Weeks 33 & 34

Week 33

Major Developments: Skeleton is hardening, except for bones in the skull. Baby should gain another half pound per week until he arrives.

Size of Baby: Weight of Pineapple

I’m really bad. I didn’t blog last week. I had a crazy busy week. I was prepping all week for my big weekend of pictures.

Before I get ahead of myself, let me back track. The Saturday before Mother’s Day I had planned on cranking out a lot of my crafts for the nursery. I was slightly distracted. Bre and I went to her work to buy little baby Silva some shoes for the upcoming photo shoot. We went a little crazy…… I ended up buying 4 pairs and Bre bought one pair. Bre works at a consignment store for babies and they sell really nice high quality stuff. A lot of it is major name brand. We got the cutest baby gap “Birkenstocks”. The intent of this shopping trip was to get a pair of shoes that are similar to hightop converse chucks, which is what Eric wears. We wanted to take a picture of his shoes and the baby shoes. We found some that were similar along with the others I couldn’t resist buying. Baby shoes are just so dang cute. Shoes are one of my weaknesses. I love them to death. My poor baby is going to have shoes coming out of his ears, just like mommy.

I was also distracted that day by a peach picking festival at Schnepf Farms. Eric, Bre, and I went to the farm to get fresh peaches right off of the tree. Man was it hot. I’m telling you, peach picking is not for preggers. I was sweating to death. I spent most of the time there drinking water rather than doing the actual picking. Bre and Eric took care of that part. Baby and I were disappointed that we had picked off of a tree that was full of unripe peaches. We had to wait a few days to eat them. Once the peaches ripened, baby and I devoured them. Tasty tasty! It was worth the sweat storm after all! Here are my little peach pickers:

And here is my little "piggy":

  

Mother’s day fell during week 33. Eric and I did not celebrate. I had decided since baby isn’t officially here yet, that I’m not officially a mother. I mean I guess I am, but not in the usual sense. We’ll celebrate next year. A lady at work joked that I better not have the baby before father’s day so that Eric doesn’t get an extra holiday - funny lady. Other people thought that I should be celebrating. Megan and Amy both sent me cards for my “first” mother’s day. How cute of them. Amy also sent me a super cute scarf, which I planned to wear in my maternity shots. I really do have the best family ever.

 For mother’s day, my family went to a diamondbacks game. My mom loves baseball. This was baby’s first game. Walking to the stadium from our parking was hot!! Again, I was sweating to death. Luckily, I wore a dress so I had a little more of a breeze on my sweaty legs. I swear, I don’t think I have ever sweated this much in my life. And it’s not even full blown summer yet. It’s only around 100 right now. They handed out little guitar fans at the door. Eric and Bre were being funny and fanning the baby as we walked to our seats. I think I spent half of the game gnawing on any snack I could find. Baby would do lots of kicks when there was a lot of cheering. It was funny. Maybe he’ll like baseball when he’s bigger. We’ll see. My mom will probably school him on all things diamondbacks. It was a fun game.Here is my little bump at the game:

Sunday night, I made fortune cookies from scratch for our name reveal party. I could hardly wait to get them out. We were waiting for Megan’s arrival to announce the name.  She finally got home Monday night. We were waiting for Bre to get off work before going over. Poor Eric had something similar to a gallbladder attack. He had the surgery to have the stones removed but he has some other things that have to be taken out too. We almost didn’t go over to my parent’s house to announce the name. I was really worried and thought he needed to go to the hospital. Eric is a very stubborn guy. I hope baby isn’t stubborn about going to the doctor like his daddy is. Ugh! Anyways, we went to my mom’s house to announce the name and brought Eric’s dad with us. My mom has been a real pest about the names we were deciding on. Hehe. No offense mom. She really did not like one of our top two names – Ollivander. We decided to play a little trick on everyone when the fortune cookies were opened. We put in all of the names that we had seriously considered and put the winning name in red. The funny part of it was when my mom opened her cookie, her fortune said Ollivander Yorke. She says, “Seriously?!!!!” What if we really had chosen that name? I wonder what she would have done. We should have just to be brats. Hehe. Anyways… Tyson got the fortune cookie with the right name in it. The name inside was….. drum roll please….. Grayson Yorke Silva. Everyone was happy with the choice. We were so relieved to have a name finalized! That was what I needed to have so I could finish all of my nursery decorations.

