32 weeks!

We are almost to term!!!

5 weeks left until the baby is considered full term, 8 weeks until my due date!! OMG I am so excited, nervous, stressed, anxious.... just about every emotion possible is flying out of me right now. According to the ticker above I am going to be gaining a pound a week from now on, half of that goes straight to Nyla as she grows her baby chub. I already joined a postpartum weight loss support group.... we are all due in February, so it will be nice to have a group to work with that is going through the exact same things I am! I have now gained 27lbs... yikes.

Nyla now has fingernails, toenails, and real hair. I am assuming she is going to come out with ahead full of it because I have the WORST heartburn and everyone tells the old wives tale about heartburn=hair. Knowing her parents, I would not be surprised if she pops out covered in hair and needing to shave her legs & armpits.

I have no idea what a jicama is, but apparently that is the approximate size of Nyla right now, a large jicama.

Three more down, tons to go!

So we can scratch another 3 items off our before baby preparation list, and I am super stoked about this one. We finally ordered our carseat and stroller, and because of a special they were running we got and extra base free ($90) and a $100 mail-in rebate!!! Now that we have a car seat ordered I feel 300x's better prepared, that was the one thing I was nervous about! Thank you to Grandpa Fotiadis for your generous xmas gifts, it really helped us out with this one!!!

Over It

I just want to meet her already!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Holidays!

So much to do... so little time!

Mike and I are off to celebrate our last Christmas we will have as "just the two of us" So exciting! Have a happy and safe holiday!

ps... tonight is the night I am going to

indulge in my one glass of red wine...

I am so stoked...

31 Weeks!

I am now 8 months pregnant... and I feel every bit of it.

I am ALMOST to the point where I am totally over pregnancy, usually this comes when I am trying to roll over, sit up, or walk gracefully from one side of the room to the other.... I have also developed a 3 point turning system for rolling over in bed, Mike calls it my k turn.

I have also realized that I pee so often, that we are going through toilet paper almost 3x's as fast, and our water bill has gone up.... another unexpected side effect of the awesomeness that is pregnancy.

Mike and I were talking last night and we realized maybe it is time to go out and buy some stuff.... like diapers, wipes, some of the things we just kept putting off because "we have time" In the beginning the doctors warned me that I may not make it past 34 weeks because of my blood pressure, which is only 3 weeks away, but I still have the gut feeling that if this kid is anything like her mother she is staying put until March just to prove everyone wrong.

Nyla is experiencing her final hardcore growth spurt this month, she can turn her head, recognize music and voices, and her pupils can dilate from light. For the time being she is my little honeydew..... my adorable, kicking, swimming, somersaulting, heavy honeydew.

GOODBYE BELLY BUTTON!

Last night it was totally flat, this morning it has re-surfaced for a valiant last effort, but it is inevitable that we must say goodbye for now....

30 Weeks!!!!

OMG! I can not believe we are at 30 weeks, the last in my 7th month!

I have to say that I can feel the downward spiral starting.... I have the pregnant waddle now all the time, I get tired very easily (but can not sleep) and my equilibrium is way off! I went to bend over to put my boots on the other day and nearly fell on my face!

If all is according to schedule, Nyla should be weighing in just over 3lbs this week, and let me tell you I can feel every one of them. For those interested, we set up a baby guessing game for fun to guess the weight, length and birthday. The link to the game in on the right sidebar!

So we are officially 10 weeks until my due date, 7 weeks until I reach "full term", and 5 weeks from when the doctor first predicted I would give birth based on underlying medical conditions (we showed those doctors! she is as stubborn as her mom already) I have a sneaking suspicion because of this, she will most likely go overdue! This week Nyla is being compared to one big 'ol cabbage, makes me want corned beef... Mmmmmmmmm

Baby Pool!

Place your bets now!

Belly Button Watch 2009

We are almost to the end of 2009... so with that I am updating the belly button watch. I still think it has a fighting chance of remaining through the pregnancy, though Mike thinks inevitably some time in January it will pop.... Right now it only looks like a belly button when she is not leaning on it. When she leans on it, it HURTS and gets totally flat on the bottom, while the top totally sticks out. So strange. Here is the comparison from week 1 to week 11..... what a difference a trimester(and a tan) makes!

We've Come a Long Way Baby

When you lay it out like this... it seems like I have been pregnant for so long, but in all honesty it is truly flying by!!

