3 months!!!

2 months==================> 3 months!


I can’t believe how fast my first trimester when by. I had a lot of expectations about pregnancy that turn out to not be true for me. I’ve had it easy, but even now I still don’t feel very “pregnant” and that makes me sad.

We can’t believe that in a mere 6 months we will get to meet our first child! We won’t find out the sex of the baby for another 6 weeks, but we are having fun wondering if the baby is John or Madeline. I really don’t care which God wants us to give us, I’m just so happy we are pregnant! Steven kinda wants John Steven to come first. He isn’t sure why, but that is what he says!

We had a doctor’s visit on Monday and it was fun as usual. The main highlight was that we were able to hear the heartbeat. The baby’s beat was 141 beats per minute… and it was loud and easy to find… a comfort to me. We asked a lot of questions and got some information clarified by my doctor. We are definitely first timers and I’m thankful my doctor has patience with us.

Changes I’ve noticed

Most of my changes are still because of the shift of my hormones. My vision has gotten worse and I had to see the eye doctor (but I still need to fill my prescription). I also have a lot of little black hairs on my arms and legs… it only really bugs me when I wear long sleeves. And I have had the itchiest skin… one day I almost made myself bleed!... don’t worry I invested in some better lotion and clipped my nails off. The hormones have made me cried over the stupidest things. I cried over a Claritin commercial because the vet was so nice to help the little girl with her cat… even now, I’m a little emotional about it. And there have been plenty of perfectly legitimate things to cry over and I just don’t hold back the water works. And finally, I smell the strangest things and I think that is a hormone thing as well. Last weekend I woke up wondering why my sister’s house smelled like mustard. She didn’t even own any mustard, but I swore it smelled like she had been cooking with mustard.

I think the hormones also have something to do with the way I feel about myself. Last week I felt so bad about myself. It’s just so hard to me to gain weight when just a few weeks ago I was trying so hard to lose it. I found out at the doctor’s appointment that I have gained 6 lbs. I think it’s due to unhealthy eating when I didn’t have an appetite… if I wasn’t feeling like eating I chose to eat whatever I wanted. Looking back I don’t think that was a good idea, but I was trying not to starve the baby. Anyway I’m on a better track now so I will go from here. Six pounds isn’t that much to lose after the baby is born. I hope to gain no more than an additional 20 pounds.

A non-hormone issue that I’ve noticed is round ligament pains. The round ligaments hold up the uterus and many women can feel them stretching when they first have their baby. I’ve had them for a while, but they just recently increased in intensity. I say that, but they aren’t painful… it’s more annoying than painful. When I went to my chiropractor last week he had my masseuse massage my lower back and love handle area. They next couple of days I felt great, and I highly recommend getting prenatal massages!

Sometimes I look crazy, because I’m always poking at my lower abdomen. I make Steven and anyone else poke my stomach to try to feel the baby. I’m not expecting it until 4 ½ months, but I can definitely feel a bump down there… unfortunately, my abs were never that tight before. I think at Thanksgiving people should be able to feel it and then see the bump at Christmas. At the doctor’s appointment my doctor showed me exactly where the top of my uterus was (just two inches below my belly button). I was surprised at how high it was… I was aiming about 6 inches below my belly button.

Changes Steven has notice

I have noticed that Fallon’s lower stomach is firmer and slightly larger. Her back has gotten narrower as a result of thing rearranging. But other than that things are just like they were when she was at two months.

What the baby is up to!

This month the baby will add 2 inches of length, going from 3.5 inches to 5.5 inches! The bones are beginning to harden and the baby begins to move more… I will be able to feel the little kicks at the end of the month. The baby may suck its thumb during this month. The baby will begin to start building a layer of fat to insulate itself… up to this point it was focused on building major organs and the body structure.