Weekly Tummy Pic...

32w6d...

{Picture here...eventually}



Well 33 weeks tomorrow... Only 7 weeks left... Unless this little girl decides to make her appearance early... Which is fine with Bart and I. ;) She will be considered full term December 18th... 29 days left! Any time from there on I will be happy to have her! ;) We just want a healthy happy little baby girl... I am sure she will make us wait till after her due date... stubborn little one... I would say that she gets that from Bart... He would like for her to be born on December 20th... his reasoning behind it... it is after finals week and right before xmas lol... 

So my next doctors appointment is on Tuesday... it should be just the usual check up... We will see if the scale is my friend that day.. prob not considering Thanksgiving is this week... ;) And then from there I think I go to weekly... I am actually not sure... Maybe one more 2 week appointment then the weekly... I guess we will know on Tuesday.

So I dont really have much to talk about with this post... Nothing has really happened... Lets see we had our birthing class last night... That was interesting... I guess... I learned a couple new things but a lot of the stuff I already knew... I know Bart jokes about this class and how he is not happy to be there because it is in the middle of Monday night football but I really hope that he is learning some stuff... I know I will not have the patience to deal with his questions or lack of knowledge while I am in active labor... Especially since I will be trying to go through the process all natural... Bart is a very smart man and I know he will know what to do... I have SOME faith in him ;)

SO Thanksgiving is on THURSDAY!!! Yay! ;) I cant wait to have some good food and see Bart's family. We will head to Cherokee tonight! Not looking forward to the 4 hours drive and having to stop every hour so I can pee. Poor Bart lol. This will be the last time that I can travel anywhere until miss Brooklynn is here... Doc said to not travel more than 2 hours away one I hit 34 weeks... So I am not too sure what Bart and I are going to do for Christmas this year... Clearly stay home and I will prob cook us a nice dinner, maybe go see a movie or stay at home and watch movies all day. :)  I can tell Bart is excited because his brothers will be there... Which he hasn't seen in months... I am excited to meet his brothers the for the first time!! :) I am not happy it has to happen when I am 8 months pregnant lol. I cant wait for Brooklynn to be here so she can beet her uncles! <3

Well that is about all I have to talk about for now. :) Oh on December 1st we will be doing our Maternity pictures! :) I am really excited for this... Hopefully I am not too big lol...

Guesses on what features Brooklynn will have...

So far all we have talked about is her little face and hair... He thinks she will have blonde hair and blue eyes... his lips, chin and cheeks and my forehead lol... that jerk haha...

My guess...
I think she will have brown hair and blue eyes, his lips and cheeks and I am not sure on the chin... and I think she will have Bart's big ass head ;) I think she will be 20 inches long and weigh 8lbs3oz. And hoping for a 9 or 10 on her APGAR score... in my eyes she will be a 10 ;) 

I will have to ask Bart what he thinks her measurements will be... Okay I am done rambling... I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving with their families and friends... I will enjoy my time with Bart's family but I will be missing my family very much! :(

Weekly Tummy Pic...

31w6d


Okay so 8 weeks left! I cant believe it...


I haven't gotten around to taking my bare belly pic... I will prob do it tomorrow...




 Well today I had my doc appt... Everything was great minus the 2lbs I have gained since my last appt... I will get over it i guess... Baby girls heart was beating 142bpm loud and strong... We had our birthing class last night which I actually enjoyed this time... I pretty much got a massage from Bart for an hour and a half. :) We learned some relaxation techniques that we can use while I am in labor... I think will be very comfortable... I think I will need a birthing ball for sure! There was a position that made my back feel so good! and it actually relieved my sciatic pain...

