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Baby Week 20 – Ug, Pregnancy Brain!!

Sara — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:28:21 +0000

20 week fetus

I am a type A personality. I like structure and orginization. I make lists, and I follow up on questions. I rarely forget the details. That is, until now… My hormones are driving me nuts now! I can’t remember even the simplest tasks. Sometimes I’ll have a conversation with someone, and completely forget about it by the next day – it’s like de ja vu to them, but it’s an entirely new conversation to me. Others at work have noticed too. I’m more forgetful and scattered these day. I’ve started making myself lists at work – lists of things I need to at work, lists of things I need to do at home and lists of things I need to talk about with Zach. Of course, I keep forgetting my home lists at work, so that doesn’t always work out in my favor… So far, this has been the most irritating pregnancy side effect. The nausea was the most miserable, but at least it didn’t effect my professional relationships, and I was still able to remember everything that I needed to get done. Now I just look like a ditz with a round belly. I don’t know if this symptom will eventually go away like the others, or if I’m doomed to another four plus months of being the pregnant idiot…

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Baby Week 16 – Fluttering, maybe??

Sara — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:00:32 +0000

16 Week Fetus

I always assumed that with my second pregnancy I would be able to feel movement earlier, and I would recognize it as soon as it started. As with most assumptions, I was wrong. I remember what it felt like to have Xander bouncing around in there, but it’s hard to recall specifically what that initial movement felt like. Additionally, it’s so easy to convince myself that it was just a belly gurgle or gas or some other bodily process going on in there, and not actual fetal movement.

This past Sunday I was riding around on some pretty bumpy unpaved roads up on a mountain (that’s another story all together). I was pretty convinced that I could feel this little baby wiggling around as we rode. But, I didn’t feel much movement after that – not for a few days. Every once in a while I’ll think “maybe?” but then I’m not sure. This morning again, I thought I felt some wiggling, but it’s so faint that it’s hard to say definitively one way or another.

I’m not worried about not feeling movement yet – with Xander it was 19 weeks, and with some women it’s even later than that. They say that with your second (and later pregnancies) you feel movement sooner, partially because you know what to expect. Maybe I am feeling movement sooner, but it’s so easy to say “nah, that was something else” that I’m still not sure. I guess I’m waiting for a single definitive boot to the bladder to let me know that he or she is moving around in there.

Speaking of he or she – we have our ultrasound scheduled for August 7th at 8am. We are hoping that this child will be more cooperative than Xander was at telling us the gender prior to birth. Please keep your fingers crossed for us – this could be a huge help in the name negotiation game!

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Week 27 – Baby Hiccups

Sara — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 23:53:10 +0000

As predicted, the baby has been moving more frequently and seems to be getting stronger by the day. This week, the baby had its first bout of hiccups (or at least the first since I’ve been able to feel movement…). And in true child fashion, the hiccups couldn’t have happened in the middle of the day, or while I was watching tv at night – nope, the hiccups started right around 11pm, when I was just settling down to sleep. At first, I felt the rhthmic movement and wondered what that was all about. Then I recalled reading something about baby hiccups at Baby Center. Of course, as I recalled the article, I remembered that they simply mentioned hiccups, as in “your baby may even have hiccups” before moving onto the next thought. I couldn’t recall a single piece of literature that had any suggestions on how to treat baby hiccups. Since it was Thursday, and Zach was playing video games on campus, I wasn’t able to easily tell him of this new discomfort. So, I called his cell phone. Zach was quite entertained at the though of my jiggling uterus, and half-heartedly suggested that I drink water while doing some jumping jacks. Some of our other friends had some more colorful suggestions that are not worth repeating here. In the end, I simply had to wait it out. I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to sleep with a jiggling uterus, but I’m pretty sure that it isn’t possible. The baby had hiccups again this week, but at least the second bout happened at work, so I was able to continue working while my uterus jiggled that time, and the hiccups were not nearly as inconvenient. So, if anyone has any suggestions for curing baby hiccups, I would love to hear them, as I have a feeling that will not be the only time the baby thinks jiggling my uterus while I’m trying to sleep is a good idea.

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Week 23 – Baby Jumping Jacks?

