First of all, everything went well at today's obgyn appointment. I lost a couple of pounds (don't know how that's possible, I'm eating like a pig!) and the baby's heartbeat was 150.. and all my measurements were right on track. She told me that I am going to be a very busy girl in the weeks to come, closer to my due date - lots of doctor appointments and sonograms because I am high risk and because of the diabetes.. it will be to the point that I'll be having 2 appointments a week! YIKES - all worth it though to make sure all keeps on going well! My next appointment is in 2 weeks.. so for now, it's still every 2 weeks.. then once a week, then twice a week. I can't believe that this Monday is the start of my 7th month!!!! I can also now hear Brianna's heart beat by putting my Dad's stethoscope on my belly which is pretty awesome.

I am seriously the luckiest girl in the world..... lately things have been getting pretty hard - my health is still doing good.. but things are definitely getting more difficult and it's scaring me a little bit.. I am noticing things getting much harder (breathing, doing simple things on my own, etc) and I'm just getting tired and drained so easily; and not to mention out of breath... I am thinking about starting to sleep with oxygen because when I lay down it's very difficult. Yet, with all of these changes, the only thing keeping me happy and giving me strength everyday is Kenny. Saying he is amazing is by far an understatement. When I get so tired and just break down and cry, he is there for me. When I'm cranky and just tired of feeling like crap, he is ALWAYS there and knows just the right things to do and say to make me feel all better. I have loved Kenny since the day I met him... but now it feels like it is such a different kind of love... a piece of him is growing inside me and I am just so inlove with this man, it's beyond anything that I can explain.

I can't wait until we have our little family

Thank goodness I'm already 23 weeks pregnant.... and luckily the weeks seem to just be flying by... because in all honesty, i HATE being pregnant. Yup. It sucks. The ONLY thing I like about being pregnant is feeling her move.. but even that hurts sometimes when she's kicking me so low. Everything else is a big pain in the ass and i can't wait until I'm not pregnant anymore.

My body aches, my legs cramp, my lungs are getting squished, I'm short of breath, my ribs hurt, injecting myself with insulin hurts EVERYWHERE i try it, I'm tired all the time, I don't want to do anything, I have painful volcanoes on my face and just want my baby girl OUT as soon as possible.

Everything with the fetal echocardiogram went great - her heart looks perfect and everything is going as should!

I am almost 23 weeks pregnant now (every Sunday marks a new week), and this little baby girl is kicking more & more everyday!! Kenny felt some pretty big kicks and saw my tummy move which was SO cute, his face lit up! She is now kicking me to the point that I can't fall asleep at night and sometimes even wake up when she is kicking me really low in my abdomen.

A very unpleasant new pregnancy symptom that has made its way into my life: INDIGESTION. Everytime I eat, and even drink now.... the burning sensation that goes up my chest is so bad I want to scream. I have read that SO many women get this, and I was hoping I wouldn't... but of course, I did. I'm seeing my doctor on February 7th so I will ask if I can take something because Tums ain't cutting it anymore!!

Everything else is well .. we decided on Brianna Marie instead of Brianna Justine - Kenny likes Marie better, and that is my middle name so he likes it that she will have her middle name after her mommy.

I have all of her clothes set up in the nursery so far, which there are A LOT of!! And her teenie tiny little shoes... I look at her things everyday and just daydream about her finally being here. The nursery just needs her crib and some other misc. things to make it pretty before she gets here

Ohhhhhh and today my Dad felt her kick a couple of times!! That was so cool - we were sitting in the kitchen talking (she must have heard him having a sneezing attack haha) and then she started kicking a lot, so I told my Dad to put his hand on my belly and he felt his granddaughter for the first time!

Tonight while I was doing my nebulizer treatments while laying on my back... I lifted my shirt up to scratch my belly and all of a sudden I felt a huge kick, and at the same time I saw the right side of my tummy jump! It happened about 3 more times and I called Kenny to come into the bedroom but by the time he came in, she was kicking more softly so he didn't see it, but he did feel a couple of kicks. The cord of the nebulizer machine was on my tummy and it kind of vibrates, so maybe she heard that and that's what was making her go so crazy!

It was SO wild to see my stomache jump the same time I felt her kick!

On Tuesday I go in for a fetal echocardiogram, I can't wait to see her again and see her little heart pumping away!