Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Half way!

20 weeks pregnant. How exciting! I am more excited for my second half of pregnancy. Let me tell you why.

Ever since I've "grown up" I've been taking a lot better care of myself. In high school, I would have a cookie and a diet coke for lunch, most of the time that was all I ate all day. I didn't care about my health. Exercising was putting in 30hours a week at Pizza Villa/ Big Js after school and working my butt off for people I don't like. After I graduated my attitude for life and my health changed. I worked hard and ate healthy and only when I was hungry, I also started to drink a lot of water. Soon my weight dropped, my attitude was better, and I loved life. After Ryan and I got married we would go on walks, go hiking, biking, snowboarding, and running. He makes me want to be a better, healthier person. When we started to talk about starting a family life got really exciting. I knew it was time to really start taking care of myself but I wasn't sure where to start.

This pregnancy started with the feeling I was pregnant. I know my body very well so I started noticing changes before most people probably would. I noticed fatigue and mood changes, my breasts were tender and all-of-a-sudden huge, that wasn't normal. I took an early pregnancy test, the one where you can know a week before your missed period. It came back positive and I didn't have to take another one because I KNEW it was right. At that moment I took initiative, I stopped drinking caffeinated drinks and doubled water intake. If we went out for food I tried to eat healthy, wheat bun, grilled chicken, lots and lots of salad and fruit!

My first half of pregnancy took a tole on me physically. Running, exercise, eating wasn't an option because I could barely get away from the toilet. Dehydration, exhaustion, and just feeling crummy has now withered away into a dark hole and I'm excited to get healthy again and enjoy pregnancy!

I've talked Ryan into buying us a membership to Planet Fitness, it is an hour drive there but I think worth it since the gym in town costs a fortune and is poorly taken care of! Plus his work pays for our membership anyways. I will also be enjoying snowboarding. **note, I have been skiing/snowboarding for a very long time. I'm no expert but I know well enough when I can push the limits and when not to. I'm a good enough snowboarder to make it down a mountain without falling and if you are pregnant and a beginner I recommend not going for the safety of your womb tenant. Also I will not be snowboarding In my last trimester! I am not big enough yet that my balance has gone out of whack and when/if it does I'll bench myself and wait until next year**

I'm excited that I get to feel Xander move a lot now! And I'm grateful he doesn't stop. He will be just like his mommy and daddy and have to go go go all the time! No slowing down for us! I am excited to watch my stomach/him grow. I have always been worried that I won't be "cute pregnant" and I would be "fat pregnant" but now that my tummy is starting to poke out and my hips are still there I feel better!

I'm excited for his name, Xander Lynn. Ryan and I had the names of our kids picked out long before we got married. Our boy names: Ryker and Xander. Our girl names: Oaklee and Ryley(Ry[an] +[Ash]ley). We decided Xander on this little man because it is what comes to my mind every time I think about him. It's the name that came out of our mouths when people ask us what we are naming him. He just feels like a Xander, and mom knows best!

I am excited to experience the hiccups and the under-the-rib-cage-pain. Him being so big that we are both ready for him to be out. And all the looks from people who say I'm "too young." I'm excited for waddling and squatting in funny ways to pick things up. I'm excited to be as big as a house and trying to drive when my tummy pokes out way too far!

I'm glad that I was healthy before I got pregnant and how it has helped me throughout pregnancy. Im excited to see how it helps down the road. I don't want to become the mom who can't take care of her kids because she can't take care of herself. I want to be the active and fun mom who has energy because she exercises and eats right! The second half of pregnancy is really the beginning of life! I'm excited to get started. And after all of that I'm going to kick my healthy habit for just a sec and go have a small slice of snickers cake in celebration of making it to the half way point!!

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