12 Weeks
14 Weeks
Mainly I've been really nauseous which is a new symptom! Especially strong smelly urine which unfortunately I deal with a lot at work! I've was extremely tired weeks 8-12. I probably napped daily whether I was working that night or not. I've had a few food/drink aversions....ground meat, chicken, COFFEE, yogurt greek shakes and hot dogs.
Foods that I've been really getting after: watermelon, Sprite, green tea lemonades, salad, feta cheese, ice cream, acai fruit bowls and chips with salsa.
I'm still working out as usual, just no more maxing out on lifts and running slower. I've been trying to keep the weight gain as minimal as I can this first trimester too.
I have been slowly feeling the ol' round ligament start to pull a bit when I roll out of bed, so I'm adding collagen to my diet to see if that helps! I read something a few weeks ago, so I figured it couldn't hurt. At least I can't possibly gain anymore stretch marks after two kids at this point, so I don't have to worry about that! LOL
We are already mapping out future weekends to ship the kids off so that we can get a few big things accomplished before baby is here and I get too big to help effectively. We really want to get our downstairs junk room finally finished into our office (and enough room in one corner for baby's bassinet when we want to move them out of our room for a little while). My husband is buying wood today to start on our farmhouse desk, so excited! And an additional book case (he already built one).
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| It will look like this, but all stained dark walnut. |
Also, we need to purge a lot of the kid's clothes into manageable size tubs. We don't need 4 tubs of 2T clothes! We'd also like to go through baby stuff and weed out what we didn't use with Scarlett. So we have a few projects to do, but nothing a few weekends without kids can accomplish.
We'd also like to find a bunk bed set for the girls to share when Scarlett is ready to transfer to a real bed. We need one though that is pretty low for the bottom bunk, almost just sitting on the floor so we'll have to spend some time looking or Dad might have to build us one! That would leave Scarlett's room to move the new baby into when we are ready for them to transfer upstairs. Filling this house up with kiddos!
We are putting together a list of things we'd love for baby #3. We'll get an Amazon wish list up soon. Mainly it's new nipples for bottles, BFing freezer bags and a few new furniture items. Also Mama NEEDS a jogging stroller this go around.
We have started putting money back for my unpaid maternity leave. How is that that the US still doesn't have paid maternity leave? I did with my first one in the Air Force and it was phenomenal. I got lucky with my second babe and timed it between finishing school and starting my new job. This baby we're saving up the difference for, which thankfully we planned a bit ahead so we have time to save. We plan on keeping Scarlett in daycare and Norah will be in school, so hopefully that will give me time with baby alone to heal and recover through the first few months of postpartum without chasing two other kids around. I'm hoping this third c-section was as easy to recover from as the second, but you just never know.
Alright, enough rambling! We can't wait to meet this little nugget of ours!
