My pregnancy so far has its ups and downs (I know that as I progress the list will grow longer and longer). I am trying to concentrate on the positive side right now, even though the negative side seems to be a little longer.
Positives:
1. I am having a great second trimester, I am over the morning sickness and am not as tired all the time. Since I am no longer in school my stress levels are much more balanced and I have time to concentrate on day to day things.
2. Since I am not so sick all the time I am able to enjoy my baby's little movements. The best part is when Shea reaches over to feel them too, it is so fun to see the grin on his face as he feels our growing son.
3. There is no hiding my belly now, and it is nice to look really pregnant instead of the mysterious belly stage.
4. Now that we know our baby's gender we can shop for him and make up stories about him and all that fun stuff parents do as they wait for the baby to come.
5. Another fun part is the fact that we are pretty set on our son's name. We tend to call him by it even now. But we still have weeks and months before we put that name to his face so we will have to wait and see if it sticks.
6. Our baby is at the stage now where he can hear! So we love to read out loud and talk to him all the time. (Right now we are having fun reading the second Harry Potter book.)
Negatives:
1. My first trimester was rough, the morning sickness kept me from really enjoying the fact that I was pregnant. Not to mention that when I was earlier on it didn't even feel like I was pregnant-I couldn't feel him, I wasn't showing, and the only symptom I had was the constant nausea and fatigue (not fun). But yay that part is over!
2. My second trimester has brought with it backache and a constant cold-like feeling (sinus' are all stuffed up). But it isn't all that bad and I am grateful to be getting closer to delivery.
3. Since this is my first pregnancy I am quite nervous for delivery and the whole being a Mom thing. I just want to do everything right for this little guy and yet at the same time I know that no parent is perfect, all we can do is our best. I wonder all the time what made my parent's parenting style so good, all us kids have stuck pretty close to the straight and narrow and are (thank goodness) naive to the worldly ways in many aspects. But fortunately my worries come and go and my Mom helps a lot with them, I wish she lived closer though.
4. As this baby grows he kicks more and more, and although it is a miraculous feeling at times it can be quite annoying. He likes to kick my bladder, my ribs, and he is very active right when I go to bed (which I hear is common, but not convenient).
5. The most inconvenient aspect of pregnancy is definitely the big belly, I am very reluctant to buy new clothes. So I am sifting through my closet judging which shirts are good for stretching and which aren't. I have a few shirts that I wear most of the time that look fine, but then I get tired of wearing them all the time so I start sifting through trying to make some new discovery. So it takes me about an hour to find an outfit, I usually have a whole stack set aside when I am done. It is so hard because every time I try something on it looks totally different in the mirror then it had in my head a few seconds ago. It is a rough process and by the end I usually give up and go back to outfit number one. (okay enough rambling about my closet problem)
6. It is pretty uncomfortable to bend down low or stretch up high so it makes housework all the more fun. And I know that it is only going to get worse as my belly grows bigger and bigger... oh joy.
Shea and I are both so excited as the time nears, only a few more months to go...
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(The picture above is me at 25 weeks and 5 days, but who's counting :)
