I was told this week to put sleep & resting before blogging. With family in town & that crazy awesome NCSU win Saturday, this post is a couple days late. I didn’t take a weekly photo Saturday but shot these two before putting on pjs Sunday evening. I’ll go back to a in-jeans photo this week.
Ignore the squints & no make up & bad hair please.
How far along? Eight weeks Saturday so 8w2d today.
Maternity Clothes? Not quite yet, but soon. I ordered a BeBand from Target online & it arrived Saturday. I think I’ll be wearing pants unzipped with that soon.
Weight Gain? I weighed myself {eekkk!} last week & will do it again this week. Been trying to eat a lot so maybe some gain.
Stretch Marks? No.
Sleep? Now that I’ve been following Dr. Luke’s Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads book & eating every two hours, I sleep better since I don’t wake up hungry/feeling sick in the middle of the night.
Movement? Not yet.
Genders? {I updated it to Genders!} We hope & pray for healthy babies first & foremost. But I’d love to have boy/girl combos.
What I Miss? Not much this week. Just feeling thankful.
Symptoms? Hungry, sore boobs, tired, & my lower belly is definitely hard/bigger at the end of the day.
What I’m Looking Forward to? I’ve been released from the RE & am supposed to hear from my new MFM practice soon to set up an appt. I’m looking forward to meeting the team of doctors who will help me bring these trips into the world. Also looking forward to eating the heck out of Thanksgiving!
Weekly Wisdom? If you find a book that has worked for other friends with multiples & makes sense to you, read it & go with it. Also great to have family read it so they’re on board. Mom read half of it this weekend then helped me be sure to eat enough of the right things often. Oh & on that note, when people offer to help, take them up on it! My mom helped me clean & organize this weekend then yesterday she & my aunt helped me make two casseroles into 6 frozen dinners.
Milestones? My former blueberries are now lentil beans with hands & feet with webbed fingers & toes & eyelids!
Dreams of Joy by Lisa See was my book club’s November pick. Sadly, only one of us had finished it at our meeting last Wednesday {it wasn’t me but I was second closest since I was on page 46}. Jamie warned us that it was a little slow to start but said once we got into it, we’d have a hard time putting it down. She was so right. Even though my new bed time is 930p, I stayed up until 11 Monday & last night just so I could finish.
This book is Lisa’s follow up to Shanghai Girls. So I might be giving away spoilers from it just talked about Dreams, but I can’t not talk about it. I actually woke up at 4a {to pee, again} & was so haunted by the climax imaginery & scenes that I tossed & turned for 45 mins.
Set in early 1960s China, Dreams following Joy & her mother Pearl’s journey finding & reconnecting with each other & the country. While I’d read some about the Great Leap Forward in school history classes, placing Pearl, Joy & the rest of the charactiers in the middle was quite a differnent way to learn & experience this time for China. I was {& still am} shocked, appalled, & troubled by what the characters {& thus real people} went through based on the leadership they had to blindly follow.
Like other books I’ve recently read, one of the main themes was motherhood. The strong binds that tie mother to daughter. What it means to be a “family”. I loved the scenes where the women were working & talking together ~ about their history, spouse & “Little Red Sister” monthly visit. I can not imagine using a pad out of leaves alone or sand wrapped in leave {makes me all the more appreciate modern day tampons, pads & momma cloth}.
I might have given away too much. But if you’veread & Shanghai Girls & enjoyed it, or like Chinese American literachure
I was too boring or too tired this week to take any great photos, but here’s what I took.
Day 309: Saturday you already read about our crazy morning & triplet revealing ultrasound then how I celebrated watching NCSU beat UNC.
That's right Ms Wuf!
Day 310: By Sunday night, I wasn’t feeling great & thought that a Wendy’s crispy chicken sandwich might help {it did}.
Too bad the top bun was covered in mayo & had to be tossed.
Day 311: no photo.
Day 312: I meant to take a before & after water photo of my plant at work. Here’s the before. I forgot to take an after but it really perked up.
Poor, sad, neglected plant.
Day 313: Wednesday Moe kitty got back in bed after both of us were out. Cracked me up so I grabbed my DSLR for this one.
Lazy, sweet Moekitty
Day 314: This is the first night I felt really bad & after putting my pregnancy out there on twitterverse that day, I asked my mama gurus for help. Here’s what I had on hand & went with: water & dry cheerios.
Comfy pants, water, cheerios. Perfect preggo night cap.
