Poor, poor Baby!

(26 weeks) And in case you are wondering it's the bump in the front, not the
one in back ;)

Well, I have slacked on poor baby #3! So I am going to write everything that has gone on with me and baby boy in the last six months, so here goes! We happily found out we were expecting baby #3 in the beginning of August (if I remember right)! We were thrilled with the news, but also cautious. I can be a paranoid person, and since I already had miscarriages, I didn't want to get too excited until I knew baby was past the "scary" phase and I knew he/she was healthy and good!

With this baby I felt the symptoms much earlier on, or I was further than I thought. The first trimester was full of extreme fatigue, worse than the other 2 but I attribute that to having 2 to already chase around! Really, really bad nausea-worse than the other boys, I did puke a few times, but not to much, so I feel blessed for that! And extreme depression, which I have never had before. It was very bizarre and very hard, I don't know if most of it was just a mixture or hormones + being sick 24/7=depression, either way I was glad to see it leave as I entered into the 2nd trimester! I also had lots and lots of cramping and just bad abdominal pains which worried me a lot. It was a very hard first trimester to say in the least.  Of course, it was worth every minute and I am VERY lucky I wasn't puking all day long like other women do.

I finally got to go to the doctor I think around 16 weeks, it was a long hard wait, but thankfully the baby was fine and healthy so it didn't really matter! We got to hear the heart beat which is always a huge relief and the next week we got to have the sonogram! We found out we were having a BOY! Which was no shock to me, but poor Tyler and Zach REALLY wanted a girl, so they were both a little sad, but got over it quickly : ). He looked great and measured perfectly, even a week bigger than what we had thought so the due date was moved up! That is ALWAYS great news! My 1st trimester symptoms didn't fade away until about 14 weeks, so that was nice. Although I never have gotten over the fatigue. In the beginning I just really wanted protein. I could have probably eaten a steak for dinner everyday! It was the only thing that made me feel ok. Although, I felt much better than the first 3 months, I still was no where near 100%. I still couldn't eat much, and sugar always sounded delightfull, but always made me sick. I could/can only eat one big meal a day, I got sick very easily if  I ate to much, I think I even ate more then when I wasn't pregnant. One thing I did crave for a little while was anything chocolate and caramel! Yummo! I also was sick a lot during my second trimester (like with viruses). I continually got the horrible colds, strep, and stomach bugs going around. Which made things that much worse. I think I felt his first movement somewhere between 17-18 weeks, which I don't know if that is longer than normal or not. I had my first braxton hicks contractions at 16 weeks. Somewhere in my second trimester I also developed horrible looking, painful varicose veins under my left knee. They hurt so bad sometimes I couldn't/can't even straighten my leg out, and it hurts to walk. In the beginning of this trimester I also had really bad sciatica, but just on my right side. It made it really hard to stand or walk for long, but most of all I could not sleep with it. I think that about wraps up the 2nd trimester to where I am right now!

I am now approaching 29 weeks! I have actually felt really good the past 2 days, no nausea and a better appetite. I can not sleep at all at night. I have extreme pain in my lungs when I lay on my left of right side, and it isn't my rib cage, it feels like my lungs. I obviously can't lay on my stomach and it kills to sleep on my back. So for now I sleep sitting up basically. I just have to prop lots of pillows behind me and take a couple Tylenol PM and that is the only way I can sleep, so I'll take it, plus I have bad heart burn everynight so that helps with that too! Both boys LOVE my belly bump. They love to pull up my shirt and talk to and kiss the baby. Zach is very thrilled and excited about this baby, he always ask if the baby is coming yet, he really can't wait. He has always loved babies, he loved Connor so much when he was born too. It is fun to watch my tummy. Every night when I lay in bed I like to just watch the ripples across my belly and place my hand on top of his hand/foot which ever one it is! Sometimes he actually tickles me, I wonder if he has long toes or fingers? Ha, I don't know what it is. He doesn't seem very active to me, much less than Zach, and I don't think Connor was very active either. Zachs punches and kicks were very hard and sometimes painful, he would wake me in the night many times. This one never wakes me (or at least not yet!), and only seems to be awake at night before I go to bed and sometimes in the morning. During the day I will feel an occasional kick, but not much really. He has never gotten the hiccups, which I am glad, Zach got them ALL THE TIME, and it got annoying as horrible as that sounds. Connor got them a couple times at the end, but not that much. I seem to have less and less room for food. It is very hard to eat a big meal, and actually painful when I do-there just isn't space for baby and a full meal!  I have horrible scar tissue pains, that I have had ever since the first trimester. They are sharp and very painful. Sometimes I feel like I have a hernia on my lower right side, because I can't sneeze, lift, cough, laugh without it hurting really bad. Somedays it feels like I just had a c-section, I guess that's all the stretching. I have been super out of shape with this baby. I was to sick in the first trimester so I didn't work out and then I tried to when I reached the 2nd trimester but then once I kept catching viruses over and over, the energy just wasn't there, and I can tell a huge difference! :/ Oh well!

We all are already so in love with this little guy, but are ok to wait another 3 months before he comes! We have much to do, like move, and get ready before this little blessing comes to us! And as for now we do not have any names, we are working on it!