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Well, tomorrow we will be finding out if we’re having a boy or girl!  I’m excited, and nervous.  I’m praying that the baby is healthy and perfect.  My age, and the fact that I’m an asthmatic having to take asthma medication is always a constant worry to me.  I will be 36 years old in only a couple weeks.  I pray that Baby Carpenter is perfectly fine.  I will be happy having a boy or a girl, because I do want to have both in our family.  I would just like to have a girl first :)   Lord, please consider this an early Birthday present for me :)  I’m so anxious to see what God has in store for us, and if problems come our way during my pregnancy, I just have to keep holding God’s hand no matter what.

My appetite is finally back!  To celebrate, my hubby took me out on a date :)  I haven’t been out to eat in at least 4 months because of my constant nausea.  It felt great to be at Longhorn Steakhouse, eating an oh so tender beef filet, buttery asparagus, hot bread and butter, and lobster/shrimp cheese dip.  Aaron was really happy :)  We even took home two huge slices of chocolate cake.  It was DELICIOUS!

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…

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!