Baby’s Milestones: Baby is about 20 inches tall and 5½ pounds this week. Most of baby's growth from this point forward will be weight gain, not height. Fat continues to accumulate at a rapid pace these days. Also continuing to grow is baby's brain power.
My Weight: 167.8 (up almost 18 pounds from my pre-pregnancy weight)
Symptoms: My rib pain is continuing to get worse, especially the burning just above my ribs. I get sharp pains and what I can only best describe as an indian burn feeling, but the skin isn't red at all. I read on-line that it could be a pinched nerve or something like that from everything expanding. Whatever it is, it can be extremely uncomfortable. Especially when I am sitting or laying down, which is 95% of the time. I've also been having some trouble sleeping. I have had night sweats/ hot flashes a couple of times, wandering thoughts that keep me up for hours, and I'm still getting up about once every night to pee and one other time to take my medicine. It's usually after one of my bathroom trips that I find myself wide awake and struggle for hours to fall back asleep.
Cravings: I am still loving cantaloupe, brownies, and chocolate milk. Chipotle also sounds good to me quite often.
My Weight: 167.8 (up almost 18 pounds from my pre-pregnancy weight)
Symptoms: My rib pain is continuing to get worse, especially the burning just above my ribs. I get sharp pains and what I can only best describe as an indian burn feeling, but the skin isn't red at all. I read on-line that it could be a pinched nerve or something like that from everything expanding. Whatever it is, it can be extremely uncomfortable. Especially when I am sitting or laying down, which is 95% of the time. I've also been having some trouble sleeping. I have had night sweats/ hot flashes a couple of times, wandering thoughts that keep me up for hours, and I'm still getting up about once every night to pee and one other time to take my medicine. It's usually after one of my bathroom trips that I find myself wide awake and struggle for hours to fall back asleep.
Cravings: I am still loving cantaloupe, brownies, and chocolate milk. Chipotle also sounds good to me quite often.
TP: 10½
Measurements: Waist: 39 Below Belly Button: 40
Emotions: I have spent a few nights awake with anxiety. It has finally hit me that I will be having a baby in the next couple of weeks and I'm super excited, but also quite nervous. I spent one night thinking about everything that could go wrong during delivery. I also had a dream one night where they gave me a c-section against my will for no medical reason at 35 weeks and then brought me two babies (one was very obviously not mine) and after taking the wrong baby away, they left me and my baby in the entrance of the hospital. I have spent a lot of my sleepless nights praying that both baby and I are healthy and that nothing goes horribly wrong during delivery. In general, I'm not super nervous about how hard or painful labor will be, I'm more worried that something bad might happen and the middle of the night seems to be when these thoughts consume me. I also had one night where I wrote a list of things I wanted to say to our contractor over and over again until I finally forced myself to type it into my phone so I could go back to sleep (I was really close to e-mailing him at 3am, but thankfully didn't because I was pretty worked up and I'm sure it would have been a mean e-mail).
Feeling the Baby: Hudson is still moving quite a bit. When he was head up, he mostly hung out on the right side. Now that he is head down, he definitely prefers the left. His little bum sticks way out to the side quite often and he kicks me in the ribs quite a bit too. He is obviously quite a bit bigger because I will feel movements all the way on both sides of my belly, almost to my back at the same time or I will feel something really low (I'm assuming a hand) and a foot in my rib at the same time too. Every once in a while the movements are uncomfortable, but for the most part I love it! It still amazes me that there is a little person inside of me!! One night this week, I gave Nic a hug and Hudson kicked Nic in the stomach him while we were hugging. It was really cute, as if Hudson was trying to say I'm part of this too. I consider it our first of many family hugs.
Feeling the Baby: Hudson is still moving quite a bit. When he was head up, he mostly hung out on the right side. Now that he is head down, he definitely prefers the left. His little bum sticks way out to the side quite often and he kicks me in the ribs quite a bit too. He is obviously quite a bit bigger because I will feel movements all the way on both sides of my belly, almost to my back at the same time or I will feel something really low (I'm assuming a hand) and a foot in my rib at the same time too. Every once in a while the movements are uncomfortable, but for the most part I love it! It still amazes me that there is a little person inside of me!! One night this week, I gave Nic a hug and Hudson kicked Nic in the stomach him while we were hugging. It was really cute, as if Hudson was trying to say I'm part of this too. I consider it our first of many family hugs.
omg!! your belly has definitely popped a lot more compared to your last picture! so cute! btw, want to come visit you while you're on bed rest. are you available this coming monday? perhaps leah and i can visit you in the afternoon?
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