 

 Megan came over the next day to do nursery crafts. We planned to make the name décor for the room. After shopping for everything we needed, we stopped at Tyson’s band concert. While I was sitting there I was thinking to myself, wow, one day I’ll be one of these parents in here watching their little kids. Crazy!!! We got the name décor done, which we were really happy about. It is going to be hung over the crib. There will be more pictures to come once Megan finishes up my maternity pictures.

Week 34

Major Developments: Fat layers are filling out, which will help regulate the baby’s body temperature.  Central nervous system is maturing as well as the lungs. Baby is to point where he will have little to no health problems if born premature!

Size of baby: Weight of average Cantaloupe and around 18 inches long.

 

Week 34 was another super busy week.

Every day this week I worked on one nursery project or another. There was no time for rest. Megan and Bre came over to help with projects as well. Megan made a super cute banner for the Maternity pictures with Grayson’s name on it.

We had a doctor’s appointment on wed. No ultrasound this time, unfortunately. The doctor said I probably won’t need another ultrasound unless they need to check something. That means I won’t see little baby Grayson until he comes! Ugh! That is a long time to wait. I asked my doctor why I hadn’t been gaining weight and if it is ok. He said that it just means that I am really healthy. I am only putting on lean weight and the baby is gaining healthy weight. To put it in a PG version, he said that just means I have a lot more people calling me names after I deliver, in regards to my weight. He is just hilarious. I hope he is right. Who wouldn’t hope for a quick rebound after delivery? Dr. Guzman always gives us way more information than we can possibly process, but he is funny about it. I asked him what his opinions are on early induction. He doesn’t usually induce early unless there is a problem that puts the baby and me at risk. So he is planning on having me go through all 40 weeks. He did say that he will induce after 40 weeks though. I don’t think I will go early naturally. I have read so much about your first baby being over its due date. People are convinced that I will go early but I am convinced I’ll be late. If I am late, and I can choose to be induced maybe I could choose the date too. Maybe I can choose July 1^st and baby and I can be a month apart. The doctor told us we need to make sure the nurses know that we only want “Guzman’s hands on our child”. Funny guy. We haven’t told him we are naming the baby Grayson yet. I think its going to go straight to his silly head because that is his name. We’ll see.

We also signed up for birthing classes and a breast feeding class. I think that will help me a lot with my anxieties about delivery. Either that or make it worse. I just hope my hormones are under control that day. I don’t want to go home a crying mess. The birthing class is a full day – 8:30 to 4:30. They had classes that were split up but they ran into my due date, which wasn’t going to work. I have been thinking more about the whole epidural thing lately. It really scares me. Dr. Guzman says it does not affect the baby at all. I’m just nervous about getting the actual epidural. I watched some on youtube and it scared me to death. I started crying my eyes out because I was telling Eric I was really worried that I’m not strong enough to deliver a baby. I wish I could do it without an epidural, so I could skip over the whole needle part, I just don’t think I am brave enough to go without medicine. I have never been through anything too painful before so I have no clue what my tolerance for pain is. I have heard from several people now that you are so numb when you have an epidural that you don’t even feel the baby coming out. I thought that even with an epidural you’d feel some pain, which I was ok with. I don’t know if I want to be completely numb but I don’t know if I can handle how painful it must be. Most women that I talk to that have done it both ways say go with the epidural. Who knows…. I’m going to see what kind of information I get in the birthing class and then make a decision about it. I’m really excited about my breastfeeding class. I have so many questions about that and I am really clueless on the whole topic. My aunt Amy was the only one I was around who nursed so I just don’t have a clue. I really need to be schooled on that.

Eric works with a bunch of women in his department. He is the only guy in the whole thing. The girls he works with are super sweet. They threw him a surprise shower. It didn’t turn out to be too much of a surprise because he knew about it. 2 of his managers had it on their email calendars, which he has access to. He thought the shower was for me, so it was slightly surprising for him. These girls went totally crazy. Everything was decorated so cute! They did a yellow and gray theme, just like our nursery. Everything was covered in owls too. They know that I love owls. I think Eric also may have told them the nursery is owl themed. It’s not really owl themed…. The owls just sort of made their way in there. Don’t ask me how. Everyone brought a dish, and man was there some tasty things to eat. One girl brought the most delicious banana pudding. It was adorable too. Here is the recipe she used. It is to die for!!

