{"id":4093,"date":"2010-04-12T16:56:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T23:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannarisse.com\/blog\/?p=4093"},"modified":"2010-04-12T16:56:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T23:56:56","slug":"pregnancy-week-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/pregnancy-week-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregnancy Week 23"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m kicked constantly now. Tom still can’t feel it, which sucks, but I bet he will any day now. My baby weights about the same as a mango, says BabyCenter.com. My belly is big, getting bigger every day. Such a trip. I get weirded out when strangers seem surprised when I tell them I’m pregnant. I feel so big. When I take a bath, I feel like a beached whale. My foot pain went away when I stopped wearing my pumas. My nose is still totally effed up. And I have allergy stuff happening on my hands. It doesn’t want to go away. I am the lotion queen these days.<\/p>\n

I had my first case of swollen ankles, after a show Friday night. Two bands, standing up after a long day was enough to swell them up, no wonder you don’t see a whole lot of pregnant ladies at concerts. The show was good though, Rogue Wave played at the Wonder Ballroom. The swelling wasn’t bad, it just hurt. I might just stick to the Aladdin or Mission Theatre where you can sit for the whole show. I kept plugging my ears so I could hear sort of what it must have sounded like for baby. I hope she liked it and it wasn’t too loud.<\/p>\n

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\nI’ve cut out sugars and simple carbs. It’s going good, we’ve been eating good meals and I’ve started looking into all my great cookbooks to find inspiration. It’s easy to get into the pattern of cooking the same things all the time. My favorite cookbooks are Jack Bishop’s vegetarian cookbooks. Things haven’t changed much food wise around here, but I noticed the whole world has been taunting me with shakes and donuts everywhere I turn. Today I had cravings pretty bad, I’ve been doing good since mid week last week.<\/p>\n

My moods are mostly up, sometimes down. Today is a down day and I don’t want to go to yoga class at Yoga Shala tonight. It’s too hard and I just want some gentle yoga. I am sad and tired. So I’ll go to the basement and do some quiet dvd yoga. I don’t want to be challenged today, I want to be coddled.<\/p>\n

We’re been seriously nesting, we both feel like it’s gotten a little out of control but it feels so good, and we’re being pretty frugal. We found a very large mission style dining room table with 10 chairs for $580 off craigslist. We found a beautiful entry table for $199 and a baby dresser perfect to use as a changing table for $99 in an antique shop in Oregon City. That’s not bad right? I did a lot of moving of heavy objects this weekend. I was really careful. I haven’t had any of the abdominal muscle cramps that I had earlier on. I was definitely feeling it yesterday though. What’s worse is watching Tom lifting very heavy objects by himself. All I need is a husband with a strained back. I hate feeling like I can’t help.<\/p>\n

Our house is looking so amazing these days. Last night we sat on our porch before dinner, laughing and marveling at how lucky we are. It feels amazing.<\/p>\n

It’s cheese and cracker time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m kicked constantly now. Tom still can’t feel it, which sucks, but I bet he will any day now. My baby weights about the same as a mango, says BabyCenter.com. My belly is big, getting bigger every day. Such a trip. I get weirded out when strangers seem surprised when I tell them I’m pregnant. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4094,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093\/revisions\/4094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}