Weekly Update Week 25

How far along? 25 Weeks

How big is baby? About 13.5 inches in length and weighs 1 and half pounds. (My child already weighed in at 1.5 lbs last week per the U/S haha so she is probably a little plumper this week

Weight gain/loss? At last week's appointment I am up I believe it was 18lbs. Had a little extra amniotic fluid so I'll get another U/S at 7 months. My scale needs a new battery and I'm just plain too lazy to change it so I'll only go by the doctors scale.

Ok I almost shit myself ok...no lie. At my 5 month I was up 7lbs and at 6 month I was up a total of like 19lbs but I went to a different doctor on a different scale. I have a serious hard time believing that I gained 12lbs in a month. Yes my belly is far bigger and the babe did some serious gaining and I'm sure everything else did too but even Mr. B agrees that I haven't really gained weight in my legs or arms so belly and boobs don't make up 12lbs in a month. So I'm going to pay close attention when I go in for my 7 month at my normal doctors scale because I don't think it's that high.

Maternity clothes? Exclusively unless I have things that I can wear that are cute that aren't maternity. some and then just the dresses. I won some khaki capri's and a cute maternity shirt on Ebay and need to find another shirt or two to win

Stretchies? The boobs will forever be there I believe...the stomach ones can't really see which is good. just on the boobs boooooo

Sleep? Great until Ava wakes up crying at 5am and doesn't even want to go back down with us. getting worse. If I'm not up going to the bathroom literally 3 times in the middle of the night I'm constantly flipping from left to right and have 3 pillows trying to help me

Best moment this week? Getting Ali's comforter that I won on Ebay. It is perfect! Getting to another week and Uncle Ben coming to get the rest of the stuff out of Ava's room!

Movement? All.The.Time. seriously I think my girl may end up being a boxer! She is hitting/kicking/punching all over all the time. And she really dislikes it when I move from right to left on my side at night haha

Food cravings? Nothing out of the ordinary except Miracle Whip on sandwiches sounds so good. I've always preferred MW over Mayo anyways so that's nothing new, but I made my lunch last night and seriously wanted to make a sammy for last night and breakfast this morning haha I can't wait until I eat lunch. nothing out of the ordinary but soda which really sucks

Food aversions/foods that make me sick? Nothing! nothing really whoot

Gender? Another Girl GIRL!!!!!

Labor signs? None. Getting some intense Braxton Hicks but just a few times a day. none..I have been having a little tightness but honestly I don't know if it's Braxton Hicks or not.

Birth Prep? Just setting up our plans to everyone that thinks they have a plan for us and of course having to make sure not to hurt feelings. But I want Ava to go to daycare during the day to keep her routine unless Mr. B brings her to the hospital, and at night he will go home and have some time with her so she can have that familiarity as well as bonding with him for two days will help when I come home and can't just grab her and play either because of taking care of Ali or bedridden recovering from my section. I really want this to be a private family things for a couple of days with no visitors. And when visitors comes just keep it short. We had our hospital tour last week and I'm so excited about the location we have picked! I'm going to start my pre-natal yoga this week as well

An outer-innie? Oh half is out and it won't be long until the whole thing is...both

What I miss? Sleeping on my back or stomach. Since I breast fed up until like last week haha I have not slept on my stomach in almost 2 years and that sucks. sleeping, and honestly drinking

What I am looking forward to? Uncle Ben coming to get the guest room next weekend so we can finally get things organized in Ali's room and start patching holes and prepping for paint! Getting to do the little things in Ava's room this weekend and in about 2 weeks putting together her furniture!

Milestones? Every week is a great week. Viability Day was a great day but this week is just one step closer to her being able to really survive with no long term side effects

New things this week? Just a ton of movement from Ali. Can definitely see her movements from outside too. Ava is moving so much but last night I had my first lucid dream of the birth and what she looked like. And honestly after I was having it and had her she woke me up at 3:30 kicking the shit out of me which she's never up at 3:30...odd!

Weekly Wisdom? I haven't gotten any haha Honestly I really haven't gotten any but I'm starting to get tons of folks asking me when I'm due

Emotions? They are good...trying to be a calmer person haha Last week in check...this past week out of freaking check! Ugh it was a bad week but I think Mr. B and I have finally figured out how to handle it!

6 Month Appointment

Well I go in and get weighed and have gained 11lbs in a month.
So when she comes in I tell her my fears about the chance of having poly again. She said you know last time we had to do an US at 6 months (which I forgot because Ava moved around so much at the 5 month that they didn't get to see all the chambers in the heart and had me do another).

