I
think starting with this post I am going to be getting into a regular regime of
posting weekly updates, which was my original plan to keep track of all the fun
changes and experiences occurring during pregnancy :) In addition, of course
any specific topics that clearly need a whole post of their own :)
I
am 16 weeks and 1 day pregnant today. 4
months, woohoo! And I have to say the one big thing that really caught my eye
this week is my belly. I’ve been looking at my belly so much ever since I found
out I was pregnant. I’ve been wanting to be “fat” , for so long. It’s just one of those first things you wait
for… to have a bump! So, I’ve been literally looking at my belly every day, several times a day, taking
pictures in different lightings, from different angles, wearing different
clothing, hopefully maybe there is SOME physical sign of a bump. And to me, at
some points, it did look like I had maybe a “bump” but it wasn’t really obvious
and you really had to look and use your imagination to see something, haha! I’ve
been taking gradual photos too, even though you can’t see anything, now I’ve
put them together side by side and you can see a slight gradual grow, which is
pretty cool.
Anyway,
this week…I don’t know how…but literally…just one day I woke up and BAM- I
suddenly have a bump. This is totally not the way I expected this to happen. :)
I was waiting for slow transition of growth, but no (at least it seems to me) I
just exploded one day and suddenly look pregnant! And this is great! Finally
the day I’ve been waiting for! I made Zhenya take some “professional” photos of
me, because all my photos of me and my belly were taking via phone, and I just
wanted something of better quality. If you are friends with me on face book I posted all of them on there and shared a
couple here too. I’ll admit it, I’m obsessed. Now that there is a prominent
bump, I am looking at it, touching it, poking it, rubbing it and making Zhenya do all this too, haha) even
more!
While
still on the topic of my belly, another thing I noticed this week is being
uncomfortable while laying down. I read laying on your back is not good during
pregnancy( for long periods of time), especially when you get larger, because
the extra weight pushes down on some
main artery or something like that, and it could basically interfere
with blood flow. Scary thought, especially since you can’t really control how
you sleep at night. My issue is just being uncomfortable. Lying on my back
helps with the back pain. So, I don’t completely avoid that position. What it
feels like to me after a few minutes is like someone is sitting on me, pushing
down on me basically and makes me want to go the bathroom most of the time. So I
turn over and take turns lying on my side. Lying on my side also kind of feels
funky. When I make a shift like from lying on my back to one side, or from one
side to another, I feel this weird pressure. It is almost like my stomach
weight is shifting from side to another with my change of position. It’s really
hard to explain, but it feels very strange. Obviously, I am not huge yet, and
can only imagine what is yet to come, ha!
Despite
the fact I obviously gained something in my body because I have a belly and
feel heavier I still weigh 131 pounds- 9 pounds less than pre-pregnancy. Right
now, (this is thanks to all my lovely pregnancy apps I have on my phone giving
me daily and weekly updates on changes happening to my body and the baby) baby
is the size of an avocado, and my uterus in whole is the size of a melon! WOW!
That- right there is pretty amazing! I remember reading all these apps and from
the beginning these associations were so small, like a pen tip, or a sesame
seed and slowly a raspberry and a blueberry- but this is some big stuff we are
talking about! And you would expect some weight gain with that… not me! I know
my one friend mentioned (she was pregnant with twins) she did not gain a lot of
weight during her pregnancy and she was obviously very, VERY pregnant towards
the end of her pregnancy. After she gave birth she weighed less than what she
did pre-pregnancy. So she was gaining and losing weight at the same time. Who
knows, maybe that’s what’s happening to me?
I
still have nausea but it is not an everyday thing. And every time I say “I am
better” I end up hugging the toilet at one point during that day. It is
definitely not as bad as it was in the beginning, a constant battle with it. It
is just random vomiting moments I can’t explain. This week I threw up on the 31st,
the 4th and the 6th. So I don’t know what is going on
with that and I’m not sure if I should be worried? I’m not worried but
considering the fact nausea is supposed to be gone by now and I am still puking
and not gaining weight? I’ll talk to my doctor about it I suppose and see what
she will say.
My
super exhaustion is also improving. I haven’t had any crazy sleeping days
anymore. I had one this week but I think it was just my body on overload from
not getting enough sleep the night before, I still get tired but not to the
point where I am ready to sleep all day. So hopefully this is also a slow
transition into this improvement I am supposed to feel during the second
trimester.
Back
pain is a big one. I can’t stand for long periods of time, that just kills me,
I don’t know why I don’t have a basketball belly yet, but I can’t stand or be
in certain sitting positions for a long time or else my back just screams with
pain! So I am trying to make that work around my daily routine (like church and
work and getting stuff done.)
One
very strange symptom I was having this week, much stronger and more often (not
even sure if it is pregnancy related) is heart pain. This is a kind of heart
pain I’ve never had before. I every now and then I would have a sharp stabbing
pain in my heart area, very rarely, but it’s a feeling I am familiar with. This
pain is much different. The best way to describe it is this squeezing heart
muscle pain. I can feel my heart almost squeezing in, feeling pain as it does
it, holding that squeeze ( still very painful) and as it releases the squeeze,
I can still feel this pain until it completely releases it then the pain goes
away. Very uncomfortable and very unpleasant. I had a little bit of this pain
in the previous weeks but it was very rare and I didn't make anything of it.
This week I have to say for about two days straight I had it almost nonstop, in
addition to other days. I had trouble falling asleep Friday night because of
the pain. This pain doesn't come when I am doing something specifically.
Sometimes it starts when I am trying to fall sleep, laying calmly in bed,
sometimes I am sitting, sometimes I am doing something it’s not associated with
any specific movement or position of mine. I’ve read that sometimes pregnant
women can have heart palpitations due to the large increase of blood in your
body. I definitely have not had that, I don’t know if this pain can also be associated
with the increase of blood supply, I don’t know. I really hope this is no big deal, I am going to
mention this to my primary care provider with whom I have an appointment with
today, see what he says. If that doesn’t do much good I will mention this to my
gyn at my first appointment with her next week.
Other
than that, that pretty much sums up last week for me. I have my primary care
doctor’s appointment today. For no specific reason, he just wants to keep an eye
on me during pregnancy due to all my stomach issues before I got pregnant. I
have my monthly thyroid appointment tomorrow; they did blood work last week to
see how that is going. And of course, I have my long awaited first gyn
appointment next week with Cooperstown, which I am totally psyched for. I will
be 17 weeks by then, and hoping maybe they will do an ultrasound and can see if
it is a boy or girl because I am just DYING to find out!!! If not, I know at my next appointment I
should know for sure… can’t wait! :)
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