First Trimester Pregnancy Recap

Since this blog is really just a scrapbook of my life, I realized I hadn’t done a trimester update post–which is something that I would have done a long time ago. I still am just so amazed at this miracle and do not take this pregnancy for granted.

Tomorrow I will be 16 weeks, so here’s a recap of my first trimester!

Celebrating Banks’s adoption finalization at the end of July–I was pregnant here and had no idea!

How did you find out?

I was EXHAUSTED after school started back (which is typical) but this exhaustion never went away like it always does. I mean, I was having to focus hard to not fall asleep driving at 4 PM. I specifically remember one morning leaving for school with the boys thinking that there was something majorly wrong with me and I needed to tell Dustin how I was feeling. Then one day I realized I hadn’t started my period in a while ( I seriously thought going gluten free had gotten rid of my period and I was thrilled!). I took an old, expired pregnancy test just to put it out of my mind–when it was positive, I loaded the boys up to go buy one in date. It was also positive, so I was able to surprise Dustin when he got home. I, however, was in major denial because I did not believe that my body could get pregnant.

Symtoms?

Just major exhaustion!! I’m sleeping in as long as I can and falling asleep some nights before 8PM. I’m really feeling like I have no life right now–because I really don’t LOL. I have had some nausea but not a ton, and I’m so thankful that God has been gracious to me during this pregnancy because I’ve been keeping up with two very active boys–and one who is still a baby!

Food cravings?

Weirdly enough, I’ve been craving smoked chicken. I’ve wanted some sweets but really just anything with smoked chicken–a potato, nachos, by itself…..anything. I’ve also wanted to drink anything but water–which is really my favorite drink. I’ve been drinking mainly Sprite and Ginger Ale to treat myself.

Food aversions?

My morning cup of coffee. This has made me the most sad because I love my morning cup of coffee. Before I knew I was pregnant, I couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t finishing my cup of coffee…..so weird ha. Then one morning I was getting ready for church (after we knew) and all of a sudden I felt like I was about to throw up after taking a sip of coffee, so I quit drinking coffee right then. It’s made the exhaustion much worse I think.

How are you sleeping?

Great because that’s all I want to do! I just never feel rested when I wake up.

Body image?

Well, not great but that’s because I gained a lot of weight from the stress of our last adoption process. I actually had an appointment with my GYN in August to discuss my hormones and weight gain since I was having the hardest time losing weight, and then it turns out I got to visit her in August for a pregnancy confirmation appointment. Looks like I’ll focus on losing weight next year. I’m just way heavier than I wanted to be to begin with.

What is baby’s gender?

A girl and I can’t believe it! Since I’m considered a geriatric in the pregnancy world, we did genetic testing and also got to do a gender blood test.

Due date?

March 2024!

Baby’s name?

We don’t know yet ha! It was so easy agreeing on our boys’ names, but a girl name is so much harder.