23 Weeks!!

One more week till the 6 month mark! I feel like in this last week I have finally popped. Still have only gained 4 pounds so far but I am not complaining cuz baby boy is growing perfectly. The swelling is not bad at this point which is different than my pregnancy with James. Im starting to learn this baby's schedule of sleeping and being active. He is not at crazy active as James was. He is more calm and even his little kicks are more subtle than James were. This little guy is up a lot later than James was but he also lets me sleep in before he starts kicking my bladder lol. I could deal with that if he sticks to that once he is born. James really did stick to the same schedule once he was born. I hope this one dose the same :) I have been very busy with lots of stress. I am at one to two Dr. appointments a week. This whole kidney stent is kicking my butt. The pain has not let up and in fact landed me in the hospital being monitored on the OB floor this last weekend. The pain was worse than labor. I got IV antibiotics, IV fluids and an xray to be sure the stent was still in the right place. I was having a lot of contractions with the pain so I stayed on the monitor the entire time I was there. Things finally settled down and I went home. Followed up with one of the Drs in the practice yesterday and he is just as confused as I am to why I am still in so much pain. There was even talk about seeing a urologist at Froedtert. We will see. Right now I need to focus on keeping my days at work so that I don't mess up my short term disability for maternity leave......Update on the nursery... I think I am going with a white crib for baby. Even if someday the boys end up in the same room I feel like white will go better with James brown bed then finding a brown crib that is just off in color..... James is working on potty training and doing most of it himself. He is so proud of himself so far. He is going to be such a good big brother! 

21 weeks!!

Here is a pic at 21 weeks.  Others can now feel the baby kick... He is not not as active as James was at this stage, so who knows maybe he will be my mellow baby. Lol I can hope right? When he is active he is all over. One minute he is on the right kicking away and the next minute he is all the way over to the left kicking away. This time I can tell that the placenta is anterior. It was like this with James too but James was so active it didn't seem to matter. This little guy I feel kicking much deeper. I can only feel him from the outside if he is all the way in the left corner.  My one scrub top is finally getting a little tight on the belly and this week a pt actually asked how far along I was without me saying I was expecting :) I know that I have bins of cloths from James infant cloths but I still have been having fun hitting the clearance racks to get this little guy some new cloths. I have been working crocheting a blanket for him. I have bedding for his room already and this last week I picked up a lamp that perfectly matches my navy blue star theme. I even got some navy bedding for the my twin bed that I plan to keep in the nursery for me to sleep in.  At the last couple of appointments his heart rate has been 150's much slower than James was but also fast for what they consider boy range lol. I have stayed off my heart meds so far this pregnancy so I am hoping that makes a difference for this little guys growth rates. I don't have my next high risk appointment until April. This week I see my reg OB Wednesday to schedule my stent placement for my kidney stone. The stent surgery will most likely be Thursday or Friday. I am extremely nervous. Its one thing when health problems only affect me but this affects the baby in the fact that it puts me at risk for preterm labor and I am way too early for that. So please keep baby in your prayers. 

  James had a check on the fluid on his ears today. The fluid is still there and it may be inevitable that he gets tubes placed. She is giving us another month to wait it out and see what happens. He doesn't seem to bothered by it right now and is not saying "what" as much. James is making big strides in the big boy/big brother department. This weekend we started wearing undies in between naps, travel and bedtime. He has had a couple accidents but he really likes all the new undies grandma bought him. He also helped Grandpa take the rails off the crib so now he sleeps in the big boy bed. I thought it might be a big transition for him but he took to it immediately. Has not tried to jump out in the middle of night once and he actually is putting up less of a fight to go down. So happy this was an easy move for him. Still not sure if I will be buying a new convertable crib for baby or if I will be trying to get James into a new toddler bed and giving the crib to the baby. We will have to just wait and see. One big boy step at a time :) 

Its another Boy!!!

20 weeks with Baby Boy Redmond #2!!

So this picture is from 18 weeks 3 days! Im so excited to be pregnant again! I am even more excited that it is another boy.... I was not sure what I wanted till they told me it was a boy and suddenly I thought of all the names and room decorations. James is really excited to have a little friend to play with but he really wants the baby brother to come now. He doesn't get why he has to wait till summer. 

   So far this pregnancy has very different from the last. I found out of Nov 3rd and I was already 6 weeks at the time. I was really sick, Much worse than how I felt with James. I lost some weight and could barely eat anything. There was a lot of stress going on here so it was hard to really let this pregnancy sink in. The only thing was the constant nausea reminder. Getting up with James in the morning was hard when I could barely pull myself out of bed. The morning sickness started to subside during week 10. Met with my new OB that week who I absolutely love! Plan is the same as before only this time I am staying off the heart meds. I will be seeing the high risk again but will hopefully be delivering here in Kenosha as long as this little guy doesn't try to come early like James did. Second trimester I have been feeling better. I continued with the stress so I continued to loose weight. I was down to less than I weighed before getting pregnant with James and I was already 17 weeks pregnant. I had lost 7 pounds total but the Dr said it was ok as long as baby was growing well, which he is! I started feeling him move around week 16. Week 19 I was admitted to the hospital for 5 days for a kidney stone.... worse pain than labor!! Still in pain and there is still a possibility of still getting a stent placed. I have another ultrasound of my kidney tomorrow to check the swelling of that kidney. I have a Dr appointment Wednesday to discuss my options. 

   My parents have been coming down to watch James every other weekend while I work and he is really enjoying Grandma and Grandpa time. They have been a huge help with getting my house in order and my mom helped me go maternity cloths shopping the other weekend since I didn't have anything to wear!!  I promised myself I would look cute this time around. I am 20 weeks today and last night James and I went to target and I got a really cute lamp for the nursery that matches the bedding perfectly... I also got new bedding for the twin bed that I will be keeping in the nursery so that I can sleep next to the baby and he can sleep in his crib from the beginning. We plan to paint the walls of the nursery in a couple of weeks and then start moving some of the things from James room into the nursery. James will be getting a new dresser and hopefully a toddler bed. But is he doesn't agree to that Im thinking of just purchasing another convertable crib so that each boy can have a bed that grows with them ;) Now that I feel this little guy move more I am trying to really take in everything about this pregnancy since it almost most definitely be my last. And believe it or not but I really do enjoy being pregnant. Complications in all. As long as its a healthy baby in the end Im good.