Oh baby, baby

I just updated about the second trimester, but I feel like the pregnancy has progressed so much in the past couple weeks that I already need to update again. That, or I'm just bored. Either way, you're getting another pregnancy bullet list.

Photo cred to Jenna Duty. She's just a master.

+ Insomnia. Come on! I read about this in one of my many pregnancy books last pregnancy, but it was NOT and issue. This time it's different. At least I can sleep in this time around. But it sucks. Nathan passes out around 11 and I lay awake for hours. Or I fall asleep then get up to pee and can't fall back asleep. It's not even that my brain is going crazy or I'm anxious or anything. I'm just WIDE AWAKE. Then tired all day.

+ She moves, moves, moves all day! Makes me wonder when she sleeps, haha. Now she's so big that my entire stomach moves all around and I'm often lopsided, and I love it. I swear she has tripled in size the last couple weeks.

+ Got some of my first, real Braxton hicks. I never had any with Madelyn. I heard you don't often feel them in your first pregnancy. I totally freaked myself out about them and was convinced I was continuing to have them after they stopped and I made Nathan lay by me and feel my stomach every minute to see if it was tightening and texted with my sister to calm me down. Hey. I have a right to be paranoid! Pre term labor is the last thing I need. No worries though. I think I had 2 or 3 real ones and everything else was her moving and me convincing myself my uterus was contracting. 

+ I am so freaking emotional. I think I said that in previous posts, but it's just gotten worse. I cry when I'm happy. I cry when I'm sad. I cry when I think something sad might happen. I cry at commercials. I cry at songs. I cry when my cat is home alone too long. I cry when I'm tired. I cry when I'm too hungry. I cry if someone asks me to do something. It's gotta stop. Last pregnancy I was really easily irritated. I guess this is better! 

+ Last pregnancy I had the worst hip pain from about 18 weeks on. It sucked. This pregnancy it's been so much better and I think I know the reason: squats. I do 130 squats (don't ask why I am set on that number) about 5-6 times a week as part of my work out. I have had hardly any hip pain. When I went to California I didn't work out once. Guess what came back? My hips burned like the fire of a thousand suns and no amount of stretching helped. When I came home I got back into my work outs and the pain is gone again. Squats save lives.

+ We got to have an ultrasound the other day! I will have them once a month until I deliver. Here are some awesome things we learned at the ultrasound.
- She is still definitely a girl. Check out that va-jay-jay!

- She is just as sassy as I thought. Kicking the technician over and over again.

      - She is super comfortable in there. This pregnancy I've noticed many, many times that I will feel a kick/punch at the same time on either side of my stomach. Or I'll feel her at my bladder and up at my ribs at the same time. Well the technician showed us that she was literally stretched across my stomach. Her head was at the right side of my rib cage, and her legs were stretched out with her feet near my left hip. Her hands were even behind her head. She was literally kicking back. It makes sense that I feel her in two places at once; she isn't balled up like most babies. The technician also laughed because she was laying on the placenta like it was her mattress. She is really enjoying life in there right now. She may never come out.

- The technician says it looks like she has a full head of hair! She said she would most likely come out with some luscious locks.

- She also said she has super chubby cheeks already. I love it! It's crazy to look at the 3d pictures from just 9 weeks ago and see how much she has already filled out. She's gonna be a chubster!! Yay!!

- She is measuring about 5-6 days ahead, which I don't mind at all. Come early little one! Just not too early.

+ At the end of the ultrasound we found out that one of the ventricles on her brain has a little more fluid than it probably should. This could mean a number of different things. It could also mean nothing at all and could just be normal variation. We are having some tests done and the doctor will monitor the fluid, but she seemed very positive that it was normal and we are feeling positive about any outcome we receive. Although, I had a major meltdown at first as I had some triggers and flashbacks to losing Madelyn. I cried a lot at first (shocker), but now feel very peaceful.

+ She definitely doesn't have a name anymore. We were pretty set on one name, and now we are back at square one. I'm very indecisive, haha. We have 3ish names we like. I think we might just wait until we meet her and choose then.

+ Pregnancy has made me sassy. I've always been a people pleaser. I'll just be honest- having people like me in important, so I usually approach situations in that manner. It's been different recently. I don't have time for annoying, rude, snarky, or passive aggressive people and comments. I tell it like it is. It's kind of liberating. 

+ Still hungry all the time. I've already gained more weight than I wanted to this pregnancy. Trying verrrry hard not to let it bother me.. Haha. 

+ She gets the hiccups at least once a day, but it's usually multiple times a day. It's pretty cute.

+ Being pregnant in the summer is wayyyy harder than being pregnant in the winter. I am so hot, all the freaking time!!!! I never want to go outside because I instantly start sweating. And finding cute maternity shorts that are long enough for garments has been nearly impossible.

+ She still has the cutest dang profile. Perfect lips and a little nose. I love it!

I am about 10ish weeks (maybe less!) away from meeting this little girl and I am so freaking excited. The biggest thing standing in our way right now is not knowing where we are going to live in a few months, haha. But even that isn't bothering me. Except that I really want to fold her cute little clothes and put them in her dresser. Hopefully soon!

Can't wait to meet you little lady!!