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Pregnancy: 33 Weeks

  • Posted on January 31, 2012 at 5:02 pm
 
33 Weeks Pregnant: Pineapple

This week I am 33 weeks pregnant! Baby Berry is now a little over 17 inches head to heel and weighs a little over 4 lbs (about as much as a pineapple).

My Dad was here for a visit this week.  He drove out to bring all my precious things from my baby shower in November out to my house in Texas.  With me working at home he was able to put all the things together that he brought out with him and then ask me where to put them because I am here all day, but of course still working.  Luke enjoying having someone to follow around during the day, but he stayed on the couch a good bit and watched Dad work.  The curtains are now hung, the chair has cushions, the baby contraptions are all put together.  The walls do not really have art work yet, but other than that the room is certainly ready for a baby, which is good because he is coming.  

While Dad was here we went to my regularly scheduled bi-weekly doctors appointment.  Just the regular stuff at this point.  Making sure nothing has changed and that I still feel like I did two weeks before.  Baby’s heart beat still sounds good and strong and he is measuring just fine.  Next appointment Dr. Roberts will be looking at my cervix which means we will really know how baby is developing! It is only a matter of time at this point and time is moving forward.

Here’s how baby is developing this week:

For all the weight and bulk you’re lugging around these days, you’d think your little champ would weigh more than 4 pounds!  But once you add in the placenta, amniotic fluid, and extra blood, you’ve got at least 10 pounds of baby and their life-support gear smooshed up against your organs!

In terms of appearance, your sweet lil’ looker is getting cuter and pudgier every day as they pile on that adorable baby fat.

And as you know all too well, your womb kick-boxer is getting stronger with every passing day. Heck, it’s even possible to observe a well-placed belly-wobbling kick just by watching your belly!  Despite their obviously increasing strength, your bigger-by-the-day baby will actually start dropping their rate of movement in the last few weeks, no thanks to their restricted womb space.

33 WEEKS PREGNANT:

Current Weight: 158lbs  (-2lb last week, 26 lbs total)

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I am not exactly getting bigger according to the scale, but I assure you that baby is still growing and that he is doing just fine.  From the pictures you can certainly that he is growing.  He is certainly consuming more space than his share these days.

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Pregnancy: 32 Weeks

  • Posted on January 28, 2012 at 3:15 pm

 

32 Weeks Pregnant:  Jicama

This week I am 32 weeks pregnant! Baby Berry is now about 16.7 inches head to heel and weighs about 3.75 lbs (about as much as a large jicama).  I totally have no clue what a Jicama is, but it looks sorta like a coconut and 3.75 lbs for a coconut sounds about right, so I just image baby is about that size.  I am starting to get a little more uncomfortable and I am certainly a little more hungry as well.  It is funny how you can tell that baby is going through a growth spurt.  We are going to the doctor every two weeks at this point, which makes this feel all the more real.  We are making the list of the things we really must have before baby gets here.  Worse comes to worse Toy-R-US is across the street from the hospital and there is a Target in the mall which is actually attached to my hospital via a skywalk.  Eric loves to eat at food courts in malls, so I figured the least I could do is give him somewhere to go people watch while I am recovering.

You’re gaining about a pound a week and roughly half of that goes right to your baby. In fact, he’ll gain a third to half of his birth weight during the next 7 weeks as he fattens up for survival outside the womb. He now has toenails, fingernails, and real hair (or at least respectable peach fuzz). His skin is becoming soft and smooth as she plumps up in preparation for birth.

32 WEEKS PREGNANT:

Current Weight: 160lbs  (+3lb last week, +28 lbs total)

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Maternity Photos

  • Posted on January 27, 2012 at 4:21 pm

I bit the bullet and singed up for someone to take our maternity photos to mark the moment.  I say that I bit the bullet because I was not really into having them done.  I just don’t feel super cute at this point and I really did not want my picture taken.  Although I take my picture every single week, so I really do not know why this is so different, but in my mind it was a big deal and when it was happening it was still a big deal.  I had the photos done by a friend of a friend and she was not bad but we did not have a great experience as she is not really that experienced.  As Eric put it, she is a picture taker, not a photographer.  The truth is she is not Robyn and I of course held that against her going in!  I am glad that I went ahead and had them done and that I have decided to use someone else for Baby Berry’s Newborn photos.  Baby Berry’s photos are going to be an “investment”, but I have seen this girl’s work and am positive that I will be satisfied and I know these will be pictures that I will want to reference for years to come so I need to make sure I am happy with them.  Her fee is not really that bad it is the fact that you have to purchase a certain amount and her prices are higher than I am used to, but I am used to printing my photos from my camera at Walgreens, so it really probably is not that bad after all.

