33 Weeks

Holy Moly! Only 49 days to go according to my countdown ticker! Unbelievable! We're getting excited and trying to prepare for the arrival of our little one. On one hand, 7 weeks seems like tomorrow, and on the other hand, still sounds like a long time. But whatever it may feel like, I know it's right around the corner. So time to get in gear and start wrapping up all the little details still left undone!

Milestones for the last 2 weeks (I missed an update!):
How far along? 33 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: +25 lbs. (I wasn't told my weight gain this week so I'm skipping this!)
Maternity clothes? Yes
Sleep: what's that? I'm not tired at night, wake up several times once I finally do fall asleep, then am tired in the morning. The waking every hour thing isn't fun (as I'm sure my new snoring/heavy breathing tricks aren't fun for Brad!)
Best moment this week: delivery of the changing table system!
Movement: I can feel and see her moving all the time - I just started feeling hard spots that feel like they could be a foot or hand or something. So weird, but totally cool!
Food cravings: orange juice
Gender: Girl!
Labor Signs: none
Belly Button in or out? in
What I miss: being comfortable
What I am looking forward to: organizing the nursery/changing table system
Weekly Wisdom: I have to remind myself not to get to the dr. too early (I'm usually really good about arriving exactly on time, but went early to run another errand first this week.) No matter when you get there, you still have to wait. Seems crazy when I'm actually only there like 10 minutes or less for my visit... This week's visit, I was there a total of an hour for a less than 10 minute appointment. But I did get my flu shot!
Milestones: More like "news" instead of milestones. At this week's appointment I was 32w5d but baby/belly measured around 35 weeks. Yikes! Dr. said we could be looking at a big baby. He'll keep an eye on her growth over the next 4-6 weeks, and if she's still growing by leaps and bounds, he'll do a sonogram to try to get a better idea how big she really is. Slow down lady! (ok not really - I'd be happy with a big healthy girl!)

31 Weeks

The week has been good so far; I had the last of my baby showers and all were wondeful! I'm lucky to have such great friends and family to help me prepare for and welcome our little girl! We're just about all set for her, just need a pretty major piece of furniture for her nursery and a few necessities.

Here are a few milestones for the week:

How far along? 31 weeks

Total weight gain/loss: +25 lbs.

Maternity clothes? Yes

Sleep: Waking up a couple of times a night
Best moment this week: Seeing my friends at my baby shower - so much fun! Also, being told I was "all belly" when I've felt so huge for weeks now. Thanks ladies! Talk about great friends. :) Here's a picture of me at the shower - between 30 and 31 weeks.
Movement: all over

Food cravings: peaches

Gender: Girl!

Labor Signs: none
Belly Button in or out? still an innie, one night, it looked like it was a total innie as normal but then the next morning it was kinda flat again. I guess she was in different places both times!

What I miss: not having heartburn...

What I am looking forward to: washing all the little clothes!

Weekly Wisdom: enjoy eating now because once the baby arrives, I'm sure I'll be worrying about losing the baby weight!

Milestones: I guess you could call this a milestone - I started having Braxton Hicks contractions since Sunday (the day after I was talking about never feeling them!)

30 Weeks!

(just a little late posting this one)
30 weeks seems like a pretty big milestone to me. While there's still approximately 10 weeks left, the fact that I've gone 30 weeks is pretty amazing! Here's what's new:
How far along? 30 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: +23 lbs.
Maternity clothes? Yes
Sleep: Not comfortable but I have turned upside down in the bed (head is where feet usually are) and have had 2 nights of good sleep....who knows.
Best moment this week: last Friday, we heard and felt baby hiccups for the first time; it lasted at least 10 minutes and was pretty cool. I've felt them just about every other day since then.
Movement: lots of movement, I even started seeing my stomach move more with the baby's movements.
Food cravings: cake
Gender: Girl!
Labor Signs: none
Belly Button in or out? still in/flat
What I miss: Nonfat Decaf Iced Caramel Macchiato (will have one as soon as this little one is born!)
What I am looking forward to: getting all of the nursery furniture in and setup
Weekly Wisdom: get some sleep; we have a super busy 2 months ahead of us with baby showers and weddings...so I need to try to enjoy the rest I can get while I can get it
Milestones: At my 29ish week appointment, my belly measured a little over 30 weeks. We'll see how the 31ish week appointment goes.

28 Weeks

It's amazing to say we've reached 28 weeks. Things are going great and I'm feeling good. I'm excited about the upcoming baby showers and seeing all of my friends and family that I haven't seen in forever! Here are a few updates for the week.
How far along? 28 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: +22 lbs.
Maternity clothes? Yes; and I'm started to grow out of some of these too! Yikes!
Sleep: A few nights this week, I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't go back to sleep for a few hours.
Best moment this week: Hanging all Baby B's clothes on purple hangers
Movement: Very consistent
Food cravings: FOOD!
Gender: Girl
Labor Signs: None
Belly Button in or out? still in
What I miss: Diet Sprite
What I am looking forward to: getting the changing table wall unit installed in the nursery
Weekly Wisdom: too much information may not be so great; we had our Prepared Childbirth class last weekend and I may have rec'd a little more information than I wanted to know...
Milestones: now seeing the dr. every 2 weeks