Birthing Classes and Doctors Visits

Today we are twenty nine weeks. Yesterday Jeff said that getting to close to single digits is making him anxious and excited. I said that it was making me nervous and worried. The idea of birth scares me a ton. This past weekend we attended the first of three birthing classes. It was put on by Faith McGinn and was down in the Tech Center. She was wonderful. She provided us with so much information and explanation. The class that we started with was Breastfeeding and Infant Care. It seemed silly but she had brought these baby dolls to learn with. She had one for every mom to-be and one for every dad to-be. The dad's went through the same learning process that us mom's did and when she explained why, it was simply so they understood what we were going to have to do and so that they could help refresh our memory after the baby is actually here. We went over diaper changing, swaddling, information on pediatricians, vaccines, circumcision, and a ton more. These next two Sundays will be the labor and delivery part of class.

Yesterday we had our twenty eight week midwife appointment. I had to do the glucose testing for gestational diabetes. The orange glucose drink they gave me was horrible. It made me cringe and gag. We went into our appointment with a dozen questions for our midwife (thanks to Faith's class) and came out even more informed. Both Jeff and I also got our TDAP shots. We are now on a every two week schedule of meeting with the midwifes.

 Baby Update:

How Far Along: Twenty Nine weeks

Cravings: This week hasn't brought on any cravings. 

Feeling: I'm feeling great. The baby a lot now in the mornings and evenings which is fun!

Best Part of being pregnant right now: Feeling him/her kicking. It's a regular occurrence now.

Worst Part of being pregnant right now: The baby is often times pushing on a nerve which makes walking, sitting, or standing not so comfortable.

Sleep: I'm starting to not sleep as wonderfully. I've been waking up a lot more often to rearrange and get comfortable. I've been having muscle pain in my right shoulder from sleeping wrong and with a husband and three dogs, we're all up quite a bit.

Hello Third Trimester...you sure came QUICK!!

Well I didn't do very well at keeping up with this these past two weeks. A lot has gone on and we've been incredibly busy. First off, I graduated from Front Range. (Yea!) I got to walk in the graduation ceremony on May 16th down in Denver. While I was waiting in the hallway for the ceremony to start I started having Braxton Hicks pretty badly. It was hot, I had been standing there for about two hours and they didn't have water or chairs for us to use. I think I freaked out the guy next to me though because he asked if I was okay. I told him I didn't know and that I thought I was having contractions. His response was, "you're pregnant?" I had to laugh because apparently I'm not showing enough for people to realize this fact on their own. I kindly replied that yes I was and tried to focus on cooling down. We (my mom and Jeff and I) went out for Mexican food afterward to which I ended up with food poisoning. haha, oh well. Both my family and Jeff's family met us for dinner on Friday at Old Chicago in Aurora to celebrate as well.

I've been working with a new company called Ownership Thinking. I spend about 4-6 hours a day making warm and cold lead calls to businesses setting up appointments for my boss, David. So far, it has been pretty easy and I've been really successful at it. I'm so blessed to have the opportunity to work from home and have a flexible schedule. Once this baby arrives it's going to be critical that we still have income and that I can tend to both work and my child. Working from home sounds like it would be the easiest thing but I have to make sure to set up a schedule, lock myself in the office and work for the time I allot otherwise I find myself finding other things that "need" to get done. So far, I've been able to handle it pretty well. I think that going to an office is much easier than working from home when it comes to this concept.

We are in our third trimester officially today. Jeff and I were talking yesterday on our way home from renewing our temple recommends about how we only have twelve weeks until we're due with the baby and only thirteen weeks until Vanessa arrives from Germany. We both talked about how crazy, fun, chaotic, and stressful our lives are going to get but we're very excited to see how it goes.

This past week I was able to print off and assemble the baby shower invites for my baby shower up north. Nicole Cantrell and my mom are throwing me a shower on June 22nd and to help out I decided that invitations would be my contribution. They turned out really cute. My mom is mailing them out this next week. I'm eager to see who all is going to be able to make it.

The baby shower for those of our friends and family that live south of I-70 will be on July 17th. I'm in the process right now of obtaining all of the addresses for those we are inviting and getting them to my in-laws. Hopefully I don't forget anyone.

Here's the pictures for weeks twenty six and twenty seven:

J

Baby Update:

How Far Along: Twenty Eight weeks

Cravings: Nothing new this week. Still trying to eat healthy

Feeling: I'm feeling great. No complaints this week.

Best Part of being pregnant right now: Feeling him/her kicking. It's a regular occurrence now.

Worst Part of being pregnant right now: Nothing is bad right now. Things are going great

Sleep: Still sleeping great. The baby moves and kicks a lot more at night so it's always interesting to see how far asleep I can get before being woke up.

Life is getting more crazy!

This week I am twenty-five weeks into our pregnancy. The baby is kicking all the time and now more than just I can feel it. Jeff has gotten to feel it a lot lately and my sister in law, Amber, got to feel it move last Wednesday. I have noticed that these last few weeks have been a bit trying on me. I'm super irritable and impatient. It makes me feel bad that my fuse is even shorter than normal but sincerely cannot help it. When I'm not irritated, I'm emotional. The stress of every day things get to me more right now and the overwhelming feeling makes me cry. Sorry in advance to friends and family, I don't mean to be this way, but I really can't help it.

This week has brought some great news with it. My sister in law passed on my name to a client of hers that was looking for someone to do part time work from home making phone calls for his business and scheduling appointments. After a short conversation and a weekend wait, I got the call saying that I got the job. This is a huge blessing for us. Both Jeff and I were worried about finances and how we were going to make it work after the baby got here. Now I can stay home, work twenty hours a week and make almost three times what I have been making these past two years. 

This coming week will be another stressful week but hopefully one that ends the stress for a bit. I have to take my two part math final, keep up with my homework from BYU-I, attend class Thursday night, work twenty hours for David, work my normal schedule with Peyton and watch Peyton from Friday morning to Sunday afternoon while her parents are out of town. Needless to say, I will be busy.

Baby Update:

How Far Along: Twenty-five weeks

Cravings: Nothing new this week. Still trying to eat healthy

Feeling: I'm feeling great. No complaints this week.

Best Part of being pregnant right now: Feeling him/her kicking. It's a regular occurrence now.

Worst Part of being pregnant right now: Feeling like a whale. Watching my skin become not so wonderful, having the baby kick my bladder area.

Sleep: Doing great! I still get up every night at least once but am sleeping pretty well.