Sara — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:52:28 +0000

I have no doubt about baby movement anymore. I have noticed that in the mornings and evenings my kids likes to get some exercises by doing some jumping jacks around my stomach. When I can feel kicks/punches in two or three locations at once, I know that kid is busy in there. I’m not sure if the baby is saying “hey Mom, what’s up?” or “geeze it’s tight in here!” Either way, if I get up to use the bathroom at 4am, I can be almost certain that a few minutes later my kid will be busy with the workout routine. I did finally get Zach to feel the movement. The baby was kicking hard one night, and Zach was able to feel the hard kicks, which quite entertained him, though I didn’t find the discomfort all that funny… The literature I’ve read says that I’ll be able to notice a routine in the baby’s movements after a while. The movements aren’t always a guarantee in the mornings or evenings, but the baby seems to prefer those times over the middle of the day, which is a plus, since they can be somewhat distracting in the middle of meetings, etc. I wouldn’t say that baby movement is exactly comfortable or fun, but I do find it reassuring when the baby kicks, it reminds me that things are still going along as they should in there.

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Week 14 – Still Expanding!

Sara — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 03:53:10 +0000

I’m feeling pretty good this week. My morning sickness is pretty much gone, except sometimes when I brush my teeth (I know, it’s kind of weird – sensitive gag reflex…). My stomach continues to grow, which I’m still not ready for. Many of my clothes are too tight for me now. I’m going shopping for maternity clothes this weekend. I’ve picked up a few things here and there, but this is my first shopping excursion. It should be fun (I hope). I’ve been using two pregnancy websites, BabyCenter and PregnancyWeekly. I actually did quite a bit of surfing before I settled on these two. I like PregnancyWeekly because they have an online calendar where I can add journal entry type things to keep track milestones during the pregnancy (which my blog is also doing…). BabyCenter has a good weekly newsletter that I’ve been enjoying. Zach has been entirely patient with me, which has been great. At night when I’m settled in with Oscar (the cat) on my lap, he patiently gets me whatever food I happen to desire (as long as it’s in the house and not entirely complicated). It’s nice having people bring you things – I’m definitely enjoying that part of pregnancy! I’ve also been reading two books, What to Expect When You’re Expecting (of course), which my sister Cait bought for me and The New Pregnancy week-by-week, which my friend Jenny bought for me. The books and websites tell me that the baby is approximately 4-4 1/2 inches long now. He/she has translusent skin and we’re working on growing bone marrow this week. So things seem to be moving along well, and so far the books/websites are right – the second trimester has been much better than the first!

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Week 13 – Showing already!

Sara — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:50:15 +0000

I can’t believe my stomach has already started to pop out. “Pop out” is the correct term as far as I can tell because last week my stomach seemed to have it’s normal amount of roundness that I was able to hide pretty well. This week just about everyone in my office has commented on my newly round surface. I’m just not ready to be this round. From everything I had read, and everything everyone told me, I didn’t expect to seriously start showing until about the 5th month. I haven’t even reached the 4th month yet and already I’m running out of clothes to wear! One woman in my office suggested that perhaps I was having twins. I told her that was not funny and not to even joke about that.

Though everyone at work has insisted that my stomach is significantly bigger, my husband refuses to tell me that I am getting bigger. He recently informed me that even when I’m seven months pregnant he won’t tell me that I’ve gotten any bigger, because in his mind, any answer he gives me is going to be wrong. I’m not really sure that this is entirely true, but I guess I’m going to have to accept that I’m not going to get an honest answer out of him about my looks for the next six months….
To add to my new dilemma, I discovered that I really need to buy some new clothes. I am ok with wearing maternity clothes, but I know that I’m really going to need maternity wear in the summer time, but since it isn’t warm enough for summer clothes yet, I’m stuck – and too cheap to buy clothes now and later. I think getting dressed for the next few weeks is going to prove to be quite challenging.

My cravings have been getting better, though I am still salivating over strawberries. Most people I talk to can’t believe that I haven’t made Zach fetch me any of my craving foods. I was kind of proud of myself that I was able to manage my cravings well enough to get my own food when I needed it.

So, I’m freaking out about my newly rounder belly, running out of clothing, and praying that my co-worker really was just joking about that whole twin thing.

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