Baby #4: 32 Weeks

 

32 weeks and growing right along!  Baby is the size of a care bear weighing around 4lbs and about 17 inches long. We are officially in the 8th month!  We feel hiccups almost every night, and it's the funniest thing.  This baby hiccups the most out of any of my other pregnancies!  I'm feeling all the kicks, jabs and rolls and sometimes it's even a little painful!  I think we have a strong baby growing for sure.

These last two weeks were a little rough for Mama.  I had a BAD bought of hemorrhoid's but luckily after 1.5 weeks of pain I figured out what was causing them and stopped doing it immediately!  No issues since. I was still doing squats and lunges with weights and apparently my pelvic floor is no longer strong enough for any of that, and that's ok!  So no more of that until postpartum.  Also sleeping is a struggle.  I wake up every time I need to roll over which is every 1.5-2 hours then add in a few episodes of insomnia from 1-4am....ugh.  It drains me for the day and makes it so difficult to think and be a patient Mama.  Just a few more weeks!

I'm still getting workouts in 3-4 times a week when I'm not working/day sleeping.  I'm mostly just walking with upper body light weights or hitting the YMCA's elliptical and stair climber with chest/back weight lifting there.  I've scaled back probably the most this pregnancy, but I still feel like I'm getting a good workout in and the blood flowing.  So far I've gained 25lbs and I'm very happy with that.

These last few weeks have been busy!  We hit the farmer's market a few times, visited May Fest and celebrated Mother's Day!  We moved Scarlett's dresser down to our room to use as a changing table and unboxed the old newborn clothes we have.  Hazel helped me load them into the dresser and she loved being a big helper.  I've been washing old burp clothes, swaddles and nursing pillows and started setting aside things for my hospital bag.  Kit and I even snuck in 36 hours over the weekend without the kids and got to deep clean and purge some giveaway items!  Of course we snuck in a date night too, but we were definitely in bed by 10pm.  We are getting close!

Date night!

Date Night!

Farmer's market

Give me all the pillows

MayFest

Mother's Day

Sweet note from Norah to baby

Sweet gift from a coworker, bow as back up!

Maxed out in the van

We also got to take our maternity pictures with Hazel and Haze Photography from Enid!  The day was super windy and I thought they'd have to get cancelled or postponed, but we made it work!  She's wonderful and worked her magic to capture this sweet time in our lives.