3 Ups for the week:
- On Tuesday I had my routine doctors appointment to check up on the baby. I passed my glucose screening with flying colors (Yay!!) and found out that I'm a little bit anemic. I know, the anemia part doesn't sound like an up, but I've been really tired lately and this gives me hope that the iron pills I'm supposed to take might give me some energy back. So the hope of more energy is definitely an up. Also, I got to see a quick ultrasound of the baby! Some of you may know that the baby hasn't been very active lately. I haven't been TOO worried because he does move a couple times during the day, but sometimes he'd make me wait a full day before I'd feel anything. This was a big change from a few weeks ago and at my last appointment the doctor said that I would be feeling the baby move a lot by this point so I was starting to get a bit concerned. When I asked the doctor about it she said that it could be normal if he's changed positions but that she wanted to check it out to make sure. Sure enough, the little guy just changed positions and is making it hard for me to feel him! At the moment he is head down but turned backwards so that he is kicking towards my spine. I can't feel those kicks. Also, my placenta is in the front of my stomach and it makes it harder for me to feel him as well (this explains why I've been at the tail end of the normal time line for when I should feel his movements). On the ultrasound we could see him moving a lot and he has been swallowing amniotic fluid as he should and there is plenty of fluid around him- so he's doing great!
- On Thursday we were able to get my car in for warranty work to get the knocking noise under the hood fixed. Now my car is quiet when it drives and there are no warning lights on the dash! Yay! Also, they washed and vaccumed my car while they serviced it. That was definitely a nice plus. Oh yeah, and since it was warranty work, it didn't COST A THING! (well, I know the warranty originally cost us- but there was no up front cost for the repair)
- Today we carved pumpkins and roasted the seeds! Garrett and I look forward to doing this every year so this was a big up. We had a lot of fun and carved pumpkins with friends so it made for a great night! Plus it was some fun recreational time with my husband. With school the way it is for him right now our quality time together is even more precious.
3 Downs for the week:
- Morning Sickness. Ugh. Every now and then it comes back. It was constant for the first 14 weeks, weeks 14-16 sporadic and then around week 26 it came back sporadically. This week was one of the worst since the first trimester though. The whole first half of the week I was pretty nauseated and had to resort to extra snacking and drinking sprite to settle my stomach. Thursday Garrett was super sweet and made me a nice breakfast. The smell of eggs set my stomach on edge but I ate them and then followed them up with a cinnamon roll (thinking the carbs would help my stomach sit better than just eating protein). Well 5 minutes later I got sick. I had gotten up early and had PLENTY of time for a leisurely breakfast and then I would have even been early to work, but after I finally settled my stomach enough to feel comfortable leaving the house I was 1 minute late to work. May not sound like much, but the way our keypads track things, that 1 minute will make me show up on a report that I was late. I hate that because it makes me look iresponsible. Then today (Saturday) I woke up and before I could eat breakfast the same thing happened and I was ill again. Lets just hope that tomorrow is a better day.
- Friday my snack (cheese cubes) was stolen out of the fridge at work. I know that my not sound like a big deal to some, but it was my protein snack (seems to help better than carbs when I'm having a rough week) and I had timed it out perfectly to keep the nausea at bay. Plus, its just plain rude! I had my name and the date on it and everything. All the pregnancy hormones made me take this a little bit harder than I normally would, which is frustrating. I felt like crying which is so stupid- normally I wouldn't have let it bother me so much. Its hard when you feel hormonal and a little crazy but the sane part of you knows that its really not a bit deal and you need to let it go. I eventually stopped fixating on how much I wanted my cheese and just took an early lunch so that I wouldn't get too sick to my stomach.
- Thursday I woke up in the middle of the night with an AWFUL charlie horse in my left calf. Stupidly in my sleepy stupor, I pointed my toes downward and made the pain even worse. Well, its been 3 days now and I still have pain in my calf from the charlie horse. It hurts to walk up and down stairs and well, it hurts to WALK. In the mornings its worse and I hobble around. Finally, its the evening of the third day and the pain is lessening and I'm walking more normally so I think its finally starting to go away.
- Okay, this is a little down and I know that I've already listed my 3, but this was made me really mad today. Garrett drove some guys around last night at a bachlor party and one of the guys was inconsiderate enough to smoke a cigarrette in my car without asking. Garrett didn't know he was doing it because he couldn't really smell very well at the time but in the morning when he got in my car he said that his heart sank because of how strongly the car smelled of smoke. With my heightened sense of smell and the fact that I'm already sensitive to cigarrette smoke (its an asthma trigger for me) I could tell instantly. We've been trying to air out the car all day. It still smells but I'm sure it'll start to lessen over time. In the meantime, we took Garrett's car out the rest of the day.
Well, I hope I don't sound like a big complainer, its just been a week of emotional highs and lows and I think I'm a bit worn out by it all. Or maybe I'm just feeling worn out because its 11:30 at night and I'm still up. Anyways, HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Below are a few pictures of our pumpkins!
From left to right: Christine (top left), Garrett, Justin, Trey, and my pumpkins!
My pumpkin had a silly shape so I thought it needed a silly face.
Garrett's transformer pumpkin. He LOVES pumpkin carving and always amazes me with the detail that he puts into carving. He drew his own template again this year.
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