Pregnancy

If you are a boy, you might now want to hear the details of finding out I was pregnant. Just warning.

Casey and I tried for what seems like forever to me to have a baby. We tried for 10 months and I can't even imagine what it's like to try for longer than that. I feel horrible for people that try for longer, especially when one person that did was my sister in law and it was much harder for her and took lots longer. I constantly thought I was pregnant throughout trying because of signs my body decided to make up to get my hopes up and my body would stress itself out and be between 4-6 days late. I took many pregnancy tests and had many nos come up. The last couple months we tried I wasn't as sad after a no because I had a feeling that it was going to happen soon.The month that we finally got pregnant I didn't track my ovulation and didn't worry about trying hard and low and behold it worked! It stinks knowing it was myself causing myself not to get pregnant but I know that it took us a long time because now is a much better time for us to be having a baby instead of a year ago. Heavenly Father knows what's best for us much better than we think we do or think we are ready for a certain blessing.

My sister Courtney had told me that the month she was pregnant her boobs hurt her a ton and right after she told me that was the month I started having soreness at 3 weeks of being pregnant. Holy cow sore boobs hurt really bad! Ha I couldn't sleep at night because I always sleep on my stomach. I was worried my body was just making up the symptom since she had told me that but I also was pretty sure that I was pregnant.  The Monday after Thanksgiving Break I told Casey that morning that I was late and thought I was pregnat. He didn't have much hope because I had told him this many months before but we waited until he got hom from work and I went in to take a pregnancy test. While I was peeing in a cup, my brother in law came downstairs and was talking to Casey which I was super embarrassed about because I figured he could hear me in the bathroom ha but once I came out they were both upstairs so I didn't have to face Todd right then. I waited for the pregnancy test to show and it was finally a yes! It was a bit unbelievable and it didn't sink in right away. Casey came down and I showed him the pee stick. We were both in disbelief but we were very happy! The next day I took another one just in case and it was still a positive:) Now we are having a baby in July! And we hopefully will be finding out the gender tomorrow ah I can't wait!!!

I've been super un-motivated the past two months and my house has been a mess, I haven't read a single book which is weird for me, and all I've done is been on my couch watching Grey's Anatomy. I had a good week at 12 weeks, then again at 14 which I didn't throw up from 14 weeks until a week and a half later which I just broke on Wednesday. I was hoping I would be able to say I didn't throw up at all after I entered 2nd trimester but it didn't happen.

The pee stick

Beginning tummy when we found out I was pregnant



9 Weeks



14 Weeks

And I am now 16 weeks and everyone is now noticing my belly even though I thougt it was completely noticable at 8 weeks.

This next part of the post is mostly for my memory only because lets face it, who doesn't want to remember all the crazy throw up experiences they've had ha. So if you don't want to hear about throw up, don't keep reading!!

Let's see if I can remember all these wonderful experiences. Basically what I eat is oatmeal, cereal, toast, and fruit. Oh and for some reason macoroni and cheese sounds pretty good occasionally. So these things have been thrown up many times and I doubt I will eat oatmeal very often after this pregnancy. Oatmeal when it comes up right after you eat it isn't too bad. If it's been sitting in your stomach for a while and comes back up it is awful. I ate a bowl of oatmeal and on the last bite I threw it back up into my bowl and it looks exactly like it did before I started eating it:). Ha I laughed pretty hard after that, and no I did not try and eat it again. I've started marking my territory outside of my family members houses. First it started with Courtney's house after we played games and met Chelsea's boy she is liking right now. We were giving Chels and Tanner a ride home after the games and as soon as I walked out into the cold air I threw up the orange and milk I had just eaten into the snow. I tried to cover it up with other snow but as soon as it started to melt apparently it preserved it in ice and Courtney and Marc got to see it for a while until it decided to snow again and cover it up ha. Then at my parent's house I was leaving on a Sunday and I had just eaten a bowl of oatmeal, walked to my car and threw up on the pile of snow right in front of my car. The next Sunday as soon as I walked in the door the first thing I was asked was, did you throw up in our snow? Haha sorry can't help it! I almost threw up at my brother and sister in laws house outside of their house but instead I waited until I got to my parent in laws and threw up there. At least it wasn't in their snow where it would be preserved. The cold air just seems to set me off when I'm hungry and a little nauseous. Or it's been our horribly poluted air.

Worst tasting throw up was when I was on my way home from work and I was really hungry because I didn't have any food leftover for a snack so I sucked on a lemon preggy pop on the way home. Threw up once I got home and all it was was a tiny bit of stomach acid that tasted even nastier because of the lemon flavoring it had. Bleh. Oranges have a horrible acidic taste also and hurt, and are chunky and nasty to throw up.

I just really hope my barfing comes to an end soon. My days have been great lately until about 7 at night where I get super nauseous again. At least I have some hours where I don't feel too horrible. My stomach pains have been worse since I hit 2nd trimester and I'm hoping they don't get even worse as I get even fatter. I love this baby but let me tell ya I sure haven't liked pregnancy! I always planned on five kids...I'm reconsidering this because I don't think I can handle this five times.