25 Weeks

How Far Along:  25 Weeks

Total Weight Gain: 14 pounds

Maternity Clothes:  Love them!

Stretch Marks:  Just a little bit- hoping to keep it at a minimum!

Sleep:  Not so good- hard to get comfortable and lots of body aches

Best Moment This Week: Brian feeling the baby move!!!!

Miss Anything: Again....cuddling with my husband!

Movement: ALL the time!! I love feeling it!

Food Cravings:  Chocolate

Anything make you quesy or sick: The smell of smoke and stopping and going fast in a car

Gender Predicition- ITS A BOY!

Labor Signs:  None thank goodness!

Symptoms:  Horrible Siatic Nerve pain, tiredness

Belly Button in or out: In- but its getting closer and closer to being flat with my tummy!

Wedding ring on or off:  On

Happy or Moody:  Happy and majorly organized!

Looking Forward to: Going to the chiropractor!!!

Nursery Progress:  Its coming along! Working with Taylor to design the room- hopefully it will be painted soon!


Braxton is now the size of a cauliflower- measures about 13.5-14.5 inches long and weighs 1.5-2.5 pounds.

To continue the story from last week.....Thankfully, by the time I woke up the rash had gone away about 90%- it seemed like it went away as fast as it came on. I called my doctor and let her know the entire story- my nurse was so nice and apologized over and over for how the on call doctor spoke to me.  They wanted me to come in so they could check everything out.  Even my doctor ended up being stumped! She said she had never in all the years of practicing had she ever seen anything like that.  She did a bunch of tests on the baby to make sure it wasn't affecting him and everything was okay- and thankfully Braxton was perfectly fine!  She wanted to go ahead and run a full blood panel just to be thorough and make sure we checked out everything- 6 viles of blood later and I was good to go!

The next morning I had my glucose diabetes testing- I had been dreading this for awhile and when I was doing lab work the day before I watched as a pregnant woman threw up for  a lllooonnngggg time because of this test-  but thankfully I had my husband right beside me just in case!  The drink wasnt bad at all- just tasted like orange soda!  My stomach didnt feel great for the hour, not sure if it was the drink or if I was just so nervous I was going to throw up like that other lady- but I made it through!  The blood draw hurt soooo bad this time- they had to do the other arm since I had just had blood drawn the day before.  It took everything in me to not cry- and even 4 days later my arm is still bruised :(

Later that day I got my lab results back from mondays 6 viles of blood- everything was normal which was great to know that Braxton wasnt affected by the rash- but they did find out that I'm  now anemic... if thats the worst news I got, I can handle that! However, even after all this testing, they still have no idea what the rash was or what caused it :(  I just hope it doesnt come back!

Wednesday was my moms actual birthday! We brought her a cake to work and then that night we all went to eat at Chilis and celebrated together!  I cant wait until next year when Braxton will be here to celebrate all the special events with us :)

This was the first week Brian was finally able to feel Braxton moving- I was laying down resting and he was moving and kicking so hard that it was actually moving my hand so I told Brian to put his hand where the baby was, and sure enough he was able to feel our little guy!  It was really cool. I'm so glad we can both feel him now and I can share that special feeling with Brian.

By Friday I still hadnt heard back from my diabetes testing and I didnt want to have to wait over the weekend, so I went ahead and called in to see if I could get the results-  I talked to my nurse and she said I scored a 109 which was perfect and that I didnt have to do the 3 hour test!!!! Hallelujah!!! I cannot tell you how relieved and excited I was!  Best news ever!!! :)

Saturday, the two girls who are putting on the baby shower asked if they could come over and have a little planning meeting with me- I am so thankful to them- they are putting in so much thought and effort and time into this and it just blows me away how lucky I am to have them. And they are including me in all the decisions- which I appreciate more than they know.  I get to help decide the theme and colors and everything going into the party so that it feels like "me" still.  Huge Huge thank you to Taylor and Penny- there is no way I could thank you enough for what you guys are doing for me!  And by the way...it is going to be so adorable! I cannnot wait!!!

Sunday I went on an orginazational tirade! I cleaned the house top to bottom and started moving stuff and organizing- I thought I was doing okay... until about 5 hours later when my back was killing me and it was difficult to walk.  So at that point I decided it might be smart to rest awhile- well the pain just kept intensifying- I had waited too long to rest.  My siatic nerve was shot.  It hurt soooo bad.  I couldnt lay, sit, stand, walk, nothing- no weight could be put on my right leg at all.  The pain was shooting and non stop.  I figured it would go away after a little bit, but I was wrong.  At 11pm at night I was still in agonizing pain- enough pain that I just broke down and could do nothing but cry.  Somehow I finally fell asleep- and in the morning even though it wasnt completly gone, at least it was down to a dull pain. Lesson Learned:  I cannot do the things I used to be able to do.  Rest is a must!

Baby Girl has always been attached to me, but lately she is waaayy attached- its so sweet.  She makes sure she is always right by  my side and even more protective of me than usual.  Usually when I am getting ready in the morning she would lay right outside the bathroom door the entire time, now when I'm taking a shower she lays right on the other side of the tub and when I am getting ready in the morning, she lays on the bathroom floor at my feet.  When I am eating at the table, she is either right next to my chair or under the table laying at my feet.  Don't get me wrong, she is still a daddy's girl and loves to cuddle up with Brian too- but its like she knows I'm pregnant and is glued to my side. I love it!

And I already feel like Braxton is a little cuddle bug- I don't know how to describe it, my heart just feels like sometimes he kicks me just so I'll hold (him) aka my stomach- I can just feel him calm down every time I do it.  He is going to be the sweetest little boy ever, I just know it!  And if he is anything like his daddy- well then I will be the proudest momma in the world! I can't wait for him to get here! We broke the 100 day mark this week- only 14 more weekends left and our son will be here!!!!!