What is your legacy? : December 2013

Pregnancy Post #3

5:54 AM

How Far Along: 15 weeks
Size of Baby: 4 inches long!
Gender: Well, at 8 weeks our baby had a 174 bpm (beat per min.) heart rate 10 weeks: 170... today? 164. So according to legend... it's a girl. I don't know though. I'm skeptical. We are going to a class called Centering (google it!), and as I was listening to the heart beats of all the other babies as I was supposed to be mingling (hey, I can multi task) - all the heart beats were slow and steady and then ours was SUPER fast. (normal range for a heart beat, just faster than everyone else...) Midwife says "you have a VERY active baby!" Pretty sure this has been said to us at EVERY appointment.
Total Weight Gain: TWO pounds!
Maternity Clothes: My friend & boss & co-worker (all the same person) gave me a bunch of maternity clothes and they are OH so comfy. However, I have started feeling more awkward - especially when I walk.
What I miss: medicine. I'm so tired of sinus pressure and having so much snot in my body due to increased blood flow. I do use my neti pot; so that helps!
Sleep: My child will not allow me to sleep any way except on my left side; which is supposed to be the healthiest, so (s)he must know what's best ... Jk. it's just really uncomfortable to sleep any other way.
Cravings: Lasagna. Grapefruit.
Best moment of the week: Getting UT clothes in the mail from my inlaws <3

Pregnancy update #2

8:42 PM

This photo made me cry after I saw it... Reasons why?... Well... I'll let you guess, but let's blame pregnancy hormones.

How Far Along: 14 weeks
Size of Baby: Our baby is now about 3.5 inches long and can squint, frown, grimace, pee and possibly suck his or her thumb!
Gender: a HUGE question mark.
Total Weight Gain: Still unsure! I have an appointment next week... :-) I noticed my belly button is changing... like I can actually see the bottom of it. Is that weird to mention? I'm not sure.
Maternity Clothes: For the first time, I couldn't button my pants. :(
What I miss: sushi, fried eggs and undercooked meats.. read: steak.
Sleep:I just want to sleep on my tummy and it's hard not to.
Cravings: hamburgers. kale, swiss chard.
Best moment of the week: looking at baby clothes at an outlet mall.... ;-)

Before we were telling people we were pregnant, my class and I were reading in Psalm 51. It's David's words after Nathan confronted him about sinning with Bathsheba. These are how some of David's words were translated in the NIV:

Surely I was sinful at birth,
sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
6 Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb;
you taught me wisdom in that secret place...

My prayer since reading this has been that God would teach our sweet baby wisdom in the womb. Obviously I don't and wouldn't know what that looks like but at our 10 week sonogram, the baby was jumping EVERYWHERE and it looked like he or she was clapping his or her newly developed hands... I know that many babies do this in the womb, but immediately I heard in my head "wisdom in the womb."

I love that God knows everything about my baby already, when I know very very little. From the MINUTE this child was conceived, God had already determined everything about him or her - from the color of his or her hair to height (i'm so curious about this) to personality, etc. I love this.

Beauty of the Ballard Bridge.

4:54 AM

We are blessed to call this place home. Thankful for this season in our lives. <3

I'm Pregnant!

11:48 PM

In the sweater my sister sent me!

Thought I could update everyone once in a while ;-)
Here's my first post as a mommy <3

How Far Along: 12.75 weeks ;-)
Size of Baby: apparently sweet baby Chomout is the size of a peach; probably about 3 inches in length. My midwife did tell me though that my ultrasound matches up exactly with my estimated due date and that that is rare... so our sweet baby is right on schedule.
Gender: Most people tell me they picture me with a girl. I also had a dream we had a girl.... because of these two things, I believe it will probably be a boy ;-).
Total Weight Gain: I don't have a scale at home but I'm at this point, not gaining any weight, I've actually lost 3 pounds! Midwife said it is normal and I will start gaining in the 2nd trimester.
Maternity Clothes: Right now I can still wear normal shirts and jeans, but they are tight. I caved and got some maternity jeans and they are so comfy! My sister also sent me a beautiful sweater :-)
What I miss: Dos XX & Wine and HARD CIDER. AGGH!. (Is that dramatic enough??) I also squeezed into my red christmas dress to wear to the nutcracker and felt like a sausage all night. And then I BROKE the zipper. I almost cried. Luckily I can fix it ;-).
Sleep: I wake up EVERY morning at 3 to go pee. I'm so tired of it.
Cravings: carbs. salad. grapefruit. blueberries. Seth's sympathy cravings: Pizza Hut.
Best moment of the week: telling my class there was a baby in my tummy ;-)

How I told my sweet first grade class

All day I read books to them about mommies who were having a baby and books about being babies. They were clueless. Even in our grammar lesson, one sentence was "The pregnant teacher taught in the classroom." Then at the end of the day we played a game of hangman and the answer was "There is a baby in Mrs. Chomout's tummy." Their reactions were hilarious. :-) Then, the wonderful art teacher brought in cookies and balloons and my very first baby gift. It was precious. :-) It was certainly a blessed day for my class.

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