Hello and welcome back to my blog!!
**Notice that I've changed my blog around, thanks to Jessica Kirk for helping me :) she's such a sweetheart!!! Thank you again, Jess!!! :)
I know I've been a little MIA with updating my blog but I wanted to try something new and keep a journal during these last few months of my pregnancy. So if your not really into that kind of thing then you probably won't want to read this post but if you do like these kind of blogs then keep watching for updates because I will be updating every week :)
So lets get started :)
When I was 20 weeks or so I got a cold sore, and it's finally just barely going away!! Here are some questions that I've been getting asked a lot so I'll answer them for you all... :)
"How far along are you?" I am 22 weeks and 5 days now. I feel like my pregnancy has flown by so quickly! I am enjoying it though. I can't wait for her to be here :)
"How are you feeling?" - I am starting to feel much, much better! I still sometimes wake up in the morning feeling queasy and some days puke and other days I wake up feeling good. So it's definitely a hit -n- miss kinda thing....
"Do you have any cravings?" YES, I crave cereal!!! Mostly, its been frosted flakes.. the last couple of days have been Lucky Charms!! I also get random cravings like cookie crisp and today I bought some Reese's Puffs those kind of cravings don't seem to last long... So I give it a few days then I'll be back to frosted flakes.. :) I've also been craving chocolate fudge ice cream lately.. Jorry is so good, he will get me a big bowl of cereal or go buy ice cream whenever I tell him "I'm hungry" and he usually knows what to get :) he's great!!
"Are you excited to be having a baby girl?" Yes!! Jorry and I are so so so excited!! Jorry wanted a boy pretty bad, and I thought for sure it would be a boy just because I was hoping for a girl. Honestly, I didn't care what gender the baby was, I was just so dang happy to finally be getting a baby!! I just wanted it healthy!!
"How is trying to sleep?" At first sleeping sucked!! Because I could not get comfortable! I would wake up with leg cramps, numbed hips, my arm or leg would be numb and tingly!! It was awful.. I was always told to get a body pillow, and so for my birthday I finally did!!! Now I can sleep somewhat soundly. It's nice. I still however wake up with charley horses in my calves and that is not fun waking up to at wee hours in the morning. So any tips/ideas on how I can help that, please share!!!!
"Stretch marks?" Yes, I have a few on the back of my left leg, they are small and I've noticed that as long as I am using my cocoa butter lotion morning and night they don't get any worse and they start to lighten up. So that is what I've been doing to help with that. As for anywhere else, I do not have any stretch marks. I hope it stays that way, because lets face it... I get really self conscious about the changes my body is going through! Jorry has been really good to compliment me and help make me feel better about myself.
"Maternity clothes?" Yes, I can no longer wear my "pre pregnancy" pants. I bought some jeans from Pink Blush Maternity and I was quite disappointed!! I figured the pants would run small so I bought like 2 pant sizes bigger than what I was and they DO NOT fit! They are still too small!!! :( they were expensive too.. On my birthday we went to the City and I did buy some pants and shirts so I do have a few new pants to wear.
My placenta is in the front of the baby so I can't always feel her move around and that makes me nervous if I've gone a full day without feeling any movements. Sometimes I can feel her but yesterday and today I've noticed my stomach gets really hard for a minute or two and then it gets squishy again, so I don't know if that is her pushing against the placenta or if its Braxton hicks contractions.. It doesn't hurt but it definitely gets hard and you can feel it when you place your hand on my stomach. Any ideas on either if its the baby or Braxton hicks, leave a comment. I don't know how soon you can even experience Braxton hicks.. But that was my other guess what it was if it wasn't the baby..
We don't have a name for baby yet, Jorry and I were tossing around the name Jolee. I mean I like it, but I'm just not feeling it 100%... So I think we are going to search around for some more names and see what happens... I wanted to keep the spelling with "lee" like my name. Once we've got her name picked out for sure, for sure I will share it with you!
So yeah, that's all I can think of to share with you all for this week. Not much changed a whole lot. We go see the Doctor this coming Thursday and I am super excited for that! I always love hearing her heartbeat! For Christmas my mom bought me this thing that helps to hear the heartbeat. We've tried using it a bunch of times and it hasn't really worked but it's fun to try. Maybe it will be easier to hear when I am in my 3rd trimester like it recommends. But we'll see..
Thanks for reading and like I said I will be trying to do these updates weekly, so if you'd like, keep watching for those :)
XOXO
