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25 Weeks

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February 20, 2013

Week 25

Weekly Updates:

How far along: 25 weeks

Baby’s size: Rutabega – Your baby rivals the average rutabaga in weight – about 1.5 pounds. (Length: 13.5 inches head to heel)

Sleep: Good and bad. Some nights I have been sleeping through the night and some I have just been to preoccupied to sleep soundly. This will probably go on for the next several weeks unfortunately.

Maternity Clothes: Yep. Loving the stretchy pants!

Food Cravings: No specific cravings this week.

Food Aversions: I am starting to be able to eat some spicy things, but it is still hit or miss.

Symptoms I have: Backaches due to baby kicking. And I have had an immense amount of pelvic pain. The OB says that it is just my pelvis realigning and loosening up. It hurts until I get into a specific position and then I can usually make it go away for awhile. 🙁

Doctor’s Appointment: 2 weeks – Midwife on 3/4

Movement: I get to feel Sprout on a regular basis now. I usually feel kicks after I eat and when I am sitting around. If I have been active for the day, then I realize I haven’t felt baby and try to sit around until I do.

Belly Button: Still an innie.

Gender: Team Yellow!

What I’m looking forward to: Getting to 30 weeks. 5 weeks to go! And being able to finally share some other news in our lives.

What I miss: Comfortable cuddling and hugging. It is getting to the point where my belly is just getting in my way and it is a little harder to cuddle with Darrell. I can’t even imagine how it will be when I get even bigger. =O

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24 Weeks

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February 12, 2013

Week 24

Weekly Updates:

How far along: 24 weeks – Viability!!!

Baby’s size: Ear of Corn – Your baby has caught up with an ear of corn in size and gained about 1/4 pound since last week. (Length: almost a foot.)

Sleep: Been rough. I can’t seem to find a comfortable position and when I do get some sleep I am always woken up so I can go to the bathroom. I have been stretching it out to about 10 hours from the time I go to bed to the time I get up. Hopefully within that I am at least getting 8 hours.

Maternity Clothes: Yep. Loving the stretchy pants!

Food Cravings: I am still craving sweets, but I have been trying to avoid to many of them since my weight is starting to get up there. Not in a concerning way, since I am pretty much right on target with my first pregnancy.

Food Aversions: Still no spicy. 🙁

Symptoms I have: Exhausted all the time. And I have been having lots of backaches. (Baby likes kicking towards the back). I have also been having small Braxton Hicks contractions and my pelvic bone is either loosening up or the baby is kicking/punching the cervix because it hurts!

Doctor’s Appointment: 3 weeks – Midwife on 3/4

Movement: Definitely feeling Sprout. See symptoms 🙂

Belly Button: Innie, barely. Darrell laughs that he can see the bottom of it without having to actually try.

Gender: Team Yellow!

What I’m looking forward to: Getting to 30 weeks. 6 weeks to go!

What I miss: Lately I have really been missing the ability to have a worry-free pregnancy. Especially once you hit viability.

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Anxiety

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February 12, 2013

Today is the day we reach viability. Today is the day that if something were to happen, our baby has a slightly better chance at surviving outside the womb. Of course we want Sprout to continue to grow and thus far there isn’t anything telling us that Sprout will be joining us on the outside any time soon.

So why the anxiety?

Today also marks 5.5 weeks until we reach the gestational age of our loss of Pixel. So even though we have reached viability, we are still anxious about whether we will bring Sprout home. It is rough, but Sprout is doing whatever possible to make us feel reassured. Sprout kicks and at all appointments, as soon as the doctor turns on the doppler, you can hear the heart beating loud and clear. When I feel myself starting to get anxious, I relax somewhere and just let myself try to feel Sprout. It doesn’t usually take very long before I can feel the rolls and kicks. Sunday morning was a different story and Sprout was quiet for a good chunk of the morning, so I started to get anxious, but I know that Sprout is more active at night, so I wanted to wait to see if I could feel anything that night before I got worried. Around lunch time the movement started and it dropped the anxiety a whole bunch.

