When I was pregnant with my son I gained 80 whopping pounds! Holy shit right?! My limit was suppose to be like 15 pounds but lets be realistic...As a pregnant woman, it's sometimes hard to control cravings or to get motivated. Add on a deployment and living 5,000 miles away from your closest friends and family and bam! You have an accident waiting to gain weight! I lost more then half the weight but I was still sitting at 30lbs to go when I got pregnant with this little lady...I thought I was doomed.
I drink chocolate milk every other day. I have ice cream every day...We don't exactly eat healthy because of the fact that we own one pot and our microwave doesn't work. Lots of bologna sandwiches and spaghettios...Yet, I am almost 17 weeks pregnant and have gained only 5lbs. I recently lost a pound. Addisyn is healthy, I just had a doctors appointment. I have no idea what's going on but I guess I'm not really complaining either ;) I am confident that I can survive the last 23 weeks of this pregnancy gaining minimal weight so that when Addisyn is here I can easily go back to at least pre her weight, even if I'm still over my complete pre pregnancy weight of 150.
Also, on the up...I was looking at my tummy about a week ago and noticed that my stretchmarks randomly turned white and were barely visible. Of course I know they are there because it's my body and I notice the big things OR the little things. But I haven't been doing anything because our cocoa butter lotion is in my household goods shipment and I've certainly grown in the last few weeks. I know this won't last long because just like Russ, at the last minute I'll pop a million stretch marks or in my case they'll just darken again. However, everyone who told me they go away about a year after birth was completely right and I'm soooo surprised!
Well. Karl went back to work today. He left about 5:15am and it's now 5:30pm and he still isn't home. I hate these long days and after having him home almost all day everyday for the last 2 months I can honestly say THIS SUCKS! Thankfully he's on his way home. Will hopefully reach us by 5:45, we'll have dinner, bath russ, put him down and climb into bed ourselves. Russ hasn't been sleeping well lately so we go to bed as early as possible. Last night he woke up at 11pm and didn't go back to bed until 2am. I ended up sleeping on the floor because Karl just let him go to sleep in the bed with us and Russ kept kicking me because he didn't have enough room...He literally kicked me out of bed. Lol
We use to sleep with Russ in the bed occasionally. I would do it when Karl would work his 24 hour shifts and we'd do it on the nights he was sick but he never got attached. Never had a problem putting him back in his own bed. But now...Man...About a week ago he started sleeping bad and we noticed we could get him back to sleep quicker if we let him fall asleep with us in bed and now, he wakes up and doesn't go back to bed until he's in bed with us. Usually when he does fall back asleep we put him back in his play pen but now as soon as we do he wakes up screaming. He's developed a ridiculous habit and I have no idea how to break it because he's so stubborn. You can't let this kid "cry it out" because that doesn't work. He will cry and cry and cry and cry for 2-3 hours and by that time, we've given up. The doctor told us anyways that the crying it out method doesn't work for all kids...Certainly doesn't work for Russ.
Overtime though, we will figure the sleep thing out. He's always been a horrible sleeper! Hopefully his sister will do better! (:
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