10 Weeks Pregnant - Baby #3

How far along? 10 weeks pregnant

Total weight gain/measurements: 158 lbs

Maternity clothes: That and comfy, loose clothing

Stretch marks? Nope

Sleep: The heck is that?!

Best moment this week: Getting to take the kids to see Santa!!

Miss anything? An appetite

Movement: No, probably not for another two-three months at least.

Food cravings: Same as last week

Anything making you queasy or sick? Meat and vegetables

Gender: Unknown 

Labor signs: Nope

Symptoms: Nausea, Food aversions, fatigue

Belly button in or out? In

Happy or moody most of the time: Moody. My mental health has been particularly bad these past couple of weeks, which is why there wasn't a 9 week update! 

Looking forward to: Having the family here for Christmas!

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8 Weeks Pregnant - Baby #3

How far along? 8 weeks pregnant

Total weight gain/measurements: 158 lbs

Maternity clothes: Thanks to awesome pregnancy symptoms this week, I spent nearly the entire week in Mike's pajama pants and hoodies. 

Stretch marks? Nope

Sleep: Sleep is okay, but I feel like no matter how good my night was, I'm exhausted the next morning regardless.

Best moment this week: Seeing our baby!! <3 We didn't get to hear the heartbeat, but we did get to see that little heart flicker on the ultrasound, which was amazing!!

Miss anything? Having an appetite :(

Movement: No, probably not for another two-three months at least.

Food cravings: Not so much cravings as just things I feel like I can tolerate eating. Bananas, lightly buttered toast and cheese pizza. Sound familiar?! (*cough*VINCENT*cough*)

Anything making you queasy or sick? Everything. Particularly meats and vegetables, coffee (sadness), sweets and lots of different smells. Trying to stick to fragrance free for almost everything but our hand soap, which thankfully isn't bothering me! 

Gender: Unknown 

Labor signs: Nope

Symptoms: Damn near crippling nausea, fatigue, raging hormones.

Belly button in or out? In

Happy or moody most of the time: Moody AF. xD

Looking forward to: Whenever the next time is that I am able to take a nap. Hahaha!

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7 Weeks Pregnant - Baby #3

How far along? 7 weeks pregnant

Total weight gain/measurements: 160.4 lbs

Maternity clothes: Jeans are all maternity now. Even my stretchy, buttery soft OS leggings are uncomfortable around my waist, (what the hell.) so I’ve been wearing my couple pairs of TC and borrowing my mother in law’s TC leggings lol! I remember seeing seasoned moms posting pictures of their huge under 10 week bellies in my mom groups during my first and second pregnancies and thinking pfff. Stop. You’re pushing your belly out. And here I am at 7 weeks with baby #3 and I look like I just devoured two taco party packs by myself. *facepalm*

Stretch marks? Nope

Sleep: When Samantha lets me sleep, it's not bad!

Best moment this week: Thanksgiving and playing cards!!

Miss anything? Fast Food.

Movement: No, probably not for another two-three months at least.

Food cravings: Same as last week!

Anything making you queasy or sick? Same smells as last week are making me queasy, but it's manageable.

Gender: Unknown 

Labor signs: Nope

Symptoms: Mostly fatigue and ridiculous emotions.

Belly button in or out? In

Happy or moody most of the time: Very moody!! 

Looking forward to: My ultrasound tomorrow!!!

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6 Weeks Pregnant - Baby #3

How far along? 6 weeks pregnant

Total weight gain/measurements: 160.4 lbs

Maternity clothes: Lots more maternity than I'd like to admit lol!

Stretch marks? Nope

Sleep: Sleep has been a lot better this week, but I’ve been insanely tired! 

Best moment this week: Getting to have a Thanksgiving meal with Vincent at his preschool! It was wonderful to see him in his element in the classroom and meet all his friends!

Miss anything? Fast food. 

Movement: No, probably not for another two-three months at least.

Food cravings: Fast food! I want all the pizza, Taco Bell, Freddy’s burgers and fries, all covered in cheese and dripping in grease. 

