Pregnancy Update: Week 25!
Is it possible to get more excited every week? I seem to fall in love with this new baby more and more as each new week goes by. I was laying on the couch last night having fun at my Usborne online party, and just stopped to watch my tummy move all around. Every baby is such a precious miracle. Now that I’ve been around more women who struggle with infertility, it makes it even more real to me of how amazing it is that I have a baby in my womb. My heart goes out to every mother who wants to be pregnant but just has not been able to conceive.
Here is our little Christmas tree! Sean grew up with Santa and christmas trees, I grew up with no Santa and most years no christmas trees. We have really prayed and experimented with what we feel is best for our family over the years. We eventually want to get a little bit bigger tree, but we don’t want something that is overwhelming. The focus is on Advent, and reading stories all month long about Jesus being born, playing with our Little People Nativity set, etc.
I find the red bow on the tree funny, my husband put it on there. We used to have a little star but we didn’t see it in the tubs this year. If I can get to Hobby Lobby I will get a new star! 🙂
I was just thinking that I needed to order some liquid Chlorophyll to start taking, when I received an email from Beeyoutiful company that they were offering free shipping on any order, today only. Yay! I always have taken their brand, so I know I can handle the taste. I normally struggle with being anemic the last trimester, sometimes it gets so bad my midwife tells me I can’t have a home birth if I don’t quickly get my levels up. So I really need to get started on that.
I’m also going to order the Red Raspberry capsules to take. Last pregnancy I started taking 4-8 capsules a day during the third trimester, and I took the Evening Primrose Oil capsules the last month. It made such a difference in my labor, I’m definitely doing it again this time!
This week has been especially hard on my varicose veins. You can see all the blue veins in my foot in the picture. I’ve had to sit at the computer a lot, and it has made my veins really flare up even more. It just is part of pregnancy for me, so I deal with it the best I can.
How are all the pregnant mamas who are reading this doing? 🙂
We love our ‘little’ tree. I grew up with no christmas tree, so the first 8 yrs. We had a big tree. It was too much. A couple years ago we bought our 4ft. Tree from sears and we love it. It’s simple and beautiful, easy to decorate and we put it on a stand by the window so it doesn’t take much room. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Yay for feeling better 🙂
I am 28 weeks with #6 and this has been by far my hardest pregnancy. My body just seems wore out.
Tomorrow we have another ultrasound and my sugar test and rhogam shot. So thankful for my little ones and so very thankful for my older kids who can help me so much !!! (13.10.6.4.1)
As for your tree – so cute 🙂 we do not do Santa but have a prelit fake tree we got on clearance last year. We top our tree with a Gold Crown of Thorns to remind us of the Best gift we could be given – eternal life <3
No, I’m not pregnant….but, yes, I peruse your blog quite often! 🙂 Even though I don’t know you, I’ve been loving your pregnancy updates, and am so excited for you and your family! I’m the one who has asked/pestered you 🙂 a couple of times previously about the type and amount of progesterone cream you were using when you conceived. We have six beautiful children, and it’s never been a problem to conceive or carry my babies to term. Well, we had an early miscarriage this last March, and since then, my body/hormones? have been totally out of whack. I’ve realized, as you said, how intricately our bodies are made, and the delicate balance that needs to be maintained for our bodies to function correctly. I’ve also been eating some “humble pie”…. since it has not been as easy for us to conceive this time. As I “wrestled” yesterday with how much cream I should use yet another month, I asked my husband to be praying that I would have wisdom to know. You know what he told me? 🙂 …. he said that he thought it would be good for me to take a break from it. That’s not what I was “planning,” 🙂 but it did give me so much peace. I’m thankful for the wisdom my husband has, and his decisiveness in life. 🙂 Again, congratulations on your wonderful blessing that you will soon get to meet! 😉 Very exciting!!!
Yes, same here, enjoying your updates. And the cute Christmas tree 🙂 We don’t do Santa, but we do a tree, and Christmas lights everywhere, because I think they’re just beautiful, but we are being faithful in our Advent readings, and trying to teach our toddlers the true meaning of our celebrations.
I am 26 weeks with #3, and feel like I have it super easy. Some heartburn, and a weird hip thing that acts up every now and then (when I lift heavy things or work really hard, like I’ve been doing for the past two weeks during our move :)), but otherwise… I’m surprised by how good I feel. My last pregnancy left me with a traumatic memory from the heartburn/breathlessness combo that made sleep impossible and most awake moments miserable. But this time? Haven’t felt the out-of-breath stuff yet, or unbearable heartburn, although it is present. The belly is starting to inhibit movement though 🙂 And, yes, I love feeling Baby kick so much. Precious feeling!
Thank you for your mention of those who are struggling. I am truly delighted that you and many others are expecting beautiful babies, for me there is always a little twinge of pain added to that delight as I continue to wait (5 years). Thank you for acknowledging those of us who wait.
I’m so glad that you are feeling better.
I’m so sorry that you are still waiting. Now that I’ve been around someone close to me that has experienced infertility, I’m much more aware of it and the pain it causes. :/ ((hugs)) I pray you will be blessed eventually!