Morning sickness

25 weeks in and I just had my first bout of morning sickness.  I know I am a lucky duck! But boy did it suck waking up this morning!  I am pretty sure it was my very delicious lunch I had yesterday... a trip to Sweet Tomatoes.  Baby doesn't like vegetables. He keeps trying to tell me that... and I just don't listen! OK kid... I heard you loud and clear this morning! No more salads for lunch... at least not for the next 3 mos! :)

Update.... looks like it is more than just morning sickness. I tried to go to work. I forced myself to work half a day and then I thought I was going to die. Came home and hugged the john again and then slept til 5. So it looks like I have some sort of virus or bug or something. Wonderful. Just what I need.

25 weeks

15 weeks left or 105 days!  Holy Moly!  Baby now weighs over a pound and a half!  According to my picture I grew a lot this past week... no wonder I was gaining weight like crazy last week!  Maybe I should start cropping my head out of these pictures... because I look like hell! All that nesting I did today took a toll! lol 

For fun here is my picture this week and a last week for comparison! :)

24 weeks

25weeks

Nursery developments

We picked up our crib this weekend! Hooray! We had a hard time getting it into the nursery and my poor husband... even though it was past his bedtime... took it all apart and moved it into the nursery, piece by piece and then put it back together for me! :) AND he moved furniture around for me too! All because he knew today is my day off and I was planning on doing some MAJOR nesting in there today. What a good hubby!

I spent 3 hours this morning reorganizing! We have been using our spare bedrooms as somewhat of a storage space. I almost have the baby's closet empty... just have a couple of things on the floor that I need to see what Ryan wants to do with. I also emptied that dresser in the corner which had blankets and sheets in it and reorganized our bathroom closet so everything would fit in there and the entryway closet so all the jackets we had in the nursery would fit in there! Whew! I am tired!  Oh yeah and I also placed the bassinet next to my side of the bed to see if it would fit and it looked so cute there I didn't want to move it back into the nursery! Lol

As you can see we have a crib, dresser,  a twin bed, bookshelf behind the door (there is a tiny nook there) and I don't know if you can see it but to the left is a swing. The only thing I have left is a changing table. It is going to go where the swing is and when the baby comes the swing will be in the living room.  I am thinking of ordering the changing table today... I saw on online that I really liked! :)  Then we will have all the big stuff that we need in there!  The next step is to figure out how to decorate those naked and empty walls!  Oh the excitement!  Guess I don't need to do it ALL today! Lol 

24 week appointment

Our doctor's apt. was interesting, but overall good.  Like I expected I gained quite a bit of weight since my last apt.! At my 20 week apt. I had gained a total of 6 pounds for the entire pregnancy... I have gained 6 pounds since then!  BUT that only puts me at a total of 12 pounds, which is in the normal range as far weight gain for 24 weeks, so the Dr. wasn't worried. Just told me not to gain 6 pounds every time she sees me! Lol

Baby looks healthy and happy and had a nice strong heartbeat!  BUT according to my ultrasound I have a low lying placenta. The doctor wasn't terribly concerned because she said it was still early and most of the time your placenta will move up as time goes on and you grow. The good news is we get another ultrasound so they can check the placenta!  I was excited about that because it will be nice to see our little man before he comes out and it will be even nicer to verify 110% that he is a boy! :)  IF our next ultrasound shows that the placenta is still too low and hasn't moved then we will probably get one more ultrasound before the baby comes and if it still is in the way, then I will unfortunately have to have a C-section. :( Eeek!  If the placenta is in the way, it will block the cervix and the baby won't be able to come out. So.. fingers crossed it moves and yay for an extra ultrasound! :)




How far along?: 24 weeks



How big is baby?: The length of a corn and a pound and a half!


Weight gain/loss?:  12 pounds


Stretch marks?: None yet... Hope it stays that way! :) The Dr. told me that my skin looked really good today! I was all excited!


Maternity clothes?: Living in my maternity pants for work and dresses when I'm not working! But still mix and matching maternity and non maternity shirts.


Sleep?: I have my good nights and my bad nights... but overall still fairly decent.


Food cravings?: Raspberries and steak. I love fruit. I eat more than I need to everyday! Lol.  Raspberries for breakfast, bananas, peaches, blueberry muffins, cherries... you name it! Mmm....


