33 Weeks!

Today I am 33 weeks pregnant - 7 weeks to go!

Pregnancy Highlights:

Size of Baby: Baby H now weighs a little over 4 pounds about the size of a pineapple and has passed the 17 inch mark!  

Total Weight Gain/Loss: I actually lost a pound from last week! Probably this darn diet I'm on.

Baby's heartbeat at last visit: Baby's heartbeat sounds great, I had my first NST on Tuesday and the nurse said everything looks perfect, they are looking for the heartbeat and see how active he is and then how the heartbeat does down plus any contractions and kicks.

Maternity Clothes: YES

Gender: We are having a BOY!

Name:  COOPER THOMAS HILLEBRAND!

Movement: Yes! Yes! Yes! I can see him moving around all the time and a couple times a day he will really get me good and I have to actually stop what I'm doing because it just shocks me that he's that strong, I love it!

Sleep: Sleep is great! Cooper and I seem to be on a schedule already. I usually wake up around midnight to go to the bathroom (at this time I can get back to sleep pretty easily) then again around 4:00am and at this time Cooper wakes up and wants to play or something because he feels like he's doing somersaults in my belly and I have a hard time getting back to sleep. I'll just lie there and smile because I've been waiting for this for so long. So I'm assuming that's probably going to be my schedule once he arrives. I'm OK with it, for now anyway.

What I miss: Everything that I can't have! But thanks to Diet Cherry Pepsi I do have something to look forward to. I'm also missing my energy it seems I'm starting to get tired a lot again.

Cravings: Seems for my nighttime snack I'm always looking for something with ice cream so I've been having a small bowl with a little chocolate syrup. Ymmm, I could go for one right now!

Symptoms:Definitely feeling the Braxton Hicks Contractions, I didn't really realize what I was supposed to be feeling until I was at the doctor's office yesterday during my NST, my belly got really hard and that's what she said was BH contractions.  I also asked the nurse during my routine exam when she was measuring my belly if she could tell if the head was down and she said it felt like he was, so that's good! Although he could still turn lets just hope he stays in the that position since that's they way he needs to come out. I don't want any complications like that!

Not So Best Moments This Week: Starting insulin :( Yep I couldn't control my sugars so they decided this would help out and that's what I did. Friday, Tom and I went to the Diabetes center to discuss this and go over how the shot works and how it will help with my sugar levels. This shot is just like the one I used with IVF, the first shots anyway that went into my belly. It looks like and EPI pen. I have two different insulin's one right before dinner time, I have to give myself a shot and depending on what I'm eating I can give myself that much insulin, so normally it's about 5 units I give myself, this allows me a few extra carbs. This is a fast acting insulin so I take this about 15 minutes before I eat. Then the other shot is before bedtime, this is a slow acting one so it will work while I'm sleeping so my fasting sugars are better. It's just a pain but I'm doing this all for the baby and now with the insulin I have to have a NST twice a week! Plus my doctor's visit once a week, but I can make the NST the same time as my doctor's visit. So my schedule will be every Tuesday - doctor and NST and every Friday - NST. All I can say is I hope the next 7 weeks go fast but not fast enough where I don't have anything ready to go. OMG I have so much to do!

Best Moment This Week: So many things!We finally got the approval from the Bank that we can start finishing our basement, we were super excited, me more than Tom, but I think he's pretty excited too. They are hoping to be done my the 2nd week in March, which will be perfect! I''m hoping the bedroom will be the first thing done so we can start moving one of the kids down, I'm staying out of this one though, it's going to be a battle, but I think Brandon's going to win, Micayla's not a fighter so she'll probably give in. If she does, she'll get to paint her room if she wants, we're just not going with bright pink like at the old house, but something that will look nice, it's just a boring white room, but it's big and has a double closet, just what every girl dreams of.

Other best moments this week and looking forward to include:

• Ordering my rocker/glider and footstool, this will take 6 to 8 weeks to get in, I think I should have ordered this about a month ago, but time just got away from me. I'm hoping it will be here in the 6 week range rather than the 8 week, we'll just have to keep our fingers crossed.
• Ordering our baby furniture from Babies R Us, this should be here sometime next week. And we got a great deal - 35% off each item!
• VALENTINE'S DAY! This was a wonderful day. When I got into my car Tuesday morning there were 2 cards, one on my steering wheel from Tom and another on my dash with a bag of sugar free chocolates from Cooper. It was the most sweetest card and when I read it, it made me cry. Tom is the best and the sugar free caramel filled chocolates are pretty darn good. I'm going to eat one now! I have to tell you what Tom wrote from Cooper, it melts my heart every time I read it - I can't wait to look into your eyes for the first time mommy and have you hold me in your arms. P.S. Here's a snack to keep you satisfied until then. That just makes me tear up every time. I hope he's not mad at me for telling the world. We also made a roast in the crock pot for dinner that night so we enjoyed a nice dinner at home.
• Maternity Pictures - Tom and I have an appointment tomorrow, Thursday, with a friend of mine who is going to take a few pictures. I'm kind of skeptical of doing it but I think if I don't I will regret it. I only want a few just because if this is our only child I want to remember every moment of it, not that I'll forget but you know what I mean. I only have my weekly pictures to look back on right now so that's why I'm doing it. Before our pictures I'm hoping to eat at Vinny Vanuchicci's for dinner, our appt. is at 6:00 and I don't think I can wait until after, I'll be starving!

Here are a few random pictures: I feel bad because it feels like forever since I've blogged.

 Here I'm burning a bunch of cabinets that came from Tom's parents house that was in our basement, we had to get rid of them and this was the best way. Brandon and his friend broke them all up and I was manning the fire, it was a hot one! Notice the snow on the patio. LOL

My feet/ankles see what I mean about the sock line? I have to adjust my socks all the time, this was taken today, Wednesday. Usually it's worse than this, I just pulled my socks up before I started this blog and this is what they look like now.

Here's the HUGE box of clothes I got from my sister-in-law all from Lane. I can't believe how many clothes are in this box. I don't think Coop will ever wear them all but you just never know!

Here I am at my first NST, thanks to Mom how came up and sat with me. If you can see the baby's heartbeat is at 131 and it would get up to 160 then come back down. He was perfect! And that chair is pretty darn comfy.

And last but not least, my special Valentine's from Cooper. It was so sweet!