Tuesday, May 12, 2015

week 21 | may 12, 2015 | littlest lite

How far along? 21 weeks
Baby is the size of:  a pomegranate
Total weight gain: gain of 1.6 { 126.2 to 127.8 } - total gain 17.8
Maternity clothes? pants, leggings, shorts and a couple shirts here and there
Stretch marks? no
Sleep: ehhh, just not feeling rested
Best moment this week: Seeing our sweet little girl and hearing that she's looking wonderful! 
Movement: yah... she still has quiet days tho
Showing? yup, you can clearly tell. the xray techs didn't even ask if i was pregnant, they just said mom, you need to go back behind this wall where you won't be exposed to radiation. LOL
Food cravings:  Cheese fries and cheesy potatoes!!!!! bacon. chocolate. cold stuff.
Anything making you queasy or sick: not too much... just a random strike of it, mainly when im hungry. if i get too far past hungry it's bad, i get nauseous and gassy - it's bad.
Gender: GIRL!!!!!!! GIRL!!!! GIRL!!!!
Labor Signs: nothing this week. 
Symptoms:  nothing REALLY bugging me right now besides hip pain at night.
Belly Button in or out?  in
Wedding rings on or off? On, but some days they're tight first thing in the morning. 

Feelings:  feeling just a little overwhelmed with money right now. we have to do some work on the house because we're having some water issues and we just got the proposal and it's about $4,500!! That's our whole tax return. :( and now we don't have money to put down on the buy out for our car lease that expires June 18th... so there goes installing a fence this summer. such a bummer.
Looking forward to: Liv feeling better. i hate seeing her sick period, but seeing her this sick, two months in a row is heartbreaking. We just need her to stay healthy!!









I took a vacation day Thursday and we woke up bright and early and headed out to Geneva where there's this huge annual subdivision garage sale. I was on a mission to find a crib and a dresser for the babe's room. The first house on the first street that we stopped at, I got my dream dresser! It was only $10 too!!! And the funny part is, the girl I ended up buying it from is actually the lactation nurse here at my office! So random!!! We weren't able to find a white/cream crib which is fine because the more we talked about it, we don't have the money to spend on a new crib anyways, we'll just make Liv move to her big girl bed since I already have her sheets and comforter already... it's going to be a sad day for sure. I don't know why but I'm really not looking forward to her moving out of her crib or her being done with diapers - it's like the end of the baby road. :(



I also went to target and got some stuff for the babe's room! So exciting!! i love seeing this come together. Now to move all the bins of baby clothes downstairs for the time being so we can clean in there and Bru can put up the new closet organization thingy. EEP!




I had a nice mother's day for the most part. We went to the city bright and early for breakfast at eleven city diner and then Liv took her first cab ride to the Shedd Aquarium. We walked around and she got to see the fishies! Then when we were back home i noticed she was wheezing and called the doc on call. She told me because she just recently had pneumonia, that we should go get her lungs listened to and have a lung xray. We got to the hospital around 3:30 and they took the xray and sure enough she has the early development of pneumonia!!! So we waited around to get her a shot to jump start her antibiotic and bru had to leave for work, so it was just Liv and I there until 7:30ish. Then i dropped off her script and we went to panera for dinner. unfortunately, the shots she got in both her legs made her so sore she couldn't bear weight on them so i had to carry her everywhere. we got home and i tried giving her, her meds, she took the first 1/2 of the dose and WOULD NOT take the rest of it. this was weird because she had this same medicine when she had this a month ago and loved it, begged for it, and now she looked at me like i was trying to poison her. After calling the pharmacy and trying to get her to take it in juice, i gave up and tasted it. IT WAS TERRIBLE!!!! it literally tasted like poison. I called the phamacy in the morning and told them my story and they told me to bring it back in. We took Liv back to the doc on Monday and she still had the ear infection she was diagnosed with on Friday when i took her to the doc for her cold, only it's worse, and it has become puss now instead of just fluid. Poor girl is so sick but such a trooper... if you ask her she's "tough" (with flexed biceps and all)! She watched them give her the shots - brave girl! she really is acting pretty well for being so sick, she's just more clingy, needy and sleepy. She's not really eating much either but she's taking her new medicine - HOORAY!!





20 week appt update: We went for my 20 week appt on Wednesday and it went great! 

Heart Rate 141
Approx 13oz
Measuring 2 days early making due date sept 20
The US tech said she has a text book heart. she saw all 4 chambers working and pumping beautifully. She couldnt stop looking at it and kept going back to look at it. She said this heart is one i want to compare others to and say "see this is how it's supposed to look" because it's so perfect. It was just funny, she didn't wanna look away from it. :) made me feel really good!
Her head is slightly bigger, but nothing to worry about.
The spine tapers off for tailbone like it should.
She has the right number of vessels in the cord to and from placenta with proper blood flow.
5 fingers and 5 toes
Brain looks good.
Arms and legs are lengths they should be.
We saw her stomach, Kidneys, bladder and pee!
The fluid at the back of her neck looks good.
We saw her nose and lip and there was no break in line which would indicate cleft palette
Her hands were behind her head like she was kind lounging. and then she hunched over with little chin against chest and it was like she was playing games with the tech and not showing her profile.
She was VERY active! :)


My cervix is long and closed. If there was any sort of issue with losing my plug, she would've seen black stuff in ultrasound around it, if there was fluid around cervix.
My placenta posterior and not near cervix which is good.


New hair! I needed a little lightening up!
 Before and after - woah!






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