23 Jun 2014

a few days late again because of travels to ga/al but things are going great. I do believe my traveling days are over for the next few months and I’m looking forward to relaxing for a while. the ride home yesterday was awful – starting with my first puke in seven months of pregnancy and ending with torrential storms that made the drive that much longer. I really couldn’t be happier to be home right now.

13 Jun 2014

Where has the time gone???  I just can’t believe we’re only 10 weeks out.  I’m not ready for this to be over.

aaackkk!!!

8 Jun 2014

a couple days late because we just got back from Orlando late last night.  it was a great trip but we are happy to be home (for a few days at least).

28 May 2014

We had to take this week’s pic a couple days early due to our upcoming travels to Orlando.  This trip will start a whirlwind month of travels and visits and showers.  It’s going to be exhausting but great!

23 May 2014

I’ve been feeling all kinds of great about this pregnancy until I got a phone call yesterday from the dr office saying that I failed the glucose screening and have to go back for the 3 hour test.  anything over 126 requires advanced testing; mine was 148.  looking back over labs from the last few years, it looks like my pre-pregnancy glucose level stays right around 90.  insert major funk of depression here.  I know that this doesn’t necessarily mean that I have gestational diabetes and I know that, even if I do, it’s fairly common and easy to control and blah blah blah… but I just can’t shake this disappointment and melancholy.  I’ve been trying so hard to keep us healthy – I’ve been eating nutritionally, I’ve largely avoided junk food and fried food, I’ve been exercising – and all for what?  just a big smack-in-the-head reminder of how much my body hates me.  just like when I lost forty pounds and my cholesterol shot up instead of getting better.  it feels like I’m already failing my kid as a mother and that’s a lousy feeling.  so it’s going to be 2.5 weeks before I can get in to do the long glucose test.  here’s hoping that I can pull myself out of this funk and learn to deal with whatever comes because there doesn’t seem to be anything I can do about it.

cheers to the start of trimester the third!

16 May 2014

09 May 2014

the heartburn is back with a vengeance and I assume it’s probably here to stay.  also, the sacroiliac on my right side keeps slipping out of joint and I cannot for the life of me figure out a stretch or movement that pops it back in place.  when it’s out, there is much discomfort and I can’t bend over at all.  like, not even to pick something up from the couch.  when it magically puts itself back in alignment, I have no trouble at all.  it’s not slowing me down though… I’m still doing a lot of walking.  somewhere between sixteen and twenty-three miles a week, depending on weather and motivation.  all else is good.  he is active and getting stronger all the time.  hubby can not only feel his movements without effort but can also see them a lot of the time.  no obvious feet pressing out at us but big rolls of belly motion that are unnatural and creepy in a this-is-so-cool-I-love-my-baby kind of way.  when we were down in Orlando the week before last, my dad was laughing about me playing music on my belly.  I told him the turkey likes music.  he jumps around when they’re playing at church.  and when I play him music or sing to him, he likes to roll around.  hubby has been talking more to him lately too.  he likes to lay his head on my belly and dare him to kick daddy in the face.  he gets his wish about half the time.  around the house, we’re trying to de-clutter some more.  we’ve got ads up to try to sell some stuff and we’re gathering boxes to take to ‘bama for storage or giveaway.  hubby has also been doing a phenomenal job of keeping the house clean since we’ve been back from Orlando.

18 Apr 2014

i sure wish the belly would get to that nice, pregnant, basketball look… I know it’s coming and I shouldn’t want to rush things but right now, I just look fat. it’s just that awkward stage where people don’t say anything because they don’t know if you’re putting on weight or baking a bun.

this week has been a bit rough for some reason. all of a sudden, there has been a re-emergence of the night-nausea and heart palpitations (golly, did I ever even mention those in the first tri? seriously scary heart jumping out of your chest and skipping beats… who the heck decided that was a necessary part of pregnancy?). the “morning sickness” nausea was a little kinder because it made me so queasy that I wasn’t even hungry. this week, I’ve been plenty hungry but everything I eat makes me want to puke and/or gives me crazy heartburn. how the heck does a bowl of bland cereal or a smoothie give a person heartburn? it makes no sense. no worries though, this too shall pass.

the silver lining of this week has been that hubby now has no trouble at all with feeling our little turkey moving around. when he has his hand on my belly, he can feel almost every movement that I feel (he’s spared from the jump kicks to the bladder that send me racing to the bathroom). it makes me so happy to be able to share that with him now. he asked me the other day if I was ready for him to be born so that I can finally play with him.  I told him I can already play with him (he kicks me, I poke him back or he squirms around and I rub him to soothe him) and I can talk to him but I can also take him everywhere I go, guilt-free, and don’t have to worry about feeding or changing or baby sitters so this is really the perfect parenting time!

11 Apr 2014

I have no clue how but I lost a pound this week. I’ve been trying to eat like I should but I must be doing something wrong.  all the books say i’m supposed to be at a 10-15 pound weight gain by now.  I had finally started gaining about a pound a week over the last five weeks and last week I had finally gained back to my pre-pregnancy weight but this week i’m just below it again.  I’m trying not to worry too much since the ultrasound two weeks ago showed that baby boy was weighing a little ahead of schedule so he must be doing okay.  Surely the weight will start picking up soon enough.  i’m trying my best to eat often and fairly healthy so I don’t know that there’s a lot more I can do to get it going.

bring on the cheerleaders, it’s half-time!!!

4 Apr 2014

28 Mar 2014

finally starting to see a bit of a baby bump. mostly, though, it’s just that awkward point at which I just look like i’m getting fat.