We're 35w4d today which means 24 days or less to go until we meet Maribel. This weekend, DH had an extremely rare weekend off so we enjoyed our time together and got lots of little things done.
Hubby hung curtains in the baby's room and in our room and can I just say - while I'm normally not a fan of curtains, I LOVE ours right now. I've been waking up sooooo early lately, usually in the 5 o'clock hour when the sun starts peeking through our blinds (though Saturday I was up at 3:18...way before the sun came up) and I'm exhausted enough without waking up so early. But yesterday we hung the insulated curtains in our room and yours truly slept until almost 8am. Holy shit, that felt great! Now mind you, I was still up at least every hour for pee breaks or meds or adjusting my big ole belly but still - this is a vast improvement over not being able to go back to sleep after 5am. Woo-hoo!! We also organized closets and dressers in our room to make sure we're utilizing space as best we can.
Hubby also hung the letters I painted that spell Maribel's name (pics to follow later in this post.) We put together a small pantry that we'll use under the bar in our dining room to store food since our kitchen is THE tiniest kitchen known to man. This eliminates food falling on my head everytime I open the cupboards and also gave us a lot more cupboard space for baby bottles, milk storage supplies, etc. I washed the cloth wipes and then trimmed the frayed edges down to the stitches we made on all 85 of them. Damn, my scissor fingers were hurting after that fun task. We put away the last few items in the baby's room and now we are DONE in the nursery. That's right - DONE!!! AWESOME!!
So the pics at the top of the post are a couple of pictures of the nursery. I wish we were allowed to paint but we live in an apartment complex so that's a no-go. So we had to find ways to add color to the walls without getting out brushes and rollers. The first pic is looking into the nursery from the hallway and the second pic is taken from a corner of the room. (Sorry I had to post them in that fashion. For some reason when I tried to post them within my post, they spread out and covered the entire screen. Weird stuff today I guess.)
In other news, I'm feeling good today. Yesterday wasn't too fun - just had lots and lots of contractions and they were REALLY uncomfortable. A nap in the afternoon did help ease those up so I must have just been sitting up (trimming those wipes) for too long before getting horizontal. Lesson learned - sitting is not as kind to my contractions as laying down. Tomorrow morning I have another NST and prenatal visit so I'll be sure to report how that goes. Hopefully little miss Maribel won't give me a scare again. (Did you hear that Maribel? It's quite alright for your heartbeat to increase during a contraction, but bring it back down afterwards, ok???)
Hubby hung curtains in the baby's room and in our room and can I just say - while I'm normally not a fan of curtains, I LOVE ours right now. I've been waking up sooooo early lately, usually in the 5 o'clock hour when the sun starts peeking through our blinds (though Saturday I was up at 3:18...way before the sun came up) and I'm exhausted enough without waking up so early. But yesterday we hung the insulated curtains in our room and yours truly slept until almost 8am. Holy shit, that felt great! Now mind you, I was still up at least every hour for pee breaks or meds or adjusting my big ole belly but still - this is a vast improvement over not being able to go back to sleep after 5am. Woo-hoo!! We also organized closets and dressers in our room to make sure we're utilizing space as best we can.
Hubby also hung the letters I painted that spell Maribel's name (pics to follow later in this post.) We put together a small pantry that we'll use under the bar in our dining room to store food since our kitchen is THE tiniest kitchen known to man. This eliminates food falling on my head everytime I open the cupboards and also gave us a lot more cupboard space for baby bottles, milk storage supplies, etc. I washed the cloth wipes and then trimmed the frayed edges down to the stitches we made on all 85 of them. Damn, my scissor fingers were hurting after that fun task. We put away the last few items in the baby's room and now we are DONE in the nursery. That's right - DONE!!! AWESOME!!
So the pics at the top of the post are a couple of pictures of the nursery. I wish we were allowed to paint but we live in an apartment complex so that's a no-go. So we had to find ways to add color to the walls without getting out brushes and rollers. The first pic is looking into the nursery from the hallway and the second pic is taken from a corner of the room. (Sorry I had to post them in that fashion. For some reason when I tried to post them within my post, they spread out and covered the entire screen. Weird stuff today I guess.)
In other news, I'm feeling good today. Yesterday wasn't too fun - just had lots and lots of contractions and they were REALLY uncomfortable. A nap in the afternoon did help ease those up so I must have just been sitting up (trimming those wipes) for too long before getting horizontal. Lesson learned - sitting is not as kind to my contractions as laying down. Tomorrow morning I have another NST and prenatal visit so I'll be sure to report how that goes. Hopefully little miss Maribel won't give me a scare again. (Did you hear that Maribel? It's quite alright for your heartbeat to increase during a contraction, but bring it back down afterwards, ok???)
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