Pregnancy Week 38: Nursery, Crafts, and Stomach Flu

This week, baby girl is still about 19-22 inches long and weighs around 6.5 pounds. Even though this has not changed from last week, the app has decided she is the size of a swiss chard. Winter melon sounded much cuter. Baby girl is pretty much just working on chunking up and fine tuning her brain. Otherwise, she is fully developed and can come at any time :D

I feel like the bump has changed into a very weird shape. These pictures don't capture it fully, but she looks much more blocky and less round, particularly on top.

8 weeks	38 weeks

I was horrendously ill Thursday and Friday. I went to bed early on Wednesday night because I felt kind of off. I ended up tossing and turning until about midnight. By that point my stomach hurt too much to lie down. Then around 1:00AM the vomiting started. Every 30-40 minutes I would trot off to the bathroom to heave my guts up (among other unpleasant side effects of gastroenteritis).

I called OB triage around 4:00AM as I was worried about dehydration. The nurse told me to call back at noon if it hadn't stopped. It didn't stop, so I called again. That nurse seemed to think I needed to be expelling my insides for 24 hours before they would give me fluids. That may be the case for non-pregnant people, but holy crap. I'm pregnant. Dehydration causes contractions. 

I was contracting for a solid hour every 8-10 minutes when I called again. For some reason, they still would not see me. Another couple of hours went by and I still couldn't keep any fluids down; my contractions had progressed to every 4 minutes and were noticeably uncomfortable by this point. I called again and STILL they would not see me. 

Thank god for friends. One of my friends went to the store and got me pedialyte and a ton of other stuff for my stomach. I was able to keep the pedialyte down and slowly the contractions stopped. The initial 24 hours were the worst of it, then next 24 hours I still couldn't eat much beyond crackers, but I felt significantly better. 

In more fun news, I also completed some crafts for baby girl and her nursery is set up :) I only have one picture to share of the nursery at the moment because her name is hanging on the wall in all the other photos. Just a couple more weeks until that big reveal ^_^

That picture on the floor is obviously not staying there, and a diaper changing table will go in front of that window once it arrives. However, you can see the awesome painting I got, my reupholstered glider, and her curtains.

I also finished reupholstering the Moses basket. It was my brothers when he was born.

Pink camo! Within seconds of finishing it, Nona tried to claim it. I have to keep it shut away in my room for now. All she wants to do is sleep in the Moses basket haha. If she fits, she sits.

This is a project I'm working on currently that is almost complete: The Neapolitan blanket! One of my friends got me some yarn for Christmas and I'm putting it to use :)

And last but not least, my Valentine's Day flowers <3 My week was filled with sickness and suck, but it ended on a high note! Nona is clearly feeling very jelly.

ETA: I also got this super awesome gigantic coffee mug. About to be a new mom? Not going to get any sleep? Obviously a giant coffee cup was very necessary.

Pregnancy Week 31: Christmas and Maternity Shoot

This week baby girl is approximately 18 inches long and about 3.2 pounds. This is supposedly the size of a coconut.

I'm a day late with this one. An awesome cold set in Saturday evening/Sunday morning, so I've been a little sluggish. I also didn't really feel like taking a picture of my sick face, but oh well. Here it is in all its glory. The belly is really poking out there now!

8 weeks	31 weeks

And here are some of the things I knitted for the holidays:

This is a blanket I made for mom with some satin binding. The mitered corners return!

These are the scarves I knitted for my cousins as well as some boot cuffs for my aunt. 

This is a scarf I made for mom with pockets for her hands.
Don't mind the kitty butt. He wouldn't move. 

I also knitted a scarf for my father in law, but I forgot to take a picture before I gave it to him.

I got a sewing machine!!! I can finally do crafts without having to barge into friends houses and demand they let me use their sewing machine ;) I also got a mophie phone case charger that I have wanted since I got my iPhone 5S. That sucker loses battery so dang fast. I got a bunch of other things too (three new books, woo!) and baby girl got a few outfits and a blankie. Baby clothes are so dang cute.

I visited friends over the weekend and had some maternity photos done as well. I can't wait to see all of them. I got a couple of peeks at them on the camera. From what I could see, they're super awesome :) I have another mini-shoot I'm doing in January that I won. Any input on poses or cute ideas would be appreciated!

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We are registered at Babies "R" Us (#54941451) and Burlington Baby Depot (#34080180). They can be found by searching for either my or Josh's name.

Knitting Baby Blankets and Evil Mitered Corners

So I enjoy knitting and originally intended to post more often about my knitting escapades (the stitches does play into the name of this blog after all, who knew?)

Anyway, I have a friend who had a baby right around my anniversary in May and I had been meaning to make her a baby blanket. She also has a toddler (just turned 3) and I didn't think it would be very nice to make the baby a blanket and not give the toddler one too.

So I made the newborn a small-ish (30x30) blanket for the car seat or when his mom goes for runs with her jogging stroller. I used much finer baby yarn for his so that one took a really long time. I don't do any of the fancy stitches for blankets (I save that for scarves, hats, and mittens).

I also put blanket minky around the edges because knitted blankets have a tendency of not being easy to grab at the edges (they get all stretched out over time). The minky gives it some stability.

Here's the baby blanket:

I made the toddler's blanket much larger since I figured he was probably in a toddler bed (or would be soon if he wasn't already. I made his out of a heavier weighted yarn. it's super soft and warm. This one I actually remember the quanitites. It took 6 rolls of the yarn, size 11 needles. I cast on 110 stitches. It ended up being about 49x38:

Let me tell you, those mitered corners are ridiculous. I sew the minky on by hand since I don't have a sewing machine. That takes a million years, but it can be relaxing after a stressful day. I just turn my brain off and sew away.

Here they are folded up together:

Tada! Christmas is coming up, I'm sure I'll be posting more of my creations after the holidays.