Friday, April 26, 2013

Week 35


These shots are technically two days ago. 34weeks5days.



How far along:  35 weeks  

Sleep: 
Besides the fact that its rather hot all the time.  I've actually been sleeping fine.  I think it has to do with the fact that by the time I get to bed I am legitimately tired and all I want to do is cuddle up to Alex.  I only wake up maybe two to three times a night to pee.

Symptoms I have: 
Heartburn sometimes.

I have this pain underneath my left shoulder blade some times when I walk all day

annnnd plenty of Braxton Hicks going on at night.

Maternity clothes:
None technically.  My wonderful cousin did buy me a bunch of mens t-shirts from work with her discount since they're longer, roomier and far more comfy.  Also, I finally bought the dress I plan to labor in and i'm also gonna double up my use of it by wearing it at my baby shower.

Cravings: 
Coffee! something I of course don't give in too.  I've been pretty good about the diet/exercise thing.  Coconut water.

Dimensions
40 1/2 inches around. 

Gaining about a half a pound a week.

Movement: 
My baby likes to make my belly look all awkward.  Its cute though cause I can feel him moving around so so so much.  For some reason or another he likes to hang out on my left side.  I'm pretty sure what his schedule is gonna be like when he comes out being that it'll be probably be similar to what it is now.  He's usually up around ten, wakes me up again around one in the morning, once more at four and than we're up for good by six.

Belly button: I'm an outie.  

Best moments of the week: 
Spent time with everyones babies this week.  Namely Eden and Lily.

Picked some strawberries out of our aquaponics system.

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Hung out with my family a bit last week.

Making use of foods that were just sitting in our pantry and turning it in to deliciousness.

Looking forward too:
Getting my parents system set up so that its consistently running well.

My baby shower tomorrow!

Meeting my baby <3

Side Note:
My doc said that as I go into week 36 it would be totally cool if baby arrived.  He's weighing in at a solid 6 lbs at least which is awesome because at least I know that development wise, he would be 100% totally okay if he does decide to make his appearance soon.

I just wanted to put it out into the universe that i'd really really really like this sling.  I'm really bummed I couldn't enter the sling diaries contest the beginning of this month considering that I did not have my baby yet. :(  but yes i'd really like this particular one. Its the Sakura Bloom sling in wheat.  Realistically any Sakura Bloom sling would be a blessing, i'm just generally quite fond of this color.


Also, check out this website for a good laugh. -  Pregnant Husband
This should really go in my next post but anyway, i've spent a good amount of time prepping our cloth diapers this week.   We've decided to use bummis organic cotton prefolds with thirsties duo wrap covers with snaps.  All in all we've been using Charlies Soap but after a good amount of research i've decided to begin making our own laundry detergent which is safe to use both for our cloth diapers as well as our own clothes.  Switching laundry detergent will help since we won't have to worry about detergent build up.  Recipe for the detergent can be found here.  

Friday, April 19, 2013

Week 34





How far along:  34 weeks  

Sleep: 
I've actually been sleeping fine lately.  I'm trying not to drink too much before bed and I find that I only have to wake up once or twice a night.  I do get hot really easily now though.

Symptoms I have: 
Its been a good week really, I haven't had too many symptoms.

I've had heartburn some nights.

I get tired after my walks but I've been pushing myself to walk for longer hours. (ideally three hours a day)

Maternity clothes:
None. Still to cheap to get anything I guess.  Besides, what if i'm only pregnant for another couple of weeks?

Cravings: 
This week I made a Fresh Strawberry and Yogurt Cake with a Lemon Glaze and THAT my friends is what I've been wanting to stuff my face with.  I made two cakes, one for now and one for the baby shower.  Unfortunately though, i'm not really supposed to eat the cake given my GD.  Therefore, that cake is dangerous....and delicious. When i'm finished being pregnant i'm 99.9% sure that it'll be one of my regular cakes.  Its really easy to tweak here and there as well to change out the flavors.

Ice is the other thing that I want at all times now.

Dimensions
40  inches around. 
Pre-pregnancy dimensions for my waist was 19 inches around.

Note: Doc said to watch the weight gain, I only have 5 lbs left of leeway between now and when I give birth.  I don't own a scale, so I really only have an idea of how much I gain when I go to the docs.

Movement: 
Very active baby in my belly.  I feel like he's getting so big now a days though that he can't move as much.  I still feel him through out the day just generally not as often.

Belly button: I'm an outie. .  

Best moments of the week: 
Maternity Shoot, post below.

Victoria had her baby! :)

Spent the other day with my mom, lunch and a movie.

All in all though I feel like time is moving by extremely slow.

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Side Note:
Surprisingly, its not very hard to follow the GD diet.  If anything it requires that I eat more than I was before.  It simply requires me to give up things that I've long since given up since I started this pregnancy, like starbucks.  Generally speaking I'm pretty good about eating at home but now I can pretty much ONLY eat at home if I want to follow the diet accurately.  I'm really anal when it comes to things, so I seriously monitor to the tee.  Also, to my surprise, pricking my finger doesn't really hurt much at all.  I'm thankful that I don't have to do this for long because lord knows I like to be able to munch on things whenever rather than on a schedule.

and finally I really want to get back to my pre prego body. which is this right here. ahhh good luck to me.



Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Maternity Shoot

Since I wanted to share these before my weekly update Friday, here's a few shots from our maternity photoshoot. :)






















































Thursday, April 11, 2013

Featuring DominiqueK Photography

I was originally going to post this with the last one but I decided to break it off as its own separate post.  I have my maternity shoot with my gf Dominique coming up Saturday and for the fun of it I gathered pictures from a handful of other shoots I've done with her.

So here we go, a memorable set of shots from other photoshoots I've done with Dominique throughout the years.

Honeymoon  Phase (when our relationship was still on the newer end) - 2008






A couple of our engagement shots that went into our invitations.  We had the most beautiful hand crafted invitations for our wedding thanks to my sister-in-law.  I'll try and grab a picture of the invites later.



Pre-wedding shots.  I repped Metallica while doing my hair and make-up, I honestly had no idea that you're supposed to take pictures while you get ready. 



Of course the wedding :)






 (I've actually done more shoots with Dominique than this, its just that I already posted the load of photos)

and a couple wedding shots from our other profesh photographer just because I couldn't resist









Very stoked for the maternity shoot, i'm sure it will be beautiful. Now its just to decide what to wear.