Gender?: Boy


Movement?:  When 22 weeks hit... I started feeling him like CRAZY. I feel him every morning when I wake up, it is like he is doing flips in my stomach while I am laying there trying to wake up! There are days where I feel him a ton during the day and other days where I don't feel him very much, but it is starting to be more consistent.

Belly button: Still an innie and stretching a little larger than normal.


What are you looking forward to this week?: We get to pick up our crib this weekend and I am going to start some major nesting in the nursery!

Body Pillow Fail...

Yesterday I thought it was about time to start sleeping with a body pillow at night. I knew it was time because I started looking forward to Ryan getting up  that hour and half before I do, so I could steal his pillow and sleep with it! Lol  (poor guy!) So I went to bed with the stupid body pillow last night.

I felt like it took up the whole bed, but I was excited to use it. That dreaded thing... I had terrible nightmares ALL night long! I would wake up and go back to bed and the nightmare would continue right where it left off! I am sure it is was just a crazy pregnancy dream... but I woke up blaming it all on the evil body pillow! This morning when Ryan woke up I kicked the body pillow off the bed and went back to his pillow! :) And for the last hour and a half of my night I had dreams about kittens and puppies.  So there.  Maybe I will just sleep with an extra pillow instead of the body pillow tonight! Lol 

AND Tomorrow we go for our 24 week apt! I can't wait!!! I am soooo excited to hear our little one's heartbeat again!  It seems like this apt has taken forever to come because we usually go on Mondays and this time isn't until Friday! Although I am a little nervous because I feel like I have gained sooo much weight since my last apt! I think I was at like +7 pounds at my 20 week apt. and I know I have really popped since then, but I though I  would be plus +12 pounds, but the scale says I have gained another 2 pounds.... so maybe +14!!! Doubling my weight gain in 4 weeks! Lol

Soccer Ball?

I got my 24 week update email yesterday and it said that my uterus is the size of a soccer ball. As a soccer nut and coach it makes me wonder... What size soccer ball?  Is it is a little kid's size 3 soccer ball? Or my size, a size 5 soccer ball?  I wish they would specify... I'd like to know! :)  So if the baby is the size of a corn and my uterus is the size of some sort of soccer ball... no wonder I look the way I do! :)

24 weeks

Here is my 24 week shot... I look a lot bigger than I feel! Lol I saw this picture and I was like whoa, I am huge! But I still feel pretty small! Don't know if that is a good thing or not?! Compared to last week, I look pretty much the same... not real giant growth spurt or anything like my 22 week picture! I will do my 24 week stats on Friday after our apt. so I can get an accurate weight gain... my guess is 11 or 12 pounds.. but we shall see. I can't wait for our 24 week apt! The doctor should have gotten the report from the ultrasound tech from our ultrasound, so I am a little anxious to see what she has to say about that and I hope everything on our little man is growing as it should. Until then... me 24 weeks preggars with baby Wags:

Glorious Sleep!

Ok I guess I spoke to soon when I wrote a blog bitching about my lack of sleep!  I just woke up from 11 hours of glorious sleep! I did get up once... just once... at 7 to let the pooches out and pee... but I went right back to sleep after that and didn't get up until 10!   Amazing!  Now to try to be productive after sleeping in so late!

All Hands on Belly.......

I forgot to post these awhile back, but I thought they were too cute to not post! :) 

Me with my sister in laws over the July 4th weekend! They touched my belly the ENTIRE weekend! So this picture was pretty fitting.

And this one is me with my cousin/God daughter for my birthday! We had just flown in from Dallas, so I look kinda poopy. But she was rubbing my belling telling everyone that it was HER baby! She is in the "mine" stage, but I thought it was funny!

It is funny how much your belly becomes a hand magnet when you are pregnant! I definitely don't mind my family or even friends touching my belly... but other people... well that is another story! Luckily I have only had one non-family member touch my belly... and it was sooo freaking awkward! Lol  It was one of my work supervisors, he works for a different agency than I do, but the bosses take turns managing the center that I work at. He LOVES kids (apparently) and he always asks me all about my pregnancy whenever he sees me. He randomly came into the center the other day and when we said goodbye, he patted my stomach... I was like Whoa! I mean, what do you do? What do you say?  He is a supervisor, so I didn't want to be like, umm don't you go there Mr.! Lol   Oy!  I imagine it is only going to get worse, the larger I grow!

