W - Angelina Jolie breastfeeding

OK I could usually care less about celebrities and all their fluff but this picture really caught my eye. Yes is is Angelina Jolie and yes she is breastfeeding her baby as she is doing this photo-shoot. I have to tell you why I love this picture so much. Because:
A) she looks like a real mom..... tired yet happy, sleep deprived yet awake and alert.

B) she did not wait weeks, when all the baby fat is worked off and she is all dolled up with fancy hair and make to have her picture taken. This looks real to me.

C) She is making a statement about breastfeeding. Maybe you all may not see it but I do. There has been a stigma with breastfeeding in America for a while now and she is letting us women know that it is OK to do this wherever we need be.

Now am I a big fan of Angelina, well no not really. Maybe if she does a really good romantic comedy instead of a thriller or an adventure movie I may get into her but I do respect her a great deal for being on the cover of such a great magazine looking like a "real" mother and letting us moms (or moms to be) that it is ok to breastfeed and it is really ok to do it wherever you need to.

Also she made a statement in her interview that is just a great statement and I am sure that a lot of our men feel this way, now we just need to see it this way:

"I’m with a man who’s evolved enough to look at my body and see it as more beautiful, because of the journey it has taken and what it has created,” she says. “He genuinely sees it that way. So I genuinely feel even sexier." Angelina Jolie

Craving

Ok so my last 2 pregnancies the only thing that I ever really craved was ice and Little Debbie Nutty Bars well this pregnancy I have not craved any of those but I have had a lot of cravings. Chocolate milk is the main one. Not just chocolate milk you make with Hershey's syrup, chocolate milk you buy in the store that is creamy and delicious. That has only been my consistant craving, but I do get this craving where I have to have something and I have to have it now. Like this morning, I HAD to wake up and make my favorite cake, Yellow cake with chocolate frosting, bevcause I was dreaming about it all night. So guess what everyone is going to be eating for breakfast this morning??? Too bad I am all out of chocolate milk. :(

Good Morning

I love when I wake up with a throbbing headache 3 mornings in a row. I have been drinking a ton of water to stay hydrated, I have been taking my iron and eating a lot better, I have been monitoring my blood pressure and it has been normal (usually I am low) I feel like I am doing everything that I possibly can to make sure I have no headaches but they just creep in. I have not been taking Tylenol right now because I feel like I have taken alot in the past 2 weeks so I dont want to go over board with that. I am just not understanding what is going on? I have my appointment with the Midwife next week so I am sure she will be able to shine some light on this but UGH, I dont know how much more of this I can take. So I would love it for those of you who pray, if you can please be praying for me and my head... Other than the headaches all is going good now that the nausea is done and I have an appitite again. I still can not eat alot (which is good) so I get full alot faster. Well I am off to clean and do laundry (boy I love having my energy back) and get ready for another crazy busy weekend. I hope all of you have a great weekend.

What I have learned.........

What I have learned in the short 14 weeks of being pregnant is:

* I have learned I can get up to go pee with out even turning on a light or opening my eyes.

* I have learned that sleeping on my stomach is the only way I can get a good nights sleep.

* I have learned that a lot of people (men) blame everything I say or do on my hormones.

* I have learned that I need to think before I speak due to my hormones.

* I have learned that no matter how much I crave boneless wings for BW3 it is really not a good idea to eat them.

* I have learned the meaning of early bed time. (8pm)

* I have learned the difference between gas and baby movement.

* I have learned that no matter how much I scratch my belly it is still going to itch 2 seconds later.

* I have learned that even if I am taking a 5 minute car ride I still need to empty my bladder before I leave.

* I have learned I should not be a pet owner while I am pregnant.

I am sure I will learn more considering I have about 26 more weeks of learning.

We are home

Well I have been wanting to post but since we got home LATE Friday night we have been very busy. We left Indiana at 6pm (7pm Michigan time) and made it to Battle Creek to meet Ken at about 8pm (9 Michigan time). We found a Starbucks and sat for probably about an hour and relaxed and I was able to FINALLY have a White Chocolate Mocha (no it was not decaf either). I was so excited to see him and Kennedy when they pulled up, I could not stop hugging Ken.... We had a great time at my moms, but I don't think I can leave him for that long again. We got home before Midnight and we all went right to bed. It was so nice to wake up late the next morning and just hang out as a family. We did have some stuff to day that day but we took our time and just hung out and loved on each other.

I was feeling good all weekend and that was just the icing. It was so nice not being nauseous and being able to do stuff with the family and not feeling like a zombie. Today however, was a totally different story. I woke up with cramps (in the tummy), and a headache and I was really nauseous. I could not believe it because here the whole weekend I was feeling so good and to wake up this morning and feel like total crap was just stupid.. LOL Maybe it had something to do with the fact I wasn't sleeping in my moms COMFY bed anymore.... Or the fact that I was not sleeping in like I was last week. Well I don't know, but I do know that tomorrow will HAVE to be a better day .

p.s. I think this baby is going to love music btw. AS I was singing at practice tonight I kept feeling the baby move. It was so awesome....

