Jaderston Baby: 29 Weeks!

Feb 1, 2016 /

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How far along: 29 weeks!

How big is baby: About the size of an acorn squash… 15 inches long and weighs about 2.5 lbs.

Gender: It’s a BOY!

Movement: Yes lots of movement! He moves most when I am laying on my left side and I feel him on my right side more than anywhere else. I love feeling him and I love when Mike feels him even more.

Sleep: Still sleeping great! I am usually sleeping through the night with no interruptions. Sometimes I need to roll over because my hips will start to ache and that’s a pretty big event so it wakes me up. But I always fall right back to sleep. So grateful for good sleep.

Symptoms: Congestion, lower back pain, pubic pain, hip pain, light-headedness, and hungry often. I also have these moments of extreme exhaustion that I plan to talk to my endocrinologist about it. For about 20 minutes at a time my body shuts down and I feel like I am trying to walk through sticky mud. It’s weird. I don’t enjoy it. It could just be 3rd trimester tiredness but I wanna make sure it doesn’t have anything to do with my thyroid levels.

Also – passed my glucose test! And found out I was anemic from the blood work so I am now taking an iron supplement. Pregnancy is keeping me on my toes.

Cravings/Aversions: Nope! Almost anything sounds good. I have to eat (what feels like) all.the.time though.

Maternity clothes: Yep! Some of my comfiest clothes are not maternity though (like that shirt pictured above). So still mixing and matching.

Workouts: No workouts and have been told very strictly from my doctor and physical therapist to take it easy. I am “exercising” though if you call my 3-5 minutes a day of PT homework exercising. I’m just grateful to be triggering muscles again and to hopefully be triggering the right muscles to help with the pain.

Nursery: Things are actually happening in there! Mike moved the big furniture downstairs this weekend so now it’s just clutter and junk that needs to be organized and moved. We bought a dresser last weekend for the space that I cannot wait to have assembled. I also am getting closer to picking out a crib.. Anybody else get completely overwhelmed when looking at cribs? There are only 1500 different options… all just slightly different. Meh. And don’t get me started on crib mattress options.

Mike: He is still fighting the tail end of a cold. He had a huge event on Friday that completely wiped him out but he so sweetly continued to exert energy for me to get the house organized and cleaned before he has surgery. His surgery is on Thursday (on his knee) and he will be on crutches for 8 weeks. I am pretty nervous about it but I also know that this is our smartest option. We will be so glad to have this over with when the baby comes.

Missing anything: Not really. Just missing my previous mobility… Soon enough I’ll be back to moving comfortably – with a little baby boy to snuggle.

Best part of the week: We had friends stay with us this weekend from KC! It was so fun to just take it easy with them. Also the weather this weekend? Unbelievable. It was a great mood booster.

Looking forward to most: Continuing to get the nursery put together. And all the organizing fun I still have to do.

Worries/Concerns: I am nervous about Mike’s surgery. The next three weeks are going to be chaos for us with our different schedules and recovery (and a retreat thrown into the mix). I know it’ll all be fine and we’ll get through it (plus I think the distraction will help the pregnancy speed by) but if you think about it on Thursday – we’d really appreciate the prayers for a smooth surgery and for Mike to come out of anesthesia fine.

Thankfully, there are no concerns about the baby and things are moving along just fine!

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Jaderston Baby: 28 Weeks!

Jan 27, 2016 /

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How far along: 28 weeks! Hello 3rd trimester!

How big is baby: About the size of an eggplant… 14.8 inches long and weighs about 2.2 lbs.

Gender: It’s a BOY! This is still so hard to believe.

Movement: Yes. Lots of movement! So many kicks and flips and turns. I love it.

Sleep: Still sleeping great! I feel so lucky to still be sleeping well. I think it helps that I have always been a side sleeper so that is naturally really comfortable. I still have congestion waking me up and I’d be even more comfortable if I could breathe through my nose but I cannot complain one bit.

Symptoms: Congestion, lower back pain, pubic pain, light-headedness, and hungry often. My skin has also started to itch on my tummy. I wear maternity tanks under my work clothes and when I get home they have to come off immediately and I put on something loose (usually a tshirt of Mike’s). The loose clothes don’t irritate my skin as much as the snug stuff.

My lower back pain/pelvic pain is seemingly more manageable the last couple days. I feel more mobile than I’ve been in months. I am still having bad pain often, but also am grateful for a few moments of relief.

Cravings/Aversions: Lately everything has been sounding good (except chicken). I am trying to eat smaller more frequent meals and definitely am hungry WAY more than I’ve ever been. And I only want my water cold.

Maternity clothes: Yes and no. I am mixing and matching but I am mostly in maternity only shirts.

Nursery: Well, I think I’ve actually made some progress this week. I threw away two big boxes of junk and have another big box of stuff to take to goodwill from the future nursery. We still have a LONG way to go in this room but I’m excited to have it started. I can definitely tell that my “nesting” intuition is starting to kick in. I am organizing all the things and really really wanna get my house to its most functional before the baby comes.

Mike: He is fighting a cold this week which is always a bummer. He has a big youth event on Friday evening and then next week he is having knee surgery. I am trying to soak up all the mobile Mike time before he’s out of commission and on crutches for 6-8 weeks. That means lots of furniture moving and shopping is happening now. He so sweetly agreed to make a trip to IKEA last weekend and he’s been so helpful at setting our new furniture up. We had a lot of fun in KC for the day and got to enjoy one of our favorite foods/restaurants, Pepperjax. I love having whole days with him with no interruptions.

Missing anything: Nothing major. I am so happy to finally be in the final stretch of pregnancy.

Best part of the week: Our trip to KC was pretty great.

Looking forward to most: We have some friends coming to stay with us this weekend! It’s gonna be a wild time of food and board games. I cannot wait.

Worries/Concerns: None! I had my glucose test this week (and it was delicious – I am one of those) and haven’t heard anything yet. They said it could be a few days though. Doctor said everything is looking great!

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A Cold Wednesday Evening

Jan 20, 2016 /

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I have a couple random highlights today.

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If you follow along on Instagram you saw that we took our tree down last night. It was a sad night but it needed to happen.

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Alfie (finally) warmed up to the tree and its coziness so he was also pretty sad when it went away. He kept going over to that corner and whining. I am happy to have our living room back to regularly scheduled programming. It makes the room seem so much more open!

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After work today I made a trip to Aldi. I seriously can’t believe I didn’t know about Aldi a year and a half ago. But anyways, I came home and started washing and cutting up fruit/veggies to store. It started raining/sleeting as I was working and cleaning out our fridge. Sad.

I had a strange urge to pull the juicer out (which I haven’t done in probably a year). I forgot how fun it is to juice!

We have this juicer and LOVE it.

I just made a simple orange and carrot combination. I used 3 oranges and a couple handfuls of carrots. I poured it over my last handful of frozen fruit that I needed to get rid of so it was nice and cold.

Then I cozied up on the couch in my new (and super cozy) Gap leggings. I couldn’t find my pattern on their website but linked a similar one. They are seriously so comfortable and they’re on sale!

It was a random afternoon activity but I really loved it.

Happy day!