♥ A Love From Within ♥

While the lack of sleep and even the lack of desire to eat have hit, I still could not be happier with the decision to bring this beautiful child into the world. I have to say I have married one of the greatest men out there. :) Years ago I taught myself how to not dream and if I did how not to remember them when I woke up. Unfortunately this is no longer the case, I dream ALL THE TIME now and due to that I wake up a million times over again each night. Last night, after going to bed around midnight, I woke up at 3:15. I tried for hours to go back to sleep and finally around 6:30 this morning the yucky feeling in my stomach started to fade and I was able to take a couple Tylenol. My husband had a phone interview so he had to get up a short time later but left me to sleep. A few hours later I woke up startled, the sun was shinning through our window and he wasn't right there by me. I rolled over to look at my clock...11:15, I jumped out of bed feeling like I'd been asleep forever. Just as I reached out bedroom door there he was coming to check on me, oh how I love him.

Aside from the lack of sleep have become problems with eating. I haven't started the vomiting thing but have come close (thank goodness for a strong stomach). One thing we've discovered is my stomach has a hard time digesting any tougher meats, mainly red meats. A few weeks ago a friend posted something about a turkey sandwich on facebook and it sounded sooo good. This last week Alex was such a sweet heart and pulled out turkey out of the freezer and we baked it. I have come to really love shredding the meat up, mixing it with a little bit of mayo and putting it on some fire roasted tomato & olive oil triscuits with a thin slice of tomato on top. My other craving is french fries. Lucky me we have a fryer and potatoes right here at home. When we were talking to my midwife at our appointment last Monday she told me to try and eat healthy but when it came right down to it, eat what ever I could get down right now because there is still nutrients in a lot of foods. This included carbs like potatoes, oatmeal, and breads. I do good most days but some days are definitely a challenge. Last week was one of those challenges. Each week I weigh in and take measurements to see where I'm at; this last week I ended up losing a pound and taking off a half inch around my stomach. This kind of scared me but I have read multiple times that due to nausea, many woman's weight fluctuates.

I have been keeping track of the approximate size of our baby on thebump.com and love people reaction when we tell them we have a sweet pea or a blue berry.

This week our baby is about half an inch long from crown to rump. He/She now has little arms and legs that are forming but look more like paddles than hands. Also facial features are becoming more defined this week. A small hole is forming where the mouth will be a long with a tongue, nostrils, and indentions where the ear will form. While their eyes are wide open the iris has not formed yet. This being said, it is still very unreal to me since I can not feel this child yet. Thirty three weeks seems so far away but if it goes as fast as the last seven have (on the good days), I will be holding a brand new baby in my arms before we know it.