This week baby is the size of an onion!
Red onion
One
Whole
Purple
Roots
Peeling
Simplicity
Detail
Selective focus
Indoors
Still life
Nobody
Ingredient
Comparing baby to fruits and veggies is a touch confusing. Some weeks baby seems to get smaller than the previous week, but I just go with what I’m told. At week 17 the baby is anywhere from 5-6 ounces and roughly 5 inches (from crown to rump). My baby bump has made an appearance and I feel like I’m getting bigger each week now. The waist on some of my pants are getting too tight to wear, but thankfully my friend has let me borrow her Bellaband (a simple stretchy fabric band to wear over unbuttoned waistbands). So hopefully, I can get a few more weeks out of my pants before having to move onto true maternity clothes. Guess I should schedule in some shopping time soon.
I’ve also been hunting around for simple sewing tutorials and patterns for maternity clothes here, here, and here. I’d love to save a bit of money and make some of my own clothes. Goodness knows I’ve got plenty of fabric in my stash to whip some things up! But I’m not sure how realistic a goal that is. Keep it simple. Gotta remember that motto. And sometimes simple means buying some things instead of trying to make them all yourself.
In other maternity news, we’re all signed up for our main prenatal class, which doesn’t start until the beginning of December. It seems a long way off right now, but I have a feeling that the fall will go by quickly. There are some other classes we’re considering like CPR, baby safety, cloth diapering etc. There’s even one for preparing to introduce your pet to the new baby, which might be useful. Pretty sure that Chloe (our fur baby) will absolutely hate the baby, but we’re really not going to know how she’ll react until we bring baby home. Oh the joys of integrating a household!
For now, I try not to worry about all those things and just focus on keeping healthy and rested. Baby still has lots of growing to do after all.