Nate, Sagan, and Wake: Pregnancy

So here is my post on my pregnancy for my own personal record. Nate had been wanting a baby for awhile and me, being afraid of having kids before we were both done with school, made the compromise with him that I would agree to start trying as soon as he got accepted to dental school. So, sure enough, when he got his first acceptance letter in December we started trying. It wasn't until May that I actually found out I was pregnant though which I was kind of bummed about because I really wanted a fall baby but my due date ended up being February 28th. I wasn't able to get in for an appointment until I was 16 weeks so I heard his heartbeat for the first time and found out his gender all at my first appointment. Nate and I were both convinced it was a girl because we just thought we were the type to have girls for some reason ha so when she said it was a boy we were both shocked. Nate was stoked and, I admit, I almost cried lol but it wasn't long before I was pumped too. I had a very easy pregnancy in comparison to everyone else I've talked to. I never threw up (which I knew I wouldn't because I don't think my body knows how to) and that made it a lot easier to keep working out. Now, there is nothing more annoying than hearing about someone else's workout but, like I said, this is for my own information for the future so I'm going to document it. I made sure to be very consistent from the first week I found out I was pregnant so that I would never feel like it was too hard to continue doing what I was doing pre pregnancy. So every week up until I delivered at 41 weeks I went to a kickboxing class for an hour (that was mostly legs), a class called R.I.P.P.E.D for an hour which is a combination of weights, cardio, interval training, resistance, plyo, and abs, and I ran a 4 mile route and a 7 mile route each once a week (I had to quit the 7 mile route after 38 weeks though and replace it with another 4 mile route). I also continued my daily push-up and sit-up routine that I've been doing for about ten years up until the day I delivered as well (whether or not it helped, I'll never know but it helped my sanity). I felt pretty dang awesome throughout the whole 41 weeks and I attribute it to all the working out I did so something to remember for my next pregnancy. It wasn't all smooth sailing though, there were a few minor things that I hated about being pregnant. There were a few times I felt a little nauseous but not enough to ever throw up. Also, I felt a "warmness" in my throat on occasion like I could feel my stomach fluid coming back up my esophegus which was annoying. My ears seemed to need to be popped a lot more than when I wasn't pregnant (no idea if that was related or not though). I experienced my first charly horses when I would stretch first thing in the morning (worst pain ever). Of course I was hungry at night and got up every single night to pee which was annoying. I also never slept super well towards the end because I had to wake up to heave myself to the other side so the one I was laying on wouldn't go numb ha. Running started to get harder at around 23 weeks. I would get killer side aches on some of my runs (which I had never gotten side aches before in my life) and my feet started to hurt towards the end too. The 7 miler runs were definitely not enjoyable towards the end, I just forced myself to do it but the 4 miler runs were still pretty enjoyable even towards the end. The weirdest thing that happened to me though was I got really bad vertigo that lasted a full 24 hours even after I had tried to sleep it off. It hit out of nowhere and went away just as suddenly. I didn't end up taking anything for it but I was pretty much out of commission that entire day. I don't think I had any real cravings but I did really want slushes and apples during the time I was pregnant with him. Other than that I just hated being pregnant because nothing fit and it sucks to feel huge but I'm sure I am no different than anyone else in that aspect. The only thing I liked about being pregnant was feeling him move inside of me which I felt for the first time at exactly 20 weeks and that really never got old and it didn't hurt even towards the end even though some people told me it would. My pregnancy was completely normal from a medical standpoint though, so for that I was very glad. I absolutely HATE taking pictures of myself and ESPECIALLY pregnant so these pictures, once again, are just for my own FYI even though they are painful to look at. I just had Nate snap the picture once so I got what I got when it comes to how good/bad they turned out haha.