Week 28 Pregnancy Journal

How Far Along? 28 weeks

Size of Baby: A Chinese cabbage (14.8 inches). Baby weighs 2.25 lbs now!

Gender: Our sweet, sweet girl.

Weight Gain: A gain of one pound this week from last week. Now up a total of 12 pounds from my pre-pregnancy weight -- but since I lost a few pounds in the first trimester, up 15 pounds total from my lowest pregnancy weight.

Maternity Clothes: Loving them, although I'm still wearing some non-maternity pieces as well. This week's Banana Republic sweater is a new purchase, I simply could not resist the gold glitter elbow patches!

Nursery: So happy to report that things are coming along nicely! A paint color for the walls has been chosen after reviewing three samples that we painted on the walls Friday and Saturday. A crib has been ordered (but we have a plan B that may be becoming a plan A as of this weekend). A rug has been selected. Fabrics are almost chosen and ready for piecing together. And her closet has been given an extreme makeover!

Next on the nursery wishlist: get the carpets professionally cleaned, paint the walls, put together the changing table. We have a tall dresser so decided to go with a changing table for the time being. Seeing everything come together has been so fun!

   
Movement: All the time, especially after sweets. She is one active babe!

Symptoms: A few nights this past week, I've woken up around 4:30 or 5:30 wide awake and feeling well-rested. Typically I'll just grab the phone and look at it under the covers ... thank goodness for Bloglovin', Etsy, and Pinterest apps. Also -- Baby Girl has found her favorite resting spot ever, which is in a place that makes mama have to flee to the restroom quite frequently. Sometimes she sucker-punches me directly in the bladder. Want to even try to imagine what a crazy sensation that is?!

Oh, also: painful right arm. I got my DTAP vaccine at my last doc's visit on Friday and, to this day, my right arm still aches. Good gracious, that thing hurt.

Sleep: Besides the early wakeups, still sleeping well. I was able to ask my doctor last week about the fact that I'm still finding myself sleeping on my back each night. He said no worries -- that at some point it could get too uncomfortable to do so, but for now I was okay. He also said that if I had just a slight tilt to laying on my back (which I do, thanks to my Snoogle pillow wedged under me), then it is okay.

Cravings: WELL. I was so sad on Friday to find out that I did not pass my initial glucose test. This is a baseline screening test (finger-prick) that can be an indicator of gestational diabetes. Not going to lie, tears were shed. I was distraught thinking that Baby Girl may not be safe or that it was due to something I did (aka - peanut butter cup intake). After a lot of research, and lots of great feedback on Instagram from others who did not pass the first test but passed the repeat with flying colors), I'm feeling a bit better about the whole deal, but I will feel even better when the repeat test is done this Friday. Wish me luck to pass this test! With all of that said, I still crave sweets but I've been monitoring my intake now much more stringently.

What I Miss: Peanut butter cups.

Best Moment This Week: A girl at the grocery store told me that she hoped that she looked just like me when she was pregnant. I wanted to crawl over the conveyor belt and bear-hug her. 

Looking Forward To: Painting baby's nursery -- within the next few days, we hope!