Belly Status–33 Weeks

I had my little nephew here on Friday and he got to join in on the belly picture fun!  : )

For the most part I am feeling good.  Yes, there are the body aches but that is all to be expected.  In February I went to stay with my friend who was just days shy from having her baby and both of us would sit on the couch at night and when we get up to go to bed the moans and groans and limps and grabbing our backs… we laughed at ourselves.  We felt like a couple of Grandmas.  We also could sit by each other and watch our bellies bounce around!  Oh and we both could indulge in the nightly snacks and have a prego friend to enjoy them with!  : )

I am still having crazy bizarre dreams.  I’m having the dreams where I am dreaming about our baby boy.  One dream I had… I wake up and I’m not pregnant anymore.  I gasp!  We had the baby!?  Jesse tells me yes we had the baby.  I was like – it must of went really well because I don’t remember it at all.  Then I ask to see my baby boy.  He was HUGE!  Like… bigger then Mallory… like a full grown toddler!  I gasped again!  I went to pick him up to hold him and he could wrap his legs around my waist.  Then I went to swaddle him with paper toweling but he was too big and didn’t like it.

I’m experiencing contractions and tightening this time around.  Nothing that is of concern or too painful – all normal I’m told.

Baby boy is still very wiggly.  I don’t know what he has in there with him, but some of his movements are painful and sharp.  And then there are times where he moves so slow… I can feel him move slowly across my belly.  He is so low too – I feel like I am being kicked in the hips!  At my last appointment she told me that was a “sweet little baby head” so he must be pushing off my ribs and jamming his sweet little baby head on my hips.  : ) 

At first I was measuring big – but my last couple of appointments I have been measuring right on.  Weight gain has been good too.  Maybe too good.  I am starting to go to check-ups every two weeks and at one of my weigh-ins I thought I had gained 7 pounds in two weeks.  I freaked out and said “Did I just gain 7 pounds in two weeks!!!?”  My nurse looked and said, oh no – just 2 pounds.  Whew!  That was scary!  I have already mentioned to Jesse that I might be interested in a personal trainer after this one.  : )

When Garrett comes to play at my house he has to ride pink bikes and play with bracelets. 

Garrett would ride the bike and Mallory would follow behind him on her horse.

8 weeks left…

35 Weeks Pregnant with Mallory.

Melty

When my sister’s kids are fussy, whiny, having a hard day – she says they are “melty”. 

Mallory. Is. Melty!

I think I have reached the hardest month of my parenting job.  I’ve had hard work jobs before – but this being a mom and not getting to punch out at 5 and go home… has been extremely hard this month on me.

We start out with teeth – she was working on her eye teeth.  Then she started getting sick.  Now she is still sick with a runny nose, gross diapers, and I believe her teeth are still bugging her.  They are not fully in – I can see them peeking out.  She is just not herself.  She isn’t sleeping like usual – waking up earlier and naps are short.  She isn’t eating like usual.  She isn’t playing like usual.  She is extremely sensitive.  She is just not herself.

I hear a lot of “momma hold you.”  “momma yap. (lap)”  “snuggle.”  “stuffy.”  “momma.”  “momma.”  “momma.”  “momma carry you.” 

I can’t be out of her eyesight.  She follows me around melting.  : )

This week I decided I was going to go at it with a positive attitude.  I was going to switch things up.  Yesterday, I got out the paints and we did an art project.  It didn’t work.  She enjoyed it for a moment and then melting happened.

Today I saw that it was in the 30s and dressed her up and took her outside before lunch.  We made a little miniature snowman.  Talked to the neighbor.  And went for a walk where she got to “walk on da road” and see “big trucks”.  I took her for a long walk – no stroller, she walked/ran.  She loved it.  She wouldn’t turn around – but she didn’t realize we had to walk all the way back home.  : )  I finally got her to go home by telling her daddy was coming home for lunch and we needed to go see him.  All that fresh air and exercise I thought for sure I was going to get the best nap out of her!

Lunch time came – she was melty and didn’t eat much.  I tucked her into bed, skipped out of the room, and went right for the coffee!  Nap time!  Oh sweet nap time!  I love nap times lately! 

Not even 5 sips later and only a few of my work tasks done… someone is awake already.  Someone is waking up crying.  A rule of mine is you can’t wake up crying.  You have to wake up happy.  If you wake up crying I don’t get you until you are happy.  I let her cry.  I kept working on my tasks.  I let her cry.  She cried.  “momma.”  I went to peek on her to make sure that she was really okay and that she was just being melty.  She was fine – she couldn’t see me peeking threw the door jam.  She cried.  She sounded so tired.  I finally caved – I couldn’t take anymore crying.

I walk in and she sees me.  “momma.”  I pick her up and she snuggles in and I tell her nap time is not over.  She cries.  I sit in her chair with her on my lap.  She sits there sniffing her blanket (she smells the corner of her blanket – it’s a comfort thing for her) and looks at me.  Then she starts playing Violet (the talking/singing dog) and says “sing songs”.  We sit there.  I don’t talk.  I just breathe.  I start crying.  How can this sweet adorable little girl cause me to be so frustrated?  Mally looks at me and sees tears and wipes my tears and gives me her blanket and says “sniff”.  : )  I cry harder!  LOL!

Nap time was officially over and we went about the rest of our day.

