Well let me start by saying I wrote an entire blog post and the website deleted it before I posted it so let's hope I can remember all of what I wrote! 22 weeks and baby is the size of a corn on the cob... hard to believe we only have 18 weeks left until she is in her parents arms. I love being pregnant but I also cannot wait to see her two dad's become parents for the first time! I think it is becoming more real for them but I'm sure when your not the one with a growing belly it doesn't feel real as fast as it does when you have a daily visual reminder that kicks you from the inside. The day we hit 22 weeks we took the girls to a nationals cross country meet in Ohio. It's so awesome to watch your kid's do something that they love, that they are good at and that you can do with them sometimes, although right now they'd probably both be faster than me! It was a muddy race as you can see in the picture but they did an awesome job and Ellie even placed 11th for 7 year olds, which made her happy since she got to go on stage to get her award. They both beat their fastest times by a significant chunk of time which I think is awesome since really you can only truly compete with yourself to see if your improving. Very proud Mama here!!! While in Ohio and our next stop Pittsburgh, we made sure to get tons of yummy food to feed surrobaby! Of course doughnuts had to be included more than once since the baby seems to crave them. I am also craving salads so maybe they even each other out?!?!? I also included a picture from one of my early am treadmill runs at the hotel. For some reason I’ve been waking up super early and since everyone else was still asleep when I wake up early on vacation I figured it’d be an awesome time to get in a good run at the hotel gym! While in Pittsburgh we visited different museums that the kids really enjoyed and what we enjoyed was that we could get into some of them free with our Baltimore Science Center Pass. Seriously belonging to your local science center is a really worthwhile investment since you can visit many different museums in many other states for free! We usually try to find atleast one in each place we go to entertain the kid's and I have to say the Science Center in Pittsburgh is one of the most awesome ones that we have been too! Of course at one of the places we visited a dinosaur skull had to "eat" the baby because it wouldn't be as fun if we couldn't include her in something. While away we also had a visit with Santa and his friends for the first time this season! I forgot to ask for what I wanted for Christmas but maybe next visit? After a quick stop over at home to do laundry and pack again we were off to NC to visit my sister and her family for Thanksgiving. We of course had a visit at one of their museums and the kid's just loved playing with their cousins! In fact on Thanksgiving they were so busy I only got a picture with the littlest Turkey... I love his shirt, it says "Eat Pizza", haha. I don't think he appreciated it as much as me though, which is usually how it goes. Of course on top of yummy Thanksgiving food we also had to buy this $5 cinnamon roll from Sam's Club and yes I ate that entire section myself in one evening... nevermind I will blame it on the baby and say she ate it!!! Luckily we did manage to get some workouts in while I was gone to make up for all of the treats! I feel like at this point in my pregnancy my body is just getting more tired, especially my legs during runs so I decided to switch my Baltimore half marathon on 12/2 to a 10k. I was a little sad at first but honestly the baby comes first and if I'm feeling fatigued it is best not to push it and to just enjoy the run in general. I am lucky that I haven't had any cramping or pain, other than when I had pants on without belly support, because at that point I would have to stop all together. Hard to believe that now at 23 weeks I have a grapefruit in my belly. The belly has really popped out at this point and I think that people that had no idea I was pregnant before, have no question about it now! I love having a pregnant belly and not just feeling like I'm in the "fat" stage where people aren't sure what's going on. The only problem with popping out is that I feel like I'm carrying her so high and if I eat too much I feel full really quickly and sick plus it makes it hard to breathe at times. I can't remember if it's how I carried the girls but I do know that I carried Cody much lower and never felt like I couldn't breathe when I was too full. Since I did say I was craving salads I wanted to post this delicious salad I made the other day... yummmmyyyyy!!!!! Excuse my HS staff bathroom pic but I love having the baby belly!!! Even though this one wasn't on my original blog post I wanted to share a picture of Zoe and Ellie feeling the baby kick. They loved it and even said "she's alive"!
I feel like this is such a great learning opportunity for all of my kid's in regards to pregnancy and the entire process. The girls are older so they love to hear about how the baby is developing where as Cody doesn't care as much about that but loves to talk about whose baby it is and say he loves her! Not only do the kid's get to learn about pregnancy but Cody and I had a nice talk yesterday about the fact that families can all be made differently. He was very interested to learn that some families have a mom and a dad, some have two dad's, some have two mom's, and some have just a mom or a dad. The awesome thing about a 4 year old is that since he is so young this is now his normal and he will always know that he can love and have a family with whom ever he wants. <3
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Finally time to update my blog! I realize haven’t updated in awhile so here is what’s been going on in the last two weeks. I guess we will start with the day after my last post which was a double date night with this babies Dad’s. I cannot post a picture of all of us but I do have one of me and the cute maternity dress I wore! We went to dinner at Isabellas’s and then went for dessert at Cakes to Die For, so delicious. We had fun talking about plans for the birth, nursery plans they have for the babies room and other things for the future of the pregnancy. It was an awesome night and I hope we can manage to do it again this pregnancy! I also attacheded a picture of the gifts I got for the dad’s and surrobaby. The week after that we had Halloween and of course my 20 week appointment and the big ultrasound with the anatomy scan. The 20 week appointment was uneventful, I literally saw the doctor for less than 2 minutes after waiting 30 but honestly that’s okay it means he baby is healthy. The big ultrasound happened on Friday and luckily both Dad’s could make it, it was so wonderful to see their happiness when they saw their baby on the screen. During the ultrasound the Tech kept going back to look at images of the heart even though she said she was trying to see the entire right arm but since I’ve been through this before I kind of figured she was looking at different views of the heart over and over again for a reason. I didn’t want to alarm the dad’s in case I was wrong but when Dr Kramer came in he did say they could not easily find what way the aorta was pointing. I love Dr Kramer and completely trust him so when he said he thinks it’s just a “variation of normal” I completely believe him, and none of us are really too worried at this point. He said his son has an aorta that looks similar and that he honestly didn’t think he’d see it again in his career but that it’s not that rare just not always detected during a persons life time. The good news is that it would not impact the baby at all if this is in fact what is going on. He said that he recommends fetal echocardiograms with all IVF pregnancies so we have one scheduled for 11/13 which he said will give us a definitive answer but I really do believe him when he says he’s not worried at all. Overall everything else looked wonderful and it appears I am carrying an active healthy baby! I say active because now I constantly feel her move and even Jeremy could feel it one evening. I can’t wait until the dad’s can feel her move too! Other than that it brings me to 21 weeks today! I think I am finally popping out and people that don’t know I’m pregnant are asking now when I am due. Every time someone asks I always love to share that it’s not my baby and it’s a great time to educate people about surrogacy. I really love having people ask questions and being able to share the details. There aren’t many surrogates in this area so usually I am the first one that most people have met! So far I am loving this pregnancy and really enjoying the experience of being a surrogate! oh and on another note this baby is still allowing me to run so we have another half marathon planned for December 2nd in Baltimore! I do manage some gym classes but outside is best so as you can see I had my first cold run outside, although I ended up being a bit over dressed haha! On another note I may not really have any cravings but I am loving these goldfish crackers when I’m hungry before bed! I didn’t even know the “original” flavor existed before pregnancy. I am really just loving food in general, I have not been too picky. I of course had to share this picture of my 3 Halloween cuties! |
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