She said I was normal but at high normal then and that I got it a little later. And I had gained 19lbs then I think it was.

Well this time I've gained a total of 18lbs...which I said yah I gained about 41 with Ava due to the extra fluid and she said well around here that's actually the average (because we have heavy set women and folks who eat a lot of fried food) and I had told her I was carefully watching this past month because I knew last time I had a huge increase.

So she said yah we'll monitor it but this could just be a big weight gain month for you in pregnancies.

So she found the heartbeat after a minute of Ali kicking and punching everywhere and then measured me. She said I was measuring "a little big" which she didn't say (I should've asked) and sent me for an ultrasound.

I told the US tech about why I was there and that I had it last time and I haven't had my GD test yet but last time passed with flying colors.

She never did say I had high or low fluid and had me sit in the room while she got the report together which was strange.

Then I had to take it to my doc and I almost read it (should've) but gave it to the nurse who quickly skimmed it but I had to wait on the doc.

She looked at it and kind of laughed and said yah....you do have a little higher amount but nothing extreme that we need to worry about right now...she wants me to do another US right before my 7 month appointment to see if it goes up or stays the same.

The biggest thing is it going up.

I have to go in for my GD test in 2 weeks and hoping I pass...

It's truly crazy that only 1-3% of women get this and generally it's due to GD and it's even more rare to not have anything wrong with me or the baby and get it in another pregnancy...like it's not something that once you get you'll get with every pregnancy.

We'll see..

Allison was moving and grooving though and her HB was strong at 149. I think her profile does look like Ava but looks much more like me than Mr. B this go round.

She's measuring at 1lb 4.5 oz and a month ago she was only 9oz. So that's about 11oz gain...we all know US's aren't always accurate so I'm guessing she was more like 11-12 last month like Ava and probably gained about 8-9oz.

Anyways that's the update!

Weekly Update Week 24

How far along? 24 Weeks Anything in RED means with Allison

How big is baby? About 11.8 inches and my child is 1.5lbs hah (Same with Allison)

Weight gain/loss? Funny reading back because at my 5 month appointment I had gained 7lbs and this appointment I gained 11lbs...so I'm up to 18lbs......Ok I almost shit myself ok...no lie. At my 5 month I was up 7lbs and at 6 month I was up a total of like 19lbs but I went to a different doctor on a different scale. I have a serious hard time believing that I gained 12lbs in a month. Yes my belly is far bigger and the babe did some serious gaining and I'm sure everything else did too but even Mr. B agree's that I haven't really gained weight in my legs or arms so belly and boobs don't make up 12lbs in a month. So I'm going to pay close attention when I go in for my 7 month at my normal doctors scale because I don't think it's that high.

Maternity clothes? Pretty much all maternity unless I have things that fit for maternity that technically aren't. some and then just the dresses. I won some khaki capri's and a cute maternity shirt on Ebay and need to find another shirt or two to win

Stretchies? So far looks like just the ones that have always been there.....just on the boobs boooooo

Sleep? So far so good. I think this is due to being exhausted with work and running after Ava haha....getting worse. If I'm not up going to the bathroom literally 3 times in the middle of the night I'm constantly flipping from left to right and have 3 pillows trying to help me

Best moment this week? Seeing my baby girl again unexpectedly!!! Seeing my baby girl again and knowing her heart is perfect!

Movement? haha Ali is moving just like her big sister!!! seriously I think my girl may end up being a boxer! She is hitting/kicking/punching all over all the time

Food cravings? Rudy's Taco's Enchilada's...I'm actually looking into having my friend ship some via dry ice since no disgruntled employee's have put the recipe online! nothing out of the ordinary but soda which really sucks

Food aversions/foods that make me sick? Nothing finally! nothing really whoot

Gender? Another Girl! GIRL!!!!!

Labor signs? none none

Birth Prep? We're not doing another tour since we just did one 1.5 years ago haha and I'm having a RCS so I don't need to put down on paper what I want. We have our hospital tour this Sunday (hopefully TD Bonnie doesn't cancel that) and I have put my birth plan on paper

An outer-innie? It's about flat these days...poor Ava loves to poke at it and I go "boop boop boop" and she tries to repeat me but these days she can't put her finger in there haha both

What I miss? Moving quickly and keeping up with Ava....sushi sleeping, and honestly drinking

What I am looking forward to? Getting my house organized (a.k.a. throwing shit out), taking and fingers crossed passing my GD test, and getting the nursery started. Viability Day which is tomorrow and getting Ava's room in order

