BC2 - week 17

Nothing terribly exciting this week.  Baby's heart beat was 160 yesterday and there's plenty of punching going on, though everyone will have to take my word on that.  It's a little surprising sometimes but really nice to have happen.  I have a little body slammer some days - own personal mosh pit.  Still glad I can do pilates and still some of the series on my stomach.

There's a whole bunch of projects we're currently evaluating at our money pit.  First on record is to clean up Beca's playroom.  In order to do that, I proposed to Beca that we should pack up all her Little People sets and save them for the baby and move her dolls into her room.  The idea was well received until I began implementing the packing up of the Little People.  "Now my little brother will have way more toys than I do."  Extremely dramatic.  It didn't go on too long, thankfully, as she was getting dressed in leopard print pajamas and wanted to go scare Daddy.  She said she was a tiger. okey dokey.  Then she smelled brownies baking ("Ummm, I think I smell some yummy brownies baking") but they wouldn't be ready until after she should be in bed and that meant another meltdown until I promised some whipped cream on her Jello.  Yeah, bribery.  I'm all about some of that to stop the whining.  And then, she fell out of bed last night.  Which she hasn't done in forever.  And we just moved her bed up to the top level to give us some more storage room.  Whoops!  It was hard not to laugh until I got in her room and she couldn't really figure out what was going on since she sleeps like Steve.  She was fine this morning.

Just one more week until we get to see the baby!  Very excited to see some good ultrasound pictures!

BC2 - week 16

Wow - 16 weeks already.  It's going fast!  I'm most excited that the chiroprator appointments and pilates have been doing my body a lot of good - back feels better, shoulders feel better, and I just feel better in general.  Still some nausea but my biggest problem is my jaw.  I still can't get it in line just by pilates, PT, and chiro so it is now time to really hunt down a solution.  Hopefully the Dental staff at UNC will have an answer for me.  This will be my 4th splint in the past 10 years for my jaw.  So I'm a little apprehensive that it will work.  another few weeks to go.
The baby enjoys PT and pilates a lot - but is increasingly more uncomfortable on my stomach.  I can still do some exercises laying flat but then I get a good punch in the gut to remind me that I have an avacado-sized being in there.  Kind of fun to know this early that's exactly what that "flutter" is.
My favorite meal of the day is dessert - bananas, ice cream, sometimes choclate syrup, waffle cone pieces, whipped cream, chocolate chips and cherries.  And a dog who can even hear the clinking of the spoon outside in the back yard.
Beca is still convinced she will have a baby brother.  Less than 2 weeks until we know.  I'm starting to feel like we're behind on some things, even though I know we really aren't and the only schedule I'm holding to is my own.  In the grand scheme it won't matter if the hallway and foyer are painted or not.  But I would sure love to at least have my kitchen ceiling done.

week 15 - BC2

Week 15 - I have felt little flutters on occasion.  Usually when I'm sitting being still.  Beca says she can feel the baby moving but I know she can't and let her believe it anyway.  Some things are not worth discussing and trying to change her mind on.
Babycenter's notes about this week:

Your growing baby now measures about 4 inches long, crown to rump, and weighs in at about 2 1/2 ounces (about the size of an apple). She's busy moving amniotic fluid through her nose and upper respiratory tract, which helps the primitive air sacs in her lungs begin to develop. Her legs are growing longer than her arms now, and she can move all of her joints and limbs. Although her eyelids are still fused shut, she can sense light. If you shine a flashlight at your tummy, for instance, she's likely to move away from the beam. There's not much for your baby to taste at this point, but she is forming taste buds.

And while we possibly could see what the gender is (the above paragraph uses he/she on alternate weeks), our ultrasound to really see this isn't for another three weeks.  Then we'll know and I can get started on the nursery.  Beca is still insistent she's getting a baby brother.
So the whole end of first trimester you should feel better thing is not 100% for me.  I definitely have longer stretches of good but ugh, the bad feeling times are still pretty miserable.  The weather fronts are not helping.  The banana split with chocolate sauce, vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, mini chocolate chips, and cherries on top does help a little.  Zoe thinks so too and will stalk me intently until the bowl is on the floor for her to lick.  crazy puppy.  she's being very protective of me too.  and she'll be 7 next week!

