Size of baby:
an acorn squash, finally a considerable amount of baby to make up all that movement
Total Weight Gain:
12.5lbs, oh man Thanksgiving and that sweet tooth are doing me in!
Stretch Marks:
Nothing that wasn't Addison induced
Maternity Clothes:
yes...the belly taketh over.
Gender:
It's a BOY!
Movement:
Tons, he's like me doesn't want to be touched, put your hand on my belly when he's moving and he'll quickly kick you pretty hard.
Sleep:
Since I've been sick this week (and I'm typing this late) I took two sick days from work and slept, and slept. It was FANTASTIC though I still feel tired!
What I miss:
I've reached the point where I miss the ability to bend, pick up a pencil off the floor? Fuck that. It's dead to me. Bending over all day at work KILLS me.
Food Cravings:
celery with peanut butter
Food Aversions:
notta
Symptoms:
lots of hip pain to the point of hardly being able to walk last Saturday evening, I feel like I needed a hip replacement. I remember some hip pain with Addison also but hers tended to be more overall soreness where I think this is more of the sciatica pain I hear people talk about.
Best Moment This Week:
Santa Visiting see Addison section below.
What I’m looking forward to:
my recheck ultrasound on the 30th, to double check and see if the fluid they noted in his kidneys at my anatomy scan has cleared itself up or not. Not one to worry about anything I don't have to worry about so I'd like to know if it's something that we should prepare ourselves for being a problem or not!
Addison:
This honestly probably deserves an entire blog post on it's own but I've pretty much sucked at doing blog posts about anything but being pregnant lately so I'm putting it here. Anyhow not baby related at all- We went to the Parma Fire Station to see my favorite Santa (which we try to do every year except when absent minded mommy just completely forgets about it, as I did last year) We got there early because we are impatient about waiting in lines. We ended up being the 2nd people there with a small family of kids ahead of us. We waited for them to announce that Santa was on his way (on a firetruck!) and Addison and I headed outside to wait for him to pull up. I didn't take my camera outside with me nor did I think to video tape her reaction because I had NO clue it would be so great, but that girl FLIPPED for Santa. I'm talking full hopping/squealing in delight making pregnant over emotional mom tear up to see her so fricken excited. As soon as she could see the firetruck lights flashing from up the road the "Santa!, Santa!, Santa!" screams started. They pulled the firetruck around the back of the station and then around the building to park and let him get out and she started screaming again. Too flipping cute. Santa got out and walked up to a girl close to us and started talking to her, not one to miss out Addison ran right up to him and grabbed his hand. Starstruck but never one to be shy!
We let santa get in the building and Addison is all "me first, I'm first" and I had to remind her that there were kids in front of us that she had to wait her turn. Of course the girls in front of us were too shy/nervous to get up there first so when Santa said "Well, who's gonna come sit with me first?" my child couldn't run/jump up there fast enough!
I so wish that I would have thought to video tape her reaction. I never in a million years thought it would be so great! And I'm sure she'll never have such a great reaction again! Girl loves her some Santa this year!
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