Thursday September 26
- How far along? 18 weeks 3 days
- Weight Gain/Loss: I won't know any changes until my 20 week appt
- Maternity Clothes: Rocking the maternity jeans in public, and yoga pants at home daily
- Sleep: I wonder if I'll ever sleep well again...
- Best moment this week: finding out that I get my military ID back along with other cards that guy stole!
- Movement: I'm pretty sure I feel the baby numerous times a day, but it's still not really noticeable. Those little feelings are easy to miss if I'm not paying attention.
- Food Cravings: Sweets still. I'm thinking that's not going away.
- Food Aversions: ground meat sounds awful.
- Belly Button: Staying the same
- Stretch Marks: Nope
- Symptoms: Still with the shooting pains but not as often. My ab muscles are really sore this week, and if I get up too fast it feels like a pulled muscle. I'm thinking it could be round ligament pain too. Oh and the heartburn continues.
- What I miss: sleep
- What I’m looking forward to: that ultrasound that happens in two more weeks, and doing hospital tours hopefully in the next week or so too. I'm pretty sure I know which one I'm leaning towards but I figure it's good to check them out anyway.
Things are starting to feel real! I've been researching strollers and car seats for a couple weeks now, and we are looking at dates for birth classes now. I'm planning on taking a class through either the midwife center or something similar, because I want unbiased information. Due to the anticoagulants I'm on, an epidural may not be an option, so I want to go into this mentally prepared for a natural birth. The hospital classes focus more on the interventions and using medicine to control pain - to get more info about "natural" birth, you have to take another class that they consider a "specialty" class. Weird, right? We shall see what we end up taking in the end!
Here's the 18 week picture!
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