NO Sleep

I am not sleeping, I've had multiple tossing and turning nights this week.  I'm going on 25 weeks and I know this is only going to get worse so I'm feeling distraught.  The bed is not comfortable for me.  My hips hurt when I sleep on my side, I can't sleep on my back or my stomach.  I have multiple pillows in the bed, two body pillows and a smaller cylinder pillow.  I have one to rest my head on and one more just in case I need it in the middle of the night somewhere.  I'm almost ready to sleep sitting up on the couch or chair thinking I may get a better sleep.  I'm not waking up to go to the bathroom or any other reason than I just can't get comfortable.

We've been looking at getting a tempur-pedic mattress, maybe we'll get one sooner rather than later.

 

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Pics of Dresser and Amanda at 24 weeks

24 Weeks

 

 

Cooper's Dreser 2

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The Kicks

Well Cooper kicked his mom, Sharon, in the face this weekend as she was singing to him.  His kicks are stronger now and she can feel him a lot more.  He was doing a jig in my belly during the song and then kicked her right in the face.  It was pretty funny, he's still laying/playing with my bladder which continues to be an uncomfortable feeling. 

I was pretty moody this weekend, just blah, didn't have much spunk in my step.  We did go to an excellent play Friday night and had a good time with friends.  Saw some friends we haven't seen in a long time.  Saturday and Sunday were the blah days.  

We did buy a dresser for Cooper and Sharon stained it this weekend.  I will have to take a picture of it.  It's nice/simple, matches the crib and we can put a changing pad on top of it. 

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Emotional

It's been happening a lot lately, the crying.  I am crying at most everything.  Sharon's been out of town for two weeks and I called her the other night crying because I miss her so much!  These emotions just come and I've been trying to honor them.  Someone told me to just let it out it will feel good-well I'm letting it out all the time.  I wonder if this will subside anytime soon.

 

Here's what came across my email the other day and yes, brought me to tears again.

“Let the world unfold without always attempting to figure it all out. Let relationships just be, since everything is going to stretch out in Divine order. Don’t try so hard to make something work—simply allow. Don’t always toil at trying to understand your mate, your children, your parents, your boss, or anyone else because the Tao is working at all times.” — Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

 

 

 

 

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This is funny!

Things you'll never want to see again when this pregnancy is all over
• Saltines
• Your maternity "lingerie"
• The inside of your own belly button
• Your OB's scale
• The word "Kegel"

 

 

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Peace

Cooper and I went to our first Peace march yesterday afternoon.  I was originally downtown to have coffee with Susan who was planning on rollerblading through the march.  While we were drinking our coffee in a coffeeshop, we saw these anarchist marchers walking down the street with the police next to them.  So I became intrigued and decided to go with Susan to the march grounds and check it out.  Wow, there were so many people there.  We listened to the speakers and cheered on the Corvallis cheerleaders (they were funny with spirit)!  Once the march started we decided to march to my car which was along the parade route and fell in among some percussionists, which was awesome because Cooper was able to hear the beating of drums which his uncle believes will be his calling!

It was a peaceful march while I was there, I saw later on the news that the police had a run-in with a crowd of anarchists, I'm sure they were the same ones that I saw in the beginning. 

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6:00 AM

After missing my appointment twice last week, I was actually able to get my pregnant body up and out the door to be at the gym by 6am yesterday.  It was a good workout session too, what I'm enjoying about it is that 1. the gym is not that croweded at 6am and 2. that I am not sore after working out-unless I do a lot of squats. When I was doing strength training before I was pregnant I could feel the workout for the next couple of days.  I think it helps to have a trainer show you what to do because I am exerting myself but I'm not flying through each piece of equipment.  The goal isn't to do the repetitions as fast as you can, it's to create resistance and slow, even movement. I have one more session left in my free package and that's for Sunday evening, then I have to get up on my own and get to the gym.  Hopefully I will be motivated to do that twice a week.

Aside from going to the gym, I've been walking my dogs most evenings after work.  I take them up to a field to play ball and then if I don't have to go to the bathroom super badly, I will walk with them for 20-30 mins.  The walks are good, although I am experiencing a lot more shortness of breath.  From my house it's pretty much uphill everywhere I go with Mt. Tabor being the destination point so I am huffing it up those hills these days.

 

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22 Weeks

It's hard to believe that I'm past the halfway mark in this pregnancy!  I actually look pregnant now and I know this because people are starting to ask me how far along I am, etc.  It's exciting and different.  My body is definetely adjusting to Cooper, I feel short of breath most of the time, I notice that I don't have much of a torso-a belly and a chest, that's about it, and my legs can feel the extra weight because I'm getting lots and lots of leg cramps.  Although, I recently read that my back is actually absorbing the extra weight and it comes out through my legs in cramps-at night while sleeping....Note to self, don't stretch at any point during the night or you risk pointing your toes and getting a leg cramp. 

I can feel Cooper a lot more now too.  He is an active guy-espcially at night, right before and during my sleep.  Not only are the leg cramps waking me up at night, he's already waking me up with his kicking and I'm waking up because I'm terribly uncomfortable flopping from my left side to my right side.  I guess this is going to only get worse. 

I am totally enjoying being pregnant, it is such an amazing experience and fun to see the developing baby through my developing belly.

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Shopping Shopping Shopping

Wow, what a weekend.  We were on a buying frenzy which is good because soon we'll be on a buying freeze.  We bought some more appliances for our kitchen that we've been wanting and then we bought a bunch of baby stuff including a CRIB!  We went to Babies r' Us and decided to register and while we were waiting for the scan gun we stumbled upon a crib that we've looked at before that we didn't really like.  Well this time, we LOVED it.  Maybe it was the price we loved.  We bought the Delta Luv Jenny Lind style crib.  It's a honey wood color and it's perfect for us.  We also bought a sheet set that go with the jungle animals Auntie Sonya bought Cooper for Christmas.  It is so cute, we are very excited.  I put all of Coop's toys in the crib and any other clothes or books we've bought for him too.

After we were done scanning our life away at Babies r' Us, the next day we went to Target and bought some more things and later registered there too, in case some people found Target a more convienent place to shop.  The cool thing about Target's registry is that we were able to label who we are in relation to the baby...so it says Mother, Amanda and Mother Sharon.  Love that.

 

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