Mommy Update! 21w4d

Well its been 6 weeks since my last mommy update... a lot has happened since then! (Its already grown 6 inches since then!

Current Stats:
Baby Size - 10.5 in - 3/4lbs. Length of large carrot.

Sleep - Sleeping pretty great. Had my first leg cramp during this pregnancy but since its been almost 2 weeks ago, Ill blame it on the heels I wore to work that day... trying to stick to wedges these days.

Clothes - I'm living in 3 pairs of maternity dress pants, 1 pair of jeans, and 1 pair of shorts. Everything else I wear is clothes from my pre-pregnancy closet. Lots of dresses, cardigans, stretch tank tops, etc. I find if you wear bump-hugging tops you look a lot more put together and slimmer. Some dresses I have just drape over the top of my bump and make it look 10x bigger.

Food Aversions- Still not really into fried food. I have plenty of nights where nothing sounds good but I'm more so just tired from working all day. Cooking dinner for 1 has always been hard for me so now I have to try even harder to come home and make an actual dinner.

Symptoms - Heartburn!! Other than that I feel pretty great! yay! :) I am trying to enjoy the 2nd trimester honeymoon phase... I hear a lot of 1st trimester symptoms come back for the 3rd trimester. She is moving a lot now. Today I felt her kicking alot and since the top of my uterus is just above my belly button she has a pretty large area to move around. I looked down and I literally saw my stomach bulge out as she kicked.... was pretty weird... but cool.. hopefully she will time it better so Dutch is around. He keeps trying to feel it but she wants to be stubborn... I wonder where she gets that????

Missing - Mexican cheese dip, my favorite summer shorts, adult beverages... I forgot how many events in the summer could use a nice glass of wine or a cold cider. (Braves games, beach trips, cookouts, 4th of July coming up, etc)

Preparations - Dutch and I purchased her crib a few weeks ago and put it together last Saturday. We didn't kill each other and it actually got put together with all the parts! I have been doing some clothes shopping for our baby girl as the clearance racks at Carters were full of long sleeve onsies and fleece items perfect for 0-3 size. We really are set for 0-3 other than some fleece zip up PJs which carters doesn't have out just yet. I'm trying not to buy for her for next summer as its too hard to predict sizes, weather, etc. We've been getting the nursery together and I'm getting a post together to get everyone excited about the big reveal! : ) We even have started stocking up on some diapers. Just to start were doing only a few newborn and mostly size 1. Wipes are any size so those will be easy to stock pile.

Looking forward to - Dr. appointment on this Friday. I will get to see baby girl and hopefully get some great pictures. My co-bumper Laura's baby shower this Saturday! (I realized how to be a much better baby shower guest now that I am pregnant... Moms don't really need a ton of clothes or things you think are cute, they really need the things they registered for. So, I made sure to get lots of really helpful items plus a few fun things)  Dutch and I also are touring the women's center at Northside on Sunday... Will be ... interesting... I'm sure. Also looking forward to a fun family reunion of sorts in Austin later next month!!

Ill try to get a recent picture up this weekend. She is defiantly growing bigger every week!

21 weeks

How your baby's growing:

Your baby now weighs about three-quarters of a pound and is approximately 10 1/2 inches long — the length of a carrot. You may soon feel like she's practicing martial arts as her initial fluttering movements turn into full-fledged kicks and nudges. You may also discover a pattern to her activity as you get to know her better. In other developments, your baby's eyebrows and lids are present now, and it's a girl, she's already got a lifetime's supply of eggs in her womb -- about six million of them!

Happy Birthday SIL!

Happy Birthday to my SIL Kathryn (soon to be Aunt Kathryn). We have so much fun together at family events, hottie beach fest, braves games with our hubbies, or painting parties. She has the coolest personality (and a great blog.... check it out here )
Cant wait to celebrate!

" I wear my sunglasses at night"

Our Kayak Trip Hilton Head 2011

20 weeks!

sorry... behind again...

How your baby's growing:

Your baby weighs about 10 1/2 ounces now. She's also around 6 1/2 inches long from head to bottom and about 10 inches from head to heel — the length of a banana. (For the first 20 weeks, when a baby's legs are curled up against his torso and hard to measure, measurements are taken from the top of her head to her bottom — the "crown to rump" measurement. After 20 weeks, she's measured from head to toe.)

She's swallowing several ounces of amniotic fluid these days, which is good practice for her digestive system. She's also producing meconium, a black, sticky by-product of digestion. Shes even got working taste buds!


19 weeks!

How your baby's growing:

Your baby's sensory development is exploding! Her brain is designating specialized areas for smell, taste, hearing, vision, and touch. Some research suggests that she may be able to hear your voice now, so don't be shy about reading aloud, talking to her, or singing a happy tune if the mood strikes you.

Your baby weighs about 8 1/2 ounces and measures 6 inches, head to bottom — about the size of a large heirloom tomato. Her arms and legs are in the right proportions to each other and the rest of her body now. Her kidneys continue to make urine and the hair on her scalp is sprouting. A waxy protective coating called the vernix caseosa is forming on her skin to prevent it from pickling in the amniotic fluid.

18 weeks

I'm getting a little behind... its almost 19 weeks... ! For now, enjoy the information for 18 weeks.

Head to rump, your baby is about 5 1/2 inches long (about the length of a bell pepper) and he weighs almost 7 ounces. He's busy flexing his arms and legs — movements that you'll start noticing more and more in the weeks ahead. His blood vessels are visible through his thin skin, and his ears are now in their final position, although they're still standing out from his head a bit. A protective covering of myelin is beginning to form around his nerves, a process that will continue for a year after he's born. If you're having a girl, her uterus and fallopian tubes are formed and in place. If you're having a boy, his genitals are noticeable now, but he may hide them from you during an ultrasound.

Babymoon!

This past weekend Dutch and I went off on a little babymoon ... our last vacation alone together as a family of two. It was so nice to just enjoy being away together with nothing planned... something we actually hadn't done since our honeymoon. Sure we were able to travel the past few years, Boston, Austin, Dallas, Hilton Head, trips to see our family etc, but we were always running around getting to a wedding or spending time with our friends and family. We had such a blast doing that the past few years and seeing some great new places, we had lost track of our own time together.

We drove down to Destin, Florida which is on the gulf coast. It is absolutely beautiful. I was a broken record all weekend stating just how amazing it was. We had rented a condo right on the beach. we were on the first floor and our patio stepped out onto the pool and the beach boardwalk. It was a dream. The weather was perfect, we saw some dolphins, ate some seafood, got sunburned, listened to reggae music, and just relaxed. I even found a place that served virgin strawberry daiquiris!

Here are a few pictures from our trip....

Were dorks.... out watching the supermoon saturday night...

Supermoon gazing

amazing beaches....

Dutch's revenge after being pinched by a crab in the ocean....

In case you missed it.... Our gender reveal!!!

Watch "Baby Morgan" on YouTube

18 weeks....

Here's some pictures from our ultrasound today : )

2 days!

I can't believe we only have to wait 2 more days till we get to see our little baby again. Nervous excited as I feel once we see him/her, and know its healthy and then know the gender, everything will be so real.

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