Hey Guys,
So I am currently in my 18th week of pregnancy and it's going good! I'm pretty much passed the morning sickness, with the exception of a few things make me feel sick (peanut butter). We went to the Dr. on Tuesday for our check-up, anatomy scan and gender reveal.
This was a very special week because we got to find out the gender. I made sure I had lots of sugar so that my little one would be moving around and hopefully keeping those legs spread! We got into the ultrasound room and of course the tech. had to walk us through everything she was going to be doing AND tell us that the gender wouldn't be made known until the end. Of course I'm sitting there thinking " what if my sugar wears off by then and the baby is in lazy mode!"
As soon as our baby popped up on the screen we were so excited. We hadn't seen an image of the baby since 10 weeks, and a lot had changed. The baby actually looked like a baby now, not just a blob! First thing I noticed was that the baby had their legs crossed. REALLY BABY?!?! I GAVE YOU ALL THAT SUGAR AND YOU HAVE YOUR LEGS CROSSED RIGHT NOW! I was definitely keeping my fingers crossed that baby would wake up towards the end of the sonogram!
She went though and showed us all the different body parts, and counted to make sure the right amount of arm, legs, kidneys, bladder etc. was there. She showed us the brain and measured it to make sure it was the right size. She checked to make sure the heart was beating correctly.
Now let me tell you something.. Sonograms are basically baby x-rays so the most noticeable thing is bones. When you see the baby from the side they look adorable and have a cute little nose and belly. Then you see the baby from the front and it is FREAKY! From the front it just looked like a baby skeleton! Strange stuff for sure!
We also got to see the baby chewing on it's fingers and it was ADORABLE! (yes this was viewed from the side so it wasn't freaky looking at all.)
The time came for the gender reveal and we were so nervous. The most important thing was that our baby was healthy. She shows us an image and says ok... " here is the baby's bottom and here is..."
Sorry folks.. I'm not revealing the gender until next week's post. We are going to have our parents and the godparents over on Saturday to share with them the gender.. THEN we will share a photo on social media. :)
In other news I felt the baby move for the first time last night. I've heard it feels like butterflies, which in a sense is true, but its a very unique feeling. Trust me when I say when the baby moves and you feel it for the first time you will know without a shadow of a doubt that is what you felt! This is freaky and amazing all at the same time!
So as you can see a lot has happened this week! I'm super excited to not only know what my sweet baby is now, but to also feel it moving in there! :)
Tune in next week to find out if we are having a B O Y or G I R L !
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Week 17: Bumpin' At the Beach!
Hey guys!
I just got back from Florida on Sunday and it was a blast! The drive there and back was NOT fun, but hey, I survived and so did my baby.
I was able to spend July 11-18 in Florida. It's hurricane season so it rains pretty much every day. Lucky for us it rained at the same time of day which was at night (around 5 or 6) so we were able to enjoy the day. Our room was gorgeous and overlooked the street and beach (we had a wrap around balcony) so we were living large!
This was my first time to Florida and also my first time to visit a beach in the US. It wasn't as beautiful as Grand Cayman or Jamaica, but hey.. it wasn't anywhere near what Galveston looks like!
While we were there we also visited Disney World. It was fun and magical place, but I will say DO NOT GO THERE IF YOU ARE PREGNANT! I was able to ride pretty much everything the family had picked out (which rocks because it would have been a waste of money for me to just walk around the entire time we were there.) The reason I say to skip if you are pregnant is because the place is HUGE and you are walking all day. I don't care how comfortable your shoes are, you will not survive! In fact the next day I woke up feeling like I had gotten into a car accident. Every ounce of my body ached, I couldn't even think about putting on shoes!
We spent a lot of time at the beach, unfortunatley the last 2 days we were there the waves were big. I had finally gotten to where I was comfortable going in shoulder deep, and then a huge wave attacked me! By the way the salt content in the water there is awful! I swam in the ocean before, but nothing compares to the salt there! A drop of water would get in my eye and I was blinded until I could get to my towel and wipe it off!
For the most part the trip was a relaxing one. I'm glad I was able to go, but next time I think I'll fly! Driving for that long is MISERY, even with all the stops we made so that I could walk around, someone could pee, someone could get snacks.
That's about all for this week. I'm sharing a photo from Disney World and a photo of my bump at the beach!
Thanks for reading guys!
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I just got back from Florida on Sunday and it was a blast! The drive there and back was NOT fun, but hey, I survived and so did my baby.
