31 weeks

5. may

BABY'S SIZE     "an asparagus" is what the app says.  i'm guessing a bunch of asparagus.  15-16.5 inches and 2.5-4 pounds.  that is some serious asparagus.

HOW I'M FEELING     just feeling bigger and bigger.

WHAT I'M EATING     same ol', same ol'.  love that cereal.

HOW I'M CHANGING     definite squish to my ribs.  baby feels like it's about to move into my lungs.

MOVEMENT     all the time.  i honestly did kick counts for about 4 days once i was supposed to start them, just because there is so much movement so often.  this baby is wild.

SLEEP     is becoming more and more elusive.  sadly.  i remember the days when waking up once in the night meant a bad night's sleep.  now waking up 3 times is pretty good.

THINGS THIS WEEK     baby shower, wyoming style!  just for the record, arley felt very guilty for not coming.  also, mother's day, which was a total coincidence that we were there, and not planned at all!
we went through my middle school and high school art in the wyoming basement.  i took pictures so i could throw them all away.  i would show you, but they are ridiculously embarrassing.

LOOKING FORWARD TO     a massage in a couple weeks!

FUN FACT     babes irises now react to light!

ok, ok.  here's one of the less embarrassing ones.
it was for a stamp competition for some bird/water society.  i didn't even trace.  and i still lost.

30 weeks

28. apr

BABY'S SIZE     a zucchini! 15-16.5 inches and 2.5-3.5 pounds (that is one heck of a zucchini - i feel like maybe an alaskan zucchini?).

HOW I'M FEELING     this has been a good week.  but i do get tired easily.  lots of naps.  lots of doing things in little spurts.  lots of breaks.

WHAT I'M EATING     i was thinking the other day that for the most part, i don't think i've had any cravings that felt stronger than cravings at any other point in my life.  the occasional bologna (i know, i know) and dessert, but i think i normally have cravings like that.  maybe i'm just a cravey person, so it makes my pregnancy cravings seem not so bad....
arley may beg to differ.  i have to admit i texted him from work at 0530 the other morning to make sure he was going to get milk for breakfast so i could eat cereal...

HOW I'M CHANGING     my belly is getting tighter, with all the growing.  it's getting easier to feel the lumps of baby.

MOVEMENT     lots of stretches, i think.  really slow, hard pushes.  it doesn't hurt yet, but i'm waiting for it!  i think baby is head down (or was for the last ultrasound), and it seems to be doing this weird poke with its hands (or maybe even head?).  it just gets me in the guts really really low and to the left side.  i'm not sure if it hurt hurts, or tickles, or what, but i flinch every time.

SLEEP     oh, sleep.  i am wishing for a good, hard sleep.  when i wake up in the middle of the night and it's been 4 hours instead of 3, i have a little party.  it's so sad.

THINGS THIS WEEK     our birth class ended last week and one of the other couples suggested that we keep meeting.  they told us about this park that has food trucks and a band every week.  so this week we went.  because we don't have any friends, and we decided that we probably need some.
i could only go if i got cancelled at work.  and when i get cancelled, i tend to forget everything and just go back to sleep.  so at 630 arley woke me up and told me that we had to be there at 700.  and it is a 25 minute drive.
it was a rocky start.
so i was getting flustered about being rushed and was trying to get ready really fast.  finally, i was ready and i grabbed my water and threw it in my bag and we jumped in the car.  a few blocks later, i went to grab my water and realized that it had opened inside my (leather) bag and the entire 16 ounces spilled out.  i threw my purse in the back seat and started crying (of course).  so arley was trying to drive through all this construction traffic, and find our way, and figure out what was wrong with me.
i was cranky, so he started getting cranky and we couldn't find the park.  FINALLY, we found it AND a parking spot, and arley said, "are you ready?"  i was still on the brink of crying again, and said, "i just want to go home," in that really majestic wobbly cry voice.
luckily we stayed, because we got to hang out with some really cool couples that we might be friends with.  it turned out to be a pretty good time.

LOOKING FORWARD TO     mikah is getting here tonight and tomorrow we are driving to wyoming for a quick baby shower and mother's day trip!  woo hoo!

FUN FACT     baby's brain is getting wrinklier to make way for more and more essential brain tissue. baby is also now strong enough to grasp a finger!

29 weeks

21. apr

BABY'S SIZE     an acorn squash!  (i always thought those were small...who knows?)  15-16.5 inches and 2.5-3.5 pounds!

HOW I'M FEELING     i'm feeling a little angry at the massage place.  i booked our massages at least 3 weeks ago.  and the night before our massage - not even 24 hours beforehand, like they expect from customers when changing plans - i got a voicemail saying they don't give 2 hour prenatal massages (gift cards, woo hoo!!).  so who knows if we will even be able to go tomorrow.  i have been looking forward to this for weeks, jerk massage place.

WHAT I'M EATING     i've noticed that i feel WAY too full eating the same amount of food that i've always eaten.  baby is squishing my guts.  so i've been eating the same things, but trying to be more aware of how much of it i eat.

