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Saturday, December 1, 2018

Second Trimester Overview


  • Any sleep issues? 
Since I hit twenty weeks it has been a struggle. I have always been a stomach sleeper, so learning to sleep on my side has been interesting. Around twenty-two weeks I started getting the occasional insomnia and it usually happens on the nights I have to be up early for work. And add in waking up a couple of times or more a night to pee has been fun.

  • Twenty week anatomy scan? 
I had it right at nineteen weeks and everything looked great. Our next ultrasound won't be until around thirty-two weeks at the end of this month. 

  • Boy or girl?
Baby Ragland is a BOY. From the very start, I always thought it was going to be a boy, so I was happy that I guessed right. Brandon was hoping for a girl and he was so positive that it was going to be a girl, but he is still happy that we are having a boy. 

  • Baby movements? 
I started to feel him around 19 weeks a few days after our ultrasound, but very light movements. From weeks twenty through twenty-three, movements stayed light with the occasional strong movement, but it wasn't until week twenty-four that the light movements turned into stronger movements and have stayed that way since. Brandon has gotten to feel him a several times so far, but usually whenever he puts his hand on my stomach, the baby likes to stop moving. Haha. 

  • Glucose test? 
Took the test at twenty-five weeks and thankfully the drink wasn't bad, people either say they liked it or hated it. To me it just tasted like a flat orange soda. And thankfully I passed and didn't have to take the three hour test.


  • Work update? 
When we got back from Utah I was able to go back to work without any limitation on how long I could work for in a day. The only issue I had was (and still is), to slow it down. I'm so use to always being on the move at work and moving fast that I have to tell myself to slow down and take breaks when I needed to. Even though the majority of my coworkers knew I was pregnant, around twenty two weeks was when they could tell that I was and then around twenty four weeks was when the customers that come in regularly could tell. But sadly during the last week of the second trimester my morning sickness came back so depending on what it does will be the deciding factor on if I need to cut back on some hours again. 




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