Pregnancy update

We have made it to 25 weeks and 3 days! Everything is going smoothly so far. One of the "perks" of being born with a cleft palate myself (if there are one!) is that I "get" to have an extra ultrasound done with a specialist to take a look and see if the baby has it as well. It can be genetic sometimes, but it seems that it was just a fluke with me. There isn't anyone else around who had it. We were very excited to see our baby boy again, however this particular specialist didn't have the screen the person lying on the table can see everything she's doing. So Scott got to watch it all, and I just layed there for 30 minutes about to fall asleep just able to stare at the ceiling. Everything checked out fine anyway, and we got some new pictures.

It was so hard for me to find a midwife (as opposed to a typical OB doctor) here in Augusta to switch to upon moving. It turns out, it was so difficult because there is literally only one legal midwife in town. But I found her, I've met her, and I like her! I am excited to have her continue my care from here on out. I have a choice between 2 different hospitals, so Scott and I will tour each of them at the beginning of the new year, and we'll make our choice then.
I have been feeling really well so far.

My only complaint is that I have horrendous hip and tailbone pain with both of my pregnancies. I thought that I was going to escape it this time around because it took longer to start hurting, but no luck on that. It's here. I can't sit or stand for long periods of time, and sleeping isn't all that wonderful when you wake up so often to switch sides because of a hurting hip. However, it's nothing that a change of position and a heating pad won't help. And I know it will go away after he's born, so I'll deal with it if that's all that bothers me.

I'm also on a new mission to revamp my diet. I don't know if it's just the holidays, the hub bub of moving, or trying to figure out planning food while living in another's house, but I have not been eating very balanced lately. I am also planning to start my red raspberry leaf tea again soon. It is supposed to do wonders for the uterus in helping it to return to its normal size after birth and cut down on post-partum bleeding. I have no idea if it worked with Micaiah or not, but since I still have a whole bag of it left to use, I figure it can't hurt. Although it's not entirely tasty, so we'll see how much of it I actually drink!

Enjoy the pictures of little one pound 13 ounce Caeden Elijah!


She took a few 3-D pictures for us as a treat. We could not get him to move his hand away from his mouth. Little stinker!

This one is of his face, facing up. It looks like he is smiling, though I'm not sure he really was!

This is a profile of his head.