December 17, 2020

21 weeks today. The baby is 19 weeks old and we have 19 weeks (-ish) left to go for this pregnancy. My doctor told me yesterday that it will go very fast from now on. I feel like I have been pregnant for a year already but also like this journey just started haha. From week 5 and forward I was so bloated every day (just like the last pregnancy) and I looked like I was several months pregnant already then, so when the belly changed from a bloated one to a an actual pregnant one, it didn’t change in size hahah. It wasn’t until like two weeks ago that I started to actually see any difference since beginning of September. 

How do I feel now? Let me tell you, mood swings are on a high (poor husband). I also go from laughing to bawling within minutes. It is very strange (and this pandemic isn’t exactly helping emotions either). 
Do I have any cravings? I have had a massive sweet tooth (fruit, candy, cookies, you name it) since the start of this pregnancy, and if I could I would have pasta with every meal. Still not much for salty stuff, but spicy is nice, like the spicy peppers we get, yum. Of course I have to be careful with the sweet stuff and I try to eat healthy as much as I can. And I try to stay active. Not working out as much as I’d like to cause I come up with all these other things to do during the day and at night my body is too tired, but overall I still move around a lot which my body loves and it keeps my energy up during the day.
Bumpie is definitely growing fast now. I keep going up and down in weight though, but I don’t care so much about a pound here and there, as long as my body feels good and baby’s measures are ok then everything is fine.
Still congested but as long as the humidifier is on throughout the night it’s usually fine. My skin is really itchy and has been during the whole trimester. Coconut oil and this mama butter lotion I have is definitely helping, I apply at least twice a day especially on the belly, lower back and chest. I also drink tons of water every day which my skin seems to love.
Overall I feel great. Starting to get a little stressed about all the things that needs to be done before lilliput comes but mostly feel I calm and I still sometimes forget that I’m pregnant:)

December 16, 2020

This morning I logged into the patients app and waited for my zoom call with one of my obgyns. She was almost 30 min late for my appointment, but that’s ok. We talked about what they had found on the baby during the screening and once again I was told I shouldn’t worry, it will hopefully be fine by the end. I also mentioned that I absolutely do not want a c-section (everyone in the US seems to get one), so we talked about that. We talked about future visits and things in general. I feel pretty great so not much to discuss really. It was quite hard to hear everything she said cause the sound kept going in and out, but I read her lips enough to know the important things:)
After my appointment ended I called the clinic to schedule my next in-person visit in four weeks and then I called the hospital to re-schedule the ultrasound appointment I have to a week earlier. Part the reason is that last night we booked ourselves a babymoon a la pandemic version:) I have to quarantine for two weeks once I’m back before the following appointment (it’s required if you leave CT or NY states) so trip and appointments have to line up with that counted in. The trip will not be what I had imagined (but nothing with this pregnancy is thanks to covid) but I’m excited and it will be a relaxing time for us and Thor (cause J insisted that we’ll bring him) before baby comes 😀

Baby kicked last night again btw. It’s very possible that I feel baby all the time but it’s usually so tiny that it could easily also just be muscle twitches, tummy gurgles or simply gas bubbles. But last night as I was falling asleep baby was very active. I didn’t know if J was asleep yet but I said out loud anyway “baby is kicking”. He turned around and I grabbed his hand to put it on the belly and almost immediately there was a big kick. I asked if he felt it and he said he did:) 

I have like two million things on my to-do list and even if I still have tons of energy these days I somehow seem to be very slow in actually getting it done haha. I get distracted and start doing something that isn’t a priority on the list. And I have started to wonder if I have the so called pregnancy brain at times cause I’ve noticed that sometimes when I’m in the middle of doing something, I suddenly don’t remember what I’m doing and I go on to do something else. Very strange haha. But oh well. I take every day as it comes. 

Today we are supposed to have a massive snowstorm. The mayor called last night (automatic phone message) and said it can be up to 6 inches of snow or as much as 12 inches (unclear what they think really haha). We’ll see. Supposed to start around 4pm today. 

Hope you’ll have an awesome day!

December 10, 2020

Half baked today. 
Entered week 20 today (or, in my country I guess it counts as week 21, it’s confusing). 140 days in and around 140 days left to go.
Last night I felt the baby kick, iiihh 😀 I felt clear movements, like waves, a few days before Thanksgiving but other than that I haven’t felt much. Since I have an anterior placenta I didn’t expect to feel anything until much later but last night she/he seemed very active, even Jim said he felt it♥

And how do I feel? Well, I feel great! Haven’t been sleeping that well this week though so I’m a tiny bit more tired than usual, but overall I still have a lot of energy and I just keep going and going:) Since the second trimester started I’ve been really congested, especially at night, which is a common pregnancy symptom, but as long as I have the humidifier on all night I can usually sleep through the whole night.
Woke up with a cold sore on my mouth today which sucks (and hurts). I usually get on my right nostril but now for some reason I got it on my lower lip. Luckily I read that it shouldn’t have any impact on the growing baby. Hormones are going crazy during pregnancy so it’s common to get cold sores, I expected it.
We are not finding out the gender of our baby so it will be 9 months of guessing:) << you are welcome to guess in the comments🙂 >> During the whole first trimester I had a strong feeling it’s a girl (could however be based on that this pregnancy was very similar to the last one which we know was a girl). But the day of our 13 week scan I woke up with strong boy feelings and Jim even said after the visit that he thinks it’s a boy. Since then I’ve had boy feelings. From time to time I get a sense of girl, like last night when it was kicking, but today I’m back to think boy. Hahaha. We won’t know until it’s here. But we know for sure that it is either a boy or a girl 😀