36 Weeks

Wow... these past couple weeks have been rough! I went from feeling really awesome around 34 weeks to really not awesome. Good news though. Baby is heads down now! I think a few days after my 34 week appointment I was laying in bed and decided to try to rotate the baby myself. Well... It went pretty easily heads down. I just did two little pushes and it was there. I don't know if it's actually been heads down ever since then. But I figured it wouldn't be hard to keep turning it myself if I had to. But ever since my false labor scare, (See my moving day post for more details on that) the baby has been heads down and wrecking all sorts of havoc on my cervix, lower spine/tail bone, pubic bone and bladder. (No... It's not fun and very painful...)

36 Week baby bump!

Date: April 27, 2016

How far along? 36 Weeks... Wow, only 4 weeks left. When I start having doctor appointments every 2 weeks I feel like I'm getting really close. But now I'm at weekly and seriously this baby is going to be here before we even know it! Now would probably be a good time to start refreshing on my hypnobabies....

Total weight gain/loss: I guess my body has finally decided to play a little catch up from not gaining any weight and I put on 3 pounds the past 2 weeks. So I'm now up 27 pounds bringing my grand total to 161 lbs!

Maternity clothes? I'm actually growing out of some of my maternity shirts... Getting nice and big I am.

Sleep: I've been sleeping pretty decent as long as my kids sleep decent. Lately Jacob has decided that Scott and I's bed is the place to be. It started really bad when Scott left for the first time to South Dakota for 2 weeks. Every night he was coming into bed. Well technically I'm sleeping in the bean bag but he would come into my bed I'm not sleeping in. I think it's a terrible habit to start before the baby comes because pretty sure Scott, Jacob, me and the baby (occasionally) are not all going to fit in the queen size bed. Plus, when I'm back in the bed I don't sleep well at all when Jacob is sleeping with us because he is such a wild sleeper. But Scott likes Jacob coming into bed with him.

Movement: The movements don't seem to be as jerky these days but they still happen often. When I was at the hospital getting checked out for the false labor stuff the baby moved non stop the whole hour I was there. It was moving so much that the monitors wouldn't pick up his heart rate and he kept kicking the off my belly. And the other night he moved from like 9 to midnight straight. I'm telling ya. After this baby comes we will not be sleeping. Also since the false labor stuff. (It started the same time I started having contractions) This baby puts so much pressure on my cervix sometimes it feels like he's taking a knife to it. I can't even walk when it happens because it's such a sharp, painful pain. I just try to cross my legs really tight in hopes it pushes whatever is putting so much pressure on my cervix up more. Also, it likes to head butt my lower spine and tailbone which is not a comfortable feeling. I never had that with Ida. Sometimes some cervix punches which felt uncomfortable but not painful. It also likes to head butt my pubic bone. I liked it much better when baby was heads up I think....

Feeling sick? I've been feeling nauseous here and there really randomly. But most of the time I don't feel sick at all. And that's the way I like it.

Other pregnancy symptoms? These past two weeks have seriously been so bad. I don't know why but my stomach has just been so uncomfortable. I don't know if it's been the babies position? For most of the past couple weeks before the false labor thing which happened 4 days ago, the baby has been spending most of it's time in a diagonal position with it's head or butt putting a lot of pressure on my right hip/pelvic bone. So I don't know if that's why I've been so uncomfortable? I also wonder if that has been the cause of my hip/groin pain to be a lot worse than it has been? I'm not really sure. But for whatever reason my hip/groin has been hurting a lot worse. I'm sure packing and moving boxes didn't really help with that either. I've also been feeling nauseous more often and my heartburn/indigestion thing in the evenings has been worse. My right foot randomly swelled for a couple days around 35 and a half weeks but I think it's gone back done. So that's nice that I haven't really had any swelling. I just hope I start feeling better because my life is really going to suck if this is how it is for the next month. Also I had been getting over the cough and sore throat from being sick a month ago and it seems to have relapsed and now it's back again. So I have a sore throat most of the day and my cough has gotten bad again along with congestion. Ida's has seemed to return again as well so we are both having fun with that.

