positive-ness

I had this cranky post written up when I was feeling uber pregnat and not so great about myself, and basically just put down everything I was feeling into a post... But I decided it was too negative and decided no one really wants to read that stuff anyway!

so heres a positive post!

As you can very well see, the blog got not only a facelift,  but a name change as well. My old blog name was too complicated and had really nothing to do with me, so here it a more simple one for you... so now please follow ZandKZmoos.blogspot.com! thanks

So I have this friend Amanda, who is pregnant with her second little cutie.. and she post these great little updates about her pregnancy and so I thought it would be a fun way to update everyone on mine!

How far along? 30 weeks 2 days-give or take  :)

Total weight gain/loss: if you really want to know, I will tell you, but its not a pretty number, lets just say Ive gained probably more than I should...
Maternity clothes?  Mostly, except yoga pants and big t-shirts.

Stretch marks?  surprisingly, not on my stomach.
Best moment this week: Daddy- aka Zachary comes home!!!!!!

Miss anything: lots: Zach, Sleep, sweets without heartburn, being able to bend over, cool weather... the list could continue for a long time... 

Movement: yes, doesnt seems like as much as she used to, but I just think she is running out of room!

Food cravings: Chocolate. Which is weird, because most who know me, know I dont really like chocolate that much.

Anything making you queasy or sick:  no, I still have yet to get sick. beside the spell of heat exhaustion when I got back from Florida.

Have you started to show yet: yes, then some. My mom says it looks like I am going to tip over... she is so nice to me sometimes! ha ha jk I only joke mom!

Gender: girl aka pink baby.
And I have come to the conclusion that even when she does have a real name, I feel like its going to be hard to stop calling her pink baby... pretty much everyone calls her that now.

Labor Signs: I think Ive been having Braxton Hicks, and those arent so great..

Belly Button in or out? kind of in, kind of out. Pokes out a little on the right side after I am really full!

Wedding rings on or off? Off and has been off for quite some time... makes me a little sad.

Happy or Moody most of the time: lets see... my husbands been gone since april... I will let you decide. : )

Looking forward to: Having Zach back home and being done with work!! Only two more shifts and Im finished with Bear World!

Funny moment this week: this might be too much information... But lately I have found I cant control my bladder as well as I once could, so now I find myself running to that bathroom when I have to go... and well yesterday, didnt quite make it all the way in time. laugh if you must...

so there ya go... lovely right : )

So Zach will officially be home tomorrow and I couldnt be more excited! Ive been cleaning and getting things ready for him to come home. I have kind of taken over the closet, So Im not exactly sure where he is going to put any of his things... but Im just ready to have him home!  I think he will be very surprised at home much pink we have accumulated in these last few months since he has been away! 

Real People!

I have always said that I can't wait until Zach and I are finally real people. What is a real person you ask? well basically a non-college person in the "Real world"

I have been in Idaho for 5 years now, and I am really ready for the next step!

We seem to be entering the real people world at record speed!

As everyone knows we are expecting our little baby girl in October, and we couldn't be more excited about it. There is nothing like entering the real world like entering it with a new little baby!

Then a few short weeks after that Zach will graduate from college with his degree in health science!

I am so excited for him and for his accomplishments! A dad and a college graduate in just two months!

And.. drum roll please... He will not only be a dad and a college graduate, but a full time employee with Freeport in El Paso Texas as an Industrial Hygienist!

