36 Weeks

Well today I am 36 weeks pregnant.  I can't believe that it is almost done.  Only 3 weeks or 21 days or less until I will already be holding my baby boy.  Daily life has become a lot more difficult.  It is hard for me to get on the floor and play all day with Micah.  We have been watching more TV than I like to admit and he has been playing by himself a lot more.  He will also bring me toys as I lay on the couch or he will bring me books and we will read them together.
Update on baby...
He is somewhere around 18 inches long and weighs almost 6 pounds now!  He is the size of a honeydew or as long as a head of romaine lettuce.  He should be able to breathe on his own at this point.  He is gaining about an ounce a day.  When this week ends, he will be considered early term.  The new thing is any earlier than 37 weeks is a pre-term baby, 37-39 is early term, 39-40 is full-term and 41 weeks is late term and after 42 weeks is post-term.  So confusing now, but if he stays put one more week, he won't be considered a pre-term baby!
This is my picture earlier this week..

I liked how Micah was staring up at me and my stomach.  And below is 36 weeks with Micah.

I had Micah at 37 weeks 5 days, but hopefully that doesn't happen this time.  Robin is coming to visit and help out in 2 weeks, at exactly 38 weeks.  I just need him to hang out until she is here.
In other news, it appears we will be moving in October, but we don't know exactly where.  The next 6 months is going to be crazy and have tons of change.
Also, we have been cloth diapering Micah for a few weeks now and I really like it.  We have gotten a rhythm with it and Micah really likes them too.  I went to the grocery store last week and it was amazing to not have to pick up diapers!  We have a good little supply built up now, we have 9 diapers and 2 more that we need to pick up (already paid, just need to actually get them).  I will post about the different types and what we think of them another day, but they have actually been quite easy.
Only 21 more days or less!

34 Weeks

I actually hit 34 weeks on Friday, but weekends are always busy around here.  This is my 34 week picture.

And for comparison purposes, this is me at 34 weeks with Micah.

Yup when I was pregnant with Micah at this time, we were preparing to move to a new 2 bedroom apartment.
So at 34 weeks, Baby Ferraro is the size of a butternut squash or a cantaloupe.  He is between 4.2 and 5.8 pounds and is around 17.2 to 18.7 inches long.  He can now hear and react to songs that we sing to him.  His fat layers are filling out, which will help him to regulate body temperature.  The good news right now is that babies born between 34 and 37 weeks normally do fine.  If he was born right now, he'd probably have to spend a few days in the NICU but overtime, he would be just fine.
I still feel so unprepared for his arrival.  Technically, we have pretty much everything we need at this point.  There are a few things I would still like to get, like order some pictures for his room to decorate with and buy a double stroller.  I also need things for me like nursing tanks.  I did go and buy the things that I need for my hospital bag, now I just need to pack it.  My goal was to do that this past weekend, but that didn't happen so hopefully I'll get it done this week.
There is only 32 days until his big arrival.

33 Weeks

We have hit 33 weeks now! Hard to believe.  We have had a very busy week!  We got hit by yet another snowstorm this week.  Micah absolutely loves playing in the snow with Daddy.  Next winter, we are definitely investing in waterproof gloves that actually fit his little hands.

 Unfortunately, he couldn't play very much in the snow this week because he has been sick.  We actually had to run out in between storms to get him to a doctor because he wasn't doing good.

The poor little guy has a double ear infection and a viral cold.  The cough is finally slowing down and he seems to be getting better.  Antibiotics definitely help.
Luckily the weather cleared up for Valentines Day, so my boys took me to Greg's Art and Pottery.  It's a paint your own pottery store in Downtown Fayetteville.  Micah picked out a puppy to paint and Brandon made me a vase.

I was so impressed how great Micah did at it.  He was so focused on it.  I can't wait to pick it up and see how nice it looks.  After painting, we went to Bumbledoo which is our local cloth diaper/baby store and picked up a few more things that we needed and then it was to Red Robin for dinner.
As of Saturday, Micah is cloth diapered during the day.  We are waiting for some more diapers to come in the mail, so we can only do daytime right now but he is loving it.  On Saturday, Brandon also went to Lowe's and got everything and made us a diaper sprayer.  We decided we could cloth diaper as long as we had a diaper sprayer.  So far we have all really been enjoying it.  Hopefully it continues to work as well as it has been so far.
I have a list of things that we still need for Baby Ferraro, and Saturday and today we have been slowly working on cutting that list down.  We are getting close to being done!
This week is already 33 weeks! My c-section is scheduled at 39 weeks so it is only 40 days or less until his arrival!  Baby Ferraro is the size of a durian, which I have no idea what that is.  He is somewhere between 4.2 and 5.8 pounds now, which just seems so big!  He is between 17.2 and 18.7 inches long and he will grow up to an entire inch this week.  Micah was 20 inches when he was born, so this little one is almost at full birth height.  He now keeps his eyes open when he's awake, his bones are hardening and his brain is going through major development.
I'm trying to slowly prepare for his arrival, but also balance enjoying every moment I can with our family of three right now.