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/not-yo-mamas-banana-pudding-recipe/index.html

We played a measurement game. There were about 20 or more people at the shower so there were lots of people all up in my business measuring me after they had guessed. It was funny to see what people perceived to be my measurements. One lady was almost completely on! I couldn’t believe it. I guess she’s been checking my baby bump out in the halls. Just kidding. He he. They had planned more games but we ran out of time for them unfortunately. We were all too busy socializing during our lunch.  When they had the present opening, Eric though he could pass that off on me. Nope, I told him it was his shower, he had to open all of the presents. They went absolutely nuts. I was overwhelmed by their generosity. They gave us a car seat and the pack and play off of our registry. That in its self was overboard. They also gave us all kinds of outfits, socks, hats, and anything cute in the store. I couldn’t believe it.  A lot of other people gave us gift cards and clothes. I just couldn’t get over how nice everyone was to us. We are going to be set by time this baby comes. It’s crazy.

My department had a little baby shower for me as well on Friday. This one was supposed to be a surprise as well but someone spilled the beans to me. My friend Michael in my department got me the absolute cutest cake I have seen in my life. It was insane. It was this super cute owl cake that said Grayson Yorke Silva on it. It was prettier than my wedding cake for crying out loud. I hardly wanted to cut it! Everyone was super nice in this shower too. My department ended up getting me the pack and pay on my registry too. I think both departments went shopping on the same day. We played a measurements game in this shower as well. We got lots of cute cloths and baby bath stuff. This baby is going to smell dang good! He got lots of butt cream as well. He he.

  

After work the day of my shower I went with a friend to a ladies house who does a scrap book club. She wanted to tell us about her products and we also made a card. While I was there, I was having the strangest feelings. I had so much pressure in my hips. My stomach was hard as a rock too. I’m wondering if I was having Braxton hicks. I am having a really hard time telling the difference from a Braxton Hicks contraction and the baby making a lump on my belly. This night was something totally different too. It was on and off again for about 2 hours. When I got home I ended up staying up until 2 am working on the nursery. I made the absolute cutest clothes dividers for the closet. I’m in love!!! I was also really impressed with myself that I had stayed up so late!

The day of the maternity shoot was totally exhausting. We woke up early to get all of the errands done and finish up any crafts. Megan came over and helped too. I worked on all of my projects until we started the shoot. The room is finally done, excluding one pillow back that still needs to go on. The pictures went fabulously. We did some cool bump pictures in my room. Some bare, some covered. I put on some pre-pregnancy jeans in these pictures. I knew I wouldn't be able to button them but I was nervous to see if I could pull them up. They still fit!! Of course excluding the zipping and buttoning. They were a little tighter than usual so that does confirm I've gained slightly in my legs and butt. Wooo. We made a bunch of props for the pictures too. We ended up using the balloons from my shower in the pictures too.  I really wanted to take pictures in the corn field behind my house so we did. It was a little too bright when we started. We also took my rocker out to a field. Like an idiot, I decided to wear six in wedge shoes in a field. I could barely walk. Megan had to hold me up. I also had total stump leg from being on my feet all day. I couldn't even strap up my shoes on one leg. It was ridiculous! I was so tired towards the end of the shoot. I could hardly move on but I tried not to look tired for my pictures. We ended up with take out Chinese food since we were both pooped from the day. I’m super anxious to see the pictures. I know that they are going to be fabulous! Megan is hoping to get a boost in clientele from them. She’s so talented!!! Once I get the pics I will post them. Then you all can see the full spectrum of cuteness in the nursery too!

Since we worked so hard on Saturday, we kind of lounged around for a while on Sunday. I ended up going to Joanns to get more fabric for my diaper covers. I cannot wait to get started on them. I got really productive and made 120 cookies for all of our coworkers who attended the showers. I made Jello cookies, which turned out to be cute and easy. http://www.iheartnaptime.net/jello-cookies/. I also got really ambitious and wrote about 35 thank you cards.

Eric has started to notice all of the dirty looks I have been getting. At our Monday night ice cream ritual more people were staring with dirty looks. People are not even ashamed to give me dirty looks and stare. Eric has started to notify me when I am getting a death glare from random people. Come on. Seriously people? Let’s get over it. Eric also had another gallstone attack that night. He went into the doctor to schedule his next procedure. It will be on the 30^th and will be a little more complicated than his last surgery. They have to cut into his bile duct to get the remaining stones. He’ll have to spend the night in the hospital because the procedure carries a 10% chance of pancreatitis. Ugh. We will both be relieved to have this over with. Just in time for baby. I hope he is completely healed by time Grayson gets here. Those car seat carriers are pretty heavy.

