Baby Bumpin

Ok, so since my last post was just a little background about me I finally get to talk about the 'now' stuff that I'm so super excited about.. so here goes!

After a looooong year of trying, we FINALLY found out back in March that we are PREGGO with a sweet baby boy that will be here around December 3rd.

We started the whole, 'lets get off birth control and see what happens' back in the end of 2010/beginning of 2011 and about 3 months into all that I started all of the 'how to make a baby' research... and MAN, there is so much I had no clue about until now. Since you only have about 12 hours to actually get pregnant, there is no wonder that this whole process is a miracle from God. I started to get serious about it after about 4-5 months, and after about the 6th month I thought maybe I should call the doctor just to make sure all is okay. She had me try for a few more months taking my basal body temperature in the mornings (which is NOT fun) and STILL nothing. I finally called a different doctor and scheduled a consultation with them and they immediately did bloodwork because I came in and believe me... I was prepared. I had a year's worth of calendars with my cycles listed, 3 months of temperatures to show and still not pregnant. Come to find out I have low progesterone. My body just doesn't like to produce it. (A quick tidbit about progesterone: You have to have progesterone to keep a baby. What happens is, your body produces estrogen throughout the beginning of your cycle, then about mid-cycle your estrogen level drops and your progesterone level begins to rise. (aka: ovulation) If your progesterone level begins to drop, you won't be able to hold a pregnancy)

So after having the procedure where they clean out your tubes, and her putting me on progesterone supplements after ovulation....the very first month , BAM. Ive never been happier to see TWO lines in my entire life! We were due July 9th 2012, my birthday. Right about 6-7 weeks, I had some serious cramping and began to bleed so we rushed to the emergency room. They couldn't tell me much at the emergency room because my levels were still high and it hadn't shown that I miscarried yet, but the next day I had more bloodwork done and I lost the little bean. :( One of the saddest days of my life, seriously. BUT, we wernt giving up.. the only good thing about that sweet little bean, was that it meant we CAN get pregnant, God just wasn't ready and it wasn't a healthy pregnancy. All in all, I'm thankful regardless.

We waited one month (longest month ever) and started up the process again. After another month of negative, I decided to make an appointment with Dr Ripps, the fertility doctor in PCola. I was sure something was not right in there. His first available appointment was on Wednesday, March 28th.... another long month away, which gave us one last month to try this AGAIN so we did. I woke up on Tuesday morning (March 27th), took a pregnancy test and Oh. My. Gosh. = a BIG smiley face popped up. PREGNANT. I literally RAN through the house (I was in the guest bathroom so I didn't wake Mick up), turned on the light, jumped on the bed and shoved that PP stick in his face, haha "LOOK BABE!" Talk about timing, God gave me literally about one hour to call the fertility doctor and cancel my appt before getting charged the cancellation fee... and that to me, was PLENTY of time. It truly is ALL about God's timing. He gave us a crazy lesson on that, but it was awesome. One I won't forget, thats for sure.

SO ANYWAY... we're finally pregnant and just had our 20 week ultrasound, and everything looks great so far! THANK THE GOOD LORD! I'm not one of those people who says 'oh, i just LOVE being pregnant' because the first trimester was straight up, miserable. I was extremely nauseated ALL DAY, EVERY DAY. Getting up to take a shower, get ready and go to work in the mornings was like torture. And Im pretty sure I came home most days and slept until time for bed. I couldn't cook because the smell would make me nauseated, I couldn't eat any type of meat, and I was so tired that I could barely function. I kept telling myself..."Lindsey, it could be a lot worse. You could be barfing every 5 minutes, or so sick you had to be in the hospital." I'm so thankful that I wasn't THAT sick, but it was HORRIBLE. I explained it to Mick like this: It's almost like having a stomach bug, and having to hold it all in. Your not throwing up and your so constipated, you cant poop either! haha! Sorry, TMI, I know. But its true!!

Anyway, the middle of my second trimester has been MUCH more pleasant! I'm able to eat now, and I can feel him move which is pretty awesome. Weird at times, but so cool. Mick probably get's tired of hearing me say, "Oh, he's kicking me!" or OOH! Come feel babe, his butt is sticking out!" haha Its actually kinda fun now, but let me just tell you, it wasn't before. My body just isn't one of those bodies that LOVES it.. some days I feel like my body hates me. ;)

So thats how we got to today.... and we are SO BEYOND thankful that God put this little baby boy in our lives. I'm sure it's going to be a interesting journey, but after all it took to get him here we're gonna love that little baby like no other and I cant hardly wait!! ;)

Here's some pics I took last night after Mick painted his room for me and we picked up our furniture. We're putting the crib together tonight... this is the FUN part. Decorating!

Love y'all much! -Linz

We said bye to my pretty pink "Girl Room" and made it nice and boyish.. Blue and Grey! 

Caden's new lamp and the fabric we are making his bedding out of. 

Our sweet baby, saying his prayers. Caden James Jeffcoat
@ 16 weeks