I was extremely blessed with this pregnancy by not having my ultimate horrific morning sickness I had with Nyla. Basically throwing up night and day and feeling absolutely horrible for 3 months. It was the most pain I have ever been in for that long of time. I was super scared out of my mind to do this again and this pregnancy I just had the normal pregnancy sickness which still wasn’t fun but a million times better than what I went through last time. So with that being said I was able to eat more this first trimester, last pregnancy first trimester I lost 5 lbs. I didn’t eat absolutely wonderful this first trimester, you pretty much just eat what you can and what doesn’t make you feel nauseous.

Second trimester so far I have been eating really well. This is normally the best trimester out of the three. You start to feel a little more normal when it comes to foods. My favorites from this trimester so far have been:

Strawberries that I eat for dessert normally

A nice ham sandwich with an avocado for lunch

I am actually switching up my lunch to a lite cheese sandwich with an apple

I was doing carrots with ranch dip for a snack but I haven’t been doing that lately

Bananas with whipped cream is great for my banana cream pie craving

I just recently had a craving for some nice baked ruffles chips. It was the right kinda saltiness and crunch I wanted but I am pulling the plug on those this week cause I can tell they are going to become a problem

Ice cream has been sounding good lately so I bought some big stick popsicles that are fat free and not too bad in sugars I’ll do every so often

And then my breakfast I have just loved some nice scrambled egg whites and egg beaters with a little bit of ketchup and some lightly buttered whole wheat toast, or Josh’s specialty that he has gotten me hooked on my scrambled eggs with corn tortillas chopped and and cheese. It is really good with some watered down orange juice. I have been craving his eggo waffles lately and sometimes sneak one for breakfast.

My newest crave is Gala apples. I never really knew how delicious those apples were. I eat 1 maybe 2 a day.

I can’t wait till all the Summer fruits are in season so I can start chowing down on some yummy watermelon, cantelope, and pineapple. Watermelon was a huge pregnancy craving last pregnancy. One of those ones you absolutely need or you start to go crazy. I know it will be a huge craving this time around too especially since I will do the third trimester during summer which I am so excited to do! And Pinkberry!! So excited to be so close to one of those again!!

I am 17 weeks almost 18 weeks along right now as I am writing this post. A couple months ago I started feeling the baby pushing out on my belly. Which for all you that haven’t experienced it yet it basically feels like a lump starts portruding out of your belly and you feel you stomach start to stretch a little. It is sometimes to the left or right but normally it is on the right of my belly and being so early on it is more in the lower pelvic region than the belly.

So about a week ago is when I started to feel the little one doing some kicks. It was Friday March 18 late at night. We just had our Property Management company come over and so we were up late putting our furniture on Craigslist. It was just the feeling I remember with Nyla. It was so cute how tiny it was and it started to become very squirmy that night. That was just the start. Now I feel them all the time. They seem to already be a night owl like me and Josh, haha. At one moment I would be watching Nyla sleeping in her crib on her monitor and the next I would feel some kicking from my other little one inside me. Kinda a weird concept of having two.

Much more pregnancy experiences to still come…. but I have to say I can not wait to not be pregnant anymore and be finished.

Here is our last visit with my doctor for our 18 weeks check up where I had to break the bad news. Jody was an amazing doctor and friend.

http://www.thehemsley.com/hemsley-party-of-four/

I wrote this post below a while ago, around when I was 3 months, I am right now 5 months along, thats right over half way done!! I have about 3 other blog posts about the pregnancy that will be posted soon.

So we have been keeping a little secret from everyone. For those of you wondering why I have kinda fallen off the social network world, I have been dealing with a lot of exciting things coming up plus I did not want to become an internet addict so stepping away is sometimes a good thing. I am actually writing this before I am even going to publish this to my blog site. Getting a little head start. I know some knew that we have been trying for another baby and we had a little strategy of trying for a boy. It may be considered wives tales to some but the one I use is pretty dang accurate so might as well try according to this chinese gender predictor I found on The Bump a long time ago. It has been accurate for every pregnancy except one but I am not entirely sure I got the correct info.

So we were kinda trying October and November, I really didn’t want to get sick during the holidays. December rolled around and this was the month we were really hoping for. I made it through the holidays and so we were ready.

So I tested and I have to say I was super excited for the first test result with Nyla but this one I just could not believe it said Pregnant!! I was super excited! It was just the most perfect time. We have a possibility of a boy but I would totally love another girl too so its a win win for me, Nyla and the baby will be a little over 2 years apart, it will be a Summer birthday very end of August or beginning of September if im late which was a must must here in Oregon I really did not want to have the baby in the depressing seasons, although with the grace of God we don’t have to worry about bad weather anymore with our awesome move back to sunny SoCal.

This picture is at 3 months, we have not been good keeping up with the photos. I want to take pics outside but our weather blows here so when we are back in sunny SoCal we will be sure to keep up on that.

Almost 3 months (about 11 weeks)

• *Nausea- still hasn’t returned which is the best feeling in the world.
• *Aches and Pains- I have been really lucky to have still a pretty small belly so I haven’t really had any aches or pains.
• *Sleeping- It has been pretty good. Again, with my smaller belly it hasn’t been too bad. I will sometimes get leg muscle cramps when I stretch my legs out but not very often.

*Eating- I have still been able to control my hunger and not go out of control. Me and Josh do our bowl of cereal in the morning, which I have switched to just plain cherrios to cut down on sugar. I make a nice sandwich with baked chips for lunch for both of us, and then mon-thur I make a nice healthy home made dinner. We have a snack in between each meal, and I do watermelon for dessert.
*Clothes- I can still barely fit into some of my jeans. I haven’t purchased anything maternity yet. I am going to be purchasing some more normal jeans that give me a little bit more room, my bella band helps keep them up without having to go buy maternity jeans. I have purchased some shirts that are still size small but are a looser fit style that will allow room for my belly and ill still be able to wear them after the pregnancy.

Her hand

We woke her up at this ultrasound so she was yawning. Its kinda a weird looking picture, and is hard to make out the yawn unless its pointed out.

They zoomed in really close. The left arrow is showing her mouth and lips open for the yawn. The black space in between is inside her mouth where she opened her mouth up. The right arrow is her nose. So she is kinda tilted towards the picture.

Her arm and hand

Another profile picture and the round thing by her face is her elbow.

My belly at 20 weeks (5 months). She is definetily a slow grower, my belly doesnt want to grow very quickly which will be good to minimize stretch marks but i would like my belly to show.

Her little feet

Its a Girl!

Her little fist clinched hands

Her little feet again