapes and forms and just kicking all over! Oh boy! :)

Other than that, I am just miserable being heavy and tired as is, plus being sick on top. Like I mentioned above I don’t even know what to do anymore with my sickness. I stand under hot showers to breathe in the steam, I drink hot tea with honey and lemon, I’m going to start putting salt water up my nose… but nothing seems to help. If anyone can make me magically feel better right about now, that would be great!

I’m summing up this week on this, and have some other things to talk about and update you guys on, but going to save that for my 30 week post just to clear the water and try to get back on track here. 

Belly Shot: 29 Weeks!

I posted a status  on facebook talking about a some maternity clothing that I bought this week. I have mentioned that people have given me some, and I have worn some of the clothing I have been giving. Up to this point I have made use of my regular clothing in general since a lot of it is very stretchy or loose and has been able to accommodate me. Some maternity shirts are even a little "too small" to cover my belly now! Oh boy! And most of the regular shirts as well. So I decided to take a peek at  Motherhood Maternity, and just as I suspected everything is super expensive there. For me it is, and when it comes to spending money on stuff like that for me I am very cheap. I am all for walmart brand clothing!  I did end up buying myself 2 things though. One dress and one shirt. Still on the pricey side ( for me) but decided to go with it and the fact the clothing is very nice quality, I will probably make use of it more than once ( and more than one pregnancy ;))


So here is my new maternity shirt that I bought this week to show off my 29 week belly bump! :)

28 Week Update: 7 Months, Super Late Post and a Whole Lot of Everything.

I am so late with my update this week. I probably have attempted to write my full post 4 times this week and got nowhere. The first time I managed to get a few sentences in. Second time I didn’t get any further than opening up Word. Don’t know what has gotten into me.

I think being sick had something to do with it. I got sick last Thursday, with what seemed to be a cold and didn’t seem to be as bad as it could be. Instead of going away it prolonged and turned into a wonderful double ear infection and sinus infection. And I thought April meant the warmth was here and that no more being sick for me. Well, I was wrong.  Yes, it is April… but no it has not been warm, and no I still had to get sick at least once before spring.

Not to get into this week, but I ended up getting antibiotics for it and in the process of getting better. Luckily the weather forecast from this point on seems to be a little friendlier, and I am hoping it will stay that way.

In the beginning of the week I weight 156.2. So I gained 3.8 pounds this week. Keep getting fatter and heavier. SO HEAVY! Did not expect it to be this difficult so early. I was thinking it would be heavy in the last month… not in the last 3!!

One thing I did not mention last week is my crazy cravings that definitely have not stopped. I have been eating things that I never loved, or even hated at one point, and suddenly I think they are the best foods in the world. The funniest thing is that these foods are my hubby’s favorite foods. Definitely Papa’s boy growing in there.

Hershey’s. I hate Hershey’s. I think it is cheap chocolate. I am very picky (this is non pregnant- general me) when it comes to my chocolate. I love Swiss chocolate- LINDT. And dove. I do not like Russian chocolate and do not like Hershey’s. We were at the store and suddenly I saw a Hershey’s bar and wanted it like crazy. I ended up getting 3 of those extra large- king size bars.  Within 1.5 days there were all devoured by me. Yup… this is for someone who hates this kind chocolate.

Herring. Now, Herring is nice and all… I can eat it if I have to but I am not a big fan of it. Zhenya loves it though!!!! He was having some the other day, and I just out of pure curiosity decided to give it a try. OMG!!!! BEST thing in the WORLD! So yes, now I like herring apparently. And being the non-soda person I am… I love ginger ale now. Another one of hubby’s favorites. I am telling you, if non pregnant me were to look at myself right now, I am sure I would be disgusted with the beast who now eats, herring, hershey’s and drinks ginger ale. Who am I anymore?!

Going back to the heavy subject. I don’t remember if I complained about this last time, but oh boy… it is getting uncomfortable to walk to sit, to sleep… to do anything. I have lost some hours of sleep this week due to being purely uncomfortable. And yes I tried all the pillow tricks… I am just too heavy and I don’t have enough pillows, and our queen sized bed is apparently too small for me now.

On the bright side, Zhenya’s cousin from Russia has been ever so kind to “shower” us with some baby gifts lately and we are beyond excited and grateful. Even though our shower isn’t until May 19… we are already getting showered with gifts ;)

She bought us our STROLLER! An amazing one too! It is one of those travel systems. Graco. And it is BEAUTIFUL! We are truly in love with it. Zhenya is just as excited as I am. It was shipped to us last week and now we can’t stop looking at it and rocking it and pushing it around, pretending our little one is in there already. Call us crazy, but we have baby fever!! :)

She also ended up getting me a body pillow to help with my sleeping issues, which has been helping slightly! And she was ever so kind to get us a co sleeper! I am kind of calm now… because if I end up going into labor at any point we have all the big baby essentials.

I think last week in general we have acquired a lot of stuff. We got a changing table and I decided to go through the several bags of clothes we have acquired already to see what we have. Basically up to 6 months we have more than enough clothing!!! Baby can wear probably 8 different outfits a day and will be all set. Seriously! I actually went and removed some clothing items from our registry! We still need things like blankets and hats and socks and stuff, but as far as clothes! More than enough!

Speaking of registry and baby shower…I started working on invitations this week. I wasn’t planning on handing out physical invitations and I would just do word of mouth and a facebook event. But then I was handed 2 packages of invitations that I can make use of… and started thinking when giving out so much information ( time, place and where we are registered) people are so going to forget. So I started working on the invites to hand out to people who don’t have facebook basically. It is still a longs way away but I am getting pretty excited.

I am kind of in a daze being that I am doing this update really late and probably leaving things out, oh well.

The last thing I wanted to mention was baby footsies! I have been feeling them little feet kick me! Legit little feet! Our little man is getting bigger and stronger day by day, that I can feel for sure. This is making me so anxious to meet him already and kiss those little footsies I am feeling! Ahh!!

Overall, that is pretty much it. I am in the third trimester for sure now so now the countdown will slowly begin with 12 more weeks to go. Seems so little… yet still so much more to wait!

Belly Shot : 28 Weeks!

I have reached MONTH 7! Woohoo!!!

28 weeks... 12 more weeks to go! 2 more weeks and I will be in the last 10!! That's like... NOTHING... right? It should be at least. 

I am wearing a maternity shirt that is getting too short for me... which is sad because I have been waiting for it to get warm for me to wear all these pretty summer maternity shirts I have... Boo.

So here is a good welcome to the third trimester, baby!