23 Weeks vs. 33 Weeks

23 Weeks vs. 33 Weeks

Feeling great!

I still can't believe I really look like this! <3

We had our 32 week ultrasound on Tuesday! Blob is looking perfect, no Choroid Plexus Cyst! Such great news! He or she is measuring perfectly at about 4 pounds. I can't believe how big that is, yet still so small! Less than 2 months left and blob is going to basically double in size, how is that possible!? I am getting exponentially excited with each passing day!

Profile on the left with the hand in front of the mouth, and on the right a straight on shot. The nose looks scary since it's the nasal cavity rather than the nose itself.

Saturday I attended a baby shower for my friend Amanda who's baby is due the same week as ours. I have another friend Rachel who is due the same week as well. Both of them are expecting girls, so it will be very exciting to see if we will be part of the girl world, or if we'll have a little ladies man on our hands. There's several other people I know all over the world who are due in late July/early September, it's crazy and fun! So many of my friends have delivered their babies in the last couple weeks, I'm going absolutely bonkers waiting for our turn! In the mean time I am seriously loving pregnancy. I have my moments, but overall it's absolutely magical and I am so in love with life right now! Zack loves laughing at all my silly pregnancy things like when I'm hungry...AGAIN, when I need help putting on my socks and shoes, and when I get emotional over the most ridiculous things.

I snapped a bathroom selfie on my way out the door to the shower.

My shower is in late June, yay!

Last week we took the cats to the vet and found out our veterinarian is expecting a boy in September. She is the CUTEST and I loved talking baby stuff with her! Proton is going back in for a cleaning soon, so it will be the perfect excuse to get the vet a little something. I have noticed with each gift I get I just want to go buy stuff to give others, because now I know how exciting it is to get gifts for your baby!!! Hopefully my poor cat does okay with the procedure, she was NOT happy about her shots! Ha!

It's really warming up now that the storms have passed (fingers crossed). Here's to another month and a half of one hot mama! ;D

Hospital Tour

We're still getting over the "ick" that has taken over our home the past month, but life and obligations go on. A lot has happened the past few weeks, but it's almost 8pm and this mama is tired so I'll be short! The "biggest" thing that happened was we toured the labor and delivery center at the hospital! It was basically just a walk through of the facilities with a chance to get questions answered if you had any. Really it was just nice to know WHERE we need to go when the time comes, what everything will look like, and then spend time oogling over the little babies in the nursery. :)

After the tour Zack took me out to dinner at In & Out Burger. Heaven! I ordered my double double "animal style" and it was AMAZING. I wanted MORE, but contained my appetite. :p Then we went to Target and got some more maternity clothes! Yay!!! I really needed some new pieces and am so grateful I found some cute items!

I don't have any pictures inside the hospital, but here's the brochure cover, me at In & Out, and me at 30 Weeks (& 3 days) in my new dress! Apologies for the bad background....it's the cleanest part of our home right now. That's what happens when you're sick. :/

3rd Trimester Blues

Things have not been going so well since I hit my 3rd trimester. I've cried big, fat, ugly tears twice today already, and I'll probably cry again since I just dropped Zack off at the airport and now I'm sad and alone. I've been dang sick for over a week now and I'm absolutely exhausted because 'resting' looks more like painfully laying on my back to avoid coughing, yet coughing anyway and getting no sleep (yes I know "don't lay on your back!"....but it's more like a reclined position with ALL the pillows to keep me in place.....still not very comfortable though). Every night this week poor Zack ended up sleeping in the office because I was keeping him awake. We went to see my doctor Wednesday and she hooked me up with an inhaler and some antibiotics in case things didn't improve by this weekend.

We went to see the new Avengers movie a couple nights ago and I have no idea what even happened in the movie because I was just trying to survive the evening. I wouldn't have gone, but it was a pre-ordered, pre-planned type of thing. By the time we went home it felt like I had a boulder on my chest. All the coughing has made my back, chest, and abdomen so sore that breathing hurts. Coughing is even worse, especially when it causes round ligament pain (pregnancy thing, google it :p). I haven't gotten any exercise this week either which isn't helping. Laying around makes my back hurt, but I can't do anything either because I end up in a coughing fit. Two weeks ago I was comfortably walking 5 miles 3-4 times a week, and now I'm an incapable lump who can't even clean house. I lost at least 2 lbs though because all I have felt like eating are popsicles and ice cream.

Working this week was sooooo difficult. I took the two days off that I could and suffered through the other 3. Things this week should be easier for so many reasons. Even my co-workers were like "you don't look so good" and this pregnant lady took NO offense....because I DID NOT LOOK GOOD.

To top it off I was released from my calling at church that I love, given no new calling, and Zack was put in a calling that is pretty terrible for both of us. I had finally gotten to feeling like we were in a ward where we were known and cared for and now I have lots of icky feelings about it all (not about 'church' itself, just people and the way everything was handled). I hope things will change for the better before baby comes, because this is not how I had pictured things going (but isn't that my life story....things not going as planned when it comes to babies).

I'm feeling better today, but the lack of sleep is really getting to me now. I can't believe the weekend is over already, I feel unprepared for a new week. I'm counting down the days till Zack is back and I'm hopefully feeling much better!

*Update #1: Zack is now sick and stuck in Colorado until his flight back at the end of the week. We need a vacation! Ugh!

*Update #2: Wednesday night Zack sent me a picture of his throat and I immediately knew he needed medical attention. An hour later he was in a hospital hooked up to an IV and prescribed penicillin for Strep throat. Poor guy! They gave him two bags of fluid! Thankfully he was able to hop on a slightly earlier flight and get home by noon on Friday. Now I'm taking care of him and hoping I don't get infected!