Since this pregnancy I won't be doing weekly updates (or even monthly haha!) I figured it would be easiest to just recap each trimester. With each pregnancy, I have always kept a note on my phone where I can jot down details from not only the pregnancy, but birth and beyond. I keep track of my weight gain, weekly happenings, as well as major milestones from each baby once they are here. It's always fun to have an easy way to look back/compare/remember those little things that we tend to easily forget. So ANWAY here is my (totally random, unorganized) first trimester recap for baby #3!
Weeks 4-7
- I found out I was pregnant on a Monday morning, and almost immediately came down with severe flu symptoms. I tested positive for the flu 3 days after my ppt. I was SO miserable. Luckily, week 4 is usually early enough in a pregnancy where major pregnancy things haven't quite shown up yet, so other than feeling totally miserable and exhausted I survived.
- I definitely started to feel crampy right off the bat. Seeing as my uterus JUST went through this, it's not as toned as say a 1st pregnancy uterus. I can feel it already stretching and growing and it's bearable but not super comfortable.
- Week 7 brought on some minor nausea. I always feel the most nauseous when I don't workout or stay hydrated enough (and also eating unhealthy foods also results in some nausea as well). It's much harder for me to remember to drink water when I don't workout, and then nausea usually results in only wanting to eat junk food, then I don't feel good so I don't feel like getting up for a run or eating healthy so it definitely can snowball quickly! Luckily, I was feeling better by week 8.
- Cravings: Mac and Cheese and applesauce (same cravings as when I was pregnant with Heidi....more on this later!)
- Feeling VERY angry and super rage-y
- High sex drive
- Smelly (also more details on what I mean by this below...)
- Strong sense of smell
- Already feeling very strongly that it's a girl
- Dry skin - this one is new! I have never experienced this during a pregnancy before, which is surprising seeing as my previous two pregnancies were fall/winter/spring. Having dry skin in the summer is SO weird in Houston during the summer when the humidity levels usually range between, 1,000% and 2,000%, so I know it's pregnancy related!
Week 8
- First doctor's appointment!
- Weaned my baby boy :(. I was very sad to do this, but also very ready to be done. Weaning is always super bittersweet for me, but I knew he was ready. Pregnancy makes my nipples super sensitive, so it was pretty painful every time he was nursing (for the whole nursing session). That + teeth + hormones = mama ready to wean! I definitely cried the whole time I nursed him for the last time but that's how it usually goes ;).
- Traveled to OKC for my sister's baby shower! (Baby's first flight!) So fun being with her when we are both pregnant. I always find it SUPER special being able to be pregnant at the same time as those who I am closest with, and make it a point to take a bump picture together! Also, during the shower we played a game where you guess which old wives tales indicate boy or girl. Going down the list in my head, I definitely noticed that I was experiencing MOST of the girl "symptoms"!
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| First doctor's appointment. It's a baby! |
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| 35 weeks and 8 weeks! |
Week 9
- Feeling less angry, and more weepy now
- Ran a half marathon and PRed!!! Ran the fastest half I've ever run and met my lifetime goal of running a half in under 2 hours!
- Still feeling very strongly that it's a girl and most old wives tales still ringing true at this point
Week 10
- EXTREME EXHAUSTION - afternoon runs certainly not an option because of this.
- Insomnia and crazy dreams also began. Waking up in the middle of the night (sometimes to pee but not every night) and being WIDE awake and unable to go back to sleep. Sucky!
- I also had a day or two of nausea this week...
Week 11
- I want to eat everything!!! Extreme salty cravings and finally having an actual appetite results in some major face-stuffing sessions.
- Ran in my favorite Houston 10K - the Bayou City Classic!
Week 12
- Stomach pains and more cramping this week
- Starting to feel uncomfortable and smushed while crouching
- New craving this week - MUSTARD! I'm DEFINITELY not a huge mustard person so this one was super random but man mustard sounded (and tasted) better than EVER before!!! YUMMMM!!
- Ran another half marathon - this was the half that I had actually been training and prepping for for 10 weeks, but ended up being not quite as fast as the other last-minute half that I ran at 9 weeks pregnant. There are a lot of SUPER intense hills and I really didn't want to push it, so I just tried to relax and not focus so much on speed. I still ended up with a great time, just a little over 2 hours.
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| 12 week anatomy scan! Hi baby! |
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| 12 week belly |
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| Post half marathon pic! |
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| You had better believe I put SO much mustard all over those fries. |
If all goes according to plan, we will get to find out baby's gender at our 16 week gender ultrasound! I'm super convinced that it's a girl, so I thought I would share what specific pregnancy symptoms are pointing me in that direction. TMI alert - it's about to get personal yall.
WHY I THINK ITS A GIRL
1. Cravings: When pregnant with Heidi, I had super strong cravings for mac and cheese and applesauce. Throughout the first trimester, these cravings have returned. I did not crave these things when pregnant with Wells!
2. Smelly: What do I mean by this you ask? Here's where it gets personal. I have noticed that my "body" odor has increased significantly... and by "body" I mean "down there". Catch my drift? Same as during my pregnancy with Heidi. I'm not usually a shower-every-day kind of girl (ain't nobody got time for that) but this has required a shower every day - same deal as my pregnancy with Heidi. I did not notice this significant of an increase during my pregnancy with Wells.
3. Sex drive: While my sex drive is always CRAZY high during pregnancy, it seemed like it was a little bit higher during my pregnancy with Heidi. It's definitely raging again and more on the level of girl-pregnancy rather than boy-pregnancy.
Anyway, it definitely still could go either way (and we will be thrilled regardless!), but those are the top 3 indicators for me that make me really think it's a girl!! Hopefully we find out soon!
***UPDATE -
CLICK HERE to see if I was right ;)****
