15 Weeks

 

April 11th-April 17th

How far along? 15 weeks 2 days

Total weight gain/loss: Total weight gain at 4 months is 7lbs, doc said I am doing good at staying on track.

Maternity Clothes: A mixture, I wear all of my normal tops, but I love my maternity capris.

Stretch Marks: No new ones, although I can tell these are already becoming more prominent again. Using some new body butter that my sister and law made, its fabulous

Sleep: Off and on

Best Moment of the week: I had my first flutter and it brought back all of the memories of when Jayden was in my tummy. I love this part of growing a baby. Plus I got my very first iphone, I am so excited to be able to capture the little moments I was missing before with Jayden and with the new baby when it arrives.

Have you told family and friends: Yes the entire world knows now.

Miss Anything: Sleep

Movement: Yup little flutter.

Food Cravings: Cereal; and chocolate milk. Not together but I could eat and drink them all day long.

Anything making you queasy or sick: Nope

Have you started to show yet: Yes

Gender prediction: Little Boy; although everyone in our life besides us thinks its going to be a girl.

Labor Signs: Nope

Belly button in or out: In and hoping it stays that way.

Happy or Moody most of the time: This week I have been pretty happy, but had a moment after the horrific events in Boston and I kind of just lost it. It really wasn't a good night for this hormonal mommy.  

Looking forward to: Being done with my Masters in a little over 2 weeks and getting to celebrate my graduation and gender reveal party with our family and friends. And MOVING WOOO HOOO, we have our date set to move to another apartment but its just for a short time while we try and find what will become our dream home :).

Daddy/Big Brother Moment: Just the little things that the boys do. Hearing them talk about the new addition. Jayden literally is so thrilled and tells everyone he comes into contact with. And Eric well he just is constantly talking about what the next on is going to be like and whether he/she will be like Jayden or what attributes he/she will get from each of us.

 

 

Family Fun for the week. When its nice I like to get my run in and jog to Jayden's school that is about a mile away and then we run home. This week it was 90 on Monday and Tuesday so it was perfect opportunity. Wed. we got to go to the Mavs game with some students from my school and Jayden had a blast, he loves basketball and has never been to a game. Saturday we had to get up extra early for Jay's last soccer game of the season. Him and daddy practicing it was soooo cold.

 

14 Weeks

Ok sooooo with the whirlwind of specialist appointments, emotions, excitement and everything else we didn't take a week 13 picture. However not a lot changed last week EXCEPT that we were overjoyed with the good news from the doctor, announcing our pregnancy to the rest of our friends and family and just over all excitement FINALLY!!! I will say the one consistency through this entire thing has been my rock; my other half. No matter how many times I wavered, was questioning the what if's and the negative aspects; Eric always stayed positive. Telling me to keep the faith and the positive thoughts, there wasn't room for the negative to be there. Even on my toughest days him just telling me to think positive helped. I am so thankful and blessed that I have a man who is already an amazing father to Jayden, but one who supports me and stands behind me.

 

14 Weeks 4 days

 

 

Ok so this picture shows absolutely no justice on how I feel. Clearly you can tell by the no make-up, hair up kind of day. I am sure my kids thought I looked horrible today. I know that they say the second one starts to show more. But today I just felt huge, I mean I felt uncomfortable, like I could literally feel my stomach stretching and it wasn't a good feeling. I feel like by the end I might be 2x the size I was with Jayden lol. However I know that the little nugget is getting bigger, so it makes it all worth it.

 

 

How far along? 14 weeks 4 days

Total weight gain/loss: Luckily I have stayed around the same weight I am only up 3 lbs

Maternity Clothes: A mixture, I wear all of my normal tops, but I love my maternity capris. All of my other pants have just gotten uncomfortable.

Stretch Marks: No new ones, although I can tell these are already becoming more prominent again. So I am lathering on the cocoa butter.

Sleep: Most nights I toss and turn, ready to get the new bed (see below).

Best Moment of the week: Finding out the exciting news that everything was a ok with the baby. The other moment was being able to happily share with the world our excitement and post our announcement pictures that I have been dying to post.

Another wonderful moment was getting to spend the weekend with my sister from another mother Alexis and getting to meet my nephew for the first time. I loved spending the weekend with them, and def. got my baby fix. Brought me to reality really quick (like I can't believe this is going to be us again :) soon.) We also had brunch with some wonderful family and friends and then had Sunday dinner with Eric's family and I got more of a baby fix with our niece.

Oh and I forgot (pregnancy brain) it was so great after our appt on Thursday we got done in time to enjoy a nice lunch together, went shopping for and found some new king size mattresses AND we got to go to Jayden's school to see him test for his next belt in Karate the tiger belt. He loves doing Karate at school and it is so awesome to see all of things he learns. Most of the time I am in school still and don't ever get to watch his tests. He even got up on his own and did one of the patterns all by himself with no help from the instructor. It was a proud mommy and daddy moment.

