Scratch That

The real secret to terrible sleeping and back pain is a pregnancy pillow.

Thank Heavens for pregnancy pillows.

Pregnancy Secret # 1

Today marks 8 weeks of baby. It sure seems like this is the slowest thing to ever happen to me. March (gender reveal) seems to far away. August (due date) seems like an eternity away.

So far, pregnancy has not been good to me. I am nauseaus all the time, though I have only actually thrown up a hand full of times. I am tired all of the time. I am grumpy all of the time.

Right after I found out I was pregnant, I noticed that my hips and back were sore always. I talked to my doctor about it, who says that that's just my body (hips) preparing for child birth. I guess that's what happens when you are an almost 24 year old female with absolutely no curves.

(Also, I am already showing. How can I be already showing at 8 weeks, when the baby is only the size of a raspberry?? Must be another thing that happens when you are shaped like a boy.)

So it was making it hard to sleep. My doctor told me that if I slept with a pillow between my legs, that would help my back stay alligned at night, which would decrease the pain and soreness. Sure, why not?

It worked.

I still have a hard time sleeping sometimes, but I blame that mostly on Jaymeson and his ever annoying elbows in my back. 

Here's to 32 more weeks...



This is baby at 7 weeks.


 

Announcing...

Jayah is extra excited to announce the birth of a baby brother or sister next Summer!

Jayah has been asking for a baby sister for as long as her Dad and I have been together (coming up on 2 years). Although, we aren't entirely sure that we'll be able to fulfill that wish 100%, we've got a good start!

The news came on a Thursday night when I was just two days late for my period. It was a stressful day, with lots (and lots) of crazy things happening. Jaymeson had mentioned his worries about if I was pregnant, etc, and how knowing that I wasn't would relieve some stress.. So we decided to take a trip to the local Smith's to get a pregnancy test.

 (Can you tell this wasn't planned?)

At Smith's, all the pregnancy tests were locked up in their own individual boxes, so we had to have a sales associates unlock the box for us. It took him probably 4-6 minutes to figure out how to do it. Then we bought it and headed home. The whole way home, I was reading online about the best time/way to take a pregnancy test. Jaymeson wanted me to take it right away, but I wanted to wait until morning, or until I was 7 days late, or any other time so I didn't have to face a "no" on the test.

I pretty much refused to take the test until the morning, so Jaymeson went to bed, and I couldn't handle it anymore. I took the test and saw this...

I sat there for a minute, texted this picture to my friend Sarah, and panicked. I have been baby hungry for quite some time, but I never actually thought it would happen so soon. I wandered around the house for a few minutes thinking of how to tell Jaymeson. I have always imagined the cutest ways to tell my husband that I was pregnant, so I wanted to plan something super cute. That lasted for a few minutes (I have no self control.) before I laid down next to Jaymeson and tapped him on the forehead to wake him up. I dropped the test down in front him. He looked at it and said "What?" and then "Why are there two lines?" and then held me until we both fell asleep.

I woke up in the morning, while it was still dark, to kisses all over my face from Jaymeson and then he left for work. We didn't get to talk all day, but when he came home he was very happy. He was super excited about our news, and he even told all of his work buddies. I, on the other hand, had turned into a worry wart. I have since, somewhat, warmed up to the idea, but I am still super nervous. I don't know if I am quite ready for this!

I am 6 weeks along, and so far pregnancy has made me one, mean Mama! I am tired (all of the time), hungry (all of the time), although nothing tastes or sounds good, and grumpy (all of the time.) Who came up with this pregnancy thing anyways!? 

We had our first appointment a few days ago, where they took SEVEN viles of blood from me. We did some other normal tests, and then we did an ultrasound.

Normally they don't do ultrasounds that early in the process, but I was having some pain in my left side so they were concerned about the location of the pregnancy. (Ectopic Pregnancy) The ultrasound found my uterus with a teeny, tiny baby in it right away. Thank goodness!

So all is well and Jaymeson and I are in the process of looking for a house to fit our new addition, and I am praying every day that I don't get fat.