Total weight gain/loss: 4 Lbs... Weird I know, maybe the scale at the doctor's is broken?
Maternity clothes? Yes!! Even though I haven't gained much weight, my belly has gotten quite large so most of my normal shirts have become scandy belly shirts and my jeans definitely wont do up! I splurged and bought a pair of super nice skinny "maternity" jeans and I have basically been living in them ever since!
I also have been wearing a lot of larger shirts plus a belt right over my tummy... Except in the past 2 days I have had two men ask me "Is there a functional reason why you are wearing that belt??" I felt slightly stupid.. To them they are wondering if the belt will help my baby somehow in it's development, and to me... I just thought it looked cute!
Stretch marks? Nope! I overload my belly with coconut oil every night "just in case" it helps :)
Sleep: Pretty good so far! We bought a massive body pillow that no joke takes up 90% of our double bed. So for me, I've been sleeping like a dream... But I'm not sure I can say the same for Ry! He has so little room that he has to sleep on his side, right on the edge of the bed with his leg anchored around my pillow so he doesn't fall off! :) haha my bad..
Best moment so far: Having Ry come home!!! I know it seems like that doesn't have anything to do with the pregnancy but it really does, before I felt like I was just sick all the time and alone and having him home has been HUGE. Life has gotten so much better and soo much easier. He is just so helpful and understanding and patient with me when I start to get all hormonal and crazy, I can already tell he's going to be an awesome Dad!
Have you told family and friends: Yup at 12 weeks we told them fam and then 14 weeks we told FB?
Miss Anything? I miss my pre-pregnancy body. I have the habit of "forgetting" that I'm pregnant, so I'll try to hop on Ryans back for a piggy back, or jump up off of the couch and I'll get a huge pain in my stomach. Ya.. definitely not as limber as I used to be!
Movement: I felt her move for the first time last week and now it happens a few times a day! I am grateful that she is still at the nice girl stage where it just feels like a little poke, not a hard kick in the ribs!
Food cravings: Dairy.. Especially milk. I only let us buy 1% but whenever I go to somebodies house who has a baby and they have 3% in the fridge, I always snag a glass and feel like I have died and gone to creamy delicious milk heaven! Also, two nights ago I was having a hugeeeeee craving for oreo cheesecake and decided that the next day I would go out and get the stuff to make it! Lucky me, I didn't have to do that because the next day when I went to our stampede work lunch.. they had Oreo Cheesecake Balls... DEEP FRIED. Oh heck, it was pure bliss. I pretty much harassed the waitress for another one when she came out with a second round of them!
I didn't even want to stop chowing down for the picture.. Too yummy!
Anything making you queasy or sick: Not anymore!!!!
Have you started to show yet: Definitely!
Gender prediction: We found out it was a girl at 18 weeks! Huge shocker to us! We were so ridiculous we were insistant that it was a boy and refused to even think of the idea of a girl haha when we went to Vegas last month we got a picture at the Sugar Factory with ONLY a boy's candy basket, it didn't even occur to us that it could be a girl! Haha woops :)
I think the reason why I was so set on having a boy was because Ryan was the cutest little boy ever! I love looking at pictures of him from when he was younger he was just so chubby and adorable!! Here is my favourite..
Isn't he the cutest? Hopefully one day I get a Mini-Ry, but for now we are super excited to be having a girl!
Labor Signs: No... Except I did have a weird contraction last night for the first time!
Belly Button in or out? Variable... We like to think that our baby girl is pushing it out because every time I push it back in it pops out again right away so it's our joke that she just likes to play the game where we push the belly button back and forth haha
Wedding rings on or off? On! I will be so sad if I get too big to wear them...
Happy or Moody most of the time: I am very happy until around 8 o clock. We have the 8 oclock rule around here where Ry can't talk to me about anything important or serious past that time because I tend to get upset and overwhelmed haha
Weekly Wisdom: Next time I am prego we freakin better have air conditioning!!!!
Looking forward to: My long weekend in August so I can get a few days off of work! Being prego + working 10 hour shifts = Exhausting!!
