Week 13

Just thought I'd share some of my experiences from the week... part of it was a rough one thats for sure!

I was SICK! Not morning sickness sick but physically had some sort of something non-pregnancy related. On Wednesday morning I woke up in the middle of the night with my sinuses hurting so bad they were bleeding and had me nearly in tears. Well, I spent that whole day with this:

& I watched about 18 episodes of Ally McBeal on Netflix back to back. Thank you Jesus for Netflix!! ;)

I ran a low grade temp of about 99.9 and monitored it like crazy but according to my pregnancy book I shouldn't take tylenol unless it reaches 100.4 and above so I sucked it up and pouted all day ;)

3 days later Im all better and laughing a little about how big of a baby I was. But, its legitimately hard to feel bad and not take anything!

On a happier note, I did devour these in about 2 days:

Yeh, apparently the saying "pickles and ice cream" has rang true for this pregnancy ;)

I think Im gonna go eat a pickle now. The picture has me craving them again =D

Here is something for your listening pleasure if you haven't already watched it on my facebook:
my little horse.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bWTV8SUyKY]

A flutter & a Heart Beat

Originally Written: 9/19/2011

well, today marks the LAST WEEK OF MY FIRST TRIMESTER!!!!!! YAY!! Can you tell Im excited????

& to top it all off- I went ALL DAY yesterday without taking my Zofran (nausea med)! eek! Doing so good this morning and hoping that I am over the morning sickness stuff!

current symptoms: exhaustion about midday. headaches occasionally. round ligament pain. some others that i just won't post on the internet. haha. otherwise doing great and so glad to take nausea off that list! lets hope it stays off!!!

& something SUPER exciting that up until now I had only told Drew because Im still unsure if I believe it myself- I felt the baby move!!!! only a flutter of course but it was AMAZING! At first I didn't believe what I felt- thought it HAD TO BE just gas but then I looked it up on the internet and it did it again, and YEP that was definitely it! It just so happened to be this weekend while we were in Mississippi and I had just got done eating some of my Gran's amazing cooking so Im going to say the baby loves Grans cooking and leave it at that ;)

here's a sweet video of our pumpkin's heartbeat at 13 weeks. music to my ears. :) The louder/faster heartbeat is the babies and the quieter one in the background is mine- no there aren't 2 babies ;)

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wm64pW5Nxw]

why post?

Originally Written: 9/19/2011

Today Im 13 weeks pregnant. Wow! Time sure does fly! It seems like just yesterday I was 4 1/2 weeks and we were freaking out over the news! As I progress in my pregnancy, I've already (because of mommy brain i guess), begun to forget certain details of the journey. Which definitely makes me a little sad. I definitely don't want to forget the little things once baby b gets here.

That's what we've named him/her for now "baby b". Im not one who's big on calling my little one "peanut". It's just used too much. If I call him/her anything other than the baby or baby b it's usually "pumpkin". I don't know why, but i just like it better than peanut. This is why I've begun the blog. 10 years from now I definitely won't be remembering that! ha!

I guess the main reason I want to start this blog is so that when pumpkin grows up I can have it all printed into a book for them (all my pumpkins ;) ) to read and look back upon. I also find it relieving to journal my feelings and experiences. The Lord knows that their have been a ton of them thus far ;)

So, that's what Im doing here. Im going to begin by catching you all up in a post soon on how we found out and what we've experienced thus far. Then I will have a weekly post (sometimes more often) about how Im feeling, how babies doing, and pictures so you can see how he or she is growing. Im looking forward to documenting it all and in turn remembering it all. :)

Please don't mind the messyness of the blog as Im still designing it and picking a background and template I like as well as a name for this blog! Please help me pick out the name! I am all ears for suggestions! I want it to be something good and pertaining to our walk through parenthood.

xoxo,

momma