Where has the time gone??

Wow it seems like time is flying by! I've decided I'm not too good at the whole blog thing. There has been A LOT that has happened since December. WARNING: Lots of writing to catch up the last 6 months.

For starters we found out in January that we were expecting our first baby! I'm due October 4th, we were thrilled. It took us a little while to get pregnant so we were starting to worry and wonder if there was something wrong. Then 2 weeks after we had a Dr appt to discuss everything we found out I was pregnant. What an amazing day that was! I just thanked Heavenly Father the second I saw that positive test and haven't missed a day since. We feel so blessed.  It has been a journey for us with me being sick. I started feeling really nauseous at 6 weeks, but at 8 weeks it took a turn for the worst and couldn't keep much down. I did not feel good at all and still was trying to work full time so that Bryson could focus on school. Poor guy had to pick up the slack for me at home because I couldn't do much of anything.  He was so helpful and fixed himself food for those 5 months since I wasn't up to eating much of anything and took care of me and was so patient and loving. I'm so lucky to have him around. I got some Zofran pills at my first Dr appt at 10 weeks and honestly I don't really know how much they helped. I was still throwing up multiple times a day, but I guess if I wasn't taking the pill it may have been much worse. My max of throw ups in one day was 12... I had a really rough week around 16 weeks where I needed to be on IV fluids and stayed home from work and just slept and threw up most the time. Those were some rough times...but I am still so glad to be able to be carrying this baby! There were moments that I thought to myself, "how could I ever go through this again??" But I would do it all over again to be able to have a little baby in my arms! She's not even here yet and I'm already so in love!!! Finally at about 23 weeks I stopped throwing up every day and it went to just once or twice a week. I am now 26 weeks (on Thursday) and I'm feeling better than I have in months!! At my 24 week appt I was back at my pre-pregnancy weight which the Dr was happy about, and now I think I have gained 2 more pounds since then. So we will see how the last trimester treats me, hopefully I can control myself with food finally tasting good again!

We did find out at our 18 week appt that we are having a little girl! I was competely shocked!!!!! I was 99% sure we were having a boy. According to all the old wives tales and people around me I was convinced. But boy was I wrong. I had to ask the US tech to check to make sure 2 more times. She kindly said, "sweety, I'm 100% sure it's a girl." I still couldn't believe it. But we were so EXCITED! I just kept thinking how much fun it will be to dress her up, and how poor we will be after I buy her an outfit everytime I walk by the baby isle. Baby girl clothes are so cute! Bryson is so excited to have a little Daddy's girl! He is going to be such a great Dad, I can't wait to watch  him.  We also found out after that scan that she is a very healthy baby, she was measuring a week bigger despite my weight loss. We feel so blessed that everything looks good with her and all her organs are developing as they should. But we did find out that I have placenta previa. Which is where the placenta covers the cervix. It can cause  a lot of complications (preterm labor, hemorrhaging, c-section, and more) but I wasn't really showing any of the signs so the Dr wasn't too worried and just said take it easy and scheduled another US for 24 weeks. He said most the time they resolve on their own as the uterus gets bigger. Well at my 24 week US it was completely on top of my cervix, so no resolution there. But again, I'm not showing any of the signs so he didn't put me on bedrest. He said if I begin to spot of cramp I will have to go on bedrest but so far so good, I feel really blessed! So I have another US in 2 weeks to check it again, they will continue to monitor me throughout the rest of the pregnancy, so we'll just hope and pray everything works out.

As for Bryson, he is such a stud in school! He would kill me if he knew I was writing this on here but he got over a 4.0 last semester. He is so smart and dedicated it amazes me! He will graduate in December and I'm so proud of him! He just applied to Medical School a couple weeks ago and took his MCAT last week. We don't get the results from that for 30 days so it's a bummer to have to wait around, but I am confident that he did well. We hope to be accepted into med school for Aug 2013, he is ready to get started with that to get closer to becoming a Dr. He will be such an amazing Dr, it will be exciting to see what the future holds for him.