Raisin' Bran and Amelia: 30 Weeks

Baby is the Size of a Platypus

New for baby this week? About 17 inches and 3.5 lbs, losing the lanugo

Total weight gain/loss? 18 lbs (again). So I am guessing my weight was a little off a couple weeks ago, which makes sense since I was a little nervous I had gained 4 lbs in 2 weeks last time lol.

Sleep? Feeling like I almost always have interrupted sleep at this point (just waking up to baby moving, or having to pee). But I still mostly feel rested.

Best moment this week? Joe being able to see/feel so much movement finally

Miss Anything? Being able to bend down to easily tie my shoes

Movement? Movements are getting BIG. I can often see them from the outside now, and the baby is starting to push out in weird directions on my belly as it moves around.

Food cravings? Oranges

Anything make you queasy or sick? We have spaghetti squash, butternut squash, and chicken to make. I can't make myself get excited about making any of them, they just don't sound good.

Have you started to show yet? As Bran says, BELLY!!

How is mama feeling? Much improved now that I have (mostly) gotten rid of this pesky never ending cold.

Looking forward to? Bran's birthday (how am I already going to be the Mom of a two year old?!)

I wasn't planning on taking any maternity pictures this time, but the opportunity came up to help out Brittany from Joyful Moments Photography (who took all of Bran's first year photos) model a dress in her new studio. Although it was definitely out of my normal "cheesy smile" comfort zone, it was really fun to get dolled up and enjoy a few moments cherishing this pregnancy. Here are a few of my favorites.

The vast majority of the last couple weeks has been spent getting Bran's room finished up (I think mama is nesting so this was a huge relief). Joe painted, we put together a new bed and dresser from Ikea, and got all of the blankets and sheets put on the bed (which is quite funny since he still just sleeps on top of everything with his blanket, pillows, and stuffed animals). I haven't taken any "finished" pictures yet, but will once we get everything moved in from the nursery and decorated, that's my goal for this weekend. Then it will be time to start organizing the baby stuff and resetting the nursery to baby mode.

Sometimes you gotta strip down to your socks and diaper while doing man's work

Daddy's little helper all week.

I think Bran is in a bit of a sleep regression. Before we moved him to his big boy room he already hadn't been sleeping great in the nursery. He kept getting out of bed to sleep in the chair, on the floor, or just simply refused to nap only to pass out on the couch a couple hours later.

This has made the transition to the new room a little challenging. At first it seemed like the new room and big bed were the solution we had been looking for because he was finally napping and sleeping great. But within a few days he had really started fighting going to sleep at nap and bed time again. Joe tried the comforting lay with Bran until he fell asleep thing one night (which took 2 hours before he could actually sneak out of the room, we have never done this before!). That same night he woke up screaming for his blankie and kept me up from 2:30-5, it was terrible! And I honestly cannot tell you the last time he had done that kind of thing to us either, probably since he was a newborn. So it's back to a little tough love (yes his "heartless" mother is a huge fan of crying it out, it's the only thing that ever works for us). It's already working it's magic with a huge improvement the last couple days. Fingers crossed this all settles down and we can get our wonderful sleeper with no fuss back before Baby L 2.0 makes their arrival (or well before that, Mama wants as much sleep as she can get before caring for a newborn again!).

This weather has been crazy. We had another snow day, with a lot more snow this time! I decided to get my pre-Bran pregnancy snow gear out. And we all got a good laugh because I couldn't even zip my pants at all! A few days later we were out walking the dogs in our spring jackets.

Bran insisted on taking the car out. He needed snow tires!

Proud Mommy moment of the week. Bran and I were riding home after I picked him up from the babysitter. He sits right behind me now since we transitioned him to forward facing (which is so much easier on my pregnant back!). There was a commercial for OSU Basketball on the radio and it ended with "Go Bucks!". Completely unprompted by me Bran yells back "Go Bucks!!". That's my little buckeye! See, they really do listen.

Pregnancy wise I have officially hit the every other week appointment mark. Baby has settled in head down already, so lets hope he/she decides to stay there! Otherwise everything is still looking great. I swear my belly is bigger this time, but it probably isn't.

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