[Since starting this post, 1 and 1/2 weeks have passed! So, I had to change it to 16 weeks... ]
Already a couple weeks into my second trimester, I have realized this pregnancy is going by faster than the first time around. Probably because I'm already busy being a mommy, but still, it's snuck up on me. In an effort to record as many memories with this baby as with Lailey (my little sister says the second kids never get the same attention), I think it's time to get my blog on.
To begin, we were ecstatic to find out we were expecting again. I've actually known since just before Thanksgiving, but we told "everybody" around the 12-week mark. So far, it's been a smooth sailing pregnancy. My first trimester I did have a little bit of queasiness starting around 8 weeks (just like with Lailey), mostly in the evenings this time, but unlike the first pregnancy it didn't last long and was pretty minor. That seems to have mostly worn off now, as long as I eat often throughout the day. I get pretty cranky when I'm hungry. See, I'm always like this, it's just exacerbated when I'm pregnant.
People ask me how I'm feeling, and honestly, I feel great. I get very tired at times, and sometimes much earlier in the evening than I'm used to, but that's just par for the course when you're building a kid. If I was dumb and not aware of my body at all, I could see how I wouldn't know I was pregnant yet just because my symptoms are not bad. I am quite scatterbrained, and I feel this has gotten increasingly more obvious. I've heard a joke about losing brain cells with each baby...probably true. But I've met moms with lots of kids who have plenty of brain power left, or so it seems. Maybe there's hope for me!
Lailey does seem to understand on a basic level that we're having a baby. She sometimes asks to see my tummy, wants to kiss and tickle it, and calls it "Baby Tummy." If I ask her if it's a girl or boy (or boy or girl) she says whatever one I say last.
I have thought about so many things to include in this post, but it seems I can't remember half of them when I sit down to type. Oh, one interesting thing to note is that I'm already feeling the baby move. It actually happened about 13.5 weeks, which surprised me since that is so early. But I was pretty sure about it since I do know what it feels like. I didn't feel it again for a week or two and then today I've felt little movements several times. For me, this is my favorite part of being pregnant. It's when it stops feeling surreal and I can really connect with the fact that we're having a baby.
I am starting to show a little, and this past week I finally wore maternity pants. What did women do without elastic? I can still wear regular pants with a rubber band around the button looped through the hole, but it's just too uncomfortable to get them closed. Breathing is not overrated. Particularly when you're supplying oxygen for two. I've been feeling out of breath lately, and despite trying to pick up exercising again, I thought, "man! I must be more out of shape than I thought!" Then I read something somewhere about an actual reason (caused by hormones of course) for the out-of-breath feeling and I felt a little better. Had to do with capillaries swelling and your blood carrying more oxygen and such. Something like that.
Okay, I'm getting really sleepy now. I think I'll call it a day and finally publish this post.
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