13 Weeks!

Hmm. My face looks chubby in this picture. I blame the angle.

How Far along: 13 weeks, 4 days

Total weight gain: -3 pounds. 

Maternity clothes: Pants. Some shirts (as modeled above :-)!) I still have to sort of fold down the panel on all the pants, and I am dreaming of some secret-fit panel pants. *sigh*

Sleep: Mmm, sleep. It's harder for me to stay in a deep sleep, and I usually wake up to pee in the wee hours (bahahahaha) of the morning.

Best Moment this week: Feeling hush puppy move! Very, very light flutters, and only when I am sitting absolutely peacefully (and don't, say, have a toddler jumping on me...) and am able to be in tune with my body.

Movement: Yep :-)

Gender: I think it's a girl, but it will probably be a boy.

Labor signs: N/A

Belly button: In

Cravings/Aversions: Fondue. Want.  Meat in general. Also, pasta salad. Mmmmm. No aversions, though the smell of spaghetti sauce makes me gag a little.

What I miss: Red wine, sleeping like a normal person.

Stretch Marks: No new ones.

What is different this time around: Morning sickness is mostly gone! Yay! Hips have already spread, boobs have already gotten bigger. Um. Yeah. I have a definite bump now, vs not really popping til 15/16 weeks with James.

What I am looking forward to this week: More HP wiggles! Also, lunch, but that's really just at the moment.

12 Weeks!

How Far along: 12 weeks, 4 days

Total weight gain: -4 pounds. Still. I think I've gained back 0.2 pounds.

Maternity clothes: Pants. Some shirts. My mom is going to take me shopping for maternity tops for winter, since my regular winter shirts are too short (and I got rid of the longer non-maternity sweaters I wore with James). I do have to fold down the panel on all the pants, but I had to do that with James until well into the 2nd trimester anyway.

Sleep: Yes, please. I am always ready to sleep. However, today I am especially sleepy because Jake and his family came over last night, so we didn't get to bed til like 11. Then J woke up at 2:15am screaming (nightmare?), and has a cold this morning. *yawn*

Best Moment this week: Morning sickness (knock on wood) seems to be heading out. It has been worse than with James, I can't say I'm sorry to see it go.

Movement: N/A

Gender: I'm still thinking girl, but becoming more skeptical. I tell people "I think it's a girl, but it will probably be a boy."

Labor signs: N/A

Belly button: In

Cravings/Aversions: Cravings: buttermilk pancakes with strawberries, naked grilled chicken salad from Qdoba (omg, best thing ever). Meat in general.

What I miss: Red wine. Also, sleeping like a normal person.

Stretch Marks: No new ones.

What is different this time around: Morning sickness is still improving. Hips have already spread, boobs have already gotten bigger. I have a definite bump now, vs not really popping til 15/16 weeks with J.

What I am looking forward to this week: The continuing downfall of morning sickness. The weekend. Sleep.

"Daddy broke my shirt!"

The other day, Chris picked James up and inadvertently messed up the hem of James' shirt. James, being the terribly picky child that he is, demanded to be put down and started crying. He ran up to me, and, tears streaming, informed me that "Daddy broke my shirt. Mama, fix it please!"

Ah, that boy.

11 Weeks!

How Far along: 11 weeks, 4 days

Total weight gain: -4 pounds. Hmm. And here I thought I was doing better.

Maternity clothes: Pants. Heaven. As long as I fold down the panel, because otherwise it squishes my stomach and makes the nausea worse.

Sleep: Yes, please. The pillow is still mandatory for sleeping. I think at this point I need about 12 hours a night, but if someone (cough *Chris* cough cough) wakes me up "early" on a weekend, I can't go back to sleep because I have about 5 minutes before I get ravenously hungry and must. eat. now.

Best Moment this week: Surprise ultrasound at my appointment last week. Shockingly, HP didn't cooperate with the doppler, so we had to get an ultrasound. *Darn* I will eventually scan the picture. At this point HP looks a little like a person so that's cool. Oh, and I found out one of my friends from childhood is pregnant too (congrats, Kristen!)! She's due at the end of May. Very exciting!

