22 Weeks Preggo Today

Today is a day where I am REALLY feeling pregnant.  I have a massive head cold which is making it hard to breathe out of my nose, coupled with the fact that I’m 22 weeks pregnant as well as having to walk in from the back 40 to get into my office building.  By the time I got in to the lobby of the building itself, not my actual office, I was breathing like I had just ran a marathon.  I’m sure the nice man in the elevator was wondering what the heck was going on with me…I’m a heavy-set gal and there are just some days I look at myself and think, hmm…yep, you don’t look preaggo, just fat!  At any rate, I sit down at my desk and check my “home” email account only to get an email giving a picture of what the “approximate” current size is of this child is that I’m carrying around and didn’t feel so bad:

That’s right folks…a spaghetti squash it states.  And 11 inches long.  I won’t go into details week after week about which vegetable or fruit this baby resembles, although I find it fascinating, but today, it made me feel at least somewhat better about myself!

Pregnancy Brain

So I learned today that supposedly your brain shrinks by 8% during pregnancy. Because of this, that’s the reason I’m giving as to why I haven’t written anything anything on my blog in the past week! Even as I sit here trying to come up with something to write about, I’ve got nothin’. Sad, I know. Maybe something will come to me this afternoon as I go about my day…stay tuned…I’ll get it together soon.

40 and Pregnant!

We found out the Friday before Mother’s Day that we are expecting another baby! This was wonderful, shocking news but it came at a time in our lives where the timing just wasn’t right as well as we thought we were done having children! I turn 40 in August and to be quite honest, I never thought at age 40, I would be having another child. So we thought we were done and to the point that I’ve been giving things away over the past couple of years as Isabella had been growing out of things!

But it all started in early May when I had been feeling nauseaus each morning and Kevin even asked at one point, “are you pregnant” and I blew it off saying “there’s no way” and we both agreed and went on about our morning. Two days later, on my way to work, I thought I was going to have to pull over the car to puke my guts out and that’s when I pretty much knew, without having to take a test, that I was in fact, pregnant. I took the test and it didn’t even take seconds before I saw that second line pop up to confirm what I pretty much already knew! I sat there in complete shock, excited, nervous and scared all at the same time.

Luckily, although Kevin is without work, I was able to get the family on my insurance through my work and so the timing worked out perfectly in that regard. My doctor’s office has so graciously given me about 10 weeks worth of free prenatal vitamins and then as soon as I got insurance, they scheduled me in within the week to get both an ultrasound and an appointment. Because of “my advanced maternal age” mixed in with our first-born’s genetic history, they are treating this pregnancy cautiously.

So I’m currently 11 weeks along and our official due date is January 5th! We’re hoping maybe that we can have this baby December 31rst and have a nice tax deduction! ha!

God certainly has a lot of surprises in life and if we just say YES! to the adventure and let Him lead, we may receive things we never expected but can’t live without. This was one of them!