In these past 3 weeks, I've went from 20 weeks to 23 weeks, to feeling baby G move on the inside to feeling him and seeing him move on the outside, noticing his schedule, to eliminating stress in my my home, and telling myself we are so close to going home!
How far along are you? 23 Weeks!
How much weight have you gained? Probably around 9-10 pounds! My appetite has picked up a lot these past few weeks. Our scale needs new batteries so I can't track my weight gain :/
Mood Swings?? Ehh... I get my loneliness, I get my sad times, and I get depressed some days, but thankfully I have friends that help me, and a wonderful husband who comes home from work and says,"go to bed and take a nap" Literally he told me that last week!!! And I tell ya, it was the best rest I got during the day in a long time!
Belly Button? Innie, will probably stay that way :-)
Sleeping? Well not so bad lately.. Not sure why, but I'm not complaining. He usually sleeps when I do!! Hoping it will stay that way! He is pretty different from Elijah, Elijah would party when it was time for me to sleep, G doesn't. He just sleeps! So I sleep pretty sound. I might wake up with a hip ache, or wake up on my back sometimes, but it's ok, it's all apart of being pregnant! :)
Gender?? Well it's a BOY! He is Bubba, and baby G for now! Yes we have a name, but aren't saying it just yet. I love his name! I love his middle name as well! :)))) I can't wait to say it to the world!
Weekly Wisdom? It's been three weeks, you'd think I'd have some advice, lets see, my advice is to stay far far away from stress, drink tons of water, eat healthy, and just enjoy being pregnant. No matter the complications, or how bad things can get, think of that sweet innocent life you are carrying and try to do the best for that little life!
Milestone this week? I would say just feeling him move on the outside! That is one big milestone! Every mom I know loves that feeling! Being able to put my hands on my belly and feeling his hiccups, or feeling him move around, kick, hit, poke, it's one of the best feelings! As I type this he's kicking me! haha!
Next appointment? May 15 at 3:15!! The day before we go to Ga! I was hoping Matthew could go with me, but he wont be able to unless I push the time up! Which is my plan!!! If not I'm going to see if a friend could go with me!
Just some general info on baby G: He can now feel me move, and can hear me talk. The dogs barking, Elijah's loud screaming, or happy loud laughs he can hear, daddy's voice he can hear! :) Weighing in at over a pound and more than 11 inches long, he is about the size of a large mango! Blood vessel's in his lungs are developing to prepare for breathing.
I will be having to get a glucose test done sometime between 24 weeks and 28 weeks. I am scared that I wont pass my test! :/ I don't know why I'm scared, I think it's the fact that you are usually induced a week early if you have it, and I'm scared of being induced that early, since my body didn't react well to being induced with Elijah.......And we wont be back to Missouri until May 28 and I will be 26 weeks, which my midwife isn't too thrilled with. With the complications I've been having she's sending me with my records and possibly checking my cervix to make sure I'm not dilated, and possibly giving me a NST(non stress test) We are having to stop every hour and a half to every two hours, she wants us to stop every hour, and I'm having to drink plenty of water while we travel and try to keep my feet up. Which I plan on putting them on the cooler, which will be in front of my seat :)
Our future trip: We have snacks, and some caffeine free sodas for our trip, as long as I don't drink them before we go ;) so all we need to get is some bottle water. Elijah has a portable DVD player to keep him entertained, and we will take some toys, and some snacks for him as well. :) I'm excited to see how this trip goes! We have a baby shower the first Saturday we are home, which I get to see A LOT of my high school friends, family and I just know we will have a great time! The week after that is mine and my daddy's birthday! His is the 23rd mine is the 24th, we will celebrate it together, just like we used to when I was a kid, on his birthday, and then that Friday the 25th is possibly a rehearsal dinner, for the wedding that we are going home for, not sure how I fit into that, since I'm not in the wedding but Matthew is, then Saturday evening is the wedding, my parents really want to take Elijah that whole day and spend it with him, but I'm not sure how Matthew feels about that. I like the idea, that way we can spend a few hours alone, Matthew can get ready for the wedding, I can get ready, at the wedding I won't have a fussy baby boy, or a baby boy who doesn't want to sit still, then at the reception afterwards if we want to dance, or have some alone time we can dance or talk. The wedding doesn't start til 6!!!! :/ So that means the reception wont be til about 7ish, Elijah's bedtime is 8, and I don't see us leaving til sometime around 10! :/ Then we have to get up the next morning and hit the road! :/ Ugh! Seeing those times just makes me dread it! Oh, and I just remembered Matthew is in charge of the bachelor party!!! I'm also not looking forward to- the groom drinks, and we don't, and I have no clue what time or where or what they are doing that night, I do know that Matthew isn't taking him anywhere like a strip club! So glad to have a honest Christan husband!!! But I'm hoping the groom doesn't get wasted because that would mean Matthew would have to get him home, and take care of him and I'd be a signal mom! Ugh!!! Maybe I can talk my parents into Elijah spending the night with them Friday and Saturday night, as much as I would hate it, I don't want him around drinking and I've been told there will be drinking at the wedding. :/ I just don't know how Elijah would react to staying without mommy and daddy. ://// -sigh- oh so much thinking and talking to do!
Well how are the mommy and daddy doing? We are good. Things are taken a turn, and we are doing a lot better. Matthew saw something on the news at work one day last week about how a 6 second kiss makes a big difference when you leave for work in the mornings and come home from work in the evening, it makes you forget about what you are thinking about, and about how your day went, that's good if it was a bad day! lol! So we've been doing that. Trust me we get mad at one another but we still kiss each other and it does make things better. I was reading a great book and I've gotten,... lazy, busy, tired, too focused on cleaning and I need to start reading it again. It was helping and I was seeing a lot of good in Matthew. I was focusing on his good qualities and it was helping my attitude with him. I was ignoring all the bad. If you dawn on the bad, then you will lose focus on the good, and why you even got married. You don't want to lose that. I love my husband, God gave him to me for a reason, and we will work through what ever financial issues we come across, we will over come our fears together, we will make one another happy, raise our kids in a Godly house, we will over come our doubts, and communicate no matter what, and do it no matter how mad we are with each other. Yes when we are mad at one another we need to break apart and breath, and pray! Which I'm leaning it's pretty hard to turn to God during these times, I usually turn to a friend, but God is a much better outlet. He will always listen, never judge us, and will always have the perfect answer for us, in his timing which is much more important than ours!
-- well this is all for now! I will update with some photos :) but I am done. My butt is numb, and I'm tired of typing! I really hope you all enjoyed, and love to hear your feedback!
I am still in need of things for G, but I will tell only if you ask. :)
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Ahhh!!! I'm going to miss you soooo much while your gone! I don't know what Sophia and I will do without you and Elijah!!! I do hope ya'll have fun and everything goes great :) I am so glad to have a great friend like you and so thankful I can tell you anything! I'm with you on the glucose test. I hope we both pass with flying color lol :P Love the pics and can't wait to meet lil man eek! lol okay well I am going to bed now and you should to! Can't wait for tomorrow its going to be soo much fun! see you tomorrow :) goodnight
ReplyDeleteI'm going to miss you too! I'll text you a lot while I am away! I hope neither one of us has to take the 3 hour test. Ugh! My cousin did and it sounded awful!
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