23 week pictures

painted nursery its not yellow its more of a honeydew green

23 weeks

So here we are at week 23.....WOW, seems like yesterday I was calling rusty to the bathroom to see if he saw the faintest of faint lines ever on the pregnancy test! I received a wonderful pedicure today thanks to my mother :) all of us girls went and had our toes done! I dont know if I enjoyed the pedicure more or the massage chair, lately I feel like my lower back/hips are being ripped in half! This didnt happen until MUCH later with Carrson, but as long as the terrible, horrible sciatic pain I got with him the last 4 weeks of pregnancy stay away with this one until MUCH later i'll be fine :) The baby has been moving SO much its wonderful, I can tell when its awake and sleep times are, the baby definitely loves to move around tons right as i'm laying down to go to sleep, I think thats just because i'm still so baby has time to get comfortable. Baby is also not very shy, usually whenever its moving I can call whoever wants to come feel it move and it will continue to do so, you hear most people say that as soon as thier husbands or whoever touched their belly the baby stopped moving, but not this kiddo, very active for anyone who is willing to feel.....yikes, we might have our hands full :)

The nursery is painted YAY!! thanks to my wonderful husband and his awesome friend, its all painted! YAY!! Its a honeydew green color, in pictures it looks lime green but its really not THAT bright, its exactly what i was going for and I think once we get the white furniture in there it will look even more awesome. A friend and I went to babies r us so I could register this weekend and it was so fun! now that I know what I will need and what not to waste my time registering for, I think I have more things on there than what I did for Carrson but none the less it was fun as always :) I'm not thrilled about registering at Target because their return policy is HORRIBLE if you dont have a receipt and seriously who gives gift receipts? I wish more people did just because you do get a lot of doubles :(. I didn't even expect to have a baby shower with this one but I do guess its a good thing because even though I have some stuff left over from Carrson, its the way wrong season...he was born in the winter time and this baby will be a summer baby, plus all our gadgets that took batteries are dying even with new batteries in them :( and all the bottles I used with carrson were the ones with BPA in them so those will all have to be replaced too, and I guess even if it is your second all babies deserved to be celebrated :) so I'm excited

This past week has been pretty uneventful, I dont feel any bigger or miserable or anything like that besides the minor aches in my back, I'm just enjoying the 2nd trimester and all the wonderful non painful movements I get to feel :) and I dont have a scale at home on purpose cause its not important I just eat when I'm hungry and try to avoid pointless snacking, so I wont know about weight until we go to see the midwife again in February, but i'm going to enjoy the house full of groceries we just bought i'm not going to lie :)

Unless anything significant happens, I'll update again next week :)

Pictures

21 weeks



21 weeks again



22 weeks



22 weeks again



Kissaluv Newborn Diapers



All of the New baby diapers


There are all the new pictures :)

22 week update...

Lets see....over all i've been doing really well. I've been starting to have a high back ache if i sit in a chair for too long, we were at a friends house playing a card game and the kitchen chair almost killed me but i made it ;)....and then we went to my nieces basketball game and sitting in the bleachers was getting kind of tiring...that didn't happen with carrson until i was further along but i guess my body just remembers this time. Sleep....UGH, i'm such a procrastinator at night seriously my mind just runs wild and i'm getting ready for bed for an hour i sware! the night is usually something like ok i'm going to check my email, pick up a few things around the house and then before i know it, its an hour later, and i've looked up a thousand things on the internet that lead me to a thousand more and then i still havent gone to sleep! and then when i do finally get in bed my mind still hasnt shut off and then it seems like by the time i finally get to sleep rusty has gone to get carrson cause he has woken up and then i'm back awake just laying there in bed trying to go to sleep! Which brings me to, since he isnt nursing anymore I think we are going to try and keep him in his own bed at night, cause the routine right now is he goes to sleep in his bed every night then when he gets up for the first time he comes in with us and then just sleeps in our bed until morning but i think we are going to skip the coming to our bed part cause he doesnt nurse so rusty should be able to just lay down with him and him fall back asleep again, and rusty wakes up and goes back to sleep so easily that i dont think it would bother him to do that. anyway we'll see how that goes.

Maternity clothes....i hate them! ugh! i'm inbetween sizes right now so maybe thats whats bothering me i'm normally an x-small but the difference between the x-smalls and the smalls is big! so when i put the smalls on the pockets stick out funny i guess my but needs to get a little bit bigger before those fit right...even though my hiney is protruding in the x-smalls and when i kneel down it gives me some serious plumbers crack blech! and all my shirts are starting to get kind of small too i have a lot of x-small shirts which fit great cause i dont like the "tent" too big looking maternity shirts but now that they are starting to be too short to cover the panel on my jeans i think i might have to start investing in some size small shirts. I can't wait till it starts warming up though cause i have lots of summer dresses that i can just throw on to get me through the huge stage in the latter part of the 3rd trimester :)

OHHHHH and we got our first matching set of Newborn cloth diapers!!! they are so cute!!!!! i found a set of them on craigs list from a sweet lady selling them and its 6 Kissaluv diapers size 0 for Newborns and they are T-I-N-Y sooo cute! i can't believe i'll have a baby hiney that small to put in them! i'm really excited! there are 3 green and 3 yellow and aaahh did i say they were cute yet! i'll have to take pictures of them and post them to show on here. We part time cloth diaper carrson and its worked out really well its easy to do and not as disgusting as you think especially for newborn breastfed poo you dont even have to pre-rinse if you dont want to....k enough about poo

BABY is moving TONS! rusty was rubbing cream on my stomach the other night and I was just laying there and feeling lots of movement so we turned on the light and just watched the baby show for a while its just amazing i love it! you can see it from the outside just wiggling and kicking all over! Eventually we'll be able to see knees and elbows moving on the outside but for now its just as exciting. This is the part I miss the most when i'm not pregnant is the movement its just so wonderful, not to mention reassuring :)