Well tomorrow I have physical therapy tomorrow for my sciatic pain... It seems to be helping some but not as much as I have hoped... The massage at the end feels amazing and makes it all worth it... ;)

 Okay so today is Bart's birthday! <3 This old man turned 28 today!!! Well I didnt get Bart too much for his birthday.. figured the golf clubs from last year counted this year too haha... jk... I did get him a few of his favorite beers... another one of his favorite beer glasses that he broke about a week ago... and some other glass that he has been wanting too... Oh and a duck commander hat.. yup that's what he wanted a freaking duck commander hat... such a dork... We actually just got done with dinner which was pretty good... we went to this bar & grill here in Tiffin... Bart just wanted a burger for his b-day dinner... since its his day he gets what he wants... I would have preferred to take him to a place nicer... but that's not really Bart's thing... He is pretty simple and easy to please... clearly... :) Well onto the most important thing from the day today.... his CAKE!!! OMG I cant wait to cut it and eat it haha... spoken like a true pregnant lady... I ordered it a couple weeks ago and I have been looking forward to this ever since haha...

This bakery in Iowa City has the BEST red velvet cake! 

Well that is about it for now...my next doctors appointment is the 27th of this month at 9:25am... I think I have one more 2 week appointment after this one then I will be down to seeing the doc every week!!! This is crazy to me..  Time has gone by so fast!

So some statistics on my pregnancy so far...
 Brooklynn is 223 days old
 79.6% through this pregnancy
 37.4% through the third trimester
 57 days until her due date
 Brooklynn will be full term in 36 DAYS!!!!
 Tomorrow I will be 8 months pregnant! <3
 8 WEEKS LEFT!!! and counting... ;)

Physical Therapy... and a Special Birth!

Okay so I have to do a little post... ;) Well I am 31 weeks today! yay! Very exciting...

Anyways so I had my physical therapy appt today for my back. It went well.. I have to go twice a week. they gave me a few exercises to do at home which should help with relieving some of this pain in my lower back... the best part is they massage my back at the end... yay! haha... oh and Brooklynn was putting on a show for the girls at PT... she either did not like the stretches I was doing or she just wanted to let them know that she is there stretching with her mommy :) She did make the girls laugh a few times at home much she was kicking and moving.

Okay so onto the important stuff!!! On of my friend Bre just had her precious baby girl today! I knew as soon as my hone went off this morning at 7am it had to be her! And sure enough she was 7cm and at the hospital!!! She had her little princess at 9:15 am 6lbs7oz 20 inches long! I had tears in my eyes when I received that text... pure joy! A new life is such and incredible and amazing thing!!! Anyways I am just beyond excited and happy for their precious family so I had to give a little shout out :) Much love to them and best wishes!


Side note... Little miss Brooklynn has been making me pretty uncomfortable right now!!! She will not get her legs and butt off my ribs! I thought people were crazy when they said that the kicking kinda hurts... But I TOTALLY know what they mean... Its not like a pain but very uncomfortable... which makes me feel bad because I think she is uncomfortable. Sitting is a problem right now...


I hope every one has an AMAZING day! My day was made at 9am this morning! <3 :)

Statistics on my Princess
217 days old
77.5% through pregnancy
30.8% through the 3rd trimester
63 days remain until her due date!!!! CRAZY make that 62... cant count today haha
she will be full term in 42 days!!! And I will be perfectly happy with her coming on that day or any day after that! ;)
7 3/4 months pregnant <3

Weekly Tummy Pic...

 30w6d

I cant believe I have 9 weeks left! This is so crazy to me!


So I dont really have too much to talk about only a few things have happened since my last post... Lets see so last night Bart and I had our first birthing class... The class goes every Monday night from 7-9 for five weeks... :) Bart is very unhappy with the fact that it is on Monday nights... He misses Monday night football... haha such a typical man... There was about 17 couples there... which was surprising to me... I thought there would be less... The couple that sat at the table with us is due the same day as me... :) on our way to the hospital Bart says to me in the car "I really hope today is syllabus day." haha I was laughing so hard I had tears in my eyes... Which anyone in school knows syllabus day is the best because you get out early... He is such a goof ball... But after what we went through in the class I think he is a little overwhelmed... A lot of the stuff that we went over I had already known for sometime... I guess going to school for nursing helps me out a little ;)

Umm lets see my next doctors appointment is next Tuesday... Should be the usual appt... weight, hopefully no weight gain like my last appt ;) lets keep it at the 24lbs haha... heartbeat and measurements and questions...

