3rd Trimester!

Well, I can honestly say that my third trimester has been rough!  After having a great 2nd trimester I did not invision this trimester going this way!  However, our baby is healthy and growing (AND GROWING) and that is the most important thing.  She is been my main priority for 9 months and I know it isn't going to stop with delivery day.  It started out pretty good, not so bad, my belly started growing more and more and more uncomfortable, I do not see how I don't have stretch marks from one side to the other!  My skin seems like it can't stretch anymore!  I first had to take the glucose tolerence test at 27 weeks which taste like orange soda with no fizz and 100x the sugar!  It also gave me heartburn! Well a week after I took that my MD office called, something happened with the lab and I had to take it AGAIN.  Then they almost made me take again, long story.  BUT I passed it with flying colors!  Around 30 weeks pregnant I found out I am anemic and had to start taking iron 2 times day, which this explained why I was soooo tired!! I thought I was just a big wimp!At 32 weeks pregnant I was at work one morning, started cramping and I honestly thought I was going into preterm labor, by 10 that morning I was in so much pain I could barely breathe.  I am on my way to the MD, Mike is going 100 MPH from Nashville to meet me and as soon as I am leaving work all of that pain moved to my back and I knew then that it was kidney stones! Imagine having kidney stones at 8 months pregnant.  It was H O R R I B L E!!  As soon as my Mikey walked into the room at the doctors office the pain stopped, the stones stopped moving. This all happened on Wednesday and on Friday morning around 3:00 AM they decided to start moving again.  I tried walking out the pain, for 3 hours!!)  I didn't want to wake up the on call doctor and I didn't want to wake up Mike so I drank lots of water and walked my whole house, about 200 times.  Finally around 6 I couldn't take it anymore, I called the doctor and they admitted me into the hospital to get me pain meds and fluids.  We were in the hopsital Friday and Saturday, finally by Friday night the pain had stopped and I had only passed pieces of the of stone.  On Saturday was my baby shower that my sister planned and I did not think I was going to be discharged from the hospital, but FINALLY around 11 we got to leave run home get ready and have my baby shower!! AND 9 days later....the granddaddy of all kidney stones finally decided to pass.  I haven't had any problems since then (crossing fingers)!  I also developed this heartburn acid reflux thing that is so uncomfortable, all I can say is Zantac became my new BEST FRIEND! I had it all day, every day, and all night.  Ever since she dropped which was around 34 weeks it has gotten a lot better!! Around 34/35 weeks I started developing high blood pressure, it is pregnancy induced hypertension.  I am not doing anything wrong, it happens a lot to first time moms.  I am also having protein in my urine, goes hand in hand with the hypertension.  They have been watching at each appointment and at each appointment my BP kept going up.  SO last Thursday, June 23rd, at my appointment, my BP was really high again and the doctor got a serious look on her face and basically said I needed to be induced and until then I was put on bed rest.  I was excited but also very overwhelmed and worried about our baby girl, I just want her to be safe and I just feel like I am doing everything wrong.  Dr. McGowan picked my inducement date which is.....my birthday!  I will be 39 weeks 2 days pregnant.  I joked this whole 9 months that she was going to come on my bday and I wanted us to have different birthdays but it doesn't matter to me anymore, it will be special, best birthday present a girl could ask for and as long as she is safe and in our arms, who could ask for more!  We will be meeting our daughter in 2 days....still hasn't sunk in, poor Mike has a list of to-dos from me but we are very excited and nervous!  We will be keeping everyone posted, please keep all 3 of us in your prayers!! :) 

Leighton's Nursery!!