Good bye Mommy

This is Ry and I at my moms house. We have been here in Indiana since Sunday and today is the day we go home. Not only will I miss my mom but WOW am I going to miss her bed... She has the most comfortable bed I have slept on in awhile. When you are pregnant you really never know how you are going to sleep at night but I do have to say that my hips never hurt one bit and no part of my body went numb. LOL. I am a stomach sleeper so the only way I get a good night sleep is if I am flat on my stomach well guess what....... 'you cant do that when your pregnant' so getting good sleep right now is just almost impossible. I do know about the big buddy pillows but unfortunately our budget right now does not allow for one so I have to make do with a bunch of pillows. I am pretty excited to get back home and see my wonderful hubby and my darling daughter. Now maybe this is because I am pregnant but I did cry last night because I missed them so much...

This is my mom and we did have a good week. I will really miss her. She only lives about 3 and a half hours from us but it is still so hard to get together to see each other a lot. So I really treasure the times that we do get to spend together. I was great to lay in bed and talk about whatever. I am so glad I was able to come here and rest and relax. With this pregnancy I have been more tired than I think I ever was with my other two. I did find out a couple reasons why when I went to my chiropractor on Monday. One reason is because I have low blood pressure and low BP will always make you feel sluggish and just plain lethargic. I also am anemic and that mixed with low BP just is not good together. I have been eating better and keeping my anemia under control but still I have been felling tired. OK enough about my health ailments, I am starting to sound like my Grandma....

I did however wake up with another headache YUK and I have learned that I still can not take my prenatals during the day. I need to keep taking them at night because they make me feel nauseous during the day. Well good by for now, I hope you all have a great weekend and remember;

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Movement?

OK so I have 3 more days and I will be out of my 1st trimester officially. To me this is very exciting because that means I can get back to "normal".... What I mean by normal is I fell a lot better, I can actually eat, I actually enjoy eating, I am not as tired, I get a lot more done around the house and I just don't feel useless. This pregnancy I feel like I was really useless the past 7 weeks. Not only was I irritable, I was SO tired, all I wanted to do is sit and do nothing, I was just not a good person to be around for a few weeks.... My poor husband got the brunt of it all though. Sorry Babe, I love you.

I am actually about to take a walk to the park with my son. We are in Indiana (Valparaiso) visiting my mom for the week and she has a park about 3 blocks down the street from her and we are going to be off on a walk there. This is great because I am actually looking forward to the walk and getting out. I am a little tired but I really don't think that is because of being pregnant. I think is because I went out with some friends last night and I didn't get into bed until about 11 pm (which is 12 pm my time) and my mom was up for work at 6am...... SO we will go for a walk and then we will both be so tired I am sure we will come back and take a good nap.

I have already been feeling movement (and no its not gas) it is not the kicking or anything like that, I can just feel the flutters and it usually happens at about 10 O'clock at night. I am amazed at how quickly I popped out for this one too. Now we all know I was not the stick thin girl I was a long time ago but still this was just crazy to be needing to shop for Maternity clothes and only be 3 months along. I have yet to really buy any maternity, I am really addicted to the pants from Target and I am embarrassed to say that they are their PJ pants. You really can not tell that they are PJ's but WOW they the most comfy pair of pants. I am just really not wanting to 1.) go spend the money on maternity and 2.) be in Maternity for the next 6 to 7 months. I am sure I will get sick of them pretty fast, as I did with the other two pregnancies. So I will stick to my comfy pants and my t-shirts and oh of coarse my Bella Band.

13.3 weeks

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And So it all begins

I will start off by saying I am 13 weeks and 3 days today, only 185 days to go. LOL We found out that we were pregnant on Tuesday August 26th and let me tell you it was a family affair. It started of that morning with the thought, hmm I should really stop and buy a pregnancy test I am about 5 days late, so I think it is time to find out if I am... Really deep down inside I was very nervous to take one, only because we had taken a ton the months before and all we got was NEGATIVE. It seemed like it just

screamed at me too. So, after thinking that for a few more minutes I decided to get dressed for the day because I was hanging out with one of my good friends that day.

Ken and I decided that we were going to stop trying because my good friend just went through another miscarriage and I just could not stand the fact of me getting pregnant and her just going through what she did so we decided not to try for awhile.

So my good friend comes to the house and then we decide to go to Michael's, as we are looking at ribbons she turns to me and asks, "are you pregnant?" I just looked at her in shock, like why are you asking me this? This is the same friend who had just miscarried btw. All I remember saying to her is, "I dont know but how would you feel if I was?" She said "I would be so happy for you." so she wanted to stop on the way home to get a test and I just told her, "I am not really ready to find out yet so lets just go home. " As we were driving home we are stopped at a stop sign and we see another one of our friends drive right by us, this friends calls me and says "I am on my way to your house with a gift" and I know by then what she had and all of a sudden I got so nervous I did not know what to do with myself. So I pull into my drive way and see proceeds to hand me 2 pregnancy test.. I decided to take them once everyone left.... I went into the bathroom and took one of them and saw that one line came up right away so I just set it on the counter and went on cleaning the kitchen. A few minutes later Went back to check and I was speechless. I gasped for air and Ken and the kids freaked out a little

wondering what was wrong with me. Really I could not speak so Kennedy sees me with the test in my hand and she started jumping up and down saying "mommies pregnant" and Ken looked at me like, is she right..... All I could do was cry. So everyone came around me and just started laughing, crying and hugging me. I am so glad that we found out that way.

The kids are super excited and they both want a girl.