Today brings 24 weeks pregnant and I celebrated it with a trip to see my parent’s primary care physician here in Florida. Pregnancy-wise, I’m feeling great but today marks four weeks of battling various cold/respiratory ailments. My symptoms were getting worse and not better so I finally caved and saw another doctor today and started an antibiotic. Something has [...]
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5 Things I Learned About Running In The First Trimester
January 14, 2018 { 40 comments }While I knew that running would change during pregnancy, I was in no way prepared for how quickly it happened after receiving a positive pregnancy test. Running in the first trimester was an experience in learning how to not only listen to my body but also trust it. While I’m well into my second trimester [...]
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My Pregnancy Skincare Routine
January 10, 2018 { 10 comments }Over the years I’ve shared a lot about skincare on my blog. It’s something that’s been top-of-mind for me since entering my 30s and I think it’s a very relevant topic for many of my readers as well. We’ve all heard for years that prevention is everything and I truly agree with this. I have [...]
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23 Weeks Pregnancy Update
January 9, 2018 { 16 comments }I am harboring a lot of sadness over here over the Dawgs loss last night. I’m also feeling some sleepiness since I stayed up past midnight to watch the end of the game! We may not have won but making it to our first national championship game since 1980 is surely something to be proud [...]
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22 Weeks Pregnancy Update: I’m Tired!
January 2, 2018 { 19 comments }So much to share on this 22nd week so let’s hop right to it. 22 WEEKS PREGNANCY UPDATE Baby boy is right around a pound now, coming in around 11 inches and around the size of a coconut. My other app says a papaya! Baby is sleeping in cycles of around 12-14 hours per day. [...]
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21 Weeks Pregnancy Update + Sick in the Second Trimester
December 26, 2017 { 43 comments }I’ll give you a break from all the holiday content and Christmas recaps to pop in with my 21 week update. Don’t you worry, I’ll have my Christmas post up tomorrow! :) I was bummed to miss my 20 week post last week due to being sick because 20 weeks is technically halfway. BUT “full-term” [...]
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It’s a…
December 20, 2017 { 68 comments }Hi there. I’m sorry that I missed my 20 week recap yesterday but I have been hit by a chest cold that’s left me homebound in PJs and resting up as much as possible. Although it’s not exactly how I envisioned hitting the halfway mark, I’m just so grateful to be at this point with [...]
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19 Weeks Pregnancy Update + 18 Week Anatomy Scan Ultrasound
December 12, 2017 { 91 comments }Tuesdays have become my favorite day of the week because I love moving to a new week of pregnancy. This is going to be a fun update because we had our anatomy ultrasound, which was so cool and also very reassuring. First a note on pregnancy content, when I first announced my pregnancy, I asked [...]
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How I Told My Grandmother + Florida Visit Recap
December 7, 2017 { 30 comments }Hi from Charlotte. I arrived home last night around 7 p.m. after spending the last five days with my grandmother in Florida. I’m going to share an overview of my visit today but before I do, I thought it would be fun to tell you how I spilled the beans to her about my pregnancy. [...]
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18 Weeks Pregnancy Update
December 6, 2017 { 53 comments }Today marked 18 weeks pregnant and it’s been fun to be in Florida to share it with my grandmother! Here are baby’s milestones at 18 weeks… Baby is yawning, hiccupping, sucking, swallowing and twisting, rolling, punching, and kicking too. Just wish I could feel it! :) Nerves, now covered with a substance called myelin that [...]
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December Workout Playlist + Workouts at 17 Weeks + 45-Minute Strength Workout
December 3, 2017 { 41 comments }Happy Sunday! I arrived in Florida yesterday afternoon to visit my grandmother. The weather is absolutely gorgeous here on the panhandle – it was in the low 50s and sunny this morning and is supposed to warm up to 73 today. I forgot to bring a bathing suit but think I’m going to swing by [...]
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17 Weeks Pregnancy Update + Pregnancy and Grief
November 28, 2017 { 32 comments }From the outside, pregnancy seems to be a really exciting time in life. While I totally agree that it is and I am thrilled to be pregnant right now, I was completely unprepared for how much pregnancy would stir up my tendency towards anxiety and also reignite my grief regarding my brother’s death last year. [...]
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16 Weeks Pregnancy Update
November 21, 2017 { 52 comments }I’m officially 16 weeks pregnant today, or 4 months. While the change of weeks is always fun, the change of months really feels like a milestone. I have secretly been excited about 16 weeks because baby is the size of an avocado this week. You know that rarely a day passes by that I don’t [...]
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Recent Eats: Beginning of My Second Trimester
November 19, 2017 { 5 comments }Happy Sunday! I’m looking forward to Thanksgiving week. I’m picking up my nieces in Georgia on Tuesday or Wednesday to spend the holiday with us and I just registered for the big turkey trot here in town. It’s a 5-mile race which I think is the perfect distance for a Thanksgiving morning run! I’ll be [...]
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15 Weeks Pregnancy Update + What I Bought at Whole Foods at 9 Weeks Pregnant
November 14, 2017 { 39 comments }Hey, hey! Tuesdays are fun for me these days because they’re the day I move to the next week pregnancy. I’m alway so excited to read about all of the developments going on with the baby week-to-week. I’m not sure if I’ll do these updates weekly or bi-weekly but I thought I’d do one today [...]
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2017 Charlotte Half Marathon Race Recap: Second Trimester Half Marathon
November 12, 2017 { 15 comments }I ran the Novant Health Charlotte Half Marathon yesterday at 14 weeks and 4 days pregnant and had a great race experience! During the race I was trying to count how many half marathons I’ve run in my head and thought it was somewhere around 9-10. I was hoping it was my 10th but it turns [...]
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Finding Out + The First Trimester
November 9, 2017 { 113 comments }Thank you so much for sharing the excitement with me over our big news! I have been feeling the love from you guys since making our pregnancy announcement. I appreciate all of your comments, Instagram messages and Facebook messages. Y’all are the best! There is so much that I want to tell you about this [...]
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Peanut Butter…..BABY!
November 7, 2017 { 213 comments }I have been dreaming of the day that I could sit down and write this blog post for a long time and I’m still in disbelief and awe that the time is finally now. I’m so thrilled to share with you that I am pregnant and we are expecting a baby on (or around…you know [...]
