Baby Bean

I’m officially 19 weeks today.

I had a co-worker ask me the other day if everything was ok with Baby #2 because there hadn’t been any blog update since we announce we were preggers. Insert instant Mom Guilt. For the most part, yes, everything with Baby #2 (affectionately known as Baby Bean) has been and is ok. However, this baby is definitely giving us a run for our money.

As mentioned in our announcement blog, I had some bleeding from a hematoma after the FET. I bled for nearly 30 days straight and then all of the sudden, it stopped. By this point, I was around 8 weeks pregnant. I had my initial visit with Dr. Paine (my OB) and everything looked great!

And then, Kirk, Campbell, & I made a quick work trip to Birmingham when I was around 11 weeks preggers. The night before we were headed back home, I started bleeding again. A lot. The following day was Friday and I knew we wouldn’t make it back in town until late that afternoon. I message Dr. Paine, who suggested I go to the ER at Baptist when we get back in town “to be sure it’s just the SCH”. Kirk did a good job of hiding his panic, but we also made it back home from B’ham in record time.

We handed Campbell off to his Kaycee and headed for the hospital. What felt like 17 days later (but was really only a few hours later), we had confirmation that the bleeding was from that stupid hematoma. The tech that scanned me mentioned that some women bleed for their ENTIRE pregnancies! Y’all, that’s just RUDE.

Good news is that Baby Bean hasn’t given us any major issues since. #whew We had our anatomy scan today and everything looks great so far. Bean is weighing in around 11oz, measuring about 4 days ahead, & just like their older brother was not cooperative for all the necessary scans, so we’ll go back in a few weeks to try again.

Symptom-wise: I was hella nauseous for the first trimester. It wasn’t as bad, yet also worse than the nausea I had with Campbell. With Cam, I was super nauseous all 9 months - like an 9.5 out of 10 on the nausea scale, but I never got physically sick. With Bean, I was more along the lines of a 6 or 7 out of 10, but I’ve been sick more than a handful of times. However, (dare I even say this out loud?!) it seems as though my nausea may have subsided now that I’m in my second trimester. #crossesfingersandtoes

I’ve had more aches and pains with Bean than I did with Campbell. It’s all the normal aches & pains of pregnancy, but I feel like it’s super charged aches and pains. Ha! I’ve been trying my best to stay active, but even my sessions at the gym are sometimes cut short because of Bean. (Don’t freak out, Kirk! I’m following the doctor’s orders of keeping my heart rate under 140bpm. Besides, the coaches are usually taking it easier on me than I’d like!)

We’re almost to the halfway mark in this pregnancy, even though it feels like we just made our announcement! There’s still a LOT left to do before February. Our next big goal: get Campbell Man moved into his new big boy room! Ya know, once we clean out, paint, and rearrange the guest bedroom in order to do so…