28 WEEKS PREGNANT

I am 28 weeks and 4 days pregnant today. Officially in my 3rd (and last) trimester! I am getting bigger and bigger. Whenever I look at my stomach in the mirror it's hard to imagine how it could possibly grow anymore. The skin on my tummy already burns and itches because it it stretched to the max. My first shower is this Saturday and I am very excited. We are also having our 4D ultrasound on Monday and we are looking forward to that as well. I've been a little stressed trying to get everything ready for the baby. The crib and stuff has been on back order and I will feel much better when it's finally here. We had our carpets professionally cleaned today so they would be nice and clean and sterile for the baby (yeah, I'm a little OCD). I'm hoping to start sewing the curtains for the baby's room tomorrow (with my mother in law's help). Here is my belly shot for 28 weeks:

27 WEEKS PREGNANT!

I am 27 weeks and 4 days pregnant today! Holy cow! Just 2 more days and I will be in my 3rd trimester which is the last trimester of pregnancy. I can't believe we are almost to the final stretch! Not too much has changed this week. I am still growing and feeling a little uncomfortable as I try to sleep at night because of the heartburn and the big awkward belly. It's also getting more and more difficult for me to walk around a mall or grocery store for long periods of time because my back and feet start to hurt. Things are about to really get busy for us! My sister and step brother's graduations are coming up. Starting next week I will have to start seeing my doctor every other week instead of once a month. My first shower is in a week and a half. Our 4D ultrasound and my Rhogam shot is 2 days after my shower. The crib and stuff will be here any day now. I've still got to make the curtains for the baby's room, buy window blinds and etc. We are having our carpets professionally cleaned next week in preparation for the baby and we start birth classes in a few weeks and I will also need to start getting things ready to pack a hospital bag in the next several weeks and the list goes on!  Ahhhh, so much to do but I am super excited! Here is my belly shot for week 27 (yes, I'm getting huge!).

26 WEEKS PREGNANT!

I am 26 weeks and  4 days pregnant today! I have a lot to talk about this week. If you read my last blog then you know that I failed my 1 hour glucose test. So I had to go back to the doctor to take the 3 hour glucose test and I barely passed this time! When I took the 1 hour test they asked me what flavor glucose drink I wanted. Fruit punch, lemon, line, or orange. I chose the fruit punch and let me just say I don't suggest that flavor! I hated it! It didn't taste like fruit punch at all to me. It tasted like cold cough syrup with several table spoons of sugar in it. So when I went back for the 3 hour glucose test I chose the orange drink (which is the common glucose drink flavor that most doctors offices use). The orange drink was much better. Actually, I liked it for the most part. It's just a little difficult to drink something so sweet and cold that fast (they make you down it). I thought it would be hard to sit at the doctors office for 3 hours but it wasn't too bad. The worst part was fasting and feeling hungry the whole time. I spent the first hour on my cell phone talking to a friend and I passed my blood test that time. The second hour I walked around the hospital and went to the gift shop and ect. but I failed my blood test that hour because my sugar was too high. The nurse told me that I would have to pass in the third hour to be "in the clear". I spent the third hour playing on my cell phone and chatting on the phone with my mom. She told me that she was going to pray for me and that God was going to take care of my sugar and that I was going to pass this time and when they drew my blood again I DID PASS :)! My sugar dropped over 90 points in the last hour and they told me to go EAT! So I went to Northport Diner and ordered pot roast, okra, cabbage, and banana pudding! Yum!

I am starting to crave sweets (ironic since I was almost diagnosed with diabetes huh lol). Before I was pregnant I wasn't a big fan of sweets. I loved spicy, salty, and sour foods. I've never been a big dessert person. Well, that has changed! I usually have to have something sweet everyday now (although I try not to go overboard). I've been eating a lot of banana pudding and ice cream lately. I've also been wanting orange soda and candy. Bad, I know!