31 Weeks!

I cannot believe that we are already at 31 weeks.  It is actually making me really nervous right now.  In 8 weeks or less, I will have an infant again.  I'm feeling so unprepared again, but too exhausted to do much about it.  Exhaustion has hit all new levels this week.  My body aches horribly, I'm uncomfortable and can't sleep at night.  All of this is making me think more about baby stuff.  We are moving end of June, early July into a new house so I have been telling myself that we will decorate the cute nursery then.  The spare bedroom is technically baby's room and his dresser is in the closet there and it is all organized now.  I was thinking though that we could get the art for his room and put it above the spare bed, to make it look more like his? These are the 4 different options I'm thinking about..let me know which you like?

I want his room to be Elephants and Chevron.  So far the only thing I have for his room is grey chevron and white crib sheets from Target.

Anyway, today is 31 weeks.  He is now the size of a pineapple or the weight of a coconut.  He is somewhere between 15.2 inches and 16.7 inches long and weighs between 2.5 and 3.8 pounds.  He's going through major brain, nerve and eye development right now.  His irises will even react to light.  All five of his senses are working now and he can even partially regulate his own body temperature now.  His bones are hardening now too.  Only 56 more days or less!

29 weeks and a little bit more

So technically Friday was 29 weeks, but it's been a long weekend so I haven't posted yet.  Baby Ferraro 2.0 is now the size of an acorn squash.  He is already between 15.2 inches to 16.7 inches long and weighs between 2.5 and 3.8 pounds.  He feels massive in there.  He has a definite spot that is his favorite area to hang out, on my right side.  It feels like there is a permanent bruise on the inside of my stomach where he always hangs out.  He should be tripling his weight until birth.  His muscles and lungs are still maturing and his head is growing to make room for that developing brain.
I can't believe that it is already 29 weeks.  I have 10 weeks or less until he will be here.  I feel so unprepared right now, I have not made one burp cloth yet.  We just cleaned the diaper bag out today so we can start packing that.  Micah now has a "toddler pack", he carries around a little toddler backpack with his stuff inside of it.  It is so adorable!  We need to install the car seat eventually.
So far I have gained 9 pounds, which I am pretty happy about.  Right before we got pregnant, I had lost about 10 pounds on Weight Watchers so I haven't even completely gained the weight I lost in just the few months before getting pregnant.
I have 2 pics of this week..I did one in the bathroom like normal and then decided to get Brandon to take a pic of the bump as well.

I have had 3 different random people stop me at church and stores, commenting about how low I am carrying.  What do you think?
And for comparison, this is me at 29 weeks with Micah

Ct Scans

I have been failing at this whole blogging thing lately.  Life has just been so crazy.  We are settling back into life in North Carolina after our long trip to Florida.  Yesterday we had a not so fun day.  Micah saw a neurologist a few months ago and he wanted Micah to get a CT Scan done.  Yesterday was the big day.

That's my boys waiting for it.  Daddy had to get off from work for it because pregnant women aren't allowed in CT scans.  It was pretty horrifying, I could hear Micah's screams all the way from the waiting room.  It is done though and we meet with the neurologist next Wednesday to get the results.  They are only doing the testing because his head is so large.
Other than that adventure, we have just been doing a lot of building with Legos..

And watching tv, he is obsessed with Chuggington and Mickey Mouse

On other news, we are already 28 and half weeks pregnant with baby boy #2.  Babycenter so happily told me today that I only have 72 days until my probable c-section date.  It's only 61 days until when Micah came.  Time is flying by this time!

18 Weeks

Once again, I'm late on posting a weekly update.  I was actually 18 weeks on Friday, but life is just so crazy at times that I barely have time to realize that I'm a new week.  I feel like this pregnancy is flying by.  The craziest part to me is, I'm pretty much halfway right now! I will be doing a c-section again and they will be doing it early again to avoid labor.  If they schedule it for 38 weeks again, then Friday will be halfway.  However, I had Micah early so for him, this would have been half way right about now.  SO CRAZY!
Baby boy is the size of a sweet potato already!  Or in the daddy version..the size of a pint of Ben and Jerry Ice cream! Yum!  It says that he is about 5.6 inches long and 6.7 ounces, however we had our anatomy ultrasound today and the tech said that he's actually measuring at 9 ounces right now....might be all those skittles and sour patch kids he loved in the first trimester.
He's supposed to be growing rapidly and his blood vessels are now visible through his thin skin.  His ears are in their final position now too.  We had our ultrasound today and got a ton more pictures, and I will post some later from that.  However, the ultrasound went great and baby boy had all his important body parts and everything looked perfect!  And they said definitely a boy, no doubt and not a shy boy at all.
My exhaustion has hit me really hard again and my back pain has been really intense.  We've been fighting a cold, Micah has it really bad so I'm thinking some of the exhaustion might be from my body fighting the cold.  I have another doctor appointment on Wednesday, just my regular checkup.
Here is my 18 week picture.

I feel like the baby bump has definitely started to appear now.