28/29 Weeks!
Hello 3rd trimester!
We're in-between doc appointments right now so the only thing I can note on baby3's growth is that my belly keeps getting bigger, ha!!
All of a sudden, as soon as 3rd trimester hit, I've gotten the urge to start nesting. Taylor and I spent some time talking through the nursery and now I think we have a clear idea of what our plan is. I've also been starting to order a few things here and there for her room. I'll do a better update next week!
Another fun "prepping for baby" thing is that we took some maternity photos! We originally signed up for a mini session with our favorite photographer and I realized the timing would be perfect to get some good belly shots so we turned it into a little maternity session. Arden and I went to Dry Bar before the pictures to get our hair done! I can't wait to get all the pictures back!
MOMMA UPDATE/HOW I'VE BEEN FEELING
Unfortunately, I feel like crossing into the 3rd trimester has just made me feel like I'm falling apart! Over the past few weeks I've been getting lots of leg/foot cramps in the middle of the night. My OB & doula recommended I try magnesium supplements, as well as trying to make sure I'm drinking lots of water and eating enough potassium (yay bananas!). I also had some random foot pain (that's thankfully gone away now), and am still having a bit of pelvic pain when I go from sitting for a while to standing. An adjustment at my chiro definitely helped though so I think I'm going to switch to weekly visits from now until the end of this pregnancy. I also started on iron supplements after my last OB appointment determined that I'm slightly anemic.
Weight gain at 28 weeks: 13.3 lbs total
Weight gain at 29 weeks: 13.1 lbs total
For the past few weeks I've been hovering around the same weight. I think in 3rd trimester the baby grows about 1/2 lb a week so that's maybe another 6 lbs I have to look forward to? Who knows!
Oh boy have things been speeding up lately!
I was nominated for an award at work and Taylor got to come with me to the Gala:
...and I won!!!
Full post here!
We celebrated Turner's 2nd birthday!
Due to a lovely case of hand/foot/mouth, we had to postpone his birthday party, but we still took our little guy out for ice cream:
We've done lots of playing in the backyard (with cool new birthday toys to boot!):
I took down our Easter book-nook and set up our spring theme!
I follow this blogger who posts themed/holiday book lists - they are awesome!
I'm now a big fan of trying books out from the library before buying new, so that's what I did for most of our spring books. As we read them I just make a note of which ones we actually really liked and then I add them to our Amazon wishlist.
Isn't this little butterfly banner cute? It's from an Etsy shop called Pearl & Jane. I love their banners!
We checked out a cool market with Gigi in Rockwall one weekend:
The kiddos were thrilled to get some popcorn:
Dad is hilarious:
Arden found a coconut at the grocery store & we had to get it and try it.
Sadly it wasn't actually very good, but it was a cool experience!
And lastly, this little guy had his 2-year well-check.
He's all of a sudden 70th% for weight and like 90th% for height!
We are in the final countdown!!!
I've had at least 3 people come up to me and say something like "whoa you're ready pop" lately and every time it just cracks me up because sure, my belly is big, but I really do have basically 3 months to go!
28 & 29 Weeks with Arden
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