What trimester is this??

Sleep has not been a friend of mine... I thought that wasn't supposed to happen yet?!  During my first trimester, like clockwork I got up EVERY night for the first 10 weeks or so to pee at precisely 3:00 AM. That went away for a glorious 12 weeks and now it is back. :S   

It started when we were in Dallas for the 4th. I thought maybe it was just the different environment that I was sleeping in that caused the change and when we returned home so would my schedule. I was wrong. Also another thing that has joined in during this middle of the night wake up is waking up completely parched... like I just stepped out of the Sahara Desert! This morning at 3:00 in the morning I was soo thirsty that I HAD to get up and get a bottle of water... figured I might as well pee while I was awake. Then of course I have a hard time going back to sleep.

I guess this is good preparation for a newborn, but I thought that whole having a hard time sleeping and getting up to pee thing was coming full swing during the third trimester.... what will I be like then?

I know I shouldn't complain, I have been very blessed this entire pregnancy with feeling VERY good.  BUT, getting up at 3 or so to pee, being not all the way asleep when Ryan gets up at 4 something,  letting the stupid dogs out to pee at 5 or so and then getting up at 6.... makes for not very much sleep the last part of my night.   And that is all! :)

DayCare?

Today I called the two daycares in town. Yes, I realize I still have 4 months before this kid comes and 3 months of maternity leave... BUT this is a small town with only a handful of childcare places that tend to fill up fairly quickly, so I thought I'd get a head start!

The thought of sending my child to daycare kind of stinks. I NEVER went to daycare and neither did Ryan.  His mom was a stay at home mommy and I was fortunate enough to live in the same town as my wonderful grandparents who watched me until I went to school. Unfortunately, we live in a town where we don't have any family. We have made some amazing friends here, but pretty much all of them work. And while I could feasibly stay home and not work... I have worked very hard at my career and after 8 years of working for the federal government, I JUST became a permanent employee this past February (ironically the same week we found out we were expecting!). I would hate to throw that away, I LOVE my job and federal jobs are VERY hard to come by.  So right now daycare is the best option for us. 

My boss has said I can bring my baby to the visitor center I work at. Which would mean I would only need daycare/childcare for 2 days a week... which makes the idea of sending our baby to daycare a bit easier! I am not sure how long I can handle bringing my baby to work, but I figure the first 3 months or so (before he starts moving around a lot) it will work out just fine. And because Ryan and I don't have the same schedule, even at the worst we would only need daycare 4 days a week instead of 5.

Any who, I called and compared 2 daycares today. I REALLY liked the first one, the lady was very nice and personable, they are VERY close to my office and super duper reasonable. The second place I called it sounded like every single kid in the entire daycare was crying or screaming! Umm... yeah that is definitely not a good sign! Lol   I mean I know we are going to have to go look at the place and meet the people before we make a decision... but based on first impressions over the phone... I would have to go with the place where the children weren't screaming bloody murder in the background!  I am waiting for a call back from the first place, because they have a waiting list, but the girl I talked to didn't know how long it was. Hopefully 7 months in advance will be enough time to make the cut! I am actually kind of nervous! I hope they call me soon!

Dance, Dance, Dance!

Last summer I started going to Zumba classes. I LOVED Zumba and went until I was about 8 or so weeks pregnant. Then I had that wonderful pregnancy symptom of sore hurting boobs and all the jumping about made me cringe. So I took a break. And you know what happens when you take a break from exercising.... it is soo hard to go back! It was also my soccer season, so I was quite busy, coaching, but after that was over I was scared to go back to Zumba because I didn't know if it would be too much for me. I continued to walk on the treadmill almost everyday, but that doesn't quite get your heart rate up like Zumba or soccer does!  My friend Caryn has continued to go to Zumba and I had a conversation with her a couple weeks ago and realized how much I missed Zumba.  I got the courage to try and go again two weeks ago... and I didn't die like I had expected! Lol.   Last week I took a break because we were on vacation, but I went back again this week!

