For today's Sassy Saturday (the place I'd previously been bringing you pregnancy updates) I wanted to share with everyone our amazing birth story. Now you're not going to find any gory details about the delivery process, but you will hear how our amazing pre-valentine's baby came to make his appearance so very unexpectedly.
We had scheduled our induction for Tuesday, February 16th and our actual due date was the 20th...we had some issues with our doctor and I'm pretty sure she just wanted to have some control over this pregnancy with all the push back we gave her. My last day of work was on Friday, February 12th and I figured that would give me one work day off to get all last minute preparations taken care of before our baby boy was brought into this world.
Little did I know...
Tuesday we had our monthly pregnancy check-up and it didn't go as smoothly as I was hoping. As many of you might know, my blood pressure has always been an issue until the past 3 years. All of my check-ups showed me having phenomenal blood pressure, until Tuesday. My blood pressure was slightly elevated at 138/82 and that had the doctor a bit concerned....
Some fun things I've really noticed this week:
- This baby can predict when I'm getting ready to eat something! I swear, as soon as I start thinking about the delicious food we're cooking or getting ready to pick up s/he starts kicking and getting excited. I wonder if there is some internal change that triggers this.
- I can actually SEE the baby kicking from the outside. So it's not a huge prominent bump or something, but when it kicks you can actually see my tummy vibrate in that location. :-D
- My energy is still going strong and I'm really enjoying that with all the activities I've been trying to do every day.
Some not so fun things I've noticed this week:
**I apologize for the delay in posts this weekend, it was a hectic weekend with lots of activity!**
Not much to report on this week, still feeling very good and my energy is staying very consistent. I've had a few days of feeling uncomfortable if I'm sitting in a certain position or have eaten some very spicy food (hello heartburn), but overall feeling very good.
Enjoying the fact that I can really feel our little baby moving and shaking. I've been able to feel the flutters and movements since the beginning of August, right around the end of the 1st trimester and beginning of the 2nd. However, they are definitely becoming more prominent!
I honestly feel like this child knows when I'm getting ready to eat because everything I start thinking about food or preparing lunch/dinner it starts kicking around like crazy. LOL. Very active...so I'll be interested to see if it's a sound sleeper like it's sister or if it is very active and wakes up every 30 minutes wanting to be active.
This week I:
This week we had our 20 week appointment and had the opportunity to discover what we're having!! We are very excited, but decided to try something different this pregnancy and not tell anyone else until our baby shower. We figured this would give our families a fun surprise and ensure that we get a lot of unisex items at the beginning.
I guess I have two reasons for wanting to do this: 1) After having a girl the first time we know that people will automatically gravitate towards buying a bunch of pink stuff for a girl and a bunch of blue stuff for a boy and we like to be different and steer away from those typical steryotypes. (Now I'm not saying we don't dress our daughter in pink, but we like the variety of dressing her in green, blue, purple, yellow, brown, etc...). 2) This will also... help us having more items for baby #3 depending on what we have. If we are expecting a girl right now and then have a boy for baby #3 we'll have unisex stuff to pass down. If we are expecting a boy right now, we already decided that we'd go through and purge a lot of Jera's old baby clothes that we've horded...so if baby #3 is a girl then we'll have more clothes to utilize when she's first born. See...we are thinking strategically here. :-P ;-)
I started gaining some weight and seem to have gone back to not having gained any weight. I did start out at ~30 lbs overweight, but I'm still a little shocked that I haven't really gained anything. My doctor is not worried about it, so I'm not going to be worried about it. I was blessed that after having Jera I had lost a bunch of weight and was very close to my goal weight...so maybe that's just typical for my pregnancies and for that I can't complain. (I think it's because I'm more conscious about what I'm eating and tend to become more active.)
This week I (Saturday - Friday):
- Craved salads...I had chicken salads, chili salads, turkey salads...basically anything we made I wanted to just put it on a bead of lettuce and call it delicious!!
- Drank more pop than I typically do...this baby has been craving some Diet Dr. Peppers. :-( I need to watch this though since days I drink more pop I tend to drink less water...
- Logged 66,209 steps on Fitbit
- Clocked in 27.57 miles on Fitbit
- Totaled 11 workouts on MapMyFitness plus 2 weight lifting sessions!
Things have actually been treating me very nicely throughout this pregnancy, a much different experience then I had with my daughter. I'm not cranky, I have a lot of energy (now that I'm in my 2nd trimester), I've been able to stay active and I haven't had any high blood pressure...which is a big deal and you should check out why HERE.
Since my pregnancy with my daughter was a bit tougher on me, I'm really trying to savor every moment of this pregnancy. All the fluttery kicks, the growing belly and the extra love my hubby has in his eye whenever he looks at me. It's all been a true blessing so far and I thank God for that!
