Monday, August 24, 2015

27 WEEKS

 
How far along?  27 weeks (last week of the 2nd trimester!)
Total weight gain:  16.5 pounds. I think with the weather cooling off I got rid of all that water weight from last week.  16.5 lbs still keeps me right in range though!
Maternity clothes?  Yes.  I'd say I wear maternity shirts about 50-60% of the time and maternity bottoms about 10-20% of the time.
Sleep:  I slept like a baby this week.  (Minus the night we went camping - I spent that night lying there waiting for morning to come.)  
Best moment this week:  Meeting with our doula, Karra.  I could spend hours just chatting over coffee with that girl. 
Miss anything?  This week I am missing running.  With the weather cooling off, it's perfect running weather, and I have the itch to go.  I haven't kept up with it so even going for a 1 mile run just kills the lower back at this point.  Instead, I get excited watching my friend Nicole keep up with her running and biking even at 20+ weeks.  She was smart to stick with it!
Cravings:  No strong cravings this week.  Although carrot cake with cream cheese frosting has passed my mind a couple of times.
Symptoms:  These nasty, painful varicose veins are still cramping my style to the point where I can't stand still for longer than 5 minutes without having an internal panic attack over them hurting me.  I even caved in and went to Walgreens to find compression tights and was surprised and disappointed that they only carry socks.  
Looking forward to:  Where to start... This is an exciting week for me.  I'm going for a facial with my sis-in-law, Joe's 34th birthday is coming up, and we are heading up to Upper Peninsula for a family vacation.

I am getting some major baby fever and we still have 3 more months to go!  I spend a lot of time thinking about this little baby, and I can't help but get excited to someday see that little squishy body, slowly blinking and absorbing the outside world. I glanced through our calendar and realized that these next few months will be busy which means that these final weeks are going to fly by.  I hope that I can be reminded to enjoy special one-on-one time with Conner and that goes toward Joe too.   I admit, by the end of the night, we usually spend that time getting our own stuff done, and I need to get better at just dropping whatever I think is important at that time and really spend it with him.
 
Last night I ordered some new baby products which I am really looking forward to coming in.  A new carseat was a must since ours had expired, but I did order a couple of items that I think will be especially nice for this little babe.  Another thing I can't wait to post and share with everyone!


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