I'll start with ALL the pictures. They are in order, but I don't have one from every month and I am not sure exactly how pregnant I am in each of them. Disclaimer - Some of these pictures were only meant to shared with family.
That chalkboard sat in our living room with 16 weeks written on it until a few days ago when I erased it and wrote one month on it, since Carson just turned one month old. So much for the weekly pictures...
Pregnancy Recap:
Since I cannot even begin to remember what was happening every month during my pregnancy I'll just kind of break it down into trimesters.
1st Trimester:
I can sum this period up with one word…diarrhea. I mean, I had incredible morning/all day sickness. I did my fair share of throwing up, but I also had insane diarrhea. Like to the point where one time I had to run home because I almost shat my pants. Another time we walked to the beach and I ran straight to the toilet where I spent the first 20 or so minutes of our trip. It was so terrible that I was afraid to leave the house because I had no idea when/where I was going to explode. If you actually read all of that all I can say is sorry. I found out later, a little too late in my opinion, that I had become lactose intolerant. It was super weird! It continued throughout my entire pregnancy. I could not eat any dairy or I would have major bathroom issues. I did start experimenting towards the end and I was able to tolerate more dairy and so far, I have not had any issues after pregnancy and Carson does not seem to have any issues with dairy. Thank goodness!!
2nd Trimester:
The word here would be exhaustion. I have never been so tired in my entire life (and that's saying a lot considering that Henry didn't sleep through the night at all until he was like a year old and even now will wake up at least once during the night so I haven't slept a solid 8 hours in years!). I could barely function and relied a little too heavily on caffeine during this pregnancy. I never exceeded my 200mg/day, but I was either having a Coke or a cup of coffee every single day. With Henry, I avoided caffeine and rarely had any during my entire pregnancy, but I also remembered my vitamins with him every day too. Sorry Carson! On the weekends, I could easily wake up at 9, take a nap from 9:30 - 12, eat lunch, take another nap from 1 - 3 and go to bed at 7. And I'd still be tired!
3rd Trimester:
Let's just continue with the one word theme, third trimester's word would be…insomnia! This is where I never slept…ever! Towards the end I could easily be awake until 5:30 am and then wake up at 7:30 with Henry, doze on the couch until lunch time, at 11, and then nap during Henry's nap - roughly 12 - 2 and then do it all over again the next day. So, I was maybe getting 6 hours of sleep spread throughout the day. Part of it was that I couldn't get comfortable and another part was that I just wasn't tired. The last few weeks were definitely the worst and most extreme, but the entire third trimester the earliest I ever went to sleep was 1 am, and I worked until I was 36 weeks pregnant. So, maybe exhaustion could also be my third trimester word. Looking back, I think Carson may have been preparing me for his birth.
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