Pregnancy Journal
10/28/08
Wow, I’m bad about keeping this up. Oh well. Here’s some recent belly pics…
22 weeks
21 weeks
20 weeks
19 weeks
So an update of what’s going on… We had our ultrasound on October 13th and decided to find out what it was. Good thing he was showing us everything and could see his little penis poking out. We were positive it was a girl, absolutely positive. Well, guess we were wrong.
We also found out that my placenta is up front, which is why I couldn’t feel the baby. Since the ultrasound though, I’ve been able to feel a lot more. He’s acting more like his brother did, moving around all the time, kicking actually harder than his brother did. He’s making his presence known and I’m quite happy about that. I was getting worried. Now he kicks so hard you can see my stomach bulge out.
One thing I’m finding is that he is getting in some bad positions, which actually hurt me. My first son never did this, so I’m quite surprised by this. It’s not as fun as it sounds. I have to try to move him myself. Seems his little personality is coming through already and all I have to say is that I’m in deep trouble!
I got my first cold for this pregnancy, lucky considering how sick I was with my last one. This cold has lasted about 2 weeks now, with there just being draining I can’t seem to shake. Thank god my doctor is letting me take afrin, as nothing else is working at all to help me breathe.
Other than that, I have nothing to complain about. My back is still doing fine, my hips are both still in their sockets and I’m still ok on weight gain. 
I can only hope the rest of the labor goes as well.
10/6/08
Here’s some more belly pics! Looks like week 18 was a form changer! I’m taking the 19 week one tonight, so I’ll get that one up.
18 weeks
17 Weeks
9/16/2008
Wow, I haven’t updated in a while! So I had another prenatal yesterday. All is well with the baby (I hope). Heart beat was at 140, same as before. I was happy they found it right away. They took the last round of blood for the down syndrome test, so that should be in in around 3 weeks she said. I’m doing good weight wise, only up 8 pounds, which she was very happy with. (I don’t know how I feel about it, I had just gotten back in all my prepregnancy clothes:-( ) Anyhow, I asked her about peeing every 30 minutes, she said it was normal because with your second the baby sits lower and is currently right on my bladder. Oh goody.
I also talked with her about “ambivalence”, which again is common with second babies. I have a one and a half year old to chase around, I don’t have as much time to sit and day dream about those little feet:-)
Anyhow, here are some belly pics that I keep forgetting to put up:
16 Weeks
15 Weeks
14 Weeks
8/24/2008
Well I got another ultrasound on August 19th! See pic below…
So this ultrasound was to help determine if the baby had down syndrome or not. They measure the space between the spine and, um, something else that I don’t remember. Anyhow, everything looked fine. I met with the doctor briefly and told her about my loss of appetite. She said it’ll come back. Everything seemed fine. The baby was very active, bouncing around, sucking its thumb, crazy kid. My husband said the baby reminded him of our son, which if anyone knows our son then God help us. One is definitely enough of that to go around!!
I still feel great. I’m gaining weight, way faster than I thought. (Doesn’t help that my wonderful husband bought me a dozen of my FAVORITE Krispy Creme doughnuts and they were all for me!!) Here’s a pic of the 12 week belly…
Overall I still feel great, little tired, but it’s manageable. I’ve been having a little bit of lower back pain but I don’t know if that is from being pregnant or the prenatal yoga, I’m rusty ya know. No weird cravings really (I’m still into the cake and muffins though) I wish milk was calorie free, because I drink a ton of that. Anyhow, all is well on the prego front, I’ll keep you posted!
8/13/2008
Nothing much has been happening. My appetite has just recently increased. One day I swear I just ate all day long, did nothing else. I’m having to use a pillow to prop up my belly at night now, as it’s just really uncomfortable without it. Six more days until the next ultrasound, so we’re looking forward to that! So here’s a 11 week belly pic:
8/1/2008
I had my prenatal appointment on July 29th. They did an ultrasound and I got to see the baby. He/she has legs! It wasn’t moving to much, but it kicked a couple of times and that was cool to see.
The doctor said everything looked great. I have to stop rollerblading, which I knew was coming. Now I’m just supposed to walk, do yoga or palates, and swim. Definitley not as much of a workout, I can tell you that much. I had gained 2 pounds, not to bad considering my last pregnancy!!!
I did talk to the doctor about using Splenda, as I use it everyday. He said it’s fine if used only a little, but he said I shouldn’t be drinking diet pop or having artificial sugar anyhow. I also talked with him about the fact that I keep losing my breath when I go up the stairs (or pretty much anywhere). He said I’m fine and just chalked it up to being prego.
I opted to do the down syndrome test again this pregnancy. Now they take an ultrasound, so I get another ultrasound in like 3 weeks. So here’s a belly pic at 9 1/2 weeks and the beans ultrasound.
