Brandon snapped a picture of me at the Columbus Zoo. We were blessed to be able to slip away just the two of us for a few days before we welcome another baby.
A funny thing happened a few weeks ago. While at the doctor’s office we realized we were a week farther along in our pregnancy than we thought! Our due date didn’t change we had just been counting down the weeks wrong. Regardless this little girl is coming soon! 🙂 She will be born for sure sometime in October.
It is so exciting to be nearing the end of this pregnancy. The changing weather reminds me often that our new baby will be here soon! We have spent a lot of time in the past couple of weeks talking to Eli about having a new baby in our family. He asked us whose house the baby would sleep at the other day. I thought it was so funny that he didn’t realize that the baby would live with us all of the time just like he does.
Our baby girl has not been moving as much as she did a few weeks ago which means we have been doing a little extra testing the past few weeks. Ever since she switched to the head down position she just doesn’t want to move around as much. We had an ultrasound and more non-stress tests that showed that all is well. I’m also wondering if she is moving more during the night and I am just sleeping through it? I guess she is just saving up her energy for labor. 🙂 Currently I have gained 14 pounds with this pregnancy. My blood pressure looks great which I am so thankful for. I had my GBS test and passed this time around. Now that I am going to the doctor twice a week I feel like my time is quickly slipping away from me. A trip to the doctor is pretty much an all day affair at this point or at least it feels that way.
I have been doing a better job exercising (walking) but haven’t been back to the gym in a while. At this point I am just done with weight training. If I manage to get some walking in I feel like that is plenty! I have been trying to spend more time resting and less time working on the huge list of projects I would like to finish before the baby comes. Brandon has been doing a great job of reminding me to rest but it is still so hard for me to do. The biggest project left to complete is cleaning and organizing our basement. (We were finally able to purchase a guest bed and mattress which are set up in our basement. Hooray!) I also have a bunch of sewing for the nursery that I would like to do but honestly I care more about having the basement clean before the baby comes than having everything all pretty in her room. She will be sleeping in our room when she comes home from the hospital anyway. 🙂 I have yet to make a single freezer meal which isn’t good. By the time I feel like I have time in the day to tackle something like that I am just ready for a nap. Since we really could go into labor at anytime I am trying to stay well rested. I want to be as well rested as I can for when labor begins.
I did attend a LLL meeting last week which was wonderful. So many sweet little babies. It was great to be reminded of all of the great benefits of breastfeeding. It made me reflect about how some of my own personal reasons for breastfeeding have changed since my first baby. Before Eli I wanted to breastfeed primarily because of the health benefits and the fact that it is free! Although both of those reasons are still great-I really want to breastfeed this time around because of the bonding. That is probably one of the things that I am looking forward to the most (once I get past the first couple months of difficulties. Breastfeeding was very difficult for me at first last time. I’m hoping it isn’t as hard this time but at least I am mentally prepared for there to be a learning curve for baby and I.) There was a little boy there who was 3 who had a great time pushing his cars over his 6 month old little sister’s belly over and over. 🙂 I laughed so hard! I’m sure that will be Elijah for sure.
Sewing Update for the past couple weeks:
The two wet bags I made for our baby girl.
I sewed two wet bags. I used PUL material I had on hand and a nice thick fabric that I had purchased for a different project years ago. I also had the zippers in my stash. I was really pleased with how the large wet bag turned out. All of my other wet bags are square sized but I decided to make this one more rectangular. I hope both bags can stand up to lots of washing and wear. (That has been my only complaint with homemade bags. They do not seem to hold up as well as bags you can purchase.) The small-sized wet bag is really tiny and will probably only hold 2 diapers.
Peri Pads- I sewed a bunch of 4.5″ squares of flannel together to make peri pads. I am planning on soaking these in witch hazel and using them for discomfort “down there” after the baby comes. Has anyone ever done this?
The flannel sheet I sewed, 2 sets of nursing pads, and a newborn side snap shirt where I sewed on baby rick rack.
Nursing Pads-I made a few more nursing pads from scrap fabric using the serger. I think my serger might need a new cutting blade because it is really struggling. I’m planning on sewing a couple more pads on my mom’s serger this week.
Sheet- I sewed a crib sheet out of a cute flannel fabric that matches the blanket I made for baby girl.
Size Newborn dress
Dress-I used this tutorial to whip up this sweet little newborn peasant dress. I thought it looked more like a 0-3 months size after it was sewn. It was fairly quick and easy to sew.
What advice do you have for us as we prepare to meet our little girl any day now?
Emerson Family 
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