12 Weeks

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Today I am officially 12 weeks and 1 day! YAH!! According to everything I have read I am now in a safer zone of the pregnancy. I am feeling a lot more positive about the pregnancy.  The babies’ reflexes are developing this week. From crown to rump, the babies should be just over two inches long and weigh half an ounce. They are about the size of a lime- too sweet. 

I am still feeling nauseas. The last few days have been really bad. I have been taking a quarter (about 6.25mg) of a phenergan every night to help me sleep. This morning I have gained 4.8 pounds. I try to eat but it is difficult since I feel so bad.  I have been falling asleep around 6pm each night. I know that is really early but I can’t hold my eyes open.

I had a big presentation at work yesterday…it is called a Get-to-Know. I presented to the MPC Leadership Team which consists of the SPO and Plant Managers. After presenting they asked me several questions which were tough in that setting. After I left I constantly thought about what I should have said and what I shouldn’t have said. It felt like I had an interview.  I am just happy it is over. After the presentation I picked up lunch and visited with mom and Paw-Paw.

I stopped by Tuesday Morning’s on my way home to see if I could have anything for the babies. I lucked up- look what I found!

It is a pack of One-Zee by Adidas that are all MSU football. The maroon and grey one have the MSU Logo and the white one has the MSU logo with a football goal. Too cute. It will be awhile until they will fit because the size is 18 months. Jason and I are both Mississippi State University Grads and love our bulldogs!

This past Thursday Jason’s softball team lost both of their games.  He came home injured. He tried to slide to 2^nd base which was not a good idea.  The bad part was he still got out. Poor guy has been hurting for a week. He has to sleep with one leg hanging out of the bed.

I am also excited today because on the baby’s bedding arrived from Restoration Hardware today. I love it! Since I love it so much, I decided to go ahead and purchase the other bedding. Below is a picture of it. I can’t wait to get started on the nursery.

Momma's Gumbo

Thursday, August 21

Well I had to work this entire weekend for a Maintenance Outage on Unit 3. It really hasn’t been too bad- the worst part is getting up at 5:00am. I just want to sleep in for one day! While I worked on Saturday, Jason played in a golf tournament. He had a good time but didn’t win. After I got home from work, we went over to my parent’s house for dinner. My poor mom has been making seafood gumbo for 2 days. She has tennis elbow which has really been giving her a lot of trouble but she blames it on picking so much okra. Poor mom kills herself in the garden. 

The gumbo was great! It was well worth all of her hard work. Jason and I really enjoyed it.

Paw Paw and Steph also came up to eat. It was nice to visit with them. Steph and I shared our complaints about life (mainly complaining about our moodiness).  We seem to be a lot alike.

I don’t know what has been going on with me but I have been very moody.  I know everyone says it has to do with the hormones but poor Jason just can’t do anything right.  I feel bad for being on mean to him but I keep getting my feelings hurt over small things. I think it would be better if he was home more and not so busy. I guess it is how pregnancy goes.  My nausea and constipation has improved.  I have been taking a Zophran at 6am and at 12pm which seems to help. I am still sick at night but not as bad. I stopped taking the supplemental hormones at 10 weeks and really think that has made a big improvement.  This past Friday, Jason and I ate the Pizza Hut buffet for lunch and then a Big Mac for dinner. Up to this point I have only gained 2 pounds and was 10 weeks/3days. Well I woke up Saturday morning to find that I had gained an additional 2 pounds in 1 night. I couldn’t believe it. My wedding ring was also very tight so I think it had to do with eating processed food and working in the heat at work on Friday.  I am happy I gained the weight but hope I can stop the swelling.  

10 weeks

August 17, 2011

We I am officially 10 weeks and 1 day today. I can’t believe that I am already almost 3 months- it is crazy how time has been flying by. I am still feeling nauseous and having constipation issues. I think the morning nausea has improved over the last week but now I get headaches around 1-2PM each afternoon.  In the past, I kept ginger snaps beside the bed but now I am actually able to walk to the kitchen and fix breakfast without getting sick.  I also think the Zophran has helped a lot. I have been taking 1 pill in the morning around 9am and one in the afternoons around 3PM on my way home from work. I am working 6:30-3 and some days it feels like 3pm will never get here. 

As far as food cravings go- I haven’t really had any. I have just been trying to eat when I can to make sure the babies get the nutrients they need.  It is hard at times to eat anything.  This week I have had 2 meatball subs from Subway. I cannot believe how good they are. I would typically order a turkey sub because it was low fat but I don’t have to worry about that anymore.  I have gained 1.4 pounds. I lost around 5 pounds earlier but I have now gained that back plus 1.4 pounds more.  Although I have only gained 1.4 pounds I feel like I have gained a watermelon. I can’t believe how big my stomach is.  Today was actually my first day to wear maternity jeans to work and boy are they comfortable. I have been wearing my normal jeans with a thing called a belly band- essentially it is a spandex band that goes over where your pants button so they stay up.  Needless to say it is tight and my jeans still try to fall down all day. I think it is going to be hard to go back to the belly band.  As I was just typing I was wondering when do most women start wearing maternity jeans…. Hmmm I guess the one thing I know is that it isn’t because I have gained too much weight.

Tonight mom and dad came over for dinner. Jason went fishing Sunday and caught 14 white trout. He is going to cook dinner for us all tonight. Hopefully I will have an appetite and be able to eat.  The last few nights I haven’t been able to eat much because of feeling bad so we shall see about tonight. 

According to the development emails I receive our sweet babies are barely the size of a kumquat -- a little over an inch or so long, crown to bottom -- and weighs less than a quarter of an ounce. The babies have completed the most critical portion of development. This is the beginning of the so-called fetal period, a time when the tissues and organs in his body rapidly grow and mature. If we could see the babies, we would see tiny nails forming on fingers and toes (no more webbing) and peach-fuzz hair beginning to grow on tender skin. This is so exciting!!

Life is bittersweet at times

August 11, 2011

So you may notice the lack of postings over the last few weeks.  A few days after we told my Grandmother Eleanor that we were expecting she took a turn for the worse.  Over the next week I watched her slowly fade away. I would go visit with her each day after work. It was really difficult but I also knew that she was ready to go. She was tired of feeling so bad and being in so much pain from her back.  My dad took such good care of her and made sure she was comfortable during this time. I am so proud of him and know that he is the best son ever.  Hospice was finally called in the week before she passed.  The last time I visited with her was on the afternoon of Thursday, August 4^th and she passed away early the next morning. It was bittersweet for my family.  We knew that she was now in heaven with Grandpa and in a much better place. My mom, sister, dad and I all recently read the book “Heaven is for Real” which I think helped us all through this difficult time. The book is about a little boy who dies for a short period and comes back to describe what heaven is like.  The book really does change your perception of dying and reminds us all there a better place awaits us. 

Below is her obituary.

While we were looking at pictures at Grandma’s house we saw the one below. I just love it. The picture is just how I want to remember by Grandparents.

I was able to move my doctor’s appointment with Dr. Vice due to my grandmother’s death.  Christina was home so she was able to go with Jason and me.  She was so excited to see the babies and hear their heartbeats. Baby A’s heartbeat was 173 and Baby’s B heartbeat was 190 (at least I think that was it).  It was so great to see them again and know that they were growing. They measured 8 weeks 1 day and 8 weeks. I was happy to see that they were closer in size and it now appears that their sacks are right next to each other.  It is the most amazing thing. The photos below were taken when I was 8w6d.