I thought I'd give a quick update on my pregnancy. I've been feeling Jack move for about a week now! Every couple of days, it gets stronger, and Josh got to feel him last night! I LOVE feeling him move around, and I'm so excited that I get to connect with him in this way for the next 24 weeks!
This pregnancy seems to be very similar to my last pregnancy so far. I think I'm the same, size-wise for 16 weeks, although it's really hard to remember. I feel great, besides still getting tired every afternoon, but when I have energy, I have tons of energy and am loving it.
My back hurts much worse than last time. I tried to simply do laundry last night, and I've been limping off and on since. Stopping MDO REALLY helped with my back, since I was constantly bending over with the kids, but I still manage to reinjure it almost every day!
My cravings are subsiding, but I have had a major craving for fruit and snow cones!! So I guess they really haven't subsided, just changed a bit. With James, I wanted nothing healthy...just sugar, but now I have to eat fruit all throughout the day. I didn't realize it, but one day, I came home from the grocery store with I think 7-8 different KINDS of fruit! I felt like I had to have each one of them! At any given day, you can find a good selection of grapefruit, oranges, apples, bananas, blueberries, strawberries, pears, or grapes at our house. I'm trying to limit myself to 1, maybe 2 snow cones per week, but now that I'm thinking about them, I don't know if I can wait that long!
That's pretty much it for now! I go for my 16 week checkup today and then my big ultrasound will come in the next few weeks. I'm anxious to find out if our doctor was right about us having a boy!
*Update, his heartbeat was 148 bpm. I told the doctor that HE had been kicking a lot this week, and he said, "He, huh?" I said, "Remember we saw it at the last appointment??" and he said, "So you believed me, huh?". Ahhh! He was kidding, but I think he might have either been trying to cover himself in case he was wrong, or maybe he's gotten a couple wrong recently and wanted to prepare me! I will get seen within the next 3 weeks for my big ultrasound, so I'm anxious to know for sure!!
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I LOVE S.A. I grew up about 80 miles West of there in Uvalde and S.A. was our "big city" so I'm quite familiar with it's splendor and the greatness of the Riverwalk! I miss it! Check out my blog for our rip to the OKC "riverwalk."
I didn't know the stat about people on the river boats...very interesting but honestly not surprising! Ha!
Glad to hear James is doing so much better...how scary!
And, on the name front...also consider that if you name him John and call him Jack all his life he will have to correct people (like teachers in school) and tell them his name is John but he goes by Jack. Just a thought, because I actually really like the idea of John and calling him Jack.
It was so great to see you today at the doctor and to meet your hubby:) You look great!! And I'm so glad that James is feeling better!!
Forgot to ask, which dr. are you seeing?
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