ThE BuRkE fAmILy: March 2013

Monday, March 25, 2013

BaBy BuRkE (lONdYN aNN) 24 wEeKS

How far along: 24 Weeks and 2 days

Symptoms: Feeling much much better. I am not that nauseous anymore and I have so much energy

Sleep: I have been sleeping really well but now that I have Londyns Kicking patterns down I don't like to go to bed early because she kicks all through the night and I hate being asleep and missing those kicks. She sleeps all through the day than at night she is full of so much energy she takes after me in the way for sure because I have always gotten the most energy at night. I am a night owl

Food Cravings::my biggest craving this last week was CUPCAKES! especially red Velvet kind from the sweet tooth fairy. I also have been craving fruit. This whole pregnancy I have been craving fruit, it's like pregnancy got my body back to normal because I don't really like eating junk and fast food like I liked to before I got pregnant . I now crave all healthy foods like fruit,salad and cucumbers.

Best moment of the week: seeing the finished product of Londyns crib bedding (the bumper pad) my mom did such an awesome job and I am not showing anybody until my shower coming this April so stay tuned....

Movement: She is constantly moving !!!Like I said she kicks most at night and she has been kicking my ribs a lot which gets a little uncomfortable ha ha

Labor Signs: nope, and we are so blessed to have a healthy baby who is growing at the right rate

Gender: Baby Burke is a GIRL!! we knew it all along and we are so so excited. We have been hoping the baby would be a girl and we both just are so happy. I can't wait for all the fun that comes with having a girl such as painting her nails,doing her hair,dressing her up and so much more.I love love love shopping for her , she already has more shoes than her daddy and She already has daddy wrapped around her little finger.

Belly button innie or outie:Innie but slowly turning in to an outie

What I miss:I had a dream that Greg took me horse back riding but I couldn't ride because I am pregnant so I guess I am missing horse back riding ha ha

What I am looking forward to:Londyn's 3d ultra sound in 4 weeks :)

Milestones: Londyns toe nails,eyelashes, and eyebrows are all filled in

Baby Purchase: I bought this cute chandelier for Londyns nursery I am so excited to see what it looks like in her room

Weekly Wisdom; Don't let anybody make u feel bad for knowing what u want and how you want to do things.They may not agree but as long as you remember your doing what is best for you and your baby that is all that matters . This is not a time to please others or worry if your hurting somebodys feelings. This is your happy ,special time and don't let anybody or anything ruin that.

Swelling:Nope!

Stretch Marks: Nope and I am so thankful for that and hope I don't get them. My mom hardly got them and I don't think my sisters did either so I am keeping my fingers crossed but if I do get them down the road it wont be the worse thing. My baby girl is totally worth it

Pregnancy PerkI I am in love with my baby girl and love seeing how in love her daddy is with her too. I love feeling her kick. I also love dressing my bump . I personally like the way pregnant woman look , I think it is when a woman is most beautiful and my husband still thinks I am sexy if not sexier :) I have a hard time believing that one ha ha

Embarrassing moment:This might be TMI but I have to share ha ha I got really sick one night and ran to the bathroom to throw up and ended up peeing my pants while I threw up ...yep I was so embarrassed to tell Greg to bring me in a change of clothes he laughed but he reminded me not to worry and that I am pregnant these things happen ha ha

Monday, March 18, 2013

BaBy BurKe (LoNdYn AnN) 23 WeEks

How far along: 23 Weeks and 2 days

Symptoms: had a kidney stone last week and it was thee worse pain ever, I had to stay on bed rest and I hated it but Londyn & I are just fine and much better now :) we are very thankful and blessed that it did not send me in to pre-term labor

Sleep: This last week I had a rough time sleeping mainly because I was in pain and scared to death that I would go in to labor

Food Cravings::my biggest craving this last week was CUPCAKES! especially red vlevet kind from the sweet tooth fairy

Best moment of the week: Greg and I can actually see Londyn move when we look at my belly. we love it and we both got teary eyed

Movement: She is constantly moving !!!however ,our doctor told us that the placenta is in the front so we wont feel her kick as much but I think we have a little ballerina/gymnast on our hands.

