Pregnancy Diary 3 || Thirty Two Weeks

Again, I am a week late in posting this, so technically I will be 33 weeks tomorrow (although the pictures are from last week at 32)!

His head has definitely gotten lower, so am I feeling the extra discomfort from that. But I am feeling pretty well overall.

My cousin is going to be in town next week, and she is going to be taking my maternity pictures. I am so excited!

Other than that, nothing significant pregnancy related has happened. It really is all flying by way to fast!

I am totally bigger than I look in these pictures, I swear! 

32 weeks pregnant with Sam.
32 weeks pregnant with Charlie.

Pregnancy Diary 3 || Twenty Eight Weeks

Technically I am 29 weeks now, but to keep my posts all nice and even we'll say it's 28!

I really am feeling great! That's not to say I feel perfect, because at almost 7 months it's impossible to feel perfect or "normal". Baby boy is apparently having lots of fun inside me, and I'm definitely feeling bigger. With every baby it gets easier to accept the changes to my body. Not just the growing belly, but you know, the back fat and even thicker thighs. With every bag of chips I eat or bowl of ice cream, I like to hope it's not only going right to my love handles, but to contributing to my baby's love handles as well. Baby is about 15 inches long and 2.5lbs right now, according to my babycenter app, in case you were wondering.

I have such a long list of things to get done before the baby comes...paint and redecorate the nursery, reupholster the glider, make curtains, finish his baby blanket. I keep putting it all off thinking I have all this time left, but really it is flying by waaaaaaay to fast. Here's hoping I get my butt in gear soon!

Here's the belly at 28/29 weeks. Stretch marks and all!

 

28 weeks pregnant with Sam
28 weeks pregnant with Charlie

Pregnancy Diary 3 || Twenty Four Weeks

I am feeling SO much better than I was at 20 weeks! I got my hemoglobin levels back up, and I am feeling as back to normal as I can being almost 6 months pregnant. I've been able to get back to the gym, and it has been so good for me. Not only physically, but mentally as well.

The baby is moving more every day. Sam finally felt him move yesterday, and it was the cutest thing!

This is the biggest gap in age between my babies so far. Charlie will be three a month before the baby is born, and he seems to actually understand what is going on. It's so cute having him talking to my belly. Charlie is still nursing in the mornings (I say nursing, but it's really just comfort sucking since my milk is long gone), but mostly he just loves the comfort grab. Like, a lot. The kid is obsessed! I've started talking about how it's going to be the baby's "eat eat" when he's born, and that it's almost time to not eat eat anymore. I am so done with it! But he loves it so much it's hard to say no. One thing is for sure though, tandem nursing/nipple grabbing ain't happening over here!

I feel so much bigger in real life than that first picture, but here is the belly at 24 (almost 25) weeks!

24 weeks pregnant with Sam.
24 weeks pregnant with Charlie.

Pregnancy Diary 3 || Twenty Weeks

First off, thank you for all the congrats and well wishes on our happy news of a healthy baby BOY! Everything looked great on the ultrasound, and we're on track for a mid July baby. There were quite the range of emotions when the gender was revealed. Aside from daddy, we all had our fingers crossed for a girl. The week leading up to the ultrasound Will kept saying, "I REALLY want it to be a girl, but I just know it's going to be a boy." He was right! It was so sad how disappointed they were, the sweet things. We keep talking up how great another boy will be, so I'm sure they'll eventually be fine with it. I'd be lying if I didn't say I was a little bummed at first, but in no time at all I couldn't imagine him being anything else!

I am 20 weeks, and 3 days. I finally realized this week that I am anemic. I've never dealt with anemia before, so I think it took a little longer to realize it than it should have. I just thought it was the normal pregnancy exhaustion lingering longer than normal, but I was starting to feel worse. I looked up the symptoms and I had all of them! Crazy tired, lightheaded/dizzy, headaches, rapid heart rate and trouble breathing. I started taking some extra iron, and I'm hoping I'll be feeling normal soon!

I have always carried my babies low, and especially this early on before I'm huge this is how I feel I look pregnant:

Yep, I carry my babies in my crotch. Here is the actual 20 week bump:

20 weeks pregnant with Sam.
20 weeks pregnant with Charlie.

It's A.....

 Healthy, perfect baby BOY!

Pregnancy Diary 3 || Sixteen Weeks

Sixteen weeks has me feeling SO much better than twelve! I've been nausea free for a couple of weeks now. My appetite is still pretty small, but I'm adding new things every week. My energy level is very low, and I get dizzy and lightheaded, especially in the morning. It's a very slow start to our day around here. First breakfast for me around 8am with some cuddles and screen time on the couch. Breakfast again around 9am/9:30am. Tidy up the house. Get dressed, and start school around 10am/10:30am. It will be nice to get back to a fuller, more productive schedule, but for now I am enjoying the slow (but still crazy!) days with my boys home with me. By the time dinner time comes around I am thoroughly exhausted. 

Dinners rotate between hot dogs and mac & cheese, yogurt smoothies or fruit and toast. It's so hard to make myself make real dinners, when it all sounds disgusting to me still, but I think all the men in the house would appreciate something with more substance.

For the first time since November I actually went out somewhere yesterday other than my mom's or midwifes! It was nice to put on real clothes and a little make up and actually see other people. I made it through a quick run into Wegmans alive, even though it smelled like vomit, and Dean, the boys and I stopped and got some cupcakes. As anxious as I am to be able to get out of the house, part of me has been a little scared. I've passed out at a store before while pregnant, so of course I don't want that to happen again. Pushing myself to get out yesterday was a good ice breaker of sorts. 

I can't say for sure if I have felt the baby move yet. I guess I was around 17 weeks along when I felt Charlie move, so any day now! I just scheduled my ultrasound for February 29th, and we are all so anxious to find out the gender! I've officially gotten my hopes up for a girl, and it's kind of not good! So far with each of my boys I felt like it was a boy right from the beginning, but this time I just don't know! For a couple of reasons I am leaning more towards girl, but it could easily be another boy as well. That's not to say I will be upset if it's another healthy boy. Of course it will be awesome have four boys. It'll just mean stashing away my baby girl nursery ideas and sewing projects list, and dragging out those baby boy clothes covered in puppy dogs and dinosaurs yet again.

My belly is slowly growing. Pants are getting tighter, and my shirts keep riding up, but I'm not quite ready for any maternity stuff I have.  I'm definitely in the awkward stage right now, and already feel way bigger than I am. I'm throwing in my fourteen week picture too, since that was my first one, but here I am at 16 weeks with baby #4 (with a surprise guest appearance)!

15 weeks with Sam
16 weeks with Charlie (and yes, I am wearing the same shirt)