Maternity Pictures (so far)

This week

Well its Friday, and this week has been a rough one.
Monday we went and picked up the car, which was nice, but then Tuesday it started making a high pitched squeeking noise and that pissed me off pretty bad :(
Tuesday I had a doctor appointment. That was a really rough day. I was so so so down in the dumps all day. I woke up early to take care of Truman, and then had to go to the doctor's office right away. I had to get my blood drawn, which they were late for, then I had to run up to my appointment.
I hate being late so I was stressed about that. Then when I got in there...I was just so stressed about how I hadn't gotten good sleep in awhile, was SO itchy, and having a hard time breathing. It was a rough day for sure. So I broke down crying again. Then I had to have my Rhogam shot. A rhogam shot is a shot I have to get because I have a negative blood type, and since Scott's is positive, Macyn's blood could be positive. If her blood is positive, then my body could have a reaction to her blood type and become defensive. AH the shot hurt so so so bad. After the nurse left, I started crying again. I'm not really sure why...if it was the idea of having to talk to the doctor about not feeling well, or the shot ...or what but I was just a mess. Then the doctor came in and I had to tell her everything. She prescribed me some medicine for sleeping (which I come to find out later is actually kind of dangerous for pregnancy, so I decided not to take it) an inhaler and some anti-itch stuff.
Scott and I got haircuts, and I got my nails done, but then come to find out we probably won't be able to do the rest of our maternity pictures on Sunday. Bummer :(
Thursday I had a dentist appointment, and my gums hurt so bad afterwards. And today I'm just totally down in the dumps. I took Truman out this afternoon, then Scott and I went to the store, then I went to the car place to have them look at my car. (that was a waste of time considering their mechanic wasn't even there)
On my way home I was just so frustrated I just started crying again. I'm just very emotional and sad today. All I wanted was a hug. Then mom had to call and talk about what a good time she was having at her stamping thing. I was so bummed because I wish I would have been there instead.
UGH and I have so much cleaning to do today...but I just don't have the energy. I could have slept all day I think.

GD test

So I'm on my way (in three minutes) for my Gestational Diabetes test.
I'm so nervous.
That drink could have been worse, but I tried to drink it fast (since its orange and I really don't like orange flavors)and it made my stomach hurt. Yucky.
It has this weird like..tingly carbonated feeling/taste. It wasn't good.

Now all I can think about is how ironic would it be if I had GD?
For two reasons:
1.) Scott has diabetes and how much would that suck if we both had to take insulin :( !!
2.) The theme for my baby shower is SWEETS! and CANDY! GEEZ LOUISE! That would seriously stink.

I'm definitely nervous.

Oh but we did pick up our new car yesterday! I LOVE IT! So excited to drive it to St. Marys! haha.
It will be one of the farthest lengths I've driven it! :)

Edit

I lied. She's not asleep :)
She loves pancakes and syrup, so I'm not really surprised that she's awake now! :)

Nerves

I'm utterly exhausted. Today is going to be terrible.
I cannot even think of what to type to put words to how tired I feel.
I just want to sleep. I just want to sleep for more than a few hours!!! I'm having a ton of nerve pain in my right hip; so laying on my right side hurts really badly. I'm also having a lot of nerve pain in my left arm and shoulder; so I can't lay on my left side too. Its getting really difficult.
I woke up at 5:30 am and haven't been able to go back to sleep since. Its frustrating because the more I try to sleep. And the harder I try, the more frustrated I get! The more I try to sleep, the more I realize that I'm not asleep yet and notice that I'm awake. None of that seems to make sense, and its all probably terrible grammar, but I just don't care right now!
This morning, to take the pain away, I knew I had to get up and sit on my bottom so the pressure was on both legs. So I continued working on my pregnancy scrapbook, and got a lot done actually. I just put on King of the Hill and scrapbooked for two hours. Then I came upstairs, spent some time on the internet and made pancakes.
I'm hoping that maybe a full stomach will help a little bit.
I just want to go back to sleep!
Macyn is sleeping :( I want to too!!

Shower, Yoga, Cars, and Loneliness

Well. I'm 29 weeks now. Only 11 to go.
Baby girl is bumpin' away right now and I love it. I love sitting here with my shirt up and rubbing my belly. I love feeling her roll and kick under my hands. Its amazing. Looking back, I don't even know how I made it through those months where I couldn't feel her all the time. Its the most amazing feeling. Its like she is saying "I'm here Mommy, and I'm okay!"

A woman on my birth board, on the babycenter forums, gave birth to her baby at about 27 weeks. It was amazing to me to see pictures of her little girl and to think there was a little girl inside me about the same size. I'm amazed by that idea. How can something so beautiful be inside me? I can't imagine. She reassures me though as she sits here kicking away! :) Every time I go to the doctor, they say she looks great and sounds great. She is getting so big. I can hardly wait to meet her! (But I can because I want her to wait another 11 weeks and be bigger and stronger so she can home with us right away!)