I have a physical therapy appointment tomorrow at 10 for my back... I have been having a lot of pain with my sciatic nerve... This little girl has been giving me such a hard time with my back. There are some days that I can barely get out of bed and walk... And then there are days I feel perfectly fine... That doesn't happen as often as I would like lol. So I am hoping that PT helps. this past week has been pretty rough on Bart and I and I feel so bad for him... There was a spread of about 4 days that I maybe got a total of 3 or 4 hours of sleep each night.. It was terrible.. I would not sleep my back was killing me, my stomach felt so heavy that no matter what I did I could not get comfortable, I would toss and turn all night, which kept Bart up too! :( Poor guy... Most of those nights he ended up on the couch to try and get whatever sleep he could... I bet he is ready for this to be over... But he wont be getting much sleep when she is here anyways :)

Well my baby girl has been on the move this morning... Kicking my ribs like crazy ;) some of them have been a little uncomfortable but still makes me happy knowing I have a healthy active baby in me...

Well that it pretty much it for now... I have to get ready so miss Brooklynn and I can go VOTE!!! I hope everyone makes this a priority today... Then go to the grocery store, mall, class, and maybe a stop at babies r us... ;)

Oh and maternity pictures... I think we will do them late November or early December... I am not sure. We will see.  

Weekly Tummy Pic... ULTRASOUND

Well I am 29w6d.. I cant believe we only have 10 weeks left!

 



I am not liking how my body is starting to look...I LOVE my bump and my baby girl but I just feel so big... from EVERY angle







This post is going to be pretty short... mostly just pictures! :)

Okay so we had our ultrasound today to check Brooklynn and see how big she is... Our baby girl is 3lbs6oz!!! SHe is measuring only 4 days ahead... ;) SO in love with her it is crazy! Ultrasound was great fluids were on the higher side but still within normal range... and OFFICIALLY confirmed my placenta is no longer touching my cervix... no c-section unless something else were to come up... such a relief and I am so happy!!! We had such an amazing time watching Brooklynn on the big screen! She had the hiccups and it was the cutest thing to see her every time she would hiccup! She also did her typical thing and kept her hands up by her little face... that little stinker! She did smile for us and open her mouth which was pretty cool to see! Baby girl is head down and more on the right side. .Unless doc orders another growth scan this is going to be the last time we see our baby until she makes her big appearance into this world... Kind of a bitter sweet moment for us... So now we are just waiting for the arrival of our precious baby girl.... So here are  the pictures and some short videos of our little princess!!!!

Cant believe how much bigger she is

<3

 Heartbeat was 141bpm...

Spine

Her little foot... that has been causing a lot of damage to my ribs... lol... 

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Her little face is all squished in there 

I think this girl is going to have some chubby cheeks... 

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HEr hands hiding her face... figures.... 

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Arm still up by her face... 

She finally moved it... 

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Our baby girl is smiling! <3 

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And there is that hand again! 

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Her leg and foot... 

Baby girl has some hair ;) 

 More hair ;)

            

 

We have our check up tomorrow... should be the same thing heartbeat, measurements, my weight (ugh), and bp... I do have a few questions to ask the doc but nothing to exciting... Well I still love hearing my little girls heart beating... music to my ears!

Statistics on our baby girls progress so far...

Brooklynn is 209 days old
74.6% through this pregnancy
22.0% through the third trimester
71 days remain until her due date
Brooklynn will be FULL TERM in 50 DAYS!!!!!

Weekly Tummy Pic...

Well I am 28w6d. <3

 Not to sure if I am liking this view lol.. I feel massive...






