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! 

35 Weeks!!

I'm back!! Maybe, haha!! Sorry I am honestly horrible about sitting down and actually taking the time to look at a computer, only time I do is once a month, pay the bills and I am on my way!  I really wanted to post more about my pregnancy but we have been so busy and I am just tired a lot.  To catch up, we am so blessed to have such great people in our life, we had 2 amazing baby showers! One in my home town Troy planned by my church, Southside Baptist and my TN Shower planned by my great sister, "Aunt CC"!   Leighton is such a blessed little girl already and is so loved by so many people.  A HUGE thank you to everyone who came, planned, organized, and bought for our baby girl!! It really means a lot.  I wanted to take pictures of everything but her room has been such a mess until last weekend when my mama came to help me organize.  Every item has been washed, hung up, and folded and just awaiting her arrival.  I promise I am not a lazy person, I have had a lot going on.  Around week 32 I started passing kidney stones (and contracting) and was in the hospital.....passing kidney stones at 8 months pregnant really tends to take a lot of out one person!! Since then, I have been taking it easy, have to keep my baby girl safe.  We have been doing our childbirth classes, and prepping the house for the baby.  Mikey has been building her changing table and dresser, they look AMAZING so far.  I am hoping to take pictures of him tomorrow but he doesn't like me in the shop with him, I distract him! My father-in-law built her crib and it is B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L!!! They brought it on the day of her TN shower, it looks so great, I can't wait to post pictures but I want to wait until her nursery is completely done, hopefully that will be soon!! I can't wait to put her baskets in her changing table, all the small little details that new moms dream about! I am now 35 weeks pregnant, still hard to imagine we will be parents soon, really really soon.  In about 4 weeks we will be holding our sweet angel in our arms.  We can't wait just seems unreal sometimes.  We waited a long time to have a baby and now the time has come and I still can't grasp that fact I am going to be a mom, and my husband and is going to be a dad, an amazing one at that, he already loves this little girl more than words can express.  He takes great care of us, we are so lucky!! :)  I haven't taken many belly pictures, I am pretty bad at that but I took one at 34 weeks with my mama, probably the last time she saw me preggo - hopefully tomorrow I can get a lot of pictures posted from the showers.  Until then here are a few! :)