Being Pregnant

DAYS LEFT 

til Carter is here!!!

(well give or take)

I can't believe time is flying by!! Less than 100 days....so exciting! I don't think we'll be going past my due date if this boy continues to grow how he is! Kevin is the cutest right now, all he keeps saying is he is just ready for Carter to be here so he can hold him! He really is going to be the best dad!! I'm so thankful for the man he is and the man he'll teach Carter to be!

Today I thought I'd talk about what its like to be pregnant!! Pregnancy symptoms! Honestly I really can't complain as I've had a pretty easy pregnancy compared to some people I hear about. I rarely even have questions for the doctor at each visit! But as this pregnancy progresses there are definitely things I deal with that I was expecting, but also things I wasn't expecting.

Early in my pregnancy (first 12 weeks or so) I only got sick twice. Other than that food just sounded gross a lot of the time. We'd go out to each and NOTHING sounded good. That was terrible. I love food, I hated when nothing sounded good. Jamba Juice was my best friend in those days...always sounded good.

I really haven't had any WEIRD food cravings either. I mean I did crave Jamba Juice alot, but I think it was the fruit I was craving from it. I have always liked Jamba Juice, but I haven't had it as much as I have in the last few months though. 

One thing that was weird is when I went to get my hair done back in May, my hair girl (who has done my hair for almost 9 years) said I had lost probably about 20% of my hair! That FREAKED me out. But as she said, I have the thickest hair in the world, so if someone was able to stand loosing that much hair, it was me!! She said my hair just wasn't as thick as it always had been. Weird hormones!

Also my skin has been really dry this pregnancy. Thankfully I use Arbonne products daily on my face, so I don't notice it as much, but I did get a facial recently and she just said how dry it really was. Now my lips are another story! Not something I was expecting. At first my lips would just get really dry and cracked in the corners. I used everything under the moon to see if it would help. Sometimes it would, sometimes it wouldn't. But in the past week it has changed. The corner of my lips don't feel cracked, but my whole lips feel BURNED and DRY. I'm constantly putting stuff on my lips and it doesn't seem to help AT ALL! Any suggestions would be great. Its really more of just a nuisance. Not fun!

In the last few weeks my back has started hurting A LOT. I guess all this extra weight out front has to do with that (obviously)! My nurse even suggested I go get one of these belly band/brace things. And it actually really helps. It feels weird to wear especially when Carter is kicking. They assured me it doesn't hurt the baby. But I usually just wear it when I'm going to moving around alot or sitting in one place for a while. 

Also you can't really stay in one position for a long time. For instance if I'm laying on the couch with Kevin, I get really uncomfortable after awhile of being in one place and I have to adjust myself. The same is true at night. Honestly I haven't been sleeping that well, mainly because of the discomfort and having to rotate sides SEVERAL times during the night. But I know getting less sleep is God's way of preparing me when this baby gets here and doesn't sleep much!!

Also I get REALLY hot at night. I'll wake up at least once during the night and am really sweaty. This has started in the last week. YUCK, not fun! I am pretty much sleeping with just a sheet now. The comforter is on the floor.

I've had some acid reflux, but nothing major. The doctor got me on Prevacid and it has really helped.

Also back when I was like 12 or 16 weeks they said I was already mildly anemic (low on iron). So they went ahead and put me on an over the counter supplement. I've been taking it daily since. Well after my last appointment they called me after testing again and I'm even MORE anemic. So they had to put me on a prescription. I'm hoping that helps.

I have been a bit emotional/hormonal as well. Nothing crazy (at least I don't think so, Kevin may disagree, lol), but I do tend to get a bit more stressed easily or take things a bit more personally than I normally would. I just have to try and take things easy and not over due myself or get too worked up over things.

Now looking back over everything I wrote, it seems like a lot. But it really isn't that bad, at least most of the time. And I'll gladly go through these things to meet my baby boy soon!! So excited the double digit countdown can begin!!!