Health wise, everything is still going well. I think the baby is starting to drop. I’m feeling more pressure on my hips and feeling it more often. I’m also starting to feel more kicks in different areas of m belly. Usually, I feel kicks under my rib cage on the right side. I’m now starting to feel them towards the middle of my belly. That little Grayson better stay upside down. We don’t want any breech babies!! I have still been going to the gym. I am progressively starting to lose more and more strength. It is incredible how much weaker I am. I’m still staying under 25lbs when I’m lifting. When I had to drop down to 25lbs it was way too easy. Now I totally struggle. I listen to my body though and don’t work out too hard. This week, a lady at the gym told me I looked good. It was nice to have a stranger actually appreciate my pregnancy instead of giving me dirty looks. I wonder how long I can keep going to the gym. That is something I am going to ask my doctor when I go in next. He knows I am going and hasn’t said anything about stopping. I guess I will just go until the end if I can.

When I passed out my thank you cards, a coworker had something nice to say. She said to enjoy these last weeks of feeling life inside myself. Birth is beautiful and that is what makes birthdays so special. (She is the birthday fairy in my department). I thought that was really nice. Pretty soon here I will be entering my last 4 weeks. One month until the due date on May 27^th. I’d like to somehow celebrate my pregnancy for the last 31 days. It has been such a positive experience and I have loved it. I just need to brainstorm how to celebrate. I’m still just baffled that I have a little person inside of me. I know there is a little person inside because I have seen the pictures. I just always imagine him as a baby bump when I imagine him. I was telling Eric I feel like they are going to give me a giant baby belly wrapped in a blanket after delivery. I have grown so attached to my baby bump. Eric says I’m going to be lost without it. I really wish I could keep it forever. I’m just having a hard time connecting the two – the image of my little baby and the fact that he is in my belly. It sounds weird, I know. It is just amazing to think about. I can’t even comprehend how this whole thing works. I mean I know how it works but I’m just amazed by the whole thing. Who knows. Eric and I will just be sitting there wide eyed when we see our little Grayson.  

I think that has gotten us up to speed. No more skipping weeks on the blog.

Week 32

Major Developments: Baby should have toenails, fingernails, and real hair (if any. He better have some!!) Baby’s skin is becoming soft and smooth. Lanugo (protective hair coving baby’s body) is starting to shed.

Size of Baby: Large Jicama (Whatever that is)

Week 32 was a bit frustrating in the beginning. As most of you know, we have been struggling to name our little critter. On Thursday, we decided to set ourselves the final deadline for naming baby. We have set deadlines before but they have all been ignored in the past. I wasn’t about to let this one go by. I am getting so sick of the whole name debate! Eric and I agree on everything we just don’t know what to choose. We tried to choose something on Friday, which didn’t work. Saturday we really really tried. I was getting extremely discouraged. I felt guilty thinking that maybe I wasn’t connecting with the baby or something. I just felt bad that I couldn’t name him. Then I started thinking, am I one of those mom’s that will need to see their baby before they name it? I really didn’t want it to come down to that. Eric was convinced that we didn’t need to wait and that wasn’t our problem. So I just started feeling really bad about it. We were debating between Ollivander & Grayson but I just started wondering if maybe we couldn’t decide because there was another name out there. The thought of going back to the drawing board was more than I could handle. We ended up going to Barnes and Noble to look through book names. NOTHING stood out. We even did more research online. So Sunday rolled around and we still hadn’t decided. We told each other we were going to write down our name and show each other by the end of the day. Eric went to the movies with his pals and I stayed home to sew. I sat there for a good hour thinking about it. I wrote the names down a thousand times – first and last together, first last & middle together, nicknames and last name together, everything. That wasn’t helping. So finally I started looking at all of his ultrasound pictures. I finally came to a conclusion. To me he looked more like one name than the other. When Eric got home, he showed me his choice and luckily we agreed!!!! So….. we have finally named our baby. I’ll have an update on what our choice was after Megan gets here. We decided that since we have been so retarded about the whole naming business we may as well go out with a bang and have a “name revealing party” of sorts when Megan gets here on Monday. All of you readers must wait another few days. Hehehehe! I feel so relieved to have that decision made. It was really getting ridiculous.

Saturday, before we went to Barnes & Noble, we went to the Baby Gap just to get out of the house. They have so much cute stuff there. I felt like they had more girl stuff though. I want to get him at least one outfit from there. Maybe one for when he is older since babies grow so much in the beginning. I got a super silly hat while I was there though. I think it will be precious for the newborn pictures. I have seen so many new born pictures where the baby is wearing some sort of animal hat. This one will be perfect.

