38 weeks and counting

I can't believe there are only 13 days til my due date. I am still feeling good and I guess moving a little slower but not really. Definitely getting more tired by the day and it was really nice last week to be home all but one day (Wednesday I worked) because of all the snow we had and the holiday. We had a really fun Christmas. Had my family + my friend Matt (like family) over so there were 8 of us plus our dog and our aunt's dog so it was a full house but we had plenty of room to open presents and relax.

Marty wanted to start a new tradition of having christmas at our house which was really nice. Plus my parents' living room has been changed to my nana's bedroom so there isn't really a good place for a tree in their house anymore. I think this was our last "quiet" christmas as next year we'll be chasing an 11 month old around! :) I can't wait though.

Nothing is happening on the baby front. I am getting alot of braxton-hicks (practice) contractions where my stomach will really tighten up (it's crazy to feel, feels like a rock) but really doesn't hurt. I wasn't able to walk the dog at all last week due to the ice on the sidewalks which I really hated. I did walk her yesterday and today which was great. I seriously got a good workout just from walking around because the tiny hills in our neighborhood are killer when you weigh 35 more pounds than usual. I cannot wait to get back into shape.

Here are some pics from Christmas.

Me, Mom and Katie at our House, Christmas 2009 (almost 38 weeks)
Katie, me and Baby Robinson in her SNUGGIE (Nana was scared of it)


Yes, I'm bigger than my parent's christmas tree this year.

Santa?

Rosie in the Snow

Here's our first baby, she LOVES snow. :)

Coming home from the lake from Cindy Robinson on Vimeo.

37 weeks - full term baby during blizzard

I cannot believe it's less than 3 weeks to go, 20 days from today is my due date. I really don't feel bad at all! Not that I expected to because this pregnancy has been very easy. I feel so lucky. The baby is considered full term now, I think meaning if he/she is born now, the baby won't be considered premature. Yeah!

On Saturday, we got 17 inches of snow. I haven't been out since Friday except for a small hike with Marty and Rosie on Saturday morning while there was "only" 9 inches or snow on the ground. I love being pregnant but I also love hiking around in snow so I'm kind of sad that I can't go out there and romp around in it. Guess I'm a kid at heart when it comes to snow. It's been so nice to be stranded in our house. We did alot of cleaning yesterday, putting stuff in the attic that had never really been unpacked from when we moved into the house...a year ago... :)

Our street still hasn't been plowed and I watched at midnight through my bathroom window as some teenagers got their cars stuck in front of our house on the street. We live on a hill and it was pretty amusing to watch them try to get their cars out. I eventually gave up watching as they started pushing the car back down the hill and realized that I needed rest more than I cared about what happened to their cars. Marty slept soundly through the whole thing.

The federal government is closed today so I'm at home in my PJs still (that is nothing new recently, sweatpants are definitely the most comfortable thing when your belly is huge).

Here are some pics from the snow. I will post the 37 week belly pic once I take a shower and put some real clothes on today.

23 days to go

Wow, I'm actually posting twice in one week. That's unheard of coming from me. Just came from my 36 week appointment where she did an internal check to see if I'm dilated at all. As I suspected, I wasn't dilated at all and the baby is still very high. So there won't be any baby born tomorrow in the impending blizzard we are supposed to maybe get here this weekend and I'm 99% positive not before christmas, whew! I still have stuff to do. Marty and I were talking this morning. He thinks Jan 12, I'm thinking Jan 16. I just think this baby will be late. We'll see though.