Have you started to show yet? I'm back to feeling normal big. haha I don't have a picture to compare to see how much bigger I am this time around because I've just been so busy that I haven't been good at taking pictures. But I'm pretty positive that I am bigger this time around.

Gender prediction: Scott has decided he thinks we are having a boy. I had a dream the other night that it was a girl. I'm just getting really excited to find out!

Moving Day!!

Scott and I have been looking for a new place for awhile now. But the seriousness was kind of so so because we still didn't know where Scott was going to get a new job. So we found this place about a month and a half ago that I thought was perfect. It was a 3 bedroom duplex with a fenced back yard and just really nice compared to everything else we had looked at. So we filled out the application and got accepted for it but then when they found out we might be moving if Scott found a job outside of town they thought it was too big of a risk and declined us the same day Scott got offered a job here in Idaho Falls. We didn't know if we were taking it yet so we couldn't really call her and tell her we had a new job so let us move in! So we didn't get the duplex and since that point it was the only place that I wanted to move. Nothing was even close to what I wanted or nice enough for me to even want to rent.

So I was excited when a couple months later the other half of the duplex came up for rent! We went and looked at it but because it was during the time that Scott was in South Dakota for work and I was sick with the flu, we didn't really get back to her on the duplex very quickly and when we did get back to her telling her we wanted it she kind of acted like she had promised it to someone else. But she must have liked us because later that day she said it was ours and we signed the lease on the 14th. So the original plan had been to move in the last weekend of the month on the 30th. But because Scott had another field job in South Dakota that weekend on the 20th we asked if we could move in a weekend early and we were set to move on the 23rd which gave me 3 days to pack. To be honest I liked it more that way anyways. I felt like I was stressing way more trying to figure out what I should pack early and what I shouldn't and when I only had 3 days to pack it made the decision a lot easier. Pack everything.

I have a tradition to take a pic of the front door for

all the places we've lived. So here we are. 

The front door for apartment #3. It's been a great

place to live!

It was a very busy week but somehow we got everything done without pulling any all nighters and were able to get rid of a car load of stuff in the process. Scott took Friday off work to help finish everything up and the Phelps watched the kids so we wouldn't have to worry about them either. Saturday morning we had a great turn out of helpers! I am so so grateful for everyone who came to help. Most of them stayed the whole 4 hours it took to move and we tried to bribe everyone by providing doughnuts and pizza! It was seriously so helpful though and again I am so grateful to everyone. And I think I moved 2 boxes the whole day because being 8 months pregnant nobody would let me touch anything. So I just spent my time directing everyone where to put furniture so we could get it all in the right spot the first time. I felt like I did a pretty good job organizing everything so it was easy to figure out where all the boxes went. I labeled all the boxes then added signs to all the rooms as well so they could see where to go. I thought everything went really smoothly and we were even able to get all the furniture down the  narrow stairs that we wanted.

That night I ended up having a lot of hard contractions. They started around 8 pm. I tried to take it easy the rest of the night and drink some fluids. The contractions continued through the night every 5-8 mins. By morning they were still going and so we decided to be safe, because I had been having them for 15 hours straight, to go get me checked out at the hospital. Scott was trying to decide if he should go to South Dakota or not and we were both just stressing wondering if I was or was not in labor. After getting checked I was only 1 cm dilated and not effaced at all and the midwife figured I had just overworked and dehydrated myself. So I was instructed to stay off my feet the next couple day, drink plenty of water and take a warm bath. After 17 hours of contractions they finally stopped as long as I was sitting. But of course things still needed to get done and Scott had Monday off so we sent the kids to the grandparents and we spent Monday getting the house unpacked. I felt pretty good most of the day but by the end of the day I was having contractions again. But we got the majority of the house unpacked excluding the garage and storage room. We at least got everything out of boxes.

Tuesday I had to clean the other apartment because the new tenants were moving in on Thursday and I had a project at work due Wednesday that I had already neglected because of moving. So much for taking it easy for a couple days.... But with the help from Lorna and the Phelps we were able to knock it out pretty quick. I even got sent home early for working too hard. But I'm so grateful for all the help we received through this whole ordeal! Scott didn't end up going to South Dakota and we were able to pretty much get everything else unpacked the rest of that week. So here are some pics of the new place!

