Baby P#3: Due Date

How far along:  40 weeks 

How big is baby: hopefully not too big! I've started to lose weight. 

What have you been up to: getting Malakai ready and off to school

Maternity clothes: I only have a few tops that are long enough anymore!

  

Sleep: I'm convinced it'll get better with a newborn than what little sleep I'm getting now. 

Milestones:  reaching our due date, I've never been pregnant this long! Malakai was born at 39 weeks, 5 days and Desmond was born at 39 weeks. 

Best Moments: Being able to see Malakai off to his first day of school. 

Worst Moment: False labor, I'm so ready for sister to be here!

Food cravings: I don't have much of an appetite lately. 

Food aversions: none

Symptoms: lots of varied discomfort, false labor on the daily

Movement: normal

Gender: girl

What I’m looking forward to: finding out her birth day!

What I’m nervous about/praying for: Facing an induction if we go too far overdue. 

What I miss: sleep. I can't even get comfy enough to take a nap to catch up these days.

Next appointment: I had my 40 week appointment this morning and a non-stress test. Everything looks good. Scheduled an appointment for next week with an ultrasound to check on her growth and fluid levels. 

Weekly wisdom: Trying not to let the constant check-ins from everyone get on my nerves!

push it back

I went in for my second visit with my Obstetrician this morning. First thing I find out is that from the ultrasound they did 4 weeks ago, my due date is changing. I wasn't expecting this since Malakai measured a few days smaller than my due date pretty much the entire pregnancy. However, this baby was measuring 10 days small (which is the cut off for changing the due date). So I went from October 7th to 17th. I don't really mind moving further into October since we have 10 family birthdays in September, 5 of them immediate family members. We don't really need another September baby!

 However, the change put me from 12 weeks 5 days to 11 weeks 2 days today. I'm going to really have to shift my mindset. The last 6 weeks I've been 10 days off in my thinking. I'm also further away from the 14 week/2nd trimester mark that I've been counting down to. That was when I started to feel better when pregnant with Malakai, I'm holding out hope that it could be the same this time around.

Then I got to hear the sweet baby's heartbeat for the first time. Music to my ears, I wish Ben could have been there. Since Dr. M couldn't find the heartbeat with the doppler at my last appointment ( I was only 7 weeks 2 days so that's why!) we went in for an ultrasound but the tech didn't turn the volume on so we only saw the heartbeat. Today Dr. M found little bean's heartbeat right away, a strong 160 bpm.

When we were expecting Malakai, Ben + I both worked at the same place. Scheduling my appointments during a lunch break when we could both leave together and be back in less than an hour was a breeze. He was with me at every.single.visit. This time, I've had 4 baby related visits and he's only been to one, the ultrasound. Unfortunately, with him working across town it just hasn't been reasonable for him to make it to the appointments so far. I did schedule the next one during lunch time so he can try to meet me there. I know he really wants to be there and hear the beautiful little heartbeat!

So...here are the corrected bump photos from what I've shared so far.

So on MONDAY I'll be 12 weeks and post a new picture and some stats. 

What an interesting week I'm having!