Baby Update

So, with Abigail I updated my blog basically every single week while pregnant. Ha! :-) With this sweet, precious girl, I think this may only be my second or third post. Now I totally understand why my parents have way more photos of my older brother when he was a child than they have of me... good 'ol second borns! :-)

For the record, we are 27 weeks, 5 days along.

This pregnancy is not only flying by, but by God's grace, it has been a fairly easy/textbook few months. I had morning/day sickness up through 12 weeks, felt great during my second trimester, and now as we're about to enter our third trimester on Saturday, my only struggles are my exhaustion levels (which have shot up in the last 2-3 weeks) and my daily hip pain. I am so, so thankful for how much God has poured out His grace upon me during this time!

Our baby girl definitely moves around daily but I wouldn't say she is an excessive mover. In fact, her heartbeat has been consistently much lower than Abigail's ever was at our appointments (which made us think prior to our ultrasound that she just had to be a boy! haha). I am very interested to see what her personality is like and if she is more laid back than Abigail. :-)

Our next appointment, on Valentine's Day, will be when I take my glucose test and it will also mark our transition in appointments to when I start seeing our midwives every 2 weeks, versus every month. This is a big appointment because it just shows how much closer we are to her birth! Yay! The thought of having a second little girl is so exciting for both Kyle and I!

I know Abigail is going to be a great big sister and just love her baby sister so much! It's fun to watch her interact with the little 5 month old boy that I nanny in our home. She just loves to sit next to him and read a book or bring him a toy or try to give him his paci. It's just adorable! Today, she saw him blow raspberries for the first time ever and she looked up at me with a huge grin. She thought he was doing something so cool! Haha... Of course, I have to keep a sharp eye on her around little babies because he zeal to love and nurture them as a little mommy sometimes gets the best of her! I was with a friend a few days ago and she had placed her little 4 month old baby girl on the couch while we were working on something. A minute later, we glanced over just in time to see Abigail pulling the baby down on the couch and about to try and pick her up around her waist and carry her like her baby doll! As we rushed to rectify the situation, both of us moms just burst out laughing! Abigail just loves those "da-dees"! It makes my heart melt!

Sorry I don't have any recent baby bump pictures to show you. I need to take some soon and post them. However, for now, I hope this updates finds you each doing well. Have a great day!

Preparing for Baby Girl #2

It's amazing how much more laid back we have been about baby girl number two coming! With Abigail, we had her crib within the first trimester, her room painted and had started decorating at the very beginning of the third trimester, and were taking birthing classes, watching videos/documentaries on labor, reading natural birthing articles, etc...

What have I done for baby #2? I've washed and put away a few clothing items that we have for her and started a registry.  :-) Oh... and should I mention that we are in our last week of our second trimester? haha!!!


So, today I decided that it is high time for me to begin pulling my thoughts together for the arrival of this little one and for this next labor and delivery! Sure, I've been brainstorming off and on... but it's time to take action!

One blog that is a continual blessing in my life is Passionate Homemaking! No matter what season I am going through, it seems that in just about every one, Lindsey, the author of the blog, has biblical words of wisdom for me. Childbirth is no different. So as I begin delving into my preparation, I have been, once again, gleaning from her wisdom. Enjoy these following links from her site:


Scriptural Encouragement For Preparing & Giving Birth
Embracing The Pain & Letting Go Of Fear In Childbirth
Homemade Natural Postpartum Care Kit
Practical Preparation for Postpartum
Preparing My Heart For Motherhood
Adjusting To Life With Two
Entertaining Littles With A New Baby - The comments offer great tips too!

It's fun to look back at our old family blog and see posts that I was writing while being pregnant with Abigail and even prior, as a new wife. Here is a link to a Pregnancy Resource blog I did in preparation for Abigail. Now, if I could just find that labor notebook I made last time, I'd be one step ahead! ;-)