I am so hungry!

I am so hungry right now I wanted to make a post with some of the food I've had lately. My husband took me to an awesome crab restaurant where I tried craw fish for the first time, then the next week came home and made my own mini shrimp boil with baby red potatoes, corn, andouille sausage shrimp and lobster with French baguette on the side  Mmmmm!

  I'm really craving fish and chips right now as well as spicy Clamato juice and hamburgers. Right now anything seafood and spicy and tomato-ey would make me happy! 

This was super simple and delicious & extremely cheap! Just $1 each the box and bottle

This drink with the mini hamburgers looks amazing and  it combines everything delicious to me right now.

8 Through 20 Week Progression Photos

I am now 21 weeks. Here is the progression from 8 to 20. You can clearly see the exhaustion on my face from week 8 where I was completely miserable to just last week. I am feeling better, though the second trimester is not all rainbows and glitter toots like some people say it is :( 

One thing I am totally excited about is the kicks! I can feel and see them and so can Hubby :) He really reacts to music and the "flashlight trick" where you shine a flashlight on your stomach and the baby kind of follows it and kicks. He is really active at night :O Luckily I work nights so I am used to it. 

There is not much to report on the diabetes front, my insulin is going up again and I am officially above my pre-pregnancy levels. It is a daily frustration for me but I am really proud of my 6.2% A1C. It has been a lot of hard work but the little guy is measuring perfectly still so it is paying off for sure!

Anatomy scan 19 weeks

I had my anatomy scan today. I was 19 weeks 1 day. The baby is measuring 20 weeks exactly. I'm glad to hear this because my last appointment at the perinatologist didn't go well. The doctor (who I will refuse to see ever again) said the baby was huge, with a large head, and in the 90th percentile and two+ weeks ahead, she then rolled her eyes at me when I said "oh my I don't want a 12 pound baby" I cried as soon as she left the room. I felt like a failure, like I had done this on purpose and he was suffering because of me.

Little guy was cooperative for the first part of the scan but when it came time to scan his spine he wouldn't move. We spent a whole twenty minutes extra just trying to get him to turn over. My stomach is pretty sore now from the painful jabbing. I now know all the little feelings I'm getting *ARE* him moving because I could see him moving and correlate it with the feelings. It was very cool to see but I'm on edge waiting for the results to come back on the next couple days.

17 Weeks and 4 Days

My little guy is getting pretty active these days. It is thrilling to feel the little popcorn pops. We are counting down the days until Daddy can feel him kick also. Here is a snap shot from 16 weeks.

It's a....................

It's a BOY!!!! I cannot wait to meet my little boy! We are so excited :) I have thought it was a boy the whole time maybe Moms instincts are real??

Doula

As I head into the second trimester I have started to think about what I want in regards to delivery. I know that unless I spontaneously go into labor early I will be induced because of my diabetes. I won't lie that pitocin scares me. I have heard nothing but horror stories of women all set to deliver naturally and unmedicated who then beg for an epidural to escape the relentless pain that comes with pitocin. I want to try my best to go naturally. To help myself and my husband I decided to hire a doula! We met with her yesterday and decided she would be perfect to help us out. She herself went through an induction without an epidural and that in and of itself made me know she was the one. In the moment I am thinking I can't do it she will know exactly what I'm thinking and can help remind me of the decisions I made beforehand and why. I am super excited to get to know her and have her support and knowledge.

On another note, in 12 days we will be able to find out the sex of the baby and we are so excited about that! We will be having a small gender reveal party to announce the gender. I will have the ultrasound tech write the sex on a piece of paper then I will take it to a bakery and have them make a cake that has either blue or pink frosting inside. We will get to be surprised just like everyone else :-) we are so excited and amazed that it's time already to find out!

12 weeks =)

 The other day I began week 12 ( so glad 2nd trimester is so close!!!) I have had my first appointment ( at 10 weeks) and everything went well. Our little gummy bear had a heartbeat of 160 and we got to see him/her move around a lot. I got all of my blood work back and my HBA1C was 6.4 I am working towards a goal of 5. I know it will be hard but it is worth it! I am finding the days easier to get through now that my severe morning sickness has subsided a lot. In fact I have not had to take any zofran for many weeks. I can see why many women gain a lot of weight!!! It is really hard to not devour everything in sight! We will be able to determine the sex of the baby on June 3rd and we cannot wait because we will have a reveal party for our friends and family! I plan on not finding out at the ultrasound and having the tech write the sex on a paper in an envelope that I will take to a local bakery to have them fill the inside of a cake with either blue or pink frosting which we will cut for the first time in front of everyone. Thank you to everyone reading this and I am sorry I have been absent lately :(