Week 18 - Igor's B-day!

Happy birthday to Igor! Today Igor is 28 (which is not old). This means that when the baby is born, Igor will be a year older than me. Haha. :) I'm able to do more stuff now, and I even got out to buy him balloons and cheesecake - all by myself. I'm so proud. ;) Of course, I don't like cheesecake, so I though I'd be homefree when it came to birthday dessert... and then I went and also bought banana bread. I'm not sure anyone else was able to eat any of that bread. I might have eaten the whole loaf. It was pretty good though. :)

I haven't had too many cravings. I'm not having as many aversions, and I'm trying to eat better, but it doesn't always work. I'm still kind of hooked on chocolate, and I tend to buy snacks at Target that make it look like I already have a 5 year old (red vines, cookies, fruit roll ups, gushers, etc.). I'm not sure any of those are cravings as much as, hey, I'm at the store, this looks good on the shelf, I think I'll buy it. And consume it all tonight. Yeah, I really gotta cut this whole eating too much thing out. I've been lucky enough not to have the bad heartburn, but I think the baby gets squished when I eat too much, and complains. Stomach aches and fullness suck big time right now. Sigh...

How about dreams? Yes, I've pretty much been able to recall my dreams everyday for the past couple weeks. Boy are they odd. You'd think I'd have baby dreams - not the case. Mine are about random things that have pretty much NOTHING to do with ANYTHING. IGOR is, however, having baby dreams for us both. His are pretty funny - he gets to skip over the whole helping me through labor part of the deal, and he comes home one day to me with baby (the sex differs), and I've already like, picked out a name and everything. Lucky him! :) No, really though, Igor's been the biggest support throughout this whole time, and I am the lucky one to have such an awesome whoooosband. Thanks hunny. :-*

This week the baby's about 5.5" long and 7 oz... the length of a bell pepper.

Week 17

Another four day work week. Furloughs aren't all bad. Anyway, I'm pretty sure this little one is making his/her presence known. There's definitely some fluttering going on. It is tough to determine between fluttering and gas (thanks hormones), but every now and then there are odd feelings in that general regions, especially when I'm sitting cross legged or on the couch with my knees close to my body. I think it's saying "Hey, stop squishing me!"

This week the baby's about 5 oz and 5" from head to rump. We're both bulking up nicely.

Week 16

This weekend we went to Igor's sister's home in San Diego for her birthday. It's been such a nice time each time we visit with Igor's family. They seem so excited for us, and it makes me more excited. I haven't felt all THAT excited yet, I think I'm saving it for the end. Every once in a while at home though, it kind of hits me that I'm going to be a mom. And then I'm in this amazed stupor for a minute or so, and I continue with what I was doing. :)

Not too much going on right now. Just really hungry. All the time. I started taking the Aciphex again for my heartburn. I got the OK from a doctor, so I'm not too worried. Apparently it's not so good to take it during the first trimester, but I'm so out of that now. :)

The baby is 3-5 oz and 4-5" in length - apparently about the size of an avocado. Big!

Week 14/15 - First OB appt and ultrasound!

OK, I've officially made it to Trimester 2. This Monday I went in for the Nuchal Translucency part of the CA screening program, which for me meant the first ultrasound!

Awesome parts: being able to see the little bugger moving around (which it did - A LOT), getting pictures of the little one to show off.

Not so awesome parts: Having to come in with a full bladder and being jabbed near my bladder with the ultrasound instrument in order to get the baby to the position needed for the screening.

They were really nice there, and it was a very cool experience overall. They told me that by the size of the baby, I was actually probably almost a week further along than originally thought by the last period date calculation. Hey, if they add on a week every time I go in, I'm gonna be done in no time!

A few hours later Igor and I went to our first OB appointment. The doc seems nice enough. She decided we would wait for the 20 week ultrasound to determine whether we should move the estimated due date up, or keep it at July 6. I've changed all my baby website subscriptions to July 1st though so I can get the next week's information sooner. ;) There wasn't much to do at the appointment, we heard the heartbeat again (150 BPM, slower, this is good :) ). We got some questions answered. I was a little sad they didn't do another ultrasound so Igor could see, because he wasn't at the one earlier in the day. I guess he's going to have to wait until week 20. :)

This week we're about the size of an orange, about 4 inches and 2.5 ounces!

Week 13 - LA/SD

This week we drove down to LA and San Diego to spend New Years with Igor's family. It was a good time. I had lots of good food. I did manage to get my lovely excruciating painful heartburn one night in SD. I guess my heartburn free days have run out. The Dr. told me to stop taking the Aciphex (which was working so well!) at the beginning of the pregnancy, and stick with Tums and Maalox. Well, if either of those had worked during the past 12 years, I wouldn't have needed Aciphex. Grrrr...

Anyway, I got some great pregnancy and baby related books from Igor's sister, and it looks like they're going to be donating to the zingerbaby cause with a bunch of stuff from her pregnancies. Hey, I'm totally up for taking gently used baby necessities if it means we need to buy fewer things! And I figure we're helping them clear out some space! :)

I'm still not showing all that much, although I've definitely gained weight. I made my first real visit to Motherhood Maternity this week and bought my first maternity pants. My still-losing-weight-bigger-than-I-wore-before-pregnancy pants are starting to become tight. Blah.

This week the baby's the size of a peach - about 3 inches from head to rump, but still less than an ounce! Do I have to go back to work next week?