While we were at the mall, just about every person we passed felt the need to stare at me. There was even a little kid that started walking behind me mocking the way I was walking like I was a fattie. Eric turned around and asked him what the heck he was doing. Where have all the smiling strangers gone? Rude guys. I really need to get my braces off. I don’t think that helps at all. I started thinking maybe once I’m not pregnant and without braces the dirty looks will end. I doubt this. Maybe people will think the baby is my brother rather than thinking I’m a teen mom. Who knows. I took my 17 year old sister to the bank and they thought we were the same age. People are very quick to judge. Whatever. 

Sunday I got some sewing done for the nursery. I was focusing on getting all of my pillows done that day. I never get as much done as I expect to get done. I made my own pattern, which was a total mess. The measurements were off but I finally figured it out. I ended up putting a whale on the pillows. So dang cute. I was so impressed with myself. I’m going to stitch the baby’s name under the whale since I accidentally didn’t center it. Here is what it looks like for now:

 

Sunday I also ended up buying some of the fabric for my diapers. I cannot wait to start on them. I’ve been dreaming about it and everything. They are going to be so dang cute! Disposable diapers are seriously lacking in the cuteness department. I can probably get started on cutting out the diaper covers out. I’m going to be making 15-20 of them. They look pretty easy though. I just have to buy a little snap adding tool before I can really get started on sewing them. I’ll probably pick that up this weekend. I can’t wait, I can’t wait!

Monday I started to notice that the belly band on my favorite maternity pants is starting to get a little tighter. Baby must be growing a lot in there. Thankfully the pants still fit me everywhere else. They are my absolute favorite. I’m going to have to find a pair like them after baby comes that aren’t maternity style. Hopefully these will last me until the end. If not, I’m really going to have to get creative! I’ve only got 3 pairs of pants I can wear. The weird part about my belly getting bigger is my weight gain. I have fluctuated between 135 & 136 for the past 6 weeks. I’m supposed to be gaining a pound a week. If it is still like this by my next appointment (next week) I’m going to ask the doctor. I know the baby is growing, but why isn’t the weight going up? I keep waiting to pass the 30 lbs gained mark. I should have passed it by now. Who knows. I’m sure the doctor would have said something if they were concerned. I just think that it’s weird. It’s as if I’ve plateaued. 

Monday also marked the 1 week until Megan gets home date. Wooooo Hooo. We have so much planned for when she gets back. We have been discussing my maternity pictures a lot. We are doing them the weekend she gets back. I can’t wait!! I just hope I’m big enough. I don’t really have anything in particular that I’m looking for in my pictures, just cuteness. We are both super excited to be doing them. Next come the newborn pictures, which will be even more exciting! All we do is wait, wait, and wait. 

Monday has also become our "Ice Cream Monday" ritual. Baby loves it. There is a delicious ice cream shop that has $1 ice cream scoops. I have been getting the cotton candy ice cream because you can't get it everywhere. I love that kind. Eric thinks its for kids. On Monday I saw another adult getting a scoop of its delicious glory. Confirmation that cotton candy ice cream is not only for preggers or children. Woo.

Hormones have become a serious problem as of late. I'm a ball of fury sometimes. Tuesday I was super pissed off. Morning commutes with this preggers behind the wheel has lead to new cases of road rage. People just piss me off to no end now a days. When we finally got to the office, this lady walking out of my office just stared with wide eyes at my belly. I wanted to slap her. I couldn't help myself but to say, Yes, I'm pregnant after she walked away. My mom was with me and couldn't believe the look I was getting. She asked if I get that often and I'm like.... ummm yup. That's the new thing for strangers. At that point I was about to rip the face off of the next person that gives me a dirty look. Isn't pregnancy supposed to be looked at as a beautiful thing? Ugh. I really feel like I can't control the things that fly out of my mouth. The grumpiness is different than regular PMS, which I don't think is much of a problem for me. This type of grumpiness is controlled by some demon somewhere. I just get purely angry! And I'm a super peaceful person. Driving really pisses me off. Poor Eric. Luckily he doesn't piss me off. The funny thing is, the day I was super grumpy in the morning, I called Eric. He answers the phone saying "Oh geez, what is it now" He knew judging by the texts I was sending him I was a ticking time bomb. I was laughing so hard at how grumpy I was. He asks, "Are you laughing or crying". HAHA! Man, you know you are pregnant when your husband has to ask if you are crying or laughing.

