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Ava vs. Luke Observations

Happy Friday everyone!

I thought it would be fun to post a few observations on how my pregnancies and baby days with Ava and Luke were different. 

Pregnancy

Food cravings:

  • Ava – Couldn’t tolerate the sound or even the thought of red meat during the first trimester. I wanted sour cream and onion chips from time to time and I found myself craving sweets a lot more than I ever had in my life.
  • Luke – I wanted all the chips and BLTs. All of them. Once I hit the third trimester, I craved wine…

Body Changes:

  • Ava – sore lower back, two skin rashes – early  second trimester – broke out on my stomach and third trimester broke out on my neck. 
  • Luke – sore pubic bone/groin area a couple weeks leading up to labor and feeling really crampy during the same time period.
Breastfeeding:
Breastfeeding was much easier with Luke. I was more confident with the whole process, as I had done it before and knew what to expect and not do. Tommy and I also decided to hire a night nursing service right out of the gate and continued using night nurses up until early-December. We didn’t use night nurses with Ava, primarily because we had my mom helping us out a lot, but in hindsight, I kind of wished we had. It was so nice to be able to ask someone else with recent baby care experience, any and all questions, to have them help me improve and perfect my breastfeeding techniques. And let’s not even talk about how wonderful it was to get more shuteye during the first two months or so! Both Tommy and I would highly, highly recommend this service to new parents, whether they are first-timers or having another baby. We used Hush Hush Little Baby. 
Ava at a couple weeks old.
Luke at a couple of weeks old.

Luke is almost 5 months already (on January 24th)! We have noticed two different things about Luke than when Ava was around this age. He is definitely a lot more smiley and chiller than she was. Don’t get me wrong, Ava has always been a really happy and extroverted person, but Luke is always just grinning away. He’s also (usually) more than happy to just sit in his Bobby lounger and watch people do their things. While Ava was an “easy baby”, I wouldn’t say she was a chill baby, if that makes sense. Luke is also very patient when it comes to his sister climbing on him and smothering him with kisses. 🙂

One thing that amazed both Tommy and me was how identical Ava and Luke were, especially in the first few weeks. People even confused the two of them when they saw framed photos of Ava when they came to visit after I gave birth. They exclaimed “how have you already gotten framed photos of Luke up, Maya?!”

Not gonna lie and not surprising, Tommy and I think we hit it out of the ballpark with two fabulous kiddos!

Hope you have a great weekend!

Things That Make Me Happy – 12

Happy Thursday! And Happy Moving Day to my little family and me!

That’s right – another “secret” I suppose you could say that we’ve been keeping, is that Tommy and I bought/built a house in the same neighborhood we live in currently. I didn’t want to post anything on here until we officially closed (which we did yesterday)! Stay tuned for a recap and house tour coming soon!

Let’s get to the “things that are making me happy lately”. [Read more…]

thredUP

Happy Monday!

Hope your weekend was lovely. Ours was a busy weekend that included an Ava and Mommy run Saturday morning, a family picnic hosted by Tommy’s company for all of their employees and families, and lots of water fun for Ava on Sunday with two of her friends.

Have you ever heard of thredUP? It describes itself as the largest online and consignment thrift store for women and children. While I have sent in gently used clothes of mine to sell to thredUP a couple of times, I hadn’t purchased anything from thredUP until recently when I realized Ava was in need of some cute summer clothes! [Read more…]

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