Week 33

A belated Merry Christmas! BN had a wonderful Christmas filled with plenty of family, friends and FOOD! And filled with tons of gifts! Our BuyBuyBaby registry does not have 1 single item left on it and I think Babies R Us has a tube of Desitin left - that's it! We are very thankful and lucky to have such wonderful Grandparents and Aunts and Uncles for the Chief :)

Went to the doctor last Friday and everything is still going well. Heartbeat strong, my uterus is measuring right on target and baby's head in down in the ready position. We'll see if that remains the case over these last 7 weeks. Below is a picture of our Baby Pineapple! He weighs approx 4-4.5 lbs and pretty much at her birth length.

Drop the Baby

I must say, it's been quite some time since I've had a dream about failing as a parent, but last night changed that. I dreamt we had the baby and were sitting with him in the family room. He started to get fussy so I told Andrew I would take him and put him down for a nap. I take the baby out of his arms and suddenly the baby weighs the same as about 4 sacks of potatoes and I can't lift him up at all. I manage to lift him up by his feet, which resulted in his head swinging down and bouncing (yes bouncing) off the floor. Awesome. I'm going to be so good at this Mom thing...

Week 33 and Christmas recap coming soon!

Week 31 & 32

Week 32 - Baby Jicama :)

Week 31 - This week we had a baby the weight of 4 navel oranges. Been a busy week around here but there have been a few Chief related happenings to mention. First, the other night when getting into bed, I could feel the baby making a lot of short rhythmic movements that I know were not hiccups. I had Andrew feel too and we determined it was BN taking some practice breaths in there. It was an awesome moment to feel our baby "breathing" and made him/her seem that much closer to coming out to meet us!

Secondly, the other day I went to a work event and spent a couple hours walking around a tradeshow floor...in heels. While this really is never a completely pleasant experience, I found myself tiring a lot sooner than usual and even had to tell my boss I needed to pull the "pregnant card" and take a break. This was one of the first times when I had to realized I need to start slowing down a bit from time to time, or maybe just switch to flats. So, after having a day of feeling pretty pregnant, I was feeling pretty confident when stepping into a crowded train car that someone would notice my belly and give up their seat for me. But I got nothing. I even really relaxed to let my tummy push out a bit more, but still no takers. I guess my belly isn't as noticable in my coat as I thought - just kind of funny that after a pregnant feeling afternoon,  I was quickly snapped back into "normal" people reality. Maybe if I ride the train again in a month I'll have better luck.

Welcomed Distractions

So this afternoon I lost about 15 minutes of productivity at work to just sit and stare at my stomach. Little Chief was going to town in there today and not sure I've ever seen my entire tummy shake, shift and twist so much before. If someone were to have walked past my office they would have seen me smiling down at my tummy like a crazy freak but I don't really care. Anyhoo, just makes me more and more excited to meet this little nugget in just over 2 months!

Week 30

Another week down, and with that comes another cabbage baby. This time instead of a Chinese cabbage, we've got a head of cabbage. Chief is about 3lbs and 17 inches long from head to toe! I can tell the little one is starting to fill out his/her surroundings as kicks and flips about are being replaced by slow rolls and lots of pressing up against my tummy.

Today was a special day of celebrating Baby Noble at our baby shower! Thank you to all of our family and friends for all of the wonderful gifts! We are so excited to get the nursery together and get things put away and ready to go for little BN. Special thanks to Grandma Paulette for all of the hard work planning the shower- everything was perfect :)

Here is the week 30 belly and a few pics from the shower!