36 weeks

Okay, so most of my blog entries have been pretty positive up until this point, but now its time to do some complaining. This is no longer fun, I don't want to pregnant anymore. Up until about 2 weeks ago, time had been flying by. Now the closer I get, the more time slows down...like Einsten's theory of relativity or something.

Here are just a few of my gripes:

1) Pregnancy Carpal Tunnel - As if being comfortable sleeping wasn't challenging enough, I am now woken up in the middle of the night with crippled hands and fingers. I have to move them for about 5 min to make the pain go away.

2) Swelling of hands (reason for #1) and feet. I got my rings re-sized a few months ago and now I'm considering doing it again or just taking them off. My toes are now vienna sausages. All my shoes are really snug, which I hope is just from the swelling and not my feet actually growing, which I've heard can be a permanent side effect. I will be crushed if I can't wear my shoes anymore :(

3) Braxton hicks contractions. Contrary to what the pregnancy books say, these really hurt!

4) Overall crankiness and exhaustion. As referred to in #1, I am not sleeping well these days. Its pretty hard to find a comfortable position when you're the size and shape of a baby hippo. Poor Murph has gotten the message that he's no longer welcome on the bed. Wally's starting to feel that way too.

5) Having a bladder the size of a peanut. Another reason why I'm not sleeping well. And the bathroom is so far away at work...

There are more, which Wally can certainly attest to, but you get the idea.

Needless to say, I am SO READY to have this baby now. I know the longer the baby stays in me (up until 40 weeks), the better off he'll be. But after 37 weeks I'll be considered to be "full-term" and anytime he wants to come out after that is more than fine by me.

My hugeness in all its glory...

4 more weeks and hopefully not a mintue longer!!!!


This pic has nothing to do with anything, I just snapped this of Murph and thought it was cute :)

Baby wearing practice

So since I've been researching baby stuff, I've heard over and over how awesome the Moby Wrap is so I had to register for one. Its a long piece of fabric that you can wrap around yourself in all kinds of differnt ways so you can "wear" your baby. When I told my mom about it she looked at the instructions on how to use it and thought it looked pretty complicated so she bought it for me so that'd I'd have time to practice before the baby comes - Thanks Mom!

It took a little effort to figure out, but it actually wasn't too hard. Although I only practiced one hold... there are 8 total!

Practicing with a teddy bear...

I'm not sure Wally's on board with this thing yet...




....but I think he'll come around to it, especially once he realizes all the things you can get done while "wearing" your baby - like hands free eating!!

29 Weeks

Here are some pictures of our little guy from the ultrasound I had today. The first ones show his face and the second are profile shots. The face ones look a little weird because the umbilical cord was floating in front of his face, especially in front of his eyes. I think he's pretty cute, but of course I'm biased :) I could see him making faces and moving around in there, so cool!

They estimated him weighing about 3.7 lbs right now, which puts him in the 67th percentile. So he's just a tad bigger than the average. He has a pretty large head though.... I blame Wally...

I've been feeling pretty good. Finding a comfortable sleeping position at night has been a little difficult and my sciatica has come back, but not nearly as bad as it was early on. I'm trying to stay active and keep up my exercise routine, but finding that I get tired more easily now. Other than that, I don't have much to complain about, I'm actually really enjoying being pregnant! I love feeling the baby kick and punch, even if it keeps me up at night sometimes :)

Below are a few pics from my shower at Maureen's house this past Saturday, including a belly pic! (I know, I'm way overdue for one.)

Nursery photos - Phase I

Well, its still a work in progress, but here are some pics of the new nursery. I owe it to my Mom, Aunt Linda and Wally for the painting, thanks guys!!! I still need to add the forest animal wall decals above the crib and we are hoping to get a few more accesories to complete the room. But just thought I'd share what we've got done so far.

Trying out samples...

Gotta have the appropriate attire, LOL

Halloween Festivities

Happy Halloween! Hope you all had a fun and safe weekend.

Here's us at our friends Ray and Lynns' party on Sat night. Our costume was Wally's idea :)


The girls...




The great sorting and trading of candy. Very serious business...

It's a..................................................................

BOY!!!!!




And more importantly everything looks nice and healthy!

We are both SO EXCITED, especially Wally!! I would've been really excited either way, but I was kinda hoping it would be a boy too.

It was such an amazing experience to watch him moving and kicking around in there. He kept moving his hand toward his face like he was trying to suck his thumb - so cute!! We could even see that he had the hiccups, haha!

We're still deciding on a name... We have a few ones in mind, but we're keeping them secret until we've decided for sure. :)

Quick Update

We were supposed to find out the gender of the baby today, but unfortunately I had to reschedule our appt for next week due to having the flu (didn't want to infect any other pregnant ladies.) Don't worry everything is fine, I am on the road to recovery at this point. I came down with a fever on Sunday night and called my doctor first thing Monday morning. They gave me a prescription for Tamiflu right away since H1N1 is so rampant here in AZ and they are giving it to all pregnant women with any type of flu symptoms due to the high risk that's been associated with swine flu and pregnancy. I was feeling pretty bad on Monday and Tuesday but after a full day on the tamiflu my symptoms have been pretty mild. Wally's sick too, but so far it hasn't been too bad for him. He got the H1N1 FluMist vaccine a few days before coming down with it, so we think that he might've built up some immunity to it already.

Anyway, I've been getting plenty of rest and taking care of myself. We've been checking the baby's heartbeat with a fetal heartrate monitor and it still sounds just as strong and fast as ever. I'm not crazy about taking the tamiflu since its in Category C and wasn't recommended for pregnant women before H1N1, but I know how dangerous this flu could potentially be for me and the baby so the benefit of taking it outweighs any risk there might be. I just can't believe I caught it after being SO paranoid about getting it. I washed my hands constantly, used hand sanitizer everywhere I went.... but I suppose there's no way to fully protect yourself short of walking around in a plastic bubble.

Sorry I don't have a updated belly pic this time, just haven't felt up to it. I'll try to get one posted by the end of the week. I added another week to our gender poll, so if you haven't cast your vote yet for boy or girl there's still time!