I know, I know. I haven't posted a new post in nearly 5 weeks! Time is slipping by! Lucky for you all, I have been stranded in the house with a migraine all day, so here goes nothing for another post!
Well, at 10 weeks, morning sickness, exhaustion, and sore feet were all on the daily list of activities I went through. Now, nearing 15 weeks, I am doing much better... besides the headaches/migraines.
Next Wednesday Brad and I head back to Sioux Falls for our 4th visit to the Dr. We have had an ultrasound every time we have visited the Dr. so far, and for both of the next 2 visits we are scheduled for ultrasounds. At 7 weeks we had our initial, "early pregnancy" visit to the Dr. to ensure that everything was good. At 10 weeks we had another check up, where they did another ultrasound, without any pictures :(, but we still got to see the little fart and got to see the heart beat racing away. At 12 weeks we had our third Dr. appointment. This appointment was another ultrasound, and a genetic screen test. They took my blood, I peed in a cup, and we got to see a full version of a "mini me" of the both of us.
Wednesday we go back in for the 4th appointment which is a check up on the umbilical cyst that the Dr. found on the ultrasound at our first Dr. Appointment. I am nervous, don't get me wrong, but after the results from the genetic screening came back "negative" with a 1/100,000 chance of a genetic disease, I feel much more confident that everything will be ok on Wednesday when we have that ultrasound.
In another 4 weeks.... FOUR WEEKS... we find out the gender of Baby Punt #2. I can't WAIT to give this little one a NAME. We do have a boy name picked out already... We actually agreed on one very quickly this pregnancy... we didn't even have a boy name picked out for Paige before we found out she was a girl, so the boy name has been a huge step for us! We are still throwing around a few girl names. It's hard for me to pick one, because Paige was my ultimate girl name... But, she was totally meant to be my Paige. There will be another girl name that will stick... maybe! ;)
This pregnancy seems to be flying by. I have had a hard time keeping track of the progress and knowing off the top of my head which week/day I am on. I have to think about it pretty hard, or I go to the pregnancy app on my phone to see it. haha. I just don't feel as involved with this pregnancy as the first one. I think part of that is because this pregnancy has been a lot more miserable. Physically, mentally, emotionally. Everything has been 10 fold from Paige. I knew there was a chance of having a rougher pregnancy since no pregnancy is the same, but I was really hoping it would be as smooth sailing as it was with Paige... but then again I was in school then, and now I am working 12 hour days.
It is starting to get better. A little. My bump is starting to really pop out. I went shopping last weekend with a few girlfriends, and they FORCED me to buy a maxi skirt. I'll admit, it is super comfy, but I'm just not a skirt person. The one nice thing about it... it's practically a maternity skirt because it STRETCHES! :) ...If only I could get away with wearing THAT to work... hahahaha. It's much better than wearing tight work jeans all the time! :)
Anyways. I will hopefully post again next week, after the Dr.s appointment. We have a wedding next weekend too, so I should have some free time to write out a message for you all!
Thanks for everyone's support so far! It means so much through a difficult pregnancy.
