Baby Morgan 21 Weeks!

WEEK 21

Estimated Due Date: July 2, 2014

Gender: GIRL!!! J Morgan Duggan-Childs

Weight Gain: 10 pounds! holy cow starting to get big 

Eats and Treats: Lots of sweets, ice-cream (which I still haven't had) Reeses (especially the easter eggs that came out!), avocados, Mexican food (I miss it so much England has no Mexican restaurants), thank goodness for girl scout cookies

How I Am Feeling: Feeling good this week! Starting to feel baby Morgan kick so much lately!

Clothing: maternity clothes all the way, I am over trying to make my old clothes fit. 

Exercise: working out in the morning before work, I actually jogged yesterday morning and couldn't believe how sore I was after!

Most Looking Forward To: seeing my belly get bigger and the ultrasound appointment we have tomorrow :)

Thankful For: A relaxing weekend with plans of doing absolutely nothing! 

Baby Morgan 20 weeks!

WEEK 20

Estimated Due Date: July 2, 2014

Gender: GIRL!!! J Morgan Duggan-Childs

Weight Gain: about 8 pounds so far.

Eats and Treats: still eating lots of peanut butter and oatmeal J craving ice cream but trying not to give in since I know my stomach will hurt after I eat it! Loving girl scout cookies especially the samosa, yummy

How I Am Feeling: Feeling tired and lots of cramping but starting to love this growing bump!

Clothing: still wearing comfy maternity clothes, but got my belly band in the mail yesterday so will give that a shot this week.

Exercise: Still working out to the pregnancy video “The Dia Method”, and haven’t jogged all week but more walking on the treadmill because I’m so tire. 

Most Looking Forward To: Getting more nursery decorations in the mail that I ordered and setting up the nursery and the possibility of moving on base housing so I don’t have to drive so far once we have the baby for work and daycare.

Thankful For: My amazing and supportive husband and our trip to Ireland this weekend! Also so thankful I got to feel baby Morgan kick for the first time last week, such an amazing experience.

Baby Morgan! (18 Weeks)

I want to keep a journal of all the stages of pregnancy of baby Morgan so I figured this is the best way to do it :) I haven't posted on here in awhile....life kind of got in the way but I will start doing updates more often.

This weekend Matt and I had nothing planned but Saturday we woke up and the sun was out so we decided we had to take advantage of that and do something! We decided on a trip to Cambridge and it was so much fun. We walked around the town looking at all the colleges and went to the botanical gardens (which Matt had way too much fun at looking at all the different trees). We also got a chance to eat fish and chips at a famous pub and it was delicious. 

Sunday we decided to go buy the crib and changing table for baby Morgan and that was nothing short of interesting. We could not get the crib in my car so Matt had to strap the crib to the top of the roof of my car. I cannot wait to start getting the nursery put together, I ordered a couple other things off etsy and I am super excited to see it all. 

Every week starting this week (Week 18) I am going to try and do an update and picture. Let's see how long this lasts haha. 

WEEK 18

Estimated Due Date: July 2, 2014

Gender: GIRL!!! J Morgan Duggan-Childs

Weight Gain: not sure haven’t weighed myself (don’t really want to weigh myself haha)

Eats and Treats: eating lots of peanut butter, oatmeal, cake, craving doughnuts but they are hard to get over here.

How I Am Feeling: Feeling good J No complaints here (once in awhile I will get cramps that feel really bad and I am still tired but overall doing great!) and I can start feeling her kick which is pretty awesome!

Clothing: switched to maternity early on because the maternity clothes are so much more comfortable right now.

Exercise: Still working out to the pregnancy video “The Dia Method”, and jogging on the treadmill.

Most Looking Forward To: starting to buy so many cute girl things for the nursery!

Thankful For: little bump that is starting to show J Matt going on day shift so we can see each other everyday now! Life is good J

Another what I have learned so far...

1. You can never keep your car clean here. No matter what 20 minutes after washing your car it will be covered in mud again. The tractors bring the mud from the fields onto the road and its impossible to avoid!

2. Even if things say 240v that doesnt always mean 240v and things will blow up

3. The ovens are really tiny, I can only fit one of my baking sheets (the smallest one in the oven). Baking a batch of cookies take forever!


4. You can watch Friends on TV here 24/7 it is always on TV. Some people hate it other people (me) love it!

5. Even though we both keep the same language there is still a barrier between me coworkers and I. It is hilarious to hear our conversation and not understand each other. I mentioned the cheesecake flavor turtle cheesecake and my coworker thought it was cheesecake in the shaped of a turtle and had no idea what I was talking about.

6. The Fog is so bad! like nothing I have ever seen

7. Our Thanksgiving turkey will not fit on our freezer (we bought one a couple weeks ago because we heard the commissary sells out) well keeping a turkey on ice in a cooler does not work and the turkey defrosted....luckily the commissary didn't sell out so we went back to buy another one. Total $65 for thanksgiving turkey! haha

8. Once again British people can't believe the size of the turkey's we have in America. They couldn't believe we bought a 23lb turkey.

9. Learn to go with the flow  because the commissary is always out of everything I ever need, and the local grocery stores don't always have what I need so I just have to learn to go with out things....like pie crust for thanksgiving :(

10. The sunrises here are amazing and the sky is always gorgeous here. It also always feel a lot colder here than it really is. The air is so damp and wet 45 degrees feels like 30 degrees.

11. Learning to deal in celsius because my oven is in celsius and its what everyone talks about when they talk about weather....