34 weeks!!!!

 

Here I am at 34 weeks!!! 

There is not much else to post about so I will post again on Monday after we go to the Dr's!!

 

Weeks 31- 33

Week 31: Well, the weeks are starting to blur together a little bit, so I don't think anything super important happened this week. Except I am having to wear more maternity clothes and sweats, even my bigger pre-pregnancy clothes are to small and to short. So that makes me feel kinda...........huge!!! LOL

Week 32: This week I am starting to walk more like a pregnant lady. I try not to because I don't want people to stare, because when I wear hoodies and sweats I don't look pregnant just fat. :/ I am definitely finding it harder to move around not just quick, but moving around in general is hard. I finally felt what baby hiccups feel like. But She doesn't have them very often, and when she does it is of course at night when I am trying to sleep. I think she is just trying to get me ready for when she is here and I wont be sleeping hardly at all. This week was the start of March Madness, so John and I each did a bracket for his work group. And we thought it would be fun to do one for Macks. We decided that we would keep track of the time of her kicks and if it was on an even number she was picking the even ranking team, and if it was odd then the odd ranking team. we had to change it up for the second and third rounds but we seemed to figure out a pretty good system. Oh and we got really lucky that she was in the mood to move A LOT!!!! So far she is doing pretty good (for an unborn child) I think she has like 280 points as of right now (March 23) and she isn't even in last place!!! This was great for us to do, John loved it and told her she was crazy a couple of times for picking the team that she did!!! But I think it was a little bonding experience that we were able to have with her before she even gets here, even if she doesn't have a clue what was going on!!!! 

Week 33: Well on Monday we went in for our 32 week appointment. That was not the greatest appointment we have had. I think it is worse than the one at like 11 weeks where they couldn't find the heart beat with the doppler, so they did an ultrasound and were able to find it. But I was super worried then. Well This week it wasn't a worry appointment. It was a make me feel bad appointment. So last time the Dr told me that I was measuring small and that I had to eat every 2 hours for blood sugar purposes. So I did what he told me. I didn't go overboard with eating. at least I didn't think that I had. But he measured me and told me that I was measuring 30 cm (not Inches, I guess I would be huge if I was measuring in inches so from the last post it is cm not inches they measure in!!) so I asked him if that was good, and he said perfect!! I was thinking oh good I am doing great. Then he looks at my chart and asks 

DR: "so you've only gained 12 lbs this pregnancy?"

ME: No (john and I had just talked about how I had gained more than I wanted to so this made me a little sad :( ]

DR: taps me on the knee and smiles then says "I know its okay I am joking that is just my way of telling you that you need to slow down"

ME: Okay I know (being very upset in my head that my Dr. just told me that I was fat and that I needed to stop gaining weight.)

Anyways it was very frustrating. I mean you don't go telling a pregnant lady with raging hormones that she is Fat. I don't care how nice you tell them it still means the same thing. Ugh okay that was our appointment and I am done venting!!!

So for the rest of this week......I am obviously having to wear lots of maternity clothes and sweats. Mostly sweats because I just find them way more comfortable!! Macks has been moving a lot these last few days. I think it is kinda cool because I like to sit and watch her stretch and you can see it from both sides of my stomach. But sometimes it is not so nice, like when I am trying to sleep. LOL But I really love knowing that she is doing good (even though I am sure she is running out of room!!) and that she is alive. I had someone ask me if she was kicking my ribs yet. Well the answer is No, but I think that rib kicks would be less painful the hip kicks. She loves kicking my right hip bone. But the kicks aren't to bad just a little painful. what really gets me is when she just sits there and pushes on my hip for like 3 seconds. ( I know that doesn't sound very long, but it sure feels like forever!!!) Okay so besides that I think the week is going by pretty quick!! I love knowing that in 2 months I will have her here and not have to keep counting down the days!!! I am also loving planning her room out (yeah I am sure I should already have it done because I am not going to be able to do much in a few weeks) we didn't have to paint the walls or anything really so that is nice I have a few ideas that I found on pinterest

Well I cant wait only 47 days to go!!! I will post a picture of me this week as soon as I take one. Maybe tonight!!! 

Weeks 24-30

Okay, so I am behind again. LOL I will do a quick update the things that I can remember from the last six weeks. (not much happened so it might be a little boring, but for those of you who like to know I will try really hard!!)

Week 24: We had another ultrasound to check see if Macks was growing at the right rate, because at our 20 week appointment she was measuring a week and a half smaller then what she should be. The Dr. said that she was growing great!!! Which is good because I was a little worried. I tend to worry a lot as of late. We were supposed to figure out our due date, which we had three at the time (May 9,12,19). But he never said anything about it just that she was growing good. So I guess that is good!!! I now just tell people that we are due anywhere between the 9th and the 19th. John however tells everyone that we are due the 15th. (being and engineer he like specifics so I will let him keep saying that!!) Well that's all for week 24. Oh wait I almost forgot we have pictures!!!! :)

She decided that she was going to be camera shy and face the floor!!!!

