8 weeks left!

Well 8 more weeks!! yay! I am 32 weeks and going to the midwife every 2 weeks now. I am not swelling like a lot of pregnant women are at this stage and I can still wear my wedding rings to I atleast have that in my favor. I also don't have a lot of back pain at the moment and have been able to sleep through the night both of which are common problems at this point in many pregnancies so it's nice to not have those complaints right now and I really hope that it stays that way. However.... I am also still nauseated, infact it's been getting worse like how it was in the beginning of the pregnancy, last week I spent 3 days in bed because I was SO sick, thankfully this weekend I have felt better. My emotions have also totally gone haywire! The slightest thing makes me cry which is very irritating because I can't stand to cry infront of people especially my husband. I have also started Braxton Hicks contractions. They don't hurt and they really aren't even uncomfortable at this point (I know it's early and they will get painful eventually) but it was nice to feel that sensation for the first time since it is a sign of things winding down and my uterus preparing itself. 2 months until I get to see my little one. My two sister-in-laws had babies this year and the whole family got together over the weekend to celebrate my father-in-laws 60th birthday and they both had their babies and I was a little sad just because it felt like I was missing something they have theirs and all I could think about was where is mine? But I know I need to be patient and that the day will eventually come when I get to hold my little one.

10 weeks left!

Well I am now 30 weeks! 10 weeks left, I see the light at the end of the tunnel. My midwife appt.'s will now be every two weeks. I have now started having a hard time sleeping at night. I seem to be waking up every night at 4am and not able to get back to sleep because I am hungry. Usually I would lay there for an hour tossing and turning and trying to get back to sleep and then would eventually give up and get something to eat and sit on the couch and can eventually get back to sleep. I thought maybe that if I didn't take a nap during the day and got myself totally exhausted that I would be so tired would sleep through the night. NOPE! like clock work woke up at 4 am! This time I decided to not even bother laying in bed for an hour since I knew how it would work and I felt bad because my husband has to go to work in the morning and can't sleep when I am awake in bed (even if I don't make noise he says he can hear me thinking!! lol he must have more senses than me) so I decided just get up go get your cereal and orange juice put yoru movie on and wait an hour and a half to make sure the food digests (last time I went to sleep right after sleeping I got extremely sick) so by 530 I go back to sleep and wake up and 8 again. The difference this time is that I am still so tired because I didn't get my nap the day before but can't sleep longer because I am hungry. I guess I will have to get used to this new routine although it makes me really sad because I used to say goodbye to my hubby every morning and now he is gone by the time I get home. Makes me miss him more. Oh well the joys of pregnancy but there is a small light at the end of the tunnel.

Birthday Surprise!

August 7th was my 25th birthday! a quarter of a century! I was actually a little bummed about the birthday being pregnant and sick my entire pregnancy I knew that would put a little damper on things because there would be only so much I could handle doing. Also my sister-in-law had her baby August 2nd so the birth of our new niece kind of overshadowed the birthday (not that I mind) so nothing was really planned. My husband said he was going to take me out to dinner and that was all we were going to do. Well when he came home from work he had two dozen roses for me (I don't get flowers often usually just after a fight) so that was a big surprise and then when we got to the restraunt there was a friend waiting there for us and I thought it would just be me and my husband and then when we got home some of my husbands family was there. So I had a nice birthday when I thought it would be a downer. So thanks to my hubby for making it special.

Our new niece!

In this picture is my husband and our new niece just born on Sunday! Her parents have decided to follow the Orthodox tradition and not announce the name until the 8th day. This is their first baby and she is just beautiful! Our sister-in-law had a really rough labor and deliver and it's been 4 days and she is still hurting pretty bad. But out came a 5lb adorable little girl! This makes number 6 niece! It is also exciting for us because my husband and I and his younger brother and his wife (parents of the newborn) are the only orthodox christians in the family so being able to experience her baptism and her future things in the church will be and exciting thing to share with them.

Another note today August 6th is the Feast of the Transfiguration day. My husband got up at the crack of dawn to go to church for the Divine liturgy on a weekday morning, and took a bowl of fruit with him to be blessed. Of course being pregnant and still somewhat sick, get up on a different schedule is impossible and would probably mess me up the rest of the day, so I stayed home and he went to church, although I really wanted to go I have never been to thos few early morning services they have on some feast days because so far I have been pregnant and sick for all of them. My husband has gone to quite a few and says they are something to see being a weekday early in the morning they are a little quieter. Some day though I promise I am going to attend the special feast day services.