I have been sitting around and not doing much at home because I am too scared to do anything for fear of losing this baby. It is a horrible position to be in. The doctors all tell me I need to take walks and get some low impact exercising in, but I am to scared that it will harm baby. My rational mind tells me that it won’t hurt baby, but the irrational half of my brain doesn’t believe it. My body failed my first born, why should I believe it will protect my second?

We have three weeks until our next appointment with a doctor. Three weeks until we get to hear Sprout’s heartbeat again. I am slightly worried about that, but I am grateful that at that point, we will have a doctors appointment once a week until we are past the gestational age of losing Pixel. It is helpful and I am glad that my doctors are understanding of my anxiety and don’t just blow me off.

So hopefully in 6 weeks I will have less anxiety and we can fully enjoy the rest of the pregnancy. I’m not saying we don’t enjoy it now, but it is different when you are just sitting there waiting for the other shoe to drop.

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23 Weeks

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February 5, 2013

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Weekly Updates:

How far along: 23 weeks

Baby’s size: Mango – Your baby weighs about as much as a large mango — just over a pound. (Length: more than 11 inches) – Granted our baby is weighing in on the slightly bigger and longer as per our u/s last week.

Sleep: It’s been consistent this week which is nice.

Maternity Clothes: Yep. Loving the stretchy pants!

Food Cravings: I have been smelling cake batter everywhere I go. I don’t want the cake, just the batter. I’m working on trying to avoid eating a bunch of sweets though.

Food Aversions: Still no spicy. 🙁

Symptoms I have: My acne has finally started to go away and the heartburn is only occasional.

Doctor’s Appointment: OB on 2/12

Movement: I am starting to feel Sprout a lot more than before. There are kicks and jabs. Baby particularly likes my back.

Belly Button: Innie. But it is definitely starting to move to a more level position.

Gender: Team Yellow!

What I’m looking forward to: Next Tuesday when we reach the Viability milestone. Then after that, our next milestone is 30 weeks. *sigh* takes too damn long.

What I miss: Nada!

* Funny side story – Darrell was talking to people after our ultrasound last week and was telling them it was our 28 week ultrasound when it was our 22 week ultrasound. I felt so bad having to tell him that he was 6 weeks ahead and thus still had 18 weeks to go instead of the 12 he was thinking about. Poor D!

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Ultrasound #5

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January 30, 2013

Yay! Healthy, active little Sprout! Our ultrasound today went fabulous. Baby wasn’t as cooperative as last time, but it was more that baby is getting bigger. Sprout is estimated to have gained about 11 oz in the last 4 weeks, so measuring in around 1 lb 4 oz. Sprout also has some long leg bones so doctor thinks baby will be tall.

That’s about it though. No amniotic bands seen, all appendages are there including fingers and toes. Umbilical cord is flowing like it should be and there aren’t any noticeable kinks at this stage. Basically, all good news.

The pictures are about as good as the last ones, but I will post them first, and then I will post the pictures for the last one as well.

Today’s ultrasound:

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Baby’s Foot 🙂

 

 

 

 

Ultrasound on January 3rd:

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I believe this is of baby’s hand, but baby moved while MFM was trying to get the photo. C’est la vie.

 

 

 

 

So that is that. The MFM said that since everything looked good for now, he was going to see us again in 6 weeks instead of 4, so now we have to wait until March 13th for another ultrasound. We still have a few doctors appointments in between there though, so I won’t get to anxious.

Another upside of the delay is that we will have the ultrasound at 28w1d, which is less than 2 weeks before we lost Pixel. I know that it will be a rough time in general for us, but right now, Darrell and I are feeling very, very optimistic that everything is going great and now all we have to do is finish cooking and pop this sucker out and we will be bringing home our baby. 😛

I still can’t believe how long this pregnancy is feeling. I keep noticing that I still officially have about 18 weeks left but it feels longer since I have been pregnant for 12 of the last 15 months. I still have 4 more months to go though! *sigh* It’s all worth it right? 😛

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