Week 32: 1.6.13
Today I had my doctor's appointment with Dr. Gallagher. Blake joined me and when the baby's heart rate measured in the mid to high 150's again nearing or at 160, I asked her if she believed in heart rate gender wives tale... where a girl's heart rate is much higher than a boy's. They say 130's and 140's is a boy. She said no, she didn't believe it but our baby definitely is super fast!
I only have 3 more weeks of work before my maternity leave begins and we finally cleared out your nursery just yesterday! It still doesn't feel real, that you will actually be living in this house in less than 2 months. Not knowing if you are boy or girl, I can't get inspired to decorate your room since I don't want to super neutral forever, so decided to keep it overly basic until your BIG arrival. I love the room though, filled with hard wood floors and so much light from the large bay windows.
This week, Addie was laying on my belly to belly after I had braided her hair, giving me a big hug, when the baby kicked her belly and the expression on her face was priceless as she hasn't been quite as patient waiting to feel the baby kick, as her older brother has been!
For the very first time last night I found myself counting down the nights of having to sleep this pregnant. 98 percent of the time I love being pregnant but last night getting table in bed combined with the insane amount of times I have to get up from bed in order to go to the bathroom yet resulting in having to get comfortable again have left me counting down the days. (Update on above paragraph three days later: I figured out that that extreme uncomfortableness was due to a half mile rapid walk I took with Blake that Monday afternoon before dinner.)
For the last several days I have been consumed with planning a girls nursery... yep I've decided since last Monday that I'm having a girl in part by being frustrated about not having a design plan in my head at all and I decided that at least I have a 50 percent chance that the ideas I ski map will be correct I even started buying things but yet when I realize there's only a 30 day return. I decided I'm going to have to start purchasing things the first week of February in case my guess is incorrect so I can return them.
This week, Blake did some "scientific research" on wives tales, especially the one about heart rates and after reading two scientific journals where women took home fetal heart rate monitors to monitor their babies heart rates every couple of hours throughout the days, he says that there is absolutely no truth to it. The articles say that all babies fluctuate between 130-160's depending on how awake and active they are. He did a ton of the gender prediction tests while in an airport one night and majority of them did come back with the results that we are having a GIRL. We will see!
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| Man... I am so lucky to be married to a man so open and willing to help out with my silly ideas! |
This weekend Blake and I were able to get out for a nice date night and yummy steak dinner. We talked about our goals for the future and everything we have accomplished thus far together.
Can we talk about the incredible amount of times per day of having to use the restroom!??!? My bladder, with out a doubt, must be the size of a pea. One night starting at 9PM, I lost count after EIGHT times of getting up (and that was before my alarm clock went off at 5:40AM.) Another morning recently, I counted from the time my alarm went off at 5:40AM to the EIGHTH time I was walking into a bathroom just after 1PM that day in one of my office buildings. I have quickly learned, especially at night, not to even fight the urge or resist and instead pop out of bed (which probably looks much more like rolling to my feet) and accept the fact that I only will get an hour increments of good sleep for here on out. I understand that its mother nature's way of getting you ready for having a newborn but both of my newborns were on three hour sleep cycles in the very early weeks at the very worst.
I can't believe we have just SIX weeks or possibly less until we find out if a boy or girl has joined our family.
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| Again, wow, thanks family for appeasing all my silly desires to document this last pregnancy together! |
(As a memory, I decided to snap a picture of what it's like to wait in my OB's office the 14 times or so you go while you are pregnant!)
Last week ever of maternity work clothes! Yea! I'm excited about possibilities of having either sex. I would love for Carter to be the only big brother to two younger sisters and be able to coordinate the two girls' outfits. On the boy side, I would love for Addie to be the only girl and have her ultimately have her own bathroom with her room at the front of the house as the 2 boys own the back of the house. Who knows and I am at total piece that God will give us what our family needs!
Week 36: 2.3.13
Yesterday, marks my first day of official Maternity Leave. (I am very blessed to have been given off the four weeks before my due date all three pregnancies.) Just four weeks from two days ago is your due date.
About a million times a day, people ask me if I'm ready for you to be here? To each person, I answer, "not quite." See I'm looking forward to these four short weeks that I know are going to fly by just to prepare our home and life for you. I'm on a huge de-cluttering and simplification run and loving it.
Looking back, I haven't had any significant back pain in over a month. I haven't even used the heating bad since New Year's. Although I know I'm huge, I am alarmingly comfortable at 36 weeks and still in awe just feeling you move all over. Carter described it perfectly this past weekend when he said, "The baby feels like a giant wave in your tummy when it move!"
This week, I start my weekly doctor visits and getting "checked." Although I don't anticipate anything yet, I do think a lot about a what initial at-home stages of labor will be like. Considering in two full pregnancies and now at 36 weeks of my third, I haven't even felt a Braxton Hick contraction... But maybe that is a good thing as I don't seem to have any history of false contractions or early labor. So the race is on to get a bunch of stuff done while I wait to meet you!
Early in the week, Carter decided he wanted to "measure" how big you are right now...
At 36 weeks, my sweet girl and I were having fun showing off our bellies!
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