Summer Days
June 28th, 2010 by Jen Hen under Baby 3. No Comments.
It’s the first day of summer and the weather is proving it with sweltering heat and a heat index well above my tolerance level.
Welcome to week 14 of my pregnancy! I’m already waddling like a penguin instead of a mother hen. The past several weeks have brought a lot of changes physically, mentally, and emotionally. I’ve ridden quite the rollercoaster from the moody/irritable/snap everyone’s head off to the cry-at-the-drop-of-a-hat. I keep pinching a nerve in my back that leaves me wanting to do nothing more than lay in bed. And the last three days has been an on-again, off-again headache. I gained 5 lbs then I lost 4 lbs. I went from wanting to sleep all day, to hardly sleeping at all, back to sleeping fairly normal, but wanting a nap mid-afternoon. One day I don’t want to see or talk to anyone, and the next I want to be surrounded by people.
Yes, I’m pregnant. lol. DH and I got to see our little bean on an ultra sound last week. It was an unplanned ultra sound, but when the doctor couldn’t find the baby’s heartbeat on the portable doppler he wanted to get a picture to make sure all was fine. I’m no skinny-mini, but I am fairly well built so he was just a little surprised when he couldn’t find the heartbeat. All was well on the ultrasound and we found that my placenta is in the anterior position, meaning that the chunkiest part of it is at the front of my uterus and was acting as a cushion preventing us from hearing baby. It also means it’s a bit harder for me to feel the baby move around. By this time with both X-man and Lil’ C I was able to feel a movement or two a day, but I’m lucky if I can feel Baby 3 a time or two during a week. At least I know that all is well in there and I am thankful for that.
Edit: Obviously I posted this a few days after I wrote it. What can I say? I’ve been easily distracted and haven’t stayed on task with many things for very extended periods of time. haha.
