33 weeks

*33 weeks*

It's difficult to see where my belly ends but you can tell if you looks closely :) It's getting a little harder to move around from day to day. She is so heavy and I know she has a lot more growing to do, Lord willing. However I'm not having any trouble sleeping or working so that's a plus. She might wake me up at 3 am with kicks and movements but we both fall back asleep soon. It's fun to have a schedule with her already. Her active times and sleeping patterns are always the same everyday. I love it. 

So my doula noticed I was scratching my belly at church one Sunday and she mentioned that I should try using coconut oil. I mentioned it in my last post too. I took a trip to Costco today after work because we were out of our bulk items like TP and Jonathan's peanut butter. So I got the usual costco purchases, Kerrygold Irish butter (its the best butter in the world!) cat food, bulk rice, a 50 pound bag of bread flour for all our homemade bread-making, + this bulk coconut oil!

I had a little coconut oil that we use for cooking from Trader Joes (its great because its such a heat-stable oil) but when my doula mentioned it to use on my belly, I didn't realize it was literally the same stuff. Who really thinks about smearing themselves with cooking products? well now I do and I love it. It's made my skin so super soft and it absorbs so quickly. I use it all over right out of the shower. (Well I cant reach my legs and feet so well right now so I just ignore them.) I'm also using it on this nasty burn I recently acquired on my hand from the oven, and it's healing really fast!

Anyway, I was just excited about costco carrying it now so thought I'd share!