12 weeks

Nausea is about 100% gone. It hits from time to time, usually if I haven’t eaten in a while or if I’ve over eaten during a meal. But getting my meal sizes in check has been challenging but also a great thing. Last I weighed myself, I had lost about 2 pounds. Woot woot!

Exhaustion is still going strong. Some days I get a nap in and some days I don’t. There are days where Zoey’s nap doesn’t coincide with my tiredness, so at some point I am letting her watch TV while I lay on the couch like a zombie.

I’d like to think that baby bean is doing just fine. I saw my doctor at 9 weeks, saw baby bean on ultrasound and everything looked great. However, I know 9 weeks is really early. And things can still happen. My next doctor’s appointment isn’t until September 10th, which marks 16 weeks. I am just hoping and thinking happy thoughts about baby bean until then. I’m probably going to get down on my knees and beg for an ultrasound that day. Luckily my OB is a great man and I am thinking he will comply? I hope!

my hormones have been taken hostage

I cannot seem to keep myself from breaking down into tears today. The big alligator kind, even. Not really sure why but I woke up on the sad side. It may have something to do with last night.

Gene went to change Zoey’s diaper (and we all know how much fun THAT can be sometimes) before bed and she started crying, kicking and throwing a fit. But instead of it slowly easing off, it got worse and worse. I think she eventually got herself so worked up that she cried for almost an hour. I kept trying to hug her, hold her. We put her in her crib and she would not go to sleep, just cried constantly. I eventually picked her up to rock her in the glider and she proceeded to projectile puke all over me, her and the carpet. Gene gave her a bath while I started the washing machine and began scrubbing the carpet… all while using every single ounce of will power in me to keep myself from throwing up.

She started crying for about another 15-20 minutes after the bath, Gene gave her some milk and she finally fell asleep. She ended up sleeping through the night just fine. This morning she has been clingy and drooly and I am pretty sure she is still fighting these teeth. TEETHING! I SHAKE MY FIST AT YOU!

So today I am still worked up. I cried a lot last night. Nothing would soothe her and I felt pretty helpless. I haven’t felt that way since she was just a couple of months old and we found out she had acid reflux. I hope this is the last time I feel that way but I know I have a lifetime of worry ahead of me, both for her and for baby bean.

Speaking of baby bean.. I will update tomorrow! I will be 12 weeks along tomorrow and just a week shy of being out of the first trimester. Can I get a HALLELUJAH? Also, at some point I am going to try to get this week’s You Capture in…

You Capture: Summer

I was a total water bug when I was a kid and even to this day, I love swimming so I just knew that my own kids would love it. I mean, they would have to since it’s built into our DNA, right? Eh.. Not so!

Zoey loved playing with her water table but when it came to small pools or sprinklers, she was NOT a fan. In May we were staying in a hotel out of town and I took her into the hotel swimming pool in a little inflatable baby floatie device thingy and, well, that experience was nothing short of a total DISASTER. Lots of crying and flipping out.

So, it is to my delight that my daughter is slowly coming around to This Water Stuff. We have a few Spraygrounds/Splash Pads here and I finally took her to one and.. well.. she loves it!

Sprinklers and sunshine and popsicles and chubby baby thighs in cute little swimsuits… Love summer time!

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