34 Week Doctor Appointment

This is when things get down to the wire!

I weighed in at 151 pounds this week. That is 2 pounds more than last week but I am still doing great on the weight gain!

My uterus is at 34cm and has now caught up with my week! Usually it is a cm ahead of the week but it seems it has slowed this week.

We are far enough along that my doctor has given me a list of the OB/GYNs in her practice to call in case anything happens (that anything being labor!) It is all so close now I can taste it!! I'm going through so many emotions!! I can't believe that we will have a baby next month!!

33 Weeks!

Slowly but surely getting closer!!

This week I have developed such an amazing gratitude for the blessings I have been given. This baby has changed so much already and I am overwhelmed with love and gratitude for having such an amazing family (on both sides!) Words can't describe how incredible this journey has been for me, even more so because I believed that my feet would never tread down such a beautiful path. Women are given such a wonderful gift to bring children into this world. To feel the baby inside me is an incredible feeling. How loved are women to get the gift of carrying such pure beings. I can't wait to see my baby boy but I am truly going to miss this special part of my life ( until next time.)

I love being pregnant.

32 Weeks!!

Only 8 weeks to go... holy smokes!!

The weeks are going very very slow now. I feel like all this waiting is making the weeks feel like months! I'm not working anymore so I have lots and lots of time to myself which is AMAZING but a lot of those alone time thoughts dwell on the coming of my little guy and I am getting so anxious!! I know Sterling is caught in the anticipation as well, we just can hardly wait to meet our little guy!!

This week I was very productive in the sense of getting things ready for my little guy. I did his first load of laundry and have started to sort all of his clothes and get them into drawers. We have made some of the final purchases to be ready for him ( his car seat, some curtains for his room, Diapers....) I have been in full blown "get ready for baby" mode!

We still haven't signed up for birthing classes and I fear we are rapidly running out of time! The classes are usually 6 weeks long and this little man has already tried to come early once! So we will see if that happens! On the bright side, we are already pre-registered at the hospital due to the fact that I was already in the hospital once this pregnancy. So when labor really wants to come we can just hop right into a hospital bed without having to sign any paper work!!

I am happy to say that I am only 8 weeks away!

32 Week Doctor Appointment

Only one more bi-weekly doctor appointment and we are Full Term and there once a week!

All went well at this doctor appointment and it was very very quick.

Heart beat sounded great and sounds stronger and louder every time we hear it!

I weigh in at 149 making that 1 pound in two weeks. This makes my total weight gain at 22 pounds.

Not much to report on this weeks doctor appointment except that we are both healthy and moving forward!!

31 Weeks!

We are getting closer!!

I can't believe how quickly this has all gone now looking back on it. My beautiful little guy is growing away in there and he has been moving a lot! Just what we wanna see! My doctor always asks if he has been moving and I have to hold myself back from giving her a face boldly stating my thought, "are you kidding me?!" Heather, Sterling and I could sit and watch him use me as a human punching ( and kicking!) bag all day! It still amazes our eyes to see that little guy do the things he does!

With that being said, sleeping is a whole other issue entirely. Little Guy is up all night making my sleep very bumpy. It seems as though he will fall asleep only to be woken up by me getting up to use the restroom ( something I do at least 4 times every night) and once awoken, he is awake for hours. Benadryl seems to help for most of the night but tends to wear off in the wee hours of the morning. I have yet to find a solution to my weary sleeping woes.

Most of my clothes are non maternity and I am still fitting into most of them quite comfortably, all except my jackets and warm articles and it is starting to get very cold here! I knew that most of my pregnancy would be through the winter so I tried shopping for warm clothes early on. I wasn't able to accurately judge my future size so now I am finding all of my cute new jackets unable to zip or button. Now... to take them back and get a bigger size and be warm for the rest of my pregnancy? Or keep them fairly small and be able to wear them next year??

This week went well and all has been very good. I am starting to get more and more things organized and ready in the house and his room. Nesting instinct activate!!!

30 Weeks!!

This was a very rough week for me, I will go out and say that it has been the hardest week of my entire pregnancy.

It started out well, my doctor appointment went very well and all was looking up!

Wednesday I went into premature labor as described earlier and I experienced fear like I have never known it before. There is nothing like keeping your baby as healthy as possible in the womb and then be faced with his actual life starting out unhealthy and feeling completely helpless in the situation.

The rest of the week had its shaky moments containing many more contractions requiring lots of rest. I feel like I slept most of this week away!

On Saturday night I developed the worst stomach flu I have ever had. Being nearly 8 months pregnant and violently throwing up is probably the worst combination I have ever experienced.

Sunday night my heartburn was so bad that it radiated up to my ears and I couldn't sleep most of the night! I left my tums at home like a dummy and we were snowed in with no way of getting to a drug store!

Though this week was rough and scary I have so much to be thankful for through it. My baby is still safe and sound and growing more and more each day inside the belly and he still moves like a crazy man! My flu is over and I have a new found out look on life "hey.. it could be worse.. you could be violently throwing up every 30 minutes!" I'm home safe and sound with the warm, loving embrace of my Tums and I know better than to ever leave them behind again!! They have since forgiven me for forgetting them.

Thanksgiving with the Family

This year we were all so lucky to have so much family around us for Thanksgiving! We haven't had Thanksgiving with our Phillips side of the family since my Grandmother passed away almost 13 years ago (wow..has it really been that long?). My Uncle Evan and Aunt Cindy came out from Utah with cousins Tyler, Noelle, Gavin and Dyllan and My Uncle Bryan came up from Thousand Oaks! We all met at my mother's in Lake Arrowhead and it was a beautiful Thanksgiving! Two days after Thanksgiving it dumped snow on us so the kids had all kinds of fun building jumps in the back yard for their sleds! Hooper had the most fun of all, being a puppy he has never seen the snow before and we couldn't get him to stop eating all of it!!

The Boys watching the football game Thanksgiving Day

The snow we woke up to Saturday morning!!

(After a night full of thunder and lightning!)

Hooper spent litterally from the morning

until it was dark in the snow. He loved it!

He ate so much snow all day that he burped

all night long!

Dyllan catching air on a homemade jump!

Bryce all geared up and ready to go!

Rides it like a Champ!!

Gavin out in the snow

Behold! The perfect snowball!