Pregnancy

Week 34, Day 7: Home Stretch

Baby Size: Savoy Cabbage Food Cravings: Chocolate Newest Milestone: Actual stretch marks.. And swelling. Current Top Name Choice: Ronyn Celise Five weeks left! Next week, I will be starting my weekly OB visits, and she’ll be checking for dilation. I will also be tested for Group B Strep, which is apparently fairly common (about 1 …

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Week 28: Gender Reveal

Baby Size: Tropical Coconut Food Cravings: Almonds in Chocolate Newest Milestone: Gender Reveal! We had our baby shower on Saturday, and it went great! A bit disorganized, and we forgot about a few food items (beans, bell peppers, lemonade), but everyone seemed to be having a good time, and nothing terrible happened (though I did …

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Week 24: Update

Baby Size: Eggplant Food Cravings: Soft Pretzels Newest Milestone: Tiny Stretch Mark Pregnancy Stretch Marks: 1 24 weeks today! Which means it’s been exactly 20 weeks (this evening) since taking *just one more test* because I was starting to recognize the symptoms from last time, and my period still hadn’t shown up (and I didn’t …

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Week 18

Baby Size: Sweet Potato Food Cravings: None Almost half-way! Had another baby (boy) dream. So that brings the tally to 4 boy dreams, 1 girl dream (and 1 girl dream from mother-in-law). Me and hubby were sitting in the little living room we have set up in my parents’ basement, hubby was holding baby, and …