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Christmas turned out to be GREAT!  Christmas morning I woke up feeling fine.  My hubby and I opened presents.  Then, I finished packaging up my Christmas cookies, and then we went to my parents so I can give my nephew his gifts.  By noon I was feeling sick :(  I ate some crackers, hoping it would make me feel better, and we then headed to Aaron’s parent’s house for Christmas dinner and presents.  When I walked in the door, the food smelled amazing.  When we sat down to eat… I ate and loved it!  The ham was sooo good!  The baked beans were so sweet!  There were crackers, and cheeses, and pickles, and fruit, and the warm rolls were so soft!  I ate everything on my plate, and I didn’t feel sick afterwards!  Did you hear that?  I DIDN’T FEEL SICK AFTERWARDS!  I felt fine!  I felt fine as we were opening up presents.  I felt fine while I was playing with Aaron’s nieces.  I felt fine on the way home!  And when I got home… I ate some more ham!  I still felt fine when I went to bed!

Our baby gave me my Christmas wish :)  He/She really really did!  Christmas was perfect! ♥  THANK YOU Baby Carpenter!

I had another baby checkup a couple days ago, and everything is normal.  My blood pressure is normal, and I got to hear our baby’s heartbeat again. Strong healthy heartbeat ♥  The nurse said I gained 4 pounds, but I really didn’t.  Before I got pregnant I was around 125.  When I got pregnant, and started feeling nauseous, I dropped to 120.   A couple Dr. appointments ago, she weighed me at 118, so I lost even more weight.  Finally, when I was weighed a couple days ago, she said I weighed 122, so she said I gained 4 pounds.  It’s a good sign that I’m getting some weight back, but in my mind I haven’t GAINED any weight yet at all.  Once I start getting past my regular weight of 125 will I start to feel like I’m really gaining weight.  Since the beginning of my pregnancy I haven’t gained an ounce!  I only lost weight… but it finally looks like I might be gaining it back.

Since Christmas I have went back to feeling nauseous.  I have given up thinking that I will just one day feel fine from now on.  This fatigue and sickness is just so random and unpredictable.  I am 15 weeks pregnant, and I can just as easily throw up now as I did when I was 6 weeks pregnant :(   Still, I’m thankful for the welcome relief of the days I feel good :)

On January 23 we will be finding out the sex of our baby!!!

Here’s a 15 weeks belly pic!

This is my last weekend to myself before classes start back up again.  Back to class on Monday :(

I think my nausea has passed for the most part.  I think I have gained a couple more pounds. I am starting to get a bigger belly :)  I really need to get some bigger bras.

It seems I’ve swapped my nausea for a sore butt.  I’m not exactly sure what the problem is but I have what feels like a pinched nerve that hurts right around my tailbone area when I walk or make sudden movements.  It’s been bothering me for about a week now.  I’ve heard women having posterior pelvic pain during pregnancy.  I’m guessing this is what I’m experiencing?  Or could it be my sciatic nerve?

Well we finally got our new California King size bed frame and mattress.  Once it was put together, and the mattress was placed on it, we were in shock.  The bed is too high to get onto!  I couldn’t even jump on it!  It was as high as my waist!  Aaron had to help me up onto the bed haha!  I couldn’t even stand up on the bed without my head touching the ceiling!  At first we were thinking about getting a stepping stool, but I don’t want to have to deal with a stepping stool 5 or 6 times a night just to go pee!  And I don’t want to deal with this when I’m 8 and 9 months pregnant.  Ugh!  We need to get a MUCH thinner mattress.  What sucks is that they won’t give us a full refund on the mattress we just bought.  Now that the mattress is out of the box it was folded and packed into, FedEx can’t fit this unpacked mattress into the truck to return it.  So we would have to pay for a trucking company to deliver the mattress back! :(  We would probably be losing a couple hundred dollars just to return it!  So I’m trying to sell it on Craigslist.  Anyone interested in a brand new California King size 13″ pillow top mattress?  Here is the Craigslist link if you are …  http://bloomington.craigslist.org/fuo/2786741503.html

Aaron and I had a really good New Year’s Eve. We invited some friends over, and Aaron made some cheese dips.  We had lots to snack on, and we ordered a couple pizzas.  We also watched Horrible Bosses.  That movie is so funny!  We are now into 2012… the year our first baby will be born! ♥

I can’t believe I am already 4 months pregnant.  It doesn’t seem like I’m almost half way through my pregnancy :)

Here is a video of baby’s progress!

January 23 is when we find out the sex of the baby! :)  Stay tuned!

I had a good week last week! Very productive.  I was able to make it a full week at work for the first time in a long time!  NO nausea! Yay!  My energy level is up! Yay!  I don’t have tons of energy, but enough to get things done without feeling exhausted.  The only thing that’s been bothering me is my sciatic nerve that gives me a zing of pain when I least expect it.  I’ve also been experiencing sharp pains in my lower abdomen when I stand up too fast.  I found out that this is normal.  It’s called “round ligament pain.”  “The round ligaments surround your uterus in your pelvis. As your uterus grows during pregnancy, the ligaments stretch and thicken to accommodate and support it. These changes can occasionally cause pain on one or both sides of your abdomen.”   So I have nothing to worry about. Just grin and bare it :)

We were finally able to sell that huge mattress that doesn’t fit our new bed frame. My brother bought it off of us.  I’m so happy we didn’t have to waste $100 or more on shipping just to return it to the mattress company. Now that we have a pocket full of cash, we’re back at square one; trying to find a thinner mattress that better fits our bed frame.

I started classes this week.  I’m taking History 101 online.  It seems fairly easy so far.  The other class I’m taking this semester is Fitness and Wellness.  I thought that this class would mainly be a typical lecture class where we learn about nutrition.  Well, it isn’t.  In fact, it’s only one hour of lecture, and TWO hours of physical activity!  I am all for exercise, but I am concerned about my physical limitations that I’m dealing with right now.  Not only am I 35, and pregnant.  The baby is pushing on my sciatic nerve, and it hurts just to walk.  I am also an asthmatic, and the dosage of my medication has been reduced because of my pregnancy.  My asthma is still under control, but I am NOT looking forward to deliberately aggravating my asthma every week, and needing to take my inhaler, because I have exercise requirements to fulfill in class.  I hate the fact that I have to expose our baby to my asthma medication, and want to minimize my need for it as much as possible!  I will be talking to my professor next week about my situation, and I REALLY hope this will not negatively effect my grade.  As you know, I am still striving for constant A’s!  We will see what happens.

I think I felt the baby move last night, but I’m not completely sure.  I was lying in bed on my back.  It didn’t feel like a kick or a poke.  It felt like my little sweet potato turned around.  I don’t know if it was the baby or not, but I like to think it was :)

17 weeks belly pic!

Here’s a video of baby’s progress…