A kick in the night…

Baby Drake #2 made its presence known, At around 3am.  Could it have had any better timing?  Kiersten has been sick waking up and coughing a lot over the last few nights and I am tired all the time so I try to get sleep in whenever I can.  However last night was a bit different.  Kiersten woke up crying and coughing at around 2am and I couldn’t fall back asleep only to feel flips happening in my belly.  I was still attempting to sleep all morning however these flips kept me from falling into a deep sleep from 3am on.  When George woke up in the morning I said, I think I have started to feel this baby move and kick.  He didn’t say much as he was in a hurry to get to work.  Kiersten woke up at 6:45am and came in and laid in bed with me. Shortly after George left for work the movement started all over again, so I laid on my back, and I was surprised and shocked to see the little kicks on the outside of my belly.

You might be asking why I appeared surprised, and that’s because according to the doctors I’m only 15 weeks and some odd days.  This seems early to feel and see the baby kick.  I didn’t see or feel Kiersten until 20 weeks. And another thing that makes me suspicious that this baby is going to come earlier than they think it is… the kicks are about an inch above my belly button and they say your uterus doesn’t even hit your belly button until 20 weeks.  The only thing I can think if they are correct is that the baby is merely is kicking the top of my uterus instead of out towards the front and that’s why I feel it higher!    Either way the kicks are real, I can see them when I look at my belly and that tells me baby is healthy and active, and has been active ALL MORNING its now 9am and it started at 3am!!

On another note, My belly is growing and I’ve gotten away with wearing scrubs at work with my job so I can hide it and haven’t had to buy new clothes.  However I took a new position at work and start orientation this week and have to dress up…so this means that today… I have to go clothes shopping…not looking forward to this!

15 week appointment

Not a lot to report with our appointment today.  Went in and saw Stephanie, discussed all my symptoms, shortness of breath, weakness, and more importantly nausea.  She is a little concerned about my nausea because I’ve just been losing weight since I got pregnant. She wants me to gain some weight.  So any time I feel good, EAT and Drink water whenever I can, because I feel dehydrated a lot! Although I will say that I do eat and drink already whenever I feel good! She gave me some hints to help with the nausea but most I have already tried, so my goal this month is at least to maintain my current weight, and try to keep some vitamins down (currently doing gummy vitamins cause it’s the only ones I can keep down part of the time).  She said to try anything with papaya in it….I guess it helps ease the stomach.  So I’m looking for juices and stuff with that if you know of anything!  I don’t even know what it tastes like so who knows if I can keep it down either!  All my vitals were good, pressure was 106/60 which is a little lower than average for me but not my much. My weight like a mentioned before was down a bit again.  But the baby was super easy to find by Doppler and the heart beat was strong!  Next appointment in one month.  She said we could have the US then or wait till 20 weeks.  I opted to wait until 20 weeks because she said that sometimes they can’t to all the anatomy of the heart at 18 weeks.  So we will have our US in a month and half…. we probably won’t be finding out what it is at the ultrasound but rather will be having a get together to reveal the gender with friends and family.  Haven’t decided when we will do that though, was thinking November but may actually do it in October instead due to limited weekends available for my mother, mother in law, and my schedules to coordinate in November!  We will see!  Until next time….