Insane to me

So just saw a story on FB of a woman that went in for back pain... turned out she was pregnant and didn't know it... with a TEN pound baby. WTF?
How... HOW do you not know you're pregnant?
Oren is only 3lbs, I have an anterior placenta, AND I was overweight to start off with and I can still feel him kicking and moving around in there. It's VERY obvious of what it is.
I just can not wrap my brain around how a woman couldn't know?
Yes... women could have irregular periods... I know that all too well so I'm not even taking that in to consideration. I just don't understand how you can carry around a frickin 10lb baby and not feel a damn thing?
That is some serious denial right there I think. I'm sorry but there's just no way other than serious serious denial on the part of the woman.
Anyway... WOW. Stories like that always shock me. Yeah, not every woman, especially larger women will show the same but the movement. How do you not feel the movement??

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Zoe is down for a nap and sounds like is actually asleep this time. WOO! lol
I put her down for a nap yesterday and she played in her crib for an hour and a half, finally went to sleep, and woke up 30min later all grumpy and unhappy :\
So FX that today's nap will be nice and restful for her.

She's starting to wake up earlier in the mornings again. Still not too bad at 7am, but I was getting spoiled with her waking up at 8. Also doesn't help that I wake up at the drop of a hat.
Last night was again, waking up every hour on the hour.
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Ok so I'll 'brag' about Zoe doing something here. Well I don't see it as bragging. I'm just a proud momma.
I don't like doing it on my due date group though. Lots of the mommas there will boast proudly how well their LO is doing whatever and I dunno.... I rarely post anything about Zoe. It always makes me feel uncomfortable if I say anything positive about what she's doing there b/c I don't want it to come off braggy. Ya know?
I'm overthinking it lol.
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I can definitely tell which side Oren is favoring. I'll start aching something crazy on the side he's on. Wondered what it was that was causing it for a while when I was relaxing yesterday after painting some... I looked down and noticed my belly was lopsided favoring the right side and sure enough, that had been where I was feeling a stitch.

And I'm trying to call him by his name more. At least here heh.
It still feels weird for some reason.
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I didn't get Batman done yesterday. Mostly done, but outlining with the crappy black marker/pan things I have was getting on my nerves so I stopped. Plus I kept feeling really achy so had to sit a lot which caused me not to want to do anything. Add in a toddler that wants some mommy attention and yeah......
Batman is mostly done though. Just have to fill in some black areas and add in a little more shading and will be ok.
Still dreading Spiderman......... uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh I don't want to think about it.

DH commented yesterday "Where's Superman?"
PFFFFT... if he wants Superman on the wall, he can draw and paint him up there himself. I'll sketch something out, he can transfer that to the wall and then paint him. There's no way I'm doing another Superhero.... not when the Spidey is going to be a pain.
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Hmmm.... for rambling sake... going to list the items we still need to get.

Crib and Dresser... duh. lol
Changing pad
Changing pad covers
2-4 crib sheets
baby gate
2 pair of yoga pants (need some regular long pant ones for after birth since it will most likely be cold still)
2 blankets
pack or 2 of wash clothes
few towels

bottles and bottle drying rack of we don't get any back from SiL which I'm doubting we will.

We've built up a stash of formula. It's the same stuff we used for Zoe. Need to get DH to stop buying some though. It's dairy based and what if Oren is allergic. We have over $100 worth of formula right now so... yeah.... need to chill with that until he's actually here and we know it's ok for him to have.
I highly doubt I'll be able to EBF if I can BF or want to BF at all. I'm definitely going to try pumping again. Just not looking forward to the sore as shit nipples or having to wake up every 2 hours to pump and just... bleh. Pumping is such a giant PAIN.
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There was something else but... now I don't remember. Oh well........ something something.... something something...........................

I have to pee!

Seriously... so I'll make this short lol...

Really wondering how the NST is going to go. I do feel Oren every day, but some days, I don't feel him until the evening. Guess we'll see what happens.

DH put some movies on to his tablet thing. We got a free one when we bought new phones and he finally started messing with it last night. He put Frozen on there and b/c he signed up w/ some Disney site he also got Wreck-It Ralph too. That should help when I bring Zoe along to the appointment.

And I just realized that baby weighs as much as the puppy. So weird lol.
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Nursery will be worked on today. Figured out the colors of Batman finally and just finally feel the motivation to work on it some more. Batman shouldn't take too long. Not too many details or anything with him.
Spiderman on the other hand is going to be such a pain. Not looking forward to starting him.
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Zoe is so darn cute. Everything now is "EW!" Like if her hand is sticky... or some food that looks off to her, etc. It's pretty funny.

We also gave her our old cell phones a while ago. They're just old flip phones, but she loves pretending to talk on them.

My baby is getting so big!
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And finally... (the needing to pee feeling has returned)....
I really wish I could just sleep for longer periods at night. For the last 3 nights I've been waking up almost every hour. I'll have maybe one longer stretch of about 3 hours, but the rest of it is waking up almost every single hour and gosh am I feeling worn out :(

30w4d

So, I had my appointment today. An u/s and a routine visit with the doc.
Baby boy is still breech which I figured. He's folded in half though :P His feet are up by his head. Hey.. whatever works for him I guess lol.
Got taken in to a different u/s room than what they normally do. That was interesting but not a big deal or anything heh.