Labor Signs: there were a couple close calls this last week because of the kidney stone but I am happy to report that everything is well and Londyn will arrive on July 13,2013 :)

Belly button innie or outie:Innie

What I miss:I miss going up and down the stairs and not feeling like I just ran a marathon. ha ha I am so worn out after just going down the stairs

What I am looking forward to:I am so excited just to finally meet her and hold her in my arms. She is going to be so beautiful

Milestones: Londyn can now see

Baby Purchase: I went a little crazy this last week and got a bunch of cute clothes off Etsy.My mom and I also got the material for Londyns bedding I am so excited

Weekly Wisdom;Do what your doctor says and trust in him. This has been my piece of advice through my whole pregnancy because people think they know everything about everything and some people even think their doctors themselves ha ha they will tell me what I should and shouldn't be doing than when I report that back to my doctor he yells at me for even listening to them ha ha

Swelling:Nope!

Embarrassing moment:Throwing up at the hospital all over the nurse -oops haha

baby purchases

BaBy BurKe 22 Weeks (LonDyn Ann)

How far along: 22 Weeks and 5 days

Symptoms: have the hiccups all the time,always so hungry and still very naucious

Sleep: I sleep very well through out the night, I do wake up through out the night and have crazy cravings mostly sugar cravings.

Food Cravings::Jamba juice,but most of all FRUIT FRUIT FRUIT, especially my mom's canned peaches.

. Best Moment:Greg singing to our baby girl.

Movement: She is constantly moving !!!however ,our doctor told us that the placenta is in the front so we wont feel her kick as much but I think we have a little ballerina/gymnast on our hands.

Labor Signs:Hopefully none until after week 38 at least.

Belly button innie or outie:Innie

What I miss:I dont really miss anything

What I am looking forward to:so excited to get the 3d ultra sound to see more what she looks like

Milestones: Londyn's lips and eyes are now formed and they are beauiful

Baby Purchase: I bought Londyn some cute clothes of course

Weekly Wisdom; Drink tons of water and stay active ,especially if your naucious .

Swelling:Nope!

Embarrassing moment:pregnancy brain! I was in the middle of a conversation with my friend and totally forgot what I was trying to say ha ha

Sunday, March 17, 2013

SneAk PeEk AT LonDYnS nURsEry

Ok so technically I can not really show you Londyn's room yet because we have not moved in to our new home . We can't until May because that's when our contract is up at our apartment. That is not stopping me from getting started on her room though. This last week has been so boring and depressing because of bed rest ,the pain and the nausea. My mom came down Friday night to cheer me up and keep me company bless her heart. I thought to myself ok if I just go to Hobby Lobby with her to pick out fabric so she can get started on making Londyn's crib bedding I should be ok. Well I was wrong I ended up sitting on anything I could find in the store and ended up having to go back to the car. My mom is super woman though ,she found everything I was looking for plus some she is so creative. As I have been trying to decide on how we should do Londyn's room I originally wanted hot pink chevron and white crib but as I thought more and more about it I tried to imagine what the whole picture would look like and a theme I wanted. Well surprise surprise I came up with the theme PRINCESS! I want to make her room very soft and delicate something for sure made for a princess. So the colors I c ame up with are light pink polka dots and light grey damask. I found this picture and this is what it will look like but it will be a little different. She will of course have the chandelier, the cute frames, and these colors go with her name banner we used for pictures,speaking of those pictures they will look cute framed in her room. My mom's calling in life is a interior decorator I sware. She is so good at decorating and coming up with cute ideas. I know Londyn's room will be perfect having the help of my mom and husband ,if we were moved in to our new home right now I would get started helping but since we won't be in there until the end of may and I will be huge and miserable in the heat I will probably do a lot of navigating and will be telling my mom and Greg where to put things ha ha. I owe my mom a lot of pedicures and scalp massages!

