16-week update

Time is flying by here in pregnancy world. I am finally feeling good and feeling like I have my life back a little.

It was pretty hard this first trimester. While I was only minimally sick, any type of morning sickness was new to me. And, then add on the fact that I was exhausted and that Bob has had to work a ton over the last 2 months, life was feeling pretty horrible.

I'm not sure exactly when this pregnancy turned all rose-colored and beautiful, but I am definitely in the second trimester bliss.

I had a few headaches when I transitioned into the second trimester, but nothing horrible or as bad as when I was pregnant with Maisie. This time I knew what was causing them and I think that helped to know when they would be over with too.

I am up 5 pounds, which with the rate that I am eating sweets, I think is pretty reasonable. It should be a lot worse.

I can once again drink coffee, but not black. As long as I dillute it with milk or cream, I am good. I just love drinking a warm beverage in the morning. It is nice to have my coffee back.

I am still in non-maternity clothes, but they are starting to get tighter. I am starting to get into the phase where my clothes don't fit and maternity clothes fall off. It is a rough patch that I think just leaves a pregnant lady feeling fat.

I have a regular doctor appointment next Thursday and we should be scheduling my 20-week ultrasound then.

We have decided to find out what we are having this time. We didn't with Calan and we did with Maisie and to us there really wasn't a huge difference partly because I had such strong feelings of what we were having both times that I wasn't shocked when I was right. We decided to find out for 2 main reasons. The first being that I'm impatient and the second being that I want to connect the kids to whether they are having a little brother or sister joining them.

Since Calan was so young during my last pregnancy, I didn't even worry about trying to connect him with it. I knew no matter how I tried, it was going to go in one ear and out the other without a care in the world. He was too young to understand. And even though they are still pretty young, I think they will relate better if I talk about it being a boy or girl and being able to give the baby a name before it gets here.