Milestones? Viability! Viability Day whooot

New things this week? Allison really has kicked it up a notch with the kicking and punching all over! And I have popped big time. Ava really is aware of when Mr. B talks with her and when I tap her she taps back...so cool...oh and it was so cool when she would kick me and I could feel it and see it on the US haha

Weekly Wisdom? None! It's seriously the craziest thing! I don't know maybe everyone thought I have handled things so well with Ava and so far that they don't feel the need? Maybe they're scared of me haha Honestly I really haven't gotten any but I'm starting to get tons of folks asking me when I'm due

Emotions? Eh I say 80% in check...these past few months just have been some stressful times and I'm dealing with some things emotionally trying to navigate and it's getting tough and I'm afraid a big blow up break down is coming....In check again yesssss.....

looking back

This JustMommies site tells you when they think you'll have your child and a few details..
Here's what it said about Ava

Just about the time you think you can't handle hearing one more "when is that baby going to pop?", your baby will decide to make it's appearance. We predict your baby will be born 3-7 days before its due date. Ava came 8-9 days ahead of due date

Your baby will most likely be born in the morning. She was born at 7:01pm haha

Justmommies predicts that your baby will weigh approximately 7.0 pounds and that your labor will be about 12 hours long. She weighed 7lbs 10.2 oz and if you want to even consider the little time that I had pitocin and labored that was literally an hour long...the entire time from check in to having Ava was like 3.5 hours

so they were wrong about everything.

But here's what they say about Allison

You won't need to try any secret recipes to bring on labor. Have your emergency numbers ready. Don't wait until the last minute to get your nursery ready.

We predict your baby will come 1-2 weeks early.

Your baby will most likely be born in the morning.

Justmommies predicts that your baby will weigh approximately 8.0 pounds and that your labor will be about 7 hours long.

Ok this is funny because she will be born about 1 week early, and I'm hoping to schedule my section for the morning, and I have a feeling she'll be bigger than Ava and around 8lbs sounds about right. The only thing that is wrong is the laboring part since I have to have another section.

polyhydramnios again???

So I am convinced that with Ava I got poly between my 5th and 6th month because I gained 10lbs...yes I did go back home but come on I wasn't pigging out. Because my doctor was on maternity leave herself I got shuffled between doctors who just said I was having a big baby (7lbs 10.2oz at 38w 5d isn't a big baby)

But when she came back I think at my 34 week appointment she measured and said I was measuring at 36/37 weeks and then I told her I wasn't overeating and she ordered an ultrasound where they found out I had about 27cm of fluid and normal range is 20-24.

So they had to do weekly u/s after that to make sure everything was ok.

So this time around at my 5 month appointment I had only gained 7lbs go me! But I had planned on watching very carefully to make sure it didn't jump up. And with the holidays also made sure not to overeat.

I weighed myself the other day and from my 5 month appointment to then I had gained about 7lbs and still have a week to go before I see my doc for my 6 month appointment. So I am feeling that I'm getting it again which is crazy because only like 2% of all pregnancies get it.

Now last time I had already had my GD test and scored very low so she may want to wait until I test to see if I do have GD...I really hope I don't and honestly don't think I do.

But I want to bring this to her attention now since last time it took too long with folks not paying attention.

Hoping that nothing is wrong with Ali and that my body just tends to produce more even when not needed.

We shall see but my belly is looking awfully big these days haha

Here we go...

Ok so work has been watching Internet usage mainly for bandwidth purposes so I can't update as much and I'm not attempting on my phone.

I'm really hoping as I get organized at home I can hop on with my touchpad at night and do some updating.

But things are going well. I do get tired very easily and my aches sooo much more than with Ava. Of course racing after her and then having done this not too long ago I'm sure that's why.

Ava is blossoming so much! The other night she took 2-3 steps to me and has been doing that a lot more. She can go from sitting down to standing up with no help at all and loves to stand and freeze as we call it where she stands like a big girl with nothing and looks at you smiling while the rest of her body is frozen haha...any day she'll be running around.
She loves to get in the cuburds in the kitchen (only the safe ones are open) but I'm rearranging this weekend. I'm also cleaning out room this weekend as well and taking all my Christmas decorations down.

She did so great Christmas morning. We walked in and her face was priceless...so glad we caught that on camera. The entire week folks at work had been getting her things and each night I would let her open them so she could practice. She really had no interest in tearing open the gifts but always ooohed and ahhhed when she could see what they were.

She is signing more, please, and thank you like a champ and her I Love You is waving goodbye because she can't figure out her fingers yet which is fine.

