I didn’t realize how TMI this post would be until I finished
typing it, haha. So if you don’t like to hear TMI things you probably shouldn’t
read it. If you do, read on and enjoy the wonderful wonders of pregnancy, but
consider yourself warned, haha. Although, at this point you should probably be
used to me already! :P
21 Weeks… I have officially crossed the halfway point and
from this point on I will be more weeks pregnant than there is weeks left of
the pregnancy! Yay!
So what has been happening this week? Aside from finding out
the long awaited gender ( yay!) and being sick with the stomach flu ( boo!) I’ve
had some new interesting symptoms/changes.
Let’s start with my weight. Last week I was 136.5 according
to last week’s update. I just weighed myself now and I am 137.2. So I guess I
am kind of on the right track with gaining a pound a week as I should be
according to all these pregnancy apps. And this is surprisingly good especially
since I had the stomach flu this week and that screwed things up a bit. But my
weight has been funky this week. I don’t know if it was really me, or just the
different scales or the amount of clothing I was wearing, although I do try to
keep that at the same amount to be fair but the weight still has been jumping.
Last Saturday I was 136.5. Then I weighed myself Monday and
I think I weighed 136.8 or 137, I don’t remember. On Tuesday I had an
appointment with my primary care provider, he just likes to see me every now
and then, and I saw this as a good “check up” after being hospitalized and was
having paranoia about another UTI. Which ended up being negative, but now these
“urgencies” I have going to the bathroom I take them more seriously. Because if
it is a sign of a UTI I want to find out about it right away and treat it so it
doesn’t get to a kidney infection again. Anyway, when they weighed me there,
although I did take off my boots and all extra layers, I weighed 140.8. I was
like WOAH; I gained 3 pounds in a day?! Wednesday was my ultrasound and the day
I got the stomach flu, and Thursday I had an appointment with my thyroid doctor
(yes I had a lot of appointments this week.) On their scale I weighed 136.5. So
I am telling you I have NO idea what has been going on with my weight.
My personal guess is this. I mean, my weight generally would
jump a couple pounds every now and then,
that makes sense. And as disgusting as this may sound it would usually depend
on my bowel movements. Sometimes I would weigh myself and think I am gaining
weight and then go to the bathroom have a big bowel movement and bam I am
suddenly down those pounds. I’ve actually mentioned this to my thyroid doctor a
couple months back and as I was telling
her this I am thinking she probably thinks I am crazy and it is not possible,
but she told me big bowels can definitely have a big impact on the weight
change. So I am guessing me weighing 137 roughly and jumping to 140 could be me
eating a lot and not going to the bathroom, I don’t know, haha. And then the
stomach flu hit me so everything obviously came out of me via diarrhea and I
didn’t eat for 2 full days basically, so that brought my weight down 5 pounds I
guess. I don’t know, my body is crazy.
I mentioned last week I believe about my crazy pasta mania,
and that definitely has not stopped yet. I tried incorporating some meatballs
into this so I am eating at least some meat, which I ended up enjoying
actually. But this week, I have started eating like crazy; I think it was this
week, not the week before. I have been hungry all the time and just eating and
eating. I have been having about 6-7 full meals a day with snacks in
between. Just crazy eating. And like I
mentioned last week, I have no shame! My doctor actually told me to eat as much
as possible because I need to gain at least 25 pounds, and so far I am “under”
my pre-pregnancy weight. But up until Wednesday I have been going crazy about
food. Of course the minute I actually start eating and I am on SOME potential
road to gaining some weight, the wonderful stomach flu hit me. Wednesday and Thursday
I had literally nothing but bananas to eat. Thursday evening I probably had my
first meal. Even on Friday and Saturday, I still wasn’t back to my normal
eating self. I was eating food, but it was very small amounts and just very
blah. I guess after not eating for two days my stomach was just taking its time
to get back to normal. Today, on the other hand I can freely say I am back to
my crazy eating self again. Well, my crazy eating PREGNANT self.
Although I was obsessed with food before pregnancy, the way
I eat now was not as much as I did before. For example, I used to never be
hungry the minute I wake up. It would usually take me a few hours to “wake up”
before I can have a meal which would be this awkward in-between breakfast and
lunch time. This didn’t really matter to me since I would need a big filling
meal anyway. But regardless, now the MINUTE I wake up, I’m like “Omg, I am
hungry-I need food!” The problem with that is, I take my thyroid medicine first
thing in the morning. The reason for that is because it needs to be taken on an
empty stomach. That is, an hour before food or 3 hours after a meal. And the way I eat during
the day, I would never be able to find a 3 hour slot for me to take the thyroid
pill and then wait an additional hour to eat again. Absolutely not! So if I
wake up at night or early morning to pee or something and can remember to take
the pill, I do so, go back to sleep, and then I can eat when I wake up. Anyway,
so I battle with this every morning. Waking up starving, and taking the pill
immediately to wait an hour to eat. Ha, seriously the longest hour of my life!
:) So that’s the story with food.
Sweat. I started sweating! And originally I didn’t think
anything of it because this started when I was in the hospital and I just
thought it was fever related. I mean, technically it was…because the amounts I
sweated at the hospital were insane and that is not how I am sweating now, but
I just remember it starting then. I have always been a cold person. Not in a
mean way, in a literal way, haha. As in,
I love the heat… I love 80 degree weather, burning sun. If it gets just a
little chilly outside as it can feel for other people, for me it is freezing
and I wear 2 pairs of socks, one of which are fuzzy and tons of layers. Let’s
not even talk about me tolerating winter… because I don’t. At night, even
though the heat is on comfortably, and my hubby can actually be hot at times, I
wear 2 pairs of socks, one of them being fuzzy again, fuzzy warm pj pants, a t-shirt,
and a long sleeve shirt on top of that and of course I am under the blankets.
