28 Weeks Pregnant

Wahoo! Third trimester! T-minus 12 weeks!

To steal a line from my pregnancy e-mail "Your baby is around 16 inches long and 2.5 pounds so pick up a random chihuahua on the street to get an idea of what you're dealing with. Yo quiero Taco Bell!" haha--pregnant chicken

Symptoms I'm dealing with right now: Heartburn, acid reflux, lots of aches and pains, sore ribs, lots of stomach pain and digestive pain, my feet get sore really fast and seem to be a little bigger--ahhh!, so so tired if i'm not working i tend to take a nap every afternoon and im falling asleep by 8 or 9pm, experiencing some pregnancy brain, annnndd EMOTIONS! 

This one totally took me by surprise. I'm usually not too affected emotionally by hormones, and so I always heard stories of pregnant women being super emotional and crying over little things and such but figured that wouldn't be me and I was right. Until about 2 weeks ago. I don't know if I just got a fresh batch of hormones or what but lately I have just felt so emotional and I can just feel my tears right below surface ready to spill over at any moment.

Story #1: It was the weekend, me and Kyle made a delicious breakfast together and were just sitting down to eat, I had grabbed plates and napkins but forgot to grab a fork for Kyle. When he came to the table he saw that he had no fork (and I did have one) he jokingly said "hey you didn't get me a fork, selfish wifey" and went to grab himself a fork from the kitchen, when he got back to the table the tears were pouring from my eyes! Kyle was so confused, he kept saying it was just a joke and i started sobbing and replied I know! And then I cried for a good 10 minutes before I could get myself under control and actually eat my breakfast. Poor Kyle he felt so bad and he has been really careful about what he says around me since then.

Story #2: A few days after story 1, I was in Montana with my mom's side of the family and we went for a hike in the mountains. My mom got some bad information, the hike was suppose to be a relatively short 1.5 miles each way and flat. I thought I could probably handle that and since we left at 10am and figured we'd be back by lunch we didn't really bring anything. The hike ended up being a very uphill 5 mile round trip! By the time we got to the lake I was done. I was tired and hungry and had to pee, and since we were in the middle of nowhere i had to squat and pee outside with all these flies buzzing around me! And on top of that I needed to turn around and hike the whole trail back to the car and then drive for about 40 mins before I could be back at the house and eat lunch. 

It was too much. I started bawling right there on the hiking trail. Since most of the family had already started the hike back, only my parents got see my breakdown. They stopped with me and tried to comfort their pregnant, emotional daughter and about 20 minutes later I was able to start hiking again.

Story #3: It's getting worse. Yesterday I decided to try to talk to my baby out loud and all I got out was "Hey baby girl..." and I started to cry. About an hour later I was writing in a card for Kyle for our anniversary and again started to cry. A couple hours after that I was at the Drivers License Office and they rejected me saying one of my proofs of address wasn't good enough, and I cried. 

It's pretty embarrassing. So a caution to anyone who sees me in real life, I might start to cry at any moment!  

Other than all of that I'm just getting excited to meet my baby! And starting to freak out because we are not ready at all. We don't have anything yet, no crib, no carseat, no baby things and I'm still trying to figure out who/where i'll be delivering with here in Galveston. 

To calm my pregnant self and hopefully avoid another bawl session, me and Kyle have a crib shopping date tomorrow afternoon! And I have an appointment at UTMB Monday, so hopefully we'll start to get things figured out soon!