Moving Right Along

16-17 weeks

At some point in the past week I developed what I consider an official bump. I woke up one morning, and suddenly I had an actual little bump. My belly doesn't go flat when I lie on my back, and the bump sticks around (rather than coming and going like it did before). That last picture of my so-called bump (per my husband and a few co-workers) was taken at 13 ½ weeks. At that point, and until this week, I’ve really just felt like I’ve been post Thanksgiving dinner all the time. As far as looking obviously pregnant, I’m still not there. Some people may wonder if I’m pregnant by looking at me, but for the most part I still look like I just ate a few too many of those Thanksgiving dinners!

17- almost 18 weeks

Munchkin seems like s/he is growing a little bit more every day. I still haven’t felt any movement yet (at least as far as I can tell), but that should happen any day now.

I’m SO very happy to be with child, and I’m extremely grateful for the chance to experience pregnancy, so I thought I’d be immune from some of the negative emotions/feelings that can go along with pregnancy. I was a tad naive.

1. Mood swings. Those are no joke. I can be fine one minute and then crying over a cereal commercial the next.

2. Weight gain. You’d think that pregnancy would be one time in a woman’s life when not being able to button one’s pants shouldn’t cause grief. I mean…there’s a very good reason for it! But finding that I could no longer button my last pair of pre-pregnancy jeans made me slightly upset. I got over it, but I was surprised that it bothered me at all.

3. It's all happening too fast! I had a sudden feeling that my child was growing up too fast recently. Munchkin's not even out of the womb yet, and I'm already feeling like time is flying by. Our big ultrasound at 20 weeks is coming up soon, and Munchkin will be "half cooked" by that time. How did that happen? My mom assures me that I will come to a point in this pregnancy where I want to hurry things along, though!

Again, I'm thrilled to be pregnant, and I feel great 99.9% of the time. Luckily, Edward/Alex tends to be laid back and take-it-as-it comes so he balances me out nicely. Just keep the poor man in your thoughts and prayers for when he has to deal with that 0.1% of the time when I freak out a bit!