Have you told family and friends: Yes the entire world knows now.

Miss Anything: Sleep

Movement: Not yet but my dr. did ask me at my appointment on Friday if I had felt any flutters. Right now I can't tell if its a flutter or my stomach. But I can't wait until the day I can.

Food Cravings: Cereal; seriously if you ask the boys all I want to eat are bowls of cereal and I change all of the time with what kind. My sweet tooth continues as well but I am continuing to drink my Shakeology to help with that craving.

Anything making you queasy or sick: Nope

Have you started to show yet: Yes more than what I thought I should be, but I guess that my uterus and stomach all to well remember the feeling of growing.

Gender prediction: Little Boy; although everyone in our life besides us thinks its going to be a girl.

Labor Signs: Nope

Belly button in or out: In and hoping it stays that way.

Happy or Moody most of the time: This week I have been nothing but happy. I am just so thankful for all of the prayer warriors, family and friends that we have. We seriously couldn't ask for a great support group.

Looking forward to: Our upcoming drs appointments AND come May we are having a party to celebrate my Masters Graduation and a Gender Reveal. I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!! and most of all I am looking forward to MOVING. Right now we stay in a 1 bedroom apartment and I cannot wait until June 1st when we can finally move into our house. I am so ready to decorate, nest, and sleep on the NEW MATTRESSES we just bought. While they are sitting in the warehouse, I can still be super excited. Especially since they have this AMAZING cooling effect that adapts to your body heat. Which is going to be perfect for this pregnant woman during the hot Texas heat. Lastly I am finally switching over to the world of Apple and come Friday I will officially be an owner of an iPhone (can we say FINALLY)!!!!

Daddy/Big Brother Moment: This week is really full of a lot of them. The excitement on Eric's face after we announced it to our friends on facebook and all of the notification statues. Also seeing how he is with our baby niece reminds me of how we was with Jayden. It truly melts my heart, she loves her Uncle Eric and if he is in the room no one else matters. With Jayden he was so so proud to take our sonogram picture to school as show n tell on Friday and tell all of his friends. He cannot wait until he is a big brother and constantly tells me how long we have left, plus seeing him with all of his baby cousins; I know he is going to be a great big helper.

 

 

Jayden breaking the board orange board with his bare hand. You have to hit it at a force of 40lbs he broke it on the first try. This was the second one he broke.

 



Weeks 8-12

So because the past couple of weeks have been; well hectic to say the least. You just get a timeline of photos. Enjoy!!!

Some of our wonderful announcement pictures that we took!!!



Week 8

 Feb 21st-Feb 27th

Size of Rasberry

 

9 Weeks

Feb 28th - March 6th

Size of Olive

 

10 Weeks in Sunny Calif

March 7th - March 13th

Size of Prune

 

11 Weeks

March 14th - March 20th

Size of Lime

 

12 Weeks

March 21st - March 27th

Size of Peach

 

Weeks 5-7

So because this was not around when I had Jayden, I decided that I def. wanted to blog my experience being pregnant. However as we all know life has gotten in the way of making this oh so easy. I started secretly blogging each week, however as things got crazy, the blogging stopped but the pictures continued. So I will do a brief run through of weeks 5-14 and from this point forward will blog each week.

Baby T is the size of a Appleseed. .04oz and 2-4 mm long

February 3, 2013

How far along? 5 weeks, 4 days
Total weight gain/loss: Same
Maternity clothes? None yet
Stretch marks? No new ones but lathering up on the coca butter this time
Sleep: I go to be Early and am up early every morning anywhere from 3-5AM
Best moment this week: Finding out the news we were pregnant and telling our close family
Have you told family and friends: Not all but some
Miss Anything? Wine and liquor, my students have really been testing my patience lately and it would be nice to come home and grab a glass of wine. But none for this bambino.
Movement: Not yet
Food cravings: Apple Pie and Ice Cream and Chipotle
Anything making you queasy or sick: Nothing yet hope it stays that way
Have you started to show yet: Nope not yet, but I hear the second time around you start showing much earlier.
Gender prediction: Boy
Labor Signs: No
Belly Button in or out? In
Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy, had one melt down this week when the doctor informed me my progesterone levels were low. This really shook me up because I know low progesterone can cause miscarriages. I have started taking 200mg of progesterone and go back in Monday for more blood work, hoping they have good news that it has been elevated.
Looking forward to: Our first sonogram appointment and listening to the heartbeat in 2 weeks. I am also really looking forward to getting to enjoy this pregnancy from start to finish all of the little things I feel like I missed out on with Jayden; maternity pictures, nursery and just enjoying every moment. Last time was a little stressful understandably and so here’s to hoping this one is a breeze. I am also excited to blog my progress with this one and to start planning a NURSERY.

