The Reality

**Note** this is a SUPER long post and mostly facts about things I want to remember about my first two trimesters.  Just be prepared!!!

Today I am twenty five weeks exactly!  First day of my third trimester!!!  I have tried to write in my journal a few of the things I wanted to remember during the first two trimesters but I'm almost as bad at that as I am updating the blog.  I do want to be able to come back and remember some of the fun {and not so fun} facts about this pregnancy though so that I can compare them with future pregnancies or just look back and smile. 

Like I said in my last post, I was just starting a new semester at school when we found out that we were going to be having a baby.  I figured if I got sick then having something like school would be good for me to focus on rather than the way I felt.  I couldn't have been more WRONG.  I made it through almost three full weeks of classes and had killed my first tests!! I was actually looking forward to school again.  My few summer classes had gone really well for me and I felt like it was a good time and place for me to start again.  Although the thought of school terrifies me I knew it would be different having the support of a husband as good as Kevin and not having to worry about work or kids yet, but then I started to get sick.  Really sick.  It started about six weeks for me and at first I was just super tired and had a really hard time making it to my classes in the mornings which was when I was feeling my worst and would go to my afternoon classes.  Then shortly after that it became pretty much impossible to leave my bed if not to go to the toilet.  At first Kevin had a hard time accepting the fact that I couldn't go to classes and would probably be dropping out but then I think he spent a few days with me at home and understood. 

• I threw up almost everyday.  If I didn't throw up several times in one day it was a good day.
• I loved cereals, especially lucky charms
• I loved hot cocoa.  I would have at least one glass a day
• The thought of meat made me dry heave and as a result poor Kevin hardly ever got a home cooked meal
• Tomatoes are pretty much the sickest things I have ever laid eyes on I still can hardly eat them. When I first got sick we had a surplus of them laying around the house and I would walk into the kitchen, see them and go running to the bathroom.  They HAD to leave.  Kevin took them to work. 
• Bananas were also not good.  We had an overly ripe one in the house that I kept smelling at the beginning that didn't sit well with me.  Those are starting to get better.
• Multi-vitamins were NOT happening.
• I made frequent fast food runs a cheeseburger and fries almost always sounded good to me and I hardly if ever threw them up. 
• Peppermint candies really helped ease my stomach when it started to churn.
• My doctor told me to try an over-the-counter medication called Emetrol.  Its like this cherry flavored cough syrup stuff that is supposed to help with Nausea.  I took one sip of it and if I didn't want to throw up before the medicine I definitely did afterwards.  Pretty much the sickest thing I have ever had. 
• Ginger ale helped sometimes too. 
• getting up and getting in the shower took all of my energy.  
• Leggings are my absolute favorite!
• I have the BEST husband.  He was so great through all of it.  He did his own cooking and made his own lunches, {which he hates doing} he did all the grocery shopping and the laundry and cleaned the house.  He bought me pretty much anything and everything that he thought would help me feel better.  Bottom line he is the greatest, I am so lucky that he is mine forever I really don't know what I would do without him. 

About 17 or 18 weeks was when I really started to feel better.  During the first part I would occasionally have a really good day and it would remind me how nice it was to feel good and have good health.  Something I am very grateful for!  I definitely took advantage of the good days and used those days to grocery shop or clean up the house or just enjoy not being sick! I honestly thought several times during my first tri, I don't know how people have more than one child.  I could barely take care of myself during that time I can't imagine taking care of another toddler who needs my help.  But I know it is possible and I pray that someday when that times comes for our family it will be well worth it and I will be able to make it through.  Some facts about my second tri...

• I first felt the baby move at sixteen weeks.  We were in Logan for Thanksgiving and I was sitting on my in laws rocking chair with my legs up against my chest and felt those little flutters. 
• I first started to really show at about twenty weeks.  And for the most part I am still able to wear my pre pregnancy clothes.  Thank goodness for leggings!
• Our little boy is very  active. 
• I LOVE to lay in bed in the mornings with my hand on my stomach and feel him move around. sometimes his jabs hurt but I still love it more than anything.  Probably my favorite part of day.
• Kevin felt him move at the beginning of December, I was probably about 18 weeks. 
• Cooking is much easier this tri. 
• I felt like the first trimester was forever long but the second one has flown by!
• My lower back has hurt really bad for almost my whole pregnancy especially after I walk a lot like doing the grocery shopping but as a result I get at least one massage a week.  Lucky me!!
• I still love cold cereals and usually have at least one bowl a day.
• I started "nesting" by de-junking our spare bedroom a few weeks ago.  I didn't think we were going to be able to fit baby and all of his stuff but with some pretty major changes and getting rid of a lot of stuff and reorganizing I am feeling much happier about our small apartment being able to fit our little man.
• We set up our crib a few weeks ago! I can't believe there will be an actual baby in there in a little over three months!
• I have a series of three doctors and a midwife at my OB office and so far I have really liked them all.  I still have yet to meet one of them

 I have really enjoyed my second trimester and I hope that the last one is just as enjoyable! We are so excited for May to come and to meet our little man.