I really don't think I look as large as other women I've seen in the doctor's office lately. Maybe it's because I'm tall and the baby has more torso area to spread out in? Only a little more than 3 weeks until my due date. I'm feeling great, still walking every day (although now I'm using Marty's giant puffy coat to walk the dog and probably look like 300 lbs in it!). Still lots of heartburn (keeping TUMS in business) and I'm getting out of breath more easily. I actually sat on the couch alot yesterday which is pretty hard for me to do, just sit there and do nothing. Well, not nothing, I was putting together some of the electrical baby stuff (video monitor and batteries in the play gym) and I watched "Twilight". I read the book in 2 days a few weeks ago and couldn't wait to see the movie. Yes, I think I have reverted to being a teenager. :)

Ok, I will reveal that I have gained 34 pounds so far. I'm pretty ok with that number. The goal was between 25 and 35. My personal goal was below 35 seeing as I think I gained 12 just in the first trimester when alot of people only gain 3-5. But everyone is different. I'm hoping these next three weeks won't add too much more!!

36 weeks - baby is 6 lbs 3 oz!

36 weeks

Christmas photo rejects!


We went to have a 36 week ultrasound yesterday. All looked good, although I really thought the baby looked like an alien because it was harder to see when it was all squished up. We saw the baby blinking and covering his/her face with a fist. So cute. They estimated the current weight to be 6 lbs, 3oz. That could be +/- a lb so we're looking at probably having a 7-9 lb baby in a few weeks!

We tried to sit down and take a family christmas photo and they came out terrible! I'll put a few on here but it was cracking me up because either Marty looked good, or Rosie looked good, or my bare feet were in the picture. Oh well. I might just skip christmas cards this year and wait to send out baby announcements instead.

I can't believe there are less than 4 weeks to go til my due date! I'm hoping this baby waits til after Christmas. I am starting to get a lot slower in my morning walks with Rosie. Huffing and puffing up the hills in our neighborhood. And I've definitely been having Braxton-Hicks contractions (practice contractions) where my stomach gets tight for a little bit. Doen't really hurt but feels strange. The baby has been kicking a ton and my sister was able to feel it the other morning and actually see my tummy moving around.

Best Baby Shower

My sister and mom threw me a kick-ass baby shower this past Saturday. It was SO different from my July bridal shower last year in the hot and humid DC summer because it was snowing on Saturday. I told Marty the night before that a baby shower was way better than Christmas because it was all baby presents. It was so fun to have so much of my family and friends together to celebrate this baby. I feel so blessed and lucky. We had 9 people stay in our house on Saturday night (all girls :) ) which was really fun and we spent Saturday night eating leftovers, reopening the presents and putting the stroller (love it!), jungle gym and bouncy chair together on the living room floor. My 9 year old niece, Tess, was a major help. Thank you!

On Sunday I don't think I left the house except for going outside on the driveway to wave goodbye to our visitors. But I was so worked up about all the cool baby stuff I couldn't relax. I did my first load of baby clothes in the wash and put the new clothes in the dresser in the nursery. So many cute clothes. I would go out and buy a ton more if I knew the sex so I'm really glad I don't. There will be plenty of time to buy pink and blue outfits. I'm loving the yellow, green and white ones right now.

35 weeks - 35 days to go!

35 weeks!



Only FIVE weeks until my due date. I'm really hoping this baby doesn't come early cause I got lots going on in the next five weeks! I will include pictures hopefully tomorrow in this post.

Everything is still going great. I have been growing bigger by the week but don't feel "gigantic" yet, although I think this morning I am starting to feel that way. Starting to get really tired and it's hard to eat too much without feeling super full. The heartburn is pretty much never ending at this point. That is something they say is normal this late in pregnancy.

I am starting to realize that the baby could possibly come at any time and I have a huge to do list at work and at home. It will get done though so I should not be worrying...

Hope everyone is doing well and staying warm!

34 weeks

32 weeks

31 weeks - 2 months to go!

Ok, so I am definitely the worst blogger in the world. I love to read other people's blogs but don't even think about writing my own. I knew I'd be like that though.

All is going great. Today marks 2 months exactly until my due date. I cannot believe the time is flying by so fast. I am feeling great and don't feel so huge (yet). People at work are definitely starting at my belly and constantly asking me about it though so it kind of makes it all more real. Just this week I started getting achey hips and legs.

