32 Weeks

Size of baby: jicama

Total Weight Gain: 20 lbs total

Continuing symptoms: Lower back is really tender. My feet ache after wearing shoes and walking for extended periods of time. Hard to roll over from side to side. Feeling huge. Heartburn.

New symptoms this week: None. Still uncomfortable and hard to sleep.

Sleep: Taking more like cat naps than actually sleeping through the night. Still waking up to pee during the night and hard to fall back asleep. I have been really warm at night while Troy has been freezing. Weird to have our roles reversed.  

What I'm Eating: salad

Cravings: Water. I can’t drink enough water. I am immediately thirsty after drinking a glass of water.

Grandma gift this week: nursing tank top and 4 flavors of stage one baby food.

Special pregnancy moments: Grandpa Haney got to feel baby move and kick for the first time. Daddy and I graduated from our Prepared Childbirth class.  

31 Weeks - 9 Weeks To Go!

Size of baby: weight of carrying 4 navel oranges, weighing approx 3.3 pounds and approx. 16 inches long

Total Weight Gain: 20 lbs total

Continuing symptoms: Lower back is really tender. Hard to roll over from side to side. Feeling huge. Heartburn.

New symptoms this week: Nothing really new. Tired, sore, sleepy. The usual.

Sleep: Found a new way to use the Boppy Body Pillow to give my back some more support and have been sleeping much better. Also switched sides with Husband to see if his bigger dip would help me sleep - and it did!

What I'm Eating: PB&J

Cravings: Nothing. At this point, nothing sounds good.

Grandma gift this week: 3 pack flannel blanket, 1 receiving blanket.

Special pregnancy moments:  We attended our 2nd Prepared Child Birth Class and Daddy got to see an actual live birth from crowning to delivery and he survived! Movement has gotten so much stronger and you can actually see Baby moving around and kicking from the outside now. Daddy loves to make her move! Got kicked so hard that I screamed out in pain. Shocking sucker punch straight up between the ribs., multiple times. Grandma K got Baby her dresser so Mommy got to do all kinds of baby laundry of all the things collected before the baby shower while Daddy put the dresser together. Auntie Heather was told that she was going to be in the room for delivery and would be the one to be my room monitor and waiting room announcer. Started to pack the hospital bag.

30 Weeks

Size of baby: head of cabbage, weighing approx 3 pounds and approx. 15.7 inches long

Total Weight Gain: 20 lbs total

Continuing symptoms: Lower back is really tender. My feet ache after wearing shoes and walking for extended periods of time. Hard to roll over from side to side. Feeling huge. Heartburn.

New symptoms this week: Can’t put on my own socks

Sleep: Back is killing me. Trying to find new ways to sleep without sleeping on my back.

What I'm Eating: Propel water, salmon, broccoli and potatoes

Cravings: Chinese food

Grandma gift this week: Ziploc 25 Piece Feeding Set with travel cups and bowls

Special pregnancy moments: Wednesday was our first Prepared Child Birth Class at Hoag Hospital. We learned about all the stages and phases of labor and what to expect when “its time”.  Daddy learned comforting measures while I am in labor and while coping with back pain. Free back rubs! Dr. said at the last visit on Monday that we are doing so well that we don’t have to be back for 3 more weeks for the next check up. 

29 Weeks

Size of baby: butternut squash, weighing approx 2.5 pounds and approx. 15 inches in length

Total Weight Gain: 14 lbs total

Continuing symptoms: Lower back is really tender. My feet ache after wearing shoes and walking for extended periods of time. Getting harder to roll over from side to side. Feeling huge and my boobs look droopy.

New symptoms this week: Heartburn. It comes on all of a sudden and then it just won’t go away. Trying to drink more milk to ease the pain and provide calcium for Baby Girl’s hardening bones.

Sleep: Love to sleep when I can get to sleep. Still waking about during the night to go to the bathroom.

What I'm Eating: Propel water, Sonic slushies

Cravings: Sonic slushies, Trumoo

Grandma gift this week: Jenny door jumper, I Love Mommy and I Love Daddy bibs and pink rubber ducky for the bath

Special pregnancy moments: Last night Daddy got to feel Baby Girl very hard. She must have been doing gymnastics. He swore he could not only feel a jab but like a hand or elbow move across my belly. I love when Daddy talks to Baby Girl by my belly and tells her how much he loves her already and to please kick because he wants to feel her move. 

28 Weeks

Size of baby: Chinese cabbage

Total Weight Gain: 14 lbs total

Continuing symptoms: Lower back is really starting to really ache. My feet ache after wearing shoes and walking for extended periods of time. Getting harder to roll over from side to side.

New symptoms this week: Nothing really new. Feeling bigger every day and continued swelling and back aches. A lot of movement this week. Pretty sure she turned sometime in the last week to week and half. Kicking has begun in my rubs and no longer on my side. 

Sleep: Having a really hard time getting comfortable. My back has been extra achy and getting to sleep has become hard and I get restless. I try to just close my eyes and rest as much as possible.

What I'm Eating: Propel water, hamburgers, Sonic slushies

Cravings: Sonic slushies

Grandma gift this week: The boobie pack: nursing pads, nipple cream, and boobie wipes

Special pregnancy moments: On Thursday I had my pre-natal appointment (went by myself) and the Dr. said that my belly was measuring larger than it should from last month’s measurements and it could be due to too much amniotic fluid, a big baby, or the way I am carrying her if she is repositioning. If there was too much amniotic fluid then I would have to go on disability immediately. He told me to get an ultrasound that same day or the next and go do the blood screening for the Glucose Tolerance Test. Got in for an ultrasound on Friday and got to see Baby Girl on the big screen again. Daddy couldn’t get off work because of the short notice so Aunt Heather went with me. It was the first time she got to see an ultrasound in person. It was special for her to be there with me. Saw her heart beating strong, 147 bpm. On Saturday I did the Glucose Tolerance Test (yuck!). Got the results from the GTT and ultrasound and everything is normal! Normal sized baby, high but in the normal range of amniotic fluid, normal development, and no gestational diabetes.