Friday, March 14, 2014

18 weeks! 4 days to go!

I've been waiting for this week!!  Less than 4 days to go until our anatomy scan and we get to find out if little Petey Nugget is a boy or girl!!!  At this point, Hubs has me so convinced it's a boy I think even I will be surprised if it's a girl!  I honestly do not have a preference either way though, I'm just so excited to find out!! (And I'll share on here, of course.)

Here's da bump:

I'm gonna do a list this week!
 
Weight gain: +4.5 lbs
Size of baby: Sweet potato/green pepper depending on which website I look at
Cravings: Nothing really. I'm very focused on my scheduled eating this week due to the blood sugar testing 4x/day
Symptoms: (I'm a little afraid to pull the trigger on this one because it tricked me last time but...) The nausea seems to be letting up and I haven't puked in almost a week!  Hoorah! Besides that, I'm still quite tired most of the time and I feel the pulling/pinching of the round ligament pain many times/day.  I also experienced the elusive 'lightening-crotch' for the first time the other day. Coincidentally, the pain seared through my vag at the exact time I happened to be speaking in a meeting at work which caused me to stop mid-sentence and do this: 
I think people were confused.

Rings: Still on but getting tight...
Maternity clothes: Pants are a must but I haven't crossed over into tops yet and am still just wearing my largest/longest ones. I'm hoping I still have a few more weeks before I need to buy some. 
Stretch marks: Oh yes. I am a zebra. I'm going to choose to think of them as the battle scars of IF made visible so that I can appreciate why they are there and that they got me to where I am now. 
Belly button: Will still be an innie for a while but getting rounder and more shallow
Bewbs: Still tender and my nips are chameleons; they seem to be a different shade of pink every other day. Today for instance, they are a lovely tie-dyed mixture of peachy/coral/pink.  Interesting. 
Sleep: Ugh.  A typical night: 
  • Go to bed around 10:30,
  • shift around and adjust pillows/snoogle for 20ish mins to find comfy position,
  • force Hubs to rub my back because it feels like all my vertebrae shift out of position when I lay on my side,
  • fall asleep and snore like a bear until 2-3am,
  • get up to pee,
  • go back to bed and shift around/lay awake feeling ill until at least 4am,
  • get up to pee again,
  • give up and go into the guest bedroom hoping that the change of scenery will help me fall asleep (which, on a good night happens quickly, and on a normal night just causes me to lay awake in a different bed hoping not to puke while I eventually fall back to sleep),
  • wake up around 7am ready to pee my pants.
Movement: Nothing yet but I'm hoping to feel something soon! 
Best moment of the week: We got all our integrated genetic screening results back and everything came back negative which means the baby has a very low risk for trisomy 18, neural tube defects, and downs syndrome!  YAY!!!
Looking forward to: Going crib-shopping for the first time tomorrow and then anatomy scan on Tuesday! Can't wait!!


8 comments:

  1. So excited to hear about your anatomy scan! Will you still refer to the baby as Petey if it is a girl? Ha! Also great news about being low risk for all of those things!

    I was actually excited to get into maternity tops because I feel they emphasize the bump better and make a belly look rounder instead of frumpy!

    Sorry about the lightening vag, but i loved that .gif!

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  2. Oh i forgot to ask - are you doing any sort of "reveal" of the sex?

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    1. I don't know yet! We're not getting everyone together but we do already have plans with my in laws next weekend so I've been trying to think of something I could do. Any ideas? :-)

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  3. Yay for good results on your genetic testing! Hope your LO wants to show off the goods at your A/S!

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  4. I'm so glad to hear that the genetic screening results were positive! I can't wait to hear about your anatomy scan - I hope that everything looks perfect there as well <3

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  5. Hurray for awesome screening results!! And I'm also very glad I'm not the only one with mood ring style nipples.

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  6. YAY for great results from your screening!! I legit LOL'd at your telling of lightening crotch and the gif is priceless!!! OMG I'm so excited to find out if Petey is a Pete!! Lots of love to you both! <3

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  7. Yeah for great genetic screening results!! I can't wait to hear @ your anatomy scan!!

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