Weeks 14-16

Fruit/Veggie: 

Week 14 - Lemon, Week 15 - Naval Orange, Week 16 - Avocado

Best Moment of the Weeks:

My favorite moment in recent weeks has been starting to research and go look at baby furniture and gear. We've looked at cribs, bedding, strollers, car seats, you name it. It has been quite fun!

Gender:

We find out this weekend!! Praying baby cooperates on Friday morning. CANNOT WAIT!!

Movement:

I do think that I've felt some movements now. They are little flutters every once in awhile and started right around week 16.

Food Cravings:

Nothing major over the last few weeks though my appetite has come back which is nice. I still like sweets more than salty. I guess the main things I am eating/drinking consistently would be milk (I probably go through a gallon a week, maybe slightly less but its a lot), frozen waffles with peanut butter, and Dr. Pepper. Maybe I'll actually gain some weight now. As of my 16 week appointment I had lost a pound (which doc was not concerned about) so have been trying to eat more protein.

What I miss:

Sushi lately. We have a work party coming up that is at a Sushi restaurant so I'll just have the cooked things but I do miss raw Salmon Nigiri.

Sleep:

Good recently after I bought the Boppy pregnancy pillow. It is much better for me than the Snoogle as it is not as thick and comes apart in 3 pieces so I can adjust it how I like best. Still having back pain though if I sleep on my back so I have to be careful of that and standing for too long.

What I'm looking forward to:

Finding out the gender!

Symptoms: Really nothing to speak of. I will remain grateful and hope it continues!

Dub's moments: Around week 14 he was into researching baby monitors and informed me that we will need a new wireless router because with certain wireless baby monitors the signal can be disrupted or not strong enough if your router is not up to speed. He was very concerned about this and I loved it!

Weeks 1-13

I'm going to start doing weekly updates in this fun pregnancy journal template along with weekly bump (well maybe a food bump right now) pictures.

Week 12 no real bump yet

 Week 13 though this bump looks a lot bigger, I think maybe I'd just eaten a lot that day! :)

Fruit/Veggie:

Week 12 - Plum, Week 13 - Peach

Best Moment of the Week:

Well since this is the first post of this kind I'll do the best moments since finding out we're pregnant. First was finding out! Then hearing the tiny heartbeat at the very first ultrasound at about 6 weeks with Jonathan there, telling our families, telling our friends, sending out announcements, starting to buy gender neutral baby items, seeing the high tech first trimester screen ultrasound and the baby do a literal somersault! I could go on, so many fun moments!

Gender:

Don't know. We should find out March 15.

Movement:

Don't think I've felt anything yet. I have had some flutters leading up to this point but it is more like a twitch and I think it is just the muscles expanding since I know the baby is so small.

Food Cravings:

In the early weeks I had more food aversions than cravings. I didn't really want to eat that much especially salty things. I liked lemonade, chocolate milkshakes, peanut butter, cereal (still do), Quiznos turkey ranch and swiss sub (heated thoroughly), and pad thai. In more recent weeks I've been more open to foods and have had small cravings for Asian food, milk, orange juice, bread (lots of carbs like Olive Garden breadsticks).

What I miss:

Cold sandwiches like Roast Beef from Subway. Oh I crave that so much. Goat Cheese, blue cheese, brie and wine.

Sleep:

Pretty good so far. I have to get up in the middle of the night several times, I am having lower back pain when I wake up that quickly goes away. I've tried the Snoogle pregnancy pillow but so far I don't like it. Its too big for me or something and makes my neck and back hurt. Maybe later it will help.

What I'm looking forward to:

Having a bump and having my parents come to town for the gender reveal and seeing that ultrasound in about a month.

Symptoms:

I've really had an easy pregnancy so far. Not really any morning sickness except a couple mornings and evenings of very light nausea and food aversions in the 7-10 week range I think brought on by either getting too hungry or car sickness. I used to wake up very early and be starving and have to go eat breakfast around 6 am or else I felt a little sick. The only true thing so far is that I had a dentist appointment this week and whereas I normally pass with flying colors, they said I have a little "pregnancy gingivitis" which is nothing serious but I do have to take extra care of my teeth.

Dub's moments: This week while at lunch Sunday afternoon Jonathan suggested we go look at carseats at Babies R Us for this specific RECARO car seat he likes. They didn't have it at the store but I think they carry it online. Since he is very into cars he has been very into these car seats that are made by a racecar seat manufacturer and are apparently very high quality (theoretically he could even have car seats made for his car and a matching car seat! haha not going to happen but he likes the idea). It is so much fun to have him excited about little things like this. I think we'll have to get one of these car seats just because of that. They are pretty neat.

Baby on Board!

Going to try to keep up the blogging during this pregnancy, so here goes!

 We're expecting a baby in August 2013!! We could not be more excited! We don't know the gender yet but should be finding out mid March. I'm about 14 weeks along now and feeling great!

Here is the announcement we used to tell the world the news. It was designed by my good friend and Sophomore college roommate Shannan Pfeifer who owns the business Artfully Composed.