30 weeks!

Wooooooooooooooooooow. I've made it this far! Amazing.

This is totally late, as I forgot I didn't write an update. Last week was pretty uneventful. I've been having a pretty decent pregnancy!

I did have another appointment, though, this Tuesday due to some mucous I had and leaking. Everything turned out to be perfectly normal and I wasn't dialated at all. My blood pressure was lower and I lost 2 lbs, so that puts my total weight gain at -1. I'm sure I'll gain plenty in the upcoming weeks, though.

29 weeks!

Almost 3/4ths of the way done!! I went to my doc appt on Tuesday and everything is well except for having low iron and my blood pressure being erratic. I'm taking supplements for the iron, and for right now, my doc isn't too overly concerned about the blood pressure. I just have to try and lay down as much as possible (yeah, right).

Other than that, my sleeping pattern has taken a turn this week. Instead of sleeping, getting up to pee, then going back to sleep again, it's turning into sleep, getting up to pee and then I'm up for awhile, or sleep, get up to pee, finally fall back asleep only to wake up an hour later. I guess it's my body's way of getting me ready for motherhood, haha. But, since Rose isn't here yet, I would LOVE to still be getting a full night's sleep. Oh well.

Rose has been continually getting the hiccups more and more (she has them right now), and this week I was able to find where her head was. She didn't like my poking around by there, so she took her little hand and pushed up against mine several differnt times. I've felt her kick me before a lot, but I've never felt her use her hand. It was lovely!

The swelling was better this week, but it's only a matter of time before my ankles are no longer how I once knew them. But, it's for Rose and I'm ok with that. :)

28 weeks!

Where in the hell is she going to go from here??? Like, seriously. I'm HUGE and I *feel* HUGE, and yet I know that I still have at least 10 more weeks to go, if not 12-14 more if I continue to have a healthy pregnancy. Where is she going to go??? She can't really go up anymore -- she's all up in my ribs as it is and I'm like 2 feet in diameter from the side, so where will she fit??? I hit me today that I am like really, really pregnant looking. I mean, people, I waddle. I make grunting noises when I sit or stand and I have to have my husband give me a boost out of my seat where ever I'm sitting a lot. I'm flipping huge. But, as I keep telling myself (to soothe my anxiety), I'm supposed to be this big and she's healthy, so that's all that matters!

So, last week there were some changes. Rose now responds a lot to being rubbed. I woke up in the middle of the night last week and I could feel her little back, so I rubbed it. She decided didn't want to be rubbed and retreated into my uterus. I could still feel her, but it put a ton of pressure on my back and gave me a serious backache. Not fun. She did it again today, so I got on all fours to make her come forward and then the pressure in my back went away, thankfully.

Then, there's the issue of being able to sleep during the night. I don't know what it is because I'm not so uncomfortable yet that I'm going to die, but I sleep super lightly for some reason and I wake up like fifty times a night. I can deal with it, though.

Lastly, my ankles and feet have started to mildly swell. This sucks. It's way uncomfortable at the end of the day when you've been on your feet. I called my doc about it and she assured me it was normal, but it's REALLY uncomfortable.

She's also come to know her Daddy's voice really well. He gets right up to my belly and starts talking to her and right away she'll move around and go nuts. It's actually really amazing how intelligent fetus' are at this gestation and they aren't even born yet. She can be still for hours and then he'll start talking to her against my belly and she goes crazy for him. This is only the beginning, I'm sure, of a life long love affair with her dad. :)

But, other than that, all is well. Really, what I complain about is nothing, and at this point, if I make it to 37 weeks without any complications and having Rose be healthy, I will seriously be the happiest person ever. I just pray I get there!

27 weeks!

I made it to the third trimester!!!! WOOOHOOOOOO!!!!! Only 91 more days until my due date!!!! I.am.psyched!!!

This week was a great week. No real aches or pains or anything related to being pregnant. I did have a horrid cold and ended up being sick a few days this week, but that doesn't have anything to do with Rose, haha. The cool thing that happened was on Thursday, I went to take a bath and I was laying in the tub watching Rose move around in my stomach for awhile. When I decided to get out, I grabbed a hold of the bar we have in our tub against the wall to sit up and kind of turned to the left a little while I was sitting up and about halfway up, I saw this big oblonged bulge sticking out of my stomach on the far right side! It was totally her body from the shoulders to the butt! It was so pronounced, too! I stared for about 30 seconds and I was in complete awe of A. seeing her actually physically there -- even though I have kicks and such, still, at times, it feels that being pregnant is all a dream, B. how big she is!, C. that I don't have a ton longer until I meet her! So, I got out of the tub and felt on my right side, and it was rock hard. Then I thought about it and I never feel her kick out of my right side. Rose started getting hiccups this week (that I noticed) and I know she's head down, so I'm thinking she's head down facing out to my left and her little back is against my right side with her butt by my ribs and her legs wrapped around to my left side. It explains a lot of her movements now for me. Anyways, it was just really cool.

Onto 28 weeks!!