Jess's Journey: 6 Month Photos and Hello Third Trimester!

Ok, so I'm a little bit behind on my blogging; I took these 6 month photos over 2 weeks ago! But, here they are!

Check out that belly button! Hellllllooooo outie! It doesn't matter how hard I tried to cover that bad boy up, nothing worked So, I've come to embrace it. Whatever, I'm pregnant right?

Ok, so I debated not including this one because it's getting kinda gross, but I couldn't stop laughing because it took me a good 15 minutes to get this picture with my toes still in view. Why I couldn't just admit to myself that I can no longer see my feet, I don't know. But it was comical, and I finally got one with my toes peeking out from behind my enormous belly button. Compare this pic to the same one from month four and it is amazing. I still had my nice little innie belly button back then. Only two short months ago. Ahhh.

Here are my current stats:

October 13th, 2010
Weight: 143.4 lbs         Weight gain to date: 15.6 lbs
Waist: 34 3/4 inches     Waist gain to date: 5 1/4 inches
Breast: 35 1/4 inches     Gain to date: 1 1/4 inches (not gaining much ground in this department
                                                                             unfortunately)

So, I am 28 weeks pregnant and counting and I can't believe how fast it's going! I'm getting bigger (and more uncomfortable) every day. About 2 weeks ago I started having back pain during the night that wakes me up and makes it hard to fall back to sleep. I haven't taken anything for it, but I may try some Tylenol if it gets any worse and see if that helps. I just flip from side to side and try to rub my back myself (which I'm sure would look comical if anyone were awake and looking), but none of that seems to help. Usually sitting up and leaning forward in bed is the only thing that relieves my back pain, so I sit like that for awhile until I am really sleepy and then I try to lay back down and hope I fall asleep quickly before it starts hurting again. Ahhh, the joys of pregnancy.

Still having those occasional annoying nosebleeds too. I was at work the other night and we were trying to get a central line in my patient so I was wearing the standard hat, mask, gown, and gloves. I'm just doing my thing when all of the sudden I thought, "Gosh, why is my nose running so bad?".   So I lift up my mask, and yup, it's covered in blood. Lovely. There was no way to be graceful about this, especially since the attending and fellow happened to look up at me right as I lifted up my mask. Their reactions were priceless..."OH MY GOD! Are you OK???" Soooo embarrassing! I casually excused myself to run to the bathroom and attempt to fix this problem. Gotta love it. But I returned to my patient's room a few minutes later with a piece of tissue shoved up my nose, and I was good as new.

Let's see, what else? Oh yeah, how about this?... Now that my stomach is so much bigger, I notice that if I am sitting down, my boobs rest on my stomach. That's right, my boobs rest on my stomach. How utterly disgusting is that? I am soooo very aware of it every time it happens and I feel like a fat slob. Ugh, for some reason, that just really really grosses me out. So I wear a bra at all times, even chillin in the house, and even to bed. When I wear a bra it doesn't happen as much, so I'll do anything to prevent that feeling of nastiness.

Wow, this post is really just one big bitch session isn't it? How about some positives that I've been feeling lately....

More baby movement! That is always a plus. It's such an amazing thing to feel her move and know that there is a real person growing in there! And, I'm officially in the third trimester! Only about 11 weeks to go before our little girl will be here! I still can't really fathom that. We're going to be parents....wow!

We bought our crib the other day, which was a journey in and of itself. That crib has been the bane of my existence ever since we found it. Mike and I went crib shopping at Buy Buy Baby weeks ago and found the perfect crib that matched the furniture that we already have in the room really well. We were all set to buy it when we were told that we had to buy the floor model because that was all they had left. And that floor model had a bunch of nicks and scratches. So we declined and decided we'd find it online and buy it that way.

Easy right? WRONG! That particular model is being discontinued so not many places had it. But I found one that was only about $60 more than the floor model we saw, so I ordered it....only to get a phone call the next day saying "Sorry, but we just sold the last one".

Ok, back to the drawing board. Found another place that had it, but they didn't have the pieces to convert it into a toddler bed and a full size bed. Oh well. Ordered the crib, and then ordered the other pieces from yet another website. Annnnnd then we get another phone call the next day saying "Sorry, but we don't ship, we only deliver. And we don't deliver any further than 200 miles." Well the place was in Texas, so we were definitely further than 200 miles. P.S. I had no clue that there was a difference between shipping and delivery.

So now I'm really irritated. The pieces for the crib that we ordered are on their way, but we can't seem to get the actual crib. So we ended up coming full circle and going back to Buy Buy Baby and buying that floor model. Because there was literally no other place online to buy it with the exception of one that was $300 more than the floor model we saw. I couldn't justify spending 300 extra dollars just to get the exact same crib with a few less nicks and scratches. The furniture that we are using for the baby room is really old anyway and has tons of nicks and scratches of it's own, so this crib will fit right in. Haha!

Ok, so now we have the crib, fully put together in Mike's truck. We get it home and get it in the door only to find out that it won't fit in the bedroom door. Wouldn't you know it. And, Mike doesn't have the right tools to take it apart. So he borrows some tools from the neighbor and proceeds to disassemble the entire crib. In the door the pieces go and back together the crib goes. It was a fun filled evening, if you can only imagine. Mike's last words were "We are NEVER moving out of this house, and this crib is staying here forever." Like I said, fun times had by all.

So that was our crib extravaganza, but now we have it (and the mattress) and I can't wait to decorate!! We bought a glider for the room yesterday which also, amazingly enough, matches the furniture really well. So I think the major furniture shopping for Baby Girl's room is finished; it just requires a little help from Aunt Tina to make it transform from a boring ex-guest room into a fun, girly nursery!  She'll be here in December to help with all of that! Yay!

Here are some before and after pics so far. Before: guest room