Leona Lane

BEDSIDE NEWBORN BASKET

I'm in the last month of my pregnancy and I've gotten the crazy nesting bug! I don't remember feeling quite this way when I was pregnant with Lucy. Maybe it was the all day nausea for nine months, I'm not sure. But this time around I have had the constant urge to clean, purge and organize!

We live in a small two bedroom condo in Seattle. I never intended to live here once I had a child, let alone two children! But it seems we wont be moving any time soon. Right now there is a real struggle to make space for another person who will be joining our home in the next few weeks. 

One of the first projects I worked on was getting a newborn basket ready for my son. Eventually he will share a room with his sister Lucy, but we will wait a few months until he is sleeping (at least mostly) through the night. One of the will be having enough newborn essentials outside the nursery so I don't have to interrupt a sleeping toddler. That's where the idea for the newborn basket came about.

I used a white storage basket (re-purposed from this project) and filled it with some of my favorite newborn supplies: 

• Several size newborn onesies
• a few newborn diapers
• Avent soothie pacifiers
• Earth Mama and Angel Baby bottom balm and lotion
• Nose suction and tiny clippers
• Aden & Anais swaddling blankets
• Several burp cloths
• Motherlove nursing cream
• Lamb Wubbanub
• Pocket Nanny

 We have a nice little set up for baby boy in our bedroom right now. I feel much more prepared now that I have this cradle set up and the newborn basket ready to use. I'm almost 37 weeks, so he could technically be here any time! 

If you have a baby on the way (especially a second baby!) I would definitely recommend putting together some of these essentials in a central location. Hopefully it will make our lives a bit easier once we have a tiny newborn to take care of. 

EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT!

Yes, it's true...I'm pregnant! This is Jenn here (thought that deserved clarifiying) and I'm 15 weeks pregnant with baby number two. This is pretty much common knowledge to family and friends and was announced on instagram a couple weeks ago. Still, I thought this news deserved a little blog post of its own. I've been waiting and waiting for the perfect time to take a few baby bump photos to post on the blog, but I decided not to wait anymore! There will never be the perfect time, especially since it's dark most of the time and 15 weeks is not the best time to take a bump photo! So this apple picture will have to do. I took it the otherday because I recieved a notification from an app on my phone that my baby is the size of an apple! It is 4 inches long. I will most likely get an ultrasound in mid-January that will let us know the gender of the baby. Woo hoo!

So how has it been going? I know you are all so excited to find out. Well truthfully, pregnancy and I are not the best of friends. We don't get along very well at all, in fact. The first trimester, especially, has been a bit of a doozy. I've been pretty sick so far, and judging from my last pregnancy with Lucy, I might just expect NINE LONG MONTHS of this. Hopefully not. I am trying hard to stay positive! In fact, I've been working on a blog post the past several months which just gives a few tips on surviving a hard pregnancy, specifially hyperemesis. Hopefully I will have that done soon!

In the meantime I am staying busy and distracted, taking care of our little girl Lucy who is 14 months and just the best cutest toddler on the planet. So long story short, life is good. We are surviving. 

thirty-nine and a half weeks

So I guess this is the home stretch! At least I hope so. :)

One thing is for sure. I am ready for baby girl to arrive. I tell her this every day. She seems so content and happy in my belly at the moment. I would be much happier if she were here in my arms. Her Dad and I are just so excited to meet her!

We visited the hospital last weekend and we LOVED it. We chose one of the smaller hospitals in the area, and it just happens to be six minutes away! (We timed it.) The nurses seem really awesome, and I love their philosophy about not pushing the meds too much. I haven't had my baby there yet, of course, but it seems like a really great fit for us. (Good thing, because it's too late to switch, ha!)

Friday was my last day of work, so I am officially on maternity leave! Ideally she comes quickly so I don't have to sit around and twiddle my thumbs. I know that I will be sharing on instagram as soon as she's born, so stay tuned!! Hopefully this will be my last pregnancy post. :)

Thirty-Seven Weeks

This week is big for me because I am now full term! If baby wants to show up any day, then she is good to go! I am scheduled to work these last three weeks, but she wants to be early I would welcome it. My doctor says she is already 7.5 lbs, so I'm thinking she will be a big baby. Don't I just look HUGE?? I can't believe how enormous my belly has gotten. I can hardly lean over anymore because she's in the way. I can't even tell you how often I have accidentally bumped my belly into something. Ouch! Good think baby girl has lots of water and padding around her.

Overall, I'm feeling good. I've been seeing a chiropractor and my hips and pelvis are SO MUCH better. I can actually walk now without a ton of pain. I will be trying to walk as much as possible to help this baby come quicker. :)

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This post is going up a bit late, thanks to my computer issues I was having last week. I am actually 35 weeks now, but the photo was taken at the right time.

I'm still wearing the same maternity clothes. I have 4 T-shirts, 2 other shirts, 4 pants and 1 skirt (borrowed from Renae, pictured above.) I have loved having a really simple closet. Even though I have to do laundry often, its awesome that I rarely have to spend much time choosing what to wear. Even at work, I just wear normal clothes and then wear a lap coat on top. No scrubs!! I guess being pregnant I can get away with anything. :)

Baby girl is active. I love that I can feel her moving and shifting all day long.

She tends to stay in the same position most of the time. I think she has settled into a comfy position that she just loves. I will find out soon (hopefully this week!) if she is head-down, or not. We are always playing "guess the position of the baby," but no matter what I cannot make heads or tails of this little gal in my belly. Is it a foot? Or a hand? Who knows.

I finished reading Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn (and crossed it off my list!) It is sort of textbook-like but has really good information. I have crossed a few more things off my list as well, such as baby laundry. Four loads and so much fun! As soon as my crib and dresser arrive tomorrow I will be so close to having everything ready for this little girl to arrive. I think I only have 3 more things on my "To-Buy" list. Thanks to a couple of small baby showers and generous Moms and Aunties, I almost have everything I need!