Category: Baby Friesen (Page 4 of 5)

I’ve crossed over the 30 week mark!  Whoo whoo!  Actually, technically tomorrow I’m already 31 weeks, I just forgot to post last week.   I’m just about to start crossing into the comically big stage–haha!  I have a comparison picture at 32 weeks from both Chloe and Josiah, so I’ll be sure to post all three next week.

Now that we’re nearing the end of April and I can count down the weeks on two hands I’m starting to get excited.  I know I still have a ways to go, but it’s fun to know I’m getting close.  And last week a friend of mine from church had her baby and another gal in my BSF group had her baby on Friday!  Suddenly all the babies are starting to arrive!

That’s right folks, I’m just about to cross into the 30’s weeks in my pregnancy.  I’m really excited to hit 30 weeks.  Somehow (and I know it’s completely mental) 29 weeks seems to far away and 30 weeks seems so close.  And now that we’re into April my goal is to just make it through to the end of the school year, which is the end of May.  I don’t care when the baby comes in June.  As long as it comes in June.  🙂

I went in for another appointment last Thursday and I was measuring 3 over again.  The midwife was concerned and scheduled me for a growth check ultrasound.  I fought it for a little bit, since I’m aware that I just tend to be a big pregnant woman.  I’ve made my peace with it, why can’t everyone else!?  😉  But after thinking it through and talking it over with Tim we decided that if there was even a possibility that there might be something wrong we should have the ultrasound.  I would just kick myself forever if I didn’t have the ultrasound done and then later discovered there was a problem that could have been prevented if we had seen it earlier.  So, I went back in that afternoon and had the ultrasound.  It was kind of fun.  I have such normal pregnancies that I only have ever had the one ultrasound for each baby at 20 weeks.  So this one (being at 28 weeks) was so much more interesting.  She’s getting bigger and starting to put on a little fat which makes her look a bit cuter.   And, happily, there was nothing to be concerned about.  She is measuring just mere days ahead of schedule.  They weren’t entirely sure why I’m measuring big, but nothing was worrisome.  (whew!)

I’m feeling pretty good.  Nothing much to report about this pregnancy.  Once in a while my hands feel tight like I have too much blood pushing against the skin, which is not the most delightful feeling.  But I was reading back about my other pregnancies, and I’m happy to report I don’t have any of the other “charming” pregnancy problems I had (yet… I do have a couple more months to go of course) such as: PUPPS, massive swelling in my ankles and carpel tunnel.   So, even if they do come back to haunt me, at least I can say I made it this far without those problems.  🙂

And finally a picture… the camera was dead, so Tim took this on his phone.

I’m embracing my “big-ness” since I’ve crossed over the point of no return.  I’m very clearly pregnant now.  🙂  See?

I’m feeling good still, just a bit of hip pain on my left side.  I remember that from when I was pregnant with Josiah… In fact, by the end I had hip & lower back pain, and had to go to the chiropractor.  I’m curious if I’ll need to do that again… I like going to the chiropractor, it’s just not covered by our insurance, so it costs a lot for us.

In other news, tonight’s the topic of the hour is “what colors are in this dress?”  Many of you have probably seen the picture…

Tim and I have had a looooooooong discussion about the dress. I see it as a blue dress with black lace.  He sees it as a white dress with gold lace.  The funny part is that I DID see it as gold and white earlier tonight, and now I only see black and blue!  I know it’s an optical illusion and how our eyes/brains are interpreting the colors–but it’s maddening!

One week from today we have the ultrasound to find out how the baby is doing–I am so excited!  The other night I asked Tim if he thought it was going to be a boy or a girl.  It was funny, because he had the same answer as me, without us ever discussing it before… I’m not going to tell you yet.  🙂  First I’m going to let you all guess what you think it might be.

What do you think?  Friesen Baby #3:  Girl or Boy?

I keep going back in forth in my mind about how one or the other would mesh better with our family.   Truth be told, it’s times like these that I’m so thankful that we don’t get to decide.  It’s so much more comforting to leave it in God’s hands and know that he will give our family just what it needs.

One thing is for sure:  We have agreed that our family will be complete with 5.  So, no more after this.   Tim and I are both excited to start clearing out the baby clothes and maternity stuff in the near future.  As soon as I’m done being pregnant this time I’m going to be able to pass along a very large bin of maternity clothes to whoever might need it.  And after the baby is born we’ll be able to get rid of the opposite gender clothing.  We have boxes and boxes of clothes stored in our garage.  Seriously–it’s a lot of boxes.  Of course, that’s still a few months down the road, but after moving ALL those boxes from house to house (twice!) it will be nice to use them and then be done with them.  🙂

For those of you who don’t live close to me, here’s a picture of what I look like now.  🙂  I know you were probably DYING to know, right?

I couldn’t resist also putting in the picture with Josiah posing… haha!

I’m feeling dandy this time around being pregnant.  Actually I’ve felt fine through all of my pregnancies.  But this time is no different–except that I’ve gotten bigger faster.  But I have to attribute part of that to being heavier at the start of this pregnancy.  I’m so excited to start feeling the baby move.  I expect in the next 2-3 weeks I should be able to feel tiny kicks.

I’ve dug into my maternity bin to pull out pants already, but the shirts look a bit tent-like still.  I’m also discovering that a lot of my maternity shirts have been a bit shrunk and misshapen after going through 2 pregnancies of washing and wearing… so I might need to find a few new shirts as I get bigger.

My ultrasound appointment is just less than 3 weeks away–I’m really excited to see the baby (and make sure there is only ONE in there!)  😉  We haven’t even started talking about names yet…

And that’s me in a nutshell at 17 weeks along.  🙂

Today we went to look at minivans.  Yup.  That fated day when we finally bite the bullet and accept the fact that we won’t be a car family much longer.  I’ve never been a fan of minivans–I would much rather have an SUV, however the cost difference is way to much for us to swallow.  And besides, it’s just a vehicle, right?  Who REALLY cares what it is, as long as we can actually travel as a family together from point A to point B.  So, we test drove a few options today and now we have to crunch numbers and see what we can get for our car and figure out our budget and what not.  It will be a bittersweet day saying goodbye to my faithful Ford Fusion.  I have really loved that car.  But it sounds like I’ll probably love our next vehicle as well–almost every person I’ve talked to that now has a minivan says they love it and wouldn’t go back.   We’ll see if I’m singing the same tune soon!  🙂

I had another appointment this morning with my midwife. We decided to have Chloe come along (since she’s off of school) and she was thrilled. I got to show her the pictures in the office of how the baby grows from week to week in the Mom’s belly–and we both agreed that the first few pictures of a new baby are pretty strange looking. 🙂

We also got to listen to the heartbeat (she said a nice strong 150ish beat). She said I’m measuring a tad big, but that’s normal for all my pregnancies. And that was about it–nothing much more to report. I haven’t taken any pregnancy pictures, because I pretty much look about the same that I did before. 🙂 My next appointment won’t be until Feb. 5th and it will be the big ultrasound one. Yippie! I’ll have lots to report after that one! 🙂