He's here!!

I've been struggling to find time to share that my sweet baby boy has made his grand entrance! I wanted to share my birth story and later share my hospital experience as well. But what a better time to share than Mother's Day!

Monday May 4, 2015 at 1:40pm baby Eli James Bernas made his entrance into the world! I am the 1% that delivers on their due date! How absolutely insane!

Hospital Bag

I did a lot of research to try and figure out what I needed in my hospital bag. I used the internet, my friends and some info from the hospital as well. I'll go ahead and share what you'll find in it and later I'll update with exactly how useful it ended up being lol

39 Weeks

This passed week was pretty laid back. I've been drinking my Third Trimester Tea like its my job. I also went a little crazy baking last week as well, oops. Let me tell you, it was SO worth it though!!!

Maternity Photos

I know I shared in a previous post (37 Weeks) some of the DIY maternity photos I did in my home. Today I wanted to share both the photos taken by the art student, Misty, as well as the photos I had a friend take of my husband and I that I edited.

Enjoy!

38 Weeks

What a week!!! My goodness.

You might be nesting if.....

Yup. It's happened. I'm officially in nesting mode. Yesterday I got my Betty Crocker on by making these FABULOUS Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies.

37 Weeks

Last week was pretty rough on my emotions. I spent many days just wanting to cry my eyes out. Hormones man, they sure are crazy. I spent a couple of days in a pretty terrible funk. I like to think I have defeated it now though. I feel really calm, sort of at peace. I find this incredibly surprising though because we got some pretty crappy news this week.

DIY Nursery, part I

I should be expecting my son in about a month and I finished his nursery just days ago. Usually I would be chomping at the bit share how amazing it is but because we are keeping his name a secret, I will not be doing a full reveal until after his birth. What I will do in the meantime is share pieces and parts of it! His nursery has no specific theme aside from primary colors. I wanted my little man to have lots of bold colors to help with color vision development. Since we are in a rental home, we chose not to bother with painting the walls. This really gave me a lot of creative liberty when it came to decorations!

36 Weeks

Officially 9 months pregnant. Woah. I'm pretty sure I'm waddling at this point. I'm also pretty sure that I increase in size daily. This may not actually be true, but I sure feel like it. In this passed week my husband as spent much more time touching and rubbing my belly. It's really the cutest thing. He's also been going out of his way to tell me just how beautiful he still finds me. I always seem to tell him he's crazy because i'm really struggling with my body image.

35 Weeks

Today's photo features my favorite sweatpants lol 

I know I gave a little bit of a midweek update, but there is always more to be said!
This passed week has been full of very big baby movements! Everything I read and hear tells me that he should be slowing down, but not this little guy. He's active seemingly all day. I've been able to capture a few great videos to share and save.

Oh, Pregnancy.

Tuesday night was one of the hardest nights of this pregnancy (so far). I could even say it might have been worse than the three day contractions fiasco.

34 Weeks

My goodness has is been crazy these last two weeks since I did a bump update. I've been having braxton hick's contractions here and there since maybe 28 weeks, but recently they have picked up to 20+ some days! There were a few days last week that I thought little man had a plan of his own and would be coming early!

32 Weeks

While I actually hit 32 weeks yesterday, there was entirely too much going on to post an update. Mondays can be so harsh sometimes. What did actually go well was my doctors appointment. I just adore my midwife, she's fantastic!

28-30 weeks

Goodness I almost forgot to add in about our second baby shower in Tennessee. In a later post, I will share all the great decorations I made. Anyway, it was so much fun! Although a small crowd, we had a great time and got tons of awesome stuff we really needed.

The Second Trimester

At 13w 4d we celebrated Halloween! Lots of candy = one happy preggo! At 14 weeks, my belly finally "popped." At 15w 2days, I was driving back to Tennessee from a visit home in Alabama and felt my very first little kicks! They were so light they almost tickled.

The First Trimester

On September 2nd my second blood test confirmed that was was indeed pregnant and would be getting referred upstairs to Women's Health. As soon as we knew for sure, we sent off reveal gifts to our parents! I packed them so hastily I forget to get pictures!

From Trying to Conceiving

In June 2014, my husband and I were freshly settled into our new home in northern Tennessee when we found ourselves in an interesting predicament- we thought I might be pregnant. Now, we wouldn't have been upset if I was. I had wanted to be a mother my entire life and my husband wanted nothing more than to make me one. But we had been married close to nine months and eight of those were spent apart while he was in training. We knew that when I willingly went off my birth control earlier in the year, that it could happen. We also knew that going off the pill was what was best for my body, so it was worth the risk.