20 Week Bump update

This is technically a 21 week 4 day bump update but I am officially over halfway done with this pregnancy!!!! I swear the time goes by so much quicker when you’re having your second! We can’t wait to hold our little baby the end of June. We are even more excited to see Laken’s reaction to the new little baby. Today’s post is pretty much an update on questions that almost every pregnant women gets when she’s pregnant and talked about a little more in detail. At the end I answer some questions that I got asked when I made a poll on Instagram last week!

This pregnancy has been completely different compared to Laken’s and it’s weird haha. I feel normal and it’s so weird for both Kyler and I that he’s constantly asking Are you sure you’re okay?!. I laugh at it because it feels too good to be true and we’re just waiting for everything to hit me like a wall.

Symptom wise everything has been normal…ish? It’s really odd things that set me off and make me want to get sick. In the beginning the smell/thought of ground beef made me gag. A few weeks after finding out I was pregnant there was a Mexican potluck at work and someone brought a whole crockpot of ground beef. I don’t know how I made it through that day. The entire salon reeked of ground beef and I want to gag just now thinking about it lol. I’ve been fine since with things up until about a month ago when our dogs breath got to me and I feel so guilty for not even wanting to be next to her! All of the other things that bother me aren’t as intense but I have to force myself to stop thinking about them or else I will get sick. Just a few of those things are the smell of super dirty hair, hearing someone scratch their scalp, and yogurt. I try to keep myself occupied at work so I don’t think about it but it’s so hard avoiding it in the salon!

I gained a new food sensitivity with this baby and it really stinks. With Laken I developed a sensitivity to wheat and still struggle with it. With this baby I know I have an even bigger sensitivity to wheat and now dairy! This past week I have been eating like absolute crap and totally gave into all the cheese and bread I wanted. Yesterday I craved cake and made a few dozen cupcakes that tasted so good! I’ve also been craving avocado toast, matcha shakes/tea, lobster, and all the veggies!!!

So far I’ve only gained 12 pounds and I’m okay with it. I see a lot of it in my face and I’m starting to get a little self conscious with it. I’ve very grateful and thankful that my body will allow me to carry a baby. However, I am so ready to be done. It’s okay to not love being pregnant and I am one of those people that honestly doesn’t love it. I don’t think I feel pretty pregnant at all. My skin breaks out. My hair starts to take on a red tint. I don’t feel like myself. I’m someone that really likes having control over my own body(I’m not a fan of drinking either) and I hate that I can’t control my weight gain or what’s going on. I always had this fantasy that I would workout everyday and be one of the cutest pregnant people ever. I’m a hot mess and I’ve just accepted that haha. I do my best to embrace my body while it’s changing and am just taking advantage of having a cute bump that won’t be there forever.

Laken finally understands that there is a baby in my belly. She refers to the baby as “mom mom’s baby” and gets very upset if you call it anything else. She hugs and kisses my belly and thinks the only way to communicate with the baby is shoving her finger in my belly button on deep as possible….it hurts haha. She is obsessed with her baby dolls and is always asking for us to swaddle them so I know she’ll be very caring for the new baby! My only worry at the moment is getting both babes on a reasonable sleep schedule so I don’t go crazy haha.

I have a very low tolerance for things. I’m not an angry or aggressive person by any means but I really want to whack a few people across the face with a chair. HA! I have a really hard time hiding my expressions and if nobody talked to me the rest of my pregnancy I’d be totally okay with it. I think I said I would go into detail in my Instagram Stories over all that bothers me, but there is so much and I don’t want to sound rude so I’ll keep them to myself for now. Maybe in my next post I’ll be brave enough to post them all.

We also started on the baby’s room!!! Well, my idea board has been made. We are brining a lot of natural colors into the room. We’re making over our guest room that is significantly smaller than Laken’s but still with enough space! It’s killing me that I can’t say he or she yet because I want to spill so many more details on the room! It’s going to be so cute 🙂 I’ll be doing a huge room transformation reveal on here as well as showing stories along the way, so if you aren’t following me on Instagram, you can make sure you are here.

Questions I got asked on my Instagram!

What I’m looking forward to most after pregnancy: I’m really excited to push myself and my body to get back to what it was before both babies. I’m fully aware that I will never look like what I did before but I want to get back to feeling like my old self. I love running and I don’t think I’ve ever talked about that on here! I currently get a lot of pressure in my pelvic area that has kept me from working out and it sucks but I do what I can workout wise. I really like intense cardio workouts and am wanting to get into pilates! After having Laken I lost almost all of my core muscles and really want to build them up gain. Maybe this time I’ll have some abs to show with it!

How is this pregnancy compared to Laken’s: It has been night and day. Like I said above, I’m waiting to that brick wall to hit me and for me to start feeling terrible. It’s almost too good to be true that I feel this good. With Laken I was so full of fluid that my arms and legs would swell up to the point I could no longer feel them. My feet were constantly tingling from being numb and I have beautiful varicose veins all over my legs to show for it! I was sick the whole time too. I lived off of whatever I wasn’t throwing up from and laid around crying all day.

Are you scared of anything now that you’re having your second?: Yes and no. Kyler gets more worked up and worried about me during the whole birth because he scared himself with Laken by reading articles of mothers that had passed during childbirth. I try not to think about things because if I get too worked up my anxiety takes over and I start freaking out. I did tell Kyler that this time around in the hospital I’m going to be an absolute mess because I know what’s coming. With Laken I had no idea what to expect. I had no idea what I would be doing so I just said okay to whatever the nurses and doctor said. I already know I’m going to be freaking out and crying the whole time haha. Nobody will be looking glamorous here!

When are you going to share the gender?: Ughhhh you guys need to know that it is killing me just as much not being able to talk about it. Last weekend Laken came down with RSV and she’s the center of the picture so we couldn’t force her to do that when she wasn’t okay. I was planning on doing them this Sunday but then forgot that Kyler was going to a concert with his friends and they got a hotel and everything. So, Monday we are crossing our fingers that we can get it done and will hopefully have it up that week! I’m not promising anything on this one because life happens and I can’t control what crazy event will happen next.A

Any names: Nope. Haha. We truly can’t decide on anything! Maybe on the next post we’ll know.

It’s been so fun being able to share this pregnancy with you all! At 30 weeks I plan on doing another bump date and sharing more! I wish that I had something like this to document Laken but I keep telling myself that if it weren’t for her I wouldn’t be doing this whole thing at all.

Outfit details: This dress is from Vici Collection and they sold out of it so fast. The just launched their spring line and you can get 20% off with code: Spring20

xx-Kendra