39 Weeks!

How far along?: Thirty-nine weeks!

Baby is the size of: A baby. A fully cooked and ready to be born baby!

Total weight gain/loss: +37

Symptoms: Insane swelling in my feet and legs, every footstep hurts. Crampiness throughout the afternoons. 

Food Cravings: Key Lime Pie, Pecan Sandies, assorted sweet things.

Anything Making Me Queasy or Sick: Just taking my pills. I can't bear the smell/taste anymore. 

Sleep: Eh... it's okay. I thought it would be worse at this point, honestly.

What I miss: I'm going to stick with being a broken record and cry for soft serve...

Wedding rings on or Off: Off.

Movement: Still have a 3AM dance party, but during the rest of the day the movements are a little less strong since the baby is so far towards my back. I occasionally feel little feet floating to the top though. 

Maternity Clothes? I've given up completely. I wear whatever doesn't constrict me, regardless of whether that means my belly hanging out the bottom or going to the store in pajamas. 

Labor Signs: Not really, but I'm wishing for them! 

Best Moment of the Week: My Mom is here, so I feel ready for the baby to make it's appearance! 

37 Weeks!

How far along?: Thirty-seven weeks!

Baby is the size of: Um... I forgot. 

Total weight gain/loss: +33

Symptoms: Incredible swelling in my feet and legs.

Food Cravings: Potatoes.

Anything Making Me Queasy or Sick: My prenatals! Uck.

Sleep: Not as bad as I thought it would be at this stage. 

What I miss: Soft serve ice cream. *sniff*

Wedding rings on or Off: Off.

Movement: Every day at 3AM, it goes crazy. I get other random movements throughout the day, but that's the Crazy hour.

Maternity Clothes? I'm down to three or four things that sort of awkwardly still "fit".

Labor Signs: Not really.

Best Moment of the Week: Maternity photoshoot! My swelling was crazy but I still got some photos I love.

35 Weeks

How far along?: Thirty-five weeks!

Baby is the size of: Honeydew, I think? My pregnancy emails stopped telling me.

Total weight gain/loss: +30ish? A lot.

Symptoms: Stiffness and pain in my fingers. Exhaustion. Random dizziness and nausea.

Food Cravings: Mostly I really want frozen yogurt or soft serve ice cream. I had an overwhelming urge for chocolate last week and drove to the convenience store at 4AM, only to find that their computer was down and they couldn't take cards, and of course I had no cash. Grrr.

Anything Making Me Queasy or Sick: Random ickyness, throughout the day.

Sleep: Off schedule, but reasonably good.

What I miss: Soft serve ice cream or frozen yogurt. So much I could cry.

Wedding rings on or Off: Definitely off. I tried to put them on for a photo and realized it was a very bad idea.

Movement: A lot. Every day.

Maternity Clothes? I've outgrown most of them so I consistently have a bit of belly sticking out of the bottom of my shirts.

Labor Signs: Nope!

Best Moment of the Week: Meeting our birth photographer. I'm so excited for those photos and she seems awesome. 

33 Weeks!

How far along?: Thirty-three weeks!

Baby is the size of: A mini cooper, judging by how I feel.

Total weight gain/loss: +26

Symptoms: Exhaustion. Stiffness and pain in my fingers. Nausea. Trouble sleeping. Heartburn.

Food Cravings: Eh... I'm not so into food at the moment. No room.

Anything Making Me Queasy or Sick: Random ickyness, most of the day.

Sleep: Not great.

What I miss: Soft serve ice cream. Seriously. I need some.

Wedding rings on or Off: Off.

Movement: Crazy movement. I think the baby may have flipped from sunny-side up to proper position today, but I'm not sure.

Maternity Clothes? I've outgrown at least half of them. I have no more pants. I have no idea what I'm going to wear for my photoshoot next week.

Labor Signs: Nope!

Best Moment of the Week: My CPR/First Aid class. I feel much more prepared now.

31 Weeks

How far along?: Thirty-one weeks!

Baby is the size of: I'm not sure. Apparently I need to look that up.

Total weight gain/loss: +23

Symptoms: Exhaustion. Stiffness and pain in my fingers. Nausea. Trouble sleeping. Heartburn.

Food Cravings: Mexican food.

Anything Making Me Queasy or Sick: Random smells, different every day. I just feel very "bleh".

Sleep: Not great. I have to get up a lot.

What I miss: Soft serve ice cream, being able to bend over, being capable of putting socks on by myself...

Wedding rings on or Off: Off. I put it back on for a minute and it got VERY stuck, so that's not happening again.

Movement: Lots!

Maternity Clothes? I'm actually outgrowing some of my maternity clothes now. I guess I'm embracing the scarecrow look from now on.

Labor Signs: Nope!

Best Moment of the Week: Hmm. Not sure.

29 Weeks

How far along?: Twenty-nine weeks!

Baby is the size of: A chinese cabbage.

Total weight gain/loss: +21

Symptoms: Exhaustion. Stiffness and pain in my fingers. Nausea. Trouble sleeping. Heartburn.

Food Cravings: Coffee.

Anything Making Me Queasy or Sick: Not anything in particular, just completely random nausea it seems.

Sleep: Very uncomfortable, waking up every hour or so.

What I miss: Sleep.

Wedding rings on or Off: Off.

Movement: Lots!

Maternity Clothes? Yep!

Labor Signs: Nope!

Best Moment of the Week: I'm not sure there were any good moments this week... :S

27 Weeks

How far along?: Twenty-seven weeks!

Baby is the size of: A Cauliflower! :D

Total weight gain/loss: +19 from pre-pregnancy weight. Yikes...

Symptoms: Some pelvic and cervical pain, especially in the evening. In general I've just been more tired and been having more aches and pains.

Food Cravings: Hot sauce, mangoes, and salad.

Anything Making Me Queasy or Sick: Not anything in particular, just completely random nausea it seems.

Sleep: Reasonably good, except for horribly painful leg cramps waking me up some nights.

What I miss: Being able to squat, kneel, get up and down without a ton of effort.

Wedding rings on or Off: They are now off, too tight.

Movement: Lots of movement, so much that I wonder if the baby ever sleeps...

Maternity Clothes? I'm now into all maternity clothes except for yoga pants.

Labor Signs: Nope!

Best Moment of the Week: Last week of the second trimester! So awesome to think I'm two-thirds done.