I was able to spend July 11-18 in Florida. It's hurricane season so it rains pretty much every day. Lucky for us it rained at the same time of day which was at night (around 5 or 6) so we were able to enjoy the day. Our room was gorgeous and overlooked the street and beach (we had a wrap around balcony) so we were living large!
This was my first time to Florida and also my first time to visit a beach in the US. It wasn't as beautiful as Grand Cayman or Jamaica, but hey.. it wasn't anywhere near what Galveston looks like!
While we were there we also visited Disney World. It was fun and magical place, but I will say DO NOT GO THERE IF YOU ARE PREGNANT! I was able to ride pretty much everything the family had picked out (which rocks because it would have been a waste of money for me to just walk around the entire time we were there.) The reason I say to skip if you are pregnant is because the place is HUGE and you are walking all day. I don't care how comfortable your shoes are, you will not survive! In fact the next day I woke up feeling like I had gotten into a car accident. Every ounce of my body ached, I couldn't even think about putting on shoes!
We spent a lot of time at the beach, unfortunatley the last 2 days we were there the waves were big. I had finally gotten to where I was comfortable going in shoulder deep, and then a huge wave attacked me! By the way the salt content in the water there is awful! I swam in the ocean before, but nothing compares to the salt there! A drop of water would get in my eye and I was blinded until I could get to my towel and wipe it off!
For the most part the trip was a relaxing one. I'm glad I was able to go, but next time I think I'll fly! Driving for that long is MISERY, even with all the stops we made so that I could walk around, someone could pee, someone could get snacks.
That's about all for this week. I'm sharing a photo from Disney World and a photo of my bump at the beach!
Thanks for reading guys!
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Weeks 15-16 : Falling, and The Pain That Followed!
Hey Guys!
I was planning on posting week 15 last week, but I had a lot going on at work so that didn't happen! Here we go again with another two for one special!
Before I break this down into the individual weeks, let me explain something that happened the end of week 14.
So, Some of you may or may not know that I have 3 dogs. One of those dogs happens to be a 52 pound Pit Bull. When she drinks water, she tends to leave a puddle. Sometimes said puddle is right by one of the 3 water bowls in the kitchen, while other times its half way across the room. I don't know how she does it, or why... but it happens! There have been a few times where I've slipped in the water but I've always been able to catch myself! This particular day ( I should say night) I had gone into the kitchen to get a bottle of water. I only had a small lamp on in the living room, so I couldn't see the gigantic lake on my floor, right at the entry to the kitchen. So... yea you can guess what happens next!
I hit the "lake" and immediately started slipping. I tried grabbing the wall, but I wasn't close enough, and the LAST thing I wanted to do was move in a way that would possibly make me land on my belly. So I started going down. I tried to catch myself with my left arm, but that slipped in the water too! Before I knew it my right leg was slamming into the ground, and then went my left knee... right into the ceramic tile!
I got up after a second of trying to figure out what just happened. I knew immediately that my right leg was going to hurt the next day. I was right. It hurt really bad, in fact I barely slept all night. Surprisingly there wasn't a bruise right away.
Now we can start week 15.
WEEK 15
So Monday rolls around (2 days after my fall) and I was feeling some discomfort on both sides of my lower back/hip area. I just figured this was a typical pregnancy pain and didn't worry about it much. After a few days though, it switched to only the left side. My mom of course was worried and told me to call the Dr. I would get involved in something work related and I would forget to call. Again I wasn't worried at all because I didn't have any cramping or bleeding so I mean who cares if I'm in pain as long as baby is OK?!?
Unfortunately for me, the pain kept getting worse, to the point that I was constantly uncomfortable!
Other than that, my nausea pretty much went away, and with the exception of chicken it seems I can eat whatever I want now so YAY! :)
Another fun thing about this week is that I got an adorable book for free called " From Pea to Pumpkin" Its basically a pregnancy journal with fill in the blanks and spots for pictures and stories. I LOVE it and it is adorable!
WEEK 16
I was telling my mom about how my back was STILL hurting over the weekend and she went into mom mode and told me to call my Dr. Monday morning NO EXCUSES! If your mom tells you to do something and uses the phrase NO EXCUSES in it, I don't care what she is telling you to do.. you better do it! So Monday morning I called and left a message for the nurse.