Her room is 98% complete!! I am so excited to show off her room, there has been a lot of work and time put into her nursery.  Her daddy built her changing table and dresser and her papa built her crib!! I am not going to lie, there were times I thought why did we decide to go this route and I wish we would have bought it because I just wanted everything done and finished.  (especially before she made her appearance!)  But I am so proud of my husband, he did such an AMAZING job, it looks like I went into Pottery Barn and bought it!!  We picked out a set we liked online, we made some changes and he went and bought the wood and the next thing I know there was a changing table!! I told him this morning now that I know he is that good, I got a lot of stuff on my list that I want for the house!! :)  I know he wanted to do this for his daughter, it will be very special for her having her furniture built by her daddy and papa!  I say the nursery is only 98% complete because we are waiting to put more pictures up, which are her newborn pictures and some maternity pictures, those will be up after she is here, which is Monday, June 27th.  Her Aunt Maranda made the cute letters above her crib, which I LOVE, they match her adorable bedding, which her Aunt CC bought for her! I made the little birdhouses on her dresser.  I meant to take a picture of her closet to show off ALL of her clothes, she has a full wardrobe.....serisously!  Hopefully I will get to that  today! Enjoy!

2nd Trimester, a wonderful wonderful time!

My 2nd trimester started a little rocky....I thought the "morning sickness" was going to stay with me for the rest of the pregnancy.  Lucky around the 18th week it decided to give me a break and let me eat!  AND I ate and ate!! I gained most of my weight during this time.  I started craving sweets around this time, which I already had a thing for sweets to begin with but it just got worse, like 10x worse.  I felt amazing during this trimester, I felt better, I had WAY more energy, I actually got to clean our house this trimester.  I didn't feel as big as a house and I could bend over without grunting out loud, it was amazing.  I loved my growing baby bump and I loved maternity clothes (yes, they are comfortable)!!  First movement that I felt was at 15 weeks, I laid down to go to sleep and I thought I felt something weird so I sat really still and it didn't stop!! I felt rolling and little jabs, I LOVED IT, I cried actually because that is just how I am.  At this point I only felt it at night, I would look forward to laying down at night so I could feel our sweet wiggling around!!  We also had our diagnostic ultrasound this trimester at 19 weeks, the baby weighed 10.5 ounces at that time.  The baby was moving so much that day including climbing up my uterine wall and falling back down and flipping over and over all in all it took about a full hour for the tech to get everything she needed.  We also found out that our sweet baby is a GIRL!!! I had a feeling pretty much the whole time that "it" was a girl so it didn't really surprise me.  Her daddy on the other hand kind of walked around in shock for about 2 hours.  We went shopping that day and he kept wondering over to the boy clothes....bless his heart.  However now he is so excited about his little girl, he talks all the time about taking her fishing and golfing and everything he wants to take her to.  I think after she comes out I may not get to hold her, he might never put her down!!  Overall the 2nd trimester was my best and I felt amazing!!!

Thinking back.....1st Trimester!!

I wanted to do a recap of my pregnancy to help me remember the little worries, joys, and firsts of firsts because I know when she is here I might forget it all.  We found out we were pregnant pretty early, about 4-5 weeks, our baby didn't even have a heartbeat yet but I was in love with our little "bean" (that's what I called her).  Around week 6 I thought I would be one of the lucky ones that didn't get sick and would sail through pregnancy with no problems.  WELL boy was I wrong!! It all started one morning, Mikey went fishing or something, I got up made myself a nice cup of decaf coffee, thought it tasted a little funny, started feeling a little nauseated and it didn't go away until my 18th week of pregnancy!!  I was so exhausted and stayed away from caffeine and a simple walmart trip made me so tired I would need a 2 hour nap!  I also lost around 12 pounds which now I am grateful for actually.  The smell of ground beef cooking still makes me feel a little sick.  So basically all of my first trimester and some of the second consisted of me sleeping and trying to keep food down.  We got to hear the heartbeat at 7 weeks pregnant, no words can express how that makes you feel when you hear that soft little thump.  That is when they gave me the exact due date of July 2nd.   Looking back, I wish I would not have worried so much, I still do though.  Pregnancy is a hard thing, you are the only one responsible for your little one and I just wanted to keep her safe.  I have stayed away from everything I am suppose to, not too much fish, completely no deli meats (and I LOVE ham sandwiches), haven't lifted anything over 15 pounds, and so on and so on.  My first trimester ended on Christmas Day, it was a wonderful present to make it to the 2nd trimester, to get to carry this little blessing has been unbelievable!