Friday, March 15, 2013

My LiFE oN bEd ReST

This last week as I have been waiting for this nasty kidney stone to pass my doctor put me on bed rest because the pain could send me in to labor and the less I am up and about the better my chances are of not going in to labor. It has been a very scary,difficult week to say the least. I have not been able to go to work, or go anywhere. It has been depressing but I will do whatever I have to do for my baby's safety. Last night Greg got home from work and I was in tears , mostly from the pain but also from being so bored here at home and also this whole pregnancy I have been so nauseous and it gets worse when I am sitting home not doing anything. My little princess does not like her mommy being lazy . Last night Greg was holding me as I was sobbing and he just went quiet for a minute, this is unusual because he usually says things like "it's ok honey everything will be fine" but I think he actually could feel how sad and how much in pain I really was in. After a minute he just kissed my for head and said "I'm sorry honey,I really am" and he sounded very choked up as he said it. I wanted to reach up and kiss him but he never cries and when he does I try not to make a big deal of it because he hates it when I do make a big deal about it .After that he gave me my 4th blessing of the week and we watched a movie. I felt so much better after the blessing of course but today Greg took my car to his dentist apt. He called me as he was coming home and said "come outside for a minute" I grabbed Jax and went outside to greet him only to find my car clean ,some yummy cupcakes from the the sweet tooth fairy (if u have never had one of their cupcakes go get in your car now and drive to the nearest one , they are fabulous) ,three shirts,two pairs of colored skinnies and two necklaces! I am so spoiled. I think Greg was so worried about how sad I was he wanted to cheer me up the best way he knew how by pampering me! I seriously have thee best husband EVER! and I must say my husband has really good taste ha ha. Greg had taken the morning off for his apt and to spend time with me and I told him that was enough for me that he just was home to be with me and that the gifts were just nice extras. I love him so much and he means the world to me. I am so blessed to spend eternity with him and to be the mother of his baby girl.

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Etsy

had to get this cute wreath

Since we found out we are having a little girl I have been shopping at every little boutique and baby store in site. My two favorite right now though is baby gap and ETSY! Before I got pregnant I heard about etsy but never shopped off their website before. So one day as I felt one of my many urges to shop for my baby girl I thought I would give Etsy a try because my sister told me she found thee cutest little boots for my little 6 month old niece Emery on there. All I can say is HOLY MOLY! I am in love with Etsy. Seriously,they have thee cutest things and I have now bought most of Londyn's wardrobe on there. I highly recommend it and I can not help but share what I just bought today from there!!

seriously the cutest little dress EVER! can not wait to get her in to this

Londyn will look so cute in this

matching bow for the white romper ,now I just have to find the pearl neclace

Update

I have been debating if I should share what I have been going through lately, mainly because it seems everybody has an opinion they feel they need to share about my pregnancy and what I should or shouldn't be doing . I guess this is normal ,a lot of my friends have complained to me about how much it bugs when people comment about their pregnancy as well and judge them so that I guess makes me feel better that it isn't just me.. I have come to the point where I don't even care what people think anymore I only care what my doctor says and thinks and I know I have a perfectly healthy baby girl and I am doing everything the doctor tells me to do.

Friday after work I came home and got undressed in to something more comfortable, right after I took my pants off this shock of pain in my upper back hit me so hard. It than started to move down my lower back and a little in to my abdomen ,than it started to feel like menstrual cramps so I called my doctor and Greg came home and took me over to his office,Dr.Young was booked so they got me in to see a mid wife . She than told me I had a lot of white blood cells in my urine and that what I had been experiencing earlier may had been contractions??? I was so scared and I was only comfortable laying on my right side,she checked my cervix and it was closed so that was good than she said I may have a kidney stone but the urine sample indicated for sure that I had an infection so she diagnosed it as a kidney infection but she still thought it was a kidney stone and told me to take the anti bio tics and if I wasn't feeling better over the weekend to go to the hospital. I guess I was just really hoping it was just an infection because I kept putting the pain aside and ignoring it all weekend thinking the anti bio tics were working. Monday I went to work and my doctors office called me and asked me if I could go pick up the results of the culture of my urine sample I was confused why they asked me to go pick it up I thought everything was fine. So on my break at work I ran over there and they told me Dr.Young wanted to speak with me and that there was a concern with my results ,I started freaking out and assuming the worse of course. I wasn't worried about me I was worried about Londyn and praying she was ok, while I waited in the waiting room and for Greg to get there. Dr.Young told us they found a little bit of blood in my urine along with crystals and needed me to go over to the hospital so they could do more testing to see if it was a kidney stone. We went over and they got me hooked up to the IV and did an ultra sound because really that's all they can do to find a kidney stone while I am pregnant and there was no way I was getting a ct scan. They looked at Londyn and measured everything again and she looked perfect she looks just like her daddy she even has his beautiful lips.. Than they checked my kidneys and later told us that I do in fact have a kidney stone and told me that the pain was only going to get worse and than notified me of pre-term labor . That was their biggest worry ,so they sent me home and told me I needed to be on bed rest until the stone passed . I have been in so much pain but Greg gave me a blessing and we have been praying that the stone passes without sending me in to pre term labor, it is very scary to think about but the doctor told me that usually it passes without sending woman in to pre term labor but they wanted to take all precautions to make sure it didn't happen because I am only 22 weeks and 2 days. I have heard horror stories of having a micro pre mee baby and it terrifies me but I know with all my heart that it will pass without sending me in to pre term labor I just have to take it easy and rest and do what the doctor says and he sounded very confident that I will carry our little princess to full term. I haven't had any contractions and when they measured the baby they have the due date still at July 13,2013 :)Thank you everybody for your prayers and your stories have helped me it's nice to know I have had friends who have had kidney stones while they were pregnant and that they didn't deliver early.Since I have been so bored here at home I have watched our 20 week ultra sound dvd over and over and took some cute pics of our
beautiful baby girl :)