Daddy/Big Brother Moment: It has been so amazing to see the transformation Eric has made. He is already so protective of Jayden so to see him now with the new baby is priceless. The territorial issues have already begun; the “You can’t do this, or You can ‘t do that” it makes my heart melt. He also comes over a lot to touch my stomach and tell me to feed HIS baby. Jayden just can’t stop talking about when his new baby is going to get here. He is bursting with joy.  We aren’t really telling a whole lot of people right now so he knows it is a secret and feels so special for that, but he keeps telling us he can’t wait to tell his friends and his teachers at school

 

 

Baby T is the size of a Small Pea  .04oz and .25 inches long

Ok so this week with the race and everything we didn’t take our normal picture. But I did go to dinner with my girlfriends so you get a cute picture and of course my race picture.

February 7, 2013

How far along?  6 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: Same
Maternity clothes? None yet
Stretch marks? No new ones but lathering up on the coca butter this time
Sleep: I go to bed Early and am up early every morning anywhere from 3-5AM
Best moment this week: Running and finishing the 15k I had been preparing for in under 2 hours.
Have you told family and friends: Not all but some
Miss Anything? Going to dinner with my girlfriends this week at my favorite Mexican restaurant it was hard with everyone else having a margarita but the food was delicious and I had a virgin strawberry daiquiri so at least I could pretend.
Movement: Not yet
Food cravings: Steak we had it twice this week. It didn’t help that after my race I felt like I hadn’t ate all day. I just wanted to keep eating it.
Anything making you queasy or sick: Nothing yet
Have you started to show yet: Nope not yet, but I hear the second time around you start showing much earlier.
Gender prediction: Boy
Labor Signs: No
Belly Button in or out? In
Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy got all of my blood work back and things were great everything was back up to the levels they needed to.

Looking forward to: Our first sonogram and announcing to all of our friends and family that we are expecting

Daddy/Big Brother Moment: Eric is constantly asking how “child is doing” and making sure things are ok. He is always checking up on me. Jayden is now on this kick when we talk about names he says “how about we name OUR child” lol. It’s so funny to listen to him talk about how he’s going to do this or that with the baby.

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Baby T is the size of a blueberry .04 oz and .51in

February 16, 2013

How far along? 7 weeks, 2 days
Total weight gain/loss: 2 lbs
Maternity clothes? I broke down and bought a pair of maternity dress pants and a belly band. I know they say the second one comes on quicker but REALLY, already. I have noticed that I wear all of my jeans rather tight and I am down to one pair that feels comfortable and I have been rubber banding those. I will say I didn’t buy maternity pants when I was pregnant with Jayden and man was I missing out these things are SUPER comfortable.
Stretch marks? No new ones but lathering up on the coca butter this time
Sleep: I go to bed Early and am up early every morning anywhere from 3-5AM
Best moment this week: GETTING TO SEE BABY TAYLOR FOR THE FIRST TIME!!! Spending Valentine’s Day with my boys at soccer practice and getting to spend all of Saturday with my niece. We played and she took a nap on my chest. I can’t wait to do this all over again. We also took our announcement picture this week and it was so so fun.
Have you told family and friends: Not all but some
Miss Anything? Nothing really this week except my sleep
Movement: Not yet
Food cravings: Pasta and anything sweet, sour patch kids or any other kind of sweet candy.
Anything making you queasy or sick: This week has been a little rough I have started to get evening sickness and haven’t really felt like eating dinner at all. Gotten sick a couple times and just felt all around nauseous most of the day. Hoping this goes quickly
Have you started to show yet: You can see a little bit of a pouch but nothing serious. I did have someone ask me if I was pregnant and I am hoping it was just because I had my hand on my stomach and was rubbing it (not knowing I was doing it.
Gender prediction: Boy
Labor Signs: No
Belly Button in or out? In
Happy or Moody most of the time: Been really happy up until Saturday. I started having some spotting. Now I know that this is normal so I wasn’t too concerned.  So Monday was President’s Day and we had professional development I decided to go ahead and call the dr. because it was still there. They wanted me to come in as soon as possible so they could check things out. Everything looked ok but he wanted to go ahead and do a sonogram to make sure. So we got to see the Baby for the first time which was sooooooo exciting. Of course I started crying the minute he pulled it up on the screen and when we heard the heartbeat. I can’t believe that there is another little being growing inside of me and I am super excited to go through this journey again. However while he was doing the sonogram, the dr. indicated that there is the possibility that I was having TWINS ahhhhhh. We will no more next week at our next appointment

Looking forward to: Our next appointment on Monday to find out whether or not we are expecting one bambino or two.

