The last time I posted I was just about to enter week 13. Well, week 13 has come and gone and now I am 14 weeks and (drum roll) we've finally entered the second trimester!!! I've mentioned it before, this is the oh so wonderful, I want to have 18 kids and be pregnant forever "Honeymoon Phase". I'm not sure what's going on, because it has not been a honeymoon for me just let. Don't get me wrong, its so much better. I don't feel sick all day long and my breast no longer feel like they're going to combust at any moment (was that an over share of information), wonderful right? Well the nausea has been replaced by unrelenting and unmerciful heartburn. Before I was pregnant I had no idea what heartburn was. Then, suddenly, my stomach just didn't feel right. I wasn't nauseated and I didn't have to use the bathroom, it just felt strange. It wasn't until I was trying to explain it to my husband that I realized what it was. I believe I said my stomach was boiling and it feels like there's a fire inside me. Bingo! That awful, lava in my stomach feel, is none other than heartburn. Just avoid spicy, acidic food right? Wrong, wrong, wrong. I get heartburn from a milk shake! Crackers get my stomach boiling. Sounds horrible huh? Well, it is. However, I'd take heartburn, hands down, any day, over morning sickness. I just carry a pack of Tums and Zantec with me everywhere I go, problem mostly solved. I'm also still dealing with constipation (that was definitely an over share of information) but I found a miracle cure, laxative tea. Its yummy and works like a charm. So maybe, I am in the honeymoon phase, we just have a dysfunctional relationship.
Now that I'm 14 weeks along the baby is now the size of a lemon. It can open and close its tiny little hands and move its eyes. The skin is getting thicker and hair follicles are developing under the skin. It will soon start growing body hair called lanugo, to keep the baby warm, like its own little heated blanket. Eventually this hair is shed, when the baby starts to get some body fat. I seen a picture of a preemie that still had its body hair and it looked like a cute little monkey baby. However, when I say cute, i mean cute for that family. I want a human, not a primate. But apparently I guess I'm carrying a little monkey now, so I'll take it with joy. I bet I'll have the cutest monkey/human you've every seen!
Any how, before I went off about baby hair, the baby is growing quite fast now. My uterus is now the size of a small melon and my stomach is growing. I'm not noticeably pregnant yet. When I wear fitted tops, like when I workout, I just look incredibly out of shape. My arms and legs are the same as before, but when u see my stomach, you think, "what a slob, she must drink a ton of beer". My scale, apparently feels the same way about me. At one point it said I gained 6 lbs! I was kinda eating like a little pig, but 6lbs, really?! Well, that was a reality check. I've been making better choices and watching my junk food intake. Someone at work even said they noticed my eating habits had changed, a nice way of saying you have been pigging out! So, I'm back on baby boot camp and I'm at a healthier weight gain. And don't worry, I'm not dieting, I'm just eating like a healthy human should...with the occasional hot dog.
So, that's the latest with the pregnancy. I did want to mention that I think, I'm not for sure, that I felt the baby move. Its very early in the pregnancy for a first time mom to normally feel it. However, they say if you're thin then the you may feel it earlier, at week 13 or 14, and well, obviously, I'm thin...right? Don't answer that. It was probably just gas, anyway. Lol.
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