The nurse finally called me back around 11:30-12 and she says I need to come in and get checked out just in case. Of course now I'm worried because I'm thinking about the possibility that something could be wrong with the baby and it would be my fault for brushing off my fall as no big deal. I had a hard time focusing the remainder of my time at work. I finally get to the Dr. and I'm SO nervous! The Dr. came in and chatted with me about it. She checked me out and said it just seemed like a pulled muscle. She gave me some things to try to make it better and said if its not better in a few weeks I'd probably need physical therapy. Then my favorite part... she checked out the heart! Sweet baby Sosa's heart was just beating away!
This made me feel relived and I was also excited I got to hear the baby's heart within 2 weeks of each other. :)
My hip is STILL hurting now and I've got s smiley face shaped bruise on my right leg but its alright! I also managed to walk into the corner of my bed the other day and now I've got a massive dark nasty bruise on my shin! I'm just falling apart over here!
Well that's it for this week. :)
Thanks for reading!
I was planning on posting week 15 last week, but I had a lot going on at work so that didn't happen! Here we go again with another two for one special!
Before I break this down into the individual weeks, let me explain something that happened the end of week 14.
So, Some of you may or may not know that I have 3 dogs. One of those dogs happens to be a 52 pound Pit Bull. When she drinks water, she tends to leave a puddle. Sometimes said puddle is right by one of the 3 water bowls in the kitchen, while other times its half way across the room. I don't know how she does it, or why... but it happens! There have been a few times where I've slipped in the water but I've always been able to catch myself! This particular day ( I should say night) I had gone into the kitchen to get a bottle of water. I only had a small lamp on in the living room, so I couldn't see the gigantic lake on my floor, right at the entry to the kitchen. So... yea you can guess what happens next!
I hit the "lake" and immediately started slipping. I tried grabbing the wall, but I wasn't close enough, and the LAST thing I wanted to do was move in a way that would possibly make me land on my belly. So I started going down. I tried to catch myself with my left arm, but that slipped in the water too! Before I knew it my right leg was slamming into the ground, and then went my left knee... right into the ceramic tile!
I got up after a second of trying to figure out what just happened. I knew immediately that my right leg was going to hurt the next day. I was right. It hurt really bad, in fact I barely slept all night. Surprisingly there wasn't a bruise right away.
Now we can start week 15.
WEEK 15
So Monday rolls around (2 days after my fall) and I was feeling some discomfort on both sides of my lower back/hip area. I just figured this was a typical pregnancy pain and didn't worry about it much. After a few days though, it switched to only the left side. My mom of course was worried and told me to call the Dr. I would get involved in something work related and I would forget to call. Again I wasn't worried at all because I didn't have any cramping or bleeding so I mean who cares if I'm in pain as long as baby is OK?!?
Unfortunately for me, the pain kept getting worse, to the point that I was constantly uncomfortable!
Other than that, my nausea pretty much went away, and with the exception of chicken it seems I can eat whatever I want now so YAY! :)
Another fun thing about this week is that I got an adorable book for free called " From Pea to Pumpkin" Its basically a pregnancy journal with fill in the blanks and spots for pictures and stories. I LOVE it and it is adorable!
WEEK 16
I was telling my mom about how my back was STILL hurting over the weekend and she went into mom mode and told me to call my Dr. Monday morning NO EXCUSES! If your mom tells you to do something and uses the phrase NO EXCUSES in it, I don't care what she is telling you to do.. you better do it! So Monday morning I called and left a message for the nurse.
The nurse finally called me back around 11:30-12 and she says I need to come in and get checked out just in case. Of course now I'm worried because I'm thinking about the possibility that something could be wrong with the baby and it would be my fault for brushing off my fall as no big deal. I had a hard time focusing the remainder of my time at work. I finally get to the Dr. and I'm SO nervous! The Dr. came in and chatted with me about it. She checked me out and said it just seemed like a pulled muscle. She gave me some things to try to make it better and said if its not better in a few weeks I'd probably need physical therapy. Then my favorite part... she checked out the heart! Sweet baby Sosa's heart was just beating away!
This made me feel relived and I was also excited I got to hear the baby's heart within 2 weeks of each other. :)
My hip is STILL hurting now and I've got s smiley face shaped bruise on my right leg but its alright! I also managed to walk into the corner of my bed the other day and now I've got a massive dark nasty bruise on my shin! I'm just falling apart over here!
Well that's it for this week. :)
Thanks for reading!
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