Looking into the living room from the front door.

First bedroom upstairs

Downstairs in the family room/play room from the stairs.

Directly to the left is the laundry room.

Directly to the right is our room.

The kids room.

The covered back patio that leads out into the yard.

 It's really funny because the kids aren't used to having a yard.

They don't play on it much and stick to the sidewalk or 

the patio. :)

I am loving our new place and all the extra space! I even like this side of the duplex a lot more than the other side we had originally looked at! The spaces just work better and it seems more spacious to me.

34 Weeks

So I have been convinced to get the flu shot for the rest of my pregnancies.... Around 32 weeks I ended up getting the flu and let me tell you. I think it was the worst I have ever felt in my whole life. I am so grateful for all of those who helped me out during this time because I was pretty much out for a full week. It was really bad timing as well because Scott was leaving on his first field outing for work and was going to be gone for 12 days. He was there for the first couple days of it though and did an awesome job taking over my mom duties. After he left his parents watched the kids for 5 days and it was seriously a life saver. And on top of all my sickness Ida ended up getting tonsillitis and Lorna and Craig pretty much took care of all of her stuff. I was hardly functioning enough to take care of myself then take care of Jacob and Ida on top of it. And it might not have lasted as long but on the 4th day of the flu I ended up getting a sinus infection on top of it and it put me out all over again. I could hardly even open my eyes. And the whole left side of my face hurt so bad. I also felt like I was drugging my baby because I as taking tylenol around the clock as well as tamiflu, antibiotic and cough drops for my sore throat and cough. Again, I have never felt so awful in my whole life and I felt like it would never go away. And because I was pregnant I couldn't get comfortable either. I couldn't lay on my sides because it hurt my hips/groin too much or my back cuz I'd get light headed and nauseous and the bean bag was just making my back hurt for some reason. It was the worst. Thankfully I am mostly recovered now and just suffering from congestion, sore throat and cough now. Again. Thank you, thank you to all those who helped out at this time. It was very much needed and appreciated.

Date: April 13, 2016

How far along? 34 Weeks

Total weight gain/loss: So I'm still only up 24 pounds. Something about getting sick back to back has really slowed down my weight gain. So I guess there is one positive for all the sickness. (Although I think I would have just rather gained the weight.)

Maternity clothes? I finally bought myself a maternity swimming suit and I think it's really cute! I'm pretty sure I've ruined my regular one already from wearing it to my water aerobics class and stretching it out.

Sleep: I have been sleeping really good. I still wake up a couple times a night for no reason and some times to pee but that's pretty normal I think. I still feel tired all the time.

Movement: I think this baby moves more than Jacob and Ida combined. I'm also pretty sure this baby is never going to sleep. So hurray for us! But I think I felt hiccups around 32 weeks for the first time. They don't happen very often though. I've maybe felt them a couple times since then. Also... My midwife and I discovered baby is heads up as of right now. But... I'm not that worried about it this time around. This baby just moves so much that I'm sure it does 8 summer-salts in any given day. I think I should be more worried it's all tangled up in the umbilical cord!

Feeling sick? Sometimes at night I randomly start feeling really nauseous. It's weird and I don't know what causes it. It so random and doesn't happen very often.

Other pregnancy symptoms? So these past few weeks I've actually felt really good. Just the occasional heartburn and braxton hicks. Around 32 weeks I probably started waddling bad. Sometimes worse than others depending on how much pain I'm in and how many braxton hicks I'm having. But my groin/hip thing has felt really good lately and all around I am feeling really good.

Have you started to show yet?I am feeling huge again. It seems I just go back and forth between feeling normal big to huge big. 

Gender prediction: I am getting so impatient to find out the gender of this baby! We are getting so close! Only 6 weeks to go. Which is crazy.... But I feel like the closer I get to having the baby the less I feel like it's one gender or the other.