Trevor & Emily Gillies: September 2015

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I really suck at this whole blogging thing but I'm going to play catch up and then try really hard to stay caught up because I want to document my pregnancy and our little family so we always have something to look back on. So in other words bare with me on this long post!

The first trimester was long and pretty miserable. Don't get me wrong I was and still am BEYOND thrilled to finally be pregnant but I was super sick. Morning sickness, all day sickness and all night sickness. I lost quite a bit of weight and ended up in the hospital getting IV's luckily only one time. The beginning of the second trimester I started to feel a little better and my doctor gave me Zofran since I was further along to help stay on top of things. Zofran has been my life savor! Yes I have still been sick and throwing up but it has gotten much better thankfully and some days are better then others but we are just chugging along both just a growing! I am now 19 weeks as of today, almost half way!! SO crazy.

September 1st I was about 15 1/2 weeks and we went down to Murray to a little place called Fetal Fotos to find out early the gender of our baby. To be completely honest I was really rooting for a girl, you know to give me some pink and bows in my life instead of just dirt and bugs. Apparently someone else has a better plan for me then I had planned for myself because we are having another BOY! As horrible as it sounds it was an emotional day and took a while to get use to the idea that we were having another boy. That night we had a small family party at one of our favorite restaurants, Firehouse Pizzeria, to reveal to everyone what we were having. I did tell my mom right after we found out because she made an adorable gender cake for us for dessert! (I did not get any crafty or baking genes from her.) Poor Coop felt more like I did about the idea of having another brother. On the way home from dinner after a minute of silence he said "Dad, I just really wanted a sister." Haha poor boy! He now tells me that I need to get pregnant again soon so he can have a sister. These boys seriously crack me up with there imaginations and randoms comments.

A girl from my home town had a cute idea that she did on her blog when she was pregnant with her little boy and it has stuck with me as something I always wanted to do when I got pregnant because it was an awesome way to document and remember every precious moment.

15 weeks - Almost 4 inches and is the size of apple. Found out gender this week and its a BOY!

16 weeks- 4 1/2 inches and is the size of pickle or avocado.

17 weeks - 5 inches and is the size of pomegranate or pear.

How far along: 18 weeks!

Baby: Baby boy is about 5 1/2 inches long and about the size of a sweet potato! I finally feel like we are getting somewhere (compared to the blueberry he was at the beginning!) He is doing great!

Momma: I feel like I have all the sudden popped over night and feel huge! (I have a longs way to go if I already feel big I know.)

Maternity clothes: None. Just using the hair tie trick on some of my pants so it's not uncomfortable sitting all day at my desk.

Sleep: Depends on the night.

Best moment this week: Starting to feel little flickers again after not being able to for a bit.

Miss anything: Being able to not carry around plastic bags in my car for the times I need to randomly throw up. So gross I know, but you got to do what you got to do right?

Food cravings: Nothing really.

Anything make you queasy or sick: Not eating often enough, eating too much at one time, it's a different food every day that makes me sick that day.

Gender: BOY!

Movement: A little bit of flickers every now and then.

Labor signs: None.

Symptoms: Heart burn over everything, morning sickness and round ligament pain.

Nursery: Haven't started on it just yet.

Looking forward to: Feeling him move all the time!