31 weeks - getting huge-er and huge-er

I utterly suck as a blogger. I may try to blog the remainder of the pregnancy though. We shall see. I barely have the energy to roll my large self out of bed in the morning (or afternoon), so I'm not making any promises.

Baby seems to be doing well. At 30 weeks my belly was measuring 32. I've started to gain back some of the weight that I lost (I was wondering when that would happen). Baby is quite active most of the time (particularly between the hours of midnight and 6 am....figures) and there's really been no cause for concern at all.

I'm on to biweekly midwife appointments now. I'm trying to get together all of the stuff I need for the homebirth and for the baby, though I feel so slack with it all. We have a pool liner! (Though we're not sure where, exactly, we're going to put the pool). I have a doula and a back-up doula and a back-up back-up doula.....  Not sure how she's getting paid yet, but we'll figure it out. Might sell off one of the other kids, I s'pose...

Kidding.

We have an expect net game set up for the L'il Shagger. So that's fun. Winner gets a prize decided on by moi. Perhaps a bottle of wine or a case of beer or something knit by me (you know, with all that free time I'll have once the baby gets here). I enjoy it though. I love seeing all the guesses. I'll try to link up the game in one of the side bars.

Anywho, here's a few recent belly shots (because blogs are totally boring without pictures)

25 weeks 3 days - a bunch of updates

I suppose I'll start with pics. Boy have I grown! I'm starting to feel pulling and stretching on my sides now. And it's no wonder, really. This was me 2 weeks ago.

And this is me now:

Big difference, huh? I think so anyways. I really feel like my belly has really popped out just in the past week. Even though I'm only up by 6 1/2 lbs, I'm definitely starting to feel pregnant now!

In other news, I had a good prenatal appointment with my midwife, Jayme, a couple of weeks ago. Belly is measuring right on target and baby's heart rate is in the 140s. Jesse had to get in on the action too...we had a listen to his baby with the doppler and measured his teeny tiny belly. He loved it. I got told off for not eating enough, so I'm trying to work on that. In my defense though, I had been sick and really hadn't felt like eating much at all. Some food had actually been making me gag. I also need to up my water intake, which I've been working on as well. It was also suggested that I add some spinach to my smoothies, which I've been doing. You don't even notice a difference! It's pretty good actually. I should post the recipe. I'm going to try some avacado in it tomorrow as well, I think.

I also had a prenatal appointment with Dr. D, who damn near broke my heart when she told me should would not be acting as back up for Jayme. She explained her reasoning, which is fine. I just wish I'd been told sooner, as I've been going to her clinic for 3 months now. So tomorrow I'm calling Jayme's usual back-up, Dr. M. I've worked with him before, as a doula, and he's absolutely wonderful, so I'm sure I'll be taken care of. Before she cut me loose though, Dr. D suggested I start on ASA 81 mg per day and calcium 1000 mg per day to ward off any issues with pregnancy-induced hypertention or pre-eclampsia. I had some blood pressure issues with Jesse, so I'd like to do what I can to prevent that this time. I need to look into it a bit more though before I start taking meds.

And lastly, I've been asked by a couple people about my newborn cloth diaper stash. So I figured I'd share what I have thus far. In the first pic, you'll see a dozen unbleached prefolds, 16 bleached prefolds, a small Bumstoppers fitted, 2 WAHM one-size fitteds, a small Imse Vimse cover and 2 small Swaddlebees covers. In the second pic, you'll see 9 small Fuzzi Bunz (these were Jesse's), 3 Swaddlebees Econappies, and a Bum Genius 4.0 snap dipe. I'm still waiting on 2 Blueberry Coveralls (one-size covers) to come in the mail.

I cannot wait to try these dipes out on Trouble! Oh the cuteness! :) I think I'll wait before getting more though...who knows, I may end up with a reason to buy some adorable girly fluff!

19 weeks

I had my first appointment with the midwife, Jayme, and her assistant, Erin. It lasted for nearly 2 hours! They came to our home last evening and were able to meet Steve and Jesse. We talked about my medical history, my pregnancy with Jesse, and how this new pregnancy is going. They checked my blood pressure, which was fine, measured my belly, which was 19 or 20 cm (I can't remember), and we just talked. It was so nice to just talk about birth! I love it. They gave me a ton of paperwork to fill out, and Jayme will be emailing me the contracts and all. I think it's starting to hit me now that this home birth is going to happen!

I also took a pic today! I didn't post the one from last week, so I'll post them together now. I'll post my 3 week pic as well to compare:

I think I'm definitely starting to pop out a little, which is nice. I'd rather look pregnant than just plain fat. My new maternity clothes that just came from Motherhood Maternity should help! Maybe I'll take some pics as I wear my new outfits. Well, really, it's just shirts. 3 shirts and a sweater came today, and I'm expecting 2 more shirts to come as well. I really need to buy another couple pairs of pants. I just wish I could find some that didn't haul my underwear down. I'm about to say "screw it" and start going commando!

17 weeks 1 day - Belly pic update

Finally!!!

My 3 week pic is actually my 1 week progress update pic from the 30 Day Shred. I'd just lost 8 lbs!!! I think I got my first positive test the next day...can't remember for sure though. Anyhow, here they are:

I guess I'm looking more pregnant than I thought. Funny, because I don't really feel very pregnant at all.