So now that I feel like the baby is starting to drop down a little, I am noticing more bladder issues. The other night, we were watching “Worlds Dumbest” on truetv. We absolutely love that show. It’s either southern hillbillies being idiots or Russians doing something crazy and silly. Something happened on the show that literally made me pee my pants a bit. I really don’t think that would have been a problem had I not been pregnant. It made me think of a youtube video I saw a few weeks back. It’s pretty funny because it’s so true. Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THAaNPIxEek

 

The other day I had some very strange heartburn. It was around my throat rather than my chest. I have heard wives tales that heartburn is a sign of hair on your little babies head. Wouldn’t that be nice? I don’t get a lot of heartburn so I doubt that baby has any hair. I did get it twice this week though… pray for hair people! I want a baby with a fuzzy little noggin. With my luck, he won’t have any. I did not have hair for years when I was a baby. We don’t know if Eric had much at birth but know he had a little judging by one of the few baby pictures we have seen. Here’s the proof.

 Anywho. I'm still really anxious for baby to get here. Despite all of the grumpiness and dirty looks, I still love pregnancy, no matter how much I complain. I just can't wait to see my little baby.

Week 31

Major Developments: Baby is heading towards a growth suprt and can turn its head. He has half of the weight he needs for birth

Size of baby: Four Navel Oranges

Greetings! We are inching our way towards June 27th. Eeeee!

Thursday, Eric had his gallbladder removed. Baby had hiccups on the way to the hospital. We joked that maybe he was nervous for daddy. The surgery was a quick 45 min with a 2 hour recovery. I went to McDonald's for a snack while I waited because I was starving! This little old gentleman tried to make my day by telling me that his grandma had 22 separate births. Can you imagine? All the way back then? The guy looked to be about 70 years old. So these 22 births could have been in the early 1900's when things weren't easy during childbirth. Wow! The surgery went well. Gallbladder be gone! He does have to go in for another small procedure. Apparently he has some gallstones that went outside the gallbladder that need to be removed. Fun stuff. After that he'll be all done! He's still a little sore but is starting to get back to normal activity and eating. He had his surgery at Mercy Gilbert, which is the hospital I will deliver at. That day, we felt like we were going in for the baby. Eric was carrying a bag and I was walking in all pregnant. Hehe. I told the hospital I'll see it in 9 weeks.

I took off work Thursday and Friday to take care of Eric, which was nice. We pretty much lounged around the couch since he was pretty dang sore. Friday we were watching TLC and they were having a bunch of pregnancy specials on. Most of them were on women who were having Cesarean delivery. I think if I had to have one of those I'd be so sad. Especially if it was an unplanned C Section. One of the ladies had such an emotional delivery that I just started getting emotional too. Here I am, sitting on the couch, crying over someone else's special day. I felt like a mess. haha! I just can't even imagine what that day is going to feel like when I'm the person delivering. Its going to be an emotional roller coaster. I can't wait. I hope I can maintain composure when they hand that little baby to me!

Friday I also went to visit my baby baby sister Bre at her new work. She works at a baby consignment store. They had a killer deal on a play pen that would be perfect for Grandma's house so my mom came and got it. Now baby has something to sleep in when he goes to my mom's house. I also got him this super cute outfit. I got it because Eric has picked up playing golf so I though it was priceless. Daddy's little Caddy! Maybe one day.

Saturday I got a lovely massage compliments of the doctor's office. It was just lovely. Nearly the best part of the whole thing was getting to lay on my belly for the first time in months. The massage table was a "cut out table". I was thinking that the cut outs would be just for the belly but they actually had cut outs for the girls as well. I almost peed my pants when I saw it. It was so cozy to lay on my belly. I considered folding the table up and booking it out the front door. I would love to sleep on one of those. I am a part time belly sleeper part time side sleeper. The massage was great. I know that I have back tension but I had no clue how bad it actually was. My back felt totally relieved. The problem is by the next day its back to normal. I'm just thankful that my back pain isn't bad at all. It was nice to be pampered for the afternoon.

