25 Weeks!

I am getting huge! Every time I look down I think my belly has gone an inch. It is so weird. I still haven't gotten used to this. I had my doctors appointment on Tuesday and did my glucose test while I was there. Everything at my appointment went well. I have gain 8 pounds so far. Lets hope it stays low. I got my results on Thursday of the glucose test and I failed.  I have to go back for the 3 hours test sometime this week. No fun! I like my carbs way too much.

I am still sick every day but it is much better. I figured out that I have acid reflux. I try to take tums after I eat and it seems to help. Sleeping is getting harder since I can't lay on my stomach or back. I find myself flipping from one side to the other all night. Which is getting harder and harder to do.

I started training the girl that will be filling in for me at work. This will definitely be a challenge. I find it hard to train someone when I know they will make mistakes and do it wrong. I am trying to be better at this but it is still hard. She is a smart girl and I think she will eventually catch on but I will probably be gone by then.

My family is planning a baby shower for my the 1st of June. I am getting really excited. I haven't bought much so I am hoping to get the things I need for the little one. We are also going camping while I am up there which I miss so much. It will be a fun week that can't get here soon enough.

LA Flower Market

So today I decided to spoil myself and head to the LA flower market. If you haven't been there you are missing out. Warehouse after warehouse full of wholesale flowers.

They are only open until 11 am so I had to wake up pretty early especially since I wanted to beat the crowds. This place has everything but I was on a mission to find Peonies one of my favorite flowers. I walked the whole and back again until I found 1 shop that had them. $22.50 for 4 little bulbs. What!?! I quickly walked on. Peonies are expensive even wholesale. Now I didn't know what I wanted. With the sea of beautiful flowers around me it is hard to pick just one. This is what I decided on.

White and Pink Gerber Daisies with Pink Snap Dragons. And the best part is I only spent $9 on everything in the picture. What a deal! I just hope they last awhile. They are really nice to look at. I also picked up these:

I believe these are Football Mums. They are so pretty they were $9 alone but so worth it. 

I spent $18 for beautiful flowers. Sometimes it is worth spoiling yourself. 

Stats

Stats

How far along: 22 weeks

Size of Baby: 1 pound

Weight Gain: up 4 pounds total

Clothing: Work- Maternity pants, Home- Yoga Pants

Gender: Girl

Movement: I notice her small movements all throughout the day. Can’t see her move on the outside yet but that will come soon enough.

Sleep: lIts Okay. It's getting hard to turn over.

Symptoms: Back pain and tight when sitting too long at work

Morning sickness: All the time!!! When will it go away?

What I miss: My old body. My body is changing so fast it is scary. I just hope that it will go back to where it was before.

Cravings: Ice cream. Which is weird. I like ice cream but rarely eat it. Now I want it all day long.

Best moment this week: Going on a date with the hubby. We haven’t done much since I have been so sick so it was nice to get out.

What am I looking forward to: to a happy, healthy baby.

How is Mike: More helpful than usual

Finding Out We Are Preggo

Mike and I have been married for 7 years. We knew that we wanted to have a family but wanted to wait until we were financially stable and ready. As most people can attest you are never ready. We found ourselves constantly making excuses for why we were not ready for children. When we were first married we didn’t have much income and felt that it was too soon to have kids. After waiting for a few years Mike decided to go back to school. Once that started we figured we should wait until Mike finished school before having kids. 3 years later Mike graduates and decides that he wants to get his master’s degree. Another reason to push back starting a family. We decided that once Mike has a steady job we would begin trying.

Mike graduated in May 2012 and obtained a great job in June 2012. Once he got this great job of course I made sure he was aware that we would now start trying to have kids. Little did I know that when it came down to actually doing it I started to have second thoughts. Was I ready? Were we meant to raise and nurture kids? We have been together for so long, can we handle taking care of a little one? We don’t even have a dog. I started to make my own excuses. I finally decided that since I had a few months left of birth control I would finish them and then we would start trying. This gave me a few more months to have the idea sink in.

September 2012 was the first month I went off birth control. That month came and went with a little disappointment when it did not happen. Same with October but a little more disappointment. November was the lucky month. 3 months is the lucky number for us.

