This week baby is 10.9 inches and 15. 2 ounces! We’re almost at a full pound!
The last couple weeks have brought marked growth to my baby bump and at the end of the day I’m often surprised at how big it’s suddenly gotten! I’ve finally started to surpass my pre-pregnancy weight and have gained about 1 pound.
Hello there! Another pregnancy update because we’re halfway there (20 weeks) and there’s been a lot of developments since my last update! I had my anatomy scan yesterday and what a drama. I was extremely nervous that something might be wrong or that they were going to tell me my baby wasn’t going to make it. I guess after 2 losses, I’m not expecting things to go right even as I fervently pray that they will. All of this stress manifested into an anxiety/panic attack as I showed up at the medical center for my appointment. I wasn’t expecting to, but I started bawling my eyes out in the car as I was driving into the parking garage. After a few more minutes in the car, I walked in but as I was handing my cards to the receptionist, I completely lost it again. I wish you could have seen the bewilderment on the receptionist’s face. I had completely fallen apart and there was nothing I could do to control it. She quickly ushered me out of the waiting area and I got a hold of Brady on the phone who thought I’d lost it because we’d lost him. It felt horrible to do that to my husband but between him and the sonographer, I was finally able calm down enough to get started. It took 2 separate scan sessions of 60 and 30 minutes to complete the scan but as far as I was told, everything is looking good. I’ll see my OB tomorrow and Brady will finally be able to come along for the first time so hopefully that appointment goes well.
I didn’t think I would do a pregnancy update more regularly than every 2 weeks but so much has happened in the last week that I felt like I would have forgotten it all by next week.
My birthday is coming up this weekend but since we’ll be spending it with family, I asked Brady for a day to the beach as a birthday present this year. Even though it’s cool outside, the beach is always a happy place and it was worth the 5 hours in the car. Rehoboth Beach is my favorite “local” beach and I’ve been going there since I was a kid.
We spent a couple hours wandering the beach and collecting cool shells before wandering through Rehoboth and the Penny Lane Mall.
Hello! Another pregnancy journal update since I’m now 17 weeks and 2 days! Things have been up and down as far as how I’ve been feeling but there’s been a general upward trend so I’m hoping that it’s something that continues!
The biggest update, in case you missed it, was that we found out last week that we’re expecting a boy! I’m so glad we were able to find out before our 20 week anatomy scan and it was fun keeping it between the two of us for a few days. We had a small gender reveal with our family on Saturday to share the news which I recapped in my Gender Reveal post.
Last Wednesday, I had an exciting appointment where I was able to find out the gender of our new baby! I was 16 weeks and 1 day at the appointment and when she asked if we were wanting to know the gender and I said yes right away! Brady wasn’t able to be at the appointment with me and it was going to be another 10 hours before he was home from work… so I gave in and did the gender reveal over a video call while I was shopping for groceries at ALDI- ha! It might not be the most romantic way to find out, but it would have been hard to keep it a secret all day and he was dying to know.
Before this pregnancy even began, I knew that a detailed and hyped up gender reveal party with all our friends and family wasn’t something I was really into. It’s a lot of work to plan a party and as it is we don’t even have our own place to invite everyone over to. That being said, we still wanted a fun way to let our families know what we were expecting so we had an impromptu mini family shindig at my step-mom’s parents house on Saturday afternoon. The whole region was pretty much out of power due to high winds Friday-Saturday so we weren’t sure if we were even going to be able to throw a party. The only prep for this party was 6 balloons, 12 confetti poppers (for the gender reveal), plus tea and cookies.
We’re expecting! Assuming everything continues to go well, then we are expecting our first baby in mid-August! There are so many reasons why it’s taken this long to get around to sharing the news of my pregnancy but each of those reasons can be categorized under “fear”. This is my 3rd pregnancy and even though we’ve finally made it into the 2nd trimester, anything can happen. Especially now that I’ve found out that I have a blood clotting disorder that could cause a whole host of problems, including a sudden loss of the baby I’m carrying – officially making this a “high risk pregnancy”. I went in this morning to learn how to self-administer a daily shot of blood thinners to increase the chances of a full term, no complications pregnancy.
Hello World! – 13 Week Sonogram
With the previous 2 pregnancies, I bought pregnancy journals not too long after finding out only to have the story torn to pieces before it really began. In this post, I want to focus on my journey with this pregnancy so far. I haven’t bought any journals for this pregnancy and I haven’t particularly been keeping any kind of record of this pregnancy… I know it’s something I’ll regret if I never get around to it so I’m going to start here.