I think I will continue to go once a week... I know it isn't a lot, but their times don't really mesh well with my work schedule, except for Mondays which is my day off!  I LOVE how I feel after Zumba and I have soo much fun dancing. Although, I am a little paranoid about what all the other ladies think of the big ole pregnant lady shaking her booty in the front row! Lol

Also, you can't read the shirt below, but I just got it from my old dance teacher. I danced from 3rd grade until I was a senior in high school, doing everything from, tap, jazz, ballet to country western clogging.... my favorite! :) I think I am one of the first of my dance teacher's students to have a baby. She was very excited when she found out that I was expecting! She went online and found a shirt that her mother had gotten her when she was pregnant. It says, "I should have danced all night!"  Lol. I wore it to Zumba today. I didn't know anyone there, so nobody said anything about it. Although, I did get a lot of stares, but that is pretty typical since I have a big ole belly anyway!

23 weeks

I think I need to clean my mirror! Lol  Here is my 23 week shot! I was nervous that I would have grown a bunch from last week... but I look about the same, just a bit rounder! I feel like I've gained a lot and feel a lot bigger.... but the pictures don't lie! Lol 

This week the baby has hit the 1 pound mark! While momma has hit like the 11 or 12 pound mark! Ha!  I have been feeling my little man wiggle a LOT! I love feeling him move! My favorite time is the morning when I wake up. He seems to just be moving all around in the morning and I love just laying there feeling him!

We go for our next ob appointment next Friday, which I am excited about. The Dr. should have all the information from our ultrasound so it will be interesting to hear what she has to say. I think I only have one more 4 week apt. with her and then I start going every 2 weeks... already! I can't believe how fast this is going!

Here's the Kicker...

I swear once I hit 22 weeks it was like all of a sudden I could feel the baby A LOT. Maybe he hit a growth spurt, bulked up some or just changed positions, but whatever it is I love it! :)  I still feel him more during the morning when I am waking up, but it seems like I can feel him a lot more now. And last night I felt him kick from the outside! It was the first time I have ever felt him kick from the outside!  I can't wait to start feeling him more and for Ryan and our family to feel him to!

Mile Marker for baby Waggoner : 22 weeks... first kick felt from the outside! :)

And We Have a CRIB!

Well, not quite yet... but the process has started! My fabulous Aunt and Uncle didn't need their crib anymore for our beautiful God-Daughter, Bella because she now has a big girl bed. My mom worked out a deal with them and we will soon have a very nice Baby Appleseed Davenport crib in our nursery!  Not to mention all the other things they are giving us that they no longer need for Bella, we are very lucky to have such amazing family and friends willing to give us anything that they can for our little bundle!

22 weeks

I think it safe to say I grew a lot this week. I wonder how large I will end up... it is a scary thought, actually! Lol

For Fun... here is last week's picture and then this week's picture so you can laugh with me how much I grew in one week! :)

26th Birthday

I woke up on the morning of my 26th birthday to a baby wiggling and squirming within my belly. If that isn't the best birthday present I could have ever asked for, then I don't know what is! :)  Of course reality set in quickly when the dogs had to be let out and I realized one of them... or both had peed a river in our laundry room and the cat also had an accident! Lol.... Happy Birthday from the animals!

I had the best birthday weekend. We went to Dallas to visit Ryan's dad, step mom and sisters. I got some great outlet shopping done... at the Coach store! :) Got myself a birthday present purse and a diaper bag that was 80% off! :)  Score one for me! I ended up with 2 purses (one for my mom for her birthday next month) and the baby bag, all for the price of one bag from the Coach online store! :)   I got treated to an amazing pedicure... since it is getting harder and harder to reach my toes by the day!

I am pretty sure my belly has never been touched as much as it was this weekend. My sister in laws were ALL over this belly!  I got poked and prodded and kissed... you name it. But perhaps the cutest thing was the girls talking to the baby. Rebecca started it by going up to my stomach and introducing herself. She said, "Hi baby, I am your Aunt Becca and i am your favorite Aunt" Of course Katie couldn't let that slide so she ran over and said, "No I am your favorite Aunt and I am your Aunt Katie!" Lol That went on all weekend and I thought it was hilarious! :)

I am soo glad that we got to see the girls and that they got to see me pregnant... it is like part of the process of creating their little nephew and I love how much they already love him! :) I have a bunch of pictures... but still need to upload them and go through them!  And I still need to take my belly shot for the week... Guess I will be back later!