Food, glorious food
Monday, December 14, 2009
15 weeks, 1 day pregnant
So far today, in the five hours I’ve been awake, I have consumed:
- A glass of orange juice
- Two rolls with butter
- Two mini-oranges
- Marble cheese
- Green apple
So why am I so over-the-top starving??? Is Little Baby having a growth spurt???
Less than 30 minutes until lunch, and I can’t even wait that long. I’m about to add a handful of almonds to that list. Maybe that will tide me over.
SOHUNGRYSOHUNGRYSOHUNGRY!
Weekly re-cap
(Dec. 6 to Dec. 12)
Symptoms: The peeing (OH MY GOD, the peeing!), getting the linea nigra, dizziness, feeling the baby move!
Body changes: Outgrowing more clothes, starting to feel ginormous in general
Energy level: Moderate. It was a busy week/weekend, so I didn’t get much done, though.
Cravings: The ever-constant cereal with skim milk, green grapes
Could not stomach: I don’t think there was a single food aversion! Woohoo!
High point: Feeling Little Baby’s movements for the first time ever. INCREDIBLE!
Low point: An insanely painful case of heartburn on Saturday night. It felt like someone was sitting on my chest (hello, heart attack) for hours, and Tums were not helping at all. Brutal!
Paranoid moment of the week: Nothing major. Probably just feeling my skin/stomach/uterus/whatever stretching. Sometimes it’s like a growing pain, and I’m always super-aware of feeling cramps there.
Weird moment of the week: My brain is officially on hiatus. When driving myself home from a social thing on Sunday, I realized I couldn’t turn left onto a certain street. So I ended up just driving around, making a huge loop through the city until I eventually decided where I was going to go instead.
Emotional moment of the week: Feeling Little Baby’s movements. It makes it so much more real!
Best decision of the week: I would have to say it was Little Sis’s decision to get me a maternity winter coat — sooo nice to have a warm coat that buttons up all the way!
On the line
Saturday, December 12, 2009
14 weeks, 6 days pregnant
The linea nigra is here.
Linea nigra (Latin for “black line”) is a dark vertical line that appears on the abdomen during about three quarters of all pregnancies. The brownish streak is usually about a centimeter in width. The line runs vertically along the midline of the abdomen from the pubis to the xiphoid process. — Wikipedia
Mine is fainter than this Google pic, but it’s definitely there. Weird!
A Friday of fat fears
Friday, December 11, 2009
14 weeks, 5 days pregnant
This is kind of how I look right now. Except, you know:
- I’m not a cartoon
- I can’t see my parts from the outside
- I don’t have an out-y belly button (thank God, I hate them)
- My ribcage seems to stick out more
- My baby is definitely cuter than this one
I’m entering Week 16 on Sunday, and I’ve been feeling self-conscious about the size of my baby bump. I don’t have a scale (they’re evil), so I’m basing this all on looks. Is it too big? Am I totally enormous for almost-16-weeks? OH GOD, I’M A BEAST, AREN’T I?
This whole preggo thing is very new to me. I’ve only had one preggo friend (Hi, C! How’s that precious baby boy?), and it’s not like I measured her bump or anything. I have three school friends on Facebook who are pregnant, but they all live far away and rarely post pics.
I don’t know why I feel like I might be bigger than I should be. I just … do! So I’m going to explore this in bullet points, because God knows I can’t afford therapy (or fat camp). It could be because …
- I am the heaviest I have ever been … (well, that’s a good thing)
- I am not used to having a stick-out stomach. While I’ve never been a skinny mini, I’ve also never had one of those figures where you’re pretty slim all over but you have a rounded tummy — as Little Sis and I have discussed many times, we much prefer our juicy butts/thighs and relatively flat stomaches to the awkward “she-kinda-looks-pregnant” figure that some girls permanently have
- My ass is bigger … as proven by my poor, ill-fitting, slightly-inappropriate bejeweled panties
- Stupid pregnancy books say I “might, just now, be starting to show” … and I’ve been showing practically since conception. Apparently you don’t usually show so early unless you’ve already had kids … and I don’t remember having kids before!
- My jeans stopped fitting almost immediately … and I keep hearing about women who wear theirs into their second trimester, with a rubber band. Who does that? Skinny bitches put on this planet to make me feel bad, that’s who.
- I feel like I’m walking slower … not waddling (yet), but dragging extra weight. Just heavy in general.
I know there is “no set amount” of weight a pregnant woman should gain, and that every woman is different/a unique treasure/has her own body rhythms, blah blah blah.
Am I alone on this? Is it normal to wonder if your bump is “too big” for how far along you are?
NOTE: If the answer is, “No, it’s not normal, you crazy fattie!” then please send cookies instead of commenting.
My Husband Rocks
Dear Darling Husband,
We have not seen nearly enough of each other lately, because you have been working so hard.
While I may occasionally sometimes regularly complain about never seeing you, and whine having to take the bus in bad weather, and insist I forget what our car looks like — since I have only driven it twice, ever — and wail about not ever being able to go anywhere together …
… the rational side of me recognizes that you are working so hard for me and for Little Baby, so that we are better able to provide for him/her. That side of me also remembers that you have promised to cut back once he or she arrives in June, so they will actually get to know their wonderful Dada.
Thank you for everything you do for us.
Love, your wife
xoxo
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