Yes, that's right folks. Right after graduation we will be moving our little family down to Texas to start our new journey there! We couldn't be more excited and more ready for this new step in our lives!! I'm so proud of Zach and all that he has accomplished, and so grateful for this job opportunity working with such great people and a great company!

so being apart for the summer i guess sure paid off :)



29 weeks

Today I went to the doctor, I'm on the every two weeks visits now. Everything is looking fine, babies heart beat is normal, blood pressure is normal, weight gain... well thats been high from the start so thats nothing new. But since Im getting closer to the end the talk of delivery has started to come up more now.
Dont get me wrong, I have thought about it a lot, but i kind of alwaysp knew it would take some time to get to that point, so I havent put too much thought into everything. Lets be honest here, if I did I probably would have been freaking out much more this whole pregnancy. haha
Anywho, I dont have a "birth plan" if you will, but I kind of just have the mentality that the doctor will tell me whats the safest and best way to do things, and thats what I will do.
At my 20 week check up/ ultra sound I was told my placenta is looking pretty low and its just something we would have to keep on eye on as we go down the road. Now that its getting closer its come up again. In two weeks I will go in for another ultra sound to check out the placenta and make sure everything is normal there. If it isnt, then its looking like a c-section will be scheduled. If its fine, then we will just go on like normal.
THEN, I will have another ultra sound around 37 weeks to check the babies weight. Since my faimly history isnt exactly working in my favor (big babies), I could possibly have a few different things happen. 1 could be induced early, but that comes with its own set of risks (not sounding too wonderful to me) or 2. have a c-section. My doctor is very good at making me relaxed about all of the options, so like I said, I'm not freaking out too much... yet. He told me he wouldnt let me have a normal delivery with a 9 +lbs. baby, because there are all kinds of problems that can come from that.
So at this point, I feel very good about everything. And hey, if I do have a c-section thats kind of like picking the birthday! 10-11-12 anyone?! how cool would that be?!

would you like some sugar with that sugar!?

27 weeks today
So today I had my glucose test. I was actually kind of worried about it. I have had a bit of a large amount of weight gain during my pregnancy (bit is an understatement, I dont care how many people tell me I look good... the scale dont lie!) So I was a little concerned that I was going to fail it. I like my sweets.. what can I say!

So I woke up after a semi-sleepless night (again) and tried the lovely fruit punch flavored sugar. It honestly wasnt as bad as I thought it was going to be. It burned a little bit going down, but I think thats because sugar things lately give me heart burn, but other than that it wasnt the worst thing ever!

I waited around for a while then headed to the doctors office. By the time I got there it started kicking in and I felt all jittery and icky. So they took my blood, checked me out, and sent me on my way. Babys heart is 145 bpm, Im measure big (surprise surprise) and I gained more weight (surprise surprise). So all in all, we are doing just fine! I guess I'm just going to have lots of work to do after this babe comes into the world to loose the weight I gained. Its a tad bit on the defeating side, and I really try not to let it bug me, but sometimes its just a little hard.

After the appointment was over I went home and tried to take a nap, but by that time the sugar had reached the baby and she was doing flips for about a half an hour... So I ate lunch instead.

I also got my hair cut this afternoon by a good friend of mine! I really just need something a little different, and lets me honest, who doesnt love going to the salon and getting someone to do your hair! It was great to catch up and feel pampered! She is having a little girl too just three weeks after I am, so its fun to talk about all our pregnancy troubles!

All in all it was a pretty successful day. I didnt get a call from the doctors office, so I am assuming that means I didnt fail. Thank goodness!

Now onto appointments every two weeks, and we have an ultra sound in 4 weeks. (which Zach will be home for!! I cant wait for him to see his little girl!!)

Trying to stay positive

Laying here awake at a quarter to twelve is not a real fun time. The last few nights have been a struggle in the sleep department. My theory.. Pink baby is just getting me ready for the lack of sleep I will probably get for the next.. Forever. "they" say the first trimester sucks because your nauseous, can't eat anything.. Blah blah. Which for me didn't really happen, I did however have issues with headaches which caused some sleepless nights. Then apparently the second trimester things are suppose to level out. Your suppose to feel better sleep better.. Yadda Yadda. Which it has been better, if you don't count the heart burn. (good thing it doesn't happen everyday) but now I am a week and a day away from my third trimester (I think ) and it already feels like its here!! My last doctors appointment confirmed that pink baby is probably going to be big. I've have a pretty large amount of weight gain ( enter sad face) and am measuring just a bit ahead, aka big baby.