After the massage Eric and I met up with a lady who does daycare out of her house. I was referred to her by a co-worker. She takes her little baby girl to this lady. She is right down the street from my house. It would take me a whole 3 minutes to drop our little creature off before work. The lady's name is Sandy and she was super nice. Her house was really nice and had two play rooms for the kids. She has tons of toys for the kids a little older. She also has a lot to play with outside in the backyard. Her house would be totally fun for our little boy when he gets a little older. The thing I like about her is that she has an activity planned for everyday that is educational. Like learning a letter or singing a song. She's been doing home daycare for 20 years so she really knows what she's doing. She seems very organized. She'll have separate pack and play pens for each baby so they aren't sharing germs. You know how kids are, a walking invitation for colds and such. I really like her but still will interview a few more people. It makes me feel better knowing that I know someone who currently uses her and loves her. I'm hoping to send baby to daycare after at least 2 months. I would hate to send him any earlier. 2 months sounds way too young to me but I'll have to return to work. I'm allowed 6-12 weeks off but it is unpaid. I'm hoping to take off at least 7 weeks and then have Eric take a week off the first week I go back to work so the baby will be home for at least 8 weeks. I still need to come up with a game plan with my boss but he is pretty flexible. 

After the daycare tour, I went with my mom to see my a friend who just had her baby. His name is Mason James and he is literally one of the cutest baby's ever created. I couldn't even believe it. He is only 2 weeks old and has some of the funniest facial expressions. He must have been practicing the whole time in his mama because they are really sophisticated. He even does blue steel from Zoolander. I felt like I learned so much by going over and visiting with her. She is a new mom and had so much to tell me about labor. She was also good to talk to about different things she has needed for the baby. She is breastfeeding and had lots of tips on that. I think I am going to take a class on it because I know nothing about nursing. My mom didn't nurse and neither did my grandma so I'll kind of be in the dark once the baby comes. Her labor was super easy, lucky thing. After I left her house I went home and added a good 7 things to my registry. Seeing a new mom at work really helped. I had no clue that I'd need a nursing pillow for one thing. Those dang babies are heavy. My arm was getting tired just from holding him. Usually I feel pretty panicked when holding someones baby but I felt pretty comfortable holding Mason. I was a little nervous at first but picked it up after watching the parents hold him. That sounds awful coming from someone who is about to pop a baby out. I'm so nervous they are going to put our little baby in my arms and I'm going to be like aaaah... what do I do with this thing? I hope that our baby is as cute as little Mason is. I know he will be to me but I hope that everyone else thinks he is as cute. Mason was beautiful from birth. Oh yes, I can finally post the picture of the gift I made her. The day we made the owl mobile, I made this for her. I was so proud of myself :) Eric is always giving me crap for "stealing" from pinterest. I thought this one up all on my own. I think I'll make one for myself too. Its for hanging on the door handle. 

Sunday I finally got around to doing some sewing. I made these little storage boxes that I've been dying to make. I found them on sew4home.com.  http://sew4home.com/projects/storage-solutions/852-spring-clean-a-tidy-week-nursery-storage-baskets. They were pretty easy to make. They are made out of cardboard and fabric. They are cheap baskets to make with left over cardboard from all of my boxes from baby crap. The only problem was they want you to sew the top piping on with a leather needle on the sewing machine. I don't care if I have a leather needle or not, I'm not putting cardboard through my nice sewing machine. I didn't realize that the pattern required this until I got to that step. So I got smart and got the hot glue gun out. I may as well have just called myself into the burn unit in advance. I burned my fingers so many times! I had 3 blisters and then burned my bump to death with the glue gun. Real smart Kayla. I'm hoping that the burn on the bump doesn't scar. The last time I got burned by a glue gun was when I was still in grade school. My cousin Matt put a hot glue gun down on my hand on accident. I still have a scar to this day. I am hoping that the oil I have been using to prevent stretch marks will help with the scaring. The oil is for scars to begin with. We'll see. Any who, the nursery is really coming together. I have misc things to sew and pillows to make. Then I've got to find a spot for all of the little things I have bought. I seriously can't wait for it to be all done.

Here is my poor bump with the boo boo.

 

Monday night I had my first true sleeping problems. Ever since, I have not slept well. I woke up in the middle of the night and could not go back to sleep. I was starving to death first off. Second off the baby was doing the polka in my belly! He was going absolutely crazy. I almost wanted to wake Eric up to feel. It was the most I have ever felt baby move. There was just no sleeping after that. It has happened every night since. I hope this little baby isn't going to be a night owl!!! I have now put crackers next to the bed because getting up and going to the kitchen just sucks!

