Progress so far....

  I just copied these from my old blog to bring this blog up to date on my pregnancy.

 

4 weeks

I am a little late getting this up but this is a 4 week picture.  I plan on putting up a picture every month to show my progress.  I will not be showing my belly though.  Too many stretch marks! Did I mention I gained 65 pounds with my first and he was 9 lbs 10 oz :) So unless I get really brave, no belly shots. That is my youngest son Jack standing there. Isn't he a cutie!!

4 months

Ok, so I skipped month 2 and 3. Let's just hope I continue to have monthly pictures. I was so sick month 2 and 3 that the last thing I wanted to do was to get my picture taken. So here is month 4. Now remember, since I was so sick the past two months I have not been eating primal but now I am starting!! So far I have gained 8 lbs.  The nice part about that is that right before I got pregnant and I was eating Primal, I had lost 10 lbs. So now I am just back to my regular weight that I was before going Primal. My goal for the whole pregnancy is to only gain between 25 and 35 lbs which is what is recommended for my pre-pregnancy weight.

5 months

Halfway to the end! Actually now I am a little more than halfway since they plan on doing my c-section at 39 weeks.  I have gained 17lbs since I got pregnant.  To accomplish my goal of only gaining 25-35 lbs this pregnancy I can only gain 8-18 more pounds.  I have 19 more weeks of being pregnant.  The bad part is the end is when you gain a lot of weight! It seems like the last 8lbs came out of nowhere really fast so I am hoping I will go a few weeks without gaining.  Once again, I am not trying to lose weight or anything, just trying to keep a healthy pregnancy weight this time since I have a tendency of gaining 55-65 lbs when I am pregnant.  I plan on starting to walk at the zoo with one of my friends when the weather gets better so hopefully that will help too! I am starting to have problems with back pain and my sciatic nerve so I am hoping some exercise will help that.

6 months

I am a little behind posting my 6 month picture and update.  We have had birthdays, parties and a wedding. So our schedule has been crazy and of course so has our eating.  I haven't been eating the greatest lately.  But I am hoping to change that and get back on track and get our hectic schedule calmed down as well!

As of this past Saturday I was 24 weeks.  I have gained a total of 22lbs.  I have 15 weeks left of being pregnant, since they are taking the baby a week early. So that means if I want to stay within my goal I can only gain 13lbs tops! It is going to be rough.  Good news is I gave up sodas for lent so that should help tremendously!  The past couple weeks I have been drinking a lot of sodas.  I just got finished reading this one lady's blog and she was talking about how she ate Primal during her pregnancy and it helped a lot with the swelling.  I have noticed my ankles are starting to swell just a bit so I want to make sure I start taking this eating Primal thing serious.  I had awful swelling with my other two.  The first one was the worse. Reading her blog got me back into wanting to take this serious because I know I will be so happy I did. So here we go again. Hopefully this time I WILL stay on track until baby gets here:)

7 Months

Wow, this past month flew by.  I am already 7 months along! I can't believe it. Only 11 more weeks until the baby is here.  I have gained a total of 24 lbs. I was looking back at my 6 month posting and I noticed I only gained 2 lbs this past month.  I was shocked!  I haven't swelled much. Some days I forget I am pregnant.  But then other days I feel like I have been hit by a truck and everything hurts.  Overall this pregnancy has been pretty easy.  Let's hope it stays that way.  We have been discussing names tonight.  I think we may have finally agreed on one but I think we are going to wait until we have the baby to tell everyone.  Part of the reason is we are not 100% sure on the name and mostly because I want something to be a surprise since we already know the sex.  Who knows, we may end up just telling everyone because I am not very good with secrets.