Well here I am 16 weeks pregnant and this is when I first started to really show! Also around 16 weeks is the first time I felt him kick!!! What an amazing feeling, which I do admit I miss! Although I do not miss him kicking my rib cage!! :) So anyways, at this time Brett and I did not know what we were having! We went for our check up and got our date for our ultrasound. We were to find out the sex of our baby on Brett's birthday March 30, 2010! What an amazing birthday present!! Its hard to believe that it has already been a year since this time!! Now our little boy is almost eight months old... but before I get ahead of myself, I want to continue with the story of my pregnancy!
This is my belly at 21 weeks 6 days, we just found out we were having a little boy and we couldn't be more excited!!! I was also excited that my belly was so little (even though he was growing perfectly) and that I had no stretch marks at this point. From this point on, I could really feel him moving around. He was very active after I hit 21 weeks. I gained 10lbs from 20-24 weeks and that was the first of my weight gain the whole pregnancy. From 24-28 weeks I gained an additional 10lbs and it continued after that! Our little boy was growing strong!!! We were so excited for him to join us in this world!!! We chose the name Bentley John for our little boy his middle name after his great grandfather on Brett's side of the family!!!
Here I am 26 weeks and 2 days pregnant and couldn't be happier!!! I was keeping busy by working at a local clothing store 2-5 days a week, and relaxing and getting ready for the new addition to the family when I got a chance. It was summer time now, and it was starting to get hot!!! My feet would swell and made it uncomfortable to stand for long periods of time. But it was all worth it!!! For the summer Brett and I would go up to Jericho Lake and go fishing, sit on the beach, or have a BBQ. We also went to South Pond and his fathers pool!!! Nice cold water to go swimming in was heaven sent!!! From this point on I gained weight but slowly and not so dramatic. Well sort of!!! :) I could feel Bentley kicking me all the time and it was such an amazing feeling. He was more active at night and would wake me up every night around 2:30am and I had to have my toast with peanut butter and a tall glass of milk. At this time I was sure that he was going to love peanut butter like his father and his grandfather.
And Bentley is GrOwInG!!!!! I have popped as I would say!!! It was like over night my belly got huge!!! And over night that my belly went from no stretch marks to a million of them. I still had cravings for peanut butter and milk oh and cereal!!! I don't think I will ever eat cereal again. Oh and thankful that my morning sickness had gone away since about 20 weeks but right around 36 weeks which is when this picture was taken I dealt with severe heartburn! At this point I had only 4 more weeks until we met our little boy and we were getting anxious!!!! We wanted him in our lives so that we could spend time as a family before Brett had to be deployed with the Army National Guard for a year!!!
So we got to 38 weeks and my OBGYN decided that since I was dilating on my own and I was so close to my due date that they would send me up to women's services to be induced on Monday August 16th 2010. She took into consideration that Brett was going to be leaving only 4 weeks after his birth and thought that the more time we had together would be amazing. This picture was taken the day before I went in to be induced. It was like I had a basketball under my shirt!!! Surprisingly I was not as nervous as I thought I was going to be about giving birth! I just kept thinking that through all the pain eventually our little boy will be in our arms!!! And that is what got me through labor.
