16 weeks

We went to granny and grandpa on the coast, and nudger was spoilt with little sock monkey blankies and a bib. So cute! Nana also spoilt our little one with a soft soft monkey comforter and the cutest toys.

I've started feeling movement a little bit more, though not always regular. Some days I feel it quite a few times, other days not at all. And it's a little more than butterflies as some people describe it, more like little popcorn popping! I'm feeling good during the day, alot more energy but hit a dip in the afternoons and then the nausea hits some evenings. Still huge food aversions to garlic, mushrooms and bacon... ewwwwww!!

Oh yar, and I can hear my own heart beating all the time... in my ears and can feel it all over my body. Weirdest thing!

At this point of your pregnancy, your baby is approximately 4.3 to 4.6 inches long and weighs 2.8 ounces. Not only is your baby growing, your uterus and placenta continue to grow to accommodate the growing baby inside of you! Just six weeks ago, your uterus weighed about 5 ounces. This week it now weighs 8.75 ounces! The amniotic fluid that surrounds the baby is increasing and there is about 7.5 ounces of fluid. You will easily be able to feel your uterus approximately three inches below your navel.

Your milk glands start production at this time and this causes some tenderness and swelling in early pregnancy. Your veins will become more visible because there is an increased amount of blood flowing to the breasts.

At this time, your baby is holding her head erect. Because her muscles are developing, she can make some faces now. Your baby is able to squint, frown and open its mouth. There is enough calcium in the bones that they will show up on an x-ray. Your baby's fingernails are well formed now and the legs are longer than the arms. Because your baby is moving well now, you may begin to feel his movements! Some women say that the early movements feel like gas bubbles or a slight flutter. If you have not yet felt the baby move, don't worry. Fetal movements are usually felt between the 16th and 20th week of pregnancy.

16 Weeks Pregnant

New Tummy Bump

In the last week I have grown quite a bit (I'm even starting to walk a little funnier than I normally do), so here's a pic :)

13/14 week update

So I figured I'm between 13 weeks and 14 weeks now. Apparently 14 weeks tomorrow according to the doc, but still 13 weeks according to me. So will do both updates at the same time :)

13 weeks pregnant:

13 Weeks Pregnant

14 weeks pregnant:
Baby is about the size of your fist. WOW!


So yesterday I go to my auditing meeting, and the accountant says to me (all sweetly, he's old) - oh are you carrying a baby or are you just getting fat? Ummm... lucky I'm pregnant otherwise I might have been slightly insulted. It was nice that someone noticed though without me telling them.

We also added a curtain to the baby's room this week. We'll be buying the cloth nappies in the next month or so, and I suppose I need to decide which travel system we're going with. Though we can get the pram later, more interested in the car seat at the moment.

Thanks for reading! We have the midwife appointment in 2,5 weeks - really looking forward to it! We'll book antenatal classes at the same time, considering I've done them already as part of my doula course - do you think she'll charge half price? HAHA fat chance.

I've had a bit of a cold this week, started on Tuesday evening - I was pretty achy yesterday, but I already feel so much better today. So maybe it was a 24 hour thing. My GP said I should just take Panado (what's the point in taking ANYTHING then I ask?) and some nose spray. But I've just been taking the recommended dose of Vitamin C for pregnancy (2000mg) or a bit less if I've had fruit that day and it obviously seems to be helping. No H1N1 here, people love to terrify you - specially when you're pregnant!

Love to all xx

We're getting somewhere with the room

Other than the BEAUTIFUL cot, compactum and shelves Justin has made for us - we are slowly adding to the baby's room. We've chosen a monkey theme, with the colours being white, brown and a light green. My mom in law bought this duvet set - it had orange in it, but we changed it to brown instead.

TFR!

Belly pic

I promised to post a pic, so here it is. I just look fat. This is at 11 weeks 1 day or 11 weeks 6 days according to the doc.

Video Journal - Scan Update

I forgot to say in the video that the good news is that the pregnancy is no longer considered high risk and we can birth wherever we want (most birth centres don't allow even marginally high risk patients). So we're smiling :)

I love summer!

Gosh I love springtime, the smell of the jasmine and the sunshine just makes everything so exciting :)

So before I depart the notorious first trimester, I need to make some social commentary.

There is an unspoken "mommy club" that I am not sure if I want to be part of or not. I'm generally the minority when it comes to natural birthing, extended breastfeeding, delayed vaccinations etc. but all of a sudden I have been thrust into this mommy club and I am just like everyone else. Those who know me, know this is not my favourite thing. It's like some undercover secret society where the untold is acknowledged and only the pregnant are allowed to know.

For example, I have suffered quite badly with nausea. I tell another so called mommy club member, and they nod in understanding and say "it's crap hey?" and then they laugh a loud Ursula-the-evil-one in the little mermaid laugh *shocked* like they were waiting for someone else to go through this misery that is the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Seriously I would have listened if someone had told me this beforehand. They should have said it's like 6 weeks of food poisoning!

I would never trade this time for anything in the world, I am definitely realising more and more every day that I was definitely born for this, but I think I'm cancelling my subscription to the evil mommy club.

Happy Spring everyone!! Love you all MWA MWA