Pat's Friends

Not much Pat news to share, but we are very excited about Pat's cousins that are also scheduled to arrive in September 2012!

My sister-in-law, Vanessa (Sam's sister), is pregnant with her 2nd baby and due at the beginning of September.

 PS. This was taken in Costa Rica and that is why were so excited for American food aka Burger King!

My sister-in-law, Jenny (Chris' wife), is pregnant with her 3rd baby and due at the end of September.

Super old pic of use but it's the best I could find! :)

Vanessa already found out she's having a boy, but Jenny and I are still waiting to find out the gender of our little ones. Regardless, I think it will be so fun to have cousins so close in age on both sides of the family. My other sister-in-law on the Heyman side, Candace, is due with a little girl at the start of this summer, so there will be so many little ones joining our family this year!

Latest pregnancy updates:

• I was looking forward to the 2nd trimester because everyone says that's when you start feeling better. My 1st week of trimester numero dos I threw up three times. However, since then I have started to feel better and I get nauseated A LOT less often.
• I'm still exhausted pretty much every day.
• I'm still eating more than before I was pregnant, but I rarely feel as hungry as I did sometimes in my first trimester.
• In the two plus years that Sam and I have been married, I don't think I've ever bought chips besides tortilla chips and an occasional bag of Sun Chips. Every week now I can't pass up buying Pringles. They taste amazing and always sound good!
• Vitamin B6 + Unisom at night does wonders to my sleep!
• Everyone still comments that I look small and am not showing yet, but if they saw me in a swimsuit the comments would be different! I'm slowly but surely growing. 

Pat Update

Early on when Sam and I first found out I was pregnant, we started calling the baby "Pat". Sam said it's a safe name to use because it can stand for Patrick or Patricia. Although we're not planning on using either name to really name the baby, Pat is it until we find out if Baby Nielsen is a he or a she.

On March 2nd, I finally had my first doctor's appointment. I'm using a doctor that my neighbor recommend and a lot of people in my ward have used, I love him! I am always nervous for doctor appointments because I know there is a possibility that something might come up and they'll have to draw my blood (I'm a fainter). I was prepared mentally that I'd probably have blood work done, but I was so excited to finally find out more about our little babe that it wasn't too bad. I didn't faint, and all went well with the appointment.

Everything is looking good so far with Pat and the scheduled due date is still September 12th. Sam and I were so happy with the awesome profile snap shot we got of our little one.

Isn't Pat cute?

I've been getting a lot of questions about if I'm showing yet and comments from people who say they still can't see anything. I have a little bump now, it's not a real baby bump more of just Allison's-belly-is-getting-fat look bump, but it wasn't there before! It sounds crazy but it came Thursday night (I promise).

Here are just some random facts on my pregnancy so far (more for me to remember than anything else):

• At 6 weeks and 1 day the nausea hit.
• At 8 weeks I started feeling exhausted every day and my bed time moved up substantially.
• After that I was so tired I often left dishes in the sink over night and my clothes started piling up on the floor (things I was usually against pre-pregnancy).
• Even when nauseous I hate saltines.
• My body will dry-heave and gag all it wants, but the throwing-up doesn't come easy (sorry for the info).
• One of my favorite things is listening to Sam talk about being a dad.
• Sam now calls me "piggy-wiggy" in reference to my increased appetite.
• In 11 weeks I gained 4 lbs (at 13 weeks it's the same...I think the 4 lbs were more from quitting my usual work outs and being less particular about my diet!). 
• I am so happy and feel blessed to have this little baby growing inside of me!