At the end of November I started thinking about when I was to have my period. For some reason I could not remember the exact date to expect it. I had a feeling though. Mike said that I should wait until a couple weeks after just to make sure. (Pregnancy tests are expensive) I still had a feeling and so I bought the tests. I had the test for a couple days too scared to take one. Finally on December 5^th I decided to take the test. I waited until Mike got home and then waited some more. Honestly, I was terrified. Finally when we decided to go to bed I went into the bathroom. I came out with the test (still processing) and placed it on my night stand. After a few minutes I looked at it. I turned to him and said “I am”. He said smiling: “No, really?” I then showed him. He then said, “see, I told you it wouldn’t take long”. I have been on birth control for 10 years. We thought for sure it would take me a good year to get pregnant. I told Mike this and I believe it gave him some ease. Well it didn’t take near as long as we thought. On the 3^rd month of trying we were preggo.

I didn’t do a big reveal to him but I still think it was special.

Morning Sickness

Of all the things about pregnancy I feared morning sickness the most. Every time I found out that someone was pregnant I would ask my number one question: “Did you have morning sickness?” I would get all the details to try and see if I also would experience morning sickness once it was my time. See, I get very bad motion sickness. Since I can remember I have been bad with motion sickness. Some of my earliest memories of road trips with my parents involve me throwing up all over the car. This is something my dad has graciously passed down to me. To this day just thinking about being in a moving vehicle can get me a little nauseous. I don’t even have to be in the act to feel the effects. I would also ask these pregnant ladies if they suffered from motion sickness also. Threw this small personal study I conducted, I concluded that if someone suffers from motion sickness they will most likely suffer from morning sickness. However, not everyone was like this. There were a few ladies that did not have morning sickness that got motion sickness and also the other way around. There are probably scientific studies that say these things have nothing to do with each other but I felt that there could be a link.   I was bound and determined that I was going to be one those ladies that did not get the morning sickness since I had to suffer enough with the motion sickness. Well… as you can probably guess I was wrong. Sooo wrong. In fact, I would rather be motion sickness any day of my life over morning sickness. Morning sickness is way worse. I hope that this isn’t too much information but to be able to share this will be helpful in venting my frustrations against morning sickness.

See for the first month of pregnancy you don’t know your pregnant. Your body doesn’t even register the pregnancy hormone until close to your missed period. So for the first month I was fine. In fact I was eating a lot of food. I would eat anything in sight. During the first month we were in Las Vegas for Thanksgiving and of course made our way to the endless buffets. I ate so much food during that trip but didn’t think anything was different other then I wanted to be a fatty and pig out.  I found out I was pregnant the week after we returned from Vegas on December 5. The sickness began the week of Christmas. It wasn’t too bad at first. I was definitely nauseous and smells could bring on a gag reflex but it wasn’t too bad. We ended up going to his sisters to stay for Christmas which was really hard because no one knew I was pregnant so I couldn’t tell them I felt ill either. Not long after Christmas it came to full strength. They are right when they say they don’t know why it is called morning sickness when it should be called all-day sickness. The moment I would wake up I would run to the bathroom and throw up (nothing of course). I would head to work and be sick all day. The only relief came when I fell asleep at night.  I ate so many saltine crackers and ginger ale that I began to get sick at the thought of eating these items. I tried everything. I received a prescription from my doctor that was supposed to help. It didn’t. I tried Ginger tea, Ginger gum, sea bands, and crackers. Food did not sound good at all but I had to keep something in my stomach all day so to not throw up. I would bring so many snacks to work I think my cube mate thought I was going to blow up like a balloon. I couldn’t eat much I just had to eat something.

One night I wasn’t feeling good but I really wanted some pizza from Papa Johns. All I can say is bad idea. I ate 4 pieces; another bad idea. I didn’t feel well after eating it and went to lay down. Not even two minutes later I had thrown up all over myself and the bed. I felt like a little kid. Thank goodness for Mike. He rushed in and helped me get to the bathroom to clean myself up. He then went to work on cleaning the bedding. I knew at that moment that he really loved me. Not that I didn’t know before but it just confirmed it.

I read online somewhere that saliva helps with morning sickness. It counteracts the acid. I began buying candy and gum to help me produce more saliva. I would also suck on a lemon wedge. Amazingly this brought some relief. I would have a piece of gum in my mouth almost all day. Anyone close to me knows that I hate chewing gum but I was going to do anything to feel better.

All the online sites and blogs say that morning sickness begins to lessen around 14-16 weeks with full relief around 16 weeks. Not true for me. I didn’t see it begin to lessen until 19-20 weeks and it still isn’t gone (21 weeks). I still throw up every morning but I do not feel as sick as before. I can honestly say it is ten times better. I hope there is an end in sight.

So to all those moms out there who had to endure through morning sickness I finally know how you feel. I thought that I would be passed over and have an easy pregnancy but it has turned out to be the opposite. The end result is going to so worth it though.