The baby has been kicking alot but nothing that is really keeping me awake at night (well, besides getting up at least once or twice to go to the bathroom and change which side I'm laying on every few hours).

Marty has done a great job with the nursery. It's all painted (green) and looking great. I love the green color and at first I was worried it would be too light or too bright, but I'm loving it. We ordered a crib, dresser and changer from the Land of Nod (Crate and Barrel for babies, my new favorite catalog since they don't have a store in our area) and on Sunday we (correction: mostly Marty) assembled the furniture. It's all coming together slowly but surely.

I've been trying to exercise as much as I can which is basically just walking Rosie for about 40 minutes every morning before work. I have seen the inside of the gym about 10 times this whole pregnancy which I'm ashamed of, but that's ok. At this point I feel like all I can really do there is the bike, elliptical and stretching.

My doctor says everything is looking great and I am a model patient. Over the past few weeks I had to do the one hour glucose screening and failed it so I had to do the three hour screening which was painful. You have to fast (something I am terrible at anyways) then guzzle a super super sweet hawaiian punch type drink in 5 minutes and then sit at LabCorp for three hours and give blood every hour. Plus LabCorp on a Friday morning gets its fair share of crazy people so that was an adventure. But luckily I passed the three hour and so I don't have to worry about gestational diabetes (whew!)

Only two months to go! I have my doctor's appointments lined up until New Year's eve (literally, I have an appointment on the morning of New Year's eve, but that really doesn't matter because at 39 weeks pregnant I can forsee myself falling asleep at 8pm that night...:)

Here are some pics of my ever growing belly (not sure why we didn't take a 30 week pic, oh well):

31 weeks (crib sans mattress in the background)


29 weeks


28 weeks

27 weeks

Another week down and only 13 to go! Here are some pics from this week. The ones of me were taken at Roosevelt Island in DC on Sunday afternoon. It was a gorgeous day outside and Marty and I decided to take Rosie for her first adventure on Roosevelt Island.





We (well Marty since I wasn't supposed to be near the paint) painted the baby's room on Sunday morning. He did a wonderful job. I picked out a light green color in non VOC paint (supposed to be safer) and love the way it turned out. Now on to the decorating! We really haven't bought anything yet but will start in the next few weeks.





Another exciting event this week: Marty felt the baby moving last night! We were sitting watching TV and I could feel the baby moving and up until this point I figured no one else would be able to feel the little movements. But I had Mart feel my tummy and sure enough he felt its little movements. :)

26 weeks

I cannot believe I am already 26 weeks into the pregnancy.

Less than 100 days to go according to the tinker above, crazy!

Everything is going great and still no complaints. Just eating lots of TUMS for heartburn. Baby Robinson has been kicking up a storm, but they are still very light movements so far. I didn't really start feeling anything until 23 weeks. I'm thinking the kicking was there but with me being new to this, I didn't know what I was feeling! Here are some pictures from the past few weeks. Marty and I have been keeping busy and doing some day trips and drove up to NJ last weekend with our dog. Speaking of time flying, Rosie turned 10 months old yesterday. I'll put some pictures of her in here too because at the moment, she is our baby. :)

Rosie and I at 25 weeks (no belly pic this week) in NJ.


We have been taking childbirth classes (The Bradley Method) every Sunday night and are really enjoying the class. There is so much to learn and we want to be ready for anything that might come up. Yesterday, we were at the hospital all day for a 6 hour class given by a nurse in the hospital all about the hospital procedures and our doctor's procedures. Then we had our Bradley class at night so it was a full baby day (guess we have to get used to that).

Here is a pic from Camden Yards at 24 weeks.

23 Weeks

Today marks 23 weeks. Time is flying!

I have been doing great, no complaints. Today we went to DC with Rosie and walked around a bit on the mall.

