This is going to be a very TMI post. Well for some it could
be normal stuff but for others it could be weird and icky- it’s just fair for you
to be WARNED ;)
Anyway, let’s start with my weight. I just weighed myself
and I am 141 even!! Woohoo! I have officially gained 1 pound to my
pre-pregnancy weight, haha. Although I am not sure if I should count my total
weight gain from 131 pounds or 140 pounds. Because I mean… technically I LOST 9
pounds but I have gained it back… I don’t know! Too much thinking into this!
The point is I am gaining pregnancy weight and I AM PROUD! ;)
I just spent the last 10 minutes playing with my weight
numbers. Not that is REALLY matters, just interesting to see the weekly changes
and the rate at which I am losing or gaining.
10/25/12:
5w 140 lbs
11/5/12:
7 w 135 lbs(5 lbs loss)
11/12/12:
8 w 133.8 lbs(6.2 lbs total loss, 1.2 weekly loss)
11/26/12:
10 w 133 lbs( 7 lbs total loss, .8 bi-weekly loss)
12/17/12:
13 w 131 lbs( 9 lbs total loss, 2 pounds tri-weekly loss)
01/14/13:
17 w 133.5 lbs(6.5 lbs total loss, 2.5 lbs four-week gain)
01/28/13:
19 w 135.8 lbs(4.2lbs loss, 2.3lbs bi-weekly gain, 4.8lbs total gain)
02/04/13:
20 w 136.5 lbs (3.5 lbs loss, 1.3 lbs weekly gain, 5.5 lbs total gain)
02/11/13
:21 w 137.2 lbs ( 2.8 lbs loss, .7lbs weekly gain, 6.2 lbs total gain)
02/18/13:
22 w 139.4 lbs ( .6 lbs loss, 2.2 lbs weekly gain, 8.4 lbs total gain)
02/25/13:
23 w 141.0 lbs ( 1 lbs gain pre-pregnancy weight, 1.6 weekly gain, 10 lbs total
gain)
One very unpleasant symptom that I am not sure if I bragged
about it on here before of NOT having it… but I know I mentally bragged to
myself about it and now the bragging has come to bite me in my butt because I
have it now. Indigestion/ acid reflux/heartburn sensation. Don’t exactly know
the difference between the three… but it is one of those & I HATE IT. I
mean I have had the occasional heartburn. Where I would eat something too oily
or greasy or too acidic and I would belch it up and it would feel like it is
there… in the pit of your throat like this bitter piece of vomit hanging out in
your throat. I’ve had that… very rarely… and actually don’t remember the last
time I did have that… but this is different. It’s this hollow, heavy feeling
between the very top of my stomach, like right under my chest (that’s where the
center or core of this sensation is) up to my throat. It’ just this HEAVY
unpleasant feeling, UGH. And it really isn’t anything specific that I eat.
Everything I eat causes it. It’s getting worse and worse and hard to ignore. I
started chewing on tums… I thought they helped but I don’t think they really
are helping much anymore. I bought seltzer and ginger ale today; I heard the
bubbles are supposed to help… I don’t know… sipping on some seltzer now (even
though I am not a fan) but if it’ll help it is worth the try. It sucks, I hate it. Because I just got a
grip of this whole eating normally thing and now I have to pay for it with THIS
after every time I eat. Grrrr. It’s all
going to be worth it soon, right? Just keep telling myself we will have a baby
soon… we will have a baby soon and it will ALL be over!!!
The rest of the changes are really going to revolve around
my boobs. Lots of boob talk to follow this, so if you don’t like to read about
boobs don’t continue reading, this is where the tmi stuff kicks in.
Well, the one big thing is…I started… leaking basically.
Don’t know if I can actually use the term “lactating” yet even though some
sites refer to it as that… but I don’t know…it’s not official milk. But yes, I
just randomly leak out of my boobs now. It’s usually just my left one… and I
have heard this “Colostrum” stuff that is coming out is usually yellow or
clear. Mine is totally clear so I guess not as gross looking. To be honest…
haha… I think it is awesome and it makes me excited!! I actually told a friend
this the other day, and poor woman was laughing so hard that I am excited over
it. Well, I don’t know… this is all new to me! I’ve never had this happen to me
before… and it’s not like puss is leaking out because it is an infection… it’s
milk… or soon to be milk… it’s something with a cause and purpose! So awesome!
But it has been getting a little weird. Thankfully I usually drip when I am at
home during evening time or at night. It’s like the warmth stimulates it or
something. And yes, if I squeeze it myself… more of it comes out. Weird, but
cool. But the other night I woke up in the morning and I had this try crusty
stain on my pj tshirt. And looked over at our bed saw a little dried up stain
on our bed sheets. Wonderful! No big deal, just leakin’ out some colostrum!
Continuing on the subject of breasts. I know they grow and
all and the stretch marks are obvious signs of that as well. I have always been
small in that department. And I will admit I always wanted to be larger
especially as a teenager I had absolutely nothing and saw other girls my age
have bigger boobs- man do I ever regret wanting big boobs. They have just
become SO heavy. I can’t even sit normally without them putting strain and
extra weight on my tummy. And wearing a bra at home is completely out of the
question! I can’t even handle wearing one in public!! Speaking of bras… I
bought some stretchy ones to accommodate my new growing size, and they have
officially gotten small for me now too. Let’s not even get into all my old
bras… HA. Those are history! But anyway… I decided to walk into a maternity
clothing store and maybe get sized although if they are going to get bigger I
really don’t want to buy anything new right now and have it go to waste. So… I
was always an A or a B… she measured me to be a C or D. WOW! I tried on some
C’s and some D’s. C’s are perfect on me right now and are just a little snug-
but still comfortable. D is a little loose. So I am a C going onto a D now… to
me this is a big deal. So all you ladies with Double D’s or F’s or other
extreme sizes might think what the heck is she making a big deal about… but
being an A and a very small B your whole life… this is WOW.
