PREGNANCY
evolution of you
8 weeks
12 weeks
(being a wiggle worm)
20 weeks
30 weeks
from your mom
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from your mom β
I havenβt been through the last 4-6 weeks yet, but overall your pregnancy has not been too bad, and Iβve really enjoyed having you, my little buddy, with me all the time. Iβm never alone!
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Pasta with red sauce
Hot subs
Any ground meat
Chunky Soup
Chicken Pot Pie
Eggs cooked at home
Pretty much any hot, cooked meal
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Jimmy Johnβs veggie subs
Zaxbyβs fried cobb salad
CEREAL
Costco fruit/veggie pouches
UNCRUSTABLES
Lots and lots and lots of McDonaldβs: happy meals and egg mcmuffin meals
Baby carrots
Milk
Fruit (which I usually do not care for)
It was pretty hard for me to eat in the first trimester and I often felt nauseous and tired, but I never threw up!
Despite what people said would happen, I started showing EARLY and I have been rather on the large side your entire pregnancy. People OFTEN ask if Iβm sure thereβs only one in here (sigh).
Second Trimester meant quite a lot of pelvic pain (the type I expected later in the 3rd trimester) and it has not gone away yet! Haha
The third trimester, so far, has brought an inability to breathe, move, or change the laundry over without feeling like I ran a mile. My fingers and ankles are finally swollen (Week 33) and I waddle everywhere. The pelvic pain is CRAZY thanks to the relaxin in my body getting me ready for birth. You are almost here though, so itβs worth it!! Oh and you also hiccup a LOT and I sleep about 5 hours a night now.
At 37+6, youβve been head down for a few weeks but still very wiggly. The doctor said your spine is on my right side. Several times a day, on the upper right side of my belly, I get what I suspect is a foot poking through.
At 38+5, my feet are comically swollen and Iβm 1cm dilated and 30% effaced! So youβll be here soon (please).
February 13
March 13
March 26
March 28
April 4
April 14 (with Lauren)
April 19
April 20
May 1
May 4
May 4 (with Catherine and Sebby)
May 8
May 10
May 11 (Mother's Day with Sebby and Janelle)
May 12 (with Mazzy)
May 16
May 18
June 3
June 7
June 17
June 21
June 22 (with Kendall)
June 22 (this is apple juice)
July 8
July 29
July 29 (with Tatum and Anna)
August 3
August 6
August 9
August 11
August 14
August 26
September 8
September 12
September 13
from your dad
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from your dad π
I donβt have much to contribute in your development physically, so I have sought out more of the psychological and spiritual during these last months. Though I had my fair share of kicking and screaming just as you one day will, I came to grips with the task your life presents me. I am responsible for you, and I get the privilege to watch you grow. I get to put my own nurturing stamp upon your life. It has been a heavy weight but an incredible honor that God would entrust you to Alyssa and me. So if I stopped there, I knew we were enough to be your parents.
I also have been writing to you, in hopes that you one day you may see the world as I did, maybe feel the emotions that I felt, worrying over your mother or finances or how I could possibly raise you. I just know that all of these anxieties will be shed the moment I see you, and Iβll wonder why I ever struggled. When I first see your face, it will be like lifting a shroud from my own.