Rosie and me watching the end of the National Triathlon:

I have been taking pictures almost every week of the baby bump so I figured I'd start posting them here. Here is a pic from today downtown and from the past few weeks.

at 22 weeks, about to leave for our day hike at Harper's Ferry:




at 21 weeks:

Marty and I at Louie's Backyard for a yummy 1 year anniversary dinner and fun night right on the ocean in Key West, August 30, 2009

At 15 weeks

20 weeks

We had the big 20 week ultrasound yesterday. Everything looks great. Marty and my sister came which was really fun to all be there together. It was so amazing. Baby Robinson was moving around like crazy (probably b/c I drank a root beer made with cane sugar, yum, an hour before). I wanted to make sure we could see lots of movements!

Here are my favorite pics from yesterday. They printed out a BUNCH of them but a few of those profile 3D pics I'm a little scared of. Baby Robinson looks cute in some and full alien in others.

All the measurements looked good, brain, heart activity, bladder, little hands and feet. The baby pointed at us at one point and kept covering his/her little face. Then yoga baby took action and was fully touching his/her toes with hands. So cool! (5th picture down, my favorite)

Marty ALMOST made the technician tell us the sex but we were both good and didn't give in.

Afterwards, Katie gave me a gorgeous white blanket she crocheted for the baby, complete with little hoodie with animal ears. So cute, I love it! She was good at keeping it a secret while making it over these weeks.

19 weeks

Hi everyone, I am not a very good blogger but hey, I didn't want to be on here every day telling you everything that's happening in my life, boring! :)

I went to Europe for two weeks for a study abroad program for school. Got back on August 11th. I was studying in Oxford through my school back here and had a blast. I met up with my British friend Katie (we met in Japan 7 years ago) and we traveled to Brussels and Bruges on the weekend in between my two weeks and met up with her on the last weekend and went to Cambridge and Essex. It was so nice to have friends to stay with and show me around. I definitely ate my way through my trip! The weather was kind of crappy but now that I look back on it, it was really refreshing because back here in VA it's hell for a pregnant woman! I have been limiting being outside in this 90 degree humid weather as much as possible. Actually, I have a bad cold this week that I'm fighting. You would never think you'd have a cold in this hot weather!

Anyways, here is a pic of me in Bruges. Baby bump is getting a little bigger (that was at 17 weeks). I'll have to start taking pictures every week now. We have the big ultrasound next Monday but don't want to know the sex of the baby. I just hope everything goes ok! I haven't felt any movements, at least I don't think I have? Not sure what they really feel like.

Marty and I drove up to Long Island this past weekend for our friend Billy Guerin's Stanley Cup party. He won the Cup with the Penguins this year and had a kick-ass party. (Pics are at 19 weeks).

14 weeks - hello 2nd trimester

Picture of Marty's mom's side (SOME of them) of family

Yeah, I'm finished with the first trimester! All is going well. We were up at the Jersey Shore this weekend visiting Marty's family and attended one of his first cousin's (18 first cousins on that side) birthday party. I met plenty of cousins and cousins' kids. Thanks to Terry for coming home and making a family tree of just one side of their family...This baby will have LOTS of family on the Robinson side, and can count all the family on the Atkinson side on two hands!

I went to the dr. for a checkup today. All is good, heard baby's heartbeat and besides gaining a pound more than I should have this past month (oops!), everything looks very normal.

Ultrasound 12 weeks

Here is the ultrasound from 12 weeks. Starting to look like a baby! I had one at 6 weeks too but it looks like just a blob so I won't bother posting it.

Baby Robinson is coming in 2010!

We are so excited to let everyone know that we are expecting a baby, due 1/10/2010. I'll be done with the first trimester in a few weeks. I haven't been feeling that bad at all, just tired and sometimes feel sick at night. I am both excited and nervous about what's to come!

This baby will be the TWELFTH grandchild on the Robinson side and first on the Atkinson side. We aren't going to find out the sex in advance. You know my favorite color is green anyways...

For now, here is our first baby. Rosie has been the best puppy. She is almost seven months old now and is 52 lbs. Growing fast! She is very calm and has a great disposition so I am not worried about having a baby around her at all. (This is a pic of her when she was about 9 weeks old)...