7 Months!

I had my 7 month doctor checkup last week! Everything is still looking good. I got the results from my glucose test I did last month...all was good. My level was 117 and anything under 140 is considered in the clear. So that was a relief. I did however, gain 8 lbs this month! Yikes! I guess I ate a little too many holiday goodies. I'm not panicking too much because I've still only gained 12 lbs the whole pregnancy....which I think is pretty darn good. The doctor didn't seem concerned that I had gained so much this month, he said I had some catching up to do anyway since I had lost weight the first couple months from being sick. I'm starting to get a really big belly...and it's starting to be uncomfortably big at times. Sometimes it just feels like it is stretched to the max and uncomfortable....I know I have still have a good bit of growing to do though so hopefully being uncomfortable wont last the rest of the pregnancy. The biggest annoyance is not being able to get a full nights sleep. First of all it's hard to get comfortable enough to fall asleep and then when i do fall asleep I end up waking up because either my back hurts, my shoulder hurts, or I have to pee! It's just frustrating. Oh well, it will all be worth it, besides I guess I need to get used to not sleeping a full night considering I wont be sleeping all night when the baby comes anyway! Well now I go to the doctor every 2 weeks so I will update again after my appointment on January 21st!

Baby News

Wow it has been quite a while since I posted last. A lot has happened since my last post. I am now almost 26 weeks pregnant! So i'm getting ready to start my 3rd trimester soon, it's so unbelievable that i'm already 6 months pregnant and the baby will be here before we know it! I am definitely looking pregnant now. I have a pretty big baby bump now and I am definitely feeling the affects of the extra weight in the front. My back is taking quite a beating trying to hold the belly, and I know it is only going to get worse as the belly gets bigger. I am really happy to say I've only gained 4 lbs. the whole pregnancy so far! I was very happy about that, I was afraid I would gain like crazy because I normally gain weight very easily.....I guess the baby is taking all of the extra calories instead of my butt though, so that's good.

We did find out the sex of the baby.....It's a GIRL! We were so excited to find out it was a girl. We of course would have been thrilled to have a little boy, but there are a lot of boys in both mine and Alan's family so we were happy to be adding a girl to the mix. We are going to name her Alana Marie.....pronounced like Alayna..... We wanted to keep the spelling similar to Alan's name and my middle name is Marie as well. In Alan's family there are 3 boys and 1 girl and she is names after her dad....His name was Eric and she is Erica....so we wanted to kinda carry on that little bit of a tradition in case she is the only girl we have. My dad thinks we will have all girls....which I would be very happy about, we'll see though. I need to have this baby before I start planning for the other babies!


Well I have my next doctor appointment on January 2nd and then all of our pregnancy classes start in January, so i'm sure I will have lots to update after all those exciting things!