This week has been a little crazy. It's been busy-busy and Baby Girl is growing
fast! I feel like I've really grown in the past 5 days or so. I've had several people tell me, "You're belly has really 'popped' this week!"
My energy level has been much better and I still haven't thrown up! That makes 3 weeks without getting sick...
yay! I'm really praying that the sickness is
finally behind me. If my pregnancies are true to the sex like they have been so far (sick with boy, REALLY sick with girl), then the sex of any pregnancy after this one will be predictable as soon as I become pregnant! Ha!
We have our 20 week appointment tomorrow morning and are anxious to see how much she has grown. I know I've grown a lot (yikes!), so I'm hoping she has, too. Otherwise I'm just gaining
unnecessary weight, which = no good!
I'm entering a little bit of the nesting stage and am so ready to start painting the nursery. And decorating it. And going through Weston's old clothes to see what I can also use for her.
I've been such a hoarder with his clothes, so I'm sure some of it will work - although tons of it has his name or initials on it so that stuff is, unfortunately, out. But Hopefully I can start a project this weekend. I'll be going to
Carrollton for 3 weekends in March, out of town 2 weekends in April, and out of town 2 weekends in May - and that's just what is planned so far! My weekends are getting slim!
And to those of you who are wondering or asking about a name, we are still working on it. We were discussing boy names before we found out the sex since we both thought it was a boy. So everything "girl" is foreign to us! But I must say that it's been a lot of fun to brainstorm girl names and browse the girl's section in stores :) This is going to be tons of fun...
Yucky Glucose Drink-1, Katie-0. So I went to my Dr's appt on Monday as scheduled. I drank the not-so-fabulous glucose drink and waited in the waiting room for my exam. Shortly after the exam, I'm supposed to get my blood drawn. This did not go according to plan - We have been SICK in our house. Weston started running a fever last weekend and I started running one on Sunday evening. Turns out we BOTH had the flu. Since the receptionist was unaware of my early morning call to the Dr to inform him of my illness, she had me drink the drink. While meeting with my Dr, he apologizes and says they can't take my blood considering how sick I am. Flu swab confirmed - it's the flu. I would say this visit was a waste, except he gave me some drugs for the flu and we listened to baby girl's heartbeat :)
These 2 weeks flew by! I'm feeling great, energy wise. I'm staying up later and feel good in the mornings. I'm not really throwing up - I say 'really' because it still happens at random times. But 90% of the time, I'm not sick. Woohoo! If it weren't for the barely tolerable pain in my right hip, I'd be as well as a non-preggo gal. But this pain is in-sane. Sometimes I can barely make it up a flight of stairs - and after sitting or lying down for longer than 15 minutes, it takes me several minutes just to get up because the pain just about paralyzes me. I go back to the Dr on Monday (we are 1 week ahead on our Dr schedule due to my work...it's supposed to be my 24 week appointment but I'll really be going during my 23rd week) so I'm going to address this hip issue with him again. He said if it continued to worsen, we would consider seeing an ortho. surgeon about hip injections - YIKES! I'm hoping it doesn't go that far at all---meanwhile I'm looking for other answers. Any advice?
We are half way there!! So exciting. We also have so much going on in the next few months that I'm hoping it continues to fly by. I've been feeling much better, minus the occasional lapse of naseau and fatigue, which are few and far between. We were busy this weekend! We painted Weston's room and are in the process of painting baby girl's room! I'll post a before and after of Weston's room when it's finished, as well as the nursery. It's been so much fun preparing - I'm just loving every second!
