week 15

cravings:  More doritos, lots of fruit - particularly watermelon and pineapple.

aversions:  Changes every five minutes, from yogurt to chicken to coffee to the smell of water from a glass.

symptoms:  The nausea is back and with a vengeance. For the most point it's truly morning sickness now, but it's been kicking my butt. I've also been experiencing pretty intense stretching pains (thanks to coconut oil this isn't coupled with stretch marks). I'm becoming increasingly more clumsy each day, too, but luckily no terrible falls yet.

movement:  I'm more convinced that the flutters I feel every now and then are baby flutters. So neat.

weight gain:  About the same, which means my kitchen is stocked with ice cream and doritos.

fears:  I dreamed baby was a really really ugly girl with a huge nose and unibrow. So it's a stupid "fear" but I really don't want little baby to look like the old lady witch from Snow White.

general mood:  Still just so happy. And really feeling deeply in love with both baby and Bobby. Yesterday we laid in bed trying to feel baby and talked about how amazing this all is. Oh, and I cry at least daily, sometimes from laughing, sometimes for no real reason at all.

sleep:  I'm sleeping deeper, and really feeling the difference even though baby kicking the bladder wakes me up at least one a night.

surprised by:  how big baby is now: upwards of 5 inches long. I googled something like baby size at 15 weeks trying to find a fruit comparison yesterday and found some pretty graphic images of babies born at this point. And though really tiny, they look like babies with all their facial features and are about the size of the hands holding them. It's sad to see so don't go looking, but it baffled me that that's what my baby looks like now.

looking forward to:  I want to feel more movement, and I want to share that with Bobby so bad. Also, baby should be able to hear in a week which is so so awesome.

best / worst moments:  My dad sent me magic candy that eases nausea when I'm sucking on it. I've gone through almost a whole container because they help so much. The bad times include realizing my good days are probably only going to be sporadic, that 2nd trimester doesn't suddenly take the puking away.

bobby is:   is the best husband. He got me ice cream at 10:30 Friday night, he went grocery shopping with me late last night and when the fruit at the first store sucked he went to a second store to get more goods. And he loves this baby so much.

maternity clothes:  Nothing new, and now that the cat's out of the bag I'm able to make more of my clothes work to flatter the bump. Hiding it was hard, showing off is fun.

gender:  We want to know so bad. We want to name this baby so that we can call it something other than baby. And we use he and she intermittently, because "it" is so impersonal, but it's weird to not know and guess.

week 14

cravings:  I literally dream of red doritos. No joke. So that’s what I bought myself for my birthday. Also Hot Pot broth with bean noodles which I've now had for three meals this weekend. Orange juice picks me up after working out when I feel like becoming one with my bathroom floor, not really a craving just a non-medicinal nausea fix.

aversions:  Sweet. I thought I wanted cake, ate it, kind of hated it. I didn't even get chocolate covered strawberries for valentines because the two Bobby brought me looked good and tasted blah. Creamy is gross too, mostly I think because everything tastes sweeter and sweet milk/cheese/coffee cream is just bad. I can finally eat greek yogurt again (good since I've had a major meat aversion until this week) if I add hardly any honey and lots of nuts.

symptoms:  Headaches, like bad. Stretching pains, the real reason women with bumps constantly rub their bellies. Hunger, the extreme kind, all the time. Really awesome skin, with unfortunate hair growing out of it.

movement:  I think I've felt flutters a few times, and it’s weird and so so wonderful! Now I can’t be sure that’s what I’m feeling, but its unlike anything I've ever experienced and they make me need to pee.

weight gain:  um, negative 14+. Barfing for months does that, but things should start to improve now that the morning sickness is on the mend.

fears:  At my last sono, baby was asleep and would. not. move. I would see the heartbeat flutter, but that just terrified me to see baby ignoring my acrobatics and sleeping like a log. I blame Grey’s Anatomy and really sad brainless-baby episodes for that.

general mood:  I've been really happy. Like grinning and sighing because I’m so joyful. But I also cry at the drop of a hat from youtube videos, commercials, buzzfeed articles, and Harry Potter. Bobby says he loves when I’m overcome with emotion, but it really frustrates me to have no control.

sleep:  Lousy. 1-2 bathroom trips per night leave me wide awake and staring at the ceiling, far too uncomfortable to fall back to sleep.

surprised by:  There is a little person with eyes and elbows sucking their thumb inside of me. The miracle of life and all its complexities takes me by surprise often.

looking forward to: Baby hearing Bobby when he talks right up against my belly. Finding out if baby is a he or she.

best / worst moments:  The flutters, impossible to top. Post workouts are always the worst, worth it in the long run but hell in the now.

bobby is:   going to be the best dad, I’m sure of it. He’s just as excited and in love as I am, which takes me by surprise just because I’m SO in love.

maternity clothes:  I've been sporting below-belly maternity jeans from target for far longer than I've been pregnant because they fit a big booty like no one's business, but thanks to my mom and my in-law’s birthday presents, I now have a couple really great maternity dresses that I would have probably never bought for myself (thanks mom!), a belly band (guys this is a magical device that keeps your pants up and your belly smooth and its great), and a couple shirts that aren't maternity but should last me a good few months or more without feeling like a whale.

gender:  I want to know so bad. The other night we watched the Delivery episodes of The Office and Pam accidentally leaks that she cheated and asked the doctor the baby’s sex and Jim cries when he realizes baby is a girl. Yeah, I cried a lot. And I’m crying now too. Anyways, mark your calendars for April 4 if you live in Florida come see for yourself at our gender reveal party! More on that later..

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