34w4d

sorry 5th baby! This is what happens when you're #5 I guess. We are definitely keeping busy waiting on your arrival!

So many things have changed. I'm now going to (hopefully) give birth at a birth center instead of the hospital here. It's an hour drive, but I feel so much peace in my decision. Tuesday is my first appointment with them technically so it was definitely getting down to the wire to get everything switched over. But we did it!

I've been having an insane amount of contractions-I contracted regularly with A&P from 32w on, but these are totally different. I've been having BH for months too but these are stop me in my tracks painful... As a result I'm hoping that the next few days off for Patrick will be beneficial in me parking in one spot as much as possible, taking the pressure off me in the evenings when it gets worse, and actually get me into my 35th week. Just a couple more weeks to go till we are in the safe zone-I'm hoping and praying we make it. Just like my wishes were with A&P, I want a take home baby (this time that I hopefully birth in the water!)

This baby is still VERY wiggly and is liking to flip all over the place. Just when I'm excited and think he or she is head down, I get some VERY transverse movements.

I've been working on getting a few milk donors together too. It makes me so happy that this babe will have the benefit of breastmilk-especially since this is a definite winter baby and heaven knows we always have a million getms floating through the house.

And speaking of germs-I have my very first sinus infection of my life. It's been completely miserable.

Sweet moment that I never want to forget though-sneaking an ice cream in bed with Emma tonight at 10pm :) :)

27w6d

Bye bye, belly button!

24w4d

Hooooly smokes... well I'm a lot more pregnant than the last time I posted. Feeling ok still-belly is most definitely there and most definitely moving and shaking. I have an active little baby on my hands-and I love it. Maya's face the first time she felt it kicking was priceless of course.

Nothing really new about it to report-I have monthly massages and yesterday was the first one I couldn't lay on my belly for. It was a bummer-but we made it work. I still have an appetite for pretty much nothing. We have a boy name, but no clue on a girl name. Thankful to get past the 24w mark-just keeping on trucking at this point!

21w1d

Well, thought the baby was still riding low... I usually feel kicks around my left hipbone. Tonight I felt a few whoppers all of a sudden under my right rib, strong enough that Patrick could feel! Safe to say baby is up far higher than I thought!

19w4d

Goodness I'm horrible at getting to this. At least I'm a little better with taking weekly pictures than I was with Emma.. Though I did forget one last week!

I can't believe I'm pretty much halfway through. I had the anatomy scan on Wednesday and was successful in NOT finding out if baby is a boy or girl... for a minute I questioned the decision but I know in the end I'll be so happy I did it! Everything looked great though and measured pretty right on (2 days ahead) and heart rate was 142. Baby was moving and wiggling away! I can't tell if the profile looks more like Patrick's or the girls', I see both in the pictures I got. Leaning more toward Patrick's, but who knows.

Last night I felt kicks from the outside! I'm in love and vow to cherish every one. Even when I'm in that last stretch. 

The constant fatigue is definitely getting to me and definitely like a permanent fog right now. I'm going to start back on a couple different supplements that I took before I was pregnant to see if it helps... Gosh I hope so especially with the kids starting school soon (though maybe that will help too?) but most of the time I can hardly move and that's getting super super old.

18w3d

Baby kicks! Not just movement, but little teeny tiny kicks tonight :)

18w

No posts lately because thankfully, it's been a very uneventful pregnancy! I had a doc visit last week-heartbeat was good, had some labs drawn, super quick. I was getting a little bit of energy back, but it seems to be gone again, haha! I can't believe how quick this is flying. I've been able to feel movement here and there-I can't wait for sweet baby kicks all the time!