Halfway There!
7/22/2009 Edit This 0 Comments »
On July 9th, my mother's birthday, we found out that Willow will be having a baby brother!
The proof:
I'm now 21 weeks along, a little over halfway! While the first trimester was hard emotionally & physically, this 2nd trimester is a breeze! I'm knocking on wood as I write that. My only complaint, aside from the normal pregnancy aches and pains, is that I have pretty much lost all of my cravings! Ok, here and there I get a craving for peaches, plums or cherries but I was really enjoying having my body tell me what to eat. Now it's almost as if I'm back to my pre-pregnancy self where I find myself opening the refrigerator enough times that I begin to worry the milk will spoil from being exposed to the warm air for so long. I'm hungry but nothing we have in stock seems appetizing nor does the option of ordering in or picking up any takeout food. Yet I need to feed myself and this baby, so this is becoming a fairly big dilemna which I hope ends soon! One thing I have noticed is that I've lost an appetite for anything I used to enjoy, pre-pregnancy, and I now like foods I that I used to hate. Rice, for example, is one food I would only eat with chinese food and even then it would be no more than a spponful. Now, I'd rather eat a whole bowl of rice with soy sauce than have the chinese vegetables. I used to love veggie pizza, now if I have pizza, sure I'll eat the veggies but would prefer just plain cheese, which is so unlike me.
I do still get the extreme tiredness from time to time but not often, maybe once or twice a week I'll need a short nap to rejuvinate. Although some days are much harder than others. Yesterday, for example, I was completely wiped out, mentally & physically. I could barely focus at work and the minute I got home I crashed on the couch for a nap. Somehow I managed to do my usual lunchtime workout with no problem at all but from then on, I was tired all the way up until bedtime, even with the hour & half nap after work. My new Mac laptop is likely to blame, as are the good books I read before going to sleep, but I'm blaming it all on the pregnancy ;) Last night was really interesting for me when I felt the baby's head right through my skin. While I've been feeling the baby move a lot over the past month, he usually waits until I lie down for bed to really get active. I'm not sure if it was him lifting his head or the position I was in, flat on my back, maybe a bit of both but all of a sudden up pops his head and I put my hand there to feel a hard circle about the size of my fist. I was bummed that Brian had just fallen asleep when this happened so he missed out but I'm hoping the baby is still in the same position as last night and Brian might be able to see or feel it tonight.
I chose today for another blog entry, especially about our baby boy, as Brian & I have decided on a name. We're almost 100% sure this will be the name but it is still early so we're not announcing it yet as we may still change our minds, as we did with Willow. Willow was going to be Audrey Michelle up until I was a little over 6 months pregnant with her when the name, Willow, popped into my head after I spent an evening browsing pictures of trees online. No, I wasn't looking at trees intending to choose a name, I just had a love for the natural beauty of trees, specifically bare, dead or trees in the wintertime sans their leaves. A friend of mine who also shares this fascination had sent me a link for pictures of trees and one of them happened to be a willow tree and once I mentioned it to Brian, he instantly LOVED it! I then had him choose the middle name, which he chose Fae, for faeries.
We know for sure that this little one's middle name will be Arthur after both my grandfather and Brian's grandfather so it's just a matter of finalizing the first name, which may very well not be until the day of his birth. Time will tell.
The proof:
I'm now 21 weeks along, a little over halfway! While the first trimester was hard emotionally & physically, this 2nd trimester is a breeze! I'm knocking on wood as I write that. My only complaint, aside from the normal pregnancy aches and pains, is that I have pretty much lost all of my cravings! Ok, here and there I get a craving for peaches, plums or cherries but I was really enjoying having my body tell me what to eat. Now it's almost as if I'm back to my pre-pregnancy self where I find myself opening the refrigerator enough times that I begin to worry the milk will spoil from being exposed to the warm air for so long. I'm hungry but nothing we have in stock seems appetizing nor does the option of ordering in or picking up any takeout food. Yet I need to feed myself and this baby, so this is becoming a fairly big dilemna which I hope ends soon! One thing I have noticed is that I've lost an appetite for anything I used to enjoy, pre-pregnancy, and I now like foods I that I used to hate. Rice, for example, is one food I would only eat with chinese food and even then it would be no more than a spponful. Now, I'd rather eat a whole bowl of rice with soy sauce than have the chinese vegetables. I used to love veggie pizza, now if I have pizza, sure I'll eat the veggies but would prefer just plain cheese, which is so unlike me.
I do still get the extreme tiredness from time to time but not often, maybe once or twice a week I'll need a short nap to rejuvinate. Although some days are much harder than others. Yesterday, for example, I was completely wiped out, mentally & physically. I could barely focus at work and the minute I got home I crashed on the couch for a nap. Somehow I managed to do my usual lunchtime workout with no problem at all but from then on, I was tired all the way up until bedtime, even with the hour & half nap after work. My new Mac laptop is likely to blame, as are the good books I read before going to sleep, but I'm blaming it all on the pregnancy ;) Last night was really interesting for me when I felt the baby's head right through my skin. While I've been feeling the baby move a lot over the past month, he usually waits until I lie down for bed to really get active. I'm not sure if it was him lifting his head or the position I was in, flat on my back, maybe a bit of both but all of a sudden up pops his head and I put my hand there to feel a hard circle about the size of my fist. I was bummed that Brian had just fallen asleep when this happened so he missed out but I'm hoping the baby is still in the same position as last night and Brian might be able to see or feel it tonight.
I chose today for another blog entry, especially about our baby boy, as Brian & I have decided on a name. We're almost 100% sure this will be the name but it is still early so we're not announcing it yet as we may still change our minds, as we did with Willow. Willow was going to be Audrey Michelle up until I was a little over 6 months pregnant with her when the name, Willow, popped into my head after I spent an evening browsing pictures of trees online. No, I wasn't looking at trees intending to choose a name, I just had a love for the natural beauty of trees, specifically bare, dead or trees in the wintertime sans their leaves. A friend of mine who also shares this fascination had sent me a link for pictures of trees and one of them happened to be a willow tree and once I mentioned it to Brian, he instantly LOVED it! I then had him choose the middle name, which he chose Fae, for faeries.
We know for sure that this little one's middle name will be Arthur after both my grandfather and Brian's grandfather so it's just a matter of finalizing the first name, which may very well not be until the day of his birth. Time will tell.
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