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Pregnancy update


Here are the Hester pregnancy updates. This is a LOT more difficult to keep up with than I originally thought it would be!


This week was a great week because we got to see our little one again on the screen. We definitely have a wiggly little one! We also learned that we are at the lowest risk for any birth defect, which was great to hear!



You'll have to excuse the blurriness of this picture. I was feeling really good for two weeks because I didn't have to go into work because of track-out. After getting scolded for painting the baby's bathroom, my handy-dandy father-in-law came up to pain the actual bedroom. It looks GREAT! Now all we need to do is get the furniture and decorate!


Now that I'm back at work I am exhaused almost every day. Teaching really takes a tole on my body! A lot of exciting thing have happened since the last picture for us. 1-We got to feel the baby move! This was the wildest, weirdest, and coolest thing I have ever experienced. I've felt babies move before on other people's tummies, but it is completely different to feel it on the inside! 2-I am NO longer lactose intolerant!! That's right folks, it went away! Praise God! When we went to the fair I forgot to bring my lactate pills with me. I decided, well we only get to go once a year I'll deal with tummy issues later because I want some bad for you food! Guess what, I didn't get sick! So the next day I got brave and tried to eat 3 pieces of cheese and I didn't get sick! I gradually added dairy back into my diet because I was still a little nervous, but everything is good! I can now eat all the milk, butter, cheese, and CHEESE that I want! 4-We got to go to some friends' Great Gatsby themed house warming party. I dressed up as a flapper (with a little belly) and Jeff was a gangster from the 20s. We had a lot of fun hanging out with some really great people all dressed up!

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