It's hard to believe that last Christmas I was at my mom's house and Jared's family was going through a very rough time. The tornado that hit on 12/25/12 actually hit Jared's grandparents farm. It was such a scary situation for all of them and it about killed me not to be there helping. Jared even stayed behind from his family vacation to the mountains to help his Granddaddy and Grandmama work on the damaged areas.
This Christmas I get to celebrate the birth of Jesus with my husband and son. I couldn't ask for a better gift than that. I'm so happy to know that my first Christmas as a Jordan will be as a new mom. Poor little man may not like his birthday being so close to this time of year later on but we'll figure something out when he's older.
Now before Jared and I were even engaged, we knew that we were meant to be with each other and planned on spending our lives together. With this being so, we discussed children early on and had our future children's names nailed down fairly quickly. And my son's name was his daddy's pick hands down. David Jace Jordan will be the most spoiled little man ever I do believe. "David" is Jared's paternal grandfather's name as well as part of his dad's name. Now "Jace", can you guess where that came from? If any of you know my husband and what time of year is his favorite (Hunting Season), you know that Duck Dynasty and hunting have a constant presence in our house. So when I mentioned the name Jace one day he said that's it. So "David Jace" is our little man's name and we can't wait to kiss on this little baby come December.
This past week was my glucose test at my doctor's appointment and I was dreading it. Throughout this whole pregnancy I have craved close to no sweets. I want salt and yummy avocado! I don't even really like Coke anymore, and for those of you who know me probably just fell out reading that. I still drink sweet tea but it has to be half and half and more so unsweet rather than sweet.
And I need to take a step out right now and say that growing up I was told by my old doctor that he thought I would have a hard time getting and staying pregnant. I have really bad ovarian cysts and they have caused complications since I was young. Alot of pain and medication trying to get them under control.
So when we found out, I was ecstatic! That quickly wore off when morning sickness hit me hard for about 9 weeks. I couldn't hardly tolerate any type of food and what did go down didn't stay long. I told Jared that if this stayed the whole time, this may be our only child. Thankfully it went away and I'm feeling great!
However, I am having a hard time adjusting to this belly. And yes I do have a belly. I know I shouldn't complain because there are women who would kill to get pregnant and would gladly put up with morning sickness the entire time just to have a baby so I'm shutting my mouth about the unglamourous parts and focusing on the amazing parts.
Like feeling Jace kick for the first time; seeing Jared's face when he first felt him move; telling my parents and siblings that they would have a baby boy to play with as their Christmas presents. (I was serious about that you guys, Jace is your present so don't ask where your real gift is.)
And after weeks of people asking me where the belly is, I'm proud to say, it has finally popped out and I don't know that it will ever go away. But hopefully so, as soon as he's out :)
Back to our appointment earlier this week, we headed in for my glucose test. For those of you who don't know what that is I'll explain. After fasting since midnight, you go in get your blood drawn, then drink this nasty (or so I thought) sugary liquid, wait an hour then have your blood drawn again and they test this blood for elevated levels of glucose. The normal range is 70 - 140.
I was dreading this test for two reasons, 1)I don't like sweets right now so a sugary drink that people have been telling me was like drinking syrup didn't entice me at all and 2)I had to fast from midnight till after the appointment was over. Now if pregnancy has taught me anything it's that eating within an hour of getting up is key for me to have a good day. Jace and mommy love breakfast so I have usually eaten by 8am. Being that my appointment was at 8:45, I was about to kill for some Chick-fil-a! (Which is where my husband took me as soon as we were done at the doctor).
So anywho, at my appointment our nurse ushered us into the back to get my stats done and told us she had some bad news, we weren't scheduled for an ultrasound but if we wanted to get one we could since it was slow. Um yes please! I always want to see my son. So we did my weight, blood pressure, then I headed around the corner to the lab to get my blood drawn and drink the eww. Now I have no problem with blood or needles, I use to give blood all the time before I got pregnant. I swear Red Cross had me on speed dial since I'm O-, the universal donor. So the nurse drew some blood and handed me my Lemon Lime cocktail. I call it a cocktail because I thought it was going to be like a Gatorade lemon-lime so I brought salt to go with it :) But it ended up being like Sprite and it really wasn't that bad. It was really cold which helped but I wanted to get to my ultrasound so I drank it really fast which gave me a little head rush but I was good so I headed to get Jared and off to ultrasound we went.
Now since this wasn't a scheduled ultrasound, it was simply going to be, hey here's your baby, aww isn't he cute, okay bye. But as soon as our US tech put the wand on my belly she jerked it off and said "Oh no, we're doing a 4D right now! He's in too perfect a position not to and I don't want to miss it if y'all come back for the actual 4D in a month and we can't get him to cooperate." Hey that's great with me, you go right ahead little lady. Based on other 4D's I've seen I was partly expecting a kind of potato looking image but our girl was good. The first image popped up of his little face and I was speechless. He was right there; perfectly formed and beautiful as can be. Up until this point I hadn't really felt connected with the baby yet. I knew there was something inside me and I was getting bigger but that was the extent of my pregnancy emotion. This one image sent that feeling away. That was my baby, my son, something I created with Jared, actually growing inside me. He was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and I was instantly in love. The ultrasound tech took multiple pictures for us and we got to see him rubbing his face and pondering on the fact that mommy hadn't eaten yet.
As we watched I had a couple tears roll down my face and Jared just held my hand and smiled. He was as much in love as me. We didn't get a look at his goods because she was saving that for our real appointment but we did get his measurements. He is around 1lb 3oz right now and about 13 inches long :) Absolutely perfect. We met with Dr. Reed after the US and we discussed my due date. My current due date is 12/22 but Dr. Reed wants to induce me at least the week before and being that he doesn't induce on Tuesdays, our little man will be here by the 16th or sooner. I'm getting a little nervous but so excited! We have our next appointment October 2nd so hopefully we will have more pictures by then.
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