I’ve been TIRED lately! Like getting up in the morning only to want to get back into bed kind of tired. Â I really don’t have a reason to be tired except I’m making a human that loves to kick me from all angles. Â I swear this baby just loves to flip around and kick me in new and interesting places all the time. Â We’ve started going for early morning walks around our neighbourhood to get some time together and really enjoy the outdoors before it gets unbearably hot. Â On our little walk we discovered the cutest little park, if it wasn’t for all the tagging on everything, it would look like the most magical park in all the land. Â Little squirrels and cute little fluffy animals running around playing on the big trees, green grass that you just want to roll in an regret later and a large slide that I want to take for a spin!
I’m still feeling pretty good, I mean I’m tired, but I’m not exhausted. Â Its a bearable tired that hits me occasionally, in reality I’m getting off lightly!
I’ve been feeling like a ball of stress and realised its not good for me or the baby, so I’m avoiding stressful situation and trying to meditate away everyone’s little pregnancy pokes. Â Lets get to what I’ve been eating.
BREAKFAST
^^ Not surprising, I’ve still been on my Iron rich overnight oats kick and Moringa coconut chia overnight porridge kick lately.
^^ See I add more variety to my breakfast. Â To the left raw buckwheat porridge with fruit, this is one of my favourite breakfast of all time now! To the the right a power green smoothie bowl topped with chocolate buckwheat granola, fruit and coconut.
Snack:
If I get snacky I still grab my omega peanut butter with added flaxseed oil for a little pick me up.
Lunch
^^ Still just eating my kale salad, baby gets angry when I don’t have my daily lunch kale salad.
Dinner
^^ Dinner has been a whole lot of different things to the left a really  veggie cottage pie with spouted lentil a whole lot of veggies and topped with a broccoli, cauliflower and kale pureed topping.  To the right: a falafel bowl with spouted chickpeas, a homemade tahini dressing, salad stuff and a cauliflower kale rice.
^^ Other nights we had a healthy sweet and sour stir fry with carrot noodles and a rocket, baby spinach nectarine salad to go with sprouted red lentil fritters.
^^ and I can’t forget this crazy good Cauliflower leek soup!
Snacks:
^^ I’ve been making some healthy snacks on the go for quick snacking. Â On the left a gluten free, sugar free black bean, chia seed and hemp protein bar. Â So amazing! and to the right a flax seed date and black-strap molasses square, so good and even better for you, an easy way to get my 6 dates a day in.
^^ I finally found some watermelon and it was just the best thing ever! Now if I could only find mangoes my pregnancy cravings will be satisfied. Â I also enjoy my little rooibos latte here and there.
^^ Our blender has been acting up again, I guess its not suppose to withstand the daily abuse I put it through. Â So I’ve been having my Protein shake whenever I can. Â I get sad when I can’t have it everyday.
I’m feeling prepared mentally and physically for my home-birth and I’m getting more and more excited everyday to meet our little baby! Â Just need to finish the last bits of things and it will be smooth sailing from here on out!