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Baby is the size of Thor

Fanny Sura15 April, 2021Leave a comment

April 15, 2021

Every Thursday when I wake up I check the different baby apps on my phone (I have a few). Today one of my apps said that “Lilliput” is about the size of a pomeranian. Hopefully baby isn’t as fluffy as Thor but just as cute♥

We’ve had some nice and warmer days this week, today is a bit gray and it might rain though. Outside our apartment they are setting up to film a movie. Haven’t had that since we lived on Manhattan. A couple of weeks ago I saw a job listing online that they were looking for artists in Stamford. Since I’m pregnant I didn’t care to apply for anything. I might however walk past the set later to check it out. Maybe I spot some movie stars:)

The cherry trees and all the other trees are finally blossoming. I’ve been waiting and waiting. Hopefully the rain won’t destroy them for the next couple of days, I have a dress that I would like to take some cute last maternity photos with by the beautiful trees.

I have asked Jim to take me (and Thor) for evening walks now every day leading up to birth haha. I can of course walk by myself but it’s just better to have him with me in case something happens:)
Plus it’s a nice family activity before Lilliput is here

Yesterday I saw my doctor again (I’m 38 weeks today). Bump measures good, heart beat was 155 which is good, but no signs of labor yet but that’s ok, I have a couple more weeks til due date. But in the end it’s up to baby when she/he wants to come out. I’m hoping to have the baby in April cause I really don’t want to be induced, but we’ll see. Baby decides.

I always sit in the back going to places cause T isn’t exactly calm then
But going home from somewhere he is super happy and calm so I sit in the frontAnd he sits on bumpie 😀

In Dance, Pregnancy

9 months pregnant dance

Fanny Sura14 April, 202114 April, 2021Leave a comment

April 14, 2021

I uploaded a video of me dancing at this very same spot one year ago. Interesting how one year can change so much. One year of pandemic, one year of isolation and almost 9 full months of pregnancy. And much longer than a year since we saw any family or relative in person. Still so happy about that we got to talk to so many loved ones during our virtual baby shower.

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Milk Bath

Fanny Sura13 April, 2021Leave a comment

April 13, 2021

Good Morning! A couple of weeks ago I decided to take some “Milk Bath” maternity photos. I’ve seen these kind of pictures floating around the internet for years and honestly think it’s kinda weird hahah. But, I can also admit I think it’s pretty. I wasn’t sure I really wanted these pictures done but when hubby came home with flowers for Valentines Day I thought why not, I don’t want to regret it later. However, those roses died before I felt like doing the shoot haha. But then when we went to Costco, they had so many beautiful flowers and it just felt like the roses were calling me:)

I think it turned out quite cute considering they were taken in a regular unfancy tub in an apartment 😀 My hubby did a good job.

So what’s the deal with the milk bath? Well, according to google, they say that Cleopatra used to bathe in donkey milk and scattered rose pedals over it and that’s how she got her beautiful skin. I also read that the milk in the maternity photos symbolizes the milk that nourishes the baby and the hard work that the mother has to put in to breastfeed her little one. Who knows if any of this is true, I think people mostly just like how beautiful the flower pedals are next to their bump and the white creates a nice cleaner look for the photo.

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Our weekend, April 10-11

Fanny Sura12 April, 2021Leave a comment

April 12, 2021

Happy Monday! Hope you had a good weekend! We had a lovely weekend mixed of both relaxing to the max and being really busy.

On Saturday after our morning coffee I suddenly felt really tired and out of energy. It’s weird how when I don’t sleep that well I have tons of energy all day every day and after I’ve had a really good night sleep, like Saturday, I’m exhausted. In an attempt to give myself some energy, the three of us went for a walk. Walked around downtown and I was soooo jealous of everyone enjoying their brunch on the outdoor seatings. The image I had back in 2018 of me being pregnant included brunches, dinners and coffee breaks both indoors and outdoors with hubby and friends feeling all cute in my big belly. The few times we have been eating at places during this pregnancy (like on our babymoon) I’m not particularly very relaxed cause I keep thinking about having to sanitize my hands and put my mask on whenever someone else is coming near me. But my new wish is that before we leave Stamford this summer I might have got the vaccine and we can sit outside to brunch somewhere with the stroller next to us. I would love to stroll around Central Park as well one more time before we leave:)

When we came back home the weather was really nice, so we decided to spend the afternoon on our terrace in the sun. A bit cloudy and colder wind, but the 18°c felt amazing, I’ve been waiting for this! We both got a little tan. We watched a movie in the evening and that’s really all that we did this day. We got nothing important done other than relax and enjoy each others company, which in a way is more important than anything else really.