Here's a shot of our little Oren. It's his face (straight on shot) and his big little belly.

He was all snuggled in there sleeping.
They did the usual measurements and he's weighing in at just over 3lbs and is only in the 37th percentile. So he's gonna be a little guy.
His head was measuring big though.. at least compared to the rest of him. His head was measuring between 32-33w. His abdomen was 29-30 and his femurs were 30-31. He's our little bobblehead :P hehe

Doctor visit was good too. She didn't seem concerned about my few higher than 90 fasting numbers. Just said that if there was concern they could bump my glyburide up to 5mg, but she didn't think it was necessary.

I did learn that starting from my next appointment until the end... I go in twice a week now. UUUUGH. I thought it started later than that but NOPE. BLEH!
Don't get me wrong... better to be safe than sorry, but having to worry about taking Zoe either with me or out of the way to MiL's is just such a PITA.
I'm going to take her to the first NST (along w/ the kindle to entertain her). Sounds like the NST appointments are at least an hour long though which... just UGH again. Hoping Zoe will behave while we're there. If not, well, then off to MiL's she goes for the rest of the appointments.
Really wish these places had small nurseries or something for problems like this. I can't be the only momma that drags along their child to their appointments lol.

Also no Tdap shot today. I get that next appointment. And what else.... oh I need to schedule when my c-section will be at 35w. Surprised they wait that long but still... that's not that far away O_O
Man... it's so weird and scary and exciting to be in the home stretch already. Feels like  things are dragging a bit but I think w/ the twice a week appointments.. everything will go fast.

Oh and here's a belly shot... figured I'd take a pic while I was taking a photo of the u/s

And for comparison sake... here I am at 30w pregnant with Zoe...

Looks about the same I think?

Well that ended bad

I dunno what crawled up DH's ass yesterday, but boy did it ruin the rest of the day when he got home.
I can throw around some attitude every once in a while... everyone does, and DH sure did yesterday.
I won't go in to detail about anything b/c it's really not that interesting (not that anything I post is lol).... just that... it turned an ok day in to a shitty one once he got home :\

Plus Zoe being all grumpy and defiant b/c she was tired wasn't helping anything either.
I took a late shower and just broke down in to tears from all of it.
Sigh...
But hopefully today will be better. Can't dwell on those bad days.

I did wake up with the funkiest smell in my nose though. It's as if someone rammed some very pungent pork up my nose o_O And I mean VERY pungent. WTH? Very weird and gross.
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May have figured out how to keep my fasting number down. Last 2 nights, I've had about 2 glasses of water throughout the night and my fasting numbers have been where they should.
I'm not really intentionally drinking that much water. Still waking up with my nose, mouth, throat dry so I have to drink a lot to rehydrate everything.
Anywho... it seems to be helping my fasting numbers though. Not sure if that's cheating or not but hey... it's something rofl ;)

Only thing bad about rehydrating is that it seems as though all of the water goes to making more mucus which coats the top of the back of my throat. Right in that area where you feel the need to swallow or cough. BLEH!

Thankfully though this cold is very slowly but surely leaving my system. Throat only has a very slight irritation to it now so I'm not coughing/pissing myself as much. Woot! :P
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I still have my Christmas weight loss goal for this year. It may not start off on the right foot once baby Oren is here, but I am going to be determined to be down 50lbs by Christmas. It's mostly going to be through diet I think b/c w/ 2 little ones... not sure how up to exercising I'll be lol. Really hoping it's a doable goal though. Would love to be healthier by Christmas. Would also be a great present to myself and my family :)
Just have to make sure to keep those cheats down to a minimum.
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Didn't get Batman done yesterday. Did paint the bat signal though. Just wasn't feeling up to doing much after working on it. Will get to Batman today though. :)

So much snot

Man, the amount of snot that I just blew out of my nose this morning... I am shocked that I can get any air through my nose. Gross!

Cold seems to be getting better though. The coughing can still be bad, but for the most part that sore/irritation is minimal.
Can't wait for this to be gone already so I can stop peeing myself :P lol

Speaking of that... I bought some Depends silhouettes off amazon last night for post partum bleeding. I didn't mind the giant pads before, but I think these will be much better and much more comfortable. Will also help with any kind of leaking problem too I think. Should be good.
They're expensive though. Had no idea these things cost that much.
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Zoe did the cutest darn thing yesterday. I was sitting in the nursery while DH taped up some stuff. Unprompted, Zoe came over, lifted my shirt up over my belly, patted my belly and then said "Hi baby Oren. Hi!" Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

She did do this before, but I had been trying to get her to understand that there was a baby in my belly, so told her to say Hi to the baby and baby's name was Oren etc. This was a few days ago though so her doing what she did last night was unexpected and just damn adorable.
Still don't think she really understands though lol.

It's going to be.... interesting when he does get here.

