20 Weeks - Half Way!

Size of baby: banana from head to foot


Total Weight Gain: +4

Continuing symptoms: sleepy, otherwise feeling great!

New symptoms this week: None

Sleep: Hard to sleep with the belly getting bigger and in the way and making me pee at least 1 every night.

What I'm Eating: ton of Propel flavored water, hot cheetos, pasta salad, sour candy

Cravings: pasta salad, Trumoo chocolate milk

Grandma gift this week: I love Mommy feet PJs, I love Daddy outfit, 2 matching pants, socks, and newborn shoes

Special pregnancy moments: celebrated Christmas and baby got her crib from Grandma and Grandpa H. Had our anatomy scan ultrasound (which took 1 1/2 hours) and got to see baby on the big screen. Got to hear the heart beat and see it on the screen. Beating strong at 144 beats per minute. Grandma H went with us to the ultrasound and got to hear the heart beat for the first time. Went to a pre-natal appointment and the results of the ultrasound were great. Baby is developing normally and looks healthy. And we double confirmed we are having a girl!

Crib Is Up!

After our ultrasound on Tuesday which double confirmed that we are having a baby girl and after my doctor's appointment that confirmed everything looks good and she looks healthy it was finally time to put up Baby's crib.

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for the crib for Christmas!

Baby on The Movie Screen

It never gets old seeing my little baby on the screen. On Tuesday we had our anatomy scan ultrasound which basically means a really long ultrasound where they are checking and measuring every part of the body from the head to the nose and lips to the kidneys and liver. For the most part it was pretty boring because you can't tell what the heck you are looking at. Mom and Troy went with me. Mom got to hear the heart beat for the first time from the ultrasound machine and watch it at the same time. Heart beat was 144 beats per minute.

Baby girl with her hands up by her chin.

We got to confirm that our little bean in my belly is a baby girl. We kind of already knew this from my 14 week ultrasound I got at some random clinic in Costa Mesa but it was nice to hear the confirmation since she is bigger and more fully developed now.

This is supposed to be the gender shot... I don't see anything...

I was on the table for an hour and half while the technician kept going back and forth. She was trying to get some shot of the heart and the baby and/or I would not cooperate so she made me go to the bathroom twice, walk around the room, lay on my side and cough. It was quite a sight to be seen.

Today I have my next OB appointment and I am eager to hear that I have finally gained some weight (shocking and almost too difficult to even write) and to see if he has the results of the ultrasound yet. Ultrasounds usually are calming for me so I can see the baby move, see the heart beat and know that everything is going as planned. With this ultrasound I am a little more worried. What if the ultrasound revealed that something is wrong with her? What if her legs are too short, she has club feet, clef lip, her heart is enlarged or her brain is not developing on schedule? I suppose I will never be reassured until I finally get to hold her in my arms and count her fingers and toes myself. Speaking of toes... 

See the 2 feet with the freakishly long toes?

Maybe she has flat feet like her father. Maybe she will have tiny feet with high arches like me. I can't wait to hold her.

Grandma and Grandpa got her a crib for Christmas. We haven't put it up yet.  We still need to get a mattress and empty the room since we used it as our storage room to make room for Christmas. We are trying to decide on other furniture and where everything is going to go and fit in the room. So much planning to do. It makes me giddy inside!

20 weeks and half way cooked tomorrow. Can't wait to see what she gets as her Grandma gift tomorrow.

19 Weeks

Size of baby: large tomato

Total Weight Gain: not sure but I probably gained 10 pounds since the last appointment. I feel huge now and I have so much further to go.

Continuing symptoms: feeling good and energized. morning sickness all gone thank goodness!

New symptoms this week: feeling my belly stretch and getting out of breath faster. yawning is starting to hurt and put pressure on the belly


Sleep: back to my normal toss and turning. contimplating if I should use the sleep aid Dr. Clayton suggested.

What I'm Eating: ton of Propel flavored water and Truemoo chocolate milk

Cravings: Truemoo!!

Grandma gift this week: Avent baby bottles, binkies, nipples, milk storage stoppers for bottles, and bottle brush

Special pregnancy moments: Today for the first time I think I felt the baby moving.

18 Weeks

Size of baby: bell pepper

Total Weight Gain: Not sure exactly. Avoiding the scale but my belly is definitely becoming more defined.

Continuing symptoms: sleepy, otherwise feeling great!

New symptoms this week: Feeling full and then bam! STARVING and must eat within the next 5 minutes! And very vivid dreams. Some that are fun, some down right scary. I wake up having to convince myself they are not real. Charlie is still in bed with me. His original owners did not try to take him from me. Bizarre.

Sleep: Waking up in the middle of the night to toss and turn. Drinking less before bed so less night time pee'ing.

What I'm Eating: ton of Propel flavored water

Cravings: Hot Cheetos

Grandma gift this week: Safety 1st Childproofing kit and cabinet locks

Special pregnancy moments: Nothing major happened this week. Christmas shopping and thinking of all the new family traditions I will have in my own family with my husband and my daughter. Grandma bought baby's crib and it should arrive around Christmas.

Cravings

My very first pregnancy craving was pizza. Troy and I were sitting on the couch and at about 9:30 at night I decided I was dying for some pizza. I quickly pulled out my phone and sent in an order online. The next day the husband took the left overs to work for lunch, much to my dismay and disappointment the next morning. With my craving not completely satisfied I went to work thinking of pizza all day. On my way home from work before getting on the freeway I put in another order for pizza online on my phone. About 8 minutes after I arrived at home so did my pizza! Now, I don't even want to smell pizza. Go figure!

Last night my craving was egg salad sandwiches. No eggs in the house so I suffered through a quick peanut butter and jelly before school and called Troy to explain my woes. When I got home from school Troy had already swung by the grocery store to get a fresh batch of eggs and bread and had egg salad chillin in the fridge for me.

I love my husband!

16 Weeks

Size of baby: avocado

Total Weight Gain: no weight gain still. Dr. said on Monday that I am a healthy woman and he doesn't have concerns at this point because I didn't start out at 95 lbs. and I am not from the inner-city. Feel rounder though.

Continuing symptoms: feeling yucky after taking pre-natal vitamin, sleepy.

New symptoms this week: hard to sleep on my back and side. My bed has a dip where I lay and I tend to lay about 1/4 of thew an the belly. Totally uncomfortable now. Also, new night heat (not actually sweating but just all over hot in the middle of winter).

Sleep: Getting more difficult to get comfortable. Once asleep doing pretty well. Cut down drinking water before bed, cut down mid-night peeing.

What I'm Eating: ton of Propel flavored water, Hot Cheetos

Cravings: Hot Cheetos

Grandma gift this week: Baby rice, padded spoons, formula divider, I love Grandma and I love Grandpa bibs.

Special pregnancy moments: Set up next ultrasound appt. for December 27th. Continuing to write in my baby journal. Getting excited as I see my belly get rounder.