The last time I updated I had just ended my first trimester and it was the end of July. I am now 26 weeks and will be starting my third trimester next Friday, it is amazing how fast time flies! I have to say that I feel so incredibly blessed to have had an easy pregnancy! As soon as I hit the 15/16 week mark all my energy came back, my nausea was gone and I have felt great. I had a pretty bad experience with some acid reflux/heartburn problems at 13 weeks and made it about 5 days before I had to call my doctor. I had this awful empty feeling in my stomach. It felt like I was starving and I would eat all the time and it would never go away. I had tried tums, pepcid, changing my diet and nothing was helping. My doc called in some medicine called Protonix and it did the trick!!! I take it everyday and have had NO more acid reflux/heartburn! Knock wood! If you are pregnant and struggling with this ask your doctor about this little miracle pill!! When I went back to work I had some back pain, but I think it was mostly from having to get used to being on my feet all day again after being off all summer. After about 3 weeks it was gone as well.
Now onto the fun part.....pink or blue??? At 14 weeks my friend Lindsay asked if I could come in and be her guinea pig since she was learning to do ultrasounds. She could practice and I got to see my sweet baby for free! Win, win for both of us! When we started the lady that was training Lindsay said that they could probably determine gender if I was interested. I hated to find out cause Rod wasn't with me. but called him and he was okay with it. So that afternoon we were told that they were about 85% sure that we were having a little boy, I wasn't surprised one bit! I had this feeling from the beginning that it was a boy! Again they told us that they weren't 100% sure but in my mind I was. We immediately started looking at boy names and stuff for a boy nursery. Then........we went into my doctor for my 18 week ultrasound and I didn't mention to her that we had had a previous ultrasound that had determined sex. She did all the basics and then told us that she could tell us if it was a boy or girl if we were interested. We said okay and I was fully expecting to hear the word boy, when she uttered the word's "You're having a baby GIRL" I think I was so shocked that I almost jumped off the table!!! I couldn't believe it, I think she thought I was nuts cause I kept saying.... "Are you kidding me?" "No way", "You're joking". I then told her our story of our previous ultrasound and even showed her the picture and then she realized why I was in such shock!! By looking at the picture she said that she could see why they would think it was a boy, BUT.......it was just too early to tell. So we got a pleasant surprise that afternoon. I was elated cause I of course am a girly girl and love all that kind of stuff. I think Rod was a little disappointed at first, but is so excited now!
So here are a few belly pics (actually the only ones that I have, sad but true)
11 weeks....
14 weeks....
That's all for the pregnancy updates. Hopefully I will update soon about changes at work and nursery progress!!