Anything making you queasy or sick? Not really; I’m just turned off by certain smells, like diapers, the kitchen sink full of dirty dishes, the trash and the hallway, which has become the dogs’ favorite place to pee in this cold weather. *eye roll*

Gender: Unknown 

Labor signs: Nope

Symptoms: Fatigue, sore boobs and raging hormones. Oh, also. EVERYTHING makes me cry. Cute video on Facebook? Tears. My kids being cute? Waterworks. An episode of This Is Us? Sobfest. Craving something I no longer eat? Meltdown. And then there’s the crying about being emotional and crying thing that is super awesome. Lol

Belly button in or out? In

Happy or moody most of the time: Moody. As. F. No doubt. I’m hoping once I have my ultrasound next week that things will be less scary and begin to feel more real! That might help a little with the moodiness. Might. Hopefully. xD 

Looking forward to: Thanksgiving this week and Cards Against Hunanity! Let’s just hope I don’t cry for whatever random reason. 

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5 Weeks Pregnant - Baby #3

How far along? 5 weeks pregnant

Total weight gain/measurements: 158.2 lbs

Maternity clothes: Honestly, three out of four of my pairs of jeans are maternity now. Hahaha! Mostly because they're super comfortable and from weight gain over the past year and all my jeans fitting tightly right now, I figured I'd go ahead and put them up until next year. 

Stretch marks? Nope

Sleep: Not fantastic. I got sick two weeks ago and I still have the leftover crud and cough, which seems to be worst at night. Samantha still hasn't been sleeping well in addition (the other night, I only slept three hours), but it's getting a little better every night. 

Best moment this week: Our first snow day of 2018! The kids had a blast playing outside in the snow! :D

Miss anything? Junk food lol! 

Movement: No, probably not for another two-three months at least.

Food cravings: Nothing in particular

Anything making you queasy or sick? Not really! I've gotten a little tiny bit queasy a couple times in the past week, but only when I was super tired.

Gender: Unknown 

Labor signs: Nope

Symptoms: The fatigue is definitely becoming more severe, but it's hard to tell whether that is pregnancy related or just from poor sleep lately! I've also started to have sore breasts this week.

Belly button in or out? In

Happy or moody most of the time: Emotions are still all over the place right now! So I'm working hard to keep my mental health in check and continue my healthy diet and exercise! 

Looking forward to: My first ultrasound towards the end of the month! And Thanksgiving of course. Because food. xD

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4 Weeks Pregnant - Baby #3

How far along? 4 weeks pregnant
Baby's Size: 

Total weight gain/measurements: 160 lbs (pre-pregnancy weight)

Maternity clothes: Nope! I won't be in them for a while.

Stretch marks? Nope

Sleep: Samantha has been waking up a lot at night lately, so I haven't been getting as much sleep as I'd like to, but when I do sleep, I sleep like a log!

Best moment this week: Getting my positive test!

Miss anything? Everything I miss is more diet related haha! I changed my diet about three weeks ago and cut out a lot of things I usually pig out on. But it's been worth it!!

Movement: No, probably not for another two-three months at least.

Food cravings: Not anything in particular

Anything making you queasy or sick? Not yet!! *KNOCKS ON WOOD* I have my fingers crossed that if it does hit within the next few weeks (which it likely will), it won't be as bad as it was with Vincent!!

Gender: Unknown 

Labor signs: Nope

Symptoms: Hardly anything right now, honestly! Which makes sense, because it is still so early. But when I think about it, I'm urinating more frequently, I'm pretty fatigued and this is now my third pregnancy with one of the first pregnancy symptoms being excessive sneezing haha! But I got sick about a week ago and it's still lingering, so that could be part of it as well.

Belly button in or out? In

Happy or moody most of the time: I've been really moody this week! Between my change in diet, then going of my anti-depressant and anti-anxiety medications under doctor instruction, my emotions have been ALL over the place. However, thanks to my mom and husband's support, adding Vitamin D and Vitamin B6 supplements into the mix and making myself keep up with my exercise routine, my mood has been improving a little bit every day!

Looking forward to: My first ultrasound towards the end of the month! And Thanksgiving of course. Because food. xD

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Samantha's 11 Month Update!

One more month. Just one more month until this baby girl is one year old! I can't believe how quickly this first year has flown by. 

