January 2015 – Schatzi

Maternity-Leave To-Do List

Seeing I have a bit time until our baby comes I had to make a maternity-leave todo list to not just sit around everyday, so here it is:

Pack my hospital bag
Make a list with questions/notes I have to take with into the delivery room
Get informed and buy a dryer
Buy a folder for all the papers concerning the pregnancy/birth/baby
Drive to IKEA and just look around, not on a Saturday and not with 1 Mio. people doing the same thing
Buy things we are missing in our household
Get informed about Baby’s insurance
Wash the bathroom carpet
Wash and dry the baby clothes and toys
Clean the washing machine and the dishwasher
Dust the high kitchen shelves (without falling)
Go through my closet and throw out clothes I never wear
Go through my bathroom shelves and through out the stuff I never use
Clean the fridge and freezer
Have a brunch and wellness day with my mom 🙂
Make a cost calculation
Drive to the urban district I love but haven’t been in ages
Go out for breakfast, coffee and cake more
Explore the city we live in
Make a first-aid course for babies/kids
Have a pedicure
Make an appointment with my midwife
Meet with friends and family

I’m starting my maternity leave at 32 weeks pregnant.

baby bump weeks 8 - 32 — baby bump weeks 8 – 32

Now the belly I’ve had before pregnancy doesn’t seem so big anymore 🙂

32nd week

How far along: 31 weeks 6 days
How much do I weigh: 56,9 kg (+ 8,1 kg)
Belly size: I am trying to eat more to gain more weight. Yesterday eve I ate two big plates with spaghetti and a veggie-tomatoe sauce and had ice-cream for dessert 🙂

Baby Bump Week 32 - 31w6d — Baby Bump Week 32 – 31w6d

Belly button in or out: It’s coming out a bit, a tiny bit
Sleep: Pretty good, getting/waking up once (not) every night
Food (non) cravings: Nothing special

birthday girl — My Birthday 2015 – I’m 31 weeks and 2 days pregnant 🙂

Symptoms: Heartburn
Maternity clothes: One pair of jeans is getting a bit too tight around my belly so now I have exactly one pair of pants which still fit good without giving me trouble breathing. Let’s see how long.
Stretch marks: None
Miss anything: I’m feeling good and everything is pretty fine so I’m not missing anything yet.
Looking forward to: I’m looking forward to not getting up early on Monday morning to go to work 🙂
Best happenings this week:

Sunday: Had a lovely birthday-baby-shower-brunch
Monday: Had a lovely 33rd birthday. I didn’t go to work so in the morning I baked some cupcakes, then the boyfriend and I had a lovely breakfast and went for a nice walk in the early afternoon. It was very sunny so we stopped at a coffee shop and had coffee and cake. In the eve we went out for dinner.
Tuesday: On Tuesday I had my second prenatal class. We learned about contractions and when we should drive to the hospital.
On Wednesday I baked some more cupcakes which I all brought to work on Thursday to celebrate my birthday and maternity leave.
Friday: I had my last day of work for this year 🙂

Movement: Lots! His feet are kicking the right side of my uterus
Gender: Baby-Boy Bruno
Happy or moody most of the time: Happy and getting more and more excited for the baby to come
Sports: Not allowed at the moment

Baby-Birthday-Shower

Happy Birthday to me, I’m turning thirty-threeee 🙂

On Sunday I invited my mom and sisters for a lovely brunch and I got some useful presents for baby-boy Bruno and me. It was a lovely day, we had good food – lots of fruit, good bread, sausage, eggs, marmalade… and after the brunch the bubby and I looked at a very nice house to rent. We didn’t take it though seeing a big street was right next to it and that’s too dangerous for kids (I thought) – he thought it’s probably too noisy.

On my birthday, Monday the 19th, I took a day off of work and bubby and me went for a nice walk, had coffee and cake, looked at the stroller we ordered and in the evening we went out to eat.

I had my second prenatal class this week and we learned about contractions, it was quite interesting, of course 🙂

The evenings I spent baking. As it is my last week of work before my maternity leave, I’m bringing American goodies to work.

Ah, I love to bake cute things like that!

My 31st week baby bump story

31st week

How far along: 30 weeks 6 days
How much do I weigh: 56,8 kg (+ 8 kg)
Belly size: Growing and growing 🙂

Baby Bump Week 31 - 30w6d — Baby Bump Week 31 – 30w6d

Belly button in or out: In / Even
Sleep: I get up once a night at mostly the same time, 3:00 am
Food (non) cravings: pickles
Symptoms: sometimes lower back pain
Maternity clothes: always
Stretch marks: none
~~Miss anything~~ Things I don’t miss:

Getting my period each month and bleeding 7+ days
Getting pretty bad PMS each month
To make my belly look slim after I’ve eaten a big meal

Looking forward to: Seeing the stroller we bought. We have never seen it live before as it’s a new model, first coming to the stores in 2015. We ordered on Wednesday because we were told it can take up to eight weeks for it to come and well on Friday (so two days later) we get a call from the store – our stroller is already there 🙂
Best happenings this week: This last week was quite busy

