30 Weeks

30 weeks preggo with "Frank"


Just for fun - 30 weeks preggo with Ben

Yay 30 weeks down 10 or so to go! I really just need to get to 37 weeks so I'll be "legal" to have my homebirth :) Baby is doing good. He is moving so much lately and seems like such a night owl - uh oh! My mom is coming out Friday for a week and I'm super excited! I'm just praying that Mt. Redoubt and it's eruptions don't mess up her flight!
We had some ash fall here on Saturday. The sky got sort of dark and then the snow was all dirty and grey looking. Pretty ugly. But it's currently snowing so it has covered up the yuck.

28 Weeks

28 weeks! Finally into my third and last trimester! I had a checkup with our midwife, Chinmayo, on Monday. The baby is doing great and is currently in the head down position - let's hope he stays that way! She took my blood to check hemodilution which also came back good. Hemodilution is a good indicator of how much you will or won't bleed after the birth. I have so far gained 21 pounds which is 5 pounds less than I was at about the same point with Ben. But I've still got a ways to go so we'll see! I can tell that I'm starting to run out of space though because I no longer feel the need to eat ALL day! Baby boy is super active too and frequently keeps me up at night squirming and kicking. He also likes to kick his brother (which I'm sure will continue outside the belly too!). Whenever Ben sits on my lap or what's left of it he gets a few swift kicks. Ben doesn't really seem to notice though. It's getting harder to carry Ben as I no longer have hips and any extra pressure on my belly is quite uncomfortable. But he keeps me active which is a good thing no matter how tired I am. Ben has recently given up his morning nap so by afternoon we are both quite pooped and each of us has our naptime :) On another note my mom is coming to visit in 16 days (not that I'm counting down or anything) and I'm so excited and it's not just because she does all my dishes! LOL! :)

Walking in Momma's boots

Check out the intense concentration spotlighted by the tongue sticking out :)


Big shoes to fill!

Eating Breakfast

So proud of myself...


Big bite!


Happy to be eating!!!

Ben is getting quite good at eating by himself. He can now dip the spoon to get something on it although it doesn't always stay on the spoon! He also has his first "official" word - Yum - who would have guessed that it would have to do with food? LOL! He's our little food monger... sometimes I feel like I can barely keep enough food in the house for him and he's only 16 months! Imagine when he's 16... Yikes!

26 Weeks

Here's the belly at 26 weeks :)

99 days until baby is born...99 days til he's born...

I'm out of the triple digits! Yay! Who knows if he'll really be born in 99 days - probably not but it's fun to see it on the ticker. Baby has been super active everyday but I don't feel near as much as I did with Ben. I think it has to do with the fact that the placenta is on the anterior (front) of my uterus so it absorbs a lot of the baby's movement. Ben got to feel the baby kick the other day and it made him laugh - pretty cute! I'm really curious if he is head down or butt down. It's really hard to tell. I hope he's head down becuase if he's breech and we can't get him to turn that means no home delivery and my chances of a c-section go way up - yuck! So hope and pray for a head down baby please!! :)