as of right now i'm just chugging along and hoping that i can continue working and make it another month. i still need to work it out with my work, but i'm thinking of using my two weeks vacation at the beginning of may and then after that start my fmla leave since i get 12 weeks, and as long as i deliver around my due date that would give me 10 weeks before going back to work. plus, that would give me about a month off and i think both me and my body would appreciate it. i'd have about a month to just relax and get everything situated for the baby's arrival. working full time and being 31 weeks preggo is pretty exhausting and i pretty much use all my energy at work and as soon as i come home i just want to crash and relax. i always think that on my day off i'm going to get something big accomplished, but then all i want to do is sleep in and just lounge around all day. i know that by the time i'd take some time off from work i'd be around 36 weeks pregnant so i'll probably have less energy, but i'm thinking i'll have more time to get things done, or at least hope that i'm more motivated. anywho, seeley is still moving around like crazy and it's making it hard to think so this will just have to be a short little update.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
so being pregnant i have decided is a love/hate relationship! i love being able to feel my little man's kicks and i can't help but already feel a great connection with him and love him lots, but then there are my random spouts of getting sick, my back issues, heartburn, and not that this is bad just yet, but sometimes his kicks and movements hurt. his kicks are getting a lot stronger and sometimes it will catch me off guard and cause me to jump a little. the weirdest is when he gets really high up and just hangs out there and pushes up. it's a crazy amount of pressure and i can only imagine what it's going to feel like when he gets even bigger. seriously, it's so weird feeling him move into a position and putting my hand there and feeling some hard body part or another of his. as uncomfortable as it gets sometimes i still wouldn't change it for anything. i've always wanted to know what it feels like and i already feel an intense bond with him. i really just can't wait to meet him! funny thing is right now he is just kicking up a storm, and i think he has the hiccups.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
pregnancy fun && pregnancy "fun"
so i'm pretty sure that everyone that reads my blog follows me on facebook, so i'm pretty sure you've all seen the 3D ultrasound pictures we got of baby seeley. we had decided that for rey's birthday that's what we would do to celebrate! before we went they told me to drink some orange or apple juice so it would get the baby moving. well, we kind of forgot, but since the place was at the gateway we stopped in the food court area to find something.. they didn't have juice but they did have orange julius.. yeah, not the smartest idea since its PACKED with sugar and when we first started the ultrasound he was moving around like crazy! some people say it ruins the surprise of what they will look like when they come out, but seeing him is the most amazing feeling in the world and i can only imagine how exciting it's going to be to see him in person and to get to hold him so i'm thinking it's not going to ruin anything. while they did the ultrasound they played some music, and the very first song was "the first time ever i saw your face" by celine dion and i'm not going to lie, when i got to see him and hear those lyrics i couldn't help but tear up! they also gave us a dvd of the ultrasound to the songs they played and when i showed my mom and watched it again i teared up once again. the little guy was actually being quite a booger and kept putting his hand in front of his face which made it so we couldn't get a good glimpse, and when he finally moved it, he turned his back to us. we actually stopped the ultrasound twice and had me get up, pee, and walk around in an effort to get him moving but nothing helped. they did offer to end it a little early and have us come back another time to try and get better pictures but we decided just to finish. we may not have gotten the greatest pictures of him, but i got to see my little man and that's all that matters. actually, it's probably a good thing we didn't reschedule since my back decided to be lame.
speaking of my back, it is getting a little better. on thursday i worked in the morning and my back was starting to hurt a little but i just figured it was the normal pregnancy backache thing. well, in the middle of the lunch rush my back just completely decided to give out. it was weird because i wasn't lifting anything, bending over or anything.. i was just busy making crepes and boom! i could hardly move! as soon as the rush ended i called over my manager and had a girl i work with get me a chair, but i couldn't even sit. after talking to my manager we decided i obviously couldn't work and i called rey and he came to pick me up. we tried to get me into the truck that he drove, but i couldn't get up since it was slightly elevated so we decided to take my car and have me lay down in the back. as we were crossing the little crosswalk i coughed and oh my goodness.. that was seriously the most painful thing i've ever experienced. i was literally frozen in pain. rey was like we can't just stand here in the crosswalk, but i literally couldn't move. luckily after a few more seconds i was able to move and we somehow got me in the backseat of the car. we knew i wasn't going to make it downstairs to the basement so we plopped me down on the couch where i have pretty much been living the past few days. the first couple of days were freaking horrible! i couldn't even make the slightest movement without being in total pain. the first few times i had to get up to go to the bathroom i was in so much pain that at one point i could feel myself blacking out but luckily rey was there to help. seriously, i don't know what i would have done without rey or my mom. heck, the first night i had to wake my mom up at 4 in the morning to come help me go to the bathroom, and a little while later to bring me a throw up bucket since the pills the doctor gave me were making me super sick. they have been awesome, because i obviously couldn't get myself food, water.. anything by myself and they were awesome and would help me out whenever needed. slowly i was able to get up by myself and today i have been walking around a little bit, and heck, last night i made it up and down the stairs which meant i got to sleep in my own bed! yay!! not going to lie, it was a pretty awesome feeling to be able to get up and make myself a little lunch today instead of being waited on. so where i am at now is i'm just relaxing and taking time to get my back back to normal. i still have to walk around slow, can't bend over, or lift anything so work is basically out of the question, but luckily i've worked it out so that i don't have to go back till Saturday night. I've also got a physical therapy session on friday that my doctor thought would help, so hopefully i can get this all worked out because laying around isn't my favorite thing in the world to do, especially since i wanted to work for as long as i can!
