with a due date of june 9.
baby size? a large mango {??} and about 1lb.
weight gain? 2.5 lbs since october
stretch marks? not yet {that i can see?} but i do have tiny little red marks on my sides that might be little broken capillaries. who knows?
foods i'm loving: icecream! regardless of the frigid 3degree weather. i think i had it four times this week. also i love chocolate. and fries. and grilled cheese. and pizza. and basically anything horrible for me. but i'm still loving my morning fruit smoothie. so that's a plus!
foods i'm hating: not really too much now. i'm not a giant fan of mexican at present, but i can still eat it. i also am feeling weird about chili and most soups.
sleep? ehhhh. i wasn't sleeping well AT ALL the past two weeks. and then i randomly decided to ditch the body pillow and that has helped some, weirdly enough. i've also been more active this past week which i think has helped with sleeping better. no official exercise, just running more errands and taking walks at the antique mall when i want somewhere warm to walk.
symptoms? not really any to speak of! i'm still feeling well and eating well. i've had headaches about once a week and they've usually been pretty bad {light sensitive and exhausting}. but i'm not sure if that's because of the weird weather or the pregnancy. so there's just that and the elusive sleep.
what i miss: not having to get shots. being able to sleep on my belly.
what i'm looking forward to: having a name picked out! it will be nice when we can call him by something other than 'littleman' or baby boy. or {affectionately} 'baby whatever.'
emotions? mixed. happy and sad. i went through a bag of baby boy clothes yesterday that someone gave me and it felt so weird. weird to think of him being here and in the clothes. weird to see the clothes in my house and know that they are mine, not someone else's. also, it's just been a really rough few months emotionally- we are in a transition phase of life and have no idea where God is leading us. so that seeming instability bleeds over into everything. it has made me sad and anxious about having a baby- adding more instability to the instability. but hopefully we will just see more evidence of how God's timing is perfect, though definitely not always easy or what i wish for.
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we are getting really close to deciding on a name! we think we've figured out one of the names, but the second name is still up for debate {it's still yet to be seen which name will be his "first" name}. this past week, C and i had a great discussion about what we wanted his second name to be. we wanted one of the names to be a spiritual marker for what God was teaching us at the time when child was born, so that when we tell our children the story of how God has been faithful to our family, we can use the children to help tell that story. so we have that name picked already {we think!}. and the second name we want to be a kind of prophecy on the child- and we've really been meditating a lot on isaiah 35 & 62, as well as hebrews 6 & hosea 14. and we've narrowed it down to several choices that come from those passages. it's been so fun to dig through scripture and discover what God has for us there in naming our son. so yes. that has been so fun! i'm definitely over the anxiousness of the naming and now am just excited about what God will reveal!
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If you guys don't use Ephraim, that is totally going on my boy list for future littles. ;) That name rocks! I love how you are going through Scripture asking the Lord to reveal a name to you. What a beautiful idea!
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