Belly Time!

Hi Friends

I decided not to dig through all of my pictures from the past year or so because every time I tried to post them they were out of order, and really didn't make much sense to anyone but myself.

Instead, I would much rather document the "bump" progression so I can look back and remember the journey of the tummy once Max is here, and I am a fit, lean, hot, size 2 momma-j/k not really banking on that, but one can dream!

I have gone though some ups and downs with this pregnancy. Physically it has been a breeze. Seriously. For the first 18 weeks if somebody didn't tell me I was pregnant I would not have known. I never got sick, really never felt dizzy or nauseous, and wasn't fatigued much at all. I did, however, WORRY. Because I didn't have any of the symptoms they say plague almost every pregnant woman, I was just sure my baby wasn't growing properly, or something was wrong. It wasn't until about my 10th ultrasound (that’s right, I had 10) that I started to believe he was going to be okay. Then of course I started gaining weight, devouring every Chick-Fil-A drive through in sight, and pouring hard shell (the reeces topping you can put on ice cream) on ice so I could at least get the chocolate, and not consume the calories of the ice cream.

Then there was the lovely day when I looked in our full length mirror and gasped in horror as I noticed some tiny little red lines spidering across the bottom of my stomach. I screamed for Cody to come upstairs, and bless his poor soul, I think he thought I was in labor. I'm pretty sure I might even have seen some moisture in his eyes when he got into the room because he was so scared something was wrong. Then he had full out tears streaming from laughing so hard at me for worrying about stretch marks. That was not my best moment, and I feel guilty that I was so shallow-but come on, it is going to be swimsuit season immediately after my child is born.

Anyway, my last ultrasound was at 23 weeks, and I have been growing right on track ever since then. I have not been sleeping AT ALL lately because of massive heartburn, however, the past two nights I didn't experience it one bit. Maybe the baby dropped? I don't feel any different, but do have an appointment tomorrow so we shall see. Wouldn't that be exciting? Okay. Enough about the pregnancy. I'm sorry i'm rambling, but because I didn't blog during this experience I am trying to cram everything into these next few posts before Max arrives. For those of you who are weirded out about belly pics don't look any further. For those of you who love it as much as I love looking at other people's bellies ENJOY :)Here are a few belly shots along the way, and some other fun/funny pregnancy related photos. 37 weeks Sunday!



This is how I found Cody one night after I had flipped the light on for probably the 10th time to either find a book, go downstairs, find my way to the bathroom, or did through a drawer for some Tums. You think he got his point across about his feelings toward me that day? Gotta love him!
16ish weeks, and thought I looked HUGE!

19 weeks

22 weeks
28 weeks
31 weeks
34.5 weeks