25 Weeks

The only thing I have to say about this picture is that dinner was really good and I had to slouch down to stretch out and make room for a whole bowl full of chicken and rice. Brian thought that it was really funny. A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do!

I am posting these later and later into the week. In my defense we had a busy weekend, and yesterday I was to tired to think about doing anything.

How far along? 25 Weeks
Total weight gain: 13 lbs...yikes! The last four weeks was a doosey
Maternity Clothes? Yes please
Sleep: Pretty good, I am starting to wake up in the middle of the night crampy and achy, but it isn't really keeping me up for to long.
Best moment this week: Still fitting into my fishing waiters. Not having to stay in labor and delivery. Brian feeling the baby move. We had a good week!
Movement: Yup, he is all over the place.
Food Craving: Sushi
Gender: Boy!
Labor Signs: Braxton Hicks are really annoying when they happen all the time. Other than that everything is locked down tight.
Symptoms: Braxton Hicks. Not pooping...yes, I just wrote that.
Belly button in or out: In, but stretched out.
What I miss: Sleeping through the night.
What I am looking forward to: Going to Minnesota in two weeks. Holding my baby.
Milestones: First visit to L&D. Seeing Garrett's kicks from the outside.

A Visit to Labor and Delivery

We had an interesting night last night. We decided that it would be fun to take a trip to labor and delivery. I had been feeling tired and achy all day yesterday and had a couple of Braxton Hicks contractions throughout the day. To make a long story short I ended up calling my doctor after having six in and hour (like she told us to do). The doctor said that she was at the hospital but told us to wait another hour and if they continued to come in. At about 8:15 I started to get lower back pain and the contractions hadn't stopped so we headed in.

Everything turned out to be fine. I got poked and prodded and had a whole bunch of tests ran. They all came back totally okay. I have to drink a lot of water and try to take it easy this weekend, but no bed rest or anything.

The doctor that was on call ended up being our OB so that was reassuring. Brian and I got put right into a labor and delivery room. Brian had never been in one so it was funny watch him experience that. I had been in the Bozeman L&D rooms for family/friend births in the last two years. He keep on asking me what things were for and peering around corners looking at stuff. We will do a tour of the hospital at some point but it was nice to get a small preview of whats to come. Everyone was nice and we didn't even have to fill out a single sheet of paperwork (I am not sure how that happened but it was nice!)

The whole time we were in there they were monitoring Garrett's heartbeat along with the contractions. It was neat to get to hear the heartbeat so much and hear him moving around. Once I relaxed and we got settled in Garrett started moving around a lot and was actually kicking enough that we could see the monitors and the band holding them on my belly move, I haven't gotten a chance to have him kick that much and actually see it from the outside.

All in all it wasn't the awful experience that I thought going into L&D early was going to be. I am sure part of that is that everything turned out to be okay. It was way more stressful deciding whether or not to go in than it was actually being there. We were glad that we went in and made sure everything was fine.

24 Weeks

Baby Growth:
Watch what you say -- baby is now able to hear outside noise from down in the womb. Studies show that baby finds gentle music and your own voice most soothing. Nipples are starting to sprout, and that little face is fully formed. And, baby's starting to settle into sleep cycles, snoozing about 12 to 14 hours a day.

Oh ya and apparently my ute is the size of a soccer ball...I definitely don't look like I am caring a soccer ball...where is it?

How far along? 24 Weeks
Total weight gain/loss: What?
Maternity Clothes? For the most part.
Sleep: Good! I even had a couple times this week where I didn't wake up to pee at all. It hurt in the morning!
Best moment this week: Is it bad if I say, not feeling crabby yesterday and today?
Movement: A lot! Brian still hasn't gotten a chance to feel it yet.
Food Craving: Sushi! Still, but Brian is taking me tonight yay!
Gender: Boy!
Labor Signs: A little Braxton Hicks, but not much.
Symptoms: Getting chubby! haha. Being either hungry or miserably full ALL the time. And um...well some other ones but I will spare you all the details, I am sure that you can imagine.
Belly button in or out: In.
What I miss: Nothing really.
What I am looking forward to: Being lazy on Saturday and painting on Sunday with my parents.
Milestones: 24 weeks. It is viability day! If the baby is born early then after today the doctors will try to save it. Technically.

Baby Bedding

I am at work and have been here since 5 am. I decided to be productive with my extra couple of hours at work and look at more fabric for crib bedding. I have been going back and forth trying to decide whether or not to just buy bedding or do it myself. I found some bedding that wasn't to bad so we added it to the registry, and I figured if someone bought it then great if not then we would go from their.

This morning I found the perfect fabric and so now I have finally decided that I am going to just make my own, or maybe get my mom's friend to sew it for me! Here is the fabric...

This will be the bumper fabric. I would also like to cover the cushions on the glider with this fabric but I don't know how that would actually work, they seem sort of complicated.

This will be the Crib skirt fabric and probably a window valence.

This is the crib that we have picked out. I am excited for the gray walls, the white furniture and the bedding. I can't wait to see what it all looks like!

One of those days...

Ugh...it has been one of those days, actually one of those weekends. I texted Brian today and told him I needed a happy pill. He said, "a what?" I really wanted to be like I need a hug, a coffee ice cream shake, flowers, a massage, a good cry and a nap. Thanks. I don't know what is up, okay actually I am pretty sure it is hormones, but whatever.

On a more exciting note my parents are going to come over and help us paint the babies room this weekend. Brian has a training on Saturday so he won't be around (I think that he is secretly happy that he is getting out of painting another room!) I think that I have the color of gray picked out, but I am not 100% sure.

We went down to Gardiner on Saturday and I got my mom's sewing machine. I keep on going back and forth between making bedding and just buying a set of crib bedding. I found some cute material but of course I can't actually find it for sale anywhere online. However, I did order these pictures for Garrett's room which I am very excited about.




I think that I have blogged about pictures before but I can't find the post. I love them. They were done for Hygge and West and are by Noel Young.

How far along? 23 weeks 2 days
Total weight gain/loss: 7 ish lbs.... :)
Maternity Clothes? Pretty much. I broke down and ordered some more maternity pants from Old Navy. Then I got distracted and ordered some baby clothes on sale, let's just say that I spent as much on baby clothes as I did on maternity pants...ugh...
Sleep: Pretty good still, not great but good.
Best moment this week: A free ultrasound! A non profit clinic was doing free ultrasounds to help train their nurses. I got to lay their for 45 min and watch baby while they practiced on me. It was awesome!
Movement: A lot! Brian still hasn't felt him yet but I know some of the kicks have been hard enough to feel from the outside, he just can't quite seem to catch them.
Food Craving: Sushi!
Gender: Boy!
Labor Signs: None.
Symptoms: The fatigue seems to have returned a bit this weekend. And I was soooo crabby and emotional yesterday, sorry Brian!
Belly button in or out: In but getting shallower.
What I miss: Not feeling like I am squishing things when I bend over...I know, it is going to get worse!
What I am looking forward to: Painting the babies room and going to Minnesota.
Milestones: I stayed up till midnight on Friday without feeling like I was going to pass out from being so tired! I think I paid for all weekend though!