18 Weeks

18 Weeks 

I can't believe I'm 18 weeks already! It seems just like yesterday I found out I was pregnant! I am feeling pretty good though. I started eating smaller portions to prevent heartburn. I still have acne :( Yep, it sucks! I've been craving a lot of salads and sweet things! I started walking a lot around the neighborhood. I walked a lot with Ayden's pregnancy and I think it helped me a lot with labor.

I also started on progesterone shots at 17 weeks. They are definitely not fun to get! At my doctor's appointment, they showed Zach how to administer the shots to me. That way I don't have to drive to the hospital every week to get them. So Zach is gonna have fun hurting me for the rest of my pregnancy! :) 

With the progesterone shots, I was told that it works on some women and others it doesn't. It doesn't guarantee I make it to full term but it is suppose to help prevent baby from coming any earlier than it should, if that makes sense! So for example, I had Ayden at 32 Weeks. My doctor is hoping I make it to at least 34 Weeks which is a major improvement! The earlier they come, the longer they stay in the NICU. So I am hoping and praying the progesterone shots will help keep baby in longer! 

At my appointment, the doctor also checked my cervix (sorry TMI) to make sure that it isn't thinning. And thankfully it's not! He says it looks pretty good right now but it could change at any point due to the uterus getting bigger. So it kind of gives me anxiety that I could possibly still have this baby preterm. But I'm doing everything I can and what the doctor recommends to keep baby from coming early! 

Your Baby is as Big as a Sweet Potato

• Can you believe she's yawning, hiccuping, sucking and swallowing?
• And she's twisting, rolling, punching and kicking, too — and she's big enough that you might be able to feel her doing it!

16 Weeks

16 Weeks!

This week was a great week! I think it's safe to say the nausea is officially gone! I'm starting to get a lot of heart burn and only craving light meals! I am feeling baby move on and off now. It is truly the best feeling in the world! It's my absolute favorite part about being pregnant! So we found out the gender of our baby at one of our routine ultrasound appointment and it was fairly obvious what it is!! So we found out it's a...

BOY!! 

We are so excited that Ayden is going to have a little brother! I can't wait to see them play and have that kind of brotherly love! :) So I guess that Intelligender test I took was correct!! haha how funny! I kind of suspected I was having a boy. I kept having dreams where I was in the delivery room and the doctor said "It's a Boy!" And the same happened when I was pregnant with Ayden. I kept having dreams about a boy! So now that I know the gender, I can start picturing what it'd be like with another boy and I'm already bonding with him :) Now the hard part is thinking of some names!

Your Baby is as Big as a Avocado

• She's listening to your voice, thanks to tiny bones forming in her ears.
• She's growing hair, lashes and eyebrows.
• And she's forming taste buds.

Pregnancy Memory

Over the weekend we went to Gateway Discovery Museum for Ayden's 2nd Birthday! We wanted to spend the day with him before his birthday party Sunday. It was really fun to see him interested in all the stuff they had for kids! It was really cool and I would definitely take him there again! I knew this would be a great place for Ayden because it's definitely hands on stuff and he got to observe a lot of fun things. My son is very observant!! I think he gets it mainly from Zach! I'm pretty observant too but Ayden likes to see how things works and I think he got that part from Zach! I look forward to his birthday party Sunday at The Little Gym!