Skip to main content

27 Weeks

I am six months pregnant! what the buh?! Third trimester! Babby is about 2 pounds and growing quickly.

Things have been crazy busy and will continue to be so pretty much from now on. We have gotten all of our new Ikea furniture built (it took a month), and we have finished the move at work. Both worlds have been very demanding physically for me, even without heavy lifting. The belly and boobs add enough weight to make everything harder. 10 hours on your feet for moving is hard enough as it is! I had one night after a moving day that I literally couldn't stand anymore. Tim was talking to me about my computer, and I had to interrupt him so I could lay down for fear that my legs would buckle and I would fall over.

I think we've finally reached a point where I don't have to work as hard physically, but there is still a ton to do. Baby paperwork. All the planning, arranging, forms, scheduling crap that comes with the arrival of baby. I have to make a will and stuff. Weird. We are also trying to plan our parental leave and potential day care options once the baby is born.

I had a co-worker blurt out to me "SHE LOOKS FAT!" Wow. I know he was teasing, but damn. People really aren't afraid to say things like that to you when you're pregnant. I've had it happen a handful of times, and I know people are always mostly kidding around, but its kinda like whoa, man. Even my mom has made a fat joke:

(After we had loaded much Ikea furniture into/onto my dad's car)
My Dad: As long as it wasn't more than a ton, it should be fine...
Tim: It may have been more than a ton.
My Mom (to me): You alone may be more than a ton!

Thanks, Mommy!

Actually, I HAVE been actively pursuing calories. I've reached the point where baby is going to start developing fat on his/her body, so I'm trying to keep everything fueled. I have been protein packing, lots of dairy and eggs and beans.  I have felt a little pressure because (contrary to my previous paragraph) several people have been shocked at how "small" I am based on how far along I am. Bah, its impossible to balance. I'm small, I'm fat?! I am a smallish fat person? whatever. sigh.

This week Babby had hiccups for the first time. Extremely rhythmic hiccups. It's a normal occurrence, and it means that the baby's lungs are functioning which is pretty cool. At first I didn't know what it was, I had been expecting hiccups to come soon, but I didn't expect them to feel how they did. It wasn't random every 15-30 seconds like regular hiccups, it was very consistently every 2 seconds for about 2 minutes. I googled to see what others had experienced and it was described in the same way.

And I assume this is related to pregnancy... Early this morning I had a terrifying charley horse in my leg.  I had thought that I'd experienced one of these before, but I have never had anything this intense and painful. It only lasted maybe 10 seconds, but I was basically paralyzed. I could actually see the muscle lump protruding from my leg, and I thought I was having a blood clot or something. It happened while I was asleep, and it was not a pleasant way to wake up. Yes, I am potassium loading today to avoid that from happening again.

I am a little behind on posting so I have two bump pictures:












Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

30ish Weeks

I know it will seem like it all flew by eventually, but right now I feel like I've been pregnant forever. The fact that I have less than 10 weeks to go goes back and forth from seeming like not nearly enough time to seeming like an eternity. Being anemic is making me tired and listless, and it is rubbing off on Timmy too. We are just kinda bored and unmotivated, which I need to get over or start appreciating because these will be the last days of truly being lazy. I get bursts of motivation (notice I didn't use the word "energy') here and there and try to use that motivation to do something good for babby.  One of those things is getting my butt back in the kitchen. I had entered a vicious cycle of eating a lot of easy food, which was affecting my energy level, then keeping me from cooking healthy. This past week, if I have a chance, I just go prepare a few things and stick them in tups, which are easy to grab for lunches or snacks. I've made sesame peanut...
6 comments
Read more

22 (and a half) Weeks

Babby is now about 11 inches, and nearly a pound! A couple weeks ago I thought that maybe I was feeling kicks, and a few days later the full-on-ninja-fest began. So YES! Those little gentle taps were baby kicks. Kicks can even be felt (and seen!) from the outside. Timmy was determined to feel one, so he rested his hand on my belly several times to no avail. Eventually the timing lined up and he loved it. I love it too, except the time baby started kicking downward on my bladder... That feels WEIRD and UGGY. Babby seems the most active in the morning when I first get up and as I'm settling in the evening. It makes me giggle to imagine it just flailing around in there for no good reason. "Baaaah! I'm a baby! Hi-YA! I have nothing to do! Take THAT!" The kicking makes it feel more real now, like baby and I are a little team. It makes me much more conscious that I am carrying Babby around and taking care of him/her.  Lucy the cat even felt a kick: she was resting her chi...
2 comments
Read more

First Weeks with Wren

We are about 2 weeks into being parents! It has come with many joys so far (and many short sleeps). The cat is annoyed, the baby doesn't understand night time, and my body is still taken over by hormones and birth aftermath, but we are doing OK. Wren has had many visitors, and she seems to like it. She is the most calm while in a room full of chatty people who are passing her around. Our friends and family have been very generous, bringing us food and a whole second front of gifts (mostly pink clothes, hehe). We had so much food for a while, the fridge was jam packed. I think Tim ate about a dozen cookies and a dozen cupcakes in 4 days. We are finally starting to use all the food we stockpiled in the freezer, which is good because we need to make room... For MILK! Holy milk. We have been blessed because breastfeeding is going very well. Wren is very enthusiastic about nursing, and so are mah boobs. Sometimes they are a little too enthusiastic. I would say Wren nurses about a do...
Post a Comment
Read more