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| 25 and 4/7 weeks along! |
Pregnancy, aside from the aches and pains, has been smooth sailing since the last post. Ever since I began to feel baby move around and kick, my anxiety has decreased considerably, and the days pass quickly. When I was 15 weeks, I had bought an at-home doppler so I could listen to his heartbeat and verify he was still alive. Of course the next week he starts kicking hard enough for me to feel him, and my amazing purchase has been rendered nearly useless. :-) Every once in awhile, I'll still listen though. Callie likes to listen in, too.
Callie is completely adorable about her baby brother. She loves to give my belly hugs and kisses, and say "hello". She likes to tell us that she's getting a baby brother soon, and she makes sure we know that he can't walk yet. And she tells me to eat lots of food so he will grow big and strong! Once, she was talking to me about when the baby comes out, he's going to POP out of my belly button (as she holds her arms out wide), and we had a nice talk about how babies are born. I'm fairly sure she got the idea from the Hungry Hungry Caterpillar book ("and POP! Out of the egg, came a tiny, and very hungry caterpillar.") but she didn't seem too flabbergasted when I told her about vaginal birth.
We got Callie's big girl room put together about a month ago. We ripped up the carpet and subfloor, put down new CDX and continued the bamboo hardwood through her room. And we painted the trim to match the rest of the house, and Callie picked out a gorgeous peach color for her walls. (At first she said she wanted purple, but when I put a purple sample up she walked in and said "Nooooo! Not PURPLE! PINK!"... oh toddlers...) She loves her new room and loves showing it to whoever comes over to visit!
We are currently working on getting the nursery put back together. We are re-doing the floors in the same way, and I'm planning on painting some thick white horizontal stripes on the feature wall. Remodel work keeps getting interupted by Bryann's work travel schedule, and me wanting to spend time as a family doing fun stuff instead of working on the house. :-P But we'll get there! Thankfully, we aren't doing many changes to the nursery. A little paint here. A few different fabrics there. (My friend Anna-Lisa has made a quilt that she claims is her most gorgeous quilt she's made yet, but she won't let me see it yet! Waaaah! She's also slaving away over doing new changing table basket liners in nautical fabrics! What a good friend I have!)
What Baby T has been up to:
- Baby is the size of a... Scallion? wtf Baby Center? Give me a better fruit/vegetable than a scallion! Apparently I missed all the cute fruits over the past several weeks. He's about 1 and 2/3 lbs, and measures 14 inches from head to heel.
- He began putting on some baby fat last week (yeah! no kidding!) and his skin is smoothing out, and hair is starting to grow!
- His lungs are getting set for the outside world. They have developed branches of the respiratory tree as well as a substance called surfactant which will help air sacs inflate once he is born.
- Ears are developed and he can hear me talking and singing to Callie (and sometimes yelling at the dog)
Pregnancy symptoms include:
- Heartburn, heartburn, and more heartburn. I knew this was coming, because I struggled with it so much with Callie. But UGH! Heartburn sucks! I finally put together a travel pack of TUMS to keep in my purse last night because I was in such agony at work yesterday.
- Backaches
- Tossing and turning at night because I can't ever get comfortable
- Bryann also now has to help push me out of the car when we park on our driveway, because I can't seem to manage to hold the door open and get myself out while on an incline. Only slightly embarrassing...
- Braxton hicks. Just, like, all the time. Ever since around 10-12 weeks. So fun.
What I miss/What I'm looking forward to:
- Drinking... I'm currently planning a wine-tasting trip for a friend's bachelorette weekend. And I am le sad that I can't enjoy all the tasty tasty wineries we'll be going to. I was half-tempted to book crappy wineries, so I wouldn't be so jealous, but I love my friend too much to do that to her.
- I'm looking forward to Bryann and my weekend away in Bend babymoon. Bryann's mom wanted to come visit and have a Callie weekend this fall before baby boy comes, so Bryann and I are escaping to Sunriver for a few days in September! I warned him that I will probably just want to sleep, and drink endless cups of coffee, and read in our adirondak chairs on our private deck (which he's totally ok with), but who know. Maybe I'll feel adventurous and it will still be warm and we can float the river, or do an easy hike.
- I'm looking forward to not being pregnant anymore. And maybe never being pregnant again! I'm not a fan, and I would love to have my body back to myself again.
26 weeks 
Nursery in progress! 
Callie's new room. Not a finished pic, but it's what I had on my phone when I posted this!
