I have not posted much except for my weekly belly pics so figured I’d give an update! I am well in to the 2nd trimester and so far so good. I have been feeling less fatigued and more alert. The fog of the 1st trimester has lifted and I feel like I can be productive again. I still have “pregnancy brain” from time to time though. But for the most part, I’m back to my old self - except I can’t do some of the things I usually do and have to take it easy. No home remodeling, hauling dirt around, dealing with chemicals, etc. Physically, I feel fine. I do not really “feel” pregnant yet – just feel fat. So my hubby has to remind me to take it easy, not to lift too much, or get up on ladders/stools and such where I might fall. I do feel my lower back and feet aching more than usual though and my boobs still hurt and get in the way A LOT… LOL. I have to constantly have a bra on because I cannot stand feeling my boobs moving at all. Oh how I loathe bras though! Thankfully, I’ve been able to find some comfy nursing bras at Target that I am finding tolerable. What else… I get heartburn now after I eat and my eating has slowed down quite a bit in the last 2 weeks or so. I’m finding that I just can’t fit much in there anymore! As a result, my weight gain has slowed. I did put on about 8 lbs during the first 13 weeks (over the recommended 1-5 lbs) but now that I’m in the 2nd trimester, I need to gain 1 lb per week regardless of how much I gained in the first trimester. So far in weeks 14 & 15 I’ve gained 0 lbs. So I need to pick up the pace! This week I’m trying to eat smaller meals more often so I can still get in enough calories and nutrients for baby and we’ll see how much weight I gain at the end of this week.
We have been doing quite a bit around the house lately and it’s been frustrating to not be able to help in the capacity that I usually would. I can still supervise and provide suggestions I suppose. But I just feel like I’m playing the pregnancy card a lot lately – well, hubby has been playing it for me I guess and not letting me do too much:) Springtime is always busy for us. We are busy planting, getting ready for summer, dealing with all the weeds and the grass the needs mowing 3 times/week. Plus inside I like to do deep cleaning inside and spruce up various things that have been bugging me all winter but was too lazy to finish. With the extra daylight and nicer weather I always get a spark of motivation to get moving! This year is no exception – especially with baby on the way, we have even more motivation to get the house in order. We had some pressing landscaping issues that we needed to fix – tore out some old, dead bushes and replaced them with new ones, sodded/seeded various areas in our yard, repaired the rusty nails sticking out of our fence and gates that were literally falling off their hinges. Also we realized that now we have to reorganize the whole house since it is going to soon be full of baby stuff in a couple months. That included going through all the junk that has accumulated in the basement over the past 6 years that we’ve been living at our house. Ugh! Hubby to the rescue! He went through everything down there, took care of organizing the stuff we need to keep and dragged the rest up to our garage where he’s been getting rid of it bit by bit with each weekly garbage pick-up. Hubby also cleared out the baby’s room (used to be a guest room) and added a 2ndshelf in the closet for more storage. He did the same for his closet and next up is my closet. The rest of the closets are my responsibility to reorganize. This weekend we are redoing our mud/laundry room. We are kicking our old washer and dryer to the curb and getting new machines that will be able to handle the increase in laundry and that won’t try to run away during each spin cycle! We are also updating the gross linoleum floor in there to a basic peel & stick vinyl tile, repainting the walls, and revamping some of the storage that is inefficient. So it’s been busy busy busy! We’ve got a lot done already but our to-do list is enormous and we only have a couple months until I am huge and probably won’t feel like doing much. So the race is on to see how much we can get done before then.
Shopping for baby and getting the nursery together will start after we know what the sex will be - which is this Saturday! That will be so exciting. I really hope baby decides to show off! Typically you find out gender at 20 weeks but I couldn't wait and they say that you can find out gender as early as 15 weeks - sometimes earlier. So we are going to a private clinic to get it done. If baby doesn't cooperate, we can get a repeat scan done for free. I have not felt any kicks yet, but anytime between now and 22 weeks is when I should start to feel them. Even though I can’t feel it moving yet, I still know that it is. I have been using the Doppler daily to check in with baby and I can now hear the movement that baby does. It’s so cool! Sounds like it’s splashing around in there having a great time. Can’t wait till I can feel it. Thought I felt a couple weird things the other day, but I’m assuming it was just gas. Also I am finally off of the progesterone shots! That has been soooooo nice! My butt is still sore but at least I’m in recovery mode now. Also do not miss the weekly blood draws. Those were really starting to get terrible. I guess I’m one of the pregnant ladies who likes to hide her veins so there were times where they had to poke me in both arms and after not getting anything, had to poke me in my hand:(( That does NOT feel good!
Well, I think that’s about it for today!
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