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.