40 Weeks

Well, it's almost the end of November 11, and no baby so far. I wasn't actually expecting him to arrive on his due date (I know that's not usually how it works), but I fully expected him to be born before it. But it's looking like we'll officially have a late baby. Each day I go back and forth thinking maybe this is the day. Yesterday totally felt like it might happen soon. Today, not so much. It's like being a time bomb- you never know when it'll happen!

I figure now's a good time to write down all the things I want to remember about my pregnancy. I was surprisingly not good at recording things as they happened. I've only got a couple entries written in his baby book about pre-birth activities; one about the baby shower, and one random entry about day to day stuff. But I know that while it's so fresh right now, years from now, when he and his (future) siblings ask me about this time, I'll probably have forgotten a lot of it. And especially if I have a daughter someday, I'll want to be able to pass on the info of what it was like for me with my first baby.

1) I had morning sickness... kind of. In the early stages I was starving all the time, especially in the morning. I went through about five snacks between breakfast and lunch each day. My students didn't know I was pregnant yet, and I thought for sure someone would point out that I was suddenly constantly munching on apples, cheese sticks, muffins, granola bars.... Then from about months 3-6, I suddenly had no appetite, and felt queasy around food overall. Lucky for me, this didn't manifest itself with throwing up, just sudden gagging. I couldn't look in the fridge or go to the grocery store. And for some reason bananas were just the worst to look at. I did end up throwing up once, completely randomly, after I had chili (my favorite food of all things!) for lunch one day.

2) All the weight I gained is in my belly. I actually lost a bit of weight at first, but my doctor said baby himself was always exactly on target for his weight so I didn't need to worry. And I made it up in the last few months anyway. But seriously, it's all out front. I could still wear my regular jeans at six months (though sitting in them was not fun) and my fitbit is actually looser around my wrist than before I was pregnant. I also haven't had any swelling in my feet or legs, which is awesome. But that doesn't mean I can still wear my cute boots; it's impossible to reach down and pull them on!

3) We got pregnant on the first attempt. Enough said. ;)

4) Baby T. has hiccups a lot. He likes to roll around and kick me in the ribs at night when I lay down. And speaking of laying down, that's just ridiculous. No matter how I lay, it hurts. You're supposed to sleep on your side during pregnancy, but man that makes your hips stiff. You're not supposed to sleep on your back, and you obviously can't sleep on your stomach. My nights are just rolling from one side to the other (which is quite the effort). And then there's the comical act of getting out of bed.

28 Weeks + Finished Baby Blanket

We've made it to the third trimester! Lately Baby Boy's kicks have been getting more powerful and more spread out. I feel him under my ribs a lot on the right side, and a couple days ago I could feel him tapping way out to the side. Makes me wonder how exactly he's positioned in there to get such a far reach. I asked my doctor at our appointment this week if she could tell, but he's still too small to pinpoint. We're at the point where we go in for checkups every two week; Baby T manages to be spot on in growth at every appointment, despite the fact that I'm still not very hungry most of the time.

In other news, teacher training started up this week so summer is officially over. It's back to actually knowing what day of the week it is for me, and looking forward to weekends again! I tried to finish up my last few sewing projects beforehand, but I've still got a few left to do. I did manage to finish the baby blanket though!

 Please disregard my hair above; I think I had just pulled it out of a bun I'd slept on.

If I have time (HA, remember I said school's started?) I'll post my methodology for this fast, easy blanket that even I was able to pull off. Did I mention this is my first ever blanket? I seriously made this thing from scraps I was trying to use up and a tutorial I found online to do the binding. It was a lot simpler than I would have imagined, but it's by no means perfect. I don't think I could have handled the process if my expectation had been perfection. I was more shooting for... doesn't fall apart in the washer. :)

22 Weeks

Holy moly, we're just a month away from hitting the third trimester!

It's starting to get really real around here. In these last couple weeks, Baby T has really upped his squirming game. I can feel him most at night right when I lay down in bed. Nothing painful yet, just the weird feeling of a teeny baby doing somersaults underneath my skin.

Even more exciting, we just started seeing him move as well. When I was 16 weeks, I saw a Youtube video of another 16 week-er who had filmed her baby's movement. So for about a week I poked my stomach and watched intently right before bed, but nothing ever happened. I'd kind of given up looking. Then, while I was taking a bath the other day, I felt him start tumbling and happened to glance down and boom! There was that little kick pushing underneath the skin. And then another right after. I saw him move five times in total in about ten minutes. Makes me wonder how long I could've seen it had I been watching for it in the last few weeks.

Chris saw it happen, though faintly, later that night when we were shining a light on him trying to get him to move. Baby T does things on his own terms, though, and doesn't like to perform when asked. I did get lucky and caught the movement on video the next morning when I woke up to him doing laps.

In the meantime, we're getting lots of stuff done around the house this summer. It's so nice being off from work, and with Chris working at home we can schedule any projects or errands we need to pretty easily. Our goal has been to do a full house purge before officially starting the nursery. Months ago we made a list of furniture we needed to get rid of (bedroom chair, TV stand and old school TV that used to be in our room, bookcase in our office), things we needed to downsize (kitchen table and our giant office desk), and things we needed to do (move wifi from office/soon-to-be-nursery to living room, clean out attic and garage, set up Chris' new office in the dining room, and my new "office" in the bedroom). And crazily enough, we are almost at the end of our list. We cleaned out the attic last week, and filled about six boxes of stuff to get rid of; yesterday we did the garage and emptied out most of our cabinet drawers down there. Note to anyone needing to clean out their house of stuff they've been hanging on to "just in case": just wait till you're six months pregnant. It'll turn you ruthless with what really needs to stay and what can easily go. And it feels so good to get rid of unnecessary things.

I still need to go through some stuff in the office, and my goal is to use up a lot of my scrapbooking stuff so I have little to store. That's actually my plan for today, while Chris goes on a man date with Ryan. :)