I've been having lots more back/hip pain, which is making sleeping way more of a challenge. I'm lucky if I only get up in the night three times to go to the bathroom, some nights it's one every hour. Oh and back to the back thing, you know how most people have a dip/curve to their lower back.. ( well I did anyway) well now that's all filled out! Crazy, what the heck is back there?! It's crazy to think how jumbled everything gets in there!

I have my wonderful glucose test on Thursday, which I've heard such great things about.. I'm crossing my fingers I don't fail! Or throw up.

But if anyone wants to tell me how the heck I'm suppose to sleep for the next few months, that would be greatly appreciated.

Here are some pics, which is the reason most ppl look at blogs anyway! Haha

family time!

Well, well..

These last few weeks sure have been eventful!!

My sister, her husband, and my nephew came out to visit all the way from Iowa. What a long drive for a two year old.. but he was a champ and did very well!!

We did all the usual things

yellowstone/west yellowstone montana

jackson hole

mesa falls

bear world

it was a fun and fast few days, and call it pregnancy hormones if you will, but I had a really hard time after they left. It really hits you sometimes how hard it is to be away from your home and your family. Not a lot of my family has been out here to Idaho except my grandparents, so it was really nice to be able to show someone else where I have been living for the past 5 years. Not to mention it was a great time with my sister. Shes always been kind of my "mom-away-from-mom" and we never really had much of a chance to be just sisters, so the time with her and her family was really great to have... seeing as Zach and I dont really have any plans to move anywhere close to Iowa.

After they left to go back home, I had a day to pack up my things and then
I headed to Florida to meet up with Zach. It was a really long road to get there

first:

I took a shuttle to salt lake

waited 2 hours in the airport

took a 1 and 15 min flight to denver

then rushed to my next gate..hurry and got a sandwich..

then flew 3 hours and 20 min to Tampa. (with a 45 min wait on the plane because the wind decided to change directions screwing up the flight plan for all the planes...)

then waited 20 min in the airport to meet Zachary!!

then we headed to our hotel and stayed up wayy too late catching up and of course me having to eat again!

We had a really fun time in Florida. We visited some beaches just south of tampa and headed to Maderia which is the beach my family always goes to. Then we headed back up north to my moms. It was great to see her happy Florida house! We spent a little time in Orlando,  but mostly just hung out and relaxed! Zach got to go fishing with my uncle Al and got a little fishing fix until he gets back out here. We had a really fun time and really didnt want to leave! I wasnt sad to leave the humidity however! yuck... Thank you dry heat!

The traveling back was almost unbareable and I seriously thought I could cry on more than one occasion! But I made it... and then headed back to work the next day... lovely I know.

thoughts of today...

As I sit here on my couch... after having just ate a bowl of cookie dough ice cream... thinking about my day...

I went to the doctor for my regular check up.. and dont worry everything is just fine with baby girl...But me on the other hand well lets just say I have gained quite a bit of weight this last month.

It was seriously such a huge shock for me to see the weight on the scale, because i honestly didnt think I had gained that much. Maybe in my belly, but nothing else felt "bigger"

My doctor said that he wasnt concerned about it because we just make big babies in my family, and that if it started to be a concern he would let me know.

Next month is my glucose test, so I will know if there is anything more to be worried about.

In the last few weeks I have really started to feel pregnant, and that I am getting rounder.

I feel her move a lot more and a lot stronger than before. She likes to move around early in the morning (just like her dad) and then late at night (just like her mom), then we I eat really sweet snacks! haha

I have started to retain a little water and I really wish it would move away from my face and just go somewhere else... but thats just not the case.

But in all of this "uncomfortable-ness" I cant help but think how lucky I am to have this little miracle in the first place.. So I will take it all in stride and just keep trucking along.

: )