growth spurt

if you look at the week 16 growth post last week, it said that "In the next three weeks, she'll go through a tremendous growth spurt, though, doubling her weight and adding inches to her length."

looks like it is so true!!


i take a pic every sun morning and all previous week pics were very similiar to week 16's. one more week until the ultrasound!!

maternity jeans

i bought my first pair of maternity jeans!! haha i actually don't really need them yet, but i found a good deal on a pair of paige maternity jeans on ebay so i bought them. they were already altered too. got them for about $60 when retail is almost $200!! they are quite interesting, you basically just pull them up and there's a stretchy waistband on top. no buttons or zippers to fuss with! so yay, i might get one more pair, we'll see. i dunno how much i'll be wearing jeans in the summer, i actually kind of dread it. i'm going to be big, uncomfortable and hot, on top of which our house has no A/C! lovely.

week 16 update

nothing really exciting going on here, but symptoms to date:
-pretty frequent headaches (usually worse when i don't drink enough water) have had to take tylenol twice when they were really bad
-have to eat small meals throughout the day, if i eat too much at a time it feels REALLY uncomfortable and i feel sick. it's really hard to control how much i eat when we go out to eat though. i probably should only eat about 1/5th of my dish but end up eating at least 1/2 which makes me feel terrible afterwards. hopefully i'll get better at it.
-don't really drink enough water, i'm trying though! every time i get up to get more water, i end up going to the bathroom as well!! luckily i've still been able to make it through the night without having to pee. i guess there is no pressure on my bladder when i'm lying down or sitting, whew!
-however, i do wake up several times throughout the night trying to find a comfortable position to sleep in. i'm not supposed to sleep on my back because it supposedly puts pressure on some artery, so you're supposed to sleep on your side. the whole first trimester i slept on my back because sleeping on my side was so uncomfortable. but now sleeping on my back is not feeling that great either, so i try to sleep on my side, but it kind of makes my back hurt so i wake up a few times at night to shift positions.
-my stomach is getting hard and round, but i think for the most part you still can't really tell. to me it feels like my stomach is getting big though =) jeans are starting to feel tighter but i can still wear them for now. i'm really curious to see how much i weigh- i should buy a scale. i don't really over eat or crave unhealthy stuff yet, but it's still early.

week 16 growth

I get these weekly updates from babycenter.com about how the baby is growing. I'll copy it here so people can see that the baby is still super super tiny!! (PS those pronouns they use are random, sometimes they use he, sometimes they use she.)

At 4 1/2 inches long (head to bottom) and 3 1/2 ounces, your baby is about the size of an avocado. In the next three weeks, she'll go through a tremendous growth spurt, though, doubling her weight and adding inches to her length. Her lower limbs are much more developed now. Her head is more erect than it has been, and her eyes have moved toward the front of her head. Your baby's ears are close to their final position, too. Some of her more advanced body systems are working, including her circulatory system and urinary tract. Her heart is now pumping about 25 quarts of blood each day, circulating her total blood volume through her body many times. (By the end of your pregnancy, this will increase to about 190 quarts.) The patterning of her scalp has begun, though her hair isn't recognizable yet. Although closed, her eyes are moving (slowly), and she's even started growing toenails.

2nd trimester

i'm officially in my 2nd trimester now. my stomach is starting to get round and hard. i think i'm now entering the phase where i look a little pudgy with a big tummy instead of pregnant.

i've had one dream so far about the baby. it was a very strange dream, but i've been having a lot of very bizarre dreams lately. this one was the only one that was baby-related though. in this dream, my SON was about 3, his name was "Hero" and he was sitting on my lap. I gave him two strands of my hair and asked him which was one thicker. HMM, weird no? so umm, i'm pretty sure this dream is not going to come true, except for maybe having the son part. his name is definitely not going to be Hero, haha. we've finally come up with 4-5 possibilities of boy's names. we'll probably try to narrow it down later if it is confirmed we'll be having a boy, and maybe even taking a poll! i am thinking that it is very likely that the baby is going to be a boy, so i'm preparing myself for it hehe

one thing i wish is that i had more appts just to ease my mind that the baby is still alive in there. a lot of women actually rent baby dopplers so they can listen to the baby's heartbeat at home whenever they want. i was considering it since it's only $20 a month, but j seems to think that is crazy and i'm being too paranoid. since he is not the one carrying the baby and having to worry about it, i don't think he really understands, but whatever, i *should* start feeling the baby moving around soon, so that will help. i've actually still been hesitant to tell people i'm pregnant until i actually SEE the baby on the ultrasound. 4 more weeks, hopefully they pass by quickly!!