Pregnancy

Looking back, I really don't remember much about my pregnancy with Jordyn, and I feel kind of bad about that.  So I am going to take the time to document what I remember about my 1st pregnancy and this one.  This probably won't interest anyone but me!

With Jordyn, I ate and ate and ate.  Especially in my first trimester, food always made me feel better.  Hence, I gain lots of weight!  I mostly craved cold things and fruit.  I ate a lot of popsicles and frozen yogurt.  With this pregnancy, especially in my first trimester, no food sounded good.  Eating was not ever very appealing, but at the same time if I do not eat, I definitely feel crappy.  The only things I wanted to eat were breads and fresh fruit.  Later on, I have been wanting meats.  I can tell now at 22 weeks that I want to eat a lot more food and I am really going to have to be careful!

With Jordyn I did not buy any maternity clothes until mother's day, at which point I was 22 weeks.  Even then, I did not really need to wear them.  This time, I started wearing maternity clothes, at about 18 weeks.  And I need to wear them!  The whole rubber-band in the pants thing is no longer working!  I know I am showing a lot more now than I was at this point in my first pregnancy, but I hear that is normal.

I was never too sick with Jordyn.  I only threw up a handful of times.  This time has been quite different.  Chad thinks this pregnancy has been significantly harder for me.   I went through a few days of the stomach flu in December around 12 weeks.  That was bad.  It brought on horrible, horrible heartburn.  I remember getting heartburn with Jordyn, but that was well after 20 weeks and was nothing compared to this.  No amount of tums calms this down.  I need to take the most powerful Zantac I can find to even put a dent in this.  If I don't take it before dinner, then I really don't sleep during the night due to heartburn.  I have definitely been more tired this time around as well.  Remember how we went to Cancun back in December?  I was at 11 weeks at the time, and so tired!  It was a great vacation because we were so willing to relax!  I wish I could go back!

This baby is so wiggly! Oh my! I started feeling her move at 16 weeks and it has not slowed down. I really don't think I felt Jordyn move til after 20 weeks. This little baby girl moves constantly. Any time I hold still, I can feel her. She wiggled all through the 20 week ultra sound, making things very difficult! Chad has felt her move from the outside and I don't think he felt Jordyn until I was closer to 28ish weeks. This one is just so active!

I LOVE my doctor.  I still have some angry feelings toward the doctor who delivered Jordyn.  Let me side track and give you an example....

When I was exactly 40 weeks, I was hoping, foolishly, that dr. N would induce me later that week.  I got to my appointment that afternoon, a Tuesday, with loads of questions for him.  He walked into the exam room, told me he had to run and do a delivery at the hospital, did the most quick, harsh, and painful exam I have ever endured.  He simply said, "Good.  Now I will race you to the parking lot!"  and left me in the exam room scared, full of questions, and in loads of pain.  I walked out of the room and to the front desk.  They asked when dr. N wanted to see me again and I had no answer for them.  I told them I was upset and really had a lot I wanted to talk to the dr about.  The earliest I could see him was the following Wednesday, over a week later.  On Wednesday, I was 41 weeks, and he told me he would induce me the next day.  It turned out that because Jordyn was overdue that she had passed a stool and swallowed the meconium.  As a result, she did not pass her breathing tests and spent 5 days in the nicu, costing us thousands.

I still kinda blame the dr. N for not taking the time to talk to me at 40 weeks.  He did however do well during my labor and emergency c-section.  The office I am going to this time is made up of 4 drs and they are all great.  One dr. S talked to Chad and I for nearly and hour last week about chosing a VBAC or c-section for this delivery.  It was great to be able to sit down and have things so clearly explained to me.  Dr. N never took that kind of time.  In fact, dr. S took more time to explain my first c-section than even dr. N, the one who performed the c-section, did. At my 6 week appointment after Jordyn was born, I asked my dr. N what having a c-section would mean for my future pregnancies.  His response was that I could have as many children as I wanted; that this should not slow me down.  That was the end of that conversation.  Dr. S explained to me last week the risks that come along with so many c-sections.  There is just so much more to it than was ever explained to me.  I LOVE my drs here so grateful for the time I feel like they set aside for just me.  I am still juggling the VBAC or c-section question but I know a lot more and feel so much more informed than I did a week ago and I have nearly made a decision.

There is a lot more to say about this pregnancy and Jordyn's, I just can't think of it all.  I am sure this is blog post that I will continue to add too.  (and it is already so long!)

3/8/13
I thought of another pregnancy oddity.  I am so emotional!  I cried this morning when Jordyn was watching "Land Before Time".  Back in December when I was so busy sewing, I watched all the Harry Potter movies.  I cried multiple times with every one.  I vocally wept when Dumbledore died.  I laid down by Jordyn to put her to bed one night during Christmas break in Burley, and she sang "I am a Child of God" for me.  I could not stop crying.  Books... I cry when I read books.  I remember crying when I was pregnant with Jordyn, but that was mostly because of stress from teaching and school.  I had the class from H**L that year and that made me cry a lot.  But nothing like this now.  I just walk around and start crying.  Sheesh Mandi, get a hold of yourself!

3/10/13
Pregnancy Brain!  I just read a book about a woman who is diagnosed with early onset alzheimers.  It is kind of freaking me out everytime I forget something.  Did I tell Chad that, or did I just think I needed to tell him?  Did I respond to that email?  I swear there was something I am supposed to be doing today?  Then I just have to take a few deep breaths and blame it on pregnancy brain.  No I am not crazy.  I do not have alzheimers at 27.  I am just pregnant and therefore a little more stupid than normal.