Baby’s Milestones: This week baby can be anywhere between 17 and 19 inches and weigh more than 41/2 pounds. Baby is acting more and more like a baby with his eyes closing during sleep and opening while awake. More light is also penetrating the womb now so baby can differentiate between day and night. He has also reached an important milestone this week: His immune system has developed which will help provide protection from mild infections.
My Weight: 165.2
Symptoms: My rib pain is continuing to get worse. I usually have pain at night before bed and when I wake up in the morning. My groin muscles are also a bit sore at times. I'm at a point now though that I'm not sure what soreness is from sitting and laying all day and what is from the baby getting bigger. I've also had itchy skin just under my ribs and I've been feeling a bit tired. I get up once in the middle of the night to take my medicine and sometimes it takes me a really long time to fall back asleep. (I guess it is good practice for when our little guy arrives). Considering how miserable I hear many women are at this point in pregnancy, I am feeling pretty darn good.
Cravings: No cravings this week.
My Weight: 165.2
Symptoms: My rib pain is continuing to get worse. I usually have pain at night before bed and when I wake up in the morning. My groin muscles are also a bit sore at times. I'm at a point now though that I'm not sure what soreness is from sitting and laying all day and what is from the baby getting bigger. I've also had itchy skin just under my ribs and I've been feeling a bit tired. I get up once in the middle of the night to take my medicine and sometimes it takes me a really long time to fall back asleep. (I guess it is good practice for when our little guy arrives). Considering how miserable I hear many women are at this point in pregnancy, I am feeling pretty darn good.
Cravings: No cravings this week.
TP: 10¼
Measurements: Waist: 38 Below Belly Button: 38¾
Emotions: This week I had a bit of a meltdown. We have had a ton of issues with nursery furniture being on back order or being discontinued, which has added a lot of stress to an already stressful situation. I had this vision in my head that our construction would be done, our house would be all clean, organized and put together, and everything would be ready for the baby weeks in advance. Now, I'm struggling just to have the bare minimum ready for when he arrives. I can't do much to help the situation and feel completely out of control. This of course isn't how I imagined these last few months of pregnancy going and I just burst into tears on the way home from a completely unsuccesful trip to Babies R Us on Sunday. Maybe this is just God's way of preparing me for mommy-hood~forcing me to learn that things don't always go as planned and sometimes I just have to go with the flow, but I am defintitely struggling with it all at the moment.
Feeling the Baby: Still seeing and feeling tons of movement. :)
Feeling the Baby: Still seeing and feeling tons of movement. :)
I'm so sorry. Being on bed rest is hard and feeling like things aren't coming together I'm sure feels overwhelming. We didn't finish our twins' nursery until the day before they arrived and I was a nutcase. The reality is though, that if he at least has somewhere to sleep when he comes home - your husband will have plenty of time to finish stuff with all that time you're going to spend nursing. =) Glad that beautiful boy has decided to bake a little longer. Keep baking little Hudson!
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