she loves playing with the umbilical cord

one thing I know for sure she has of mine ,my feet

playing with the umbilical cord ha ha she is so beautiful

look at that perfect little face

daddy's lips. they are so beautiful

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

dReSsInG mY bUmP

I am going to be very honest with everybody, when I first found out I was pregnant with Londyn I panicked thinking about how big I am going to get and that none of my clothes would fit me and I would have to wear ugly clothes. My mom & friends kept telling me not to worry because I have always been skinny and naturally that's my body type is tall and slender and because I have a long torso I would still look skinny. I didn't want to believe them though I just wanted to start shopping for bigger clothes and I actually started to not care how big I got as long as I had a healthy baby. My first month of pregnancy I bought a pair of jeans in a size 26 instead of 24 so that they would fit throughout my pregnancy. I am now 21 weeks pregnant and they don't even stay up without a belt. I was so wrong. I am still wearing all my normal clothes and sizes and have not had to go shopping for bigger clothes even though sometimes I use that as a fake excuse to go shopping ha ha. So many people ask me where I buy my maternity clothes and all I tell them is the same places I shop regularly Bohme,Nordstroms,Dorothy Perkins,etc. My advice for everybody is just to wait and see how your body works as pregnancy goes on. Also, the things I find cute could fit while your pregnant or when your not pregnant. Why go out and spend a lot of money on clothes you'll only need for a couple weeks when you could be spending that money on your baby girl or baby boy's wardrobe? I know not every body is the same type but ask yourself next time your out shopping if you could wear that being pregnant or if you were not pregnant, you will be surprised that most of the things you find will fit. I have always loved dressing up and dressing my baby bump is just as much fun, I love getting creative with what I can put together.

A lot of people think I am crazy because I wear heels everyday but that's me , I can walk in them, I have not fallen once, heck I have even chased my sunbeams down the hall in them without falling,and most of all I find them comfy.I have always gotten a lot of negative comments from people telling me I am too skinny or asking me if I eat? someone asked me the other day if I am eating while I am pregnant ,telling me I need to feed my baby I just about punched that person right in there mouth. Seriously? I think telling somebody they are to skinny is just as bad as telling somebody they are too fat. It hurts and I have dealt with it all my life but have come to love my body for the way it is. Trust me I have seen what happens to those babies born after their moms worked out way to much and never ate while they were pregnant and it's sad but who am I to judge them . My baby girl is healthy,I eat all day,I don't exercise (well I go for a little walk every other day )but I don't ever work out hard,my baby weighs what she is supposed to and is growing at the right rate,and everything I do is for her and her only .Anyways, sorry for venting that was not what I intended my post to be about but my thoughts just got ahead of me.Here are a couple things I have purchased in the last month or so that I think you could wear with or without being pregnant hope this helps answer some of your questions :)