{"id":4030,"date":"2013-06-09T09:55:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T14:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2013\/06\/09\/pregnancy-update-week-36\/"},"modified":"2013-06-09T09:55:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T14:55:22","slug":"pregnancy-update-week-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2013\/06\/09\/pregnancy-update-week-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregnancy Update Week #36"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How far along?<\/strong> I am 36.5 weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total weight gain\/loss? <\/strong>Still gaining weight, but it is slowing down!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stretch marks? <\/strong>Still none, although I am not sure how much more my belly can stretch out!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Moment this week?<\/strong> We have started getting in some of the pennants we asked close friends and family to create for the kids room.&#160; Once we get them all in I will make into a banner to hang up!&#160; Here are a couple of them that we have received!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"brakes, Letter Q, R, Feast of Sacred Heart, Wk 36 090\" border=\"0\" alt=\"brakes, Letter Q, R, Feast of Sacred Heart, Wk 36 090\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/brakes-Letter-Q-R-Feast-of-Sacred-Heart-Wk-36-090.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"249\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Movement?<\/strong>&#160; The movement is starting to slow down some, although baby still moves like crazy at different times during the day. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Food Cravings:&#160; <\/strong>No major cravings, just food in general!&#160; I feel like I eat all day!&#160; I have also been eating a bowl of cereal just before bed almost every night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gender?<\/strong> We had another ultrasound at our last appointment and we are happy to say that Baby Kickert was not shy this time around!&#160; According to what we saw this time we are definitely having a boy!&#160; Although if I am being honest, I am not holding my breath and waiting until delivery to have a definitive answer!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Labor Signs?<\/strong>&#160; The Braxton Hicks contractions are apparent everyday, but nothing to be concerned about yet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Belly Button in or Out?<\/strong>&#160; I would say I am definitely an outie!&#160; Mikayla actually looked at my belly button the other day and said there wasn&#8217;t a hole there anymore!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I miss.<\/strong>&#160;&#160; Wearing my wedding band.&#160; I had to remove my rings this past week due to swelling.&#160; The day starts off okay, but by afternoon my fingers are so swollen I can hardly remove them.&#160; I figure better safe than sorry so I have removed them for the time being.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I am looking forward to.<\/strong>&#160; I think like most women at this point in pregnancy, I am most looking forward to holding our baby for the first time (and not being so huge anymore!).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Weekly wisdom:&#160; <\/strong>Even though I am tired at the end of the day, I still have to reserve energy to be mommy to Mikayla.&#160; This is tough, but she shouldn&#8217;t suffer just because I am pregnant with another child!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Milestones:&#160; <\/strong>The only milestone I can think of is that my maternity clothes are starting to feel a little snug!&#160; To me that is how I can tell the end is getting closer!<\/p>\n<p>Here are two belly shots for comparison.&#160; This is me at 36 weeks for both pregnancies.&#160; Picture one is the current baby (I just got out of the shower, so please ignore the wet hair style) and picture two is with Mikayla.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"brakes, Letter Q, R, Feast of Sacred Heart, Wk 36 094\" border=\"0\" alt=\"brakes, Letter Q, R, Feast of Sacred Heart, Wk 36 094\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/brakes-Letter-Q-R-Feast-of-Sacred-Heart-Wk-36-094.jpg\" width=\"172\" height=\"397\" \/>&#160;&#160; <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Reading day, week 36 053\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Reading day, week 36 053\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Reading-day-week-36-053.jpg\" width=\"183\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How far along? I am 36.5 weeks. Total weight gain\/loss? Still gaining weight, but it is slowing down! Stretch marks? Still none, although I am not sure how much more my belly can stretch out! Best Moment this week? We have started getting in some of the pennants we asked close friends and family to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[139,141],"class_list":["post-4030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","tag-baby-kickert-2","tag-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}