HOW I'M CHANGING     the swelling has begun.  i tried to put some shoes on the other day for a work meeting (we're not supposed to wear flip flops) and they did not fit.  so i wore flip flops.  you can't really wear tennis shoes with a dress.

MOVEMENT     i think baby is getting big enough to wedge itself against one side of me and kick against the other.  it's less of a bubbly feeling (like the kicks and wiggles) and more of a slow, hard pressure.  sometimes it almost hurts!  pushing on my belly and feeling lumps of baby is getting easier.

SLEEP     bleh.

THINGS THIS WEEK     i'm going hiking with a girl from work on monday - maybe that will make up for my missed hike last week.
also, my ob appointments have upped to every two weeks (third trimester!!!).
also, i think arley is getting some pregnancy cravings.  he has been very supportive about dessert, and we seem to always have something munchy and sweet around.  i think i like it...!

LOOKING FORWARD TO     only about a week or so before mikah comes over, and then drives with me to wyoming to have a little party!

FUN FACT     baby is hiccuping (and has been for a few weeks now).  i saw baby hiccuping in the ultrasound, but i can't feel it.  my conclusion is that the anterior placenta gets in the way.
baby is putting on lots of fat, which means lots of energy.

28 weeks

14. apr

BABY'S SIZE     an eggplant!  still the same range, but starting to become a different shape.  hah.

HOW I'M FEELING     got a case of the tireds this week.  all i want to do is take naps.  it was verrry hard to get motivated to take eda to the park to see her friends (probably 3 blocks away).  i'm trying to push through it, but it isn't easy.

WHAT I'M EATING     salads at work, although i keep having big eyes and getting a bunch of extra stuff that i'll never be able to eat.  oops.
i woke up for work the other day and arley said, "i was just getting ready to cook some eggs and bacon."  (i LOVE breakfast for dinner)  "or would you rather have cereal?"  and then i had cereal.  oops.

HOW I'M CHANGING     this is one of those times, i looked at the picture of myself and was shocked at how much my belly has grown.  when i look down at it, it still seems about the same.  it makes me feel better though about having such a hard time rolling over in bed, and having weird side aches and back tweaks.

MOVEMENT     i got a little nervous earlier this week.  baby had a lazy day.  and i do not like those. luckily, i was at work and was able to go to L&D and beg them to check a heart tone with the doppler.  hint:  baby was just fine and doing some smaller wiggles, apparently, that i couldn't feel.

SLEEP     grrrrr.  getting very frustrated.  i've still been wanting naps and lots of extra sleep.  and i cannot sleep well.

THINGS THIS WEEK     i was supposed to go on a hike with some ladies from work, and i totally slept through it, and slept through my alarm.  i'm a little bummed about that.
also, i finally used my birthday maternity clothes gift card to buy some maternity clothes.  i'm a little excited about it!

LOOKING FORWARD TO     baby shower season is coming!  i actually don't know how looking forward to any actual baby showers i am (it feels weird to say, "come over, but make sure you bring something from this list of things i want"), but i AM excited to see everyone.

FUN FACT     baby is starting to put on fat and working on more brain development.

making sure she doesn't get left behind

freshly made bed, can you tell?

some pretty weather on the way to work

and now i am caught up.  whew!

27 weeks

7. apr

BABY'S SIZE     a lettuce!  (i think that is the same size as a kale...)  the ranges are the same.  this baby might be 1.5-2.5 pounds forever.  my ultrasound this week said that baby is in the 55th percentile for weight.  which i believe is somewhere between 1.5-2.5 pounds...  

HOW I'M FEELING     excited and nervous that this is the last week of the second trimester.

WHAT I'M EATING     same old, same old.  i've started getting a salad every night at work.  they started sounding delicious and never stopped.  so i'm balancing out the cereal.  this baby might be born in rainbow colors with all the fruit loops that have been consumed...

HOW I'M CHANGING     super fun tweaky pelvis comes and goes, but mostly comes these days.  i started getting serious about prenatal yoga, hoping that it would help keep me aligned.  and i realized that the only prenatal class that i can go to that i've found is the exact time of our birthing class.  dang it.

MOVEMENT     i could get used to this.  sometimes it feels like baby pushes really hard against my belly, and if i feel, i can feel the lumpies of its body.

SLEEP     still in denial about this.  still the waking up to pee.  still the waking up to roll over.  still the waking up for sore hips.  still the waking up in a little panic because i've been sleeping on my back, which they say is a no no.

THINGS THIS WEEK     ultrasound!  and ob appointment, where i talked to our ob about how she feels that the rest of the doctors in her group will support us and our hippy birth.  it was very positive.  so we will not be switching after all.  yay!

LOOKING FORWARD TO     in about 7 years, i'm excited to get some good sleep again.  i am such a sleeper that even waking up once in the night for anything makes it a bad night's sleep.  i fear those days are gone.

FUN FACT     baby is showing brain activity, and the brain is becoming more and more complex.

just getting some work done

didn't want to move its hands and feet out of the way for the fancy picture

the entire time, it was sucking on either its hands or its feet.  very busy.

got some sweet stuff from some rad kids and arley had to try it out