The last time I blogged about my pregnancy I was 12 weeks and as of today I am 28 weeks and in the 3rd trimester!
I had a crappy first trimester and first half of 2nd trimester. I had horrible headaches, horrible!! Was super nauseous, the only thing that made me feel better was laying down, zofran, and eating if I could find something that tasted good. I didn't really crave anything that first trimester just whatever sounded good I ate, because well, not much sounded good. I also had horrible cramping/contractions and bleeding/spotting. My Dr kept a close eye on me and told me to take it easy. There was never anything to worry about, no placental bleeding like with Harry but it was still scary. There was just always some irritation to my cervix. I finally started to feel better about 19 weeks or so.
We were told at our 16 week appointment we were probably having a boy. We were shocked because we all thought we were having a girl. Lots of reasons why, but ya, shocked.
Well, then a week later or so I started to have more problems, bleeding so I went in to the Dr again and he did another US and this time he couldn't see any "boy" parts so he said, I think it may be a girl. See below? In one photo big boy parts in another no parts.
So he told us to wait till our 20 week appointment with the specialist and he'd get a better idea then. But I couldn't get it out of my mind that I may be having a girl.
Well, we went for the big US and everything went great. Baby was measuring right on schedule. And then it came time to see if it was a boy or girl. We told her what had happened and she said well, its a boy! There was no mistaking it. He must've been hiding at the one appointment. We were shocked but excited! Trent was a little sad, he totally thought it was a girl.
Then the specialist came into see us. She was acting weird. Trent and I kept looking at each other and wondering what was going on. Then she finally asked me to tell her about my past pregnancies. I explained how I had great pregnancy and deliveries with Hudson and Ruby (except for typical nausea, headaches, stuff like that). And then explained what happened with Harry as she read through some notes on it. Then she asked about all the weights of my babies and when they were born. I said Hudson was 2 weeks early on his own and 7 lbs 5 oz, Ruby was 1 week early and 7 lbs 13 oz and Finn was 4 days early and 6 lbs 9 oz. My smallest baby and in the longest. She explained how she was a bit concerned that after what happened to my body with Harry that my body may not be working right toward the end of the pregnancy and talked about how small Finn was and looked for his age. Of course he made up for that fast!
She said she wanted to keep a close eye on me and the baby toward the end of the pregnancy and make sure he was growing and getting what he needed.
So not a big concern but just weird! So we'll see what happens but so far so good!
Its a boy!!!!
15 weeks(nice dirty mirror)
Showing some belly, hey its my 5th baby what do you expect?
20 weeks!
22 weeks
24 weeks
26 weeks
28 weeks and in the 3rd trimester today!
Yikes I've really popped out!!! Why is gaining weight during pregnancy so hard?
I work sooo hard to get it off, but man its no fun to gain. And yes I gain weight. I'm not one to gain only 5-10lbs, I usually gain 30-40lbs so hopefully I stay in the low range of that. I gained 42 with Hudson, yikes! I think because he was my first baby and I worked all day I just ate junk and whatever they had at work, which was usually donuts, cookies, and fast food. I gained 38 with Ruby, and 34 with Finn. So we'll see where this lil guy takes me. No fun getting it off though.
I had my 28 week, 3rd trimester appointment today and everything went great. Gaining weight like a champ! Blood pressure low as always 100/68, baby looks great, measuring exactly 28 weeks where normally at this stage I'm measuring about a week ahead. But he said so far so good. I took the glucose test today, ugh hate that but all went well.
I now start to go every 3 weeks then 2 weeks then 1, the countdown has almost begun!!
I'm getting so anxious but for some reason don't feel ready for him to come. I have so much to do. Need to figure out where Finn is going to go, share with Hudson? Stay in his room and move office and put baby in office? Decisions. Dr said he could come at the end of March, yikes! not far at all!
And no name yet. I still have about the same list as I did with Finn, a few new and but mostly the same. SO help !!
The kids are dead set on Henry Lincoln.
So here's the list:
Henry (great grandpa's name, Love the nickname Hank, kids have him named already)
Lincoln(LOVE right now but don't like nickname Linc)
Shepherd( wanted to name Finn this but he just wasn't a Shepherd. Think Shep is a cute nickname)
Bronson-(used to love, fits with the boy names we have but not loving now)
Sullivan-(cute, love nickname Sully)
Sawyer-(used to LOVE but not so sure anymore. No nickname)
Oh and yes I"m into nicknames, love them!!!
I was dead set on Henry until I heard how popular it was. And then I loved Bronson, but now not so much, I'm leaning toward Lincoln, but don't love the nickname Linc, so we'll see. I just hope I make a decision on his name faster than I did with Griffin. It took us almost a week!!!
