The Pregnancy Diaries – It’s Flying By!

Before I get started on my pregnancy update, the darling moms over at Just Spotted (a must-read blog for OC families) posted a little interview I did for them on their blog yesterday.  Thank you ladies!  Click here to read more about me, Tiny Oranges and how it all got started!  Also, make sure to check out their amazing April Calendar to see all the great family events happening this month! 

I realized I hadn’t written a post for The Pregnancy Diaries in awhile and this pregnancy is going crazy fast!  I blink and another week has past.  I have to admit, the calendar turned to April and I had a little moment of temporary panic as I feel like I still have lots to do to prepare.   Deep breaths, deep breaths.  

I will be 27 weeks tomorrow, and have enjoyed the past 10 weeks feeling FABULOUS.  However, just this past week, things have now started to take a bit of a turn into the slightly uncomfortable.   Not bad, just not as great as I had been feeling.   For some reason, I carry my babies HIGH, which I think is inhibiting the space for my lungs, so sometimes I feel like I can’t get a really good breath and it makes me feel anxious.   I had the same thing with Emma, so at least I know what to expect!    I have been trying to walk and continue to do prenatal yoga, which has helped.  But, even walking now is a tad painful.  I get a lot of ligament pain at the bottom of my belly, so I have to slow down and am trying to just listen to my body.  I have started to waddle and have been known to grunt (either internally or out loud) when bending over to pick something up.  Very attractive.   However, even with the uncomfortable moments, I have to say I am really appreciating my growing belly this time around.  It really is such a special time in life, and it goes so fast.  It is a constant reminder to me of how miraculous this whole process is.  Sometimes I look at my husband and say, “do you realize there is a whole little person growing inside of me!?!”  It still amazes me.   

Unfortunately I took the 1 hour glucose screening test last week and I failed!  Do you even know how bummed I am??  I have to go back for the 3 hour test now and I am completely dreading it.  I passed with Emma, so I didn’t even give it a second thought when I went in this time.    I can’t imagine sitting there for 3 full hours on an empty stomach filled with that glucose drink.   I was counting down the minutes for the 1 hour test.   YUCK!    I have read all these contradictory things online as to how to prepare.  Some say to not alter your regular diet at all, some say to cut down on sugar and carbs, others say to make sure to get a healthy mix of carbs.   I guess if I didn’t eat my regular diet, it wouldn’t be a very accurate test.  I think I will just eat normally, however, obviously I will skip the ice cream and Girl Scout cookies the days before!  The Girl Scout cookies killed me this year.  It is impossible for me to consume just 1 or 2 Thin Mints.  I am thinking they might be partly to  blame for last week’s result.  I had to send them all to my husband’s work after I got the results, I can’t even have them in the house!   If anyone has advice for me on this 3 hour screening, please leave a comment below or send me an email (jennifer@tinyoranges.com)!  I appreciate it!

Other than that, everything is going along smoothly.   My favorite part of pregnancy is feeling all the kicks and movement, and I have been feeling a lot!   During the day, I will get so busy, I sometimes forget I am pregnant.  Then I will be sitting at my desk and feel a little kick and nudge, and be reminded, and go “oh, hello there!”  Then again at night when I finally get to lay down and watch my DVR shows (I am sooo happy it’s American Idol season! Isn’t it GREAT this year??), I feel her moving around lot, and I love that time of connecting with her.    It really has a way of bringing you back into the present moment.

There are times when I have been getting a bit stressed about how it will work with a newborn AND a 3-year-old. Will I find my groove?  Will I remember what it is like to have a newborn?  Those early months were such a blur of sleep deprived delirium!  It’s just some days my daughter is a lot to handle on her own, so I try to envision a newborn into the daily mix, and it is hard to picture how it will work!  That’s when I really wish I could have a glass of chardonnay!  Oh well, all in due time.    I am just hoping that this time around I will be able to appreciate it more, and be more relaxed.   I think I will, and it is good to know first hand, that some day I will sleep again!

That’s about it for now, thanks for listening to my update.  As always, thank you so much for reading my blog!  If anyone else is pregnant and wants to share where you are in the pregnancy, post a comment here!!!  I love to hear from you!   XO Jen  

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