My First Trimester in a Nutshell

On the last day of my first trimester I have decided to blog.  My son got on to me yesterday because I haven't written a post in a while.  So here I am.  It will be difficult to write about an entire trimester but I will do my best to without boring you too much.  Of course if you end up getting bored you can always just stop reading and that would take care of that problem.

One can not describe the feelings that have been going through my head these past weeks.  Feelings of utter elation to thoughts about how crazy I must be to start all over again after having one son practically raised and one half way raised.  Alas, here I am and I have come to terms with the fact that I am starting over.  Oh but what a journey it will be and what fun times we all will have.  The boys are so excited about having a little SISTER or brother that they can hardly stand themselves.  Especially Joshua.  He keeps coming up to me and hugging and kissing my belly and saying, "I love you Kaydence".  Yes he is determined that it is a girl.  I keep telling him that it could be a boy and he has even helped me come up with some boy names but he still keeps calling it Kaydence.  Then he will throw in "or Nathan or Ethan or Obadiah".  Like I said, he has been helping to come up with names.  Sean has more of a mellow approach to the whole thing but is still very excited.

As far as how I have been feeling these past few month.  Things haven't been too bad.  I had a few weeks with some nausea but it all went away and now if it wasn't for my increased appetite and exhaustion I wouldn't even think I was pregnant.  Of course I've actually seen the baby and heard it's heartbeat which definitely makes it more real.  I did have a couple of scares with some bleeding but there wasn't any cramping and the baby is still in there.  The doctor just said that it could have been caused by a number of things and that it isn't anything to worry about.  That's nice to know but when you are the person that is pregnant it kind of freaks you out.  Everything is fine though and the baby is very healthy and continuing to grow.

As everyone knows, before I got pregnant I was in the process of losing weight. Well of course with being pregnant losing weight kind of falls on the side burner.  That's what I thought anyway.  I have just continued with eating healthy and exercising as I have been doing with a few minor adjustments.  There are a few weight machines that I no longer do because it is uncomfortable.  I have lowered my weight resistance a little so I don't strain or pull anything.  Two doctors appointments ago after meeting with the doctor we met with this lady who explained to us how I should be eating (LOL) and about exercising.  She said that I shouldn't be lifting anything over 25lbs.  So at my next work out I tried the whole 25lbs thing and decided that If I was going to be in that gym and only lift 25lbs I might as well not go at all.  Can anyone say feather weight?  It was like I wasn't lifting anything.  Especially my legs.  Now my arms were okay with 25 on some of the machines.  I understood what she was saying but that was crazy.  So I am just being careful and still making sure my muscles don't go to mush during these nine months.

Now, I said that I was not trying to lose weight while pregnant.  Never a good thing to do but since I have continued to eat healthy and exercise and I have a little parasite in me eating up every little morsel that I seem to devour(which is a lot) I am still losing weight.  Actually at a quicker rate now than I was before I was pregnant.  Just since the middle of February I have lost 16lbs and I really don't think that is going to be the end of it.  I eat and eat but it never seems to matter.  The weight keeps going down.  The doctor is actually happy about it.  She knows how I've been eating and all the changes that my family has made over the past year and a half.  She says as long as I'm eating healthy and the baby is growing than there isn't anything to worry about.  So here's to me and getting skinny while being pregnant.  Eventually it will all catch up and I will start gaining some baby weight but honestly I am hoping that all it will be is baby weight.  I am still overweight and health wise can not afford to put on any extra weight.

Since I am overweight that puts me at higher risk of developing gestational diabetes.  So I am being extra careful to keep my sugar intake low.  I really don't want to take any chances.  I opted out of the first glucose screening which Dr. Rutter was fine with but there is another one sometime towards the end of my second trimester or beginning of my third.  I'm not sure she will let me out of that one.  I guess we will see how the pregnancy is going then and how much weight I have lost or gained by then.  Can't really make any assumption on something that is still a ways off and depends on so many factors that have not come to be yet.

I did forget to mention something.  One thing that I found out during this whole thing is that I have failed thyroid.  So I am currently on medication because my thyroid doesn't function.  This could also play a role in my losing weight.  I started taking the medicine around the same time that I found out I was pregnant.  Your thyroid function has some impact on your ability to lose weight.  As much as I hate taking medication this is one instance where I don't see another alternative.  Not something I want to be messing around with while I'm pregnant.

I guess that pretty much sums it all up.  Tomorrow is the beginning of my second trimester.  May it pass as quickly as the first and be better than the first.