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Moriyama Review

Hey guys! Robin here. 🐤

So I apparently typed all these pregnancy updates, but I honestly don’t remember writing these?? According to Kai and all of my coworkers, I was a serious space case during this pregnancy. Milo better be hella smart for how much he drained my brain. 🤦‍♀️ 

Let’s see...I think I was about 28 weeks when we started choosing wall colors? So let’s go with that!

Week 28

The baby is the size of a(n): An eggplant!  🍆 Gender?: We still didn’t know! Bump?: I think I grew sideways, not forward... Maternity clothes?: I saved all mine from Hana, thankfully. But the ones I’m wearing now I didn’t need until week 30 with her! 😫 Sleep?: We were renovating a house with 3 little kids 🙄 Symptoms?: Oh geez, this is when my RLS came back Movement?: Milo was a statue the whole time...he hates moving Food cravings?: You know those break and bake cookies? I ate six a day. Food aversions?: Yogurt was suddenly disgusting, which was a really sad time because all I eat at work is Chobani Belly button in or out?: Let’s just not talk about my weird belly button ever again What I miss?: I thiiiiink this is where I couldn’t pick up Ari anymore, which was awful What I’m looking forward to?: The house being done! I’m so glad it is now!!! 🏡 Best moment this week?: I got to spend a lot of time with my sister in law! (But they were just engaged back then!) Milestones: Milo started growing the beautiful eyelashes he has now! 🤩

Wow, it’s weird to post these when Milo’s here...but it’s fun to reminisce!

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Two down, one to go!

Kai got to spend some quality splash time with his first baby 🤗

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Father’s Day...At The Beach!

Hey y’all! It’s Robin! 🐤

Since it’s Father’s Day, I decided to give Kai a break from this whole blogging thing and write a post for him. (Not that he’s had a lot of time to post recently anyway!)

Luna’s been begging to go to the beach since before school ended, and the stars finally aligned to let us get there! I swear, between my OB visits and Ari’s neuro visits, we hardly get a day with all five of us.

I admit that I spent most of our day on a beach towel anyway - pregnant lady’s gotta rest. 🤰

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Hana clocked out two hours in, so Kai and the big girls moved onto sandcastle endeavors. 🏖️ 

Indigo’s the architect of the family, but I gotta hand it to Luna for her persistence in building (and destroying) a whole city’s worth of buildings.

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Luna, as you can see, took every opportunity to splash the camera. 😑 Good thing we brought the cheap camera and not Kai’s good one!

I was a little surprised at Ari’s hesitance - she was a total water baby in India. But this isn’t exactly the Indian Ocean... Nevertheless, with a little encouragement from big sister, Ari was happily stomping around in the shallows.

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“So far how along are you anyway?”

Hey guys! It’s Robin. 🐤

I’ve been getting this question a lot recently! After all, besides announcing around Mother’s day, I haven’t really talked about this pregnancy at all. After trying for nearly 10 months, you’d think I’d be more chatty, right?

Well, uh, this pregnancy had a bit of a rocky start. Like 3 ER visits, five missed work days rocky. 😣

Kai and I had a couple of scares there. Not to get too graphic, but there was bleeding involved on multiple occasions. I was obsessively monitoring my HCG levels. I’d sneak to the OB floor after work so my friend could use the Doppler and give me a heartbeat reading.

I tried to be as level headed as possible through all this, but the only way I could maintain my cool was by not talking about it. Which probably isn’t healthy??

But anyway! Things have been stable for the past couple months! And I’m kinda showing too much to keep it a secret anymore. 😅

So! Here’s to 20 weeks! Hopefully this kiddo can cook in peace, eh? 😉