Oh and... Zoe kinda sorta went potty yesterday! She was getting upset b/c she wanted a donut and then said "Go pee pee in the potty"
So we go out in to the living room, she pulls her potty over and I take her diaper off. She sits on it as usual and gets up straight away. I didn't think much of it, but looked in and there were a few drops of pee in there. Just a few drops, but still something :D
Not saying she's ready yet since I just had to change a poo diaper lol, but she's getting there :)
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I dunno what my fasting levels are doing. So annoying. They go up, then they go down. I'm not sure if it's something I'm doing or not doing that's causing it. Maybe I need to take it later or maybe I need to drink more water during the night. I did drink a lot last night and another night where my fasting was ok. I just try to avoid drinking too much b/c I hate getting woken up by a full bladder, especially since everything else wakes me up too lol.
*shrugs*
My next appointment is in 2 days. We'll see what the doctor says.
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Nursery is coming along. Did more touching up yesterday and will be starting on Batman today. Then after him, have Spiderman to do and then get started on all of the other details for the room (hero emblems). Still have A LOT to do.
The walls were only the beginning.

Random before work

Poor Zoe.
SiL was having a sleep over with my 2 nieces (from brother) and her little girl and wanted Zoe to spend the night.
We were a bit hesitant, but we want Zoe to participate in things like that so we let her go.
Zoe LOVES spending the night wherever and I'm sure had a great time playing with her cousins (other than the few toddler fights we heard about lol).... but we were told she didn't go to bed until 1am.
WTH??
She just doesn't sleep well anywhere else but home. Not what we could do if anything or if this is just something she'll outgrow on her own.
We have her on such a good routine now that she rarely protests when it's bedtime. Ok so she does still protest sometimes but once we get in to the routine of getting her ready, we put her in her crib, she lays down, we cover her up and.. that's it. I don't remember the last time she has cried or made a fuss after she's laid down.

Anyway, this is one of the reasons why I want MiL to spend the night with her here instead of at her own home when baby boy arrives. It's going to be at least 3 days, maybe 4 before we're home and I want Zoe to have gotten SOME good sleep. DH will probably have to come home and spend the night with her if we want that though. For some reason his family get so uncomfortable over here. Sure, I'm not the most sociable person but I've never done anything or acted any differently when they come over. *shrugs*

But yeah... we went out to dinner with them yesterday to pick Zoe up and girl was NOT happy. She was so incredibly tired it wasn't even funny. Just sad cute lol.
We got home with her at 6pm and put her right to bed. She slept until 9am this morning and would've slept longer. We would've let her but DH goes to Sunday school with her and had to start getting ready. She was still sound asleep.
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DH and I did take advantage of her spending the night and finally went and saw the last Hobbit movie.
We would've seen it sooner with other SiL, but the frickin theater close to us only had 2 regular showings. Everything else was either 3D or some other overpriced BS.
I think this weekend was the first time they had more regular showings of it and it showed by how packed the theater was.
It was a good movie. I enjoyed it... except for the end when my throat decided it had had enough and wanted to get that tickle/irritated feeling that makes you cough uncontrollably. Awesome. It couldn't do that in any other part when it was noisy and action packed. Oh no... it waited until the nice quiet emotional parts to attack. *grumble*
I'm sure everyone around us were holding their breath hoping not to catch whatever I had lol. Poor people.
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Speaking of that... I feel fine the majority of the time. It's just the persistent stuffiness that doesn't even last all day, and then the coughing, irritated throat feeling. I still sound a lot worse than how I actually feel.
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Trying a new wash routine with the diapers. I hope it works b/c if not.... I dunno what else to do to prevent funk from building up on them. Following a guide in one of the FB groups that was recommended to me.
First cycle is a rinse & spin w/ detergent. 2nd, I'm trying the whites cycle on extra heavy soiled w/ a full cap of detergent. Then a rinse cycle after that if diapers feel soapy. If not, then in to the dryer they go.
Read that HE washers need more in them to agitate everything a bit more which will help clean things better. That could've been a problem before since I was only washing her diapers and it was usually only ever half full if that. So yeah.... we'll see what happens after a couple of washes. I can't smell the diapers very well right now w/ the cold, but really hoping this works.
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Okedoke... off to work on the nursery some more :)
Only 2.5months left before Oren makes his entrance in to the world O_O

Ok... go away now

This cold needs to go away already. I feel fine other than that continued slightly foggy feeling, but my nose keeps getting stuffy and this damn cough is getting on my nerves.

It's that little irritation at the back of your throat that makes you cough every minute. My throat hurts b/c of it and it keeps me up at night.

I'm thankful this didn't get worse, but still... just go away already!
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Going to have to go on a higher dose of glyburide. I had 2 pieces of cheese last night after dinner, took the glyburide with it and my number was still just over 90 this morning. Grrr....
Going to wait and see what happens. See if taking it right before bed does anything. Will bring it up at my doc appointment.
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Oh, here are some nursery pics that I forgot to upload and post. Oops...

More has been done since I took the photos. Working on Phoenix now and DH got the upper color done yesterday. Still have A LOT of touching up to do. Will get more photos :)

And bonus photo of Zoe stuck in one of her toy bins lol