Koetje Family

How far along?  34 Weeks
Size of Baby:  butternut squash
Total weight gain/loss: 18 lbs. according to dr. appt.
Size of belly: a smidge over 35 cm.
Baby’s heartbeat: 152 bpm
Best moment this week: We had out TN shower this week and were so blessed with the love from family and friends supporting us and who already love little one so much!
Miss Anything? Sleep and energy!  Pregnancy insomnia has hit and makes sleeping for very long impossible!  I guess it could be God’s way of preparing for no sleep 🙂 My energy level though I also so low!  It took about 3 days to recover from the shower and trip to TN, especially since I can’t sleep!
Movement: Baby is very active and I have come to find out, even at night!  When I wake up, sometimes it is hard to get back to sleep since baby is either exercising or moving furniture around in there! 🙂
Food cravings: Still all things sweet!
Anything making you queasy or sick:  Not this week!
Gender prediction:  I catch myself thinking of our baby and our boy name just fits.. I have to think about our girl name telling myself it could still be a girl, but it feels more like I have to convince myself.
Labor Signs: a little crampy
Symptoms: achy lower back, achy shoulders, can’t get comfy, exhausted, bigger appetite (at times I feel like I am a bottomless pit), insomnia,  and linea negra
Belly Button in or out? The top of it is starting to stick out a little more but still overall sort of flat.. I don’t know, its just weird looking!
Wedding rings on or off? On still.. a little hard to believe!
Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy!
Looking forward to:  Getting our apt fully ready for baby!  Now that we have had all the showers we are going to have before baby, it is time to get this place into shape!  We are still looking for a house, but at this point there is no possible way to be in one before baby, so little one will come home here.  Crazy thought!  So let the organizing and cleaning begin.. although I just wish I had the energy for it!  Come on nesting fairy.. kick my butt into gear! 🙂

We were so busy this week, sorry the board is boring 🙂

How far along?  33 Weeks
Size of Baby:  Durian Fruit.. who the heck knows what that is?! haha
Total weight gain/loss: 14 lbs. according to dr. appt.
Best moment this week:  We had the tour of the hospital this week.  It was surreal and exciting, definitely made it feel real and soon!
Miss Anything? Energy!  It has been a crazy week looking at houses and trying to get everything else done that I have no energy this week!
Movement: Lots and lots!  I don’t have to do kick counts since baby would hit the count in about 1 min 🙂
Food cravings: Not really anything this week.
Anything making you queasy or sick:  Not this week!
Gender prediction:  Pretty sure it is a boy still
Labor Signs: none that I’m feeling
Symptoms: achy lower back, achy shoulders, can’t get comfy, exhausted, and linea negra, swelling ankles
~We had a little bit of a scare on Sunday when I look down and my ankles (especially the left one) were bigger than when I broke my ankle!  I wasn’t swollen anywhere else, I could still get my rings on and off; it was just my ankles.  With such severe swelling so sudden, I called the Dr. Monday morning and he wanted me to come in first thing Tuesday.  Until then, I had to stay off my feet, drink lots of water and rest!  By the time we got to the Dr. on Tuesday it had already gone down quite a bit but the worry was if it was a sign of pre eclampsia.  However at the Dr. visit, it was ruled out by me not having any other symptoms and that resting had allowed the swelling to go back down.  Apparently I combined doing too much over the weekend with looking for houses and eating a little too much salt that caused it to swell so rapidly.  Such good news that me and baby are still very healthy and just a sign that I don’t need to push myself so hard!
Belly Button in or out? Flatish 🙂
Wedding rings on or off? On!
Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy!
Looking forward to:  Our shower in TN!  We get to celebrate this little one with so many friends we haven’t seen in a while, it is going to be so much fun!

How far along?  32 Weeks
Size of Baby:  Squash
Total weight gain/loss: 14 lbs. according to dr. appt.
Size of belly: 34 cm.
Baby’s heartbeat: 148 bpm
Best moment this week:  Maternity Pictures!! We had a sweet friend take them for us and I am so excited to see them.  It was so much fun getting to take them though and I was so happy the weather cooperated.  We are in a pattern of having sunny blue skies during the day and then rain setting in at about 6:30 and ending about 8.  We planned to do the pictures at 6:30 and it was the one day this week it did not rain!  We had so much fun doing them and even had Simba cooperate for some! 🙂
We also had some amazing neighbors throw us a surprise mini shower!  They were so sweet and we even had the pups there to celebrate with us. 🙂
Miss Anything? Nothing this week.
Movement: Baby is so active during the day!  I am hoping that this means baby has not mixed up days and nights yet 🙂 Once I am ready for bed baby is pretty still and not very active but jumps around all day!
Food cravings: Not really anything this week.
Anything making you queasy or sick:  Not this week!
Gender prediction:  I really keep going back and forth this week, not fully convinced.
Labor Signs: none that I’m feeling
Symptoms:  leg cramps, achy lower back, achy shoulders, can’t get comfy, exhausted, bigger appetite, and linea negra (I have had it for a couple of weeks but it is starting to really get darker and longer this week)
Belly Button in or out? Hard to say.. it is still about half flat and half out
Wedding rings on or off? On!
Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy!
Looking forward to:  A calmer week!  We have been so busy this week having at least one thing schedule every day/night.  It will be nice to relax a little next week and get some things done off my to do list!

