pregnancy overview

this post is mostly for myself so that i have one place to look back for time of when things happened.

-knew i was pregnant: had an inclination right away due to cramping and upset stomach, but not sure until the test was taken after 3 days of missing my period. first try.

-first heartbeat: heard at 10 weeks (the midwives don't see you until 10 weeks); it was very fast, 170

-first movement: week 17

-started showing: 23 weeks, but seemed to "pop" at 25 weeks.

-first stretch marks: week 30 (also coincides with the start of christmas cookies :])

-gained 34 lbs

-1st trimester: lots of nausea, esp in the mornings at work, needed to eat every 1-2 hours until about 2 pm after which i would feel full/icky from eating too much, ate a lot of carbs and crap that i hadn't wanted to but needed to get something in me. hip ache/pain esp on right side started at the end of the day esp after/during softball (sacrioliac). started noticing getting out of breath much easier.

-2nd trimester: felt much better, little to no nausea right from the start/turn of the trimester. still hip aches/pain esp with fall ball being double headers. tried out chiro to help but with so much softball hard to say if it helped or not. attempted a crossfit workout and did well but took me 4 days to recover.

-3rd trimester: heartburn! hip ache/pain almost every night esp when getting into bed, waves of tired but not too bad, his movements were startling and not predictable, felt large, got more stretch marks right at the end, only pregnant to 38.5 weeks, got lots of sleep usually 9-10 hours a night, he would get the hiccups often

-birth: water broke (possibly because body didn't want to deal with having influenza/being sick and being pregnant especially since labor progressed slowly) at 38w2d, didn't feel contractions until 7ish hours later, got pitocin at 9 am (at an 8 level, low), progressed really fast after that, back labor/contractions which were HORRIBLE, got epidural (amazing!), napped, got another fever & then started pushing, an hour of pushing and he was out! almost 2 hours of skin to skin