I have had such an amazing pregnancy. I feel so blessed to have been given this opportunity through modern technology to become pregnant. The beginning was a little rough with morning sickness and the excruciating pain of progesterone injections every day in my hips, but once the progesterone was over everything was wonderful. For awhile I was crazy abot pickles and spice! I ate pickles like crazy and would eat jalapeños from the jar. Those craving subsided about halfway through and I swear this baby girl will come out sprouting carrots! I ate carrots and rice almost every lunch. I absolutely LOVE being pregnant. I love being able to feel the baby move (with Eden it was around 14-16 weeks when I first started to feel her). She has been a very wiggly worm. Lots and lots of movement at night. She found my rib for a couple of weeks which caused a certain spot in my back to act up. There were some really uncomfortable days, but really nothing too horrible. I was telling Stephen today how wonderful this pregnancy has been, and that I didn't have to deal with sciatic pain (something that really bothered me with Kingston). I kept myself super busy this pregnancy. I was up at the school a ton and doing a lot of stuff around the house. I guess that's what made this time fly by! Heart burn has really been my only other discomfort. It was really bad so I started using Prilosec OTC, it was amazing! After just a couple days of using it my consumption of tums dropped to only once a night (if that). Towards the end though even with the medicine the burn and acid reflux still gave me some grief when laying down. Now Stephen might argue otherwise about this being a wonderful pregnancy. There were many days that I complained to him about little things, but in hindsight I feel truly blessed. Being a woman and having the ability hold life inside of you is such an amazing blessing. We have truly been blessed and can't wait to meet this little miracle!
I absolutely LOVE her room! I love to go in and sit/lie down on the floor. It is so quiet and peaceful in there and we are looking forward to watching her fill it with love! I was so happy with how her blessing dress turned out!
What do you do the last 2 weeks of pregnancy?! Well at our house we go a little project crazy! We made a headboard, cleaned the car, hung up new bulletin boards for Taelee's new teacher at school, and installed a custom built in entertainment center. Not to mention dealing with the flu, and cleaning like crazy. Anything but a relaxing 2 weeks before delivery, with the exception of a wonderful evening granted to me of a pedicure and night of shopping all to myself.
