25 Weeks

I can't believe we only have 15 weeks left! It's just insane how quickly this pregnancy has gone by. Before we know it, it's we're going to be in single digits. This week brought a few new pregnancy related symptoms and paranoid thoughts. As I'm reading along in my pregnancy books all the chapters are now mentioning the signs of pre-term labor. I'm pretty sure that I'll be the pregnant chick getting induced because I'm a week late, but I can't help but worry about the realness of pre-term labor. I'm hoping that this pregnancy will continue to run smoothly, but there are just so many stories out there of babies being delivered around this point in pregnancy. I'm trying not to over think things and stress myself out because ultimately I can't control what happens, but I am extra aware of my ever expanding list of symptoms.

I've had moments of discomfort during my pregnancy, but week 25 brought the scary reality of what's in store for these next few months. Saturday I was ab-so-lute-ly miserable! I'm not sure if Emerson was having a growth spurt, but every inch of my body was uncomfortable. The simplest tasks like breathing and sitting up required the amount of energy it takes to run a mile. My hips hurt, my back ached, my stomached was stretched to the limits, and my lungs were over-crowded. I was trying to convince myself that it was all mental, but my body just laughed at me while it put me through hell. I think what made the whole day worse was knowing I had just started to grow and I had a lot more growing to do. I'm dreading what's in store for these last couple of months.

After a terrible Saturday, I thought for sure Sunday would promise the same discomfort. So when I woke up energized and feeling normal (I wouldn't say good), I figured it was the perfect day to start painting the nursery. My mom had been offering to help us paint so I took full advantage of her generosity and called her up. Thank goodness she was free (or at least pretended to be free for me) because we were able to start and finish the painting! Our original plans included painting an ombre chevron pattern on the lower half of the walls. Once we thought about it, we realized our extremely textured walls would make it too difficult to work with the chevron pattern and we tossed the idea. The next great idea was to just paint an ombre fade effect on the walls. My mom tested the idea out on some plywood in the garage and both her and I liked it, but AJ wasn't a fan. We started looking around online and using Pinterest for more ideas. I knew I wanted to stick with the idea of using an ombre effect because we had picked out the perfect color already. I'm not sure if it was my mom or AJ who thought of it, but one of them had the great idea of painting multi-width, vertical stripes with the different color options we had picked. Mine and AJ's OCD kicked in and made us both a little nervous or anxious about this idea, but we went with it. We decided it would just be too difficult to have exact measurements for each stripe so my mom and I just started taping up the walls. The blue painters tape really helped me visualize what the final product would look like so we decided to go for it. I'm so happy we did because we just love it!! Thanks to my amazing mom, we painted to entire room while AJ finished sanding and painting our changing table. What we got done in a day between the three of us would have probably taken AJ and I a long weekend to finish.  

With all the worry of pre-term labor, it feels so great to have this huge project checked off our list! Now it's time to move onto remodeling the bathroom, but I think we'll take the time to enjoy this accomplishment for a bit!

Safety First!

Painting the top half a light grey color

Top half complete

Let the taping begin!

Before the final reveal

 

Ta-Da!

AJ practicing in the nursery

Working on the changing table

We'll be sanding down the edges to give it an antique finish


 It turned out to be a great week even with the preview of the soon-to-be constant discomfort!

Only 15 more weeks! And in honor of baseball starting...

How Far Along: 25 Weeks

Weight gain: 27 lbs
Maternity clothes? All day, everyday
Stretch marks? None
Sleep: Oh, it's miserable!
Best Moment of the Week: Basking in the glory of painting the whole nursery!
Miss Anything? Breathing like a normal person and not like an 80 year old on a breathing machine
Movement?: All the time! Still not strong enough for someone else to fill him.

Food cravings: Jamba Juice

Anything making you queasy or sick: Peanut Butter
Gender: Baby Boy
Labor Signs: None-but paying close attention to my symptoms

Symptoms: Peeing every half hour, lots of pressure in my pelvic region, and just all over discomfort
Belly Button in or out? In

Wedding rings on or off? Off
Happy or Moody most of the time: Trying to put on a happy face while being uncomfortable
Looking Forward To: Picking up our wedding album, finally sending out all our wedding Thank you notes, and our next A's game!