More Nursery

This is the bedding I got, for a great deal of $25, to go in the nursery once we get the crib. It is two shades of lavender and has branches with flowers and birds. I can't wait to see it in the room all set up in the crib but for now I held the comforter up to the wall and it looks fabulous.

These are the two wall hangings I mentioned in previous post above the dresser/changer. The first is a headband and bow holder I made and the other is a sign with Peter Pan quote. I still need a changing pad and cover, which will be lavender of course, but I finished diaper caddy (shown sitting on dresser). I got a basket on sale at Michaels and had my sister spray paint it white. I took lavender stripe fabric I used to make pillow and made a liner with grey bow to dress it up.

Nursery

This past weekend Oma, my mom, came up to help get nursery started. My wonderful husband did a lot of furniture moving and hauling and Oma and Kellen painted after helping him a bit. It isn't finished but I wanted to at least get some pics up of what there is so far. The walls are "Lavender Sparkle" accented with grey and white.

My sister, Kellen, painted tree in grey after my mom sketched it out.

Finished tree with 3 frames hanging from branch above where crib will go. We don't have one yet but still have a little time before we need it. The initials inside the frame are in no way any indication of what her name will be, except for the G of course. Ted and I are no where near agreeing on a name but I wanted to see how it looked all put together, so I put the initials I hope she'll have :-)

Entry to room, small wall so we did a small painted mural at bottom of flower, fairy and toadstool. Then I did a white board and added hooks to hang various things. The picture above it is a framed fairy puzzle from my mom and brother.

Rocker is from my mom. I made new cushion covers out of lavender fabric and I also made the accent pillow. Hard to see but it is white and lavender stripe with a grey ruffle down the middle. First attempt and I am pretty happy with it if I do say so myself.

Area rug, 4.5x6, that is in the middle of the room. Found it at ikea for an awesome price and I absolutely love it and how it fits so well in the room scheme.

Still have some things to hang and get but this will give you an idea. Ted and I hope to find some fairy pictures at the Ren fair this year. We get most of Trystan's art there and it would be great to find hers there too. Those pictures will go above the white dresser, that is also serving as a changing table, on the wall opposite the crib along with a hair bow and headband holder and fairy quote sign, both of which I made.

6 Month Appointment

Got to meet Dr. Skinner for this appointment. She seems nice and I could see going to her for a couple more appointments. She said the heart beat sounds good, 147/min if I remember correctly. She mentioned that my weight gain was low at only 5 pounds but wasn't overly concerned since baby will be gaining a lot in 3rd trimester, which is right around the corner. She measured the belly and at about 27 weeks along, the belly was at 30 haha. I think Dr. Simmonds was on the right track with this "little" girl being in 97% percentile for size. I really want him to check, when I go back at the end of the month for my placenta check, her size to see if she is still measuring that high or if may have dropped a few percentage points. Skinner gave me paperwork for glucose test and wants it asap with baby measuring as big as she is. Hopefully that will come back negative. I go back to office May 17 for another belly check and will hopefully receive good results then. I will also at that point have to go get my shot for being a negative blood type, not looking forward to that one bit.

26 Weeks

Weeks Along: 26
Weight Gain: +4 lbs
Sleep: Not very well. Ligaments on side of belly are tight and have to keep pillow under belly or they pull.
Movement: She is pretty active and apparently already has music likes and dislikes. Moved a lot to one song in Kellen's car but then stopped as soon as the song was over :-)
Belly Button: Still in but getting more shallow with each passing week.
Rings: Still on.
Gender: Girl
Looking Forward To: Painting the nursery this weekend and getting some of her furniture and decorations in there. Will definately post pictures for you all to see.

24 Weeks

Weeks Along: 24
Morning Sickness: Well behind me.
Weight Gain/Loss: +3 lbs
Sleep: Not very sound, Trystan has been waking up at night and getting up really early for some reason.
Movement: She is moving a lot and really getting some force behind some of them punches and kicks.
Belly Button: Still in but getting more shallow with each passing week.
Rings: Still on.
Gender: Girl
Looking Forward To: Working on more of the projects for the nursery. Finished rocking chair cushion covers and window treatments. And, found out my Me-Me has baby's exact room color in yarn so she is knitting a blanket and if she wasn't already wonderful, she went to JoAnn's and found exact some fabric as I am using on projects and is making a quilt to match. I am so excited to see how they turn out.

Big Sonogram

Well, since I had hit around the mid-point of my pregnancy, it was time to go in for my big sonogram. When told to schedule my appointment, I originally went through the hospital like I did with Trystan. However, when the doctor learned of this, she really wanted me to change it and have it done at the office. Well they mixed up my due date and so didn't schedule me until I was 22 weeks. The reason I wanted to go through the hospital was because it was such a great experience with Trystan and I had concerns about doing it at the office. Only recently did they start doing the big sonogram there, only 2 doctors knew how to do it, they are always running behind and knew they would schedule me in an unrealistic time window. Well all my concerns were for good reason. I had to wait like an hour just to be seen, I had to correct the due date they had for me, which meant waiting 5 more minutes while the doctor weant and checked my file and first sonogram ( I was right and he had to change data on computer so all baby's measurements were for right week of pregnancy), doctor went through everything quickly and only gave us two pictures and they are horrible. Ted didn't think he was going to be able to make it to appointment, but I am glad he did because he wouldn't have gotten much from pictures. With Trystan at the hospital, doctor took her time letting us enjoy seeing our baby and gave us lots of good pictures to share with people. Overall, I was disappointmented with having sonogram done at office. He did confirm that baby is a girl and looking good. She is definately going to be bigger than her brother when she comes out, have to wait and see how much bigger. I do have a condition called placenta previa which is fairly common at this stage in the pregnancy. Without getting into too much detail, it means placenta is at the bottom instead of the top, and is blocking baby's exit route. He said that it is very likely the problem will correct itself but just in case, he wants to do another sonogram in 8 weeks. Another issue I had was he wouldn't really say much except that he wanted to see what sonogram revealed in 8 weeks. Like, he didn't want to explain a bunch of stuff if the problem could go away. Well, you can't just rattle off a condition to a pregnant woman with no details and expect her to just say ok and forget about it. No, I came right home and googled it. Well, that gave me every possible horrible thing that could happen. So instead of the doctor taking 5 minutes to talk with me about this and calm any fears, he didn't say anything and I freaked myself out. If ever Ted and I have another baby, I am going to hospital for sonogram and not get pressured into doing it at office.

See, not very good. You are looking at her straight on. That is her right hand up next to her face and you can kind of see mouth nose and right eye.

This one, also horrible, is closer up on her face. She is kind of turned and looking at you but you can only kind of see her eyes, nose and mouth.

And that was it, only two bad pictures. I go back in 3 weeks for routine belly and heartbeat check and then the sonogram in 7 weeks ( took me a bit to post about appointment, otherwise it would have been 4 and 8 weeks for next appointments). 

22 Weeks

Weeks Along: 22
Morning Sickness: Well behind me.
Weight Gain/Loss: 0
Sleep: Having the weirdest dreams and waking up several times each night.
Movement: She is moving a lot more and can even feel it from outside if she is positioned right.
Gender: Girl
Looking Forward To: My big sonogram appointment on Wednesday with Dr. Simmonds. They will be measuring and checking everything to make sure she is doing well.