The HALF WAY point!

I DID it!  I lived through the half way point of this pregnancy to tell the tale!  And I got an awesome baby photo too!  NO, we do not know the sex.  Although, I'm very vocal that I think it's a boy.  I'm ok with whatever as long as IT is healthy!

Food: I CRAVE donuts and pastries and Kraft Mac and Cheese since Andy won't let me have any...

Weight: I've gained about 11-13 lbs depending on the day.  Not too shabby!

Nose: Some days are good and some are bad and that's OK with me!  It's not baby's fault that my body is so lame. I also found out that doing things that involve adrenaline like get laser hair removal help clear my nose out.  Now I know that when I go into labor, my nose may be good and clear up!

Boobs: Still feel like 2 bruised sand bags.  Yup, it's like pushing on a bruised sandbag.  Nothing sexy about that! 

Ultrasound: My doctor was on leave so we saw another doctor.  Have you seen Father of the Bride Part II and the scene where the young girl walks in and Steve Martin flips out because the doctor is young.  The doctor we saw for my 20 week was young and I thought... boy my dad would flip OUT if she delivered me.  LOL!!  Just like Steve Martin.  I'd probably be in a state of laughter hysteria!  Anyways, she was really nice and had nothing to report which was good! 
We also found out that I should be doing child birth classes in January however the hospital doesn't offer them and the clinic isn't sure why they haven't posted a January class....  I guess we'll be waiting patiently for that one too....  :)

Privileges:  When your nose produces this every day (75% of a box of tissue/day):

Then you do things like take advantage of this little privilege: Expectant Mothers Parking at work!!  Yup, I SO did park in this space with permission.  Don't judge me...  There are few times in life when you can take advantage of the "little things" and I feel that this is one of those times.  That and to be honest, they don't always salt the parking ramp very well so I would rather not fall on my ass.


Baby: Doing AWESOME!  Baby was breach at the time of the ultrasound but they move so much that I'm not worried.  Even if baby stays that way, it's ok by me.  I am VERY well aware that the only control I have is getting myself to the hospital when it's time to deliver. Without further blabber, I present our little baby!

Notice how baby is making SURE we know who is #1 and waving with the other hand!  Ugh, I wish I could just take this ultrasound machine home! This photo looks a little alien but the baby actually doesn't look as alien as I thought he/she would!  Yay, I'm SOOO excited!!!!  There were several times when the ultrasound tech would say "this is the ...., do you see it?"  Andy and I would look at each other and say "no..." and start laughing!  We even thought the stomach was the head at one point.  I always knew I'd be like Rachel on the Friends episode when she doesn't see the baby and flips out.  I just laughed instead of flipping out though!  Thank the LORD for 3D!  Sure helps people like us.  During the ultrasound baby was grabbing his/her feet and of course I said immediately that "it" has Andy's monkey feet.  I don't see that it has my crooked nose so that's good! Check out this picture too.  This REALLY looks like Baby is LOOKING at us!  It's probably just a reflection but it's pretty cool!

19 Weeks

I'm going to warn you... this is not going to be a very joyful blog!

Congestion:  My congestion has been horrible.  Let me rephrase.  I have requested MANY times to be placed in a coma until the baby is ready to pop out.  Because of my HORRIBLE nose, I am getting roughly 5 hours of sleep per night and this includes anywhere from 1-4 interruptions!   Honestly, I have never been more miserable in my entire life!!!!  This doesn't even compare to just feeling sick all of the time.  At LEAST I could still sleep and eat some food when I felt sick.  I really have no clue how I will make it through the next 4.5 months like this.  And YES I am thankful for being pregnant and whatnot but step into my shoes for 24 hours and see just how happy and chipper you'd feel!  My face hurts, my nose hurts and I generally cannot breathe.  My days and nights are consumed by the act of TRYING to breathe!!!!  I hate it.  If this doesn't change, then I probably won't have any more kids.  I cannot imagine doing this again, let alone having another kid running around the house that I'm chasing after.  So I'm going to give the Neti Pot one LAST try tonight. 

This is really all I have to blog about....  I can't think of anything else.  The acne is still bad but my need to breathe has far surpassed this issue.  As far as I'm concerned, look away if you don't like to look at me!  I don't really like to look at me either but oh well.  I think that this baby will be a on a pedestal for a LONG time.  Not only because it's mine but because it's birth will give me the ability to breathe again!