Anyway back to the reason for this post, maternity pics.  She did not take that many, which was part of my disappointment.  She took ONE photo and then had us move, so if my eyes were closed or something like that that, it was actually one of the photos that she sent me as a proof.  I actually purchased this one because on Facebook where I had to pick them from, I wasn’t able to tell that.  Now it is hanging in my hallway with my eyes closed, just because I paid for it, I am keeping it up there until I figure out what to replace it with.  She kept asking us what to do next, she really did not have any ideas.  Then at one point she had us wait for about 15 minutes to use a bridge that other people were taking pictures on and then we only took two photos on that bridge.  That time came out of my hour session.  Then her ordering processes was ridiculous.  One of the photos I picked in a 8×10 did not crop right, so without asking me she ordered it in an 8×12.  Then e-mailed me and told me she upgraded it and hoped I did not buy frames yet.  Well of course I bought frames, that was my mother’s photo that goes in the same frame that it always does.  As I send her a new picture she replaces it and my brother’s frame is the same one, so you can not just change it.  Like I said she is not Robyn and at least I know that and I will just move on to someone else for the next time! 

There is no reason to tell you who it was because no one that reads my blog lives in my area and if you asked who it was I would tell you but would not just ruin her name like that.  The point is I do not think she is a bad person and I wish her the best and hope that maybe she is inexperienced and that she will improve.  Truth be told I am also a hormonal pregnant lady who may be unrealistic some days, just some days!

 

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3-D pictures of Baby Berry

  • Posted on January 26, 2012 at 3:51 pm

I was not really interested in doing the 3-D ultrasound, because it is just to get a look at your baby again.  I feel him all the time, I am 100% aware that he is in there!  Plus they sorta freak me out, I am not really a big fan of the 3-D pics, but I am sure I will appreciate the memories later.  There is absolutely no medical benefit what-so-ever, but at the end of the day I bit the bullet and scheduled it.  The truth is Eric did not get to go to the anatomy ultra-sound so he has not seen Baby Berry in action.  He was at the 7 week ultrasound which tells you that there is a baby in there, that  is about it.  If he could not go to this one, I would have cancelled it.  I went okay, but baby was sucking on his toes most of the time which caused his foot to block his face.  When the tech tried to get him to move his foot and he did not it was assurance to Eric that it is my baby because he was clearly being stubborn.  (Eric’s sweet words of course)

Awesome picture of Baby Berry’s Foot:

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Frontal view of his face, with his foot again.

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Frontal of the face, you can see his nose and his foot again.  Eric says he has the Roberts’ nose, meaning you can not miss it.

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Pregnancy: 31 Weeks

  • Posted on January 25, 2012 at 2:55 pm

31 Weeks Pregnant: 4 Navel Oranges

This week baby and I did a bit of traveling.  Eric, Luke, Baby Berry and myself packed our bags and headed to Birmingham to visit our families for the Christmas Holiday.  We traveled at night for the most part as I wasn’t actually off and with Christmas Eve and Christmas being on the weekend I had to be somewhere so I could continue working.  My job is still really flexible, but I just couldn’t be in the car all day on a work day.  Eric has a ton of vacation left over, mainly because I kept switching jobs and losing all my vacation and then we can not go anywhere.  He also gets three weeks a year at this point and I only get one with my job I have now.  One week of vacation is not much, but as I have said before I love my new job and the other benefits in my mind out way the cons, like lack of actual vacation and not being paid for maternity leave do not compare to working at home in my PJ’s and taking a nap on my lunch break if I need too.  Seriously, some people go to the gym, some people eat lunch out with friends and some people nap in their bed that is walking distance from their desk.  At this point I happen to spend my time doing the latter.  Not really, I have only done it twice in three months, but I was so thankful and refreshed after my “lunch break.”

Baby and I did alright traveling.  We did not love being in the car so long, but I can not say that I love the car when I am not pregnant, so it was not too much of a change.  We are back home and unpacking as well as putting away all the lovely prizes that we and baby berry received!!!  Not that anyone will be too surprised but Baby Berry was certainly spoiled already for a Christmas he did not actually attend.

Baby is now a little over 16 inches head to heel and weighs about 3.3 lbs (about as much as four navel oranges).
Here’s how baby is developing this week:

With each added layer of baby fat, your baby’s wrinkly raisin skin starts to look more and more like it will when they’re born.
The heavy news: you can expect your miracle-gro muffin to gain about a half a pound of weight per week from now until about two weeks before birth.
Your baby’s developing immune system has made some serious gains over the past weeks getting them in full gear to face our disease-ridden world o’ wonders.

31 Weeks Pregnant:

Current Weight: 157bs  (+3lb last week, +25 total)

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This whole working at home thing and getting bigger and bigger everyday not inspiring my fashion bug!  Although looking at these pictures makes me want to try a little harder!  I probably will not try harder though! In my defense I was about to get in the car to travel 10.5 hours through the night to Birmingham, I think that is a pretty good excuse.

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