Stretch marks are still there… and purple and possibly
growing. Oh well. My infamous rash gets better, then worse. Basically every
time I can avoid wearing a bra, I do and it helps. Cortisone has been helping
with the itching as well.
More with my body… I can say I feel more and more pregnant
every week… scratch that… every day. Even though weight wise I have weighed
more than I do right now I can just feel this extra weight straining my body
where my tummy is. I walk and I sometimes feel like I am literally growing that
very second and it is kind of pulling me forward and down making it harder to
walk. I’m not really complaining just describing how it feels, I’ve been
waiting for a belly for forever just never thought into how difficult it may be to suddenly have
this extra weight to carry! :) So I am definitely starting to have the little
penguin-pregnant lady wobble, and I walk slower. Today while subbing for the
first time I was walking my kids through the hallway and even though they were
power walking but still WALKING… I could not catch up with them- even with
actually trying to! This belly is
slowing me down man!! :) But I still love it :)
So belly is definitely growing. Which means baby is too. I
have been feeling more of his kicks above my belly button so he is slowly
stretching my uterus out to larger proportions! His kicks are getting stronger
and stronger! Today I made Zhenya put his hand on my belly again (he usually
doesn’t have the patience to keep it on there long enough to catch our little
boy moving around.) And with how sneaky our baby is most of the time I think
baby knows when I am trying to get Papa to feel him squirm… or when I am trying
to catch my jumping belly on video! But yes, today Zhenya felt him move again
and I think now he understand a little better why I yell or gasp every time I
get an unexpected kick. He felt him move really strongly and kept re-asking me “Was
that you?!” Uhm, no honey… that was not me. He was very surprised how hard they
were!
Aside from everything else, I am growing more and more
frustrated. In a funny way I guess, more or less I can control myself and not
flip out on people but just little things get to me! Like the lady at the
pharmacy. Oh-my-GOODNESS! She has this very specific way of saying this one
phrase, in a very annoying fake tone of voice that makes me SO ANNOYED. She
says this after everything she does “Hold on, just a moment please…” It’s not
even the phrase… it’s THE WAY she says it. Ask me in person I can imitate this
for you but OMG. Zhenya went to the pharmacy with my yesterday and I pointed it
out to him, now he picks on me by
imitating her voice. But, UGH…. & I know this sounds completely ridiculous
but I just can’t tolerate it. A part of me finds it hysterical too!
But I get super sensitive at certain things too. I have
always been sensitive and very emotional but now more than I ever. I mean, my
pre-period days I think I have been more emotional than I am now, but I have
just noticed some little things get to me and sometimes I just can’t stop
thinking about them and they bring me down. I try not to but sometimes it is
hard to do so.
Quick life update…
I got sick again last week :( A cold… felt miserable for 2
days then got better although I still have the mucus bothering me. I guess
nothing really to complain about, just sucks that my body has a break for 2
weeks and I seem to catch something again.
I got accepted to substitute teach last week and since last
week was winter break I started getting called for jobs today, and I love it so
far! Totally reassured me that being a teacher for a living is great and definitely
something for me to continue to strive for to get my degree in… one day!
I’ve mentioned possibly (maybe not) that we are planning on
moving to another apartment at the end of May/beginning of June due to our
oh-so-considerate neighbors. Why then? Oh you just because I will be 9 months
pregnant already just to spice up our life a little bit. Or maybe it’s the fact
that our lease ends and we want our security deposit back. Now we are thinking
and looking that if we happen to find something awesome that ( and we have seen
ads) is $200 less per month, it may be worth it to move now and save those $200
and basically not get our security deposit back, because we would win the money
back in a matter of months. So we are looking, and if we find something we love
we will move before hand. That way we can guarantee I won’t pop during or
before the move and we can calmly without rush get baby’s room ready :) Which
is super exciting and since we already have so much baby stuff that is just
kind of piled in our extra room, I keep wanting to redecorate it and make it
all babied up but then think to myself that it is useless since we are moving
anyway and whatever I do will just be a waste.
There is no baby blanket update because… well there is
nothing to sadly update anyone on. I’ve bummed out and didn’t do much… maybe
like ONE row… I crocheted so much in that 1.5 weeks that my thumb bone started
to ache :( But it is all better now so I will get on that. I’m also thinking of
possibly learning more techniques and things to crochet after I am done with
the blanket from my expert knitting/crochet friend. I am borrowing a book from
her too, if my brain is able to wrap around it all, maybe I will learn to make
other cool things that I can share pics of later on here too :)
I’m also not early or right on the dot with my posts because
I started working again. So that is taking up my time, which I think is kind of
good because it makes the time fly just a teensie weensie bit faster. I mean,
next week I am going to be 24 weeks already! 6 months!!! :) Yay!
That is pretty much the update, lots of icky and new and
weird symptoms. We shall see what next week will bring!
No comments:
Post a Comment