15 Weeks, 6 Days

I swear I woke up this morning and my stomach is as flat as a board.  Well, flat as a board who looks a bit like someone’s been drinking too much beer and eating too many pizzas.  Of course the beer and pizza part is NOT the case… I’m more than 4 months prego for Christ’s sake, aren’t I?  I never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but this stomach flatness is really disturbing.  Where did the baby go?  I wrote in my last blog that I felt the baby move loads of times, but now I haven’t felt him/her in a while and I am beginning to second guess those previous movement feelings.  Was it maybe just air bubbles maybe?  I am freaking out!  What if something happened to the baby!?!?! Is he/she still alive?  I’ve been running light 5k runs in the A/C a few times a week, eating pretty well, no bleeding or other weird cramping or anything else strange going on… so, why at 16 weeks prego do I have pretty much no more pregnancy symptoms?!?!  My boobs don’t even hurt anymore!

14 Weeks, 6 Days!

What?!?!? 14 weeks, 6 days already! I’m already in the 2^nd trimester and failed to blog about my pregnancy experiences over the past month plus?!?  Oops.  I apologize… to myself… since I am the only one who currently reads this blog.  We plan to tell everyone after my June 1^st blood work and 16 month check up appointment results come back.  But, then G will be half way across the Atlantic ocean on a yacht incommunicado!  Ok, so maybe everyone won’t know until mid June when G steps foot back on land and joins Alexa and me in France Juan les Pin when I’m almost half way through the pregnancy!

To sum up the best parts of the first third of this pregnancy:

• I gained 5 lbs, maybe 6.  (weight gain already on the higher end of the scale.  Note to self, must be careful)
• I practically stopped working out besides some sporadic cardio binges due to severe exhaustion and time restraints (still planning to change this)
• My face is teenager oily
• I cry when I see a diaper commercial
• My leg hair is growing so uncontrollably I’ve almost retired my raiser for the remainder of the pregnancy.  What’s keeping me shaving daily is knowing the only thing worse than having sex with a fat pregnant lady is having sex with a hairy fat pregnant lady.  G can thank me later.
• I am still completely disgusted by most animal products, protein powders, and nuts… AND afraid to eat/drink soy, so I’m worried about my protein intake
• I’m pissing like a race horse all the freaking time, especially at night
• I’m not sleeping very well
• My boobs are still getting bigger and more sore
• I sneezed the other day and pissed my pants just a little.
• My energy is back, mostly
• I’m craving gazpacho and grapefruit juice
• My nausea has subsided
• The top part of my inner thighs are already very close to rubbing together when I walk, ugh!
• I’m already retaining water randomly throughout the day, then I’m suddenly not for no apparent reason
• I’m as horney as a peacock in heat
• And the very best part… I FELT THE BABY MOVE!!! Already more times than I can count.  Sometimes little rolls, sometimes little butterfly flutters, sometimes a small light finger flick feeling… so amazing.  It started around 13 weeks.