Braxton Hicks contractions or "practice contractions" are coming more frequently now, they dont hurt they just feel like the verge of a charlie horse before it gets bad and then it goes away, i've been noticing them for about 2 weeks now and i notice them more and more...guess i need to be drinking even MORE water than i already do just to keep hydrated...

well thats about it for 22 weeks i'll take some pictures and come back and post them up

Natural Childbirth Preperation

Well Obviously we are preparing for a natural childbirth with this baby since we are using a midwife and i'm really pretty excited about it actually i've done a lot of mental preperation over the last year and a half actually, natural childbirth has been the plan for our second baby ever since we started thinking about even trying to conceive, and one of my favorite books that i've read and i've read many lol is Ina May's Guide to Childbirth it has a collection of natural child birth stories in it, and it has many coping methods and techniques to make it through labor, another one of my favorites is Henci Goers, The Thinking Womans Guide to a Better Birth and this book goes through every single test and procedure/intervention that they do at the hospital and picks them apart telling you if they are really necessary and what leads to them and when is the time to go with it for your own benefit or if the dr is just trying to push it on you to get you out of there or in the OR before a going home time, it was a really neat book and i'm so glad to be going the natural route this time, i'm hoping to have a much more alert baby at birth :) So needless to say i'm looking really forward to birth because i have complete faith in my body that it can birth the baby it grows just fine even if the baby gets "big" whatever that means ;)

Insomnia...

Lately with the mixture of pregnancy insomnia and Carrson S.T.I.L.L. teething i've been sleeping HORRIBLE at night! I guess this is just preperation for night time parenting with two kids instead of just one ugh....now before i start complaining too much i must say that last night compared to the last week was wonderful, last night he slept in his own bed till 4:30 then came in our room went directly back to sleep with rus (i wasnt even woken up thank goodness)and then didn't get up until 7:30!! so YAY!! but the entire past week has gone something like wake up in his room at 10:30 crying and yelling and wanting no comforting...rusty brings him in there to our room so I can help out with the consoling we try cuddling we try talking nothing just yelling and flaling around so i just talk to him calmly until he goes back to sleep about 15 min later (which is an eternity in the night)....well good for carrson he is back to sleep and rusty is too and now i just lay there....awake, I see 11:30 and then the repeat of everything that happened before only now its 1:00am everyone is back to sleep about 10 min later but then he is up again at about 4:00...ugh i dont have any hair left to pull out but I can't be mad at him, if he was able to sleep he would just like normally but he can't so every night after this we try different variations to help him with the pain, teething tablets before bed and through the night, this helped some, one night we tried motrin at the first night waking and that helped some too but over all just a bunch of tries and pushing to get through it all and it paid off cause now we have two new teeth broken through the gum and we got a good night sleep last night...thank the lord!

21 + 3

all was good today! baby sounded great at 140bpm (we are really leaning toward another boy ;)...) and i'm measuring right on time for 21 1/2 weeks. she could feel how baby was laying today which was cool...he...we'll just call him he, was laying diagonally across my body head down and feet a little to the right above my belly button cute! she even showed rusty how to feel and he got to feel him too! i'm coming down with allergies or a sinus cold or something thats stuffing me up BLAH! but hopefully these probiotics and vitamin c complex will kick it to the curb soon! We talked about an ultrasound today and we are skipping the "routine" one and just going to wait till the 3d one cause whatever they could tell us in the ultrasound doesnt matter to us, if anything is wrong we arent aborting anyway and we dont want to know the sex just yet :) so the for fun one can wait till 30 weeks which is around march 14th so that will be when we get to see the babe again! oh and i'm up another 5 lbs so thats good! next appt is saturday (i love having a midwife!) february 7th!

is this because of the baby?

well its been 48 hours since carrson nursed :(. He recently cut out his nap time nursing which was fine cause i kind of wanted a break between the two kiddos but now since he cut out that nap time nursing he has done away with me all together, which is ok but i'm kind of sad about it, i didnt think i'd be but it really is the best thing for us, him weaning but i guess i didnt expect to feel like this. who knew i would make it over 2 years nursing and giving him the most wonderful food, not me....when i was pregnant with him, i thought ya i'll nurse but i never imagined it would take us this far. we have been through a lot and nursing has saved us so much especially when he is going through his picky food stages it gives him that little extra cushion to whatever he didnt eat that day, or he is having a hard night teething we never really lost any sleep due to teething because he always had num nums to get him back to sleep, i could put him to sleep anywhere, it didnt have to just be in his bed cause he always had num nums that was the only constant he needed. But he is growing and is maturing so much now so we'll make it through i'm sure :) parts of me can't help but wonder if he is only weaning because of the pregnancy but i guess things happen in life and families grow and this is just what it is for us....and i'm getting used to that :)

We have another appointment with Kelly on Tuesday, i'm excited to hear the heartbeat again i'll post the heartrate once i get it

1/2 way there....or are we??

so im 20 weeks and a few days now and i can't help but wonder if i'm really half way there! half way there only means the baby is coming at 40 weeks but will it? who knows! only the baby knows that, but i'm feeling pretty good actually just tired but maybe thats because i'm just sitting at home playing with carrson all day and not really doing anything physical except walking to the park occasionally. i'm starting to get over the fact that we dont and arent going to know what this baby is until birth and rusty announces....."ITS A ____!!" thats going to be so flipping exciting its ridiculous! My next appt is on the 13th of January i really enjoy going out there to visit with the midwives they are just awesome and i really like them! here is a picture of my belly at 20 weeks