33 Weeks, Crickey!
I am 33 weeks along! That means I am in the single digits....7 weeks to go. We went to our 32 week md appointment last week. Everything is going great. I'm measuring at 34 which the doctor said is just perfect because you want to be 2 above the week that you are currently on. She gave me a belly support because I have some sciatica issues that recently came about. She was nice enough to tell me that it will just get worse and there really wasn't much that I could do about it. So, I'll add that to the headaches and heartburn that I deal with. Although, the headaches have really subsided and now it is mainly the heartburn. Thank goodness for Tums and Sprite!
I was also weighed again and have added 5lbs to my number since my first weigh in back in July. I had actually lost weight, but I'm not going to say I've gained 10lbs, that seems too awful to admit, so I'm sticking with 5lbs. I'm not really concerned about how much I've gained, as long as I eat healthy and Reidstad gets the nutrients he needs.
Baby Reid has become very active recently. My new hobby is just staring at my belly and watching it move around. I wait to see if a hand comes ripping out my stomach, think Alien style! Jason has been able to feel him and can watch my belly moving from across the room. He has been pretty excited to feel him kicking.
He is head down, which he's been from our first ultrasound at 12 weeks! The boy will not move his head, apparently he is comfortable so I cannot complain. His butt is sitting just above my belly button and his legs go off to the left which is where he always kicks.
I have become very emotional, poor Jason! Almost anything he says I can just start crying and crying and crying. How do you deal with that?!? I wonder how I will be after the baby is born if I cry all the time right now! Hopefully Jason won't put me in the mental ward...and trust me he has threatened me with that already!! He told me tonight that he read how a woman's brain changes when she becomes pregnant and stays that way for the rest of her life. It made me wonder if the article said we become psychotic.
Jason has also become unhappy with my driving. He says that I drive like a grandma....then I start to cry! I'm kidding of course. I will say that I do drive a lot differently because I'm always scared that a crazy driver is going to hit me. I have so many fears since becoming pregnant that I swore I would never get before I was pregnant. I have precious cargo on board, so that makes me drive like a 70 year old...I can't help it!
The only craving that I have had, if you can even it call it a craving or just missing a particular food item, has been a club sandwich. I would love to have a deli sandwich with mayo, lettuce and tomato on bread. The first thing I think I will eat after having the baby is a club sandwich. Doesn't that just sound so good? I can't remember the last time I had a sandwich with deli meat on it.
January is going to be a pretty busy month for us. We have to wash all the clothes and get them hung up or folded. We need to wash the sheets and get the bottles sanitized and put away. Get more diapers and some bins to put them in to stay organized. Mom and Dad brought up the dresser this weekend so we can get some things put away. Baby classes. So much to do, but I think we will be so excited to finally get to do this after so many years!
I'll leave you with this conversation: I was standing in front of my bedroom mirror with my big belly hanging out and staring at it. I see stretch marks (gasp!). Just an fyi, it is part of what happens when a baby grows and stretches your skin out. So, I'm standing there staring at these stretch marks and Jason walks in. I say to him "Jas, look at these stretch marks!" He walks by me without even looking and says "I noticed those a few days ago". You WHAT?!? I didn't say anything but I did think that the correct answer would have been something more along the lines of "Oh, Lindsay you are being silly you don't have any stretch marks" or maybe "You have a baby growing inside of you, so consider them love marks and not stretch marks" or heck even "I don't see any stretch marks, you're crazy" (the crazy part would have been more Jason's style anyways) but no instead he tells me he noticed those days and days ago! And then he wonders why I'm always crying! Hopefully some of you will come visit me in the mental ward someday. :)
I was also weighed again and have added 5lbs to my number since my first weigh in back in July. I had actually lost weight, but I'm not going to say I've gained 10lbs, that seems too awful to admit, so I'm sticking with 5lbs. I'm not really concerned about how much I've gained, as long as I eat healthy and Reidstad gets the nutrients he needs.
Baby Reid has become very active recently. My new hobby is just staring at my belly and watching it move around. I wait to see if a hand comes ripping out my stomach, think Alien style! Jason has been able to feel him and can watch my belly moving from across the room. He has been pretty excited to feel him kicking.
He is head down, which he's been from our first ultrasound at 12 weeks! The boy will not move his head, apparently he is comfortable so I cannot complain. His butt is sitting just above my belly button and his legs go off to the left which is where he always kicks.
I have become very emotional, poor Jason! Almost anything he says I can just start crying and crying and crying. How do you deal with that?!? I wonder how I will be after the baby is born if I cry all the time right now! Hopefully Jason won't put me in the mental ward...and trust me he has threatened me with that already!! He told me tonight that he read how a woman's brain changes when she becomes pregnant and stays that way for the rest of her life. It made me wonder if the article said we become psychotic.
Jason has also become unhappy with my driving. He says that I drive like a grandma....then I start to cry! I'm kidding of course. I will say that I do drive a lot differently because I'm always scared that a crazy driver is going to hit me. I have so many fears since becoming pregnant that I swore I would never get before I was pregnant. I have precious cargo on board, so that makes me drive like a 70 year old...I can't help it!
The only craving that I have had, if you can even it call it a craving or just missing a particular food item, has been a club sandwich. I would love to have a deli sandwich with mayo, lettuce and tomato on bread. The first thing I think I will eat after having the baby is a club sandwich. Doesn't that just sound so good? I can't remember the last time I had a sandwich with deli meat on it.
January is going to be a pretty busy month for us. We have to wash all the clothes and get them hung up or folded. We need to wash the sheets and get the bottles sanitized and put away. Get more diapers and some bins to put them in to stay organized. Mom and Dad brought up the dresser this weekend so we can get some things put away. Baby classes. So much to do, but I think we will be so excited to finally get to do this after so many years!
I'll leave you with this conversation: I was standing in front of my bedroom mirror with my big belly hanging out and staring at it. I see stretch marks (gasp!). Just an fyi, it is part of what happens when a baby grows and stretches your skin out. So, I'm standing there staring at these stretch marks and Jason walks in. I say to him "Jas, look at these stretch marks!" He walks by me without even looking and says "I noticed those a few days ago". You WHAT?!? I didn't say anything but I did think that the correct answer would have been something more along the lines of "Oh, Lindsay you are being silly you don't have any stretch marks" or maybe "You have a baby growing inside of you, so consider them love marks and not stretch marks" or heck even "I don't see any stretch marks, you're crazy" (the crazy part would have been more Jason's style anyways) but no instead he tells me he noticed those days and days ago! And then he wonders why I'm always crying! Hopefully some of you will come visit me in the mental ward someday. :)
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Keeping you all in prayers for continued health and safety during your pregnancy! Love the Reidstad comment! I think you've just uncovered a new last name...for Jason, you and your little boy! Esp. if Jason won't let you hyphenate! :)