15 Weeks!

So I am a little late on writing my 15 week post. But I am officially 15 weeks pregnant as of last Saturday. My baby is the size of a pear and can blink! I think it's bones are also beginning to form! How crazy is that?! Oh and I have been officialy in the second trimester for a week already!

This past weekend we went home to visit our families and it was my grandmother's 84th birthday! So the whole family went out for dinner! It was great to see everyone. It was the first time I had seen most of my extended family since telling them we were expecting. Of course everyone is thrilled and had a ton of questions.

All of this running around is making me exhausted! Between traveling, sleeping in different places, and working, I am pooped! I need about a months worth of sleep to catch up what I lost. It never bothered me much to sleep somewhere else, but now it's getting harder and harder. At my parent's house we have to sleep on a pull-out couch/bed. I think I woke up more tired that when I went to sleep. Not only is it hard to sleep on, but then my neck and my back get kinks and I am miserable for the next few days. Even sleeping in my own bed is a chore sometimes. Our dogs like to sleep on our bed, which I don't normally mind, but now I like to have some extra room for my growing belly and to stretch my legs.

The only way to relieve my back and neck pain is to see my chiropractor. I started seeing a chiropractor when we lived in Texas and it helped so much with my headaches. Once we moved, I stopped going for awhile, but last January I couldn't take my migraines anymore and started going again. It has made a world of difference. However, pregnancy causes even more headaches, and there are less pain killers that I can take. . . so my chiropractor upped my appointments from once a month to every two weeks. I was a little hesitant to keep going once I was pregnant, but I found out that it can help relieve pregnancy pains and make for an easier labor and delivery. (We'll see how I feel about that during labor and delivery). So every two weeks I go to get my neck and back cracked and it feels amazing for about 3 days. Then all the pains come back. My chiropractor suggested that I get a massage to loosen up my muscles. I would love to get a massage, but my insurance doesn't cover it and it can be expensive.

I also think that my recently busy lifestyle and the stress from my job is making me tense up more and then my pregnant body just can't handle it like it used to. I hope that after this pregnancy, I can get back on track with less migraines and aches and pains. So for now, I will be trying prenatal yoga (I bought a DVD over a month ago, but never opened it), and trying to destress with other means . . .any ideas?