catching up!

apparently I missed posting an 18 and 19 week update! Man time flies when you are having fun super busy! Not much has changed symptom wise, craving wise, sleeping wise, headache wise, any kind of wise!

Tyler and I did our registry last Friday at babies-R-us and Target! There were a lot of things I didn't know much about so I just picked one or either scanned them all! It was fun to go around just looking at everything and imagining soon we'll have a little girl to use all this stuff for!

I was supposed to have my 20 week appointment and ultrasound today, but because of stupid insurance reasons it was rescheduled until next week! I was really looking forward to seeing her! I 1) wanted to make sure she was still a she and 2) haven't seen her in 5 weeks!

I'm thinking that I will book a 3D ultrasound for around 25-27 weeks? I'm not sure when I will get another ultrasound after this one so I want to plan it around that! Plus I would love to have a nice 3D or even 4D picture of her to put on our Christmas card this year!

Speaking of pictures I need to get our photographer booked for our delivery photos!

I also started feeling some movements right before 19 weeks! I have felt them before, but it wasn't consistent so I didn't claim it as actual movements. Lately I've been feeling them more and more. At first what I was feeling was like a hard, slow, rolling feeling when something was pressed against my belly and every now and then a bubbling feeling. Now I still get that hard, slow, rolling feeling but I am feeling more flutters and "popcorn popping" feelings. I'm assuming those are more of kicks and the other feeling is her actually rolling over or something. I know she rolls a lot because during our ultrasound at 12 weeks she was face down and then a few minutes later when I had to go back in for the second time she had rolled face up and then back face down.

 

 

Completely off topic of baby girl, but its been cooler around here and Halloween is like a week away and I'm soooo excited. Mostly because I am so ready to decorate for Christmas! I normally start putting up inside decorations on November 1st and then mid November I get my tree(s) and put them up and then weekend after Thanksgiving or the weekend before Thanksgiving i'll put up outside decorations. This year I just want to do it all now! I just want to savor this Christmas in every way so that by the time its over and the new year starts i'll be "ready" for it to end. Which is a good sign of I lived that Christmas up!

I may end up caving and putting up some small Christmas décor inside in the next few days! I just can't help it! Hopefully Tyler doesn't kill me and i'll be able to post pictures of the decorations :)

 

Roll on weekend!

17 weeks!

Totally slacking recently on updates and chalkboards! I originally planned to do one every week, but nobody warns you that when you are pregnant there is a whole new meaning to the word tired/exhaustion! I knew and heard "you will be tired" but I didn't exactly know what kind of tired they meant!

Anyway, on top of just being exhausted I've been so busy it seems! With working and the holidays coming up its going to fly by and it will be March before we know it! While I can't wait to meet miss Lakelyn I also want to cherish this time with just Tyler and our fur babies!

 

I mean this face melts my heart!

and this one was just so happy I let her lay with me on the couch! She never gets to get on the furniture!

 

How far along: 17 weeks, 6 days
Baby Growth: Lakelyn is about 5 inches and weighs about 5 ounces!

My Symptoms: I'm exhausted all the time! I mean I was told second trimester you would get all this energy back! Someone lied to me! I do have a little more energy than first trimester, but I still want to fall asleep by lunchtime and after work! I need like two naps a day!

 

I also have been getting heartburn. Well at least I suspect its heartburn. Its a burning sensation in my throat that lasts like 2 minutes and usually goes away. It comes and goes randomly and hasn't been anything all that bad.

 

Lower back soreness has definitely kicked in this week for sure! I feel like I need it cracked several times a day. I hate to see what it will be like when I'm really big!

Gender:  Little Girl!

Weight gain:  At my appointment on 9/29 I had gained my first 3 pounds! In TWO weeks! That was a lot harder to swallow than I had anticipated.

Maternity clothes: A pair of jeans every now and then, but mostly regular jeans with a hairband to keep them buttoned so it doesn't put much pressure on my belly. Leggings, sweats, pjs are my life!

Stretch marks: No

Belly button in or out: In

Sleep: It has been hit and miss. The headaches have been better and I haven't has quite as many, but some back soreness will have me tossing and turning some nights. I've also had a lot on my mind lately so that tends to be on my mind continuously which doesn't help.

Best moment this week: The couple of days of cold weather were amazing!

Worst moment this week: The ridiculously hot weather we've had today!

Miss anything:  Can't say that I do.

Movement: Still nothing. I mean I think I have felt baby girl roll a couple of times here and there, but I can't be sure that is what it was.

Cravings: Can't say that I have really had any. I mean I've been eating a lot more and my appetite has been pretty good lately, but I haven't had really any "OMG I NEED THAT RIGHT NOW" episodes. I have wanted some frootloops with marshmellows cereal, slimjims, Dr. Pepper, chocolate milkshakes, but I probably would have been ok if I didn't get it. OH there is one thing that I can say I really, really want, but I don't know if I'd classify it as a craving considering I want them ALLL the time even when I'm not pregnant and that is crablegs!! yumm!

Queasy or sick: Been feeling pretty good!

Wedding rings on or off: On

Looking forward to:  Our next ultrasound in 2 weeks!

Belly Pictures:  No chalkboard again this week..

 

Happy Hump Day!