7/17/2008
Well I had my first prenatal appointment on Friday the 11th. I was expecting an ultrasound, so the hubby took off work to go. Turns out we waited in the office for two hours before the doctor came in. She was delivering a baby and her staff just never told anyone.
Surprisingly, my doctor is 23 weeks pregnant herself! It’s her first baby and it was quite funny to listen to her talk about her horrid first trimester, I guess she had terrible morning sickness. Supposedly she’ll be back from maternity leave in time to deliver my baby!
Anyhow, the appointment was uneventful. She did an exam, that was it. She said it was too early to do an ultrasound, but I have that coming up on the 29th of this month.
How do I feel? Great I guess. I don’t have any morning sickness (although I looked and my morning sickness didn’t start until week 9 with my son, so we’ll see). I’m eating much better than last time, tons of fruit and veggies. I’m trying to limit bread, pasta and hamburgers!
One thing has occurred in the past few days, my belly popped. I have lost weight, so I know I’m not getting fat, my stomach just suddenly popped! My pants are all unbuttoned now (I’m waiting for my belly band to arrive). Anyhow, it’s kinda nice, because I LOVE the belly, but kinda not nice because it happened SO quickly. I even cleaned myself out because I read online it could just be me being backed up, but no, it’s my belly…
I have been exercising everyday, at least half hour of cardio and some light resistance training (not to mention carrying around my 1 year old). I’ve been rollerblading around the lake while pushing the stroller, I quite like that.
I’m doing great though, trying to catch a nap when my son naps. Today I got a 2 hour nap in! Until next time…
7/7/2008
Alright, maybe I’m loony, but I took another pregnancy test. I have good reason though!!! I’m not having any morning sickness, nothing, no pregnancy signs at all. So I was talking to my mom and she said if I had another test I should take it. So I did, and it of course said I was pregnant. I had to check! Well, the first doctor’s appointment is only 4 days away, so that’s not to long to wait!
I can’t remember when the first ultrasound is, I wish it was sooner rather than later. Anyhow, thought I’d write on me being so worried I used up another test. Sometimes I make myself laugh…
7/6/2008
Nothing much has happened lately. I’m hoping everything is alright, as I’ve had no more hint of morning sickness at all. With my son immediately had an insanely painful chest, it was a pretty good indicator that I was prego, but not this time.
I guess this go around I’ll be comparing everything to when I was pregnant with my son. Case in point, I took Juice Plus every day when I was pregnant with my son. This time around I can’t afford it, so I’m worried that this baby won’t be as healthy. There are so many babies born whose parents don’t take supplements like that, they turn out fine. I think I attribute my son being so healthy to that, even though I have no evidence to prove that at all. I’ll just have to eat better than I did with my son!
7/1/2008
Well a few things have happened in the past few days. First we went camping for the first time with our one year old. He did ok. Being pregnant on a camping trip wasn’t to terribly much fun. It seemed I didn’t drink enough water because I was afraid I’d have to pee in an outhouse all night! I also have started getting queasy at breakfast, usually when I don’t eat. So that was a little bit of a hassle, dealing with the beginnings of morning sickness.
The big thing happened yesterday, when I came down with a stomach bug. Don’t know what happened, but I had diarrhea for 24 hours, pretty much straight. I finally went to the doctor this morning and she told me that my metabolism had shifted so quickly that my body was actually beginning to eat itself, that it was dipping into my fat stores for fuel. While I would usually say “hey that’s a good thing right?” I had to worry about my little pea in there. I was dehydrated as well (oh ya think).
I was told to do the regular bananas, rice, bread, applesauce diet for the next two days. So I’ve been working on that today, trying to get my fluids up with pedialite (tastes horrid) and Gatorade. My mom was nice enough to watch my son for the day, as I’m still really weak and haven’t gotten any sleep really. So I’m hoping the pea in there is ok, don’t know what I had but it couldn’t have been good!
6/27/2008
Well, we are finally pregnant! We found out on June 22nd and couldn’t be happier! It only took 2 months to finally get pregnant, we are very lucky. We went to drop our daughter off for the summer and on our trip I fully expected to be seeing my monthly friend. Nope, didn’t show up. So in the middle of watching Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with my husband, I told him I’d be right back. I quickly and quietly went upstairs and took a test. The second I peed on that stick it turned positive, very strong positive. I went downstairs and told my husband that we need to think about closing our loft off. When he said why I told him because we’d have another baby in there soon.
So we are both very happy. It’s early in the game, so we are very cautious. I had my first bought of morning sickness last night, ick. MORNING sickness, not 9:45 at night sickness! I was happy to have it though!
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