29 to about 33 weeks: Baby boy is so high. These few weeks have been by far the hardest. I didn’t think it was possible he could be so high up. I can't breathe and have horrible back pain. A nightly bath is my only relief from the day.
33 to 34 weeks. Baby has dropped! Yay! Oh it feels so good to breathe again. However the exhaustion has finally set in. I don’t want to leave the house and poor Everett has to suffer because of it. I guess he doesn’t mind though. He gets to watch cars every day. My 33 week appointment was a day before I was 34 weeks. Little boys heartbeat is always in the 140’s and he either measures a little big or just right every appointment. The most exciting thing about this appointment was the doctor told me baby is head down. That for some reason is making everything feel so much more real. I am getting so excited and anxious to meet this sweet little boy.
Sometime around 34/35 weeks: Baby boy got his first hiccups last night. I remember Everett having them all the time but this little guy I haven't noticed him getting them much. It’s fun to notice their differences already. I swear this little guy moves so much more than Everett ever did. I think he’s constantly doing back flips. He is going to be an adrenaline junky for sure just like his dad.
The nursery is almost all put together! Everett loves being tucked into his crib and pretending to nap in it. He tells me to tuck him in, then leave and shut the door. Then he'll tell me he's awake and want to do it all over again.
Overall I feel so under prepared this time around for baby to come but in a good way. I think with Everett I prepared for every little detail expecting every little thing to go a certain way. This time around I am much more relaxed and just trying to go with the flow so that I don’t break down or lose it.
33 to 34 weeks. Baby has dropped! Yay! Oh it feels so good to breathe again. However the exhaustion has finally set in. I don’t want to leave the house and poor Everett has to suffer because of it. I guess he doesn’t mind though. He gets to watch cars every day. My 33 week appointment was a day before I was 34 weeks. Little boys heartbeat is always in the 140’s and he either measures a little big or just right every appointment. The most exciting thing about this appointment was the doctor told me baby is head down. That for some reason is making everything feel so much more real. I am getting so excited and anxious to meet this sweet little boy.
Sometime around 34/35 weeks: Baby boy got his first hiccups last night. I remember Everett having them all the time but this little guy I haven't noticed him getting them much. It’s fun to notice their differences already. I swear this little guy moves so much more than Everett ever did. I think he’s constantly doing back flips. He is going to be an adrenaline junky for sure just like his dad.
The nursery is almost all put together! Everett loves being tucked into his crib and pretending to nap in it. He tells me to tuck him in, then leave and shut the door. Then he'll tell me he's awake and want to do it all over again.
Overall I feel so under prepared this time around for baby to come but in a good way. I think with Everett I prepared for every little detail expecting every little thing to go a certain way. This time around I am much more relaxed and just trying to go with the flow so that I don’t break down or lose it.
36 weeks: March 12th 12:20am
Around 9:30pm I started feeling super nauseous and just not feeling well. I decided not to go to bed because laying down just wasn't helping. Around 11:00pm I called the Dr just to get some advice. I didn't have a fever but had chills and just didn't feel good. He said since I wasn't having contractions I was fine and he would call in some nausea medicine I could pick up the next morning. So a little while later I started feeling contractions. Now Everett was an extremely fast labor so the second I noticed contractions I figured we better go to the hospital just in case.
We called Christine to come sleep on the couch until we could get back home and Stephen and I headed to labor and delivery. I was dilated to a two when we got there and then an hour later I was a three, close to a four. So they admitted me and said it’s pretty much baby time.
It was all a bit strange. On one hand we were like ok is this baby really coming? On the other hand we were like no, baby isn't coming yet. This labor was nothing like Everett's was. So once I got admitted they gave me tons of fluids and that slowed my contractions way down and stopped me from dilating any more. I still stayed in the hospital until 3:00pm the next day just to make sure I didn't start dilating again.
It was kind of a bitter sweet day. I was a little bummed we weren’t meeting baby but the next night I did get 12 hours of sleep and waking up after that I was honestly a little happy baby wasn’t here yet.
Now a couple days later March 14th
I feel so miserable! Just please baby come out. I am in so much pain all over! I should be glad baby is cooking a little longer. And honestly I am. I am not technically full term for a few more days. I don't mind waiting until that magical full term 37 weeks mark but please baby don't come any later than that. I never experienced this kind of pain and discomfort with Everett. Just so excited and ready to meet this little boy! I'll take the exhaustion if it means this pain in my stomach will just go away.
That pain after my false labor thankfully only lasted a couple days. The next two weeks were spent enjoying the time we had left as a family of three. For a few days I wanted nothing more than for him to just come early. But then I started to enjoy these last couple weeks of pregnancy and enjoy it for what it is.
Then Sunday morning March 25th at 8:40am Nathan was born and our family never felt more complete.
28 Weeks
One of the last times I went to the gym before having baby.
29 Weeks
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34 Weeks
Around 9:30pm I started feeling super nauseous and just not feeling well. I decided not to go to bed because laying down just wasn't helping. Around 11:00pm I called the Dr just to get some advice. I didn't have a fever but had chills and just didn't feel good. He said since I wasn't having contractions I was fine and he would call in some nausea medicine I could pick up the next morning. So a little while later I started feeling contractions. Now Everett was an extremely fast labor so the second I noticed contractions I figured we better go to the hospital just in case.
We called Christine to come sleep on the couch until we could get back home and Stephen and I headed to labor and delivery. I was dilated to a two when we got there and then an hour later I was a three, close to a four. So they admitted me and said it’s pretty much baby time.
It was all a bit strange. On one hand we were like ok is this baby really coming? On the other hand we were like no, baby isn't coming yet. This labor was nothing like Everett's was. So once I got admitted they gave me tons of fluids and that slowed my contractions way down and stopped me from dilating any more. I still stayed in the hospital until 3:00pm the next day just to make sure I didn't start dilating again.
It was kind of a bitter sweet day. I was a little bummed we weren’t meeting baby but the next night I did get 12 hours of sleep and waking up after that I was honestly a little happy baby wasn’t here yet.
Now a couple days later March 14th
I feel so miserable! Just please baby come out. I am in so much pain all over! I should be glad baby is cooking a little longer. And honestly I am. I am not technically full term for a few more days. I don't mind waiting until that magical full term 37 weeks mark but please baby don't come any later than that. I never experienced this kind of pain and discomfort with Everett. Just so excited and ready to meet this little boy! I'll take the exhaustion if it means this pain in my stomach will just go away.
That pain after my false labor thankfully only lasted a couple days. The next two weeks were spent enjoying the time we had left as a family of three. For a few days I wanted nothing more than for him to just come early. But then I started to enjoy these last couple weeks of pregnancy and enjoy it for what it is.
Then Sunday morning March 25th at 8:40am Nathan was born and our family never felt more complete.
28 Weeks
One of the last times I went to the gym before having baby.
29 Weeks
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