Height/Weight: According to our home scale and measuring tape, Samantha is 19lbs 5oz (44%) and 27.5in (31%) long! She has not grown much at all this past month, but I remember this being about the time that Vincent slowed down as well, so I'm not concerned!

Daily: So lately, Samantha's daytime routine has been very sporadic. Because of teething and bad nights, her nap schedule during the day is completely out of whack and I haven't been pushing terribly hard to fix it, because we're all tired and the schedule doesn't seem to be helping much. We still get up at around 8AM, but some mornings, following really rough nights, we will get up closer to 8:30 or 9. I nurse her first thing as always, then get her changed and dressed before getting Vincent up (he is always already awake at this point, playing in his bed with this stuffed animals) and getting him dressed for the day. Breakfast is anywhere between 8:30 and 9:30, then we have playtime until Samantha is ready for her first nap. Right now, it's been between 11 and 12. I've really been trying just to read her cues and go with the flow, to take a break from the strict schedule, but I kind of feel like I'm damned if I do, damned if I don't. :/ 
Samantha still very much enjoys playing with cars and trucks, the play kitchen, her little people house and this American Idol McDonald's toy that plays music! She pushes the button and dances. xD She's been taking a huge liking to stuffed animals and dolls lately and likes to snuggle them and hug them! :)

Sleep: I was so tempted just to leave the same text from the previous month, because absolutely nothing has changed. Sleep has been lacking big time and I am beyond certain that the majority of it is due to teething. Exactly the same as last month and the month prior, Samantha has been completely refusing a second nap, no matter how hard I've tried to push it. Sleep at night has been as bad as the previous month - I will either put her down successfully at around 8 and then she'll wake 20-30 minutes later, or I am unable to get her down at all and she will be up until around midnight or later. Sometimes she'll even wake up in the middle of the night and not go back to sleep until long after the sun has risen. It's been extremely challenging lately and Mike and I are very sleep deprived. But the fact that she's teething helps me to emotionally deal with it better, since I know that she's hurting and just having a hard time sleeping. The upside is that almost every day, she will take one long, solid 2-3 hour nap. On rare occasions she won't go down at all, but thankfully that isn't the norm!

Building blocks past midnight! One of the many activities we
do when she's refusing to sleep.

Eating: I could not be more happy that we're still breastfeeding and going strong! I wanted SO badly to breastfeed Vincent until he was at least a year old and it was hard when we had to stop. Teething has made it a little challenging lately, because she will gnaw sometimes, which is (as you can likely imagine) pretty painful! But it's not as bad as I expected it would be. She is now nursing every 3 hours or so during the day - I kind of go with the flow and feed on demand. She eats solids 2-3 times per day and is doing very well with that! Her favorite food EVER is mashed potatoes, especially with gravy!! I always feed it to her off my plate and have to get a second helping, because she eats about half of mine. Haha! She also really likes refried beans with cheese on Taco Tuesdays. For snacks, she loves puffs! I've offered her about every flavor combo they make and she loves them all. 

Sizes: Samantha is still in 12 month clothing and likely will be for a bit still! I've opened the front snaps on all of her cloth diapers this past month, but she is still in a size 4 disposable diaper when we use those occasionally.

Milestones and Changes:

• Samantha has FOUR teeth now!! This past month, both of her top front teeth have popped through! It seems like she is working on some more bottom teeth right now, but it's super hard to check her due to her gum pain. It's crazy to think that at this exact age, Vincent got his first tooth and Samantha already has so many! 
• She has started giving the biggest and most loving hugs!! She will grip onto you ever so tightly! Here she is giving brother a big hug:

• She is walking assisted, holding onto my finger with one hand! I swear it won't be much longer before she is walking.

• Samantha is a total and complete daredevil. The other day, she climbed over the back of Vincent's couch and went face first into the corner of a book. So she's got a huge red mark on her cheek right next to her eye. I swear if either of the kids is going to need to go to the emergency room, she will likely be the first! She is a LOT less cautious than Vincent was at this age and still is!

• She has started saying MAMA! Oh my goodness it was like music to my ears the first time she said it!! :D I have been waiting for almost 6 months to hear her say it!!
• Samantha picks up anything that resembles a phone and says "heyo?"! She just barely started doing it and it is the most precious thing ever!