I don’t have much clothes that fits me anymore, I’ve been living in this sweater haha

On Sunday at 8 am, I woke up by a kiss on my cheek and J told me there’s breakfast. He and T had went to get coffee and a tuna bagel for me. Just the best way to wake up:) Around 10 we both got off our butts and started to do stuff around the apartment. I gave J some tasks here and there (like vacuum, clean the bathtub, take recycle out and go through a box of computer stuff) while I went through the boxes in the storage room. My original wish when we still lived in NYC was that we will get rid of basically everything we own when leaving the north, but I’ve realized it’s stupid to get rid of all of it, I don’t feel like spending that money again, plus the things we have is stuff we like. And then I have soooo many books which is very hard to pack. Movers usually don’t seem to like moving tiny boxes but to fill big boxes with books is just not ideal since it’s so heavy. What is the smartest way?
After lunch, we sat down to do some tasks together, like make two playlists for the labor. One is filled with ambient calm music and one has more fun and pop’y music in case I feel that I need that:) Then we watched the Sox game and I finished making my very first crochet bunny that I have been making for “Lilliput”. It’s not perfect in any way but I am pretty proud of myself, it’s very cute. I do think the black nose and eyes kinda destroyed it though, it’s a bit harsh. I wanted to leave it with no face but that could also be a little creepy. Eh, whatever. It was fun to make so who knows maybe I’ll make more:)
After the game ended we listened to a hypnobirthing track together, it’s kinda like a meditation practice to prep yourself for giving birth. Jim fell asleep though haha. And then we didn’t do much, I watched some reality show and stretched my body and J played games on his computer.

My idea was to hang it on the stroller bassinet for the baby to look at but I don’t have a good clip for it.
Any ideas?Thor got a haircut last week, he’s so cute

I have started to feel like a ticking 💣 now. I have no signs of being close to the birthday of my little love but I know it can change exactly whenever from now on. So this week and all the upcoming weeks I’m just gonna take each day as it comes. Preferably she/he will stay in there for a few more weeks, but we’ll see:)

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Check-up and vaccine

Fanny Sura9 April, 2021Leave a comment

April 9, 2021

Yesterday afternoon, while I went to my weekly check-up with my doctor, Jim went to get his first shot of vaccine. Last week he updated every site for a full day and then finally he found an appointment to schedule. And it was a drive thru right by the clinic I was scheduled at the same time as my appointment. Couldn’t have timed it better.

Apparently you need a pelvic exam to check if you are dilating or not at every visit from now on, I didn’t know that, I thought I was just coming in to check heart beat and ask questions like always. My main doctor told me last week that I could bring my birth plan for this visit. I put one together only a few hours before my appointment. This doctor just told me to bring that paper and go over it with my main doctor next week cause she had to leave to work at the hospital (my regular appointments are at two different clinics but I will give birth at the hospital). So I spent all that time writing yesterday for nothing haha.
This doctor is also pregnant, something I found out only three weeks ago. Since I hadn’t heard of it before and judging by the size of her belly when I saw her in the hallway that same day, my guess was that maybe she’s four months pregnant or so. Nope, she is due only a couple of weeks after me, her last day at the office could be my birth day. See, this is why nobody should make assumptions on someones body. She looks fantastic and healthy, I could barely tell she was pregnant yesterday.

Jim and I were done about the same time, but J had to stay there on a parking lot for another 15 minutes so they could make sure he wouldn’t get sick from the vaccine. I didn’t mind waiting. It was a lovely sunny day with 17°c so I just stood outside waiting. J feels ok from the shot, just a sore arm. His next shot is scheduled on our due date though so he might have to change that.
I have also started to think about if I should get the vaccine once the baby is here. My plan was to wait til after I was done breastfeeding (if I end up doing that), so towards the end of the year, but studies has now shown that babies can get antibodies from their breastfeeding and vaccinated mother. Something to think about for sure.

Today is a gray day outside so I will focus on all the stuff that I didn’t get done yesterday when I was writing my birth plan. We have also started to think about selling our main couch. The other day, J found a buyer for one of our floor lamps. When they came, he showed them pictures of our glass coffee table and my old glass desk (same series of furniture from ikea) and they wanted both. So all of a sudden he came running up the stairs where I was doing stuff on my computer. Quickly we had to put everything that was on the tables on the floor and then he ran down with the two items. So now we have a huge mess up here. When he came back he said kinda as a joke “what else can we sell?”. I told him that I am fine getting rid of the main bigger couch in the living room and move the smaller white couch upstairs down. So that might be our mission this weekend, to deal with the upstairs mess and to put the couch on the market. Things are moving fast around here in the Sura household hahaha.