Baby Bump Update

How far along: 26 weeks!

Size of baby: My food update today was a head of lettuce.

Movement: Constant.  Kevin got home from work on Thursday though and it hit me that I hadn't felt Lucas all afternoon.  Tears were definitely shed.  He moved shortly thereafter so I was relieved.  But then I started to worry that maybe he moves too much, like something is wrong or he doesn't like what I'm doing.  I'm crazy, I know.  So I googled how much a baby is supposed to move.  Overall it said that the more the baby the moves the better you should feel because he is active and strong.  That's not to say that a baby that doesn't move that much is not ok, I just wanted to know that other mommy-to-be's were having the same experience as me.  That has really made me feel better with just about everything.

Sleep: Back to the same ol' not so great and my crazy dreams have returned.  I have always been a vivid dreamer but usually they are things that could really happen.  During this pregnancy they are just   plain out there!

Maternity Clothes: I got some great clothes for my birthday and am so excited to be some sporting some new outfits:) Oh yeah...I keep forgetting that I've had to buy some new bras.  I have always been teeny, tiny in this area so this has been one place where I am excited to grow! I was so excited to go out and buy "pretty" bras.  My size is made up of nudes really so I am taking advantage of this time;) If you haven't figured it out this is also one area that I am not shy about talking about.

Symptoms: Headaches and carpal tunnel symptoms.

Aversions: I keep saying nothing but my husband pointed out that I cannot clean out our sink (we don't have a garbage disposal).  Oh yeah, that's only because I'm pregnant and it makes me gag...wink, wink.

Cravings: None that I can think of this week.  At the Niners game I didn't want any of the food there but Kevin really wanted me to eat something.  I saw someone with a pretzel and decided that's what I needed.  After 25 minutes of walking around we finally found the stand that sold the pretzels.  We get up to order...and they were out! I was not a happy camper.

Best moment this week: Having several of my friends be able to feel Lucas kick.  It was awesome.

Worst moment this week: This morning! I went in for my Glucose test.  I had heard the drink is gross and I am incredibly afraid of needles so I was not looking forward to the three blood tests or sitting at the testing place for three hours.  Well I got through the first blood draw (barely) and then drank the liquid.  It wasn't quite as bad as I had imagined. Don't get me wrong, it's not good but for some reason I thought it would be thick.  Almost an hour after the drink and minutes before my second blood draw I got really faint.  I didn't know what to do.  I've been seriously light-headed a few times during this pregnancy and this was the second time in a public place.  I had to fast before the test and I wasn't allowed to drink any water.  I went to the bathroom to splash water on my face and when I got out they told me to just go in the room.  By the time they were finished setting up my hour would be up.  I was in the room one minute when one of the nurses said I needed to bend over, I did not look good.  They were going to move me to the room where I could lay down while they took my blood but it was occupied at the moment.  I just started feeling worse and I realized I was going to be sick.  They gave me the garbage bin next to me and all of the glucose drink came right up.  I have yet to really throw up while pregnant.  I haven't actually thrown up in at least two years.  It was awful.  And everyone could hear.  They didn't close the door.  THEN a guy comes up to the check-in window who had an appointment.  The lady said they were a backed up so it would be a few minutes.  He was mad and then she explained to him that there had been an emergency (ME!) so they were behind.  She proceeded to tell this to two other people.  It was so embarrassing!

Baby daddy: We will be using reusable diapers with our son. (You will probably see a theme that I am trying to go green in life.) Kevin is not completely on board with this idea for when he has to change the diapers.  He is on board for the financial reasons but then his germaphobia kicks in and he just doesn't know how he would do it.  To be honest I didn't really know logistically how it would work.  So I got to researching.  Wouldn't you know that YouTube has just about everything you would want?  I found a video of how to take care of a poopie diaper with the reusable diaper I plan on using so Kevin and I watched a real life video of a woman taking care of her daughter's diaper.  Kevin still doesn't love the idea but I have agreed to use flushable liners so we are pretty happy.  I need to remember that people make videos for anything you would want to figure out:)