Showing posts with label pregnancy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pregnancy. Show all posts

Saturday, March 8, 2008

The Bellybuttonless Wonder

I thought maybe a picture of the basketball I have been carrying around might help you decide if this is a little boy or a little girl. I get asked if I have an inkling as to what it might be. The answer is "no" I have absolutely no idea. I think how can a boy be this mean to his mom and then I think it has to be a girl b/c only a girl would be this mean to her mom. By "mean" I am saying that I get beat up on a second by second basis. One thing is for sure, it's going to be so much fun when this little alien pops out and Matt gets to tell me what it is. Please pray that that grand moment comes soon, please.
I look crooked!

These pictures are definitely not for those with weak stomachs.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The Aches and Pains of Pregnancy

Not much time left, just under 5 weeks to be exact, before I am due to bring another baby into this beautiful, yet sometimes cruel world. When I was pregnant with Chloe I never felt pregnant or that uncomfortable; it was all tolerable. I am here to tell you my second pregnancy has been a complete 180* difference than the first. I woke up this morning feeling sore in places I didn't know a woman could be sore in. I'm not a pregnant waddler, but I have been today. I look like something is stuck up my butt and frankly, I feel like something is stuck up my butt. My whole pelvic girdle is on the brink of a complete breach. The baby is the water and my pelvic girdle is the dam holding the water back; not sure how much longer the dam can do its job before there is a flood downstream.

I'm not telling you this b/c I am complaining, I just had no idea this is what the second was like. I was told the second pregnancy is different, but I really didn't know what that meant. I hope it isn't a sign as to the personality of the second b/c if it is Matt and I are in some serious trouble. I can say this though, I will take ALL of the aches and pains of this pregnancy if it means the labor and delivery is going to be easier. Chloe was 23 hours of excruciating pain. I managed to go w/o an epidural, although I did have a few doses of Stadol (not sure how to spell it). I'm just praying the L&D will be a little shorter and a little easier, if so the aches and pains and waddling will be all worth it. Here is a picture of the always moving basketball I am carrying around.

The baby I'll get was a given in the reward side of all this. I thought that went w/o saying though.