Movement: N/A

Gender: I'm still thinking girl. James still says it's his sister. He'll even correct you. If you say "is that a brother in there?" His response will be. "Brother? SISTER!"

Labor signs: N/A

Belly button: In

Cravings/Aversions: Cravings: German pancakes, grilled chicken, blueberry bagels with butter. Steak.

What I miss: Red wine. It smells so amazing. Also, sleeping like a normal person.

Stretch Marks: No new ones but my old ones are definitely easier to see as my belly distends.

What is different this time around: Morning sickness is still slowly improving, though Hush Puppy seems to hate Mondays. I have thrown up each of the past three Mondays, but no other days last week. Spreading hips. The cravings are totally different. This time they seem to center on meat, versus fruit with James, and with James I had an absolute aversion to meat (it literally made me throw up) until about 20 weeks.

What I am looking forward to this week: The continuing downfall of morning sickness. The weekend. Sleep.

10 Weeks

I think my belly is shrinking. Or my boobs are just bigger. Hm. 


How Far along: 10 weeks, 4 days

Total weight gain: -2


Maternity clothes: On occasion I break out the pants, but in general that rubber band is doing a great job holding up my pants.

Sleep: Yes, please. All I can get and more. And I must keep that pillow between my knees or things hurt when I wake up.

Best Moment this week: James telling Chris and I that the baby is a "sister" and trying to go to the garage to get in the car to go get his sister. I explained that we couldn't go get the baby yet.

Movement: N/A

Gender: Girl?

Labor signs: N/A

Belly button: In

Cravings/Aversions: Cravings: pancakes, french toast, chicken salad, vegetable or minestrone soup. OMG Chicken salad. Mmm. I had a dream in which I craved Taco Bell. EW. No specific aversions, really.

What I miss: Feeling normal.

Stretch Marks: No new ones but my old ones are definitely easier to see as my belly distends.

What is different this time around: I'm *mostly* (knock on wood) over morning sickness, despite my horrendous week last week. The past couple days I've felt icky but not terrible, but I was still pretty pukey and miserable with J until 15 weeks. Spreading hips (or maybe they're already spread...). My belly is definitely stretching and achy at times, which I don't remember happening yet at this point with James.

What I am looking forward to this week: Appointment on Wednesday with my midwives! Yay! Hopefully I'll get to hear the heartbeat! That would be awesome. Also looking forward to the continuing downfall of morning sickness.

I have been sorely neglecting to post about James lately, as you may have noticed. He's still very cute and sweet. He loves the baby (and likes to poke my belly and say "Baby in dere.")

He's way into airplanes. We just got him Richard Scarry's A Day At The Airport (thanks, Swagbucks!), and it's the new must read bedtime book. The other night after reading this book twice, then reading Goodnight Moon and then Woof's Bedtime (okay, gotta say, I don't know who would pay $122 for a children's board book, but that's what Amazon says...), J decided he needed some more stuffed animals in his bed. His bed is small, it's a toddler bed. So what did he do? He proceeded to carefully select every single stuffed animal he owns and pile it onto his bed, interspersed by things like "Oh, George!" or "Oh, Broncos Monkey!" and bringing them to his bed. I finally had to clear a nest for him in the middle so he would fit. I think my mommy authority was somewhat negated by the fact that after about 10 animals I was laughing too hard to sincerely tell him that was enough.

Random thoughts

Morning sickness sucks and I hate it. I am glad it's not worse but I seriously hate it. I never puked every day with J. I guess it's time to admit that it's worse this time around, just the puking kicked in later. I have had nausea since I got my positive test, so ick.

B-Natal vitamin B suckers are very nice. I hadn't been using them the past few days but remembered to grab some this morning. It helps, I think.

One of my coworkers (whom I hadn't told yet, I just hadn't gotten around to it) guessed this morning. I guess I should tell my boss soon.

James said "hello" and "goodbye" to the baby this morning. Hello was patting my belly, goodbye was a kiss on my belly. It was very cute.

I woke up in the middle of the night last night with a headache. I still have the headache. I think I may try taking some Tylenol at this point. Ugh.

Morning sickness supposedly starts to go away at 11 weeks. That's in just a little over 2 weeks. I can make it.
Of course, I was still puking with J til 14 weeks.