Bumpdates: Baby 2: Week 35

How Far Along:
35 Weeks 

Size of baby:
a Coconut

Total Weight Gain:
22 lbs

Stretch Marks: 

Nothing new, sure it's coming.

Maternity Clothes:
yes...the belly taketh over.

Gender:
It's a BOY!

Movement:
yes, it looks like a small alien nation took over my stomach, clearly visible from across the room.  Please don't stare at my acrobatic stomach, its weird.

Sleep:

yeah right (+1 for pregnant grouchiness)

What I miss:
It not hurting to move.  Everything I do causes me physical pain.  Stairs + 3 year old who can't manage to walk down them at 5am= a bitch, rolling over in bed = a bitch, walking all over gods green earth at work all day = a bitch, tying my shoes = the biggest bitch.  Seriously, find a huge bowling ball, nestle it on your legs against your belly and try and bend over to tie your shoes.  That's what pregnancy is like at this point.  Summer and flip flops was much easier.

Food Cravings:    
Still with the candy...must have sweets.  I'm gonna die when I try to eat healthy again after this baby comes out.  Until then I allow myself my candy binges.  

Food Aversions: 
Spicy/tomato-y/otherwise acid inducing foods.  While I haven't had crazy heartburn like I did with Addison I have developed some serious reflux, make you want to puke when you bend over the past week or so!

Symptoms:
read above complaints that about covers it all.  

Best Moment This Week:

I'm not sure there has been a best moment this week, I'm tired, grumpy, miserable in my own skin and over pregnancy.  OVER IT!

What I’m looking forward to: 

Maternity leave.  Baby!

Bumpdates: Baby 2: Week 34

How Far Along:
34 Weeks 

Size of baby:
a Butternut Squash

Total Weight Gain:
21lbs, like I said it only goes up from here...6 weeks left, lets keep it under 30!

Stretch Marks: 

Nothing new, sure it's coming.

Maternity Clothes:
yes...the belly taketh over.

Gender:
It's a BOY!

Movement:
yes, it looks like a small alien nation took over my stomach, clearly visible from across the room.  Please don't stare at my acrobatic stomach, its weird.

Sleep:

what sleep?  I hate pregnant lady insomnia.

What I miss:
My non pregnant body.  sleep.  Not feeling like I will puke after I eat a normal portion sized meal.

Food Cravings:    
Popsicle were incredibly good this week, they seemed to be the only thing that would help my headaches go away!  Also sweets continue to top my list, I should weigh an additional 50lbs by now. (As I sit here eating a cream cheese danish)

Food Aversions: 
Nothing really this week.

Symptoms:
Headaches, Hip pain back with a vengeance.  Can't eat much without getting the "pukes in my mouth" yucks. Also heartburn/reflux like crazy when I eat much tomato stuff.  Restless legs getting worse than normal..oh joy.

Best Moment This Week:

Is it bad that I can't remember much about this week.  Four full days of work will do that to a girl.  Especially one who hasn't worked a full week in almost a month.

What I’m looking forward to: 

Maternity leave.  Baby.

Addison:
Is definitely doing more talking about "her baby".  She asks to feel him move sometimes now and then talks about how he can share his toys with her, but not her toys cause he's too little.

Bumpdates: Baby 2: Week 33

How Far Along:
33 Weeks 

Size of baby:
a durian

Total Weight Gain:
15lbs.....ok so I haven't stepped on the scale this week, with no gain last week I'm putting myself at least at 18lbs this week

Stretch Marks: 

Nothing new, sure it's coming.

Maternity Clothes:
yes...the belly taketh over.

Gender:
It's a BOY!

Movement:
yes, especially right when I lay down to go to sleep at night.

Sleep:

UGH.  Not happening, so hard to get comfortable.  I'm totally wishing I would have invested in one of those crazy wrap around your entire body pillows for pregnancy.  Or just the belly hole cut out of my bed so I can sleep on my stomach.  I am not a side sleeper and the stomach tries to kill me if I lie on my back.  As a matter of fact I may seek out a preggo pillow online now.  I'm dying.

What I miss:
not dying from searing hip pain.  For real a girl just wants to bend over/walk/do stairs without feeling like a 90 year old in need of a hip replacement.  Shit.

Food Cravings:    
Nothing in particular anymore.  Actually moving back to having more adversions and nothing really sounding good.  Still loving the dairy, Milk, Yogurt, Cottage Cheese.  Fresh veggies.  

Food Aversions: 
Lots of things starting to not sound good to me.  I don't know if it was a combination of cabin fever with limited foodstuffs in the house so nothing we had sounded good or what.  Oh yeah, did you know it snowed here, LIKE A LOT of snow.  I may have missed 3 days of work due to the amount of snow abundant on the roads/my drive way Monday morning, -40's windchill that prevented my truck from starting on Tuesday and a second day of dead battery on Wednesday.  Yeah, I enjoyed not having to work but I'm pretty sure work must hate me now!

