Dear Mom-To-Be,
For months your baby's eyes have been shut, but now they're almost fully developed and will soon be ready to open. No matter what color eyes you and the father have, your baby's eyes are blue: The irises don't display their final color until a few months after birth. Your baby's brain is maturing rapidly, and she's growing quickly. She's more than thirteen inches long and two pounds this week. Still quite lean, your baby still has lots of fat to put on.
- The parents and editors at Parenting.com
Friday, November 5, 2010
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Dang You Uterus!
So, I can feel Olivia move inside me. Usually it’s at night (around 7pm) and when I am lying in bed reading. I only feel her on my lower left side. The other night she moved 4 times in a row so I had Damon put his hand on my stomach and she decided not to move again. I don’t know if my hands are really feeling her on the outside or if I can just feel her move on the inside. One of my favorite things with pregnant woman is when they are super pregnant and you can feel and see the baby move across the skin. I am starting to wonder if that will ever happen to me. Since I have a retroverted uterus Dr. Spetalnick says that I might not ever feel that. It seems like the same guts/fat that is has been keeping her warm and snuggly "like a down comforter" is also keeping me from my favorite pregnant thing! Ahh well I guess as long as she is safe in there my little pleasures are of no means.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Olivia .......... Nash
We have decided on Olivia's middle name! This was not easy. If she was a boy the middle initial would be a "D" after Damon and the rest of the Nash men (Damon's dad, Grandpa and brother - not a Nash but still...). Since it turned out that she was a girl we didn't know what in the world to pick. The process went a little something like this:
1. What if the 2nd child is another girl, still use D? - Yes
2. Don't want one kid to be have a special middle name and not the other
3. Maybe a middle name starting with D for both
4. D names for girls suck
5. Maybe an A for this kid and a D for the next?
6. That’s the ticket! Name 1 after the mom and 1 after the dad
7. Look at middle names that start with an A (since my name is Katherine Anne)
8. Cant end in an A b/c olivia ends in an A (one of Damon's rules)
9. Go through over 15 pages of girls names starting with A.
and now we have it!
Olivia Annabel Nash
starts with an A and has my middle name in it.
Deciding how we were going to spell Annabel was a task too. Most people spell it Annabelle but you can also spell it a variety of ways... Anabel, Annabel, Annabell, ect. We decided to keep the 2 n's since my middle name had 2 n's but only go with 'bel' rather than 'belle' to keep it shorter.
On the doctor front:
Went on 10/26 - gained a "significant" amount of weight (11 pounds) which is BS since the last nurse accounted for my shoes and clothes where as this (evil) nurse did not. Since I weigh myself every Monday morning I know it was about an 8 pound weight gain since I was at the doctor last - 1 month ago. Either way I should only gain 1 pound a week (nice to know now). So according to the OB office I have officially gained 3 pounds since May. Crazy since I have a basetball in my belly. Side note- LOVE my health at Vandy website! Tracks all my vital signs and labs! Next doctor visit (11/23) I do my glucose screening test --> Draw blood, drink a very sugary drink, wait 1 hour, draw blood again. I should get my results later that night.
Love,
Katie
1. What if the 2nd child is another girl, still use D? - Yes
2. Don't want one kid to be have a special middle name and not the other
3. Maybe a middle name starting with D for both
4. D names for girls suck
5. Maybe an A for this kid and a D for the next?
6. That’s the ticket! Name 1 after the mom and 1 after the dad
7. Look at middle names that start with an A (since my name is Katherine Anne)
8. Cant end in an A b/c olivia ends in an A (one of Damon's rules)
9. Go through over 15 pages of girls names starting with A.
and now we have it!
Olivia Annabel Nash
starts with an A and has my middle name in it.
Deciding how we were going to spell Annabel was a task too. Most people spell it Annabelle but you can also spell it a variety of ways... Anabel, Annabel, Annabell, ect. We decided to keep the 2 n's since my middle name had 2 n's but only go with 'bel' rather than 'belle' to keep it shorter.
On the doctor front:
Went on 10/26 - gained a "significant" amount of weight (11 pounds) which is BS since the last nurse accounted for my shoes and clothes where as this (evil) nurse did not. Since I weigh myself every Monday morning I know it was about an 8 pound weight gain since I was at the doctor last - 1 month ago. Either way I should only gain 1 pound a week (nice to know now). So according to the OB office I have officially gained 3 pounds since May. Crazy since I have a basetball in my belly. Side note- LOVE my health at Vandy website! Tracks all my vital signs and labs! Next doctor visit (11/23) I do my glucose screening test --> Draw blood, drink a very sugary drink, wait 1 hour, draw blood again. I should get my results later that night.
Love,
Katie
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