Daddy/Big Brother Moment: Eric was definitely excited to see the baby when we were at the drs office and he seems to think that the dr is right and we are having TWINS. It was so cute when I came home from work later that day he said what’d you do with my babies picture. He is already so protective of Jayden its cute to see him that way with the baby too.

Changes

So in life there are changes and with changes we have to adapt. At the end of January, Eric and I found out that we were expecting our second child. Since then it has been a whirl wind of emotions. I can honestly say that with Jayden I had one of the easiest pregnancies; from beginning until darn near the end. This one has been anything but; the only thing that has been consistent is that the nauseous and morning sickness. With either one of my chitlins I have yet to really experience that oh so not fun symptom.

However with the newest addition in a span of 3 months we have had at least a dozen Dr's. appointments and about as many sonograms. For those of you that don't know THAT'S NOT NORMAL. With normal pregnancies, you have an appt at your 8 week mark and then not again until like 12-15 weeks. So our first appointment was just me going in for routine blood work to confirm our 3 at home tests. Well when those results came back they showed that my progesterone levels were low. This is the hormone that's produced to strengthen the uterus to carry a baby to full term. So already I had high anxiety. So my Dr. put me on progesterone pills and I have been taking them ever since; my numbers elevated immediately and have continued to stay high (phew)!

So at our first actual prenatal checkup my doctor noticed that I had something unusual going on with my uterus and it was something that concerned him. So to keep an eye on it he had us come back 2 weeks later. The good thing about all of this, is that we have gotten to see pics of our little person almost every week if not every other week and that is not something that I got to do with Jayden (so I have def gotten spoiled at seeing the child and get disappointed when we don't have a sono, which has been very very rare.) They determined I have what is called a sepetated uterus; which in lamens terms just means scar tissue. But it connects from the top to the bottom, so it separates it into two spaces.

So at some point (forgive me it has all been a blur and of course I am claiming pregnancy brain) he decided he wanted to send us to a maternal and fetal specialist to check things out and make sure that it wasn't going to cause any problems. So on March 15th the Friday of my spring break we went and saw the specialist (and we had Jayden with us.) Let me just say that the specialist we saw was absolutely horrible. In fact that word doesn't even describe what I think about her. So to start off she tells me that the sepetated uterus will not cause any problems and will basically move out of the way. But then she goes on to say that she believes there are some developmental problems and she believes the baby has a chromosomal issues and that she thinks that the baby has something called Trisomomy 13. She then proceeds to tell me in so many not nice words that there is no hope for our child (remember Jayden was with us.) So to determine for sure if anything was truly wrong, we did the blood work to check for chromosomal abnormalities (so basically this Dr. just told us all of this horrifying news, off a whim and something she thought she saw mind you I was only 10 weeks when she was looking at the sonogram). So as I tried to hold it together and not start hyperventilating (I was already crying), we left the Dr's office, with nothing but broken hearts and no information.

The next 2 weeks were a blur for me, I did my best to continue to stay positive and wait for any news of what the future would hold. We asked all of our friends and family that knew to send as many prayer warriors that they could and I put all trust I had into our Savior (which is something I can honestly say I had been struggling with.) In my heart I honestly did not think that there was anything wrong with my child; it was just a gut feeling I had. However, this lady had literally put the fear of hell into my system and it wasn't something I could shake. So on Wed. March 27th, we still hadn't heard anything from the nurse and I couldn't take it anymore; so I called. It was the most amazing phone call I had ever received. She confirmed what I had already known; all tests results came back NEGATIVE. I cannot tell you how relieved, jubilant, amazing and any other breathtaking emotion that I felt. Of course I immediately started crying and just let out a huge sigh. I then asked if I could call Eric so she could tell him as well. It was the first time since we had found out that I had ever felt so excited. She wanted us to keep our follow-up appointment (which had already been decided was with a different doctor).

So today on April 4th, we met with our new specialist and he was absolutely wonderful. Her mere voice was comforting to hear. He was so empathic (unlike the previous), and out of his own mouth, said that if he didn't know our history he would say he was looking at a healthy baby. He saw no cause for concern, nor had any bad news. He does want us to see him one more time at around 20 weeks and have a routine checkup with the cardiologist just to ensure there is nothing structurally wrong. If all goes well, we do not have to go see him anymore and can just see our regular OBGYN. We discussed with him our concerns about his partner and he was mortified and assured us that it never should have happened. There are ways to be concerned and prepare yourself for the worst, but a patient should never be told something unless it was definitive. He encouraged us to write a letter to their practice manager addressing our concerns (which I will be doing.) So today at exactly 14 weeks pregnant we could proudly exclaim to the rest of the world how SUPER excited our whole family is. I cannot wait to begin this new journey with my boys and am loving where it is taking us.