I am honestly loving every minute of this pregnancy! I cant believe how close we are getting to meeting our baby girl. Time is going by very very fast... Almost down to 10 weeks... maybe sooner? We will know more in 7 days when we get to see our baby girl again. I am excited to see her and see how big she is. I called the doctors office to see how big my uterus was measuring and they said about 3 weeks ahead... so who knows...

My birthday was on Saturday... it was a perfect day! I got to spend the whole day with Bart and of course my baby girl ;) We went shopping (for Brooklynn of course), to dinner and ice cream (best part) and just relaxed and watched movies all day! It was exactly what I wanted to do :) oh and to finish off the day Bart gave me an amazing and much needed back rub. I was one happy momma.

 LOVE my flowers from Bart... Cant wait for all the lilies to bloom!

 Couple outfits we got for Brooklynn <3







Well our doctors appointment is next Wednesday... and we have our ultrasound on Tuesday at 10:30. I am really excited to see Brooklynn again but also a little sad because this is the last ultrasound... :( Crazy to think I will not see her again until she is born...  Unless doctor orders another growth scan... But I am sure she will not...

We got some more stuff put up in Brooklynn's Nursery <3

 Finally put up her wall decals <3










That is pretty much all for now... Here are some statistics on my pregnancy so far :)

28w6d pregant
7 months pregnant
11w1d remains until due date
Brooklynn will be full term on December 19th!
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Brooklynn is 202 days old
72.1% through pregnancy
14.3% through third trimester
78 days remain until due date
58 days until Brooklynn is full term

Weekly Tummy Pic... Doctor Appointment!

                                  27w6d

Okay so I am officially HUGE!!!  Top picture was taken the day we found out we were pregnant... Bottom picture this morning before my appointment... No food, water, nothing and I'm still that big...










So I had my glucose test this morning... It didn't taste too bad just extremely sweet... I didn't have an option on the flavor... I was stuck with the orange one. It tasted like an extremely flat and overly sweet orange soda... I am not too sure when I will get my results back... I am assuming no news is good news... I am sure I will get the results at my next doctors appointment.

Okay so on to the doctors appointment today... Well lets just say it was pretty depressing when I stepped onto the scale this morning... I had gained 10LBS since my last appointment!!! All I can say is WHAT THE HELL!!!! SO that made me pretty depressed almost to the point of crying... SO doctor came in listened to our baby girls heart beat... 132bpm sounded amazing as always... Then she takes out the tape measure to measure my uterus... Doctor takes down the measurement looks at the computer then says to me "your measuring big" I say to her "oh my weight"....clearly that is what is on my mind lol... She laughs at me and says" oh no... your uterus" So I say to her "well what does that mean, and can we talk about the weight gain" She says to me that "I look very physically fit, and I am all belly" She said for me not to worry about the weight gain at all... then she went on to talk about how my uterus is measuring... She said that she would like to have an ultrasound done to see how big Brooklynn is measuring due to the size of my uterus and my weight gain in the past four weeks. Then she asks me if my family has a history of big babies... I tell her Bart was a 9lb baby my brothers were 9lb babies and I was 7lb4oz because I was induced at 37 weeks because my mom had gestational diabetes... so she said "yeah I want that ultrasound done before your next appointment and they can also check on my previa placenta."  Which I was supposed to have that ultrasound, checking my placenta, at 32 weeks not 30... but oh well... kill two birds with one stone... I already know that my placenta has moved far away from my cervix... at our elective ultrasound the lady told me that its not even close...

So I am not to sure what to think right now... about my measurement and my weight gain... big baby? baby earlier than later? I guess we will know in 14 days. I start going to the doctor every two weeks now... so my next appointment is October 31st and our ultrasound is October 30th. I am excited I get to see my baby girl in two weeks! And hopefully with my appointments being 2 weeks apart now not four my weight gain wont be so big... lol... So total weight gain for this pregnancy 24lbs... wtf... okay it just hurts to type that number...


Well I guess that's all I have for right now... I will update when I get more info from our ultrasound and when I get the results from my glucose test. <3