Wed I went to the doctor for my follow up ultrasound. Baby passed this ultrasound again with flying colors. They weighed him in at 4lbs 10 oz. That sounds huge again! He's ranking in the 66th percentile and weighs about the same as a developing baby at 33 weeks. I have a feeling he's going to be a big boy at least to begin with. I measured at 22 cm of amniotic fluid. The upper limit of normal is 20 cm so I am inching my way towards normalcy. The doctor is no longer worried about my fluid level. I can go back to normal visits. Yay!! Healthy baby, healthy mommy. We got to see our little cutie in 4d again. He totally has Eric's nose. It looks so big on his little face. He also looks like he has chubby little cheeks. The ultrasound tech pointed out something hilarious and slightly caught a picture of it. Up near his forehead in the corner of the screen, you could see his big toe showing. He's folded up like a pretzel in there! I can't wait to see his little toes. His fingers look so developed and clear in the pictures. I feel like you can almost see fingernails but I'm sure I'm just imagining it. He has them, I just don't know if they can be seen in the ultrasound. The doctor recommended a pediatrician. He described her has the Dr Guzman (him) of the Goodman & Partridge practice. He's a gem of a doctor so she's gotta be great. Her name is Maggie. All I could think of was Rod Stewart. hehe. "Wake up Maggie I think I've got something to say to you".... yes I'm a nerd. I also had to get a shot. Boooo hoo. I hate shots. I'm like a child when it comes to needles. The shot was due to my RH- blood. Without the shot, the possibility of my blood fighting off the baby is more of a problem if I have bleeding, fall, or get in an accident. The shot also helps prevent antibodies from forming after delivery that could attack in future pregnancies. The shot is called Rhogam not to be confused with Rogain. It is made out of millions of antigens from other people. Yes, gross. They are cleaned and the made into shot form for pregnant mammas. My doctor said that a lot of the antigens are collected from people in England. So I am officially part British. If you know me well at all, you'd know I'd give my left lung to have a English accent. It was hilarious. We got our doctor talking in an English accent. He said "Its weird because Asians don't usually talk this way" (in accent of course). We almost peed! He is such a hilarious doctor. Now that I have my shot I am all fixed up. I even have a identification card to prove it.

 

Toes are in the top left of the below picture:

After the ultrasound I met with the cardiologist. He said the ultrasound of my heart came back fine. The only thing that he mentioned is that I have a leaky valve. He said that this is nothing to be concerned about because I am pregnant and have a much larger amount of blood flow. He said maybe just follow up on in in a few years. I knew all of those tests were just doctors being overly cautious. He said my passing out problem is probably due to a problem I have called Vasovagal. This is why he thinks I keep passing out. There is medication to regulate it but he is not recommending it at this time. If it continues after pregnancy he wants me to come in again. 

Megan, Bre, and Mom are doing a PHX shower for me. My mom made these cute invites. I can't wait for the shower. I'm also having one at work in the next couple weeks. After those, I can start my shopping spree for baby!

 

I have been doing a lot a research on cloth diapers lately. I had planned on doing them from the begining but have always thought about doing it through a diaper service. I have been doing so much research and watching youtube videos on mom's who do it at home. Things have progressed so much in the cloth diaper world. It is almost the same as regular diapering. I even have Eric convinced that it is just as easy as disposable diapering. I think that people have so long had a negative perception of cloth diapers that it has just stuck around. These diapers aren't your Grandma's cloth diapers of the 50's. Now-a-days you don't use pins. You don't even have to learn how to fold them because they have inserts to take care of that part. People always tell me how bad my baby is going to smell. That really is starting piss me off. There isn't anyway around a baby's stench. At least my garbage can won't smell horrible. Once the diapers are washed they will smell wonderful. Plus, you clean the diapers off in the toilet before storing them so that cuts down on the stink. I have found some patterns for sewing diaper covers (which are required). I think this is a much more economical and cuter option. I can't wait to put the baby in those cute little diapers. Disposables are so boring. I think it will be something to get used to at first but will be something that I will really enjoy. I don't think my heart could bear putting a plastic diaper in the trash. It can take 500 years for one diaper alone to decompose. That is awful. Cloth diapers for me. I must teach my baby social responsibility! Save the planet!

I think the baby is starting to drop down a little. I'm starting to feel more pressure on my hips. Luckily baby is already head down so we don't have to worry about kicks to the bladder. He really is becoming very very active so that could have been a problem. I have not felt sick all week so that is good. Things are starting to shape up medically! I'm so thankful. Hopefully it will be a smooth ride from here on out!