#prayingforarainbow

My baby bump has finally emerged along with some stretch marks, round ligament pain, and the occasional sore lower back. But definitely all worth it. Baby is now the size of a hedgehog, lol which is adorable. Hardly any of my normal clothes fit anymore, and my undergarments are now useless lol. Never thought I'd wake up and go oh no, my undies dont fit, or oh no I can stuff my boobs into my bra. Thought it's kinda annoying, I am also filled with joy. On Monday I will have reached week 20, the half way mark of my pregnancy, and also my anatomy scan appointment. My birthday is tomorrow and so instead of doing a party, we are just staying home and chilling out with my bestie. Instead we are doing a family dinner Monday night and I will be opening a present that will tell us if we are having a little girl or a little boy. I'm so excited, and thought this day would never come. Now can the weekend just hurry up and end so I can find out lol?

I can't believe how much I already love this little girl growing inside of me. She is going to be so spoiled rotten it's not even funny. ❤❤❤

So I have been a little constipated since sometime last week. I was given at my first appointment a sheet that stated your problem like headache, constipation, etc. And than next to the problem was a pregnancy safe list of some meds you could try. So I took the Colace thinking maybe I just needed get thing softened up, and drank nothing but water and ate apples to try to coax things cause those always worked for me before pregnancy. Nope nothing. So than at this point i just wanted relief so i went through the list and the only fast acting one was Milk of Magnesia, so that's what i got. Holy hell never again! The instant I took the medicine my gag reflex went off hard and almost puked it all up. Which I thought was weird because it just tasted like chalky water. Now on the bottle it says to expect a bowl movement in 1/2-6hours. So I sat and about an hour in I my stomach felt weird so I figured this must be it. Nope instead it went into a 3 hour puking fest. It was bad so I called up my doctors office and explained what was going on and they said it sounded like my stomach just didnt agree with it. And asked what all I have tried before and than said to try Miralax. But for the rest of the night I was just miserable and was scared to eat when my stomach was rumbling cause it was hungry. But I ate some food and than felt yucky afterwards so I popped a Unisome and got some much needed sleep. I feel better this morning, but still after all that and still havent gone potty. ::sigh:: this is just been a rough last week of my 1st trimester lol. Fingers crossed 2nd trimester is better

Omg nausea has been kicking my ass. 2 nights ago I figured out I have a food aversion to bacon something awful. I tried to make my husband and I BLT sandwiches and cooking the bacon started to make me nauseous and than once I finished cooking everything and walked away I started dry heaving something fierce. Next day just felt like complete crap, and couldn't go downstairs cause the smell of bacon still lingered so had to wait for husband to get home to get rid of the smell. Couldn't eat anything though attempted some crackers and plain white rice and was able to get some down. Tried to drink some broth but instantly was like nope! Today was the same so I went to 3 different places and finally found preggie pop drops and some morning sickness bands at Target and they have been working wonderfully so far. Finally got a good meal down and feeling pretty good. Can't wait till the 20th for our 8 1/2 week ultrasound to see how big our little alien has gotten.

My 4th and final blood draw came back at 10,126. They were very happy with how well it has been climbing, and that things are looking be going great this time around. So now I gotta wait till Wednesday the 5th to see my little alien and I am struggling with waiting lol. I am so excited that this will be the first time I get to see my little one and it's for a happy reason.