BC week 14 and funny Beca

I'm officially out of the first trimester.  So I'm going back to the chiropractor and pilates this week!  Yippeee!!!  And no more extra hormones.  I've been able to get up more mornings and not have such a long stint laying in bed munching before I can stand up.  Still some low times but not as bad and not as frequent.  I have even shed my sea bands on occasion.  Still pretty tired though.  I have felt some fluttering (not gas folks, I know the difference) so there's definitely moving going on - especially around 8pm and 3:30-4:30am.  My bladder seems to be the favored spot already.  14 weeks is the size of a lemon - or I guess length of.  though it begs the question, does a mostly round fruit that varies so much in size really have a "length"?  I have to remember that most pregnant women aren't engineers.  Next appointment is end of February and a higher level ultrasound scheduled for early March - doc was pretty certain I would need it.  Two miscarriages and a "guessed" due date mean that he is watching me a little more closely.  I'm excited we'll get to find out the gender and "see" the baby.  I'm just ready for the cold weather to be gone - the spring and summer wardrobe is a lot more fun for me!!  Doesn't feel like wearing tents and I don't get overheated so quickly.

Beca is really excited.  And still very much convinced it is a boy - part of the reason is now because Daddy needs a boy since he's the only one in the house with us 3 girls.  Zoe will always be her sister.  But the pronoun that Beca uses to talk about the baby is usually "she" until I ask her what the baby will be - answer is always "baby brother".

Beca story from my mom - after they met us for dinner at torero's (still one of Beca's favorite meals though she'd probably do better on the chicken soft taco with rice if she didn't eat half a basket of chips and salsa first), Beca went back to Oma and Pop-pop's for a little bit while Steve and I had to go buy a new universal remote - side note, it was well worth the cost (Steve assured me it was not the best of the best,nor the most expensive but an excellent value for its cost) and we also bought a new CD player for Beca's room because hers was making weird noises (go figure after 5 years).

"Last night, Beca spent an hour or so with us, and we were making pudding.  PopPop decided that he wanted to add coconut to his chocolate pudding and asked Beca if she wanted some. 'Yuck', she said, and his reply was - 'you haven't even tried it' and with that she told him that she had but she didn't like it (not sure if she really had or not, but she was NOT going to taste it). So, he said, 'I bet you don't even know where coconut comes from' - she said (as she was walking away), 'oh yes I do - it comes from Palm Trees'...  We had to laugh - smarter than we give her credit sometimes..."

She has indeed tried coconut - I believe she humored Oma on Easter with some that was on a bunny cake but it has been awhile too.  Beca also told Steve the story tonight at dinner in pretty much the same way, with a slight prompt from me!   The other funny tonight was instead of a "bumble" of ice cream on top of her cone, she wanted a "plump" of ice cream.  I love the words she uses for things.   Speaking of the IC, I believe it is time for me to hit up a sundae and go to bed!

end of January!

Oops - forgot to post yesterday!

Wow - I can't believe it is the last day in January already.  But I can believe that a winter storm meant more freezing rain and ice for us than actual snow.  At least it isn't too hard to walk on today.  Just worried about when it melts a little and then refreezes.  One of the only times that I don't like that our driveway doesn't get much sun in the winter.  The funniest part about this is that my belly is already big enough that I couldn't get my ski pants to even overlap.  I wore them anyway.  Beca and Zoe had the best time in the snow.  We couldn't really build anything though - it was more like playing with cold sugar that doesn't get sticky.  unless the snow was stuck to chunks of ice.  Beca had fun "falling" through the ice layer and then pulling up ice chunks and munching on them.  Zoe likes for someone to throw it at her (the snow portion, not the ice) and then she eats it.  Oh well.  She also peed on the deck several times when she couldn't find an appropriate spot to squat.  then she gets demanding that the area where she peed must contain something when she goes out later - lots of sniffing.  Really??  that was you, silly.

Beca hasn't been happy - she missed a sleepover at Oma and Pop-pop's house.  So there's been plenty of screeching at night.  Hopefully back to daycare at least part of the day tomorrow.  I think we'd all like her to see someone besides us.