Baby Smith Update

I am currently in my 14th week of pregnancy.  I made it to the second trimester and I can’t tell you how good that feels.  I am able to relax and things are starting to get really good!

Throughout my whole pregnancy I have not been very bad off at all.  I don’t know if that’s because after the miscarriage I would have taken just about anything in stride or because it wasn’t that bad.  I did have TERRIBLE heartburn and am still battling it a little bit, but nearly as bad.  I seriously felt like I had a fire breathing dragon in my gut.  I was up to 18 – 20 Tums a day and my doctor told me I could take Zantac if it was bad enough.  I had to sleep sitting up every night and I would instantly get heartburn no matter what I ate.  I know that means that my little bean is going to have lots of hair and I can only hope so!  Jason was born with a head full of blond curls and I am hoping and praying that is the case for our little one!!  Once I hit 12 weeks the heartburn has been scaled back a good bit, but it has still stuck around and I’m sure it will rear it's ugly head later in pregnancy.

At around 10 weeks I started not being able to wear my pants anymore.  I could still button them, but it was very uncomfortable and the pressure right on the baby almost hurt.  So I went through a few days of trying to avoid the stretchy clothes, but then I just said screw it.  I didn’t care that the books said I should be wearing maternity clothes at this time or people around me started wearing it at this time.  I was not able to comfortably wear my pants anymore and my boobs were getting too big already for a lot of my shirts, so I made the switch.  The Monday we had off for Labor Day I cleared my closet of the things I couldn’t wear and put in the maternity clothes I borrowed from my good friend Alexis and the new clothes that Mom got me for my birthday.  I sucked it up and I am so glad I did.  There is no shame in wearing super comfortable clothes.  I may hang on to these and once little bean is off the boob I’ll sport these on drinking nights.  Why the hell not?

I have luckily not had a lot of morning (what a crock of shit) sickness.  I was nauseas when my stomach got empty and then I would feel sick when I ate something.  So I would just eat and hope it would make something feel better! 

Other than those couple of things I have just been abnormally exhausted.  One of my books said your body was doing the work of someone running a marathon and I believe it – not that I’ve ever run or will ever run a marathon!  Once I hit the second trimester, that is already starting to go away a bit.  I’m starting to regain a bit of my energy, which I am very glad about.

Eating has been kind of funny.  I craved really good food the first 12 weeks.  I craved strawberries, blueberries, salads, apples, peaches, and anything else nourishing I could get my hands on.  Then that 13th week hit and it was like I couldn’t stomach blueberries anymore, I just wanted lots of really good, carby, filling, soul-warming food.  I have tried to do my best to keep up with the good stuff and also give into a little bit of the not so good stuff.  I have no intention of gaining any more weight than I have to, but I am certainly not depriving myself.  This is a fun time and I am going to take advantage of it!!

So, the first trimester was pretty good to me.  I’m excited to be in the second to see what goodness is in front of me.  Even though I can feel a little bump and I can feel the pressure when I lay on my stomach to sleep, I’m excited about getting a real bump so that I can see the baby getting bigger!!