Monday: Met with the doctor who will be delivering our baby.
Tuesday 4pm: Visited the nursery next door. We were four moms and one dad at the information-afternoon that day. The manager told us all about the nursery and then we all registered our (born) little babies. We’ll get informed sometime in April / May if we get a place for the time we wished for. I registered our little baby-boy for March 2016.
Tuesday 5:30pm: Had my first prenatal course. We are 16 women! It was good, quite long I thought but it’s nice to be with a midwife and 15 pregnant women and just talk about pregnancies, babies and the birth.
Wednesday: We ordered a stroller and a car-seat
Thursday: Went to the gym
Friday: Had an OB appointment. Little peanut didn’t show us his face but he’s 1,5kg and everything is just fine. He’s got 7cm big feet! My cervical length is a bit reduced so the doctor wants me to take my maternity leave two weeks earlier than planned, which means that starting tomorrow I’ll be working my last week!! I’m not allowed to go to the gym for two weeks and I should not have s*e*x (bummer 😉 ) the next two weeks

Movement: A lot, yes 🙂 Mostly his back is laying on the left side of my uterus and he’s kicking the right side of my body.
Gender: He showed us his genitals very nicely on Friday. Two big balls, one little thingy in the middle.
Happy or moody most of the time: Happy
Sports: I went to the gym twice this week but have to stop for the next two weeks. I can go for walks though, let’s see if I’ll do that.

My 30th week baby bump story

30th week

How far along: 29 weeks 6 days
How much do I weigh: 56 kg (+ 7,2 kg / 15.8 pounds)
Belly size: Growing

Baby Bump Week 30 - 29w6d — Baby Bump Week 30 – 29w6d

Belly button in or out: In
Sleep: I can’t complain. Baby-Boy Bruno mostly goes to bed the same time I do so it’s quite in there 😉 Sometimes I get up once in the middle of the night, sometimes not. I really can’t complain.
Food (non) cravings: Nothing special
Symptoms: Can’t complain here either. None really. When I lay too long on one side I feel like my hip is falling asleep and feels really uncomfortable which reminds me of bedsore 🙁
Maternity clothes: Yes please
Stretch marks: None
Miss anything: I miss to have more space in our apartment. I need to get rid of some plants – too much!
Looking forward to:

My next OB appointment in five days.
Buying the last big things we need – a stroller, a dryer, a diaper garbage can.

Best happenings this week: Nothing really exciting and worth mentioning happened.
Movement: Lots. As Bruno is getting bigger each day/week I feel lots more going on. His kicking/slapping/turning/hitting isn’t uncomfortable yet so I’m lucky.
Gender: Baby-Boy
Happy or moody most of the time: Happy
Sports: Walks

My 29th week baby bump story

29th week

How far along: 28 weeks 6 days
How much do I weigh: 55,8 kg (+ 7 kg) I know I’ll scratch the 60 kg but I hope not to go over. We’ll see. The babe will gain 2 – 2,5 kg for sure and something in my body will probably gain as well, probably the fat! The amniotic fluid isn’t getting more, I read that, I’m not sure about my uterus. My boobs might still get bigger.
Belly size:

Baby Bump Week 29 - 28w6d — Baby Bump Week 29 – 28w6d

Belly button in or out: Half half, still more in though
Sleep: Quite good. At the moment I don’t have to run to the bathroom when I wake up, I just wake up and lay awake for some time, but not every night.
Food (non) cravings: Meat
Symptoms: I’m becoming a stick-in-the-mud more and more. Even to just turn from one side to the other side in bed seems like an effort. I’m happy for my UGGS.
Maternity clothes: I got some new tops from a friend, some warm pullovers. Bought one new pullover at H&M in size S which kinda looks like a sack but I’m pretty sure it will fit me in March as well. Seeing I don’t want to spend a lot in maternity clothes I’m ok with not feeling too good in the clothes I’m wearing, but they’re not that bad either.
Stretch marks: Nope 🙂
Miss anything: Every week I think of something I might miss but really, this whole pregnancy till now I haven’t really missed anything. It’s a different lifestyle, it’s temporary and I’ve been adapting myself to it. Of course I prefer my power workouts where I come out of the gym-room all sweaty but I’ll be able to hopefully do that a few weeks/months after my birth. I’ve got different priorities now like not getting my heart-rate up too high so I’m ok with my current lifestyle. As long as our baby is doing fine I’m doing more than fine.
Looking forward to: Buying a dryer
Best happenings this week:

Well, we bought a new TV which wasn’t expensive but is quite big (40”). Watching Homeland, the Big Bang Theory and different documentaries on the “big screen” is really quite a pleasure (we watched them on a 13” laptop before). Plus now we can finally listen to music and not only on the laptop! I love listening to music 🙂
It snowed – lots! Sooooo pretty. Now it’s raining again and way too warm so the snow is melting again. It was nice as long as we had it.
Bought another cute outfit for Baby-Boy Bruno

Movement: <3 <3 <3 Gender: Baby-Boy Bruno (in-uterus name 🙂 )
Happy or moody most of the time: Happy
Sports: *cough* still on my Christmas vacation and enjoying doing nothing at the moment.

Month: January 2015