Baby Journey Week 10-20

May 7 - Week 13

At this point I'm starting to figure out how my body reacts to certain foods and how much sleep I need. I do best when I don't eat after 8 PM, with at least 8 1/2 hours of sleep, no dairy products, and eating a meal every three hours. Turns out snacks make me feel worse because I get that much more hungry. I am starting to feel better, but I still have to pay close attention to what I eat, and when. Amber had me try vitamin B 6 and Unisom. She swore to me that it was her miracle concoction for her pregnancy with Ezra, it is supposed to ease up the nausea. So I tried it, and felt way worse than usual. I had no energy and I was very grumpy for the first time in my pregnancy. So I tried it for these last three days and decided to stop. The result of being more sleepy (and grumpy) are just not worth it for me. I am currently in my 13th week and this is about how I still look even though this picture was taken a week ago.

It's a teeny tiny baby bump! And it changes every day. My back hurts more and more and then I wake up on my back which makes it hurt even more. [Waking up on my back is very rare for me, I am a side sleeper, and always have been so I thought that I would have no problem during pregnancies with sleeping on my back, turns out I was wrong.] Also we haven't announced it on Facebook but we really don't care who finds out at this point. (: We are planning to announce it when we know the gender.

May 29-Week 16
About a week after my last posting Levi and I went to the temple, and I was pretty sure that I felt the baby move. [That would be week 14, which is very early, but now that I've gone back to the temple multiple times since then, I have realized it is where he moves the most...so I guarantee that my first fetal movement moment truly happened at week 14!] But then I didn't feel anything again until this week. And I'm still not sure if it's fetal movement or something else…it is however my only sign that this baby is even alive inside of me. That may sound silly, but when the doctor tells you he won't see you for six weeks, your stress levels about your babies health tends to go up! And I wouldn't say I'm very stressed, but it would at least be nice to know what's really going on inside me.

I have been getting the pains of "round ligaments." This just means that my body is stretching! Another sign that there is life inside of me. (: They are very low abdominal pains that come mostly when I use my muscles in my stomach. My back hurts a lot still, but I'm practically used to that by now. Anything but scrubs, skirts, and dresses hurt my stomach and make me feel even more sick. Tessa let me try her maternity pants, but even those were too tight on my belly. ): Hopefully one day things will work out!

I love second trimester! I feel like myself, and I feel like I can finally enjoy pregnancy. A few days ago, we took week 16 picture. Here it is below!

Still as tiny as ever, but it's a lot bigger than what I'm used to! I have only gained 3 pounds this whole pregnancy...so far.

I'm feeling so much better and I almost forget that I'm even pregnant. It is now July 9 and there's a lot that has happened!

June 10 - Week 18
Levi felt the baby today! Here is the belly progress:

June 15 - Week 19

Today we found out what the gender of our baby is! We went to the doctors office with our guess: girl. Levi said boy to the doctor just to be different from me… And because boy is what we really want. So she put the gel on my belly and starts to peek at our baby. No gender shot yet because babies legs are crossed. ["Typical thing for girls to do," I think to myself.] So she continues to make sure that the baby has all of its organs and limbs, including all 10 fingers and all 10 toes. We loved getting to see everything and didn't even care that we still don't know the gender while she is doing all of this. So she goes back to the legs and…

"Dad is right!!" She says. We were both shocked, and beyond thrilled. We are having a baby boy! Completely not what we thought. (-: So that night we had a gender reveal party. We put all things blue in black balloons. And had everyone wear their guess (mustache=boy & crown=girl). Almost everyone guessed girl. (;

The shock of seeing blue come out of the balloon was priceless. (-:

Here are all the GIRL guesses









And all the BOY guesses

And this is how we announced it to the world...okay okay, fine it was just the post we made on FaceBook:

And this is my belly progress at 20, just a week after we found out he is a BOY:

Again a HUGE thanks to Amber Lynn and her artistic abilities. It would take me years to figure out how to put the box on the picture...she has saved me from having to worry about that.