FIRST TRIMESTER

1-4 Weeks- COMPLETE

5-8 Weeks- COMPLETE

9-13 Weeks-COMPLETE

SECOND TRIMESTER

14-17 Weeks- COMPLETE

18-21 Weeks- COMPLETE

22- 26 Weeks- COMPLETE

THIRD TRIMESTER

27-30 Weeks- IN PROGRESS

30-35 Weeks- 8 Months

35-40 Weeks- 9 Months

wow!

Wow, I have been so busy this week, almost forgot to post. Work is kicking my butt lately!

We hit 29 weeks on Wednesday, and Nyla is as active as ever. She is just a kicking and tumbling machine. She especially likes to sit nice and low, making sitting comfortably almost impossible! I am starting the kick counting which basically means once a day I take a time when she is really active and count her kicks/movements over the course of an hour. Ten or more we are good to go, less than ten, I call the doctor and we get her heart rate checked out.

At 29 weeks we are a full sized butternut squash weighing in at an impressive 2.5 to 3lbs and a little over 15 inches from head to heel. She will still grow about another 5 inches in length before I hand her the eviction notice in February.

Fun fact, this trimester the baby is taking 250MG of calcium a day from me to deposit and help strengthen her bones for her departure.

WARNING

When you are younger, and your mom tells you that one day when you get pregnant your cute belly button piercing will look freaking gross.... she is right, especially when it starts to turn inside out...

28 Week Ultrasound

Say hello to our little fatty!

She is 2lbs 11oz, her heart rate is 141, and she is measuring 3 days ahead of schedule.... my belly is measuring a week ahead of schedule.

She actually let us see her this time! I think she behaved because my mom was there this time and she was looking to impress... enjoy!

28 Weeks!

We made it to 28 weeks, and we have so much going on this week!

I swear I can still remember when I was typing 8 weeks! We are officially in the christmas season, my favorite time of year, and this year Mike even let me decorate the house early!

This week we have our last monthly doctor visit, and we start going every 2 weeks, plus we get to see Nyla again tomorrow!

This week she is already moving around like CRAZY, and you can totally see when she kicks my belly! This week she weighs around 2.25 lbs and is 15 inches long!

The produce of choice this week is a Chinese cabbage.

She is blinking, and already has eyelashes (hopefully she inherits those from her father) that we may see flutter at the ultrasound tomorrow!

According to babycentre I am going to gain about

11 lbs in the next 4 weeks

BRING IT ON!

Frickin A

This weekend I got a call from a nurse saying my

sugar levels/iron levels were fine.

This morning I got a call and they "took it back"

Apparently, as far as sugar levels, most classify "normal" as 65 to 140 points. My doctor classifies 65 to 135 as normal. I was at a 137. I have to take a 5 HOUR test tomorrow. I have to fast all night, and I am already miserable. Booooooooooo.......

maybe I will be blogging from the Dr.s office tomorrow to kill time,

and I am bringing a pillow to sit on.

Ugh.

Belly Picture

27 weeks and 2 days....

and I can no longer see my toes, no matter how hard I try....

The Final Stretch

Welcome to the third trimester!

I am officially in the third trimester as of today! I am 27 weeks pregnant and I feel every bit of it!

This week marks a lot of milestones, I am in my 7th month, third trimester, 10 weeks to full term, 13 weeks until my due date, and Mike turns the big 3-0 on Friday!

Baby center says she is opening and closing her eyes, sucking her thumb, her brain is super active and she can even get the hiccups! For the duration of month seven, and Nyla is officially our little squash, and this week she is a head of yummy cauliflower!

Glucose Test.... Round 2!

So went for my second glucose test this afternoon, and got an unpleasant surprise... it was a

3 HOUR LONG TEST.

Luckily I brought along my work, laptop and wireless air-card, but this was not fun.

I was starving too, because they told me I could not eat for 12 hours before. The lack of food and beverages (other than the nasty orange syrup drink) combined with my history for not dealing well with blood being drawn lead to me me passing out 2 of the 3 times they took blood, making the process even more miserable.

Also, the chairs in the doctor's office need a serious upgrade. My butt is killing me. They should have a special seating area for woman doing this test, it is just cruel to make us sit in hard, tiny, uncomfortable chairs.

That is the end of my rant.. I am going to take a nap.

Rocko Discovers the Belly...

This happened about 10 minutes ago... so cute...

DAD COME QUICK SOMETHING IS GOING ON WITH MOM'S BELLY!

I will stay here and investigate...

I think I hear something in there....

