21 Week Bump Update!
How far along? 21 Weeks! 19 weeks till baby. It’s crazy how fast time is going by. I’m so excited to meet my little monkey.
It’s been a rough week for me, I don’t know what it is, busier weekends, not as much sleep, the baby getting bigger and sucking up more of my energy…. But I’ve been feeling pretty wiped. And I just can’t seem to get anything done anymore. I’ve had no meal planning motivation, I forget about my ‘What I Ate Wednesdays’ and even writing this bump update right now, it’s a few days late and I’m just feeling blah.
Had my last appointment with my doctor, starting this week I’m switching to the OB – so that’s pretty exciting, but it was kinda sad saying goodbye to Dr Chow. But she was super sweet and told me that if I didn’t like the OB or if I wanted to talk about whatever I could just make an appointment and come see her again.
Total weight gain: 13 pounds, I still weighed in at 160 on Friday morning, but it has been fluxuating, one day I got on the scale and it said 164 and I like oh my god! But that’s what’s happens. Sometimes I look at my legs and they look a little chubbier or whatever and for a second I get that ‘nooo!!!’ feeling but this is what your body needs to do for the baby and once the baby comes and I start breastfeeding everything will revert back to how it once was. I just need to remember that. It’s kinda funny because I know I’m growing bigger and expanding but mostly when I look in the mirror I feel like I look pretty much similar… maybe. But I decided I wanted to try on my wedding dress yesterday – I don’t know why I just wanted to wear it and it definitely did not fit! I guess I’ll just have to wait a few more months.
Exercise: I did get a long hour-ish walk in last week which was pretty amazing, since I’ve been mostly doing shorter walks and I continue to take the stairs at least a couple times a day to the bathroom. Did some strength exercises again, which was really good. A lot of butt exercises this week!
Stretch marks? Nothing yet
Sleep: Still leaving something to be desired – I started listening to a sleep hypnosis MP3 which I think has been helping but Thursday night I definitely could not sleep.
Movement: Lots of movement, little peanut is moving around like crazy. I feel the little Shippy at all times of day, when I wake up in the morning, throughout the day at work and when I’m laying in bed to fall asleep. I love it. It’s so great to have an active little baby – it just makes it feel like more a part of our life. When I feel that first little wiggle in the morning it’s like it’s saying good morning. While Mark still hasn’t been able to feel anything he did see the big lopsided bump of (what I’m assuming is) the baby butt sticking out on the right side. When I was at the doctor she told me that the ultrasound showed baby with head down and feet in my stomach and I feel a lot of kicking over on the left side so I assume that the baby’s little butt is the round hard thing I feel over on the right side sometimes.
It’s so fun.
Pregnancy Diet: This past week it hasn’t been awesome, like I said before I’ve been feeling blah and didn’t even do a meal plan, so while my at work diet has been good – eating more eggs again, at home has not been so awesome. We had pizza Wednesday night and then we had it at work for lunch on Thursday.
I’m not feeling pizza anymore, I wouldn’t say aversion but definitely no interest and it just makes me feel gross. In fact, if I eat too much of anything – and that’s a really fine line. I’m just burping up whatever it is all night. And that doesn’t even have to be too much to the point where I feel really full, just too much. So I’m trying to reduce portion sizes a lot and eat more frequently and try to make sure I get protein and veggies or fruit and every meal or have a balanced plate.
Cravings…. I just like chips and sweets lately, especially caramel popcorn, I want it all the time. But like I’ve been saying, I’m trying to cut back on the sugars and processed foods really.
Gender: It's a ..... BOY!!!
Mark was soo excited when he found out and I think I was kind of expecting it since I had been referring to the baby as a him for the past couple of weeks. I was so excited and nervous going to the doctor to find out and I was kinda wishing Mark was there with me but this way I got to suprise him at home later which was really fun too.
Labour signs: Nope!
Symptoms: I have experienced a little bit of really mild heartburn, there were probably 2 or 3 days where I felt the slightest bit of heartburn.
Happy or moody most of the time: Still pretty happy for the most part.
Best moment this week: Finding out the baby's gender, but now I just want to go shopping and buy everything for him.
