11 Weeks

Pregnancy Update May 7, 2012



This is why I swallow my pride and post shirt-up pics - you can't see what is belly and what is shirt/pants otherwise.



As you can see here, it's belly growing! Still bizarre to me why my belly is growing so much when supposedly my uterus is still mostly in my pelvis... this is why I have to swallow my pride! :)



How far along: 11 weeks.

Size of baby: 1.6 inches, .25 oz. - a "Lime".

What developed this past week: This week the baby is officially a "fetus", as the most critical part of the organ system development is over! Baby's ears and eyes are moving into final position and reproductive organs are becoming more distinguished. Baby will double in size by next week! Good thing s/he doesn't remember these growing pains! Whew! :)

Weight Gain: Exactly 2 pounds

Maternity clothes: Still just wearing a few maternity shirts here and there, because they are more comfortable and hide the growth a little bit. Again, I LOVE that I'm growing - I wish it'd speed up a little! It's 11 weeks and I only look like I ate a few too many donuts! So once I get past my pride of just feeling like people think I'm fat (and don't know I'm pregnant), I'll get back to wearing tighter clothes that show off the mini-bump more. When I'm at work, where people know I'm pregnant, I'm fine wearing whatever. When it comes to church where not everyone knows yet, I like to keep it hidden a little more. Hopefully only a couple more weeks and I'll be wearing all maternity and showing off an obvious baby bump! :)

Gender:  7 more weeks.  What are the chances they'll be able to see any hint of the gender at my 12 week sono though?! :) I wish...

Movement: This week coming up (the 12th week) the baby's bones are hardening and s/he's doing a lot more flipping and kicking and stretching! I can't believe all that is going on and yet I don't feel anything! So bizarre, but awesome, to think about!

Sleep: Doing ok - not anything like it was pre-pregnancy when I didn't wake up for anything! Now I wake up everynight at some point and can't get back to sleep until I; 1. stop Caleb from snoring 2. sometimes get up to go to the bathroom (depending on how much water I drink before bed) and 3. re-position myself again. I swear I wake up every hour and switch from side to back, back to side, over and over!

I'm not looking forward to the end of the first trimester when it is suggested that you don't sleep on your back anymore, so that the baby doesn't press on nerves and blood vessels and organs. It's been a feat just to stop sleeping on my stomach. Cutting it down to only my sides seems impossible. Guess that's where the Snoogle pillow will come in! Anytime I accidently sleep on my stomach, even with my knee up holding my hips off the bed a little, I wake up a while later and feel nauseous. Trying to learn my lesson!

What I miss: Sleeping well and on my stomach.

Cravings: Still just want what other people are having, and food actually offered to me never sounds good until I smell it. I think Caleb is gonna start getting annoyed with me because he asks what I want for dinner and I say, "Nothing sounds good. Whatever you want is fine." Then he is stuck trying to make the decision for both of us, and he feels bad if he were to pick something I don't want. But it's true! I'm not just trying to be difficult. Until he makes whatever he wants and I smell it, or we go into a restaurant and it smells good in there, nothing sounds good. Like I can't even imagine eating something with how bad everything sounds. Luckily, my olfactory sense kicks in and makes whatever we're having sound good eventually!

Lucky Charms have been VERY good sounding this week though! :) lol

Best moment this week: Thursday Caleb and I went to Babies R Us to use a 20% off coupon, and while we were there, we wandered through the cribs, high chairs, strollers, etc. It was fun to look around with him and see what he had to say about it all. It's funny because I just assume he won't care and will let me pick whatever I want, but he surprises me and actually has an opinion on patterns, etc! Basically, his big care is that if it's a boy, he wants him to have "manly" colored things... hahah We'll see... I can't see buying the big ($100+) things again when we have the opposite gender! Hopefully we can agree to a more neutral color, though he currently says neutral isn't good enough for a boy! Oy... :)

Random thing to remember:  This is more for my memory's benefit... A couple things about Caleb and the pregnancy: 1. Even though I've been getting my nails done (shellac) every other week this whole time, I guess Caleb must've just put it together that I've been going to a hair salon where there are potent chemicals and smells. So he recently told me he thinks I shouldnt get my nails done anymore. Of course, I thought about this 7 weeks ago, but researched and decided since I'm at the opposite end of the house from where the hair dye is (if there is anyone getting color when I go anyway), it is safe enough for me to be there for an hour, as there is nothing unsafe about nail polish. So even though he's late with realizing it, I'm glad he cares enough about the health of our baby to think it through and assert his opinion so we can discuss it.

2. Caleb has been hasseling me for weeks about taking out my belly button ring. I currently refuse until at least after the first trimester. My belly is not growing much anyway, and at this point I still want something to catch people's attention other than my extra love handles! And I just like the way it looks and think I'm going to have a hard time getting used to seeing my stomach without it after all these years... He only cares because he doesn't want the skin to rip or get something he keeps calling "spider marks" or something like that... I think he's just afraid my belly is going to be gross, and really, he's got another thing coming if he thinks it'll go back to normal by the time we're done having children! lol So I'm not worried about it, it'll heal quickly once I take it out and I won't get whatever marks he is afraid of me getting.

On that note, I'll mention, because it was so funny, that he recently asked me if I'm still putting cocoa butter on every day. Again, because he is afraid of stretch marks. lol  AND I tried on maternity jeans in front of him. He looked at me funny and said, "Do all moms wear those?!" hahha Apparently he has never seen the attractiveness of maternity pants before! He cracks me up!

What I am looking forward to: Nothing much happening this week, but NEXT week we have another ultrasound! This is the first planned one, as it's to check for any chromosomal abnormalities. I've seen/heard about other's 12-week sonos where the baby is sucking it's thumb and moving/kicking all around! I can't imagine that my baby is big enough to do all that! So I can't WAIT to see it! At 9.5 weeks, baby looked a lot more human than at 6 weeks, but I think 12 weeks will be the best scan so far! I can't wait to see a little BABY that is starting to look like us! :)