Our shower is going to be August 15th. I'm so excited. I've finished making the invites and am hopefully going to mailing them out tomorrow. They were a lot of work and I am SO ready to just get them OUT of the house! Here is what they look like :


Mom and Dad are in Florida this week. I never though I could be this lonely. I'm so bored. Scott works all night and afternoon, and doesn't get home till 11pm. Its tough to be home all day by myself. Then I'm so tired around the time that he gets home. Plus he works in Madison, has to take a shower, and eat when he gets home so by the time we actually get to spend any time together, its after midnight. I'm so exhausted nowadays that it sucks not having him here. I look forward to the weekends a lot.

I have my yoga classes on Wednesday night and I love them. I only have one more session of this month of classes. I cannot believe how fast July has gone by! I'm hoping to take the August round of yoga classes too because they really help me relax and feel good about myself and being pregnant. I hope that it will help a lot with labor and delivery too. I've heard yoga can help a lot, so I hope that it will. Our teacher printed a list of the exercises that we do, so I hope that I can remember them and use them when I'm in labor.

Scott and I are purchasing a car on Monday and are SO excited!! Its a 2007 Kia Optima. It only has 30,800 miles on it. We test drove it and I loved it. I cannot wait till we pick it up on Monday! This is such a big step for us and I'm so excited! Its going to be such a great safe family car! Here is it!:


Next weekend we are going to have a maternity shoot with Kelly! I'm so excited! I really have to start thinking of what I'm going to wear! I want to get a big lollipop too so I have to figure out where I can buy one!

Tomorrow Kelly is coming over after work. We are going to scrapbook and have dinner. I hope that I can start my pregnancy scrapbook! I really need to get started on it! I have so much to do before little Macyn gets here! Friday Grandma is coming up and Saturday we are going to the Waunafest craft fair! So excited for that as well!

Exhaustion

Well. Its come to the point where I almost canNOT sleep. Its getting so bad.
I've been having a lot of hip pains and pains on the sides of my legs. It starts to hurt when I lay down on my side. At first it would hurt really bad if I was lying my left side, then my right would hurt. I put a pillow between my leg, which helps, but now which ever side I am lying on really starts to hurt too.
Now it has gotten to the point where no matter which way I lay, my hips are in piercing pain. And my back has been in a lot of pain too. My belly is starting to get bigger so I guess it is just pulling on my back. I am trying to put a pillow under my stomach, which helps a bit, but my upper back still hurts a lot.
I tried sleeping in the recliner this morning, hoping that would help my hips. It helped me get to sleep, but my back was SO stiff and sore when I woke up. It was bad :(

Well Mom and Dad left for Florida today. Scott and I dropped them off early this morning at the airport. They're going to be gone for a whole week. I'm going to be SO lonely! Hopefully I can keep myself busy though! I have to finish the baby shower invites, and address them. Then Monday I'm going to go visit Jan and meet her new grandbaby, Tuesday I'm doing a crafting night with Kelly, then Wednesday I have yoga.

Scott and I had a nice day to ourselves today! It was 104 degrees here today. SO gross and humid outside! We went and looked at another used car dealership today, one that is currently offering a cash for clunkers deal. So we are looking at trading in his van and putting that money towards the car that we are going to buy.

Well, that's about all for now! More to come I'm sure! :)

Favorites and Least Favorites about being Pregnant

Favorite
1. Feeling our little girl!
2. The idea of being a mother
3. Not feeling guilty about my big belly :)
4. Feeling our little girl!!
5. Seeing our girl move on the ultrasound!

Least favorite:
1. That I have to go to the bathroom right now...even though in the last fifteen minutes, I've gone twice (no lies!)
2. Waking up every hour (almost on the dot) to go to the bathroom (after four in the morning....at least I'm consistent! )
3. Not being able to have a spotted cow!! (a Wisco. Beer....its the best and the perfect summer beer!)
4. Not being able to go on roller coasters (I HATE ROLLER COASTERS! But I want to go on them now that I can't!) lol
5. Worrying about my little girl!

Catch up

Well its been awhile since I've made a post on here.
Here are a few updates.

1. Moving. Well we made it to Waunakee and have set up shop in the downstairs here. Its actually a lot better than I thought. Our room really came together a lot faster than I expected. I honestly expected it would take forever for us to get things in order. We had so much stuff upstairs and I thought it would take forever to clean out my closet upstairs. But Scott helped me and we cleaned it out in a weekend. That really helped a lot because we were able to move things into the closet and make a lot more room upstairs for our things. Then Mom, Dad, Scott, and I cleaned out the room downstairs, steam cleaned the carpets, and Scott painted the walls. It turned out great. We then moved in our bed, the crib, and changing table. Its really come together. I love it. Moving was a lot of work, but everything has really come together!!