Symptoms:
Hip pain which was actually better this week since I spent so much time at home not walking around 3 different buildings at work, and I didn't have a photography session this week so there was no extra moving around to be done.  Frequent trips to pee.  General pressure and comfortableness.  An inability to find a comfortable sleeping position at night!

Best Moment This Week:

Mother nature creating a few extra days home with my kiddo.  I told her last night that she had to go to the baby sitters today and she said "But I thought you were gonna stay home with me forever?"  I wish kiddo, I wish.  (sometimes)

What I’m looking forward to: 

Maternity leave.  Seriously.  This is my third week of only actually going to work for a day, I can't say that I completely hate that fact.  I just wish I didn't have to come in at all.

Addison:
I got to spend lots of extra time with my girl this week, for the most part it went very well.  I only had a few moments of complete annoyance with an inability to listen.  Which what do you expect after being trapped inside a house for a few days due to the redunkulous cold!   We made some art projects for Baby Frankenstein/Pudding, got some of the "newborn" stuff organized and out where it will be needed and spent plenty of time cuddling, doing puzzles and being silly.

Bumpdates: Baby 2: Week 32

How Far Along:
32 Weeks 

Size of baby:
a squash

Total Weight Gain:
15lbs

Stretch Marks: 

Nothing that wasn't Addison induced, but I'm not sure how I can possibly have 8 weeks left, where is it going to go?

Maternity Clothes:
yes...the belly taketh over.

Gender:
It's a BOY!

Movement:
Still tons, still super low and painful.  

Sleep:
Not even fun any more, so hard to get comfortable then try to convince myself that I don't need to get up and pee!  Seriously.  I thought it was annoying last time when I was pregnant and people made comments about having to pee all the time cause I never really did until the very end of my pregnancy.  That's just because she wasn't using my bladder as a pillow I guess, I swear I can & do pee every 20 minutes, even when I'm not drinking an excessive amount of anything.

What I miss:
I'm by no means a "pregnancy is a beautiful thing, I love growing babies" girl.  Pregnancy is not particularly fun, in fact it's becoming quite miserable and I am fairly uncertain how I am going to live through the next 8 weeks as uncomfortable as I have been the last week already.  I honestly don't remember being so miserable last time.  (shoulda blogged about it then I could say to myself, "yes self, pregnancy sucked last time too, that's why you waited so long to do it again!")  I miss being the only inhabitant of my body.  Finish baking in there kiddo, I'm too old for this.  Luckily babies are worth the torture of pregnancy (why else would people do it more than once!?!)

Food Cravings:    
No particular cravings, but still loving the celery and peanut butter, some pretty rare steak & my sweets.  

Food Aversions: 
notta

Symptoms:
constant need to pee, incredible amounts of hip pain - I feel like a 90 year old woman!  For real, I did a newborn session last Friday and found myself pretty much laid up on the couch for two whole days afterwards.  I'm assuming it was the up and downs off the floor that killed me but it doesn't really seem to matter much if my butt leaves the couch much during the day I am in agony at night.  I'm not sure if it's my activity during the day affecting it mostly or my sleep position at night.  All I know is it SUCKS.  I know that I had some hip pain last time but NOTHING like this.  Ow.  Ow.  Ow.

Best Moment This Week:

I had my recheck ultrasound on Monday, Baby Frankenstein/Pudding (however you'd like to refer to him) still had some fluid in his kidneys, so I have an appointment with my doctor on Friday where I'm sure he'll tell me that they will just continue to monitor it.  Last time he mentioned that they may do another ultrasound to recheck again, or possibly wait until he is born and ultrasound him when he's a month or two old.  So though that wasn't great news I remain in my they don't seem to excited about it so I won't freak out and read all of the terrible things that the internet says it could be state of mind....But, being that I had an ultrasound, we were able to see him again and get some 3D pictures this time!  Unlike his sister, who we paid to have a 3D ultrasound for and curled up into fetal position and refused to show her face, he was much more cooperative and even smiled for the camera (see I'm telling you I can't possibly have two kids as strong willed as the first one!).

What I’m looking forward to: 

Maternity leave.  One day of work this week and already I am over it.

Addison:
Went to the ultrasound with my mom and I, she was pretty excited to get to see him on the screen with the magic wand!  Also thought it was pretty neat that he was golden! :)

I've also decided that I really love 3 (and almost a half) year old age.  I could do without the new desire to throw a complete shit fit to get her way sometimes but for the most part she's been awesome lately.  Always willing to help out, big enough to actually be help.  Mostly sweet and happy girl.  Except for last night when she told me she hated me because I wasn't playing some game the way she wanted me to.  She has since apologized me to me several times last night and again today on our way to the sitters probably because she was crushed about no bedtime story last night for saying mean things to Mommy.  I'm sure it won't be the last time I'm hated in her life!