How far along?  31 Weeks
Size of Baby:  Pineapple
Total weight gain/loss: 15lbs
Best moment this week:  It was so fun to get to spend some time with my parents and celebrate my mom’s birthday!  They were in Colorado for her birthday so it was a late celebration.
We also had our breastfeeding class this week. We both feel more confident after the class and are so happy we decided to take it!
And of course to top this week off, I finally found some maternity jeans AND jean shorts that fit!! It’s sad how excited I am about it. 🙂
Miss Anything? Not this really this week
Movement: Lots and lots! 🙂 Baby moves just about all day long and gets hiccups on average about every other day.
Food cravings: Just about all sweets still! 🙂
Anything making you queasy or sick:  Not this week!
Gender prediction:  I’m still thinking boy.
Labor Signs: nope, not that I’m feeling at least
Symptoms:  round ligament pain, achy shoulders/neck, can’t get comfy, and can’t get a deep breath
Belly Button in or out? The top part is starting to pop out but it is still overall flat
Wedding rings on or off? On.. I now check a couple times throughout the day but I can still get them on and off!
Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy!
Looking forward to:  Not baby related but… God is working with us and is writing an amazing story through us!  We are now looking for a house in full force and I am so excited to know where God will take us next!

How far along?  30 Weeks
Size of Baby:  Cucumber
Total weight gain/loss: 14 lbs. according to dr. appt.
Size of belly: 33 cm.
Baby’s heartbeat: 139 bpm
Best moment this week:  Unexpectedly getting see our little one wiggle around!
Miss Anything? Being comfortable!
Movement: Baby feels like it may be starting to run out of room!  It’s not kicks as much any more as just the feeling of limbs moving around!  I am still feeling hiccups and punches, but the legs and feet just move back and forth across my belly all day 🙂
Food cravings: Still fruit this week… I am loving sweets and it seems that I can consume about double the amount of fruit I usually do without hesitation!
Anything making you queasy or sick:  Not this week!
Gender prediction:  I’m still thinking boy.
Labor Signs: nope, not that I’m feeling at least
Symptoms:  major hip pain, achy shoulders, can’t get comfy, exhausted, and can’t get a deep breath
Belly Button in or out? Flat, although it is starting to go out…
Wedding rings on or off? On even though not in the picture, I had been in the kitchen cooking 🙂
Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy!
Looking forward to:  I am really looking forward to the hospital tour.  We had our first ‘baby’ class this week (pediatric CPR and first aid) and I really can’t wait for our breastfeeding class and hospital tour.  It is so exciting and just solidifies that we will be able to meet our little one is such a short amount of time!

Doctor Update: So we had a Dr. appointment this week unexpectedly.  Everything is fine, but I needed to be checked for both mine and the Dr.’s peace of mind.  All week I had been leaking a fluid and I was pretty sure it was just a bladder leak but I needed to be sure it was not amniotic fluid.  I went in and that is when we found out that baby had a growth spurt this week! I gained 3 lbs and my belly grew 3 cm. in just one week!  After an exam, my Dr. was still not 100% sure it was just urine, so he sent me to have an ultrasound.  We were able to see that our fluid volume is perfect and got to see our little one wiggling around!  I think we may have interrupted baby’s morning exercises because when they first checked baby’s heart rate with the Doppler, baby was moving around like crazy and the heartbeat was 152bpm!  About 20 min later during the ultrasound, baby wasn’t moving around quite as much and the heartbeat was back to what it has been, 139bpm.  The nurse laughed and just said baby must have really been working out!  Anyways, the ultrasound also confirmed what I had thought, baby is head down!  Actually, baby’s head is directly on my bladder (hello leaking!).  Baby is currently weighing in at about 3lbs. 10ozs. and doing really well!  Baby is still measuring a little big.  Our appointment was at 30 weeks 4 days, baby’s body is measuring 30 weeks 6 days however the head is measuring 31 weeks 3 days (makes mom oh so excited! Haha).  I am just so happy that I got to see little one, having peace of mind that baby is doing good and growing strong!