29 weeks 2 days.

Well I have called the doctor and I am now waiting for my appointment with her to figure out where I go from here when it concerns my c-section. I don't know why exactly I have a doctor seeing as how I had to book all the appointments for the specialist. I must admit that my frustration level about that went up slightly (okay it went up a lot).

The last few days I can't seem to get enough sleep. I have been going to bed around 8 - 830 pm and getting up around 7am, but it just doesn't seem to be enough. By mid-afternoon I am tired and could easily crawl into bed and sleep for hours. I guess it is my body telling me that I am going to need as much rest as I can due to the fact that the baby is due in less than 11 weeks. I still can't believe that I only have 11 weeks left, it feels like only yesterday that I was calling Shawn at work and telling him that he was going to be a daddy again.

I am feeling very large in the last few days. There is little to no room left in my abdomen region and yet it feels like Deacon is wanting to make enough room to run a football field. The constant moving and kicking and stretching although fun and really cool to see, is causing a lot of pressure and pain....I am being told that it is normal.

That is all to report now. The count down is ON!!!!!!!!!!!

The Final Stretch - Third Trimester (28 weeks)

Well this post will be longer because I am now in the third trimester.

I am now 28 weeks and 5 days along. I am loving this time in my pregnancy! I am huge and haven't been able to see my feet in a few months now, but I couldn't be any happier.

Had my last ultrasound in the middle of August and everything is perfect with the baby. We found out that Shawn and I and Rhailynne are going to have a boy. As scared as I am about the thought of having a boy, I am happy too. Everyone is telling me that now I have the Millionaire's Family, but I am still looking for the million dollars to go with it.

A lot of fears are happening right now. How will I raise a boy? What do you do with boys? Will I have to relearn how to parent a boy? I guess that I will just have to do with him that I did with Rhailynne.... wing it.

We have picked out a name for the baby. His name will be Deacon Roger Shawn Foley. When I sit back and think about the last seven months, I think that I knew from the beginning that I was having a boy. It was so easy to pick out the boys name, I took us literally no time at all to figure it out. I never was able to settle on a name if he was to be a girl.

The sick feeling is better this month, not as bad as before. Cravings have seemed to settle down, but now I have this nasty thing called heart burn and acid reflux. I am chewing Tums like they are candy and it doesn't seem to be helping any. I thought that if you had a lot of heart burn that your baby would have lots of hair but from the people that I have asked most of them say that they had lots of heart burn but their baby had little to no hair.

Rhailynne is loving this time in the pregnancy. Not only can she feel Deacon kick but she can SEE him moving in my belly as well. I have had to take more baths in the last month than I think I have had in the last 6 months. Every time she looks at my belly and doesn't see anything she tells me to go have a bath so that she can see Deacon move.

I went to see a specialist on the 10th of September to discuss whether or not I should try a VBAC or a C-SECTION. I have decided to go with a c-section just because I had such a hard labor with Rhailynne. Now to set up another appointment with the specialist to discuss what due date I would like to have.

The Second Trimester

I loved my second trimester of pregnancy. The nausea settled down, the cravings and the mood swings have lessened and my belly got bigger.....much bigger.

The pregnancy is going well and the baby is right on track with its development and growth. The doctor has no concerns and seems to be please on my weight loss. She doesn't want me to lose to much but is happy that I seem to be losing some weight, which the baby must be taking. That is fine by me it can have as much as it likes I have plenty to spare. The baby has started to move int he last half of this trimester and now I am really enjoying it. There is something magical about laying in bed and feeling movement within you. I have to admit that I kinda like the thought that it is something that only I can feel right now, like a secret I only know about.

Rhailynne seems to be handling this pregnancy well now, she can see the baby move and she has gone with us to every doctors appointment and ultrasound. She loves to hear the baby's heartbeat and see the baby move. Some days are better than others with Rhailynne, there are times that she is really excited about the baby and times she wants nothing to do with the fact that mommy is pregnant. They say that this is normal and it may get worse before it gets better.

The 1st Trimester

As excited that I was to find out that we were pregnant, I soon remembered what it was about pregnancy that I disliked the most..... MORNING SICKNESS!!!!!!!

I thought that each pregnancy was different but nothing has changed in this pregnancy. Wake up, throw up and then feel nauseated the rest of the day. To top that off I had really bad mood swings and craving. My cravings were a lot healthier than they were for Rhailynne. This time fruits and veggies were my cravings. The mood swings were bad, even I wanted to run away from myself, which just proves that with all the faults my husband has, he is an amazing man. He never even blinked when they would hit, he would just say he loves me and "try" to make me feel better.

At 11 weeks we went for our first ultrasound to find out how far along I was and what my due date was. Even though again I have been through all of this, there is just something magical about looking up at the screen and seeing this little life in there and knowing that you and the person you love are capable of creating this life. The Tech told us that I was 11 weeks 3 days and that everything looked a okay! My due date will be December 6th 2010.

Rock a Bye Baby!

Alot of people say that a child changes your life forever, and they are very right in saying that. When Shawn and I had Rhailynne we were scared and excited at the same time. What are we going to do with a baby? How is our life going to change? Will we be good parents? How are we ever going to be able to raise this child without mentally destroying our baby? We read all the baby books out there, we asked everyone we knew with children for advice, bugged our doctor until she was ready to pull out her hair, in an attempt to learn how to be "the best parents out there". Then we realized something.....They don't know ANYTHING!!!!!

The moment we had Rhailynne we both realized that this was one thing in life that we could not prep or put a game plan to. Parenting is a thing in life that you just have to (to put into better words) wing it! When I held my little girl in my hands I have never felt such fear and love in the same moment.


Now sitting here knowing that after two long years we are about to have baby # 2, the same feelings that I had for Rhailynne are creeping up on me again..... only thins time times two. How are we going to raise this baby and make sure Rhailynne mentally and emotionally happy with this new being in our family structure? How can I make Rhailynne understand that even though this baby is going to take up a lot of Mommy and Daddy's time, we still love her very much? How in the world are Shawn and I going to have the time and energy to raise a newborn and an infant? I guess that these things like the concerns I had for Rhailynne before she was born will be answered in time.