Here is her little leg!!! 

 

I have a picture of her hand somewhere but my computer is hiding it from me!!!!

Weeks 25-27: For these weeks I don't really remember really much of anything that happened except for the horrible realization that I could no longer fit into any of my pre pregnancy jeans/dress pants/ skirts. :( it was a very sad time. Mostly because I was probably just very hormonal and emotional. I refused to go anywhere that I would have to dress up. but of course with coaching I had to dress up for our home games, so I would find the biggest pair of dress pants I had and find a long shirt so that you couldn't tell that I hadn't buttoned them. :/ That is when John finally broke down and decided we could go get some pregnant pants. So I looked around for some cheap ones ( i was not about to spend $70 on pants I would only be wearing for 3-4 months) But lucky us Ross has maternity clothes!!!! We bought 3 pair of jeans for $15 each. I thought we did pretty well!!!

She still loves to kick me in the bladder only her kicks are getting a lot stronger. John still thinks it hilarious!!

Week 28: So we had a Dr's appointment this week and we had to take our glucose test and get a Rhogam shot. I will start with the Rhogam shot. I have to get it because my blood type is Rh - and John's is Rh +. Everyone on the pregnancy forums that I am following talked about how bad it hurt and how big of a needle it was. I will admit that I didn't see the needle, but John did and said it really was big. But it didn't hurt at all. I mean i felt the pressure of it but I didn't think it was horrible. I guess its a good thing that I don't mind needle or shots. 

Okay, for the glucose test. I have heard so many different opinions on this. Some say that it tastes horrible and some say that it just tastes like flat soda pop. My sister-in-law Sarah said that it didn't taste that bad just like sugary soda. and I would have to agree with her on it because I thought it tasted fine. (it kinda made me want and orange soda!) so at the Dr's the took my blood and told me they would get back to me with the results if they were abnormal or if they were normal we would just talk about it at my next appointment. So after the blood draw the Dr. came in to measure my stomach and listen to her heart beat. Well he said I was measuring 21" (which is good according to him) and as for the heart beat....well she decided to start going crazy and kicking the little wand every time he put it on my belly. :) John got to hear her kick. (i think he thought it was pretty cool, but he is not very excited to hear her or see her kick he just wants to hold her)

The Dr. said it was normal for babies to be all wired after we drink the glucola. So he took that as a good sign!!! 

Two days after the appointment I got a call from the nurse saying that my blood test results were in. I figured I knew what they were going to say since they were calling me i braced myself for the worst. But to my surprise she said that my sugar levels weren't high they were actually low. I think she said like 59. So she told me to lay off sugar foods and make sure that  I am eating like every 2 hours. (This is not something I wanted to hear. I have been doing so good not to gain to much weight and now they were telling me to eat more often. But John reassured me that just because I have to eat more often doesn't mean I have to eat more!!) 

Week 29

I am also starting to feel more pregnant and less fat!!!

Week 30: We had another Dr. appointment this week (which means I now see him every 2 weeks!!) it was pretty normal i guess. I mean we went in had a pee test, got weighed, got blood pressure and heart rate, listened to babies heart beat and got measured. Well heart rate and blood pressure are great, I lost a lb. since my last visit, babies heart rate is good and strong, belly measuring 28" Doc says it is small but that is most likely because I have such a long torso. but next visit if it is still small he wants to do another ultrasound just to make sure everything is good.....Yeah that's not gonna worry a mom to be that the Dr. thinks she is measuring small. But the last few days I feel like my belly has grown a ton. so next time I will make sure that I eat a lot so that my belly isn't to small!!! :) Well life is going great. We are excited for Macks to get here. 

Oh my goodness I almost forgot the best part about week 30. So Saturday night John and I were laying i n bed listening to The Hunger Games, and Macks was going crazy and kicking all over the place. I kept telling John to look but then she would stop. So he would look away and she would kick again. Finally I told him to just sit there and watch. So he did a minute or so later she moved alright. It definitely wasn't a kick she was doing a summer salt or something and you could see her move from the upper part of my tummy to the lower part of my tummy. John had this strange expression on his face and his eyes were huge. I thought he would think it the coolest thing yet, but no he just turned back to playing solitaire on my phone and said, "that was creepy I don't want to see that again. It reminds me of the show Alien were the alien is coming out of her stomach." I just laughed. Because at first he couldn't think of the movie and the only movie i could think of that had something to do with a belly moving was twilight and I was so excited, but then remembered that he hasn't seen it. But he said that he didn't want to think of our little girl like that!!! 

Well that is all for this post I will be better I promise....okay well I hope I can be better no promises!!!!

Here I am at 30 weeks!!!!