Week 24

Hungry and tired said every pregnant Mama ever!  I'm continuing to work a lot and I'm feeling bigger than ever! My neck and back pain from my car accident also came back this week.  Thank goodness for my weekly massage because as soon as it was massage day my week dramatically improved.  I'm pretty sure I slept all weekend with the exception of taking my daughter to dance and going to work.  I'm also gaining way more weight than I want to but when I don't eat regularly I get all shaky feeling. Just trying to choose healthy choices...which is also difficult when you are just craving grilled cheesex10.

24 weeks--Pretty sure I'm carrying higher this time around!

23 Weeks

Hungry Hungry Hungry!  I am getting seriously concerned how hungry I have become.  I have been trying to eat high protein and healthy snacks but I just feel constant hunger.  And if I don't eat enough I get shaky and a headache.  My gestational diabetes test is coming up so I hope this isn't a bad sign because I don't remember feeling so yucky last time around.  And my weight also skyrocketed this week.  Whoops.  I actually had to call Daddy R to see if he ate any yogurt because I could not even believe I ate a whole big container in 24 hours.  Better than ice cream.  That is really all I can say.

Other than the hunger, things seem to be going well!

23 Weeks!

22 Weeks

I started my first week of working extra shifts and I'm officially exhausted.  Thank goodness for the holidays coming up and all of the fun family time we will be having.  Everything is going well.  Hungry all of the time.  Sleeping pretty well (ahhh second trimester).  And just soaking it all in.  Well my two pregnancies have felt like night and day in so many ways; however,  I feel like this little one is telling me "we are sisters" right now, as she has taken position in my stomach in the exact same position her bigger sister once did.  Who knows if this is just how my uterus grows or if it's just a coincidence but Baby girl's feet are in my right rib cage and she is pressed against my right side just how I remember #1 feeling.  I just don't remember the feet being in the rib cage quite this soon.  Aahhh something tells me things are about to get painful.....

22 Weeks--can you see the dark circles under my eyes?? Yawn. 

21 Weeks

I've been feeling big lately.  What will I do when it's freezing degrees outside and no jackets zip over my baby bump?!  Being pregnant in the summer was so easy! Buying a huge coat for a few months seems ridiculous but it just might have to come to this because my coat barely zips right now.  I'm feeling lots of movements.  HARD kicks and punches.  Lots of hiccups.  We decided on a name and it does not include any part of my favorite dream name.  But it will just have to do.  Still haven't unpacked those baby clothes boxes.....or set up any "nursery."  I'm also going to be working more than ever these next few months.  I will need some luck to pull this all off because with holidays quickly approaching things are about to get extra crazy!  Good thing I handle crazy pretty well! :)

21 Week Girl Bump with my 3yo Girl Child

20 weeks

HALFWAY!  Or maybe more!  (or maybe less....).  But it still feels good.  This week we started a search for a new doula.  The doula from our last birth is expecting her own little bundle around the same time so that just would not quite work out.  I think we have found a new one though!  I also had another prenatal appointment.  Can you believe they were like, "you are so healthy we don't need to see you for another 6 weeks."  WHAT?  What happened to having a high-risk pregnancy and being seeing every week?!  This is all so weird to me.  Baby's heartbeat was a healthy 150 beats per minute.  Daddy R felt her kick for the first time!  Now we just need our baby girl #1 to feel her kick (this would make her beyond happy because she kisses, hugs, talks and sings to her all of the time).  And even though Daddy R hates the name I love for this baby, our Baby #1 LOVES the name and has taken to calling her it daily.  Even if this baby gets another name I don't think my name is going anywhere fast....much to her Daddy's dislike.

Halfway and looking (and feeling) oh so tired!

Week 19

I may be feeling a little more movement lately, which is nice and reassuring.  Nothing else is really new.  Hungry all of the time.  I have gained the recommended 10 pounds that is normal for the first 20 weeks.  Now I need to start unpacking all of our boxes to find those girl clothes and baby supplies.  This has not been something I have been excited about doing because once I find the items I will have no place to put them....2 bedroom apartment and a new baby on the way=need more space!!!  Hopefully, we will get some good news about our house hunt sometime soon.  Not because we have anything in the works.  Mostly because I think life owes me some good karma right about now.  Speaking of good karma, did I mention that because of the auto accident I now have chiropractic and massage twice a week?  I think that is the silver lining to being hit by a man with no auto insurance when I'm pregnant, sick, and have my 3yo in the car.  Sorry this post is a stream of consciousness but that's just how I roll.  The last thing I want to share while I'm free associating is that I have the perfect name for the new baby.  A name I am in love with for so many reasons.  The only probably is that Daddy R hates hates HATES the name.  What should I do?  Now, that I have this name I won't like any other name ever.  Oh, problems.

19 Week Bump

"It's....purple?!?!"

It was finally time for our gender ultrasound!  Except, this time around I have to admit it wasn't all that exciting.  Either way, boy or girl, I was good.  I originally thought I would feel sad if they said "boy" and Baby #1 would never get to know what having a sister would be like (and I wouldn't get to re-use all of baby #1's clothing...oohh the memories!) OR a "girl" and I would never know what being a mom to a boy felt like.  But nope.  By the time our appointment rolled around I was seriously fine.  So when the ultrasound tech said: It's a girl! I was like, "Okay."  And that was about it.  I was WAY more concerned that it looked like a healthy baby.  And apparently she looks healthy!  They did mention her head size is in the 7th percentile.  I asked if I should be worried about that and the Dr. was like "Nope, not at all. And by the way, your daughter has a beautiful cerebellum!"  Yes, he actually said that.  So then I just thought pushing out a baby with a little head who is perfectly healthy sounds perfectly wonderful!  As for length, baby is in the 90th percentile.  SO our baby has a pin head and is long like a green bean!  Interesting....  She still doesn't look like baby #1 to me!  I can't wait to see her in person.  The only sort of bad news is that my placenta is super low.  It's not covering the cervix but pretty close to it.  They are hoping it will move up and they said 99% of the time it does....so I am banking on that.  The silver lining to this not so great news is that I get another ultrasound at 32 weeks!  Because seeing my baby again sounds wonderful!  BUT then, I discovered my work has an ultrasound machine so really, I can see my little lady whenever I want...dangerous.

So after all that, we had the job of revealing the gender to our baby #1.  This was actually WAY more fun than finding out for ourselves.  The only problem was that I ordered the cupcakes with the all natural food coloring (colored with berries instead of artificial coloring) and when it was time for the reveal everyone was like, "Yay!  It's...purple...?!?!"  Good thing we found out ahead of time or we would have all been clueless!  My favorite thing baby #1 said: Now I can be Elsa and she can be Ana and we can play Frozen forever.  <3 Sister love.

Here are some baby pics and the gender announcement:

Really hard to get a picture because baby was not feeling very cooperative.  Also, baby was WAY head down.  No wonder I haven't felt movement (every time I see baby she is head down and just completely content).  I don't think she has flipped once! 

This picture cracks me up!  Her mouth is wide open and she looks like a muppet/old person! 

A huge foot!  The ultrasound tech said that at this age her foot length is as big as her leg length!  No wonder!