That for me would be normal. Now, I started sweating! Not just at night, but
even during the day. I don’t wear my long sleeve shirt on top as often as I
used to now. Now, sometimes if I am just sitting on my bed the rest of my body
could feel like it is at a comfortable temperature I feel this little trickle
between my boobs down my belly. Just a random sweat. And that is basically the
only place it really bothers me. At night I have been waking up sweating in the
same spot and behind my neck. I would wake up to take off my layers and still
sweat. It’s so strange. I know I am gaining weight, not by the scale but physically,
obviously. I know I have more blood in my body and hence a lot of people claim
to be warmer, but this sweating thing is just too much. Hey, at least it’s not
the stinky kind of sweat! ;-) But I’ve actually developed a small rash between
my boobs because of it :( And I have been very anal about it too. I wash that
area about a thousand times a day, I even wipe it with rubbing alcohol, and
recently started putting an anti-itch cream on it because it just won’t stop
itching. It’s horrible.
Another thing about my boob area is… I got some stretch
marks. Small ones, but they are there. Weird, because I never really thought
about stretch marks, let alone having them on my boobs! I thought like normal
people if I get them they would be on my belly (that might be yet to come, of
course.) I guess this is proof that they have obviously grown some, which I
already knew since I wasn’t that large to begin with. I actually bought 2 new
bras in the beginning of the pregnancy to accommodate my new size and I read
bras with the wire were not good for you. I thought I bought bras that still
gave me room to “grow” a little, but obviously I was wrong and will probably have
to get new ones soon, especially since I am expected to grow even more in the
third trimester and when baby comes.
But the stretch marks, I actually bought Palmer’s tummy
butter cocoa butter formula cream. I’ve been applying it, but obviously no
changes yet. I’ve asked some mamas about it, some say it is used to prevent,
some say it is used to make the marks go away, some say there is nothing you
can do about it! Great. Well, we shall see, but I don’t like this thing at all.
And not to mention they are still super veiny. It’s crazy, it’s like someone
drew with permanent marker on me or something. My boobs are just getting the
best of it this week.
Baby this week has been moving like crazy. Yes, I said the
same exact thing last week, but this week even more. Especially since Wednesday,
he has been jumping and kicking and I don’t know what else he is doing in there
but he is having a blast that is for sure. And the movement has been more
frequent, and since Wednesday I have to say it feels like it is constant! Which
is great, I love it! On the day of the ultrasound, I was lying in bed feeling
deadly, but beside it all baby was just moving around like crazy and made me
smile anyway. It felt like he was kicking my hip bones, it was literally so
close to it, but knew probably that was just what it felt like. Once we got to
the ultrasound place, the technician actually said that he was positioned head
down and his feet were right next to my hip bone. So in order for her to get
certain pics of him she had to position the camera-thingy right next to my
bone! Which explained why I felt the kicks the way I did before hand! He’s a silly
baby! The lady also told me he was measuring at 13 ounces and 4 days ahead of
my due date of June 24th. Which made me happy. I know usually if the
difference isn’t a 2 week difference than it doesn’t really matter that baby
could just be bigger in size and growing at a different rate. But they have
changed my due date from June 30, to the 28, to June 24 and now saying baby is
measuring 4 days ahead. Hey, I don’t mind, if baby comes earlier I am ALL for
it! The sooner- the better and the more summer time fun we will get to spend
together! So I am not going to assume I am 21 weeks and 4 days or something
today, I am still going to continue with my current countdown. That way, if I do
have baby earlier it will be a nice surprise :)
So more about baby moving more this week. Aside from feeling
it more frequently and almost constantly, they have gotten to be stronger. I
have felt them with my hands several times already which is awesome! Zhenya
hasn’t really had the patience to sit and wait for the kick. He’s tried a
couple times and baby would stop moving the moment he would put his hand, silly
boy. But Zhenya finally caught baby in action! Baby was moving like crazy and I
grabbed his hand and placed it on my belly, and Papa felt baby give him a high
five. It made both of us very happy! Not to mention, I can also SEE the
movements on my belly now too. Maybe once they become more visible I will
record a video and post it on here or something. That would be fun! :) But,
yeah… baby is very active, and I just adore it! Best feeling in the world!
Other than that, that has been me this week. I am growing
more, and I guess you can tell I am pregnant now by just looking at me if I am
not wearing poofy clothing to cover it up. My friend Arseniy today told me “Woah,
you got a Puza (belly in Russian)!” And my
neighbor today peaked her head out of her balcony as I was walking outside to
our laundry room and commented on the fact she noticed I had a small belly was wondering if I was pregnant, haha. See, I’m the weird
person that gets flattered when people ask me and just get excited because that
means I am showing and growing! Other people on the other hand probably would
have taken offense to that, especially since the belly isn’t obviously huge and
could be just extra weight, haha. But that made me happy that people now look
at me and think “She’s pregnant!” Yay for being fat!
But this basically sums up 21 weeks, I will stop blabbing
now. I will probably post a 21 week belly shot tomorrow and continue to working
on baby’s blanket, and if there is enough done this week to show off and brag
about I will post another blanket update post. But if not, thank you all for
reading and I will be back with next week’s update! :)
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