Wow! Has it really been 6 months!

I haven't posted on this blog for 6 months! I would like to be surprised by that but I'm not. My life got super crazy over the summer and has never slowed down. I found out I was pregnant with boy #3, we spent a few weeks out of state, our oldest started kindergarten, we went to Disneyland, we sold our house and moved and so on and so on.

When I found out I was pregnant I thought it would be so fun to post updates and pictures on this blog and then it just never happened. So here I sit, 33 weeks along without saying a word about it. So I will now.

As I mentioned we found out it is another boy. We were, of course, hoping for a girl just for a change but we are all really excited it is a boy. Our 5 year old came to the ultrasound with us and did great. He was really interested and it was fun to have him there.

Aside from the long, long hot Arizona summer this pregnancy has been my easiest. I was never really sick except for when I would get dehydrated. I usually have bad sciatic pain but it hasn't bothered me as much. And other less pleasant pregnancy complaints I've had in the past (nausea, heartburn, constipation, etc.) haven't phased me or have been much more mild. Honestly, I attribute all of this to one thing-exercise! I had been attending a pretty intense aerobics class three times a week for over a year before I got pregnant and so I was in great shape going into it. And I didn't stop going. There were days where I didn't push myself as hard because I was tired but I still went because I felt so much better. I have recently started doing a Zumba-like workout which, believe it or not has been perfect! It's as low impact as I want to make it and just feels good to get my whole body moving. I had been wearing a heart monitor but now I can feel when it starts to get a little too high for too long and I back off a bit.

Yeah for Boy #3 for making this so easy on me. It is a huge blessing this one was so easy when everything else in my life was turning upside down. Things would have been much harder if I had been sick as well. My heart goes out to all you ladies who do have much more challenging pregnancies! Trust me, it's all worth it in the end.

Being pregnant can give you more than just heartburn

An interesting story on NPR. Maybe being pregnant can actually be good for you!

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=5195551