Saturday, February 20, 2010

Week 14

This has been a pretty easy week. Hooray! I will say though, that pregnancy makes everything different. I was suddenly overcome with inflamed sinuses and a simultaneously runny nose. Surprise surprise, its pregnancy related and even better, no medicine for it. Cesar was sweet enough to buy me a Neti Pot to help out. Seems my sinuses are too clogged right now. But really that has been the toughest physical thing so far. yay!
I've started to notice that spicy food makes me feel little "twangs" in my abdomen. The closest thing I can compare it to is someone playing the harp on my abdominal muscles. Not too painful, just shocking and uncomfortable. Guess someone is starting to move around. Get used to the spciy food now, little bean!!!
6 more weeks and we should be able to find out the gender! Pretty exciting but it seems like those weeks are going to tick by pretty slowly. Time seems to have a different way of passing now. These 14 weeks seems to have taken forever and yet, I'm not even halfway through yet. Part of me wishes the rest of the time would just hurry up and be overwith, the other half doesn't want to be at the end yet.
I've had a couple of dreams recently about birth. Both dreams had me sleeping through the entire process, waking up after it had all been done and not realizing I'd even had the baby yet. The first dream had me wake up to Cesar who had named our daughter without discussing it with me...because I had slept through labor. The second had me sleeping through the contractions, birth, everything. I woke up after labor with nothing to show but some extremely sagging skin on my tummy. I never saw the baby in either dream. Think it means anything?

I've been hungry so frequently it has been hard to get used to. Dr. Yeo says to be careful during my 2nd trimester to ensure I don't gain unecessary weight or become diabetic. He also told me the worst news I'd heard in a while...watch out for the carbs...BIG TIME. Does he know who I am? I could eat a loaf of bread for every meal of the day. This was devestating news, harder still was explaining to Cesar what carbs are. Ah well, all for the greater good. I'm doing everything I can do eat well and get lots of nutritious meals.

Anyhoo, pretty boring week other than the creepy dreams. Off to bed.

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2 comments:

  1. pay attention to what 'flutters' your belly,
    You will learn what things will make that thing happy or upset.
    sorry about the carbs, eat loads of protein, diary. and
    Laugh a LOT

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  2. No carbs? Not so tragic. It just means that this is your opportunity to become an amazing veggie chef! I agree with Bob, laugh a LOT!

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