BOY!!!
Oh we are so excited!! I think we both secretly were thinking how awesome it would be to have a boy! I had the big ultrasound yesterday and it was so much fun to find out what we were having. Doug wasn't able to come to the ultrasound so I came up with a cute way to tell him. I'll see if I can get the video to work on here.
Here is my bump at 20 weeks! I wasn't able to take pictures the last few weeks because I didn't have a camera to do it with.
Here are some of my favorite things about this pregnancy as of late!
- I've been feeling this baby for about 2 1/2 weeks now and it never gets old. I'm always finding myself smiling and amazed that such an amazing thing is happening to me!! I love all of the little punches and kicks he gives me, even if he loves to do it at 5 in the morning (something that has been a common occurrence!).
-I'm loving food and yet not the sweets! I'm so happy that I don't crave greasy food and sugar all of the time. I always worried that I might run into that problem and then turn into a blimp.
- I have felt so great! The tiredness is wearing off and I feel the need to be active and doing things. Everyone asks how I'm feeling and I truly do feel great.
-I have the craziest vivid dreams. They have nothing to do with baby boy or the pregnancy but they are crazy! I have never dreamed so much or remembered my dreams so much in my life. I had always heard you have super strong dreams when pregnant and now I know its true. Some I remember are things like Burley turning in to a tarantula (weird?), my mom dragging me out of sacrament meeting to discipline me - yes I was still a grown woman and it made me so mad for her to embarrass me so!! I woke up with such angry feelings!, and me and Doug dating as if we weren't married and trying to figure out if we were right for each other. Ha! I know crazy and I'm sure there will be more to come.
-I rented a doppler off of the internet and am so happy I did. My family has been able to hear the heartbeat and I can always check on him. It was super cheap $20 for the month. I'm glad I had it because yesterday I slipped and fell on the ice. Hard. I landed on my backside and was really worried something might go wrong. He's not really active at night and I kept worrying that I wasn't feeling him. So I check the heartbeat off and on all night. Everything is going fine and he was moving like crazy again this morning.
- I have another check up on Monday because my cervix is thinner than the Doctor would like. I'm hoping and praying it will thicken up on it's own so that I will not have to have a cerclage done or be put on bedrest. I still have all of my students to teach and besides that I think I would go crazy being on bedrest. I have too many fun things I plan to do and work on!! So we shall see.