2. Belly. Wow. Its been awhile since my last belly picture on here! The last picture was at 16 weeks. Here are some updates on that!!!


Below is 20 weeks! Our first official belly picture living at the new locale!



The next one is at 24 weeks! Wowza...this picture is around the time I really started to feel far along and kind of started to get stressed about her arrival which was much sooner rather than later!



And our last update is my most current belly picture. I'm 27 weeks in this picture. I took it because all the sudden I felt REALLY big! It was pretty crazy to see my belly sticking so far our! I'm 27 weeks and 4 days now.



3. Feelings. Well I plan to do a post soon about how I'm feeling about labor, giving birth, and meeting our little girl. But here I'll talk about some of my new symptoms now that I'm in the beginning of my third trimester (CRAZY!! I remember when starting the second trimester was a HUGE deal!) First is the sleeplessness I've been feeling the last week. I feel like I barely sleep. I'm so tired, but I just can't sleep. I've found a few tricks to help me sleep (put a pillow under my belly, watch King of the Hill, turn off all the lights, cool air) but I wake up feeling JUST AS tired (if not more) than when I went to sleep. It sucks sometimes. But then again, I am lucky because I'm not working right now so I can take naps when I feel tired. Recently I've been taking a nap around 3 or 5 pm. It just depends on the time that I wake up in the morning. During my first trimester I had been SO tired, but I could never sleep past 8 am...and I could almost always go to sleep around 10 pm. It was never a problem for me to sleep for long periods of time. But now it stinks.
Another symptom recently has been TERRIBLE heartburn. I thought the first trimester and some parts of the second were bad...oh man this sucks. She is obviously getting bigger and is pushing up on my lungs and stomach. I love that she is growing so much, and is getting so big...but it hurts a lot. Sometimes tums helps, but a lot of times it only masks it. Oh well. It sucks but I'll deal!
My hips and back have been hurting a lot too. Especially after laying down for awhile, my hips become very sore. It hurts like a pulling and immense pain on the side of my hip. It feels a lot better if I don't lay on my side....but since I'm only allowed to lay on my side...well it really sucks. My back hurts when I stand or walk for too long, and if I lay on my side. It helps when I put a pillow under my stomach though...so I've been trying that.

4. Glucose Test! Well I have my glucose test in 15 days. I'm kind of scared. I really don't want to fail and have to take the three hour test. I'm just very concerned about have gestational diabetes. I've tried worrying about the sugar that I eat; but sometimes it is difficult. I crave sweet stuff and love cookies and cake. Its tough. It really is. So I have to drink this orange glucose drink, then exactly an hour later have to have my blood drawn. Then I'll have my appointment afterwards. I know I'll be nervous until I find out the results! I'm excited for this next appointment though because after this I start to see the doctor every other week! Wow I'm going to be honest, I don't think I ever believed I would get to that point! Its exciting and scary at the same time!

5. Movement! I LOVE feeling my little girl move! I think it is one of the most amazing feelings ever. I first felt her around 15 weeks and 5 days I believe (off the top of my head) It started out as just a little tickle. I felt her occasionally. Every few days or so there would be a little tickle and I would think to myself "was that the baby!?" It was always an amazing feeling and made me feel confident that my little girl was growing and getting bigger. The movements are now MUCH bigger and much more consistent. She is getting so big and strong. I love it! I can feel her rolling or kicking and punching. I enjoy feeling her because it makes me feel happy. Sometimes Scott will talk to my belly and tell her to stop punching her mommy. But I tell him NO don't say that! I love to feel her! :) Its the best feeling honestly. I'm taking a yoga class and at the end of the class, we always do a meditation for the last five minutes or so. Its a strange feeling that as you relax your entire body, there is still something moving and its pretty strong! She has a pretty good routine going on. I think she is definitely her mother and father's child! She likes to sleep until after about 10-12. She kicks a little in the morning. Around lunch time she gets a little spunky and kicking harder. Then in the afternoon she usually is sleeping again. Around late evening (7-9) she will get strong again. Then late at night and in the morning she will start to kick a lot again. Sometimes it differs but most of the time she sticks pretty close to that schedule. She also loves when I'm active and when I stop, that makes her more active. Like after yoga, or when I will stop after going to Anytime Fitness and walking for awhile. She loves when I go swimming. Then when I get out of the pool she is still flipping around and stuff :)

6. Ultrasound pictures. At our 20 week ultrasound we found out we were having a little girl and that she was healthy and growing well. She is measuring about a week ahead, which is good. Here are some of the pictures from our little girl's ultrasound!