not going to lie, sometimes i get a little annoyed, upset, jealous.. etc whenever i see my other pregnant friends having such easy pregnancies and mine being a pain in the butt. maybe it's just them not being a whiner or complainer like me, but i had really bad morning sickness and it seemed like all my other friends had hardly any or none at all.. and now i'm having these back problems and it just feels so unfair at times. plus, when i first had this back problem i was freaking out and worrying about little baby seeley so much. i must say, it has made his little kicks, movements, and hiccups that much more special and amazing because it helped me to know that he was okay. plus, whenever i'd start feeling upset or feeling like this was too hard it'd just remind me how much i love him already and how this will all be worth it in the end when he's here. i only have a few more days until i'm in the third trimester and i'm already getting so antsy about his arrival! i just wish it were here, but only about three months left so i'll just try and remind myself how close i am. plus, we still have quite a few big things that we need to buy him, not to mention work on his room. we have all the paint and what not bought, but with rey's work and school, and now my back thing this has halted things a bit, but i figure it will happen sooner or later.. and rey's spring break is coming up soon which means we should have some extra time. anywho, i think that's it for now!
speaking of my back, it is getting a little better. on thursday i worked in the morning and my back was starting to hurt a little but i just figured it was the normal pregnancy backache thing. well, in the middle of the lunch rush my back just completely decided to give out. it was weird because i wasn't lifting anything, bending over or anything.. i was just busy making crepes and boom! i could hardly move! as soon as the rush ended i called over my manager and had a girl i work with get me a chair, but i couldn't even sit. after talking to my manager we decided i obviously couldn't work and i called rey and he came to pick me up. we tried to get me into the truck that he drove, but i couldn't get up since it was slightly elevated so we decided to take my car and have me lay down in the back. as we were crossing the little crosswalk i coughed and oh my goodness.. that was seriously the most painful thing i've ever experienced. i was literally frozen in pain. rey was like we can't just stand here in the crosswalk, but i literally couldn't move. luckily after a few more seconds i was able to move and we somehow got me in the backseat of the car. we knew i wasn't going to make it downstairs to the basement so we plopped me down on the couch where i have pretty much been living the past few days. the first couple of days were freaking horrible! i couldn't even make the slightest movement without being in total pain. the first few times i had to get up to go to the bathroom i was in so much pain that at one point i could feel myself blacking out but luckily rey was there to help. seriously, i don't know what i would have done without rey or my mom. heck, the first night i had to wake my mom up at 4 in the morning to come help me go to the bathroom, and a little while later to bring me a throw up bucket since the pills the doctor gave me were making me super sick. they have been awesome, because i obviously couldn't get myself food, water.. anything by myself and they were awesome and would help me out whenever needed. slowly i was able to get up by myself and today i have been walking around a little bit, and heck, last night i made it up and down the stairs which meant i got to sleep in my own bed! yay!! not going to lie, it was a pretty awesome feeling to be able to get up and make myself a little lunch today instead of being waited on. so where i am at now is i'm just relaxing and taking time to get my back back to normal. i still have to walk around slow, can't bend over, or lift anything so work is basically out of the question, but luckily i've worked it out so that i don't have to go back till Saturday night. I've also got a physical therapy session on friday that my doctor thought would help, so hopefully i can get this all worked out because laying around isn't my favorite thing in the world to do, especially since i wanted to work for as long as i can!
not going to lie, sometimes i get a little annoyed, upset, jealous.. etc whenever i see my other pregnant friends having such easy pregnancies and mine being a pain in the butt. maybe it's just them not being a whiner or complainer like me, but i had really bad morning sickness and it seemed like all my other friends had hardly any or none at all.. and now i'm having these back problems and it just feels so unfair at times. plus, when i first had this back problem i was freaking out and worrying about little baby seeley so much. i must say, it has made his little kicks, movements, and hiccups that much more special and amazing because it helped me to know that he was okay. plus, whenever i'd start feeling upset or feeling like this was too hard it'd just remind me how much i love him already and how this will all be worth it in the end when he's here. i only have a few more days until i'm in the third trimester and i'm already getting so antsy about his arrival! i just wish it were here, but only about three months left so i'll just try and remind myself how close i am. plus, we still have quite a few big things that we need to buy him, not to mention work on his room. we have all the paint and what not bought, but with rey's work and school, and now my back thing this has halted things a bit, but i figure it will happen sooner or later.. and rey's spring break is coming up soon which means we should have some extra time. anywho, i think that's it for now!
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