Well, I’m 27 weeks pregnant now and loving it! I’m so
excited for our little baby girl to come! I know it’s still a while before she
gets here, but the second trimester has been awesome and it has allowed me to
enjoy being pregnant and look forward to what we have coming. The first
trimester… Well, the first 16 weeks or so actually, were really difficult. I
was throwing up multiple times a day, I had no appetite, no energy, and I lost
about 10 to 15 pounds. I finally got some anti-nausea medicine from my doctor
and it saved me! I was actually able to function again, which was good since I
started school and work again. I had to take the pills everyday for a long time
and then I finally started to feel better and would only take them when I
needed them. I still get the occasional fits of nausea, but they are few and far
between, which I am very grateful for.
I feel our little girl practicing flips and kicks all the time
now, she’s very active, which is fun for me… and sometimes a little weird.
Sometimes a thought pops into my head that it feels like I have something living
inside my stomach… And then I’m like, “Oh, I do have something living in
there!” That’s kind of a weird thought, but it’s awesome… Sometimes it even
tickles a little. David has been able to feel her move a lot now, the other
night as we were lying in bed before falling asleep he had his hand on my
stomach and she was going crazy! I think it was pretty exciting for him because
that’s definitely the most he’s ever felt her move.
Other things, I’m pretty much hungry all the time, but I can
only snack and eat small portions, if I try to eat a normal sized meal I feel
super gross and bloated because there just isn’t a lot of room in there
anymore. I’m starting to show pretty good now, at least I think so. David says
it still looks like it could be a question of “is she just fat? Or is she
pregnant?” Which I guess is true. It depends on the shirt I wear. I always
think that people who don’t know I’m pregnant must think I look fat and wonder
why I would wear the clothes I wear that accentuate my “fat” tummy, but in
reality they probably don’t even notice ha ha, I’m just being paranoid. I’ve
been trying to take pictures every week for the last few weeks now that it’s
getting more noticeable, so here are the last few:
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| 24 weeks. |
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| 25 weeks. (Note to self: That pattern makes me look huge. Good to know for future reference.) |
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| 26 weeks. |
I can’t believe that I start my third trimester in a week!
That’s so crazy! We’re planning on doing a birthing class in January, which
will be good. They offer one at my OBGYN’s office, so that’ll be nice. We’ve
also talked about maybe taking one with Maile and Michael, my best friend and
her husband, who are due with a baby boy the day before us! So that would be
fun, but we have different doctors and aren’t delivering at the same hospital,
so I don’t know. The one they offer at my OB’s office is taught by one of the
labor and delivery nurses at the hospital I’ll be delivering at, which I feel would
be more beneficial to me, so I’m leaning more toward that one for now.
I was able to finish up school and pass all of my classes! I
got pretty decent grades too… Which was my goal, I wasn’t too worried about
getting all A’s this semester. I pretty much just wanted to pass. This is my
last semester of school for a while. I “graduated” with my associate’s degree
in “pre-professional” which is basically like pre-nursing or pre-dental. Now
that I have my associates, I can transfer later to another school wherever we
will be living, which will be nice. I’ll be stopping with school now because we
are having our baby in March! I’ll keep working up until a few weeks before we
have the baby, but after we have our little girl I’ll be able to stay home and
take care of her, which I’m very grateful for.
David and I are both SO happy to be done with this semester
of school! It’s been quite a doosy! We were both so busy it felt like we never
got to see each other, and when we did we were so tired we could hardly enjoy
it! But now we are enjoying life, catching up on sleep, and looking forward to
the Christmas break! I’m still working this week, but we are headed down to
Hurricane on Friday afternoon where we’ll be staying for almost two full weeks!
We’re both excited to see both of our families, because conveniently they will
both be down there only about 20 minutes apart from each other.
This next semester will be a lot better for both of us, I’ll
be working about 32 hours a week until the beginning of March, no school, and
David will be in school and working, but his classes this semester will be much
easier than they have been in the past. Rather than taking all Mechanical
Engineering classes like he has been, the majority of his credits will be in
generals! That will make his last semester a little less difficult and busy
which will be great in preparing and having a baby! He normally TAs for a math
class for work, but this next semester he will be able to work as a research
assistant instead, which will also be better, and might even pay a little more.
This will make for a good last semester for David before he graduates. David
has been turning in his applications for graduate school. He’s already applied
to the University of Texas – Austin, and to Cornell University in upstate New
York. He has two more schools to apply to, Purdue University in Indiana, and
BYU. We are hopeful to hear back from all the schools and know where we will be
going before March, but we’ll just have to wait and see!
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