We're doing milk in her sippy at home on the weekends and next week I'm transitioning her to full on sippy instead of bottle unless absolutely necessary. She's also still nursing in the morning and going back down so I will be weaning her of that too.

She had been waking up at 345am for some damn reason the past couple of nights and no matter how many times Mr. B wanted me to get her I wouldn't unless it was 5 or later (and 5 was pushing it). She would cry for an hour straight...and nothing was hurting her either.

But last night she slept until 530a again so we were happy. That's going to suck the first few weeks of Ali being here but hopefully with us not having to get up and get ready Ava will slowly start to sleep later.

Her new thing is crossing her legs/feet when in her new convertible car seat, reading, playing, chilling....haha I love it so much!

I have finished Ava's 1st year book except putting in her stats which I am hoping to do this weekend.

We have so much to do in the guest room which will be Ali's room. We still have to get the bed to BIL and I really hope that's soon..
I have to clean out the closet which I started to do but more things need to be thrown away.

Once I do that then I can put the two night stands that are more like mini bookshelves in the closet for some extra shelving.

Then we have to patch a lot of holes in that room and then I need to rent a steam cleaner and clean all of our carpeting really well. And I will kill our dog if he pee's one more time. He's going to end up being kenneled at night as well if he can't handle it.

Then I have to order the bedding and match the paint color, paint, order decals, we still have to order the furniture which I'm hoping to do in the next couple of days, then wash all of Ava's old clothes.

Then go through the stuff Ava doesn't need to play with anymore and save it for Ali.

Le Sigh a lot to do even though Mr. B thinks we have all the time in the world.
I just hit 23 weeks.

Missing In Action

I know I've been MIA but with good reason.

My FIL passed away unexpectedly a couple of weeks ago and that's why I'm missing Week 17 and 18.

Honestly I don't have the energy to go back and fill it out so hopefully Baby B won't be upset haha

A couple days after that things just got stressful...I was having anxiety about certain things I'd rather not get into and worrying about all types of situations and people and trying to be there for my husband as well.

Well we found out early Sunday morning and then Tuesday I started to feel contractions...at first I tried to convince myself it was just my ligaments stretching but just having done this not too long ago I deep down knew it wasn't that feeling. Thank goodness I have been feeling better so my body would allow me to drink water and I was chugging it.

Wednesday it got worse...and by worse I mean every 45 seconds to a minute I was feeling it...figuring Braxton Hicks by this time and even though technically you're body has BH from about week 6 on you should not be feeling them at 17 weeks. I was chugging even more water. I called my doc but Wednesday's she does sections and wasn't available so I left a message for the nurse but the message taker was a complete moron and was like....so basically contractions due to stress? Umm yes but I'm 17 weeks and that's scary!!!

I was just about to call back and try and talk to someone but the nurse did call. She said listen I don't want to freak you out but it could be bad and we are a little concerned but it could be nothing. Try not to stress (haha funny), drink lots of water and rest and if possible don't drive to Mississippi...well that was out of the question. I couldn't not attend the funeral.

By this time Mr. B had already been driving to MS with MIL and BIL. So I finally text him that I was feeling really bad about giving him that added stress. He dropped them off and turned around and drove the 3.5 hours back. That was really sweet of him.

She said if I was still having them in the morning to call.

And even though they weren't as intense they were still happening so I called and of course couldn't get in until the afternoon.

We waited and then actually got seen fairly quickly. She did the doppler and heard the HB which sounded great and did an internal check...she said things seemed good but she was ordering a cervix check.

I seriously did not think anything of this at the time but thinking back I wonder if she really was concerned but didn't want to stress me out until she got the US results back.

So off I went and she had to do the internal boo....and cervix was long and tight which was great...she even made it clear that was all she was supposed to do (she was the awesome tech that made the decision the day Ava was born that it was time) and I said "awww man".

So then I could see some fingers barely but she started moving it around and showed up.
She then said "do you want me to see real quick on the tummy if I can find out gender?" and we were like "yes!"

And so she did and checked the HB and it was great....the babies legs were crossed so it took a second but at 17 weeks there was really no denying (we have our big one on Monday to officially confirm) but we were all agreed that we'll be having....

Another GIRL!!!!!

I know that Mr. B was happy but sad because especially with the passing of his father I think a boy would've helped him but good to have some good news at a time like that.

We have decided on a name as well....

Allison Hope and we'll call her Ali for short

So we'll have an Ava and Ali :)

Since I did Grace with Ava I really wanted to kind of stick with that theme so Hope just seemed to keep coming back in my head.

I'll hopefully get my Week 19 done today or tomorrow at the latest.