ALIEN!

Mike refers to it as an alien moment, so we are going with that.

Anywho, I just had my first "alien" moment with Nyla. I was laying in bed and she is kicking up a storm, and I put my hand on my belly... she kicked it, HARD, so I pushed back (probably not something you are supposed to do , but I did) Then I lifted my hand up, and I SAW her kick me. My skin totally moved. It was like in space balls when the alien pokes out of the guys stomach, only I thought it was awesome instead of ridiculous. Had to share.

26 weeks!

26 weeks pregnant! This is the last week of my 2nd trimester and of month six! Time really does fly. I swear one minute I feel completely ready to be a mom, then the next minute I have a total panic attack. I also found out I have to re-do my glucose test, BOO. A little about baby, her eyes are completely developed, though still sealed shut, and she can register different sounds and light. Apparently Mike should start talking to the belly more, because some studies show the baby gets a familiarity with our voices starting in the 6th/7th months.

This week Nyla is the length of an english cucumber

(about 14 inches from head to toes)

and she is at the large scale of the eggplant (around 2 lbs!)

100 Days

I officially have 100 days left in my pregnancy.

That seems like so little time!

I remember vaguely college our 100 days party, I think it was at a bar, I can assure you we all got hammered, had a blast and ate crappy Manga's pizza at 2am dipped in bleu cheese like it was the best thing in the world.

I feel like I should celebrate this milestone too... but how to celebrate? Rather that pissing away money (literally) like past celebrations at the bar, I think I am going to treat myself to some shopping... which will probably lead to me buying something for Nyla, not myself, because that is all I seem to be wanting to shop for lately!

I googled 100 days party looking for some sort of cute graphic to add to the post, what I got was so much better...

MIKE FELT HER KICK!!

FINALLY!

Mike felt Nyla kick last night!

SO EXCITING!!!

Belly Button Watch 2009

We are at week 6 of the belly button watch. It is starting to hurt a little, I supposed I am lucky though that it is still a distinctive belly button! I still think that I will retain some sort of inny (sp?), while Mike is convinced it is going to pop!

Also I included a close up, the belly sure is getting rounder too!!

25 Weeks!!!

So I am a day late, yesterday was a bit hectic with work and whatnot, but I am officially 25 weeks!!! I am rounding out the 2nd trimester already!!! Depending on what website i look at, some even say I start the 3rd tri this week while others say it is not until week 28! Either way it is so exciting! This week she is starting to grow her baby fat, and over the next few weeks she will more than double in weight! Amazing, but according to everything I have read, I also can gain up to a pound a week from now on!!!

Thanks to babycenter, we are back on the produce! This week the baby is a large rutabaga. I can honestly say I do not think I have ever seen one in person. Is a rutabaga considered produce?

Belly Picture

I took another one for your viewing pleasure...

You can't see anything other than my massive baby belly...

24 Week Ultrasound

Mike and I just got back from the ultrasound... she looks amazing :):)

Nyla WOULD NOT cooperate with the 3D, she kept putting her hands and the umbilical cord in her face, so no shots this time, but her blood flow is good which is always the main concern. They did a growth and doppler, and she is right on target! She is 1lb 8oz, and really looks like a baby now. My placenta is normal, and she is head down, and we are good to go. Here are the few shots we got from the tech, she was all business so we did not get a ton of pictures...

yay

we get to see nyla tomorrow :) I get so excited every time!

24 weeks

Holy Cow.

So I am 24 weeks pregnant, in my 6th month, and I have about 16 weeks to go!!! According to websites, I now have a football inside of me. I can feel it too. So good news, I passed my glucose test, I am still in the normal range on Blood Pressure and OFF medications! My highest spike was 150/100, and it dropped as soon as I calmed down (I was having a stressful day) Tomorrow we get another growth/doppler scan, I hope we get more pictures!!! Mike was so cute when I reminded him this morning, he just looked at me and was like, "we get to see cloud champion!" I love him. We are still at a large papaya in the fruit department, but here is the football courtesy of My Boys Can Swim.

Belly Button Watch 2009

Week 5

Still not much of a change in the camera shot, but I swear it is getting more and more shallow in person. I am still thinking I am just going to lose it, but no necessarily get an outie... You can definitely see that my belly is getting bigger though..

NURSERY!!

So we are not finished yet, but here are the photos from Mike putting together furniture!!!

And here are the shots of where we decided to put the furniture! I love the way my new office space came out!!!