Thank you! We are soooo excited! Big families are awesome!
I'm 25 weeks now and have gained 16 pounds. Really happy with that. I have been eating well with very little junk. I am anemic however, quite anemic. I need to work on more meat sources of iron and supplements. I'm loving salads and fruit, but meat is harder to consume this pregnancy. I've battled anemia with each pregnancy - I don't know where the iron goes. I started out with amazing iron and ferritin and by 10 weeks it was all gone. I've dropped from 145 hemoglobin to 100, and my ferritin from 45 to 6! Without bleeding significantly. Where does it go?!? I am a big meat eater and have tried to eat as much meat as I can in pregnancy - as well as non-heme sources like leafy greens, iron-fortified cereals, blackstrap molasses, etc. It's a mystery as to how I dropped so much so quickly. But each pregnancy has been the same.
My previa cleared but I feel like I lost too much fitness to hit things hard. I started prenatal yoga, am starting with a trainer today to work on core and upper body, and have started seeing my physio again to finish healing my foot. He says my hip is the problem and the nerves are impacted all the way down to my foot and we have to work on that. So I feel like I am working on flexibility, core and my foot. Not too bad.
We booked a room for next May for Tinkerbell! DP and I are both going to the Pixie Dust Challenge. We'll have to bring a niece as a babysitter. I needed a goal race! Still considering Princess 10k in Feb as a nice motivation, too.
Goals:
Start running in December (baby 6-8 weeks old)
Lose all baby weight by Feb (back to 240s- 4 months to lose 20ish pounds - plus about 12 pounds will be by the delivery day!)
Lose another 20 pounds by Pixie Dust (220s) (3 months to lose 20 pounds)
Gain flexibility and complement running with yoga
Start weight lifting again by January
Finish Dopey 2017
Stay injury-free
That is my update. Thanks for all the support.