My belly has definitely grown more this week. It's starting to get a little difficult to shave my legs or paint my toenails. Also, the skin on my stomach hurts and itches! It's stretched so tight that I honestly don't know how it could possibly stretch anymore but I know it's gonna have to over the next 3 months. I'm still able to walk around and sit and bend over pretty easily but I have a lot of trouble when I lie down at night. It's difficult for me to roll from one side to another and it's also difficult for me to get up from a lying position which is a problem when you have to go to the bathroom 20 times a night (that's not an exaggeration).  As far as stretch marks go I have a few faint white stretch marks one each one of my hips but they aren't noticeable (yet) unless you are looking for them. Hopefully they don't get any worst. I am very fortunate that I don't have any across my belly so far (knock on wood).

We are still waiting on the crib and stuff to arrive but we did pick up the glider chair and ottoman for the nursery this past week. So far this chair is the only furniture we have in the nursery right now :(. Here is a pic of the new chair with part of the baby bedding draped over it.

Here is my belly shot for week 26.

25 WEEKS PREGNANT!

I am 25 weeks pregnant today! I am feeling ok other than a little back pain and some major major acid reflux! Hopefully I can talk my doc into writing me a prescription because the Tums just aren't cutting it anymore. My belly button disappeared this week haha! I spent 3 days in Mobile with my family. We got up early Saturday morning to go fishing. I had a belly button when we left the hotel that morning but when we returned later that evening I was getting dressed for dinner and noticed it was gone hahaha! I guess it has officially popped out but right now it is level with the rest of my belly so it just looks like I don't have a belly button hehe!

So yeah...that brings me to the fishing trip. Yes, I went deep sea fishing at 6 months pregnant. Actually I was over 6 months pregnant haha! I got some strange looks especially while I was waiting in line to get my salt water fishing license but I was a trooper and caught several fish including a small shark. Sure the shark got away as we were trying to put it in the boat but I still claim it haha! I'm not going to lie! It was a rough fishing trip. I did feel very nauseous on and off the whole time but I never officially got sick and then a huge down pour came. Luckily I had brought a poncho with me but all the rocking during the storm made me very queasy. Over all I had a great time though and I have to say I think I outdid the boys (my stepdad and stepbrother). They were pretty pitiful later that night after our fishing adventure but I was ready to shower go out to dinner or go the beach! Proof that women are tougher than men ;)!

Right now it is 11pm. I have to start fasting in an hour for my 3 hour sugar test tomorrow. I am not looking forward to it! Anyway...here is my 25 week belly shot...

24 WEEKS PREGNANT!

I am 24 weeks and 5 days pregnant today! I am leaving for Mobile in the morning so I've been busy packing which is why my blog is late. The most exciting thing that has happened this week is that we had another ultrasound to look at the baby's enlarged kidney and it is a normal size now! Yay for answered prayers! The baby bedding finally came in this week and it is absolutely beautiful! It's everything we hoped it would be! We are doing a vintage Peter Rabbit theme in the nursery and we had the bedding special made :)!

I am starting to get HUGE  haha! Or at least that's how I feel. I haven't been feeling that great this week either. Ever since the weather has gotten into the high 80s I've been getting sick again. I almost passed out at the dog groomer's the other day. I was dropping Skip off and it was soooo hot in that place. Anyways...to make a long embarrassing story short I had to lay down in the floor at the groomers and I ended up getting sick in the parking lot and in my car when I left. The sweet christian couple that owns the grooming place felt bad for me and didn't charge me for Skips cut this time which I thought was really sweet of them. Also, my hips and pelvis feel like the bones are breaking apart this week but I read that the hormone "relaxin" causes your joints to loosen as your body prepares for labor. Sooo it's all perfectly normal and part of the process I guess.

I had my sugar test Monday and failed it. I know alot of women who have failed it by a point or two but I failed it by 37 points and the nurse said it was really high. Now I have to go in for the 3 hour sugar test. Hopefully I pass this one because if I have gestational diabetes I wont be able to eat anything good for the next 3 months :(. Anyway....here is a pic of the baby bedding (and a little preview of what the nursery is gonna look like). The blue is alot lighter in person. It looks dark in the pic for some reason.

Here is my 24 week belly shot. I have to be honest...I look a lot bigger in person than in this pic. I love how slimming this black shirt is haha.