I’m a tough kid.  I’m going to get past this.  I’ll be stronger on the other side.  But my goodness!  I’m ready for that other side!  : )  I just need to vent and whine and be melty to you all.  It is like detoxing and getting it all out… I can now finish the rest of this week with my melty child.

The good news from all this is that I am so emotionally drained that I am sleeping like a rock!  : )

Next Week Please!

*warning – bodily functions*

It started out on Saturday afternoon.  Jesse said the words “I think I am getting sick.  I’m going to take a nap.”  Now this is a big deal.  He doesn’t stop for nothing and for him to actually have to stop and take a nap… not good.

Saturday night we had a wedding that we attended and Mallory had so much fun running around with her cousins Ellyn & Garrett.  However, at 8pm she came and curled up on my lap and snuggled.  A few moments later she said “go bu-bye”.  She was done.  Which shocked me – I thought I was going to have to take her kicking and screaming because she was having so much fun running all over that dance floor and hugging onto Miss Elly’s legs with her little hands on Miss Elly’s butt dancing.  (Forgot my camera – but it was adorable you’ll have to trust me.)

Shortly after that my vision started swirling and I was on the verge of a vascular migraine followed by a headache.  We left.

Sunday we still got up and went to church.  I could feel it in my chest.  A cold was setting in.  Jesse was feeling worse as well.  We booked it home from church where I sat in the backseat and refused to let Mallory take a nap in the car.  We all needed naps – at home.  (We have an hour drive home from church.)

By Sunday night Jesse is sitting in front of the space heater with a blanket… having fevers!!  He is sick.

Monday I woke up with my cold worse and a headache and just feeling yucky.  Jesse is still running fevers and exhausted.  He sets up camp in the basement in the spare room.  Mallory seems to be fussy and kind of needy and her diapers!  Don’t even let me tell you about the diapers!!  I look in her mouth – sure enough!  Those blasted eye-teeth are finally coming in on the top!

Long story short… Jesse doesn’t get better until late Wednesday!  Mallory wakes up on Wednesday morning and I go get her and find her… well… I don’t know how else to put this nicely… covered in puke!  I hear her in bed chattering away and when I open her door and see her sitting in the middle of her crib and she sees me she says “whats dat” and points.  I look.  OH NO!  I have no idea when she threw up – but you could tell it was earlier in the night.  I have no idea how she slept in her bed like that and never once cried for me to come get her.  Even when she woke up in the morning she never cried!  Tough kid!  I felt horrible for not knowing she was like this in there!

We get her all cleaned up and think… there is nothing wrong with this kid.  She hasn’t stopped talking for 3 seconds since we got her up.  She is acting like everything is fine.  However, she doesn’t want to eat – just wants juice.  A couple hours later she is asking for a pancake.  I give her a little piece of one to nipple on and she was sitting on my lap and lost it.  I thought it was because she was coughing and she just coughed to hard.  She was still acting fine and seemed to be in good happy spirits.  Until lunch… and she lost her lunch.  Then it finally hit me as this isn’t just teeth anymore.  Something else is going on here.  However, she runs around and still plays and she is not running fever.

I had a Dr. appointment and she wasn’t having me leave her at home.  She clung to me and wouldn’t let go.  So I took her with and told Jesse to wish me luck.  She did excellent and we didn’t have any episodes while out.  Whew!

Yesterday (Jesse went back to work) she woke up with a cough and congestion.  When she coughs she puts her little hands on her chest like it hurts to cough.  I pumped the pedialyte in her all day and didn’t let her eat much.  I even tried to get her to just sit and snuggle for a bit.  Which she would do for about 30 minutes and then she would get up and want to play a bit.  And I’ll be darned if she didn’t want Mickey Mouse yesterday and I could not get On Demand to work!  Of all days Charter… On Demand doesn’t work when I’m trying to let her watch Mickey Mouse and keep her still and rested. 

By the time supper rolled around she was saying she was hungry and I thought well you have gone all day and haven’t had any episodes – so sure you can eat supper with us.  She ate a couple breadsticks and of course cheese!  This kid and her cheese – she is 100% Wisconsin.  She even kept asking for more – to which we finally cut her off.

Jesse went to clean her up after supper and she wasn’t having it.  Only wanted me.  He got her down and she came right over by me and lost her supper.  OH NO!!  I thought she was all better!  So I scooped her up and carried her to the couch and thankfully Mickey Mouse was working again and we sat there the rest of the night watching Mickey Mouse until bed time.  Again – she doesn’t have a fever!  However last night after supper she was snuggly.

Today hasn’t started yet here… she is still sleeping.  But I’m hoping she is feeling better.  I had big plans for my weekend… tonight I was going to go get new bedding for my room and paint my room this weekend!  However, if Mally is still sick I will not be letting her leave… unless she is like me when I was sick on Friday… nope mom, I’m not sick I can go see Jesse today!  : )  (Otherwise she wouldn’t let me see Jesse!  And you know it had been like 4 days since I seen him last and that is eternity in dating world.)  Mallory loves to go places and almost every day she will ask “go bu-bye” and I will say “nooo” and she will say “stay home”.

On no… she is waking up crying.  That is never a good sign!!  